It's "musicians" that are only in it for the money that gives us crap like the Spice Girls.
Ya know, to the extent that I'm known at all it's as an "avant-garde" musician. My ensemble, Comma, has put out a CD, on which, among other things, we do the music of John Cage and Pauline Oliveros.
That said: what the hell do people have against the Spice Girls, other than that they're rich and attractive? They work within a particular genre, and do what they do rather well. When I'm not listening to John Zorn, Cage, or Ornette Coleman, odds are strong that I'll be listening to something from the top 40, and liking it.
2. The big lie in the above message is this:
Hint #2: the good musicians are making a living.
A few weeks ago, I saw an incredible musician, Lisle Ellis, playing with a jazzoid trio, What We Live. I don't know that I've ever seen a better bass player. If the good musicians were making a living, he'd be a millionaire.
And yet an email is going around asking the following:
Paul Plimley wrote:
Urgent message for all people who know Lisle Ellis
I am writing on Lisle Ellis' behalf to let people know that he is currently receiving emergency medical attention in San Francisco for liver and kidney malfunctions and is in need of any possible financial contribution that you can donate. At this moment in time, Lisle is living from a van in San Francisco (where he has lived since 1992) and is at present homeless. He has no telephone number where he can be reached. More to the point, he is in debt and is without any income at this time. Here is an excerpt from a recent E mail sent to me from him , dated March 7, 2000.
.......My situation is CRITICAL. I need some $$$ to pay immediate medical bills and further medical expenses. that's excluding my day to day survival needs. right now i've my van to live in. i guess that is more than some have but knowing that dosen't help my spirits much or dosen't keep me any warmer at night. i'm accepting any donations that you or any others may offer. PLEASE let people know what is happening since i've no access to phone and only very limited access to email. (please pass along my email address). anyone who wants to help can do so so by making a deposit at any Toronto Dominion bank (based in Canada):
US$ account #7134505 branch#4720
i really need your help in getting the word out there.
In the fairyland where good musicians were making money, this wouldn't be happening...
most musicians currently are signed to long-term record contracts
Most?!? No, most musicians are completely without record contracts. The miniscule percentage of musicians with contracts is only the tiniest bit of cream that rises... or crap that floats...
Jon interprets Lord:
But cost could be tied to sales, either in the way Lord suggests, or inversely: the more people who buy a hit CD, the lower its costs.
Wouldn't it be more sensible economically that the more people who buy, the *higher* the cost? After all, more people would be willing to pay more for it.
If the real world worked like Jon thinks Lord suggests, books in remainder bins, for example, would go for hundreds of bucks apiece. Other than the occasional loss leader, things that few people want tend to be inexpensive. See: "market".
Hmmm... I read messages with the high pass filter (or whatever it's called) set to 2. I'm guessing that the message to which I'm replying was itself a reply to something with a lower setting. Thus, the statement "This feature has been added recently due to popular request." appears without a context.
After thinking about this for several good seconds, though, I don't have a solution...
*Align with the OS movement more, there's plenty of talent that would likely work on such a task, but probably isn't even aware of it. Getting mentioned on/. is a huge start.
So howabout setting up an RDF headline server, or whatever they're called, with a list of recent PG (I keep thinking that means Peter Gabriel) releases, and making it one of the/. slasbox sidebar thingie options?
IANAL, but... it would seem to me that extending a copyright for, say, 10,000 years would still count as "limited Times". Sort of like avoiding giving someone a life sentence by sentencing him to three consecutive 50 year sentences, with possibility of parole after 120.
I heard a long time ago, possibly apocryphally, that a study done on people studying to be surgeons found that a disproportionate number of them were obsessive/compulsive -- and that the surveyors decided that that probably wasn't a bad thing.
2) 'It's called "NSAKEY" for some dumb reason' - yeah, and the symbol name got stipped off from _all previous shipped Windows releases_ (a couple dozen ones, not including localized versions), while $KEY was not stipped? You got to be kidding. $NSAKEY within a crypto module means only one thing.
Only one thing? Those of us who don't jump immediately into paranoia mode can picture M$ engineers, having to name the thing, laughing their asses off when they realize what will happen when conspiracy junkies see the name and using it as a gag.
There are other, even goofier possibilities, not to mention the quite reasonable ones brought up on NTBugTraq.
