Ahh... but the fine print in the article said that the ONLY files that are allowed to be shared are bad french discoteque remixes and Jerry Lewis movies.
If you're that unhappy - then update your resume/DR plan - and send it out to friends and start haunting dice/monster/craigslist/unixjobs/whatever until you find something better.
I guess I'm lucky - because my managers are tech saavy and do their jobs quite well.
"Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband,..."
and I remember a world where I had an email box that had NO spam in it, and a USENET with little to no spam... where porn was in alt.binaries.* and NOT in comp.*.... and posts were ON TOPIC.
The article makes no mention of the operating system that will be running on this supercomputer. I for one would like to see them get this done w/ OS X rather than use GNU/Linux.
TOP PARTY SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
Boulder, Colorado is said to have an endless amount of things to do: concerts, coffee shops, movies, parties, shopping and plenty of outdoor activities for those adventure-seekers. The Division I sports add to the energy of the school and the atmosphere around campus (campus is only 30 minutes from Denver too). The school is large, with over 25,000 undergrads enrolled last year. The student body is described as "a combination of rich kids and hippies, kids who don't care about class work and kids who are super-competitive, studying hard during the week and letting loose on the weekends."
Runner-ups
2) University of Wisconsin, Madison
3) Indiana University (was number one last year)
4) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
5) Washington and Lee University
When you say things like: As a long time Linux system administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version
Well - as a long time Linux sysadmin - I don't understand why you're using redhat!
And then you said: After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough in-house talent to not need Red Hat support.
So why not go with a REAL GNU/Linux distribution like Slackware or Debian - you've got talented admins/programmers - no need for RPM or RedHat Updates. Besides the Debian APT tool is much better for updates.
You seem to have the answers - but you don't want to acknowledge them. Lose RedHat.
I have just spent the better part of an hour reading all the posts and the RS article and I've got a few things to say.
First - I feel that Pro tools is nothing more than a crutch. A band should be PREPARED when they walk into the studio. Rehearse with a click track. Rehearsals without vocal guidance. Vocal rehearsals without the music. Preparing to record a record should take time! In the RS article Vig seems to have a plug-in to change things. Well - if you're in a band with real musicians and if you're prepared - you shouldn't need to change tempos, etc. Go in - cut the basic tracks - if someone messes up - retake. Get the basic tracks (drums and bass tracks). Most importantly - make sure the drums are right. Touch up (punch in) where necessary. Do guitars/keys/etc.. then vocals. The bottom line - be prepared to record. Second - analog tape sounds WAY better - I'm not going to go into a debate on this - it's my opinion. Third - who cares if PT has an "undo" feature! What's the use? If you punch in and hit a clam - rewind the tape and punch it back in! If you can't hit the note again - you shouldn't be in a studio! Same for pitch shifting/correcting tools. Crap! Fourth - it's important to have good gear. For guitars and bass - nothing sounds better than tube amplification - take all those Line 6 "PODS" and amp modelers and throw 'em away. I've yet to hear one of those "vintage amp settings" actually sound like the real deal. Fifth - record in a good studio - with a good engineer. A good engineer is important for mic placement - board mixing and settings, etc... if you don't have an engineer with good mics, who knows what he's doing - you might as well sit around a tape recorder and hit record. A good studio with good rooms, amps, mics, etc. helps too.
NOTE: this is for rock music - I would imagine PT would be great for hip-hop/boy bands/etc...
Want to hear something? go to http://www.cdbaby/andersoncouncil
We recorded 10 songs on 24 track 2" tape - NO PRO TOOLS, and had our recordings mastered by Alan Douches (who has mastered for Aerosmith, Ben Folds, Sting, and many other "top names") - and we pressed the initial 1000 CD's - all this for under $5,000. And the recording was good enough for Little Steven to spin us more than once on his "Underground Garage" syndicated radio program.
So stuff that in your pro-tools and it's plug-in's!
Dec 1, 2001 (saturday afternoon) receive FedEx package from employer - I'm laid off. One month of severance. Jan 1, 2001 - started collecting unemployment. June-August, 2001 - spent EVERY DAY at the beach! September 2001 - started looking for a new job - unemployment ran out - started working as a bartender and doorman at local rock club. November, 2002 - started new job.
