I happen to believe that it is a fallacy that anything worth listening to has been harvested by a record company and shrinkwrapped for your pleasure.
If you love music, I say get off your ass, seek it out, embrace it, and directly support the people who have the balls to put their art out there!
If you're on the left side of the United States by god set aside 7/4 and do not let yourself miss the High Sierra Music Festival.
And, lastly, if you would like to hear what the best band going, Garaj Mahal, did on 12/31/02 just drop me a line... I was there and taped it... User is gibbs and the domain be crater dot net. I'm happy to fill a few folks' blanks with music provided they include SASE
MAUDE I like it too. It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people--it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women--who engage in it compulsively and without joy.
DUDE Oh, no.
MAUDE Yes Mr. Lebowski, these unfortunate souls cannot love in the true sense of the word. Our mutual acquaintance Bunny is one of these.
DUDE Listen, Maude, I'm sorry if your stepmother is a nympho, but I don't see what it has to do with--do you have any kalhua?
I recall working at Wendy's and taking out the fryer grease...
Pouring it into a dumpster that had 400 gallons of what smelled like rancid shit. It had a four-inch-thick congealed craptastic skin on it that belched farty gasses when breached.
I don't care if it smells like french fries, as long as it doesn't belch rancid fart stink.
I haven't seen a post on it so far, but I may have just missed it on a day that I wasn't checking/.
Anyway...
- a p2p live music sharing system that's just blown my mind. - open source - much more searchable than other such software - transfers only high-quality 44.1/16 (shn-compressed) audio - the traded artists want you to take part in it (all traded artists encourage taping/trading)
This is a wonderful piece of software, built by the people, benefits bands, and doesn't have jack to do with record companies.
I definitely suggest giving it a spin, you're likely to discover a band you'll love:
Having used both, I'll take XPlay any time over iTunes.
I'm sure that my mother would also enjoy iTunes, but then again she's an old woman.
iTunes is grossly lacking in configuration options, any winamp user using iTunes would be appalled at the lack of functionality.
Sure, it 'automatically' syncs up the iPod, but what happens when you have 6GB of mp3 and a 5GB iPod?? Well, it fills it up and then tells you that you can't put anything more on it. Not that it lets you choose *what* you want on the iPod (and what you don't) or lets you delete songs from the iPod.
And what do you get with XPlay? A gorgous integration with the windows explorer. IMO, as someone who's not a luddite soccer mom whose main interest is that the software be 'pretty', XPlay kicks ass all over the mac software.
And, yes, I too was once a Apple biggot. Then I mended my ways, got a CS degree, and found Linux.
Hey there... I've been a 'professional' programmer for five years and have come to the conclusion that the ideal code explains itself.
Read 'Refactoring' by Martin Fowler... I agree with what's in there. 90% of the comments out there are due to poor design and naming. They're a symptom of the need to do simple refactorings.
The 3:1 comment/code idea is absolute BS. Code doesn't get stale like comments, give me well-designed code with thought-out names over comments that may or may not (likely not) reflect the code any day.
I may be wrong, but I believe that the TechTV show The Screen Savers smoked a couple of these puppies while building their Ultimate Gaming Machine earlier this year.
you don't wind up regretting the many hours you spent ripping and encoding when in three years a terabyte is within reasonable reach
these files, being exact copies, will serve as a backup of your collection
And while you're at it, check out shnapster(flash warning), a peer-to-peer system of trading live music in the shorten format with over 1TB of shows currently hosted.
Oh please do not mention 2001 on the same page as your old ape movie...
I *love* 2001, own the dvd and watch it about four times a year. It is the benchmark for science fiction in my opinion.
It was masterfully directed, had a plot that was grounded in science, was written by a certifiably masterful science fiction writer, had a great score, was groundbreaking for its time, didn't feature the shitty acting (if it can even be called that) of Charlton "More Guns In Schools Would Be Good" Heston, and its monkey suits managed to conceal the actors in them.
This has nothing to do with teenage males or length. I'm no teenager and I find hollywood's aversion to longer features one of the contributing factors in my indifference to the movie industry as a whole.
No, the original sucks. It brings out nostalgia from a certain age of people. That nostalgia may be clouding their judgement or that generation may just have shittier taste as a whole.
Okay, I was born after the original came out, so I must not have been dosed with whatever is causing you fools to think it was anything other than a cheesy B-movie.
Wait... oh yeah... there were actually five movies. Taken as a whole I'd have to revise my review of them from 'cheesy b-movie' to 'inexplicably shitty'.
I did see Tim Burton's version yesterday and felt it was better overall. That's not saying much, so I'll also include that I liked it.
Unlike the original I wasn't distracted by crappy costuming or set design. I wasn't distracted by the lead actor's cheesy delivery or bizarre personality. Finally, I wasn't distracted by an implausible and unexplained plot.
I think it's time to check the 'exclude Katz' box on my/. prefs...
everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits.
Ho boy... not hardly. I have acess to thousands of hours of high quality live music from musicians all over the country... plus it's legal, with the artists' consent, no ads involved, and more importantly, no damn record companies!!
