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Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus from the up-to-the-minute dept.
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment 2 Cents From A Nerd... (Score 1) 443

by jyuschak (#30427892) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

I hardly post here on /. that often, but seeing this post and the throngs of replies regarding quality of comments, I felt that I wanted to reply with my own experiences.

It was 10 years ago that I started my college career at Drexel University and I was the absolute loneliest kid you could find on that campus. I didn't know a soul and I had quite a hard time making friends. Now, I can't remember exactly how I found you, but after reading "News For Nerds" I felt at home. And after going through all the posts, news stories, fellow readers & posters, I felt better about myself. In a sea of unfamiliarity, there was Slashdot. It was my anchor, it was my warm blanket that make me comfortable. I can hardly describe how much better my freshman year felt having /. with me. It meant a lot to me 10 years ago, and it means a lot to me now.

There are those that will tell you things have changed, that /. isn't the same. But like anything, change is inevitable. And I definitely think the changes that /. have experienced are, for the most part, positive. The new Web 2.0 look, the comment filter bars, the pictures in the articles; I view them as welcomed additions.

Slashdot is something special. Of all the things I hold a special place for in my heart, I never thought I'd feel this way about a website. But I do. The people here are amazing. Without realizing it, you guys & girls here have helped me through some of the most difficult times in my life. I love Ask Slashdot. I love the book reviews. I love the news.

Over the past decade, Slashdot has definitely changed, but it still feels like home. It's still here. And for that, I thank all of you. The creators, the members, the anon cowards. Just... thank you, all of you. I sincerely hope you continue to exist right here for another decade. Regardless of whatever browsers come and go, you'll always be the first in my favorites.
Music

Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743

Posted by CmdrTaco from the get-off-my-lawn dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Jonathan Berger, a professor of music at Stanford, tests his incoming students each year by having them listen to a variety of recordings which use different formats from MP3 to ones of much higher quality, and he reports that each year the preference for music in MP3 format rises. Berger says that young people seemed to prefer 'sizzle sounds' that MP3s bring to music because it is a sound they are familiar with. 'The music examples included both orchestral, jazz and rock music. When I first did this I was expecting to hear preferences for uncompressed audio and expecting to see MP3 (at 128, 160 and 192 bit rates) well below other methods (including a proprietary wavelet-based approach and AAC),' writes Berger. 'To my surprise, in the rock examples the MP3 at 128 was preferred. I repeated the experiment over 6 years and found the preference for MP3 — particularly in music with high energy (cymbal crashes, brass hits, etc) rising over time.' Dale Dougherty writes that the context of the music changes our perception of the sound, particularly when it's so obviously and immediately shared by others. 'All that sizzle is a cultural artifact and a tie that binds us. It's mostly invisible to us but it is something future generations looking back might find curious because these preferences won't be obvious to them.'"
Music

Speculation On a Lossless iTunes Store 321

Posted by kdawson from the filling-up-the-160-gb-ipod dept.
DrJenny writes "C|net UK has up an interesting blog post predicting that within 12 months Apple's iTunes Store will include a download center for lossless audio. This would be a massively positive move for people who spend thousands of dollars on hi-fi gear, but refuse to give money to stores that only offer compressed music — they could finally take advantage of legal digital downloads. The article goes into details on how Apple's home-grown ALAC lossless encoding relates to FLAC, DRM, and the iPod ecosystem."

The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 277

Posted by CmdrTaco from the at-the-end-of-the-tour dept.
Today, on the last day of our 10 year anniversary navel gazing spectacular, I present the final (thank god!) chapter in my 4 part history of Slashdot. I've written about the creation, the explosion, and the corporatization. Today I talk about where we are today, and what I see as our future, and how I feel about it. Clicky click the magic link below to read the last "thrilling" chapter, and celebrate with me the fact that I won't have to spend this much time writing about Slashdot for another decade.

History of Slashdot Part 3- Going Corporate 126

Posted by CmdrTaco from the are-we-sick-of-this-yet dept.
When we last left off we were in early 1999- Slashdot had a small business behind it, known as Blockstackers Intergalactic. But we knew that we would need real infrastructure to handle the ever increasing traffic and needs of our readers as well as our employees. A number of suitors approached us with deal of varying sizes and shapes, and we settled on one nobody had never heard of: Andover. (As a reminder don't forget to get your charity bid up ... some items are still reasonably priced! But the EFF always needs cash!)

