They say there's a sucker born every minute. Well, this also applies to advertisers! A lot of them will jump at stuff like this, without any proof that it actually works. Does it? I've never seen any evidence, and believe me I've looked. No one has ever shown me that popups, intrusive Javascript, or breaking the back button actually brings in customers. This is no different.
It doesn't matter to the RIAA if there are no web radio stations left at the end of this battle. They'll replace them with their own when they're good and ready. That's the whole idea- control.
Nonsense. If demand warrants it, they'll add more cells, just like they've been doing all along. In high density areas, there are more cells than you'd believe- dedicated cells to serve single buildings, or crowded public areas. As long as the *number of paying customers* warrants it, providers will beef up their networks to ensure good service. The problem will be in the low density areas- rural counties with only a few paying customers, one or two of whom like to smutsurf on their cigarette breaks.
Good point. Get involved with live music, art, film, etc. Connect with others that have similar interests. My friends and I have been doing this for over 20 years. I was just ripping some CDs last night, and I realized that out of a dozen or so, only 1 or 2 was even in the cddb database. I haven't bought a major label CD in years, and most of the hundreds I own are from friends' bands, or friends of friends' bands. There's also live theater- much more fun than a movie, almost as cheap, and almost every town has at least one small theater company. Even when it's bad, it's good! Once you get a taste of the real thing, it's hard to go back to the canned experience. And you'll meet lots of interesting people along the way.
Power is going the same way, as can be evidenced by the collapse of the California power grid. How long will the state pay for the power companies to stay solvent until the state becomes the primary power-provider? Phone will go too, IMHO.
I'd like to point out that LA itself has been largely immune to the state's power crisis- because the City of Los Angeles generates its own power!
I'm for privatizing everything, including the sidewalks. And the best way to ensure complete sidewalk construction is through forced adoption of a standard sidewalk shoe, which you can buy from AT&T/TW for $400/pair. Laces are extra.
...or the content has gotten stupid. Ads and spam don't bother me at all. The problem is the content- there isn't any. For awhile, the best and timliest content was on the web. Now it's been displaced by meaningless advertorial drivel. It's looking more and more like network television- a breadcrumb trail of blurbs and teasers, leading to nothing but more blurbs and teasers.
Southern pine is only a dime a dozen because crass, ignorant, self-serving rednecks are allowed to cut it all down without any regard to environmental impact. And if anyone questions or legislates, there's always a governemnt official with his palm out, ready to "take care" of the problem. In most of the South, there are few laws, and even fewer good 'ol boy officials willing to enforce them. If anyone doubts this, come have a look at the pile of 3 million-plus tires burning right now on the outskirts of Roanoke, after 30 years of illegal dumping.
We have offshore tax havens, why not offshore RIAA/MPAA/DMCA havens? What's to stop a broadcaster in Russia or China from broadcasting American content to Americans?
I've tried dozens of content management systems, and Phillip Greenspun's baby still rules them all. Aside from reliability, functionality, and performance issues, the biggest problem with these systems is that they require developers and users to learn a whole new paradigm, language, and way of looking at the world- often completely new, and unrelated to anything else. Any reasonably competent programmer/webhead can pick up TCL and extend the ACS- without struggling with Zopisms, J2EE jargon, or Vignette-ese. And all users need to learn is how to cut and paste stuff into a browser form.
I wouldn't use Citydesk for a major project requring an RDBMS, but for small websites it's the best. Most people using Frontpage or Fusion would be *much* happier with Citydesk.
I know of one station manager in LA who's streaming, but won't post the archives of his most popular shows. He's afraid it will compete with the on-air broadcast. Kind of a no-Tivo policy.
There's plenty of free content out there, so why all the fuss? Who says internet radio stations have to play stuff owned by record labels, etc? There are plenty of bands, and even labels, who would gladly give away their stuff for free. Then there's public domain stuff for which the copyrights have expired. Not to mention original material. Quit yer bitchin' and just do it.
RTF might be the closest thing we have to a cross-app, cross-platform file format, but it sure isn't perfect, or even adequately reliable. I use StarOffice for Windows and Linux, and save in RTF. I try to get others to send their Word docs in RTF. I try to keep my formatting as simple as possible, to avoid problems. But still, maybe 30% of the time, a document created in Staroffice loses its formatting when opened in Word, or vice-versa.
Now that people have come to rely on Yahoo mail, and the ability to download it into their POP client, Yahoo has them hooked. So they're gonna charge for this! Previously, the only hook to get you to upgrade to the "pay" account was teh extra storage, which you didn't need if you downloaded your messages now and then.
Not that $20/year isn't a good deal- I've been using Yahoo mail because I can read webmail while travelling, then download it all when I get a chance. Plus, Yahoo is way more reliable than most ISPs' mail service- certainly moreso than Pacbell or Adelphia, which are so bad you can't rely on them at all- you really need something else.