But over these 11 months I was using Dice, monster, flipdog, etc. to send out resumes - I sent hundreds and hundreds (into the thousands) out - and only recieved a handful of interviews - and fewer job offers. I declined most until I found what I was looking for.
I think alot of it depends on one's financial situation, and whether or not they have wives and kids - as mouths to feed tend to make one find jobs quicker and make the job seeker a bit less picky.
I run a small indie record label and I have been using CDBaby.com. They're HONEST - send checks out on time for the correct ammount - and keep track of sales for you via an administrative login. They also email you when they only have a few copies left.
We have regular distribution thru indie distributors that I won't mention - but they take a big cut and you have to make sure you keep your invoices up to date and chase them down for payments.
Here's how it works:
CDBABY - sells cd's for $10 - we get $7. Other distributors - sell same cd for $14-17 and give us somewhere between $5.00-6.00.
1) Go to pricewatch or e-bay and buy a server that can hold greater than or equal to 4gb... and buy the RAM while you're at it. 2) While waiting to ship - download the.iso's or whatever you'll need to prepare to install your OS. 3) Server and RAM arrive! Snap RAM into server - take existing machine, put aside - plug KVM into new server - fire up - install OS. 4) Test! 5) ????? 6) Profit!
If all clothing were made in the US, then there would be a few more US jobs, true at least for a while. But to benefit a very few workers, all US consumers would pay more for their clothing, making the consumer's dollar worth less, not more. And if people are forced to spend more money on clothes, that's less that they spend elsewhere, putting other Americans out of work.
No. The Government needs to regulate "big business" - maybe put a limit to what a Corporate owner/board of director/CFO/CPO/CIO eieio, etc.. makes for a salary. The salaries at the TOP of the ladder are over-inflated, and the people who run big business are nothing more than gluttonous pigs.
In Japan, a corporate exec's salary is based upon the success (or lack of success) of a company. That is a proper business model. Maybe it would make our business leaders more honest (read: ENRON, etc...).
I agree that there's never an easy solution, but if the US Gov. was to properly regulate big business (including making sure they are honest, hire US labor, produce goods in the US, and not pass the cost back onto the consumer) - things would be better.
One of the reasons we thrived after WWII was due to the fact that we were a nation that produced goods for the entire world. Every part in those goods were made in the USA, by Americans.
We can't say this about most goods that are produced in the USA nowadays. Alot of labor is outsourced, and the production too. Then some big business companies (example auto industries) take all the parts made elsewhere, and then have them assembled in the USA. Why? Cheaper labor in other countries, and more importantly, little to no environmental regulations. Meanwhile the corporate leaders exploit the poor of some small impovrished company, evade environmental laws, evade proper working conditions, etc...
It's all about making the people "at the top" act more responsible and benevolent towards the betterment of the USA - rather than lining their already gorged coffers with more Ben Franklins.
Just because they can get away with evading environmental laws in another country doesn't mean that we're not affected by it... look at the destruction of the rainforests, and the effect it's had on global warming! Why tear down the rainforests? - So companies like McDonalds can buy their meat from 3rd world farmers who will raise cows on the newly cleared land. What's wrong with paying US farmers to raise cattle on US soil? Instead of the CEO of McDonalds making 48zillion, he could suck it up, tighten his belt, buy US raised cattle and only make 40zillion. *gasp* a 8 zillion dollar loss. But hey - when you've already got a few billion - what's a zillion? (yes - I know... zillion... I'm trying to make a point)
Imagine how much more the dollar would be worth if the clothing companies moved production back to the US, and gave those jobs back to Americans.
Unemployment would decrease, spending would increase.
That's one example.
Your stats about the trade increase since the 60s are irrelivant. You forget to add other variables such as inflation.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you create jobs, you lower unemployment. if you lower unemployment and create jobs, people have money. If people have money - they spend it. If people spend money - it's good for the economy.
