Hype is producing some of the most innovative "breakstep" (don't mock me, I didn't name it) stuff out there right now. It has, in my mind, revitalized the entire 2step/garage and nu-skool breaks sound. I will admit, Hype is a good dnb dj, but not a particular standout anymore, but both Zinc and Hype (along with Dee Kline, Stanton Warriors, Abstract and a few others) are bringing some vital sounds at lower BPMs.
BTW - I saw Craze a few months ago, and you're right, he is incredible. Juggling dnb and hip hop all night. The kids were going nuts.
Late night quake sessions? That new Squarepusher 12" dying to be played at 4 AM? Cut the midrange, drop the bass?
Any good geek hovel must have good soundproofing. Even if you aren't the type to play loud music all the time, common everyday sounds can get annoying (particularly if people are keeping erratic schedules, as many of us like to do). Soundproofing is a must.
Actually, it IS the music that will sell this, and the only reason I would consider buying satellite radio.
I used to be goth, an indie rocker, and now consider myself part of the rave/groover/dj culture, and let me tell you there is NONE of this music on the radio (unless you happen to live close enough to a decent college radio station that hasn't been shut down, forced to air amatuer coverage of division 3 womens volleyball, and actually has the signal to reach you in the entire metro area you live/commute in).
There are recycled pop and "alternative" bands playing songs that all sound the same. You also have annoying "shock jock" talk radio, which is usually 1 to 3 assholes trying to get girls to take their shirts off in the studio. Who this entertains, I don't know. There is an absolutely HUGE amount of music that is getting zero exposure on the radio. Where are the Sisters of Mercy, Girls vs. Boys, Aphex Twin?
Someone mentioned WHFS in a previous post, and that brings back fond memories. Even though I am still in DC, and I can listen to the utter crap played on WHFS now, it was the pillar of cool new stuff pre '94. I want that kind of radio back. I want to be able to listen for hours and not hear the same soundalike artists. I want to flip on the radio at 4AM and hear something I have never heard before that gets me dancing in my bedroom. If satellite radio brings that, I'll be the first to sign up.
Is it the attention span of kids or the interference of parents? One of the things the article touches on but doesn't explore fully is the loss of self-directed free play for modern kiddees. How much of their time is scheduled? If they school in the morning and day care in the afternoon, soccer practice, band practice, homework, parent moderated playgroups and all that, how much time do they really have to just do what they want to?
I remember growing up and having gaping hours of free time with nothing to do but entertain myself. This is why legos were such valuable toys. With Star Wars action figures, I already had the playset, and the figures, and I just got right to putting them through scenarios and role playing with them. With lego, you had to decide what kind of scenarios, then build them. Then you had to build characters. Finally you could make a story. This takes a good amount of time, and parents simply aren't leaving their kids alone for long enough to do it. Modern parenting has decided that kids time must be "constructive" and thus highly structured. I say nothing is more contructive than construction. Let your kids alone with a bucket of legos for a few hours. They won't be bored, and the skills they learn are probably going to be much more valuable than what they would learn during structured playtime.
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The linked "article" is a press release by 2netFX, the company that is selling the technology. Please make a note of this and consider the source. I can't tell you how much it irks me when people pass off press releases as news (plus, it means that the marketing drones have fooled the mighty/. nerdhorde).
Akira was also my intro to Japanease animation, at the Biograph! I loved that theater. Are they still showing porn all day in order to finance independent films at night?
I don't know about that. The corporate world changes and changes. My laptop bag has been replaced by a blue glitter pvc record bag. You can pretty much do what you want.
Caveat: I'm an IT drone and I work in a basement. I'm sure certain things will still be inappropriate for people who predominantly meet with clients or customers.
Sensationalist Headline: "The Dirty Little Secret of the Dot-Com World: Drug use is rampant in the high-tech work force..."
Pesky Fact (buried 2/3 of the way down in the article): "...there are no statistics showing that drug and alcohol addiction
afflicts technology workers more than the general population..."
This shouldn't be allowed to be called news. I hope the LA Times are shamed by this sensationalist crap.
JohnKatz is drawing a very thin correlation in this piece. He is trying to draw a direct parrallel between Luddites and modern political and business plutocrats, and then smash that connection under the modern warchant of "hypocrisy" on the part of the "new Luddites."
The problem JohnKatz with discrediting the analogy is that it is JohnKatz's analogy. It's no mean feat to claim a ridiculous fact and then disprove it.
