I didn't think they did the outtake reel until the movies been out for a few weeks and then want to draw the grownups back again...or at least thats what I understood from the last few.
I never catch the big movies for the first two or three weeks anyways as I'm trying to catch the little indies that are going to be gone before the ink in the newspaper is dry:-(
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).
Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. (freedom 3).
These are 'Freedoms' just as much as my 3 (starting with 0 because were talking about geeks) bulleted items:
Freedom 0: The Freedom NOT to have someone else tell me what to do with the software.
Freedom 1: The Freedom to make modifications without others asurping its control.
Freedom 2: The Freedom to Sell this software without restriction.
Freedom 3: The Freedom to what ever I god damn want with it.
So, Odd, you are wrong. My freedoms listed above are just as valid and just as much propoganda as the GPL. Its no secret that I like the BSD license better, but thats because I like those freedoms more than I like the 'freedoms' associated with the GPL.
If I release something GPL'd, it sure as hell ain't going to be about Freedom (and I have released several apps this way), its going to be about restricting my competitors so that they cannot use my software agaist me. With the GPL, I can still have my copyrighted code, yet anyone competing against it with the GPL'd code have to overcome several barriers.
The first is that if they release anything, I get access to their modifications. If they keep it in house, I don't get that, but they most likely won't. They will have to release the code along with the software. The client has no reason to buy from them because they have to give the software away for free...as such, they won't make money off of this where as I can with my future modifications -- I keep the GPL'd software is always a version behind to ensure that I can pay rent. My customers also get the code and the agreement that within XX # of Months or the Next Revision, the code given to them will revert to GPL, so they don't have to worry about me kicking over or anything:-)
As you can see, I can use the GPL in very twisted, in what some would say non-ethical, ways...and they certainly ain't freeing. Its more Binding than it would have been IMHO. If I wanted it to be free, I would have BSD'd the stuff.
This is one of the things that pisses me off about the FSF...they feel their definition of "Free Software" is the only definition of free software.
If software were truely free, you'd be able to do what you wanted and not have to do a damn thing in return. This SHOULD include being able to do what ever you want with the source, including selling a hacked up commercial version without opening your source if you don't want to.
'Free Software' is just another propoganda title like anything else on the other side. Don't get me wrong, I agree with their principles, but the term is incorrect.
Nah...they ARE warmer and richer than CD, but its NOT as the sound purists believe. Vinyl acts as an effect adding subtle distortions and a different compression than are available in the digital realm.
The first several CDs I bought sounded AWFUL compared to my vinyl so the first thing I did years ago is transfer all my vinyl to CD even if I had it on disc (back in the days when a blank CD was $10 -- if ya could find it that cheap...no rip offs here) and they sounded just as good as the vinyl did.
Most of us use some sort of analogue warming stage for our music when recording to digital. If I was recording to vinyl, I'd probably go cold and digital and leave all the 1s and 0s in tact.
Vinyl purists just need to stop telling themselves that they are getting more information in a more pristeen format because they aren't. They are just coloring their much in the same way that they complain about folks using EQs because they want to hear ultraflat response frequencies.
I can understand this sentiment, but what good is being alive if every freedom is restricted? Some of us are afraid that giving up even one freedom will lead us down to giving up all freedoms. I have nothing in my life that I think the gov't would be even the slightest bit interested in, but I'm not going to give up my freedoms of privacy or speech just because it may lead to a few safer lives.
Bush has said for months before the elections that there should be limits to free speech...this was in reference simply to a web site that didn't care for him. I support him for what he has to do but I pray that he makes the right decisions and not one that simply makes life easier.
Make the 5000 lives lost worth something...they died for the american way. Many of these folks were immigrants that came to America because of these freedoms. Don't make a mockery out of their deaths simply because you are afraid.
Actually its an urban legend that air port xrays will do this. Its the conveyor belts that these things run on that does the demagnitization. Nothing to do with the xray.
These things use electric motors to pull them, which create electromagnets (errr...the electromagnets create the motor). Even so, you'd have to have media almost directly on the belt over top the motor for a while before it came close to damaging anything. A laptop is going to be more isolated because of the casing (yeah yeah, I know most of them are plastic anymore). And still, its been several years since airports had any of these where the strength was strong enough to damage anything.
For the most part, they let folks go with these because of this urban legend to keep the lines moving. Until I got the real scoop on these things, I'd have my powerbook waiting ready to go so I could show them its running and they let me go. Fuck, what if I had molded symtex (or however you spell it) into the second battery port. I'm paranoid as it is...I WANT these guys to stop everyone and run the sucker through the xrays - though in their defense, the xrays also do bomb material sniffing and occasionally they will not only ask to see your machine running, but they will ask for a wipe - they take an alcohol wipe and run a gas chromatography on it right there in seconds. Good job security dudes!
No, most sites DON'T get ad impresions if the page is loaded without viewing the ad. Most of these softwares work on the principle that the counter isn't incremented until the banner loads.
But yeah, I think it is an individuals right to not load up advertisements on his or her computer if they want. I just don't think its very moral.
I simply tend NOT to go to sites that bombard me with advertisements. I use to love the Onion, but there is something in their Javascript that constantly crashes my browsers with their popups. I don't visit them anymore. Its like the X10 stuff...I have a crap load of this stuff from back in the days when they simply had the skanky ads of half nekkid women that had nothing to do with their products. I can deal with small advertisements...and I can laugh at sites that know how to get their target audience to look (see: half nekkid), but once they stated spamming every damn site with the popups I stopped buying their products. Smarthome.com offers the same thing without all the popups, so they will be getting all my purchases from now on.
Maybe some of us content providers should start applying the DCMA to our websites. By loading the following links into your computer, you agree to have them display as they were intended by their designers. My site doesn't advertise for its bandwidth, I don't like obnoxious advertising, but its really the owners of the content that should decide how it should be displayed. If you don't like that, there are a dozen other sites that give you the same thing...
The OpenSource rhetoric goes something like this: There is something that someone else spent years and millions of $$$s creating it. Why shouldn't we have it for free.
Ok, so they argue, we ONLY want it to decode the data. Well if that is possible, then the geeks will be screaming that now we want to ENCODE as well. If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?
You are right, a well set up unix box takes little time to administer if you leave it static. That is the point. What if your client decided they needed to find a distributed FAX server for their office. Its dead simple to find this stuff and install it and thats what they are looking at. They can call me in for my $75 an hour and end up paying far more in the 3 hours I'm there, and the 5 hours I took to research this stuff...not including fielding the service calls when their secretary needs trained how to use it...than if they would have had the secretary use some of her downtime to do a search for FAX SERVER and WINDOWS NT and find something that worked reasonably well. One of the more technical folks in the office slaps in the card, installs the software and then they call me to come in and do a tweek here or there or ask me if the software looked good in the first place.