Check out sites like etree, sugarmegs, and gdlive for examples of how music is thriving on the net in a noncommercial environment. But I suppose those sites, though working well for users, have actually been crushed also... as the standard for 'crushed' apparently is 'failing to make money for corporations'.
Besides... really, Napster and the like sucked from the start, interesting computer science concept and great place to download mp3's of questionable quality at 1KB/sec though... if that's what you're into.
Special Agent Dale Cooper would only be fitting, seeing as David Duchovny made an appearance in a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Hmmm...Agent Cooper in drag???
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns and Practice does cover its 3 p's, but it definately does not address the involved setup of Jini/RMI/JavaSpaces.
Which, as it turns out, is just fine, the same p's can be applied with comparitive ease to IBM's TSpaces.
Setting up Jini/JavaSpaces is pretty involved if you're just looking to take it for at test drive.
In fact, after a detailed (i.e. reading 3-4 books) look at JavaSpaces and Jini as candidates for my current project at work I decided that the overhead was just too much for my small team of 2-3 developers to mess with.
On top of that, I found JavaSpaces querying abilities lacking. It is only capable of comparing objects in serialized form using bitwise comparison.
The consequence? If you're looking for an object with a timestamp within a certain range you're pretty much SOL in JavaSpaces.
Luckily enough though, I discovered TSpaces shortly there after. It's similar to JavaSpaces in that it uses the same general space-based api of read/write/take.
But its advantages are that (1) the server is a single, easy-to-start, java process (2) you can do range queries based upon the actual compare() methods of objects and (3) the guys who are working on it are accessible for questions and feature requests via the tspaces mailing list.
Granted, it doesn't address discovery and some of the nicer features of Jini, but it is incredibly simple to set up in comparison to JavaSpaces and 6 months later I'm still glad I chose it.
So for those of you who want to take the principles, patterns, and practice of space programming for a test drive, go grab the TSpaces jar and you'll have a server up and be coding in 5 minutes.
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Or read the original source:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_unit
If you love music, I say get off your ass, seek it out, embrace it, and directly support the people who have the balls to put their art out there!
If you're on the left side of the United States by god set aside 7/4 and do not let yourself miss the High Sierra Music Festival.
And, lastly, if you would like to hear what the best band going, Garaj Mahal, did on 12/31/02 just drop me a line... I was there and taped it... User is gibbs and the domain be crater dot net. I'm happy to fill a few folks' blanks with music provided they include SASE
;-)
Two words, one hyphenated:
Multi-boot fetishists.
To quote The Big Lebowski:
MAUDE
I like it too. It's a male myth
about feminists that we hate sex.
It can be a natural, zesty enterprise.
But unfortunately there are some
people--it is called satyriasis in
men, nymphomania in women--who engage
in it compulsively and without joy.
DUDE
Oh, no.
MAUDE
Yes Mr. Lebowski, these unfortunate
souls cannot love in the true sense
of the word. Our mutual acquaintance
Bunny is one of these.
DUDE
Listen, Maude, I'm sorry if your
stepmother is a nympho, but I don't
see what it has to do with--do you
have any kalhua?
It works for narcoleptics and it's what the good 'ol millitary trusts when pilots have to pull an all-nighter in the video game called 'life'.
Seriously though... my wife's a pharmacist and says this stuff makes it seem like you had a full night's sleep...
I don't know that I buy the story, but I have to say that seeing a stealth aircraft for the first time was surreal for me...
I can't imagine seeing one prior to their announcement, I would have been instantly convinced that these 'ufo wackos' aren't so wacko after all...
Yes...
I recall working at Wendy's and taking out the fryer grease...
Pouring it into a dumpster that had 400 gallons of what smelled like rancid shit. It had a four-inch-thick congealed craptastic skin on it that belched farty gasses when breached.
I don't care if it smells like french fries, as long as it doesn't belch rancid fart stink.
I haven't seen a post on it so far, but I may have just missed it on a day that I wasn't checking /.
u rthurnet.com/
Anyway...
- a p2p live music sharing system that's just blown my mind.
- open source
- much more searchable than other such software
- transfers only high-quality 44.1/16 (shn-compressed) audio
- the traded artists want you to take part in it (all traded artists encourage taping/trading)
This is a wonderful piece of software, built by the people, benefits bands, and doesn't have jack to do with record companies.
I definitely suggest giving it a spin, you're likely to discover a band you'll love:
http://sourceforge.net/furthurnet
http://www.f
-Jackson
I'm sure that my mother would also enjoy iTunes, but then again she's an old woman.
iTunes is grossly lacking in configuration options, any winamp user using iTunes would be appalled at the lack of functionality.
Sure, it 'automatically' syncs up the iPod, but what happens when you have 6GB of mp3 and a 5GB iPod?? Well, it fills it up and then tells you that you can't put anything more on it. Not that it lets you choose *what* you want on the iPod (and what you don't) or lets you delete songs from the iPod.