Well, there's ACS and OpenACS. OpenACS started as a port of the original, Oracle-based ACS to an open source database, postgresql. At the time, that was the only difference, and they were both written in TCL. However, ArsDigita decided to rewrite the ACS in Java, mostly for "buzzword compliance" marketing reasons. They stopped developing the TCL ACS, so ACS 4.x is Java. But the OpenACS folks continued developing the TCL version, so OpenACS 4.x is still TCL.
From what I understand, not all the Java ACS has been released as open source, though all the TCL stuff has.
Of course there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of little tuning tweaks to make Linux perform better. But practically speaking, this is the main one. The other is shutting down services you don't need.
In an effort to get a working system on every possible computer, Redhat defaults to no hard drive DMA and everything but the kitchen sink running in the background. Fix these two little things, and you're 99% there.
AOL's biggest software problem isn't their browser. It's their crappy dialer and TCP/IP software!
I'm glad to hear they've switched to Mozilla. It's a great hedge to IE dominance, and a boost to standards-compliance.
What frustrates AOL users the most is flaky network connections, and mangled network settings. Their regular dialup software is bad enough, but what they give you for DSL is really the pits. If they paid a little more attention to this they'd have a much happier user base, and save a lot of money on tech support calls.
RedHat's 'purchase' of Ars Digita allows Greylock to bury the aD losses in the RH books
You're being way too polite... this was nothing but a face-saving move by the vulture capitalists... better than just saying the company tanked and shut its doors (which is the real truth).
From what I understand, all the ACS/Tcl software is open source and really well documented, but the Java stuff is either not completely open, or too murky to figure out easily. Supposedly, in a last ditch effort, AD management was heading in a closed-source, packaged-solutions direction.
So, does this mean we'll get a usable ACS/Java with every Redhat boxed set? That would be cool...
It's true, most phones are really badly designed, and not too well made. I've tried many, but keep going back to my old Star-Tac. I'm also a Java developer, and a usability specialist.
Forget all this Java/web stuff. What I really want is a pocketable phone that's waterproof!
Obviously, Washington lawmakers have their heads up their asses. Most governments try to encourage these kinds of businesses, rather than tax them. Ireland, for instance, allows writers, musicians, and artists to live there tax free- knowing that building a tax haven for creative tycoons pumps billions of pounds into their economy. And it creates good jobs- high paying service jobs, which most people would prefer to logging or fishing. All Washington will accomplish with this is to hasten Microsoft's migration to India.
Plus, as if the highest sales and gasoline taxes in the nation aren't enough already...
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They say there's a sucker born every minute. Well, this also applies to advertisers! A lot of them will jump at stuff like this, without any proof that it actually works. Does it? I've never seen any evidence, and believe me I've looked. No one has ever shown me that popups, intrusive Javascript, or breaking the back button actually brings in customers. This is no different.
It doesn't matter to the RIAA if there are no web radio stations left at the end of this battle. They'll replace them with their own when they're good and ready. That's the whole idea- control.
Nonsense. If demand warrants it, they'll add more cells, just like they've been doing all along. In high density areas, there are more cells than you'd believe- dedicated cells to serve single buildings, or crowded public areas. As long as the *number of paying customers* warrants it, providers will beef up their networks to ensure good service. The problem will be in the low density areas- rural counties with only a few paying customers, one or two of whom like to smutsurf on their cigarette breaks.
Good point. Get involved with live music, art, film, etc. Connect with others that have similar interests. My friends and I have been doing this for over 20 years. I was just ripping some CDs last night, and I realized that out of a dozen or so, only 1 or 2 was even in the cddb database. I haven't bought a major label CD in years, and most of the hundreds I own are from friends' bands, or friends of friends' bands. There's also live theater- much more fun than a movie, almost as cheap, and almost every town has at least one small theater company. Even when it's bad, it's good! Once you get a taste of the real thing, it's hard to go back to the canned experience. And you'll meet lots of interesting people along the way.
I'd like to point out that LA itself has been largely immune to the state's power crisis- because the City of Los Angeles generates its own power!
I'm for privatizing everything, including the sidewalks. And the best way to ensure complete sidewalk construction is through forced adoption of a standard sidewalk shoe, which you can buy from AT&T/TW for $400/pair. Laces are extra.
...or the content has gotten stupid. Ads and spam don't bother me at all. The problem is the content- there isn't any. For awhile, the best and timliest content was on the web. Now it's been displaced by meaningless advertorial drivel. It's looking more and more like network television- a breadcrumb trail of blurbs and teasers, leading to nothing but more blurbs and teasers.
Southern pine is only a dime a dozen because crass, ignorant, self-serving rednecks are allowed to cut it all down without any regard to environmental impact. And if anyone questions or legislates, there's always a governemnt official with his palm out, ready to "take care" of the problem. In most of the South, there are few laws, and even fewer good 'ol boy officials willing to enforce them. If anyone doubts this, come have a look at the pile of 3 million-plus tires burning right now on the outskirts of Roanoke, after 30 years of illegal dumping.