The modern foes of Freedom in politics are just that, foes of Freedom, not technology. They have embraced technology that is changing the world, they encourage it and propogate it as much as possible. The problem, of course, is that they want to be in control.
Try to focus on real arguments instead of semantic tricks portraying your enemies as dishonest and hypocritical.
We were testing some MBONE stuff at our office using Ghost for imaging harddrives, and it absolutely killed our network bandwidth. (yeah, yeah, use a segemented vlan and all that stuff I should have done before I tested). Wouldn't the subsequent loss of bandwith from using MBONE kill off almost all other traffic, leaving tradition methods such as ftp out of luck?
Doesn't the circumvention of an digital security go against the DMCA? By that basis, isn't this objective of this "Contest" (read: PR Stunt) illegal? I think all we need is one really good smart ass.
"Yes, I did crack the SDMI watermarking, but I will not release the results to SDMI due to fear of prosecution under the DMCA. It's illegal to crack crappy security protocols."
From the messages I have seen on this, it looks like x.com is going for mobile devices through one of the mobile protocols (such as WAP or iMode, once the equiv. finally comes the states).
They are betting on the technology curve. As opposed to writing to and supporting one platform (PalmOS), they want to write to and support one protocal (such as WAP or iMode) that will be understandable and usable by your Palm Pilot, Motorola Pager, Nokia Mobile Phone, electronic dog collars....
Does it even matter that Kansas is in the mid-west and not the south? The south is no stupider or close minded than the rest of the world. We just tend to get a lot more press about it.
It would be very interesting to set the same machine to second task and see if draws on any of its "experience" from the first one. Many say that the big drawback of AI currently is not a lack of an ability to learn, but a lack of an ability to see patterns.
If a second task were given, such as to create a robot that could travel over varied terrain (as opposed to a horizontal surface like the first task), would the machine start over from the start? Would it take the knowledge it had learned in completing the first task and modify it? If given a third, even more complex task, would it be able to use the solutions of the first two tasks as a basis for the third?
I'm sure he was profiled as a drug user/drug dealer/undesirable, which was why he stopped. The small problem is that PROFILING IS ILLEGAL!!! You cannot arrest/detain someone because they fit the profile of criminal activity. You have to have suspicion of an actual crime.
You stole my comment! A couple of other good reasons why Python is a great starter: - you can teach OO concepts, but you don't need to to use it - it's easier to teach than Perl, because there is a clear "right way" and "wrong way" - kidz can almost immediately do cool stuff with web pages (cgi).
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BTW - I saw Craze a few months ago, and you're right, he is incredible. Juggling dnb and hip hop all night. The kids were going nuts.
Late night quake sessions? That new Squarepusher 12" dying to be played at 4 AM? Cut the midrange, drop the bass?
Any good geek hovel must have good soundproofing. Even if you aren't the type to play loud music all the time, common everyday sounds can get annoying (particularly if people are keeping erratic schedules, as many of us like to do). Soundproofing is a must.
Actually, it IS the music that will sell this, and the only reason I would consider buying satellite radio.
I used to be goth, an indie rocker, and now consider myself part of the rave/groover/dj culture, and let me tell you there is NONE of this music on the radio (unless you happen to live close enough to a decent college radio station that hasn't been shut down, forced to air amatuer coverage of division 3 womens volleyball, and actually has the signal to reach you in the entire metro area you live/commute in).
There are recycled pop and "alternative" bands playing songs that all sound the same. You also have annoying "shock jock" talk radio, which is usually 1 to 3 assholes trying to get girls to take their shirts off in the studio. Who this entertains, I don't know. There is an absolutely HUGE amount of music that is getting zero exposure on the radio. Where are the Sisters of Mercy, Girls vs. Boys, Aphex Twin?
Someone mentioned WHFS in a previous post, and that brings back fond memories. Even though I am still in DC, and I can listen to the utter crap played on WHFS now, it was the pillar of cool new stuff pre '94. I want that kind of radio back. I want to be able to listen for hours and not hear the same soundalike artists. I want to flip on the radio at 4AM and hear something I have never heard before that gets me dancing in my bedroom. If satellite radio brings that, I'll be the first to sign up.