Yeah, I'd pay $10/month (+ the one-time cost of good speakers, unless it has really good built-in sound) for the ability to run streaming media into my bedroom, etc, assuming that I could run the server on a Linux system or something similarly inexpensive.
OTOH, what might it cost to put together a reliable PC-based Linux system as a comparable X-Terminal? Hmmm...
Those who do not remember .history ...
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Ah, so now we can look forward to the fall of the Ottoman Empire?
Unisys (or someone) could probably avoid much confusion and agita by posting a list of GIF creation software whose makers have gotten the license. Even if it isn't absolutely complete (it would, of course be good if the list were actively maintained), it would answer an FAQ.
It's the product of a single mind, rather than a committee...
Hmm... Which single mind: one or the other of the two writer/directors? The actors, who improvised their own dialogue? The fleet of Web designers? The marketers who put together the riveting ads?
I was somewhat underwhelmed by the movie, perhaps because I had read a lot about it.
However, the movie is only one part of the picture, and almost seems like an advertisement for the rest. The web site, comic book, soundtrack CD, etc, add a lot to it. Ultimately, the DVD may be the best way to get the whole experience.
BTW, I see that the FX channel has bought the broadcast rights. They're gonna have to bleep the dialogue so much that... hm... maybe if we listen to the bleeps as Morse code, we may find out what's really going on...
I have a feeling that I might agree with much of this article if I could understand what it meant. I'm usually quite tolerant of attempts to write in English, but this was beyond Babelfish. I certainly hope that Rowan's book will be in his native tongue, whatever that is, or that he at least get an editor.
I tried to get beyond the linguistic aspects to follow the train of thought in the content of the article, but it eluded me, unless it was "I like computers. Computers suck. I like Linux. Linux sucks. The best way to do things and the worst way are the same thing. I don't understand any of it. So I'm writing a book about it." Would the next paragraph have said "I like jello"?
Combining the technologies seemed like such a conceptual no-brainer (though I have no idea how tricky the circuitry would be) that I've been surprised that I hadn't heard about such a think sooner. I want one. Now. Gimme.
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Ya know, to the extent that I'm known at all it's as an "avant-garde" musician. My ensemble, Comma, has put out a CD, on which, among other things, we do the music of John Cage and Pauline Oliveros.
That said: what the hell do people have against the Spice Girls, other than that they're rich and attractive? They work within a particular genre, and do what they do rather well. When I'm not listening to John Zorn, Cage, or Ornette Coleman, odds are strong that I'll be listening to something from the top 40, and liking it.
2. The big lie in the above message is this:
Hint #2: the good musicians are making a living.
A few weeks ago, I saw an incredible musician, Lisle Ellis, playing with a jazzoid trio, What We Live. I don't know that I've ever seen a better bass player. If the good musicians were making a living, he'd be a millionaire.
And yet an email is going around asking the following:
In the fairyland where good musicians were making money, this wouldn't be happening...Jon quotes Spurius:
most musicians currently are signed to long-term record contracts
Most?!? No, most musicians are completely without record contracts. The miniscule percentage of musicians with contracts is only the tiniest bit of cream that rises... or crap that floats...
Jon interprets Lord:
But cost could be tied to sales, either in the way Lord suggests, or inversely: the more people who
buy a hit CD, the lower its costs.
Wouldn't it be more sensible economically that the more people who buy, the *higher* the cost? After all, more people would be willing to pay more for it.
If the real world worked like Jon thinks Lord suggests, books in remainder bins, for example, would go for hundreds of bucks apiece. Other than the occasional loss leader, things that few people want tend to be inexpensive. See: "market".
I read this at first as Robbie Williams, and nearly lost my breakfast.
The last fifteen years have produced no Brian Wilsons, John Lennons, Luc Bressons or Orson Welles.
*sigh* The nostalgic fallacy lies in forgetting the crap of the past, so that it looks like times were better.
In any era, it's possible to point to the good stuff of a previous one and say that things have gone to hell.
When I lived in Austin, it was a truism that the city's golden age had ended just moments before you got there.
In twenty years, people will complain that that era is crap, since it has produced no Becks, John Zorns, Quentin Tarantinos or Tim Robbins.
And look at it this way: the past fifteen have produced no Paper Lace, Bay City Rollers, Roger Cormans, or William Shatners, either.
Possibly exposing the depth of my newbietude here:
How does/will the Helix Code desktop cooperate, coexist, or conflict with Nautilus and the like?
