Comment Re:Clearly... (Score 1) 118
And how is Archive.org handling this economic crisis?
Comment Depends (Score 5, Insightful) 329
has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?
Depends on what they're using it for. I might be a minority, but I hardly ever use the radio feature - I use the site as a way to track what I've been listening to, and use the recommendations to find new artists to buy or download from iTunes or Amazon.
Comment Boxee? (Score 3, Funny) 220
Comment Re:so what? (Score 1) 336
Those kind of practices would just lead to even more people who wouldn't bother with theaters at all, choosing to buy or rent movies and watch them at home.
Comment Re:hmm? (Score 1) 242
If they forgot the angle for obtaining revenue, then I wouldn't say they have all the angles just yet.
They've got an angle. It's called "console gaming."
Comment Re:Boston Strangler? (Score 1) 140
Fair enough. I'm in college right now - I'm definitely familiar with lack of sleep.
Comment Re:Boston Strangler? (Score 1) 140
I distinctly remember comments comparing the VCR to the Boston Strangler. I'm too lazy to track it down, and most of you should remember...
Well, that must mean you're REALLY lazy - that took all of five seconds on Google.
Comment Re:Outside the US? (Score 3, Insightful) 276
No thanks. I'll stick with BitTorrent, if only because I live outside the US, and it won't be available outside the US, for some reason.
That reason is copyright law...which, unless I'm mistaken, CBS doesn't control.
Submission + - Ruckus.com Shuts Down
Gothic_Walrus writes: "Ruckus, a website that provided free music downloads to anyone with a .edu e-mail address, has shut down. The main page of the site has been replaced with a graphic stating "Unfortunately the Ruckus service will no longer be provided. Thanks." The site was founded in 2004, and provided free music from the major labels. The site wasn't perfect — their player was filled with ads and the music was DRM-protected (though there are always ways to dodge that bullet) — but it provided free content to broke college students."
Comment Re:You are probably correct (Score 1) 118
The opposite is also true. See Nintendo.
As much as I loved my N64 and GameCube, I was in a minority.
Comment IMDB link (Score 4, Informative) 330
Since it wasn't included in the summary and searching for "Matt Smith" brings up page after page of listings on IMDB, here's the profile of the actor in question.
It looks like he hasn't done much in his career so far, and (other than one episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl) I don't see anything that American audiences would be familiar with there.
Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 103
On the other hand, it's 500 points, or five dollars. Unless something is slipping my mind (and no, DLC extra features don't count), that's cheaper than (or, for NES games, the same price as) everything else offered in the shop channel.
It may not be free, but it's definitely affordable.
Comment Re:Multiple interpretations (Score 1) 542
The Police are thugs.
What did Sting ever do to you?
Submission + - Slashdot References in Popular Culture? 1
The Living Fractal writes: "So I'm reading Century Rain, a great SF book by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, and at about page 80 or so I stumble onto a hidden Slashdot reference. Reynolds' character "Niagara" runs a finger diagonally across his chest then 'dots' next to the slash, then goes on to talk about a community of progressive thinkers on one of the earliest computer networks (today's internet) who eventually founded his society. They're even called Slashers! Maybe old news to some of you, but a nice surprise for me nevertheless.
Does anyone else have /. easter eggs they've found that they can share with us?"
Does anyone else have
Submission + - Search with your voice
An anonymous reader writes: Acccording to this report, Music social networking site midomi.com is showcasing a new search technology that allows you to search for music by singing, whistling or humming a few bars of a song to identify the track. The search engine technology was even able to correctly identify songs sung by the writer, who is says he is a hopeless singer.