I agree wholeheartedly about making corporations pay some sort of tax for outsourcing US jobs to another country. By removing jobs from the US, they're hurting the economy. The only people that benefit from this are the rich owners who are more concerned with lining their own pockets rather than keeping our economy stable. The combination of the "dot bomb" and outsourcing of IT jobs has caused the pay scales to stagnate because (1) there's not as many IT jobs, and (2) why pay a programmer top dollar when someone in some other country will do it for a fraction of the cost.
The same for production of goods, like computers, TVs, cars, clothes, etc... but there should be a clause that says that the burden must be absorbed by the corporation, and not passed onto the consumers.
Conversely, companies who produce goods in the USA using US labor and US parts should be given tax breaks.
Our problem is that since the 80s we've moved out of being a "production-based economy" - and we've become a "service-based economy"... and it's cheaper for US corporations to exploit workers overseas to produce our goods rather than pay US workers an honest wage. Now that most of our goods are made overseas, we're moving our service-oriented jobs there, too.
Notice that the "american dream of being middle class" is now pretty much a fantasy. (one parent works, the other stays home and raises kids, 3 bedroom home 2 car garage - nice suburban neighborhood). Now it takes 2 incomes to make ends meet in this scenario - and barely...
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We can't grow when browsers are killing eachother and commiting crimes with one another.
Oh well - I'm probably going to get flamed for this....
but there's no honor among theives.
Just stop being a bunch of cheap a-holes and BUY music that you like.
Ahh... but the fine print in the article said that the ONLY files that are allowed to be shared are bad french discoteque remixes and Jerry Lewis movies.
No thankyou. I'll stay here.
If you're that unhappy - then update your resume/DR plan - and send it out to friends and start haunting dice/monster/craigslist/unixjobs/whatever until you find something better.
I guess I'm lucky - because my managers are tech saavy and do their jobs quite well.
actually - the first Rock single to use a Moog synth (as an instrument - not as a noise machine) was The Monkees' "Star Collector".
one small step for her - one giant step for womankind.
I remember there was a great big anonymous email system in Finland.
address was anon4782344@remailer.something.fi
For some reason I also remember reading that the Church of Scientology had something to do with the demise of this remailer.
But - it was good for what it was - and it kept people anonymous.
Do any anon remailers still exist?
"Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband,..."
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and I remember a world where I had an email box that had NO spam in it, and a USENET with little to no spam... where porn was in alt.binaries.* and NOT in comp.*.... and posts were ON TOPIC.
OTOH - it was also a world without
I'd like to turn back time.
IANARS - but why can't they fire rockets up into space during rain and wind?
I would think that a rocket would have enough power/force/momentum/whatever to stay on course.
Could someone please answer this question legitimately?
Thanks.
Darwin - the CORE of OS X is open source and has been available on the x86 platform. Go Click here and see for yourself.
x86 Darwin Release Notes
As an IT professional - this is the LAST place I want to go on vacation.
A nice beach - cold beer - girls - bikinis!
The purpose of a vacation is to ESCAPE - the last thing I want to see is technology and be surrounded by GEEKS.
(no offense guys)
I thought they were named after the brother/sister guitar and bass made by Gibson.
The Firebird is a 6-string guitar, and the Thunderbird is a 4-string bass - both made by the Gibson guitar company.
Below are links to the respective instruments:
Gibson Firebird guitar.
Gibson Thunderbird bass guitar.
The article makes no mention of the operating system that will be running on this supercomputer. I for one would like to see them get this done w/ OS X rather than use GNU/Linux.
Correct. U of Colorado is the top party school.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/954063.asp?0si=-
TOP PARTY SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
Boulder, Colorado is said to have an endless amount of things to do: concerts, coffee shops, movies, parties, shopping and plenty of outdoor activities for those adventure-seekers. The Division I sports add to the energy of the school and the atmosphere around campus (campus is only 30 minutes from Denver too). The school is large, with over 25,000 undergrads enrolled last year. The student body is described as "a combination of rich kids and hippies, kids who don't care about class work and kids who are super-competitive, studying hard during the week and letting loose on the weekends."
Runner-ups
2) University of Wisconsin, Madison
3) Indiana University (was number one last year)
4) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
5) Washington and Lee University
They're normally called Project Managers!
When you say things like:
As a long time Linux system administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version
Well - as a long time Linux sysadmin - I don't understand why you're using redhat!