> Whats all that binding crap?
Uh... fiber?
Hmmm... I read messages with the high pass filter (or whatever it's called) set to 2. I'm guessing that the message to which I'm replying was itself a reply to something with a lower setting. Thus, the statement "This feature has been added recently due to popular request." appears without a context.
After thinking about this for several good seconds, though, I don't have a solution...
So howabout setting up an RDF headline server, or whatever they're called, with a list of recent PG (I keep thinking that means Peter Gabriel)
releases, and making it one of the
IANAL, but... it would seem to me that extending a copyright for, say, 10,000 years would still count as "limited Times". Sort of like avoiding giving someone a life sentence by sentencing him to three consecutive 50 year sentences, with possibility of parole after 120.
It's good to see they're using Linux on the QE II.
We already know how lousy NT is on big ships...
(Oh wait, you mean I had to actually read that article? Damn...)
DOW Dress-Oblivious Workers. Us.
Remember the proverb: The DOW that can be ironed is not the DOW.
This is eerily reminiscent of the bit about the telegraph signal in On the Beach.
I heard a long time ago, possibly apocryphally, that a study done on people studying to be surgeons found that a disproportionate number of them were obsessive/compulsive -- and that the surveyors decided that that probably wasn't a bad thing.
2) 'It's called "NSAKEY" for some dumb reason' - yeah, and the symbol name got stipped off from _all previous shipped Windows releases_ (a couple dozen ones, not including localized versions), while $KEY was not stipped? You got to be kidding. $NSAKEY within a crypto module means only one thing.
Only one thing? Those of us who don't jump immediately into paranoia mode can picture M$ engineers, having to name the thing, laughing their asses off when they realize what will happen when conspiracy junkies see the name and using it as a gag.
There are other, even goofier possibilities, not to mention the quite reasonable ones brought up on NTBugTraq.
Yeah, I'd pay $10/month (+ the one-time cost of good speakers, unless it has really good built-in sound) for the ability to run streaming media into my bedroom, etc, assuming that I could run the server on a Linux system or something similarly inexpensive.
OTOH, what might it cost to put together a reliable PC-based Linux system as a comparable X-Terminal? Hmmm...
Ah, so now we can look forward to the fall of the Ottoman Empire?
Unisys (or someone) could probably avoid much confusion and agita by posting a list of GIF creation software whose makers have gotten the license. Even if it isn't absolutely complete (it would, of course be good if the list were actively maintained), it would answer an FAQ.
Hmm... Which single mind: one or the other of the two writer/directors? The actors, who improvised their own dialogue? The fleet of Web designers? The marketers who put together the riveting ads?
I was somewhat underwhelmed by the movie, perhaps because I had read a lot about it.
However, the movie is only one part of the picture, and almost seems like an advertisement for the rest. The web site, comic book, soundtrack CD, etc, add a lot to it. Ultimately, the DVD may be the best way to get the whole experience.
BTW, I see that the FX channel has bought the
broadcast rights. They're gonna have to bleep the dialogue so much that... hm... maybe if we listen to the bleeps as Morse code, we may find out what's really going on...
Looking at that page, Brad Templeton appears to be cheesed off that the /. mention didn't give him credit for the thing. So here it is...
My bleary mind dropped a "Mr." into that headline.
"Where do you want to go today? It's a beautiful day in the neightborhood!"
Funny, that Swedish message looked just like a Slashdot error. Maybe it's here.
(A M00se once bit my HTML Validator...)
Perhaps we should design a large, detailed statue... in VRML.
A pigeon could then sit at the keyboard and try to determine whether it was a real statue or not.
I have a feeling that I might agree with much of this article if I could understand what it meant. I'm usually quite tolerant of attempts to write in English, but this was beyond Babelfish. I certainly hope that Rowan's book will be in his native tongue, whatever that is, or that he at least get an editor.
I tried to get beyond the linguistic aspects to follow the train of thought in the content of the article, but it eluded me, unless it was "I like computers. Computers suck. I like Linux. Linux sucks. The best way to do things and the worst way are the same thing. I don't understand any of it. So I'm writing a book about it." Would the next paragraph have said "I like jello"?
Combining the technologies seemed like such a conceptual no-brainer (though I have no idea how tricky the circuitry would be) that I've been surprised that I hadn't heard about such a think sooner. I want one. Now. Gimme.