The fact is computers don't need to be 99.999 for most businesses. I DO know what you mean though: My biz partner whom handles most of the creative aspects of the biz, didn't even know that 3 of our boxes we had sitting in our racks were Unix based. All he knew was that these were the machines that he never had to touch. He knows all about Windows as he's had to futz with them all the time. Give him unix and he'd be lost...even if ya threw him into KDE or Gnome (two things you'd never see on any of my servers).
Again, admining a Unix box CAN be cheaper and takes less time, but when I get around to an office once a month, that ain't going to cut it when then need new users added to the system and mail accounts set up...how about a new CGI installed for the webserver...that sorta stuff. Having a geek on call would be perfect, but the cost of a fulltime windows person is still going to be far cheaper than a part time unix person that knows what they are doing.
I'm going to have to defend the guy as I run Windows as well.
In Depth Knowledge of FP2000 - Any of ya'll actually use this crap? I can't figure it out. I have clients that do EVERYTHING in FP and on occasion I'm called in to help them out. I COULD tell them to pick up Dreamweaver, but most are unwilling to pay for it...they use FP as it came bundled. I COULD tell them how to do everything from notepad and then how to set up an FTP connection through the cli, but if I did that I wouldn't be working for them. I wish I knew how people used this piece of crap software as I've never been able to get it to do crap for me, yet idiots seem to figure it out enough to connect to their servers and screw up pages. In this sense, ya use what the client is using...if you don't you aren't much of a consultant.
Same goes with Windows. I tell all my users that I can set up *nix boxes for their networks. This would be really fricken cool IF I was on site more than an hour or two a month. These guys all want to admin their own servers and to be honest, the costs saved by doing it themselves far outweigh the cost of getting zapped by any of the worms - so far - for a small business. If you can't afford a full time WinAdmin, you certainly can't afford a full time UnixAdmin.
WinAdmins are a dime a dozen and EVERYONE knows enough to be able to set these damn things up. Most businesses I deal with have a semi-dedicated winadmin whom is part network assistant / mostly something else. Its something I can show a business how to do in an afternoon with a few small books left in case they need them.
On the other hand, I have a thousand page UNIX book that I still consider a starters guide that I've used for over 10 years now - "UNIX System V Release 4 - An Introduction" and it doesn't even cover things like Apache or SendMail in depth (or at all...I can't remember...I got enough other books on those subjects). Its a fricken introduction for christ's sakes. I could have gotten a few MCSE's from a book that size.
So fuck it...if ya'll want to play the assholes and be all high and mighty about how 'l33t ya'll are go ahead. Its exactly the reason you had no friends in high school. Geeks think they are always right and everyone else is wrong. Its the same attitude the jocks had, but worse.
I HATE M$ and I wouldn't suggest using it to anyone, BUT if someone suggests it to me, I'm going to give them the best service I can on that platform and I'm not going to turn my nose up at them. And YES, I did get hit by RedCode last time and this was after doing everything M$ said to do...Oops, apparently if you make any changes to the system AFTER you've done these, certain things will reenable all the changes you've made. I've now got a system where my boys have to go through a tedious proceedure ANYTIME they [install / uninstall / reconfigure] anything on my WinServers to ensure that nothing was undone. To be honest, it wouldn't be a bad practice on *nix to do the same thing and reaffirm all patches / etc stayed intact after installs. With the new RPMs (ok they are new to me...I'm use to installing with a MAKE) you don't know what the hell is being upgraded or what dependencies are being imported a good deal of the time.
Shit, anymore its almost simpler than Winders...rpm some app and find they've rewritten your secured files with something wide open and the win boys will be laughing at all you dumbass linux people...now who'd CLI over an app without knowing what was on it?
Maybe they don't seem AS plactic animated, but they definately look plastic in stills.
Pick up last months Maxim with the pullout. The main female character is posed in standard Maxim garb. I took one look at it and thought it wasn't real. And this was with the standard glossy high quality paper that us men like to see our half nekkid women in.
Nevermind, this is probably another geek that is upset that someone pissed on his wet dream..
Heh! I know this is a Laugh Its Funny article, but the FUD has already started. Not against the hackers but against the system administrators.
They are going out of their way in mainstream publications to let it be known that the only reason these servers have been hacked is because of 'lazy' system administrators. They aren't even trying to blame the hackers as that would point to flaws in their system, but those of us that slave to keep their worthless systems up and running.
I for one have had all the patches installed and STILL been hacked. I keep charts of what is installed and when because my boss demands it...that and I don't want to be caught empty handed when something like this happens.
And to think my employeers forced me off of Mac WebStar & Unix Boxes running our networks to a standard Windows...
Higer stakes items like computer parts are just a crime waiting to happen...without even throwing in the international aspect of it. As a vendor, it really isn't worth it.
To be able to accept International CCs ya need to assume risk. I'm pretty sure you've probably looked at the mom and pop stores at Pricewatch and assumed you can get these pricing. Most of the times these are very small stores hoping to make enough to break even and hoping (mistakenly) that their prices are going to keep ya coming back...but most pricewatch buyers like myself never shop at the same place twice:-)
I've had this dilemma myself. I run a music site that has a very narrow audience, but half the audience is australian and half US. We've thought about setting up shop, but the whole international thing is kicking us in the ass. If you are a US Merchant, good luck finding a company at reasonable rates that allows ya to sell internationally. Accepting CCs at all is a risky undertaking. The CC Companies want to promote the use of their cards everywhere but don't want to take any responsibility for any problems.
If you are a vendor and someone says they never got anything and you can prove that someone signed for it, its still your word against theirs. The CC Company will side with the end user every time. Someone gets their card stolen and someone buys something with it, still your problem. Someone buys something doesn't like it and returns it, its your problem and you have a mark against you for having a return.
If you have too many returns or fraudlent activity, the company that should have been checking for this crap in the first place will slap you with a fine. Great...first it never effected that company financially at all THEN they turn around and make extra proffit from you by charging you because they weren't paying attention.
Add this to the fact that when you are talking about CC Orders from a US Merchant to an address outside of the states, you are talking fraud rates in excess of 50%...there are areas where CC Companies tell you not to send products to at all because its almost 100% fraud rate. If you are shipping to a US Address, you can check up on the address where the product is going through AVS - Address Verification System. I've heard it just doesn't work in any other country because of either archaic systems or arcane laws protecting users privacy (heh! Folks think they should be able to use an insecure system to trade / barter goods with one that protects the buyer -- but they don't want to share any privacy with the ones your are buying from...if ya don't trust them why are you buying from them).
There are a lot of reasons why this probably won't happen, though someone will have probably posted a URL to a place that does by the time I'm finished typing. Good luck getting your products. Remember if you really want this crap and you've used your current crappy machine for 4 years, find what ya want, send an email to the guys selling what ya want and see if they will accept a personal check or money order. It will probably take longer and it doesn't offer you as much protection as buying with a CC, but you can get it that way...
"Now if radio was digital instead, maybe we could actually have jazz recordings on radio that didn't lose those great dynamic qualities . .."
