I didn't post shit about any music except The Black Keys. Slashdot's new UI is lousy (empirically) but usernames aren't entirely obfuscated by stupid whizzy Web 2.0 gadgetry. Yet.
But my dog knows that when I put on his shock collar we are going hunting as he gets visibly more excited than when we are just going for a walk in the woods. He knows that before long he'll find birds, which he seems to enjoy. I've often wished I had the knowledge to measure whether his nose get wetter when he thinks we are going hunting so I'd know it wasn't my imagination. Regardless, subjectively, he seems to have some concept of something cool happening in the future.
And for the record this is true of all decent hunting dogs I've ever been around, I'm not just thinking my dog is some kind of super dog.
It has been hours and I still haven't RTFA, but I always assume these various 'breakthrough' animal behavior observations have some ulterior motive.
Anyone who tells me what I should like, whether it is music or food or girls, loses credibility with me.
Shut up with that crap, it lost its shine in high school.
Don't like something? Don't buy it. If I show up and tell you about The Black Keys show I went to and you think they suck, feel free to not like me. Babble on about what you think 'real' artists do the feeling will undoubtably be mutual.
We went bird hunting. He pointed a rabbit. I shocked him via a remote shock collar. This scenario repeated a few times. Now when we go bird hunting he has decided to no longer point rabbits because he has deduced, correctly, that I will shock him if he does.
He didn't really prepare any materials though, and I didn't RTFA, so maybe this is something widly different.
I think many different animals exhibit complex behavior that people see as simple because it is common. My dog's natural inclination is to point at every interesting thing he finds. Through repeated exposure I've modified that inclination. I don't think it matters much whether that modification was purposeful on my part or accidental on the part of strangers visiting his kennel.
The bulk of your father's music can likely be upgraded to the DRM free format (with a higher bitrate) for a small cost. iTunes should be able to show you a list, I think you get to it via a menu somewhere. Tell him it is a tax on those of us who valued convenience over DRM.
Of course that isn't MP3 playback, but I assumed you meant digital music playback.
I use it as my primary browser in Windows. The only time I use anything else is when I need to go to the Windows Update site.
You mention the minimal intrusion of menus and taskbars and such. I wish all software was that good at getting the administrative debris out of my way.
When I go back to Safari in OSX I immediately notice the difference between it and Chrome's UI, Chrome is light years better. They've uncomplicated and uncluttered the modern address bar design while keeping it (making it?) actually useful. First letter, tab, search phrase is brilliant. I'm not sure I care one way or the other yet about the screenshot start page but it is growing on me. I like how settings and history and such open as browser tabs rather than dialogs. That pretty much avoids the overextended 'stack of tabs' convention.
I am probably less feature demanding than most Slashdot users. It seems like the first 10 comments in any Chrome story are about the lack of extensions. When I used FF I think I had AdBlock, maybe Forecast Fox, a skin or two. I can see how Chrome wouldn't work if I really really needed the/b/ Toolbar, but since I don't the UI improvements alone sell it.
Re:IMDB was up
on
Jurassic Web
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Scarier still: Yahoo still exists.
I remember fondly the first time I loaded Google's search page. No ads, no weather report, no links to personal ads. Just a search box, as Al Gore himself intended it.
I swore off garbage portal sites right then and I've never looked back.
Having been on many bumpy helicopter rides I imagine fantasies of news crews making rooftop helicopter extractions likely collide with the reality of those rescues ending in rotor strikes sending the helicopter, upside down and on fire, careening into the very people they were trying to pick up, and everyone, crew included, dead anyway.
But if you labor under the idea that everyone can do every task equally well, and this discussion makes it clear many do, such things seem like good ideas to you. I thought this kind of thing died out among geeks with the dot com crash but it seems to have returned. Hopefully Cory Doctorow fades away, like Eric S Raymond, his predecessor in regularly pontificating on subjects outside the scope of his knowledge.
Luckily, although you wouldn't know it from the submission and have to pay close attention to the article to figure it out, no one is actually doing any of this.
It is just a set of drawings entered into a design competition.
These types of things used to be obvious markers for trolls.
Sadly, Slashdot's anti-trolling efforts have both made the site less user friendly and resulted in a user base that falls for even the most thinly veiled efforts. Back in the inchfan days the parent wouldn't have even merited a link.