We have offshore tax havens, why not offshore RIAA/MPAA/DMCA havens? What's to stop a broadcaster in Russia or China from broadcasting American content to Americans?
If you're no good at finding it, you don't belong in the business.
I've tried dozens of content management systems, and Phillip Greenspun's baby still rules them all. Aside from reliability, functionality, and performance issues, the biggest problem with these systems is that they require developers and users to learn a whole new paradigm, language, and way of looking at the world- often completely new, and unrelated to anything else. Any reasonably competent programmer/webhead can pick up TCL and extend the ACS- without struggling with Zopisms, J2EE jargon, or Vignette-ese. And all users need to learn is how to cut and paste stuff into a browser form.
I wouldn't use Citydesk for a major project requring an RDBMS, but for small websites it's the best. Most people using Frontpage or Fusion would be *much* happier with Citydesk.
I know of one station manager in LA who's streaming, but won't post the archives of his most popular shows. He's afraid it will compete with the on-air broadcast. Kind of a no-Tivo policy.
There's plenty of free content out there, so why all the fuss? Who says internet radio stations have to play stuff owned by record labels, etc? There are plenty of bands, and even labels, who would gladly give away their stuff for free. Then there's public domain stuff for which the copyrights have expired. Not to mention original material. Quit yer bitchin' and just do it.
RTF might be the closest thing we have to a cross-app, cross-platform file format, but it sure isn't perfect, or even adequately reliable. I use StarOffice for Windows and Linux, and save in RTF. I try to get others to send their Word docs in RTF. I try to keep my formatting as simple as possible, to avoid problems. But still, maybe 30% of the time, a document created in Staroffice loses its formatting when opened in Word, or vice-versa.
...with any entity that has no physical address or phone number. Never, ever, ever.
Now that people have come to rely on Yahoo mail, and the ability to download it into their POP client, Yahoo has them hooked. So they're gonna charge for this! Previously, the only hook to get you to upgrade to the "pay" account was teh extra storage, which you didn't need if you downloaded your messages now and then.
Not that $20/year isn't a good deal- I've been using Yahoo mail because I can read webmail while travelling, then download it all when I get a chance. Plus, Yahoo is way more reliable than most ISPs' mail service- certainly moreso than Pacbell or Adelphia, which are so bad you can't rely on them at all- you really need something else.
'nuff said...
Well, there's ACS and OpenACS. OpenACS started as a port of the original, Oracle-based ACS to an open source database, postgresql. At the time, that was the only difference, and they were both written in TCL. However, ArsDigita decided to rewrite the ACS in Java, mostly for "buzzword compliance" marketing reasons. They stopped developing the TCL ACS, so ACS 4.x is Java. But the OpenACS folks continued developing the TCL version, so OpenACS 4.x is still TCL.
From what I understand, not all the Java ACS has been released as open source, though all the TCL stuff has.
Of course there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of little tuning tweaks to make Linux perform better. But practically speaking, this is the main one. The other is shutting down services you don't need.
In an effort to get a working system on every possible computer, Redhat defaults to no hard drive DMA and everything but the kitchen sink running in the background. Fix these two little things, and you're 99% there.
AOL's biggest software problem isn't their browser. It's their crappy dialer and TCP/IP software!
I'm glad to hear they've switched to Mozilla. It's a great hedge to IE dominance, and a boost to standards-compliance.
What frustrates AOL users the most is flaky network connections, and mangled network settings. Their regular dialup software is bad enough, but what they give you for DSL is really the pits. If they paid a little more attention to this they'd have a much happier user base, and save a lot of money on tech support calls.
You're being way too polite... this was nothing but a face-saving move by the vulture capitalists... better than just saying the company tanked and shut its doors (which is the real truth).
From what I understand, all the ACS/Tcl software is open source and really well documented, but the Java stuff is either not completely open, or too murky to figure out easily. Supposedly, in a last ditch effort, AD management was heading in a closed-source, packaged-solutions direction.
So, does this mean we'll get a usable ACS/Java with every Redhat boxed set? That would be cool...
In the meantime, I'm learning Tcl!
It's true, most phones are really badly designed, and not too well made. I've tried many, but keep going back to my old Star-Tac. I'm also a Java developer, and a usability specialist.
Forget all this Java/web stuff. What I really want is a pocketable phone that's waterproof!
Obviously, Washington lawmakers have their heads up their asses. Most governments try to encourage these kinds of businesses, rather than tax them. Ireland, for instance, allows writers, musicians, and artists to live there tax free- knowing that building a tax haven for creative tycoons pumps billions of pounds into their economy. And it creates good jobs- high paying service jobs, which most people would prefer to logging or fishing. All Washington will accomplish with this is to hasten Microsoft's migration to India.
Plus, as if the highest sales and gasoline taxes in the nation aren't enough already...