Probably not, the reason most of these stations compress the living hell outta the music is that they want the hottest signal. This is a phenomemon in most Rawk Muzak as well...maximize everything so it holds the attention of the listener.
Shit, I get sick of music reps telling me about the dynamic range on their new machines. DOES IT REALLY MATTER? Most people are going to use maybe a fraction of the range anyways...
Ok I guess I shouldn't complain, there is a classical station I turn to the few times I'm not on my bike...they use pretty soft compression. I'll turn the sucker way up to hear the low sections and then get my ears blown out a minute later by a horn blast:-)
Anywho, I can guarentee that even if digital were medium of choice, it would be just as bad...ok I guess this is getting off topic...
Erik Barnouw describes the effect of the radio -- a distribution channel which gave away music for free, remind you of anything? -- on the record industry:
Yeah, its one sentence outta the whole shebang, but it goes to prove the level of understanding Jamie has on the whole topic. I'm not going to pretent to have read the whole thing because the first article bugged me and showed how little of understanding he had and I only skimmed this one.
Radio has to pay for every damn song they play. They are offseting the cost to the listener by playing advertisements. The record companies also give these guys a big break on the playback royalties as they know they want you to buy the records (CDs / Tapes / Minidiscs whatever...I'm like 30 and still call everything records even though I was an early adopter of CD).
Secondly, Radio Quality sucks. Much worse than MP3s. I can hear the difference between a mastered CD and MP3s on my JBLs, but the average person doesn't care because it sounds better than FM. The average person will hook up some RadioShack surround sound system and think it sounds great. Its gets the job done and unless I'm working on someone elses music, I don't care, but I don't pretend its really that good.
So, it sounds like Jamie would like to have his music for free - because/. is completely against advertising in any other medium except/. (that damn VALinux Server is flashing above my head and annoying me). Probably doesn't care about the quality of the music and would rather download all his songs from that sweet T3(+)/. is sitting on.
Blah blah blah...thats right/. keep pandering to the college kids that have free access to the internet and no money and let them grow up believing that stealing work from people that have put their life into making music and not gotten any richer for it is alright. It just means more unemployed musicians in the future and more crap like the BackStreet Boys that ya pretend not to like. If people stop learning to respect the property rights of the musicians (note: I'm for musician releasing what they want to) the only people with the money to record will be the Teen Pop Stars we all hate...
Gorilla - Adaptive tests don't work that way. ya get one right, they give ya a harder question, get it wrong and it gets a little easier...til the computer can figure out what ya know and don't know. If ya are at the top of the test because ya just happened to get the right questions then there is something wrong with the test as it should be punishing ya with harder and harder and harder q's. Yeah, this is all simplified how it works (ya get into baysian logic and stuff) but it its essentially how it works. It aint all about random questions...
Heh! This is already day old news, but I figure folks like me will read back to see if anyone posted any response a few days later:)
From what I understand, Opensourcing the thing wouldn't have done a damn thing.
In my day job, I am Manager of Development at the Indiana University - Purdue Universities Testing Center. I've read quite a bit on this and have evaluated these guys software and didn't care mch for it (could be that my own software comes up with higher predictors than theirs and was much more flexible). With adaptive testing like their own (and this is all in laymens terms lest one of the wanna be psychometricists wants to correct me), ya build the item database, calibrate it, evaluate it and then calibrate it some more. Real testing may be going on in all this time, but even static items will be somewhat liquid in their numbers over years times.
Unfortunately, companies like this like to change as many questions each year as possible. Doing this means that you will have better test security, but your items may not have all the correct weighting behind them. How does one Open Source this without loosing all data ya need to make this stuff adaptive. With standard testing, ya may ask 200 questions and a lot of times you are simply measuring a persons ability to do lots of work in a set amount of time. Adaptive testing uses a lot of calculations to figure out what ya know and what ya don't know. Instead of the 200 questions, ya might get 20 (or less on some of the new standardized ones) that you are free to take as long as you'd like.
If the person taking this knew even a few of the questions they got before hand, this would throw off the entire test. If you don't think folks cheat on these types of tests, you are an idiot. There are school systems that have gotten ahold of written tests and drilled their students on the exact questions presented. On the high stakes testing, we find folks that will go to such lenghts as to take the test on the east coast in the morning under ficticious names, fly across the country to California and retake the afternoon test. There was a case where Law Students were memorizing one question each and as soon as they were outta the test, would cell phone in the questons, and someone would be selling code keyed pencils (we have one of these:) with different patterns from the different version tests (I think a set of these put the students back about $5k each).
Anywho, no amount of Open Sourcing would have helped. Bad Software wasn't written, a bad analysis of the data was probably done. OS is not the answer to everything in life...
What a fucking troll. For the first time I read many reasons why I should go Perl instead of ASP and a dumb ass like you posts this shit.
VBS/ASP is pretty damn fast. I tried switching over to PHP a year back and I was amazed how fricken slowly things were...and its considered a staple anymore -- getting to the point where it is more used than Perl. I don't care much for most perl. I like code that I can read and not have to think about. This isn't saying that perl is bad or I'm just a suckyass programmer that can't figure this stuff out, its just that when you are working on projects that more than 1 person is working on and a lot of the times you aren't available to explain why something does what it does, I want everyone else to know immediately what the code does. When you are dealing with a team of non-programmers (psychometricists and language experts) this is immediately a good thing. I can't explain linenoise to someone:)
So what do I do? I program ASP. Once code is static and I no longer need to mess with it on a regular basis, I have one of my programmers do it up in C (or hell even let VB compile it which I wouldn't recommend if you are looking at longevity) and throw it in one of our DLLs.
On my IIS boxes, I run the Active State Perl as well. I have serveral apps that run in Perl and do a good job. I run UBB on my IIS box...granted it runs faster on my linux box, but I can't complain. When i was running UBB5, I hacked it to use ASP when possible and used a SQL database (instead of text files) and it was a bit faster than it was in just perl, but that could be because its running on a M$ product.
As for stupid and trivial modules - I have a free FTP DLL that I use on my end. If the above user is paying $750 he is an idiot. There are a lot of free components to ASP, and many inexpensive ones. The only ones I paid for are the Persits modules (ASP Upload - because it was far stabler than the free one and ASPUser as I could get to the system and do user management from a console). Of the free ones, I have FTP modules, I have standard Socket Modules (which I use to grab bits from a non-sql compliant database on the Mac), I have kick ass mail modules that I used to admin a mailing list as well as archive everything (err...I now use Mhonarc for that end of things).
This has nothing to do with being stupid. It has nothing to do with 1/5 of the time in Perl (because I'm sure I can code just as fast as a perl junkie on the M$ side).