Under Slashdot grammatical convention it is acceptable to use the word 'forced' to describe a person's employer assigning them a telephone they don't like.
Also, just to expand, if the digital version of a pop culture movie is released on iTunes exclusively, the convention allows a person to claim he is being 'forced' to use iTunes.
So? Poor people get convicted using toy guns. Gates could have doubled his cool creds in this demo by telling the audience that poor people also can't get away with loosing a swarm of mosquitos on a bunch of important people, but he sure can.
It is ufortunate that it takes someone who is very well off to do this kind of thing. There is a 0.01% chance that anyone from the crowd could convince the local prosecutor's office to pursue criminal charges agaisnt Gates. 0% more like. He could bring in a legal team that would tie up an underfunded overworked team of state lawyers for 1000 years and waste more tax money than the war on drugs and he himself would never see the inside of a courtroom.
And if you went after him in civil court the interest he'd earn in the time it took to make the case would cover any monetary award that would be judged against him. He is well insulated against legal stupidities.
Rich people could redeem themselves if they did cool stuff like this on a regular basis, but now all they do is devise ways to burn us all for fuel. Back in the day Howard Hughes would crash a rocket plane into your house, wash his hands in your sink without asking, and apologize for it to nobody.
Despite the neocons successfully organizing a war on an emotion, I think people still need something they can identify with to focus their anger on. Gates himself is easier to than the Microsoft Corporation overall, just like Bush was easier than the more nebulous neocon movement, so the anger is focused on them individually despite the fact they are little more than figureheads.
But it is fun. Even though I recognize the above, when I ran the Windows 7 beta and its taskbar blitted balloon after balloon at me in celebration of installing a USB drive I cursed Bill Gates and his family as individuals rather than Microsoft in general.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't post shit about any music except The Black Keys. Slashdot's new UI is lousy (empirically) but usernames aren't entirely obfuscated by stupid whizzy Web 2.0 gadgetry. Yet.
But my dog knows that when I put on his shock collar we are going hunting as he gets visibly more excited than when we are just going for a walk in the woods. He knows that before long he'll find birds, which he seems to enjoy. I've often wished I had the knowledge to measure whether his nose get wetter when he thinks we are going hunting so I'd know it wasn't my imagination. Regardless, subjectively, he seems to have some concept of something cool happening in the future.
And for the record this is true of all decent hunting dogs I've ever been around, I'm not just thinking my dog is some kind of super dog.
It has been hours and I still haven't RTFA, but I always assume these various 'breakthrough' animal behavior observations have some ulterior motive.
Of course it is legal.
And I obviously don't think it is wrong.
Anyone who tells me what I should like, whether it is music or food or girls, loses credibility with me.
Shut up with that crap, it lost its shine in high school.
Don't like something? Don't buy it. If I show up and tell you about The Black Keys show I went to and you think they suck, feel free to not like me. Babble on about what you think 'real' artists do the feeling will undoubtably be mutual.
My dog does the same thing.
We went bird hunting. He pointed a rabbit. I shocked him via a remote shock collar. This scenario repeated a few times. Now when we go bird hunting he has decided to no longer point rabbits because he has deduced, correctly, that I will shock him if he does.
He didn't really prepare any materials though, and I didn't RTFA, so maybe this is something widly different.
I think many different animals exhibit complex behavior that people see as simple because it is common. My dog's natural inclination is to point at every interesting thing he finds. Through repeated exposure I've modified that inclination. I don't think it matters much whether that modification was purposeful on my part or accidental on the part of strangers visiting his kennel.
Where are you that you don't have the internet?
And how are you posting to Slashdot?
Oh no, soldering!
Invited off my lawn is anyone who considers soldering 2 wires together 'ridiculous'.
The bulk of your father's music can likely be upgraded to the DRM free format (with a higher bitrate) for a small cost. iTunes should be able to show you a list, I think you get to it via a menu somewhere. Tell him it is a tax on those of us who valued convenience over DRM.
Of course that isn't MP3 playback, but I assumed you meant digital music playback.
This must be the Open Source "we" I have heard about.
You just won 5,000,000 internets.
It would have been 10,000,000 if you'd gone further and mentioned 1984 and DRM.
I use it as my primary browser in Windows. The only time I use anything else is when I need to go to the Windows Update site.