And then you said:
After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough in-house talent to not need Red Hat support.
So why not go with a REAL GNU/Linux distribution like Slackware or Debian - you've got talented admins/programmers - no need for RPM or RedHat Updates. Besides the Debian APT tool is much better for updates.
You seem to have the answers - but you don't want to acknowledge them. Lose RedHat.
I have just spent the better part of an hour reading all the posts and the RS article and I've got a few things to say.
First - I feel that Pro tools is nothing more than a crutch. A band should be PREPARED when they walk into the studio. Rehearse with a click track. Rehearsals without vocal guidance. Vocal rehearsals without the music. Preparing to record a record should take time! In the RS article Vig seems to have a plug-in to change things. Well - if you're in a band with real musicians and if you're prepared - you shouldn't need to change tempos, etc. Go in - cut the basic tracks - if someone messes up - retake. Get the basic tracks (drums and bass tracks). Most importantly - make sure the drums are right. Touch up (punch in) where necessary. Do guitars/keys/etc.. then vocals. The bottom line - be prepared to record.
Second - analog tape sounds WAY better - I'm not going to go into a debate on this - it's my opinion.
Third - who cares if PT has an "undo" feature! What's the use? If you punch in and hit a clam - rewind the tape and punch it back in! If you can't hit the note again - you shouldn't be in a studio! Same for pitch shifting/correcting tools. Crap!
Fourth - it's important to have good gear. For guitars and bass - nothing sounds better than tube amplification - take all those Line 6 "PODS" and amp modelers and throw 'em away. I've yet to hear one of those "vintage amp settings" actually sound like the real deal.
Fifth - record in a good studio - with a good engineer. A good engineer is important for mic placement - board mixing and settings, etc... if you don't have an engineer with good mics, who knows what he's doing - you might as well sit around a tape recorder and hit record. A good studio with good rooms, amps, mics, etc. helps too.
NOTE: this is for rock music - I would imagine PT would be great for hip-hop/boy bands/etc...
Want to hear something? go to http://www.cdbaby/andersoncouncil
We recorded 10 songs on 24 track 2" tape - NO PRO TOOLS, and had our recordings mastered by Alan Douches (who has mastered for Aerosmith, Ben Folds, Sting, and many other "top names") - and we pressed the initial 1000 CD's - all this for under $5,000. And the recording was good enough for Little Steven to spin us more than once on his "Underground Garage" syndicated radio program.
So stuff that in your pro-tools and it's plug-in's!
Dec 1, 2001 (saturday afternoon) receive FedEx package from employer - I'm laid off. One month of severance.
Jan 1, 2001 - started collecting unemployment.
June-August, 2001 - spent EVERY DAY at the beach!
September 2001 - started looking for a new job - unemployment ran out - started working as a bartender and doorman at local rock club.
November, 2002 - started new job.
But over these 11 months I was using Dice, monster, flipdog, etc. to send out resumes - I sent hundreds and hundreds (into the thousands) out - and only recieved a handful of interviews - and fewer job offers. I declined most until I found what I was looking for.
I think alot of it depends on one's financial situation, and whether or not they have wives and kids - as mouths to feed tend to make one find jobs quicker and make the job seeker a bit less picky.
CDBaby Rocks!
I run a small indie record label and I have been using CDBaby.com. They're HONEST - send checks out on time for the correct ammount - and keep track of sales for you via an administrative login. They also email you when they only have a few copies left.
We have regular distribution thru indie distributors that I won't mention - but they take a big cut and you have to make sure you keep your invoices up to date and chase them down for payments.
Here's how it works:
CDBABY - sells cd's for $10 - we get $7.
Other distributors - sell same cd for $14-17 and give us somewhere between $5.00-6.00.
Go figure.
I think the first link should read Xemulation.com and point there, too.
C'mon editors - don't you check your stories and links before you post?
Hrm.
.iso's or whatever you'll need to prepare to install your OS.
1) Go to pricewatch or e-bay and buy a server that can hold greater than or equal to 4gb... and buy the RAM while you're at it.
2) While waiting to ship - download the
3) Server and RAM arrive! Snap RAM into server - take existing machine, put aside - plug KVM into new server - fire up - install OS.