In Perls defense, its a great language for a single user or a bunch of geeks that don't like to think in an english like language. Its very portable. I can run it on just about any platform and a lot of stuff is compiled for it. Its also reasonable fast (though any compiled lang will kick either ASP/Perls ass). But, if you are targetting anything on the M$ Platform (and there are many reasons to do this), you should seriously look at ASP/VBS as a serious possibility.
Sure they do. It costs about $15 a bulb and folks don't want to front that kind of money for a lightbulb when you can get 8 bulbs in a package for $3. I live in an old house where the circuitry means I get about 4 weeks on average before any bulb goes out...Its a chore just running around changing these things. I found one of these with a buy one get one free sale a year or two back and picked them up. They are the only bulbs in the house that haven't burned out.
Will I buy any more? Probably not, because I'm cheaper than I am lazy. I'm sure if they were the same price as standard bulbs, I'd buy them in a heart beat but they ain't
The strength of open source is not the source, but the intellectual property that goes with it - exactly the part that Mundie seems to hate so much. The fact that when you get involved in open source, you get equal rights to be involved. You can be another Leonardo da Vinci, you aren't relegated to just paying for viewing his works.
The sad fact of this is that Bill Gates OWNS all the rights to most of Leonardo's works today including the Cotex. This was bought through his digital media / stock photography group last year.
If someone has more info on this please post it...I just remember seeing the announcement in one of the Adobe Photodisc type thingies and don't have much else.
All the scientists I know make somewhere in the $30 to $100k ranges. Most musicians I know make between $17 and $40k a year - usually only with the augmentation of other incomes. Where do I get this information (before some uninformed person asks), I'm a researcher for Indiana University by day managing a development office doing psychometric shtuff. At night, I do music and technology consultation.
Anywho, Michael is just posting more dumb fuck commentary. Is this a troll? Or is this a comment from someone that seems to make a decent living within the music areas? Ya'll will probably say troll, but I gotta say Michael is either a dumbfuck or completely uninformed.
First, 'scientists' and other academics usually need to produce and be published to continue with their research. Are they getting paid for the publications? Not usually, but few of us will ever get any grants without publications. We probably won't keep our jobs for very long - Publish or Perish. Most importantly, we won't have the respect of our peers if we didn't publish. Want to do it yer way, start a rival publication, offer it free over the internet, and work to get it accedited and accepted. These other journals have all done that and if you want to be at the same level as they are, yer gonna have to woodshed it for a while.
Musicians - Their livelyhood is based on several things. Some musicians can make money simply by touring and selling merchandice. I've got a freidn touring Europe right now with a band that few have heard of, but they always sell out. They don't have big CD Sales, but their touring makes up for that quite a bit. I've got other friends where they sell a lot of CDs but getting folks together for a concert is like pulling teeth. They don't like touring and their audience is a pop in the CD and listen to audience.
Having said that, I encourage most musicians to post their works online. Its good advertisement, but in some genres it works against ya. To think that others a faster learners is an insult to the artist and implies you know more than they do about the work they are performing. If it were that fucking simple, why isn't every artist a millionaire? Oh yeah,/. thinks they are and they think that the labels only want to screw them so its alright to steal.
Hmmm...I'd have to ask two questions with this. Are the people that really want to see you the ones you need to be convincing with a RMS video, or are the people that you need to be convinced the ones that will not be able to see your speach because its in some wierd format.
Having said this, why not make it in multiple formats? My site just did a few interviews for a music conference in January (thanks Jonathan if yer reading) and it was decided that we'd go with multiple formats. We already had this in MPEG and then we converted a copy to Real.
The MPEG was very clean and fluid, but ended up being 25 megs. I've got a fast connection at home, but even mine isn't fast enough to stream 25 megs in 8 minutes, so it was set up as a downloadable. The Real file came out at just over a meg...enough to fit on a floppy if I even used them anymore. Even a slow connection should be able to stream this without too many glitches.
Something to think about. The requirements were that the GNU Only folks be able to watch this. In this case, they'd be able to watch it and have a copy clean enough for archival so they can burn it to VCD and pray to it at their Open Alter, while the rest of us simply download it and watch it on our Macs and WinPCs.
As a finaly note: ARGH!!!! Why would anyone want to run video from Linux??? Ya loose the beauty of the command line!!! If I want pretty graphics, I'll boot into my X Ready Powerbook. If I want a confusing GUI, I'll stop at my Windows machines!!! Ok, enough of my happy fun fun trolling effort:-) The rest of my post is valid though...
I don't know...if I were a 16 year old again, I'd be pissed by laws like this, but I think its a good thing. Here in Indianapolis, its already against the law for children under 18 to play most arcade gaming machines during school hours. Why? Because if they are under 18 they should be in school.
The law never BANNED anyone from playing video games, it made it so they needed their parents consent to play them. A few of the bigger arcades using the newer game cards sell one set of cards to those who don't produce a valid ID and another to ones who do (***and dammit if they didn't sell me the wrong one when I'm fricken 29***). If you are with a parent or guardian, they can opt to get the unrestricted card and allow the kiddies to play what ever they want.
Face it, if you are under 18, you are dependent on your parents for most of your rights. I think this is a good thing. You are given a set of progressive rights until the gov't thinks its reasonable to give them all to you. At 15 (least when I was a kiddie) ya can get yer Driving Lerners Permit (need an adult with ya in the car though). At 16, you can get your Drivers license, can legally work in most estabishments and can drop outta school with yer parents permission. At 17, with yer parents permission (I think ya still can) ya can enter the military...I had a friend stupidly do this because he was sick of High School and wanted to get outta his house. At 18, you can ***Vote*** and are technically emancipated from your parents (except where it comes to your schooling until your are 25...Thank you Pres G.H.W. Bush for that little bit of law that allowed my parents NOT to pay for my school, me not to get any financial aid because my parents were well enough off even though they didn't pay shit, AND allowed them to check up on my school records when they felt like it). At 21, you can Drink and receive the rest of yer rights.
So, no I don't think we should shield our kids, but they shouldn't be able to get into anything they want to. It should be a parents right to shield or not to shield. I wouldn't want my kids being allowed to walk into a bar, but if I gave them a beer that should be allowed to as a parent...hmmm...is this about free beer or free speech? Never mind:-)
ASP is MUCH faster. I went through a few weeks conversions to take my ASP scripts to PHP as script based languages are much easier to maintain. I was shocked at the speed difference...and that was from a GUI intensive OS with EVERYTHING running to a CLI only OS with most of everything I didn't need removed.
Doh! Just wrote bunch of stuff disparaging PHP that I removed. All I'm going to say is that ASP seems more professional and I'm not talking designing from Interdev (heh! most of the time I'm programming from BBEdit on the Mac or Notepad).
Now if only I learned how to program those Java Serverlets without them being sooooooooo damn slow, I'd switch in a heart beat just so I didn't have to worry about platform dependance...
BTW not sure if its listed anywhere, but there is an ASP to PHP converter tool that was very helpful for learning PHP from my old codes...
