As far as the suitability of playing Bach on a piano (or any other instrument)... this controversy has been around for awhile. Striving for "historic authenticity" in performance is a relatively recent phenomenon, representing trends in Musicology and research into the construction of period instruments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_informed_performance)
Nobody probably thought much of someone releasing a recording of something like the WTC played on piano 50 years ago, but in today's artistic climate, it's regarded as being a bit tasteless, as Bach certainly wrote his contrapuntal keyboard works for the keyboards of his day (be they harpsichord, clavier, or organ).
Agreed. Google have turned into major scumbags on this.
It's a testament to the power of corporate brainwashing ("Do no evil! Lol") that most "geeks" give them a pass on this and the rest of their shenanigans.
1) If Canonical can get traction with the OEMs, maybe there will be more diversity in the type of hardware available. Might open up the "mobile OS hacking" subculture even further, allowing people to come up with novel, mobile GNU/Linux distributions.
2) Allowing devs to write/ship mobile applications in something other than ObjC (iOS) and Java (Android). I don't think it's possible or viable today, for example, to write a full Python mobile application and ship it. Sure, there are some pet projects out there that will, with some effort, let you kindasorta run things like Perl or Python on Android, but anything other than ObjC/Java are second-class citizens, currently.
Perhaps having Ubuntu begin to carve out even a little space here might help open the market a bit to more interesting and useful approaches to mobile operating systems?
But most of the elder wizards of the programming community (at least the ones I know) tend to shy away from the pair programming mentality. Younger folks (especially people in their 20s) don't seem to mind as much.
I wonder if this has something to do with the nature of the people who went into programming 20 years ago (compared to today), or what...?
Nice. My bad for not reading the article thoroughly enough, thanks for pointing it out.
That doesn't mean Yahoo! gets a 'pass' though. For a company with as much talent/infrastructure/experience as they should have, this kind of thing is definitely a warning sign.
Just dumped all my yahoo accounts (had two spam accounts and one personal account).
I've had them since the late 1990s, and while I hate to kick someone while they're down, the service has only gotten worse lately--spam, unwanted yahoo! instant messenger robot requests, "Temporary Problems Accessing Your Account" messages--the whole deal.
This kills it for me. I interviewed with Yahoo! about six years ago (didn't make it past the second cut, so yeah, I'm a moron) and being VERY impressed with how smart their teams were. Wonder if all the good ones left or got fired somewhere. Too bad, really.
Agreed. What's worse is that your skillset gradually atrophies away until you're barely able to do anything of value, other than manage "Sales Force" passwords, or write throwaway scripts to use against someone's proprietary API.
The hard stuff? Well, that's why we have consultants!
I'm somewhat of a X desktop transient, switching between KDE, Gnome, and Xfce (variety is the spice of life, and all that rot).
I spend most of my days in Emacs or a term window, and I frankly don't use 90% of the features these desktop managers provide. After a few months with one of the "big three," I always come back to GNUstep. It's totally minimal, and you can do EVERYTHING without touching a mouse. It's as unobtrusive as possible.
Nice post. Too bad I used my last mod points yesterday.
The most ridiculously strong password is 100% worthless if your online data (via the server itself) is compromised, which happens way more than we'll ever know about.
Even more creepy are the perfectly legal and "legit" uses of your data (make sure you read everything in the EULA I guess) that are knowingly and willingly handed off to various third parties.
The Oracle Social Network piece seems pretty solid, but some people think the configuration might be a little difficult (until they pass their Oracle cert tests).
Here's the sample SCLINIT.ORA (it should be "social-init.ora" but damn that 8+3 filename convention):
Slashdot Mirror
Might be fun.
Maybe these guys got it covered though:
http://www.altslashdot.org/wik...
So where will everybody be next week?
Hacker news ...?
Lobste.rs
Reddit
Also, has someone volunteered to put up a slashcott update site (maybe with statistics on how well/poorly the site is doing during the blockade?)
Just curious.
Don't forget a lot of "piano" music we associate with Beethoven and back was written on the harpsichord and organ. The piano didn't exist.
I'll assume you meant "Bach" -- Beethoven certainly played and composed for the piano
(See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortepiano).
