Might be fun.

Maybe these guys got it covered though:

http://www.altslashdot.org/wik...

So where will everybody be next week?

Hacker news
Lobste.rs
Reddit ...?

Also, has someone volunteered to put up a slashcott update site (maybe with statistics on how well/poorly the site is doing during the blockade?)

Just curious.

Don't forget a lot of "piano" music we associate with Beethoven and back was written on the harpsichord and organ. The piano didn't exist.

I'll assume you meant "Bach" -- Beethoven certainly played and composed for the piano
(See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortepiano).

As far as the suitability of playing Bach on a piano (or any other instrument) ... this controversy has been around for awhile. Striving for "historic authenticity" in performance is a relatively recent phenomenon, representing trends in Musicology and research into the construction of period instruments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_informed_performance)

Nobody probably thought much of someone releasing a recording of something like the WTC played on piano 50 years ago, but in today's artistic climate, it's regarded as being a bit tasteless, as Bach certainly wrote his contrapuntal keyboard works for the keyboards of his day (be they harpsichord, clavier, or organ).

http://darcs.net/

+1

Agreed: that's subtle, but that's a wise distinction to make.

hehehe, that's what I get for not RTFing entire A, I didn't see they'd inlined the entire thing in it. Derp!

Found this, seems legit:

http://pastebin.com/We3xgT4J

Don't forget your rations. Make sure you bring iron ones--and a lot of 'em, especially for wilderness adventures.

Agreed. Google have turned into major scumbags on this.

It's a testament to the power of corporate brainwashing ("Do no evil! Lol") that most "geeks" give them a pass on this and the rest of their shenanigans.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/google-netflix-and-microsoft-propose-drm-for-html5-1537974/

But I'm seeing two benefits:

1) If Canonical can get traction with the OEMs, maybe there will be more diversity in the type of hardware available. Might open up the "mobile OS hacking" subculture even further, allowing people to come up with novel, mobile GNU/Linux distributions.

2) Allowing devs to write/ship mobile applications in something other than ObjC (iOS) and Java (Android). I don't think it's possible or viable today, for example, to write a full Python mobile application and ship it. Sure, there are some pet projects out there that will, with some effort, let you kindasorta run things like Perl or Python on Android, but anything other than ObjC/Java are second-class citizens, currently.

Perhaps having Ubuntu begin to carve out even a little space here might help open the market a bit to more interesting and useful approaches to mobile operating systems?

I'm also a full xmonad convert. I don't know how I ever got along without it, really.

Now you have me wondering how different life would be on a VHRD? Maybe it's time for a better monitor...

Same here--that's when I usually go and hang out, maybe near the border of our province.