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I didn't think they did the outtake reel until the movies been out for a few weeks and then want to draw the grownups back again...or at least thats what I understood from the last few.
:-(
I never catch the big movies for the first two or three weeks anyways as I'm trying to catch the little indies that are going to be gone before the ink in the newspaper is dry
clif
You must be joking:
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The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).
Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. (freedom 3).
These are 'Freedoms' just as much as my 3 (starting with 0 because were talking about geeks) bulleted items:
Freedom 0: The Freedom NOT to have someone else tell me what to do with the software.
Freedom 1: The Freedom to make modifications without others asurping its control.
Freedom 2: The Freedom to Sell this software without restriction.
Freedom 3: The Freedom to what ever I god damn want with it.
So, Odd, you are wrong. My freedoms listed above are just as valid and just as much propoganda as the GPL. Its no secret that I like the BSD license better, but thats because I like those freedoms more than I like the 'freedoms' associated with the GPL.
If I release something GPL'd, it sure as hell ain't going to be about Freedom (and I have released several apps this way), its going to be about restricting my competitors so that they cannot use my software agaist me. With the GPL, I can still have my copyrighted code, yet anyone competing against it with the GPL'd code have to overcome several barriers.
The first is that if they release anything, I get access to their modifications. If they keep it in house, I don't get that, but they most likely won't. They will have to release the code along with the software. The client has no reason to buy from them because they have to give the software away for free...as such, they won't make money off of this where as I can with my future modifications -- I keep the GPL'd software is always a version behind to ensure that I can pay rent. My customers also get the code and the agreement that within XX # of Months or the Next Revision, the code given to them will revert to GPL, so they don't have to worry about me kicking over or anything
As you can see, I can use the GPL in very twisted, in what some would say non-ethical, ways...and they certainly ain't freeing. Its more Binding than it would have been IMHO. If I wanted it to be free, I would have BSD'd the stuff.
clif
sonikmatter.com
This is one of the things that pisses me off about the FSF...they feel their definition of "Free Software" is the only definition of free software.
If software were truely free, you'd be able to do what you wanted and not have to do a damn thing in return. This SHOULD include being able to do what ever you want with the source, including selling a hacked up commercial version without opening your source if you don't want to.
'Free Software' is just another propoganda title like anything else on the other side. Don't get me wrong, I agree with their principles, but the term is incorrect.
clif marsiglio
sonikmatter.com
Nah...they ARE warmer and richer than CD, but its NOT as the sound purists believe. Vinyl acts as an effect adding subtle distortions and a different compression than are available in the digital realm.
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The first several CDs I bought sounded AWFUL compared to my vinyl so the first thing I did years ago is transfer all my vinyl to CD even if I had it on disc (back in the days when a blank CD was $10 -- if ya could find it that cheap...no rip offs here) and they sounded just as good as the vinyl did.
Most of us use some sort of analogue warming stage for our music when recording to digital. If I was recording to vinyl, I'd probably go cold and digital and leave all the 1s and 0s in tact.
Vinyl purists just need to stop telling themselves that they are getting more information in a more pristeen format because they aren't. They are just coloring their much in the same way that they complain about folks using EQs because they want to hear ultraflat response frequencies.
Just an aside
clif
Hmmm...when did worms start following redirect commands?
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Just curious
clif
I can understand this sentiment, but what good is being alive if every freedom is restricted? Some of us are afraid that giving up even one freedom will lead us down to giving up all freedoms. I have nothing in my life that I think the gov't would be even the slightest bit interested in, but I'm not going to give up my freedoms of privacy or speech just because it may lead to a few safer lives.
Bush has said for months before the elections that there should be limits to free speech...this was in reference simply to a web site that didn't care for him. I support him for what he has to do but I pray that he makes the right decisions and not one that simply makes life easier.
Make the 5000 lives lost worth something...they died for the american way. Many of these folks were immigrants that came to America because of these freedoms. Don't make a mockery out of their deaths simply because you are afraid.
clif
Actually its an urban legend that air port xrays will do this. Its the conveyor belts that these things run on that does the demagnitization. Nothing to do with the xray.
These things use electric motors to pull them, which create electromagnets (errr...the electromagnets create the motor). Even so, you'd have to have media almost directly on the belt over top the motor for a while before it came close to damaging anything. A laptop is going to be more isolated because of the casing (yeah yeah, I know most of them are plastic anymore). And still, its been several years since airports had any of these where the strength was strong enough to damage anything.
For the most part, they let folks go with these because of this urban legend to keep the lines moving. Until I got the real scoop on these things, I'd have my powerbook waiting ready to go so I could show them its running and they let me go. Fuck, what if I had molded symtex (or however you spell it) into the second battery port. I'm paranoid as it is...I WANT these guys to stop everyone and run the sucker through the xrays - though in their defense, the xrays also do bomb material sniffing and occasionally they will not only ask to see your machine running, but they will ask for a wipe - they take an alcohol wipe and run a gas chromatography on it right there in seconds. Good job security dudes!
No, most sites DON'T get ad impresions if the page is loaded without viewing the ad. Most of these softwares work on the principle that the counter isn't incremented until the banner loads.
But yeah, I think it is an individuals right to not load up advertisements on his or her computer if they want. I just don't think its very moral.
I simply tend NOT to go to sites that bombard me with advertisements. I use to love the Onion, but there is something in their Javascript that constantly crashes my browsers with their popups. I don't visit them anymore. Its like the X10 stuff...I have a crap load of this stuff from back in the days when they simply had the skanky ads of half nekkid women that had nothing to do with their products. I can deal with small advertisements...and I can laugh at sites that know how to get their target audience to look (see: half nekkid), but once they stated spamming every damn site with the popups I stopped buying their products. Smarthome.com offers the same thing without all the popups, so they will be getting all my purchases from now on.
Maybe some of us content providers should start applying the DCMA to our websites. By loading the following links into your computer, you agree to have them display as they were intended by their designers. My site doesn't advertise for its bandwidth, I don't like obnoxious advertising, but its really the owners of the content that should decide how it should be displayed. If you don't like that, there are a dozen other sites that give you the same thing...
clif
sonikmatter.com
Thank you. I'm glad someone understands.
The OpenSource rhetoric goes something like this: There is something that someone else spent years and millions of $$$s creating it. Why shouldn't we have it for free.
Ok, so they argue, we ONLY want it to decode the data. Well if that is possible, then the geeks will be screaming that now we want to ENCODE as well. If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?
clif
No, I don't think I did.
You are right, a well set up unix box takes little time to administer if you leave it static. That is the point. What if your client decided they needed to find a distributed FAX server for their office. Its dead simple to find this stuff and install it and thats what they are looking at. They can call me in for my $75 an hour and end up paying far more in the 3 hours I'm there, and the 5 hours I took to research this stuff...not including fielding the service calls when their secretary needs trained how to use it...than if they would have had the secretary use some of her downtime to do a search for FAX SERVER and WINDOWS NT and find something that worked reasonably well. One of the more technical folks in the office slaps in the card, installs the software and then they call me to come in and do a tweek here or there or ask me if the software looked good in the first place.
