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I'm glad we agree that he shouldn't be making money off it. I don't think you are aware of how he contributes to what is already a difficult problem for recording artists. He's not the only reason I'm getting screwed, but he's definitely part of a larger picture.

He's actually an afterthought in why you're getting screwed. The labels are the primary, and until artists realize it nothing will change. However, they hold such a monopoly on things these days that even an established artist with a large fan base cannot really go it alone.

A lot of indie "hipster" bands have biodiesel vans for touring.

The smart ones arrange in advance to pick up some from restaurants, since it's not really in the restaurant's best interest to sell the stuff.

Some band called OFF! got busted for it a couple months ago. http://www.punknews.org/article/42020

Greg Graffin of punk rock legends Bad Religion has a Ph.D. He was teaching at UCLA when not on tour with the band (founded in 1980 and still playing...) though I believe he found it too time consuming and is now just writing books.

To quote Wikipedia:

"Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn a masters degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. in evolutionary paleontology from Cornell University. However, according to a video clip originally from the Bad Religion official website and also available from The Cornell Evolution Project homepage, the PhD thesis was officially a Zoology PhD thesis, supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell University. The thesis was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". It is described as being essentially an evolutionary biology PhD but having also relevance to history and philosophy of science."

more info in the interview here: http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=9413

A great developer did a full engine for Flashback in SDL, it's called REminiscence, and it even supports the MOD files from the Amiga version. His version works out of the box on Windows and Linux/BSD/etc.. I also ported the same program to Mac OS X so while it's not trivial to get the data files, it's at least playable on all major platforms.

A punk rock website beat you to this news...punk...rock. This is a tech website...a tech site that lost to a dinky (by /. standards, at least) site ostensibly dedicated to a style of music that has historically eschewed the use of such techie devices (not strictly, mind, but by and large). I have actually lost most of the respect I had remaining for good ol' slashdot...

some locations in Chicago you can also use it at McDonald's

I wonder if that includes the Rock and Roll McDonalds?

McDonalds is the place to rock
It is a restaurant where they buy food to eat
It is a good place to listen to the music
People flock here to get down to the rock music

RIP, Wesley Willis

Hey. Goto the /. of punk sites, Punknews.org and check out their story about it. Be prepared for more dumb comments than you can shake an AC at though.

Hey. Goto the /. of punk sites, Punknews.org and check out their story about it. Be prepared for more dumb comments than you can shake an AC at though.

Before everyone starts attacking MySQL, and citing Oracle's technical merits, we should probably note one thing. First and foremost, Oracle has hideously high pricing. Currently, my company is looking into Oracle licenses to replace our PostgreSQL setup and the nice fellow at Oracle tells me about a "great deal" in which I'll be paying per clock cycle. I.e. 500mhz means 500 * (rate). This is since of course, web sites only use one user to access the database, making licensing fairly cheap. PostgreSQL on the other hand is probably the most "free" of the major RDBMS, provides next to all of Oracle's features, plus some unique features like 'snapshoting' as opposed to row or table locking, sequences and more.

All in all PostgreSQL, speed considerations aside, is a worthy option for people considering Oracle. The only reason most people consider Oracle is because of it's reputation. People hear "Oracle" and they believe you're taking your data seriously.

For speed, MySQL's only advantage is SELECT speed, as INSERT's are quite slow, in comparison. If you're running a website that's fairly non-interactive (like mine : Punknews.org) You'll be happier with MySQL for speed, but if you're dealing with a lot of user-inputted Data, PostgreSQL will make up for the SELECT speed with a much faster, multi-threaded and non-table locking INSERT and UPDATE.