You mention the minimal intrusion of menus and taskbars and such. I wish all software was that good at getting the administrative debris out of my way.
When I go back to Safari in OSX I immediately notice the difference between it and Chrome's UI, Chrome is light years better. They've uncomplicated and uncluttered the modern address bar design while keeping it (making it?) actually useful. First letter, tab, search phrase is brilliant. I'm not sure I care one way or the other yet about the screenshot start page but it is growing on me. I like how settings and history and such open as browser tabs rather than dialogs. That pretty much avoids the overextended 'stack of tabs' convention.
I am probably less feature demanding than most Slashdot users. It seems like the first 10 comments in any Chrome story are about the lack of extensions. When I used FF I think I had AdBlock, maybe Forecast Fox, a skin or two. I can see how Chrome wouldn't work if I really really needed the /b/ Toolbar, but since I don't the UI improvements alone sell it.
Scarier still: Yahoo still exists.
I remember fondly the first time I loaded Google's search page. No ads, no weather report, no links to personal ads. Just a search box, as Al Gore himself intended it.
I swore off garbage portal sites right then and I've never looked back.
Having been on many bumpy helicopter rides I imagine fantasies of news crews making rooftop helicopter extractions likely collide with the reality of those rescues ending in rotor strikes sending the helicopter, upside down and on fire, careening into the very people they were trying to pick up, and everyone, crew included, dead anyway.
But if you labor under the idea that everyone can do every task equally well, and this discussion makes it clear many do, such things seem like good ideas to you. I thought this kind of thing died out among geeks with the dot com crash but it seems to have returned. Hopefully Cory Doctorow fades away, like Eric S Raymond, his predecessor in regularly pontificating on subjects outside the scope of his knowledge.
Do you believe the news helicopters should have plucked those people up?
Luckily, although you wouldn't know it from the submission and have to pay close attention to the article to figure it out, no one is actually doing any of this.
It is just a set of drawings entered into a design competition.
These types of things used to be obvious markers for trolls.
Sadly, Slashdot's anti-trolling efforts have both made the site less user friendly and resulted in a user base that falls for even the most thinly veiled efforts. Back in the inchfan days the parent wouldn't have even merited a link.
What compels you to read smartphone submissions and their resulting discussion?
Under Slashdot grammatical convention it is acceptable to use the word 'forced' to describe a person's employer assigning them a telephone they don't like.
Also, just to expand, if the digital version of a pop culture movie is released on iTunes exclusively, the convention allows a person to claim he is being 'forced' to use iTunes.
Who do you buy your gasoline from?
Massachusetts isn't going to let you in with an M4.
And in a scant 2 years' time you'll do it all over again.
Same way they got their god: they made it up.
How about if you'd like a license to carry a handgun?
More states than not will print you for one.
So? Poor people get convicted using toy guns. Gates could have doubled his cool creds in this demo by telling the audience that poor people also can't get away with loosing a swarm of mosquitos on a bunch of important people, but he sure can.
It is ufortunate that it takes someone who is very well off to do this kind of thing. There is a 0.01% chance that anyone from the crowd could convince the local prosecutor's office to pursue criminal charges agaisnt Gates. 0% more like. He could bring in a legal team that would tie up an underfunded overworked team of state lawyers for 1000 years and waste more tax money than the war on drugs and he himself would never see the inside of a courtroom.
And if you went after him in civil court the interest he'd earn in the time it took to make the case would cover any monetary award that would be judged against him. He is well insulated against legal stupidities.
Rich people could redeem themselves if they did cool stuff like this on a regular basis, but now all they do is devise ways to burn us all for fuel. Back in the day Howard Hughes would crash a rocket plane into your house, wash his hands in your sink without asking, and apologize for it to nobody.
Despite the neocons successfully organizing a war on an emotion, I think people still need something they can identify with to focus their anger on. Gates himself is easier to than the Microsoft Corporation overall, just like Bush was easier than the more nebulous neocon movement, so the anger is focused on them individually despite the fact they are little more than figureheads.
But it is fun. Even though I recognize the above, when I ran the Windows 7 beta and its taskbar blitted balloon after balloon at me in celebration of installing a USB drive I cursed Bill Gates and his family as individuals rather than Microsoft in general.