4) Test!
5) ?????
6) Profit!
If all clothing were made in the US, then there would be a few more US jobs, true at least for a while. But to benefit a very few workers, all US consumers would pay more for their clothing, making the consumer's dollar worth less, not more. And if people are forced to spend more money on clothes, that's less that they spend elsewhere, putting other Americans out of work.
No. The Government needs to regulate "big business" - maybe put a limit to what a Corporate owner/board of director/CFO/CPO/CIO eieio, etc.. makes for a salary. The salaries at the TOP of the ladder are over-inflated, and the people who run big business are nothing more than gluttonous pigs.
In Japan, a corporate exec's salary is based upon the success (or lack of success) of a company. That is a proper business model. Maybe it would make our business leaders more honest (read: ENRON, etc...).
I agree that there's never an easy solution, but if the US Gov. was to properly regulate big business (including making sure they are honest, hire US labor, produce goods in the US, and not pass the cost back onto the consumer) - things would be better.
One of the reasons we thrived after WWII was due to the fact that we were a nation that produced goods for the entire world. Every part in those goods were made in the USA, by Americans.
We can't say this about most goods that are produced in the USA nowadays. Alot of labor is outsourced, and the production too. Then some big business companies (example auto industries) take all the parts made elsewhere, and then have them assembled in the USA. Why? Cheaper labor in other countries, and more importantly, little to no environmental regulations. Meanwhile the corporate leaders exploit the poor of some small impovrished company, evade environmental laws, evade proper working conditions, etc...
It's all about making the people "at the top" act more responsible and benevolent towards the betterment of the USA - rather than lining their already gorged coffers with more Ben Franklins.
Just because they can get away with evading environmental laws in another country doesn't mean that we're not affected by it... look at the destruction of the rainforests, and the effect it's had on global warming! Why tear down the rainforests? - So companies like McDonalds can buy their meat from 3rd world farmers who will raise cows on the newly cleared land. What's wrong with paying US farmers to raise cattle on US soil? Instead of the CEO of McDonalds making 48zillion, he could suck it up, tighten his belt, buy US raised cattle and only make 40zillion. *gasp* a 8 zillion dollar loss. But hey - when you've already got a few billion - what's a zillion?
(yes - I know... zillion... I'm trying to make a point)
Not really.
One example of many: Clothing Industry.
Imagine how much more the dollar would be worth if the clothing companies moved production back to the US, and gave those jobs back to Americans.
Unemployment would decrease, spending would increase.
That's one example.
Your stats about the trade increase since the 60s are irrelivant. You forget to add other variables such as inflation.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you create jobs, you lower unemployment. if you lower unemployment and create jobs, people have money. If people have money - they spend it. If people spend money - it's good for the economy.
*duh*
I agree wholeheartedly about making corporations pay some sort of tax for outsourcing US jobs to another country. By removing jobs from the US, they're hurting the economy. The only people that benefit from this are the rich owners who are more concerned with lining their own pockets rather than keeping our economy stable. The combination of the "dot bomb" and outsourcing of IT jobs has caused the pay scales to stagnate because (1) there's not as many IT jobs, and (2) why pay a programmer top dollar when someone in some other country will do it for a fraction of the cost.
The same for production of goods, like computers, TVs, cars, clothes, etc... but there should be a clause that says that the burden must be absorbed by the corporation, and not passed onto the consumers.
Conversely, companies who produce goods in the USA using US labor and US parts should be given tax breaks.
Our problem is that since the 80s we've moved out of being a "production-based economy" - and we've become a "service-based economy"... and it's cheaper for US corporations to exploit workers overseas to produce our goods rather than pay US workers an honest wage. Now that most of our goods are made overseas, we're moving our service-oriented jobs there, too.
Notice that the "american dream of being middle class" is now pretty much a fantasy. (one parent works, the other stays home and raises kids, 3 bedroom home 2 car garage - nice suburban neighborhood). Now it takes 2 incomes to make ends meet in this scenario - and barely...
Thanks.
It wasn't meant to be a troll. It was my $.02 towards the topic.
People who use their politics to slant the use of their moderation points shouldn't be allowed to moderate.