Is it the attention span of kids or the interference of parents? One of the things the article touches on but doesn't explore fully is the loss of self-directed free play for modern kiddees. How much of their time is scheduled? If they school in the morning and day care in the afternoon, soccer practice, band practice, homework, parent moderated playgroups and all that, how much time do they really have to just do what they want to?
I remember growing up and having gaping hours of free time with nothing to do but entertain myself. This is why legos were such valuable toys. With Star Wars action figures, I already had the playset, and the figures, and I just got right to putting them through scenarios and role playing with them. With lego, you had to decide what kind of scenarios, then build them. Then you had to build characters. Finally you could make a story. This takes a good amount of time, and parents simply aren't leaving their kids alone for long enough to do it. Modern parenting has decided that kids time must be "constructive" and thus highly structured. I say nothing is more contructive than construction. Let your kids alone with a bucket of legos for a few hours. They won't be bored, and the skills they learn are probably going to be much more valuable than what they would learn during structured playtime.
The linked "article" is a press release by 2netFX, the company that is selling the technology. Please make a note of this and consider the source. I can't tell you how much it irks me when people pass off press releases as news (plus, it means that the marketing drones have fooled the mighty /. nerdhorde).
Akira was also my intro to Japanease animation, at the Biograph! I loved that theater. Are they still showing porn all day in order to finance independent films at night?
Caveat: I'm an IT drone and I work in a basement. I'm sure certain things will still be inappropriate for people who predominantly meet with clients or customers.
Pesky Fact (buried 2/3 of the way down in the article): "...there are no statistics showing that drug and alcohol addiction afflicts technology workers more than the general population..."
This shouldn't be allowed to be called news. I hope the LA Times are shamed by this sensationalist crap.
The problem JohnKatz with discrediting the analogy is that it is JohnKatz's analogy. It's no mean feat to claim a ridiculous fact and then disprove it.
The modern foes of Freedom in politics are just that, foes of Freedom, not technology. They have embraced technology that is changing the world, they encourage it and propogate it as much as possible. The problem, of course, is that they want to be in control.
Try to focus on real arguments instead of semantic tricks portraying your enemies as dishonest and hypocritical.
We were testing some MBONE stuff at our office using Ghost for imaging harddrives, and it absolutely killed our network bandwidth. (yeah, yeah, use a segemented vlan and all that stuff I should have done before I tested). Wouldn't the subsequent loss of bandwith from using MBONE kill off almost all other traffic, leaving tradition methods such as ftp out of luck?
Doesn't the circumvention of an digital security go against the DMCA? By that basis, isn't this objective of this "Contest" (read: PR Stunt) illegal? I think all we need is one really good smart ass.
"Yes, I did crack the SDMI watermarking, but I will not release the results to SDMI due to fear of prosecution under the DMCA. It's illegal to crack crappy security protocols."
From the messages I have seen on this, it looks like x.com is going for mobile devices through one of the mobile protocols (such as WAP or iMode, once the equiv. finally comes the states).
They are betting on the technology curve. As opposed to writing to and supporting one platform (PalmOS), they want to write to and support one protocal (such as WAP or iMode) that will be understandable and usable by your Palm Pilot, Motorola Pager, Nokia Mobile Phone, electronic dog collars....
Does it even matter that Kansas is in the mid-west and not the south? The south is no stupider or close minded than the rest of the world. We just tend to get a lot more press about it.
It would be very interesting to set the same machine to second task and see if draws on any of its "experience" from the first one. Many say that the big drawback of AI currently is not a lack of an ability to learn, but a lack of an ability to see patterns.
If a second task were given, such as to create a robot that could travel over varied terrain (as opposed to a horizontal surface like the first task), would the machine start over from the start? Would it take the knowledge it had learned in completing the first task and modify it? If given a third, even more complex task, would it be able to use the solutions of the first two tasks as a basis for the third?
You can also pay your hard earned money for documents that aren't copyrighted at all. Go here to pay $2 for a Lord Byron speach from 1827!
I'm sure he was profiled as a drug user/drug dealer/undesirable, which was why he stopped. The small problem is that PROFILING IS ILLEGAL!!! You cannot arrest/detain someone because they fit the profile of criminal activity. You have to have suspicion of an actual crime.
You stole my comment! A couple of other good reasons why Python is a great starter: - you can teach OO concepts, but you don't need to to use it - it's easier to teach than Perl, because there is a clear "right way" and "wrong way" - kidz can almost immediately do cool stuff with web pages (cgi).