The fact is computers don't need to be 99.999 for most businesses. I DO know what you mean though: My biz partner whom handles most of the creative aspects of the biz, didn't even know that 3 of our boxes we had sitting in our racks were Unix based. All he knew was that these were the machines that he never had to touch. He knows all about Windows as he's had to futz with them all the time. Give him unix and he'd be lost...even if ya threw him into KDE or Gnome (two things you'd never see on any of my servers).
Again, admining a Unix box CAN be cheaper and takes less time, but when I get around to an office once a month, that ain't going to cut it when then need new users added to the system and mail accounts set up...how about a new CGI installed for the webserver...that sorta stuff. Having a geek on call would be perfect, but the cost of a fulltime windows person is still going to be far cheaper than a part time unix person that knows what they are doing.
I'm going to have to defend the guy as I run Windows as well.
In Depth Knowledge of FP2000 - Any of ya'll actually use this crap? I can't figure it out. I have clients that do EVERYTHING in FP and on occasion I'm called in to help them out. I COULD tell them to pick up Dreamweaver, but most are unwilling to pay for it...they use FP as it came bundled. I COULD tell them how to do everything from notepad and then how to set up an FTP connection through the cli, but if I did that I wouldn't be working for them. I wish I knew how people used this piece of crap software as I've never been able to get it to do crap for me, yet idiots seem to figure it out enough to connect to their servers and screw up pages. In this sense, ya use what the client is using...if you don't you aren't much of a consultant.
Same goes with Windows. I tell all my users that I can set up *nix boxes for their networks. This would be really fricken cool IF I was on site more than an hour or two a month. These guys all want to admin their own servers and to be honest, the costs saved by doing it themselves far outweigh the cost of getting zapped by any of the worms - so far - for a small business. If you can't afford a full time WinAdmin, you certainly can't afford a full time UnixAdmin.
WinAdmins are a dime a dozen and EVERYONE knows enough to be able to set these damn things up. Most businesses I deal with have a semi-dedicated winadmin whom is part network assistant / mostly something else. Its something I can show a business how to do in an afternoon with a few small books left in case they need them.
On the other hand, I have a thousand page UNIX book that I still consider a starters guide that I've used for over 10 years now - "UNIX System V Release 4 - An Introduction" and it doesn't even cover things like Apache or SendMail in depth (or at all...I can't remember...I got enough other books on those subjects). Its a fricken introduction for christ's sakes. I could have gotten a few MCSE's from a book that size.
So fuck it...if ya'll want to play the assholes and be all high and mighty about how 'l33t ya'll are go ahead. Its exactly the reason you had no friends in high school. Geeks think they are always right and everyone else is wrong. Its the same attitude the jocks had, but worse.
I HATE M$ and I wouldn't suggest using it to anyone, BUT if someone suggests it to me, I'm going to give them the best service I can on that platform and I'm not going to turn my nose up at them. And YES, I did get hit by RedCode last time and this was after doing everything M$ said to do...Oops, apparently if you make any changes to the system AFTER you've done these, certain things will reenable all the changes you've made. I've now got a system where my boys have to go through a tedious proceedure ANYTIME they [install / uninstall / reconfigure] anything on my WinServers to ensure that nothing was undone. To be honest, it wouldn't be a bad practice on *nix to do the same thing and reaffirm all patches / etc stayed intact after installs. With the new RPMs (ok they are new to me...I'm use to installing with a MAKE) you don't know what the hell is being upgraded or what dependencies are being imported a good deal of the time.
Shit, anymore its almost simpler than Winders...rpm some app and find they've rewritten your secured files with something wide open and the win boys will be laughing at all you dumbass linux people...now who'd CLI over an app without knowing what was on it?
Maybe they don't seem AS plactic animated, but they definately look plastic in stills.
Pick up last months Maxim with the pullout. The main female character is posed in standard Maxim garb. I took one look at it and thought it wasn't real. And this was with the standard glossy high quality paper that us men like to see our half nekkid women in.
Nevermind, this is probably another geek that is upset that someone pissed on his wet dream..
Heh! I know this is a Laugh Its Funny article, but the FUD has already started. Not against the hackers but against the system administrators.
They are going out of their way in mainstream publications to let it be known that the only reason these servers have been hacked is because of 'lazy' system administrators. They aren't even trying to blame the hackers as that would point to flaws in their system, but those of us that slave to keep their worthless systems up and running.
I for one have had all the patches installed and STILL been hacked. I keep charts of what is installed and when because my boss demands it...that and I don't want to be caught empty handed when something like this happens.
And to think my employeers forced me off of Mac WebStar & Unix Boxes running our networks to a standard Windows...
Higer stakes items like computer parts are just a crime waiting to happen...without even throwing in the international aspect of it. As a vendor, it really isn't worth it.
:-)
To be able to accept International CCs ya need to assume risk. I'm pretty sure you've probably looked at the mom and pop stores at Pricewatch and assumed you can get these pricing. Most of the times these are very small stores hoping to make enough to break even and hoping (mistakenly) that their prices are going to keep ya coming back...but most pricewatch buyers like myself never shop at the same place twice
I've had this dilemma myself. I run a music site that has a very narrow audience, but half the audience is australian and half US. We've thought about setting up shop, but the whole international thing is kicking us in the ass. If you are a US Merchant, good luck finding a company at reasonable rates that allows ya to sell internationally. Accepting CCs at all is a risky undertaking. The CC Companies want to promote the use of their cards everywhere but don't want to take any responsibility for any problems.
If you are a vendor and someone says they never got anything and you can prove that someone signed for it, its still your word against theirs. The CC Company will side with the end user every time. Someone gets their card stolen and someone buys something with it, still your problem. Someone buys something doesn't like it and returns it, its your problem and you have a mark against you for having a return.
If you have too many returns or fraudlent activity, the company that should have been checking for this crap in the first place will slap you with a fine. Great...first it never effected that company financially at all THEN they turn around and make extra proffit from you by charging you because they weren't paying attention.
Add this to the fact that when you are talking about CC Orders from a US Merchant to an address outside of the states, you are talking fraud rates in excess of 50%...there are areas where CC Companies tell you not to send products to at all because its almost 100% fraud rate. If you are shipping to a US Address, you can check up on the address where the product is going through AVS - Address Verification System. I've heard it just doesn't work in any other country because of either archaic systems or arcane laws protecting users privacy (heh! Folks think they should be able to use an insecure system to trade / barter goods with one that protects the buyer -- but they don't want to share any privacy with the ones your are buying from...if ya don't trust them why are you buying from them).
There are a lot of reasons why this probably won't happen, though someone will have probably posted a URL to a place that does by the time I'm finished typing. Good luck getting your products. Remember if you really want this crap and you've used your current crappy machine for 4 years, find what ya want, send an email to the guys selling what ya want and see if they will accept a personal check or money order. It will probably take longer and it doesn't offer you as much protection as buying with a CC, but you can get it that way...