Rob Malda Answers Your Questions 221

Posted by Roblimo from the pants-are-still-optional-but-not-for-you dept.
Last week hundreds of you posted questions for Slashdot's CmdrTaco, AKA Rob Malda. Today we present his answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions. CT: You can continue to sign up for 10 year anniversary parties but we're already working on shipping shirts so you won't be able to get a care package... but you can still try to run for the big grand prize by just taking videos of pictures or just doing something cool at your parties to prove that we should have been there.
Slashdot.org

A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions 216

Posted by CmdrTaco from the are-we-there-yet dept.
When last we left off, Slashdot had grown beyond my ability to maintain it as a hobby, as well as beyond the simple DEC Alpha Multia 166 that had served it so well for the first week or two, and then immediately buckled under the traffic. Here in Part 2, we ride the wave of Slashdot's growth from early '98 until whenever my wrists get tired enough that I stop yakking until next week.
Slashdot.org

A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips 503

Posted by CmdrTaco from the there's-probably-a-grateful-dead-quote-that-applies-here dept.
As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, I've decided to post a story here telling the tale of the transition from Chips & Dips to Slashdot back in 1997. For those of you who are new here (cough), CnD was the precursor to Slashdot, hosted on my personal homepage on the CompSci cluster of Hope College. Along with a number of random Linux related webpages, themes for window managers, random bits of code I wrote, this page was read by a great number of folks, mostly from the IRC scene. Hit the link below to read the tale of its transformation into an Internet superstar (and maybe later I'll write the the sequel where I talk of the transformation into sellout mega corporate evil and eventually irrelevant blemish on the history of the net ;) And don't forget to check for a Slashdot 10 year anniversary party in your area.
Slashdot.org

Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents 636

Posted by CmdrTaco from the wasting-your-life-one-decade-at-a-time dept.
October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series of navel gazing meta news articles about our history, infrastructure and plans for the future. We're also going to give away 500 t-shirts and ThinkGeek gift certificates to people willing to organize and attend their own local Slashdot parties. One lucky winner will get a cool grand to blow at ThinkGeek! I'm going to attend "official" gatherings in Ann Arbor, MI on Oct 20 and in Palo Alto, CA on Oct 25. But you can read on for details about party organization and how you can win the grand prize.

Halo 3 Review 373

Posted by Zonk from the cue-orchestral-background-music dept.
From a certain point of view, Halo 3 is without a doubt the biggest game of the year. The combination of fan anticipation, marketing, and the skill of Bungie's design combine to create a game that's larger than life; if gaming has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry's punch, it's the tale of Master Chief. The importance of the Halo franchise to gaming is a very big issue, though, and one worth it's own article. Having played through the game, there's really only one question I'm here to answer today. Does it meet expectations? In a word: yes. It's not the best game ever made, and it may not even be the best game this year. Will it make the fans happy, and deservedly sell thousands of Xbox 360s? Very much yes. Read on for my impressions of Bungie's years-in-the-making epic, Halo 3.
Music

Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" 637

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the unlikely-defense-against-the-mafiaa dept.
THX-1138 writes "A few months ago, Trent Reznor (frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails), was in Australia doing an interview when he commented on the outrageous prices of CDs there. Apparently now his label, Universal Media Group is angry at him for having said that. During a concert last night, he told fans, '...Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means — STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these mother****ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right.'"
Intel

DDR3 Isn't Worth The Money - Yet 120

Posted by Zonk from the zoom-but-not-that-much-zoom dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With Intel's motherboard chipsets supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, the question now is whether DDR3 is worth all that extra cash. Trustedreviews has a lengthy article on the topic, and it looks like (for the moment) the answer is no: 'Not to be too gloomy about this, but the bottom line is that it can only be advised to steer clear of DDR3 at present, as in terms of performance, which is what it's all about, it's a waste of money. Even fast DDR2 is, as we have demonstrated clearly, only worthwhile if you are actually overclocking, as it enables you to raise the front-side bus, without your memory causing a bottleneck. DDR3 will of course come into its own as speeds increase still further, enabling even higher front-side bus speeds to be achieved. For now though, DDR2 does its job, just fine.'"
Graphics

Content-Aware Image Resizing 174

Posted by kdawson from the got-a-nice-gui-too dept.
An anonymous reader writes "At the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego, two Israeli professors, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, have demonstrated a new method to shrink images. The method is called 'Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing' (PDF paper here) and it figures out which parts of an image are less significant. This makes it possible to change the aspect ratio of an image without making the content look skewed or stretched out. There is a video demonstration up on YouTube."

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