And what do you get with XPlay? A gorgous integration with the windows explorer. IMO, as someone who's not a luddite soccer mom whose main interest is that the software be 'pretty', XPlay kicks ass all over the mac software.
And, yes, I too was once a Apple biggot. Then I mended my ways, got a CS degree, and found Linux.
We sound like the marijuana activists. Yes, the arguments make perfect sense, but no one other than us is interested.
Unlike the norml groups we have a wonderful, free alternative.
So fuck 'em, use linux.
They need teachers.
One more math teacher would do more for these kids' computer skills than ten more pcs.
28 kids/classroom rather than 34 kids/classroom would do more for the at risk children than 50 pcs.
As computer people I think we sometimes forget our warped views of the world. Children need (1) more adult human attention and (2) more education.
Not more useless screentime with a digital babysitter, Red Hat or otherwise.
Hey there... I've been a 'professional' programmer for five years and have come to the conclusion that the ideal code explains itself.
Read 'Refactoring' by Martin Fowler... I agree with what's in there. 90% of the comments out there are due to poor design and naming. They're a symptom of the need to do simple refactorings.
The 3:1 comment/code idea is absolute BS. Code doesn't get stale like comments, give me well-designed code with thought-out names over comments that may or may not (likely not) reflect the code any day.
They were revving 'em up without the heatsink.
Just needs '!!NR!!' and I'd mistake it for an ebay auction...
It will turn a 650MB cd into around 400MB of files.
Not the best compression in the world, but:
And while you're at it, check out shnapster (flash warning), a peer-to-peer system of trading live music in the shorten format with over 1TB of shows currently hosted.
-Jackson
Oh please do not mention 2001 on the same page as your old ape movie...
I *love* 2001, own the dvd and watch it about four times a year. It is the benchmark for science fiction in my opinion.
It was masterfully directed, had a plot that was grounded in science, was written by a certifiably masterful science fiction writer, had a great score, was groundbreaking for its time, didn't feature the shitty acting (if it can even be called that) of Charlton "More Guns In Schools Would Be Good" Heston, and its monkey suits managed to conceal the actors in them.
This has nothing to do with teenage males or length. I'm no teenager and I find hollywood's aversion to longer features one of the contributing factors in my indifference to the movie industry as a whole.
No, the original sucks. It brings out nostalgia from a certain age of people. That nostalgia may be clouding their judgement or that generation may just have shittier taste as a whole.
The fact remains: It sucked.
Wait... oh yeah... there were actually five movies. Taken as a whole I'd have to revise my review of them from 'cheesy b-movie' to 'inexplicably shitty'.
I did see Tim Burton's version yesterday and felt it was better overall. That's not saying much, so I'll also include that I liked it.
Unlike the original I wasn't distracted by crappy costuming or set design. I wasn't distracted by the lead actor's cheesy delivery or bizarre personality. Finally, I wasn't distracted by an implausible and unexplained plot.
I think it's time to check the 'exclude Katz' box on my /. prefs...
Ho boy... not hardly. I have acess to thousands of hours of high quality live music from musicians all over the country... plus it's legal, with the artists' consent, no ads involved, and more importantly, no damn record companies!!
Check out sites like etree, sugarmegs, and gdlive for examples of how music is thriving on the net in a noncommercial environment. But I suppose those sites, though working well for users, have actually been crushed also... as the standard for 'crushed' apparently is 'failing to make money for corporations'.
Besides... really, Napster and the like sucked from the start, interesting computer science concept and great place to download mp3's of questionable quality at 1KB/sec though... if that's what you're into.
-Jackson
Special Agent Dale Cooper would only be fitting, seeing as David Duchovny made an appearance in a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Hmmm...Agent Cooper in drag???
Go get the full first season on DVD. Much better, and Sculley still had some meat on her bones.
Which, as it turns out, is just fine, the same p's can be applied with comparitive ease to IBM's TSpaces.
Setting up Jini/JavaSpaces is pretty involved if you're just looking to take it for at test drive.
In fact, after a detailed (i.e. reading 3-4 books) look at JavaSpaces and Jini as candidates for my current project at work I decided that the overhead was just too much for my small team of 2-3 developers to mess with.
On top of that, I found JavaSpaces querying abilities lacking. It is only capable of comparing objects in serialized form using bitwise comparison.
The consequence? If you're looking for an object with a timestamp within a certain range you're pretty much SOL in JavaSpaces.
Luckily enough though, I discovered TSpaces shortly there after. It's similar to JavaSpaces in that it uses the same general space-based api of read/write/take.
But its advantages are that (1) the server is a single, easy-to-start, java process (2) you can do range queries based upon the actual compare() methods of objects and (3) the guys who are working on it are accessible for questions and feature requests via the tspaces mailing list.
Granted, it doesn't address discovery and some of the nicer features of Jini, but it is incredibly simple to set up in comparison to JavaSpaces and 6 months later I'm still glad I chose it.
So for those of you who want to take the principles, patterns, and practice of space programming for a test drive, go grab the TSpaces jar and you'll have a server up and be coding in 5 minutes.
Jackson Gibbs gibbs@roguewave.com