"Now if radio was digital instead, maybe we could actually have jazz recordings on radio that didn't lose those great dynamic qualities . . ."
:-)
Probably not, the reason most of these stations compress the living hell outta the music is that they want the hottest signal. This is a phenomemon in most Rawk Muzak as well...maximize everything so it holds the attention of the listener.
Shit, I get sick of music reps telling me about the dynamic range on their new machines. DOES IT REALLY MATTER? Most people are going to use maybe a fraction of the range anyways...
Ok I guess I shouldn't complain, there is a classical station I turn to the few times I'm not on my bike...they use pretty soft compression. I'll turn the sucker way up to hear the low sections and then get my ears blown out a minute later by a horn blast
Anywho, I can guarentee that even if digital were medium of choice, it would be just as bad...ok I guess this is getting off topic...
clif
Erik Barnouw describes the effect of the radio -- a distribution channel which gave away music for free, remind you of anything? -- on the record industry:
/. is completely against advertising in any other medium except /. (that damn VALinux Server is flashing above my head and annoying me). Probably doesn't care about the quality of the music and would rather download all his songs from that sweet T3(+) /. is sitting on.
/. keep pandering to the college kids that have free access to the internet and no money and let them grow up believing that stealing work from people that have put their life into making music and not gotten any richer for it is alright. It just means more unemployed musicians in the future and more crap like the BackStreet Boys that ya pretend not to like. If people stop learning to respect the property rights of the musicians (note: I'm for musician releasing what they want to) the only people with the money to record will be the Teen Pop Stars we all hate...
Yeah, its one sentence outta the whole shebang, but it goes to prove the level of understanding Jamie has on the whole topic. I'm not going to pretent to have read the whole thing because the first article bugged me and showed how little of understanding he had and I only skimmed this one.
Radio has to pay for every damn song they play. They are offseting the cost to the listener by playing advertisements. The record companies also give these guys a big break on the playback royalties as they know they want you to buy the records (CDs / Tapes / Minidiscs whatever...I'm like 30 and still call everything records even though I was an early adopter of CD).
Secondly, Radio Quality sucks. Much worse than MP3s. I can hear the difference between a mastered CD and MP3s on my JBLs, but the average person doesn't care because it sounds better than FM. The average person will hook up some RadioShack surround sound system and think it sounds great. Its gets the job done and unless I'm working on someone elses music, I don't care, but I don't pretend its really that good.
So, it sounds like Jamie would like to have his music for free - because
Blah blah blah...thats right
Gorilla - Adaptive tests don't work that way. ya get one right, they give ya a harder question, get it wrong and it gets a little easier...til the computer can figure out what ya know and don't know. If ya are at the top of the test because ya just happened to get the right questions then there is something wrong with the test as it should be punishing ya with harder and harder and harder q's. Yeah, this is all simplified how it works (ya get into baysian logic and stuff) but it its essentially how it works. It aint all about random questions...
:)
Heh! This is already day old news, but I figure folks like me will read back to see if anyone posted any response a few days later
clif
From what I understand, Opensourcing the thing wouldn't have done a damn thing.
:) with different patterns from the different version tests (I think a set of these put the students back about $5k each).
In my day job, I am Manager of Development at the Indiana University - Purdue Universities Testing Center. I've read quite a bit on this and have evaluated these guys software and didn't care mch for it (could be that my own software comes up with higher predictors than theirs and was much more flexible). With adaptive testing like their own (and this is all in laymens terms lest one of the wanna be psychometricists wants to correct me), ya build the item database, calibrate it, evaluate it and then calibrate it some more. Real testing may be going on in all this time, but even static items will be somewhat liquid in their numbers over years times.
Unfortunately, companies like this like to change as many questions each year as possible. Doing this means that you will have better test security, but your items may not have all the correct weighting behind them. How does one Open Source this without loosing all data ya need to make this stuff adaptive. With standard testing, ya may ask 200 questions and a lot of times you are simply measuring a persons ability to do lots of work in a set amount of time. Adaptive testing uses a lot of calculations to figure out what ya know and what ya don't know. Instead of the 200 questions, ya might get 20 (or less on some of the new standardized ones) that you are free to take as long as you'd like.
If the person taking this knew even a few of the questions they got before hand, this would throw off the entire test. If you don't think folks cheat on these types of tests, you are an idiot. There are school systems that have gotten ahold of written tests and drilled their students on the exact questions presented. On the high stakes testing, we find folks that will go to such lenghts as to take the test on the east coast in the morning under ficticious names, fly across the country to California and retake the afternoon test. There was a case where Law Students were memorizing one question each and as soon as they were outta the test, would cell phone in the questons, and someone would be selling code keyed pencils (we have one of these
Anywho, no amount of Open Sourcing would have helped. Bad Software wasn't written, a bad analysis of the data was probably done. OS is not the answer to everything in life...
Clif Marsiglio
HTTP://ASSESSMENT.IUPUI.EDU
What a fucking troll. For the first time I read many reasons why I should go Perl instead of ASP and a dumb ass like you posts this shit.
:)
VBS/ASP is pretty damn fast. I tried switching over to PHP a year back and I was amazed how fricken slowly things were...and its considered a staple anymore -- getting to the point where it is more used than Perl. I don't care much for most perl. I like code that I can read and not have to think about. This isn't saying that perl is bad or I'm just a suckyass programmer that can't figure this stuff out, its just that when you are working on projects that more than 1 person is working on and a lot of the times you aren't available to explain why something does what it does, I want everyone else to know immediately what the code does. When you are dealing with a team of non-programmers (psychometricists and language experts) this is immediately a good thing. I can't explain linenoise to someone
So what do I do? I program ASP. Once code is static and I no longer need to mess with it on a regular basis, I have one of my programmers do it up in C (or hell even let VB compile it which I wouldn't recommend if you are looking at longevity) and throw it in one of our DLLs.
On my IIS boxes, I run the Active State Perl as well. I have serveral apps that run in Perl and do a good job. I run UBB on my IIS box...granted it runs faster on my linux box, but I can't complain. When i was running UBB5, I hacked it to use ASP when possible and used a SQL database (instead of text files) and it was a bit faster than it was in just perl, but that could be because its running on a M$ product.
As for stupid and trivial modules - I have a free FTP DLL that I use on my end. If the above user is paying $750 he is an idiot. There are a lot of free components to ASP, and many inexpensive ones. The only ones I paid for are the Persits modules (ASP Upload - because it was far stabler than the free one and ASPUser as I could get to the system and do user management from a console). Of the free ones, I have FTP modules, I have standard Socket Modules (which I use to grab bits from a non-sql compliant database on the Mac), I have kick ass mail modules that I used to admin a mailing list as well as archive everything (err...I now use Mhonarc for that end of things).
This has nothing to do with being stupid. It has nothing to do with 1/5 of the time in Perl (because I'm sure I can code just as fast as a perl junkie on the M$ side).
In Perls defense, its a great language for a single user or a bunch of geeks that don't like to think in an english like language. Its very portable. I can run it on just about any platform and a lot of stuff is compiled for it. Its also reasonable fast (though any compiled lang will kick either ASP/Perls ass). But, if you are targetting anything on the M$ Platform (and there are many reasons to do this), you should seriously look at ASP/VBS as a serious possibility.
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clif
Sure they do. It costs about $15 a bulb and folks don't want to front that kind of money for a lightbulb when you can get 8 bulbs in a package for $3. I live in an old house where the circuitry means I get about 4 weeks on average before any bulb goes out...Its a chore just running around changing these things. I found one of these with a buy one get one free sale a year or two back and picked them up. They are the only bulbs in the house that haven't burned out.
Will I buy any more? Probably not, because I'm cheaper than I am lazy. I'm sure if they were the same price as standard bulbs, I'd buy them in a heart beat but they ain't
clif
If someone has more info on this please post it...I just remember seeing the announcement in one of the Adobe Photodisc type thingies and don't have much else.
clif
All the scientists I know make somewhere in the $30 to $100k ranges. Most musicians I know make between $17 and $40k a year - usually only with the augmentation of other incomes. Where do I get this information (before some uninformed person asks), I'm a researcher for Indiana University by day managing a development office doing psychometric shtuff. At night, I do music and technology consultation.
/. thinks they are and they think that the labels only want to screw them so its alright to steal.
Anywho, Michael is just posting more dumb fuck commentary. Is this a troll? Or is this a comment from someone that seems to make a decent living within the music areas? Ya'll will probably say troll, but I gotta say Michael is either a dumbfuck or completely uninformed.
First, 'scientists' and other academics usually need to produce and be published to continue with their research. Are they getting paid for the publications? Not usually, but few of us will ever get any grants without publications. We probably won't keep our jobs for very long - Publish or Perish. Most importantly, we won't have the respect of our peers if we didn't publish. Want to do it yer way, start a rival publication, offer it free over the internet, and work to get it accedited and accepted. These other journals have all done that and if you want to be at the same level as they are, yer gonna have to woodshed it for a while.
Musicians - Their livelyhood is based on several things. Some musicians can make money simply by touring and selling merchandice. I've got a freidn touring Europe right now with a band that few have heard of, but they always sell out. They don't have big CD Sales, but their touring makes up for that quite a bit. I've got other friends where they sell a lot of CDs but getting folks together for a concert is like pulling teeth. They don't like touring and their audience is a pop in the CD and listen to audience.
Having said that, I encourage most musicians to post their works online. Its good advertisement, but in some genres it works against ya. To think that others a faster learners is an insult to the artist and implies you know more than they do about the work they are performing. If it were that fucking simple, why isn't every artist a millionaire? Oh yeah,
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clif marsiglio
Hmmm...I'd have to ask two questions with this. Are the people that really want to see you the ones you need to be convincing with a RMS video, or are the people that you need to be convinced the ones that will not be able to see your speach because its in some wierd format.
:-) The rest of my post is valid though...
Having said this, why not make it in multiple formats? My site just did a few interviews for a music conference in January (thanks Jonathan if yer reading) and it was decided that we'd go with multiple formats. We already had this in MPEG and then we converted a copy to Real.
The MPEG was very clean and fluid, but ended up being 25 megs. I've got a fast connection at home, but even mine isn't fast enough to stream 25 megs in 8 minutes, so it was set up as a downloadable. The Real file came out at just over a meg...enough to fit on a floppy if I even used them anymore. Even a slow connection should be able to stream this without too many glitches.
Something to think about. The requirements were that the GNU Only folks be able to watch this. In this case, they'd be able to watch it and have a copy clean enough for archival so they can burn it to VCD and pray to it at their Open Alter, while the rest of us simply download it and watch it on our Macs and WinPCs.
As a finaly note: ARGH!!!! Why would anyone want to run video from Linux??? Ya loose the beauty of the command line!!! If I want pretty graphics, I'll boot into my X Ready Powerbook. If I want a confusing GUI, I'll stop at my Windows machines!!! Ok, enough of my happy fun fun trolling effort
clif
I don't know...if I were a 16 year old again, I'd be pissed by laws like this, but I think its a good thing. Here in Indianapolis, its already against the law for children under 18 to play most arcade gaming machines during school hours. Why? Because if they are under 18 they should be in school.
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The law never BANNED anyone from playing video games, it made it so they needed their parents consent to play them. A few of the bigger arcades using the newer game cards sell one set of cards to those who don't produce a valid ID and another to ones who do (***and dammit if they didn't sell me the wrong one when I'm fricken 29***). If you are with a parent or guardian, they can opt to get the unrestricted card and allow the kiddies to play what ever they want.
Face it, if you are under 18, you are dependent on your parents for most of your rights. I think this is a good thing. You are given a set of progressive rights until the gov't thinks its reasonable to give them all to you. At 15 (least when I was a kiddie) ya can get yer Driving Lerners Permit (need an adult with ya in the car though). At 16, you can get your Drivers license, can legally work in most estabishments and can drop outta school with yer parents permission. At 17, with yer parents permission (I think ya still can) ya can enter the military...I had a friend stupidly do this because he was sick of High School and wanted to get outta his house. At 18, you can ***Vote*** and are technically emancipated from your parents (except where it comes to your schooling until your are 25...Thank you Pres G.H.W. Bush for that little bit of law that allowed my parents NOT to pay for my school, me not to get any financial aid because my parents were well enough off even though they didn't pay shit, AND allowed them to check up on my school records when they felt like it). At 21, you can Drink and receive the rest of yer rights.
So, no I don't think we should shield our kids, but they shouldn't be able to get into anything they want to. It should be a parents right to shield or not to shield. I wouldn't want my kids being allowed to walk into a bar, but if I gave them a beer that should be allowed to as a parent...hmmm...is this about free beer or free speech? Never mind
clif - Indianapolis Native
ASP is MUCH faster. I went through a few weeks conversions to take my ASP scripts to PHP as script based languages are much easier to maintain. I was shocked at the speed difference...and that was from a GUI intensive OS with EVERYTHING running to a CLI only OS with most of everything I didn't need removed.
Doh! Just wrote bunch of stuff disparaging PHP that I removed. All I'm going to say is that ASP seems more professional and I'm not talking designing from Interdev (heh! most of the time I'm programming from BBEdit on the Mac or Notepad).
Now if only I learned how to program those Java Serverlets without them being sooooooooo damn slow, I'd switch in a heart beat just so I didn't have to worry about platform dependance...
BTW not sure if its listed anywhere, but there is an ASP to PHP converter tool that was very helpful for learning PHP from my old codes...
clif