As far as the suitability of playing Bach on a piano (or any other instrument) ... this controversy has been around for awhile. Striving for "historic authenticity" in performance is a relatively recent phenomenon, representing trends in Musicology and research into the construction of period instruments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_informed_performance)
Nobody probably thought much of someone releasing a recording of something like the WTC played on piano 50 years ago, but in today's artistic climate, it's regarded as being a bit tasteless, as Bach certainly wrote his contrapuntal keyboard works for the keyboards of his day (be they harpsichord, clavier, or organ).
http://darcs.net/
+1
Agreed: that's subtle, but that's a wise distinction to make.
hehehe, that's what I get for not RTFing entire A, I didn't see they'd inlined the entire thing in it. Derp!
Found this, seems legit:
http://pastebin.com/We3xgT4J
Don't forget your rations. Make sure you bring iron ones--and a lot of 'em, especially for wilderness adventures.
Agreed. Google have turned into major scumbags on this.
It's a testament to the power of corporate brainwashing ("Do no evil! Lol") that most "geeks" give them a pass on this and the rest of their shenanigans.
http://www.geek.com/microsoft/google-netflix-and-microsoft-propose-drm-for-html5-1537974/
But I'm seeing two benefits:
1) If Canonical can get traction with the OEMs, maybe there will be more diversity in the type of hardware available. Might open up the "mobile OS hacking" subculture even further, allowing people to come up with novel, mobile GNU/Linux distributions.
2) Allowing devs to write/ship mobile applications in something other than ObjC (iOS) and Java (Android). I don't think it's possible or viable today, for example, to write a full Python mobile application and ship it. Sure, there are some pet projects out there that will, with some effort, let you kindasorta run things like Perl or Python on Android, but anything other than ObjC/Java are second-class citizens, currently.
Perhaps having Ubuntu begin to carve out even a little space here might help open the market a bit to more interesting and useful approaches to mobile operating systems?
I'm also a full xmonad convert. I don't know how I ever got along without it, really.
Now you have me wondering how different life would be on a VHRD? Maybe it's time for a better monitor...
Same here--that's when I usually go and hang out, maybe near the border of our province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLikiVraHE&feature=related
Maybe this ACM vs. IEEE thing is staring to getting out of hand?
Apparently nobody reads Padlipsky anymore.
But most of the elder wizards of the programming community (at least the ones I know) tend to shy away from the pair programming mentality. Younger folks (especially people in their 20s) don't seem to mind as much.
I wonder if this has something to do with the nature of the people who went into programming 20 years ago (compared to today), or what...?
Don't forget slapt-get.
Very cool if you haven't tried it.
Nice. My bad for not reading the article thoroughly enough, thanks for pointing it out.
That doesn't mean Yahoo! gets a 'pass' though. For a company with as much talent/infrastructure/experience as they should have, this kind of thing is definitely a warning sign.
Enjoying my !yahoo mail right now :D
Just dumped all my yahoo accounts (had two spam accounts and one personal account).
I've had them since the late 1990s, and while I hate to kick someone while they're down, the service has only gotten worse lately--spam, unwanted yahoo! instant messenger robot requests, "Temporary Problems Accessing Your Account" messages--the whole deal.
This kills it for me. I interviewed with Yahoo! about six years ago (didn't make it past the second cut, so yeah, I'm a moron) and being VERY impressed with how smart their teams were. Wonder if all the good ones left or got fired somewhere. Too bad, really.
Sorry guys, but thanks for the great 15 years!
Exactly.
bittorrent != 'piracy' [sic] ...but that's difficult to explain to some people.
Agreed. What's worse is that your skillset gradually atrophies away until you're barely able to do anything of value, other than manage "Sales Force" passwords, or write throwaway scripts to use against someone's proprietary API.
The hard stuff? Well, that's why we have consultants!
I'm somewhat of a X desktop transient, switching between KDE, Gnome, and Xfce (variety is the spice of life, and all that rot).
I spend most of my days in Emacs or a term window, and I frankly don't use 90% of the features these desktop managers provide. After a few months with one of the "big three," I always come back to GNUstep. It's totally minimal, and you can do EVERYTHING without touching a mouse. It's as unobtrusive as possible.
Check the wikipedia here, or dig the GNUstep website.
Another option in the "totally minimal" world is xmonad, there's a lot to like here as well. Wikipedia: xmonad,
Or, try the Xmonad website
Nice post. Too bad I used my last mod points yesterday.
The most ridiculously strong password is 100% worthless if your online data (via the server itself) is compromised, which happens way more than we'll ever know about.
Even more creepy are the perfectly legal and "legit" uses of your data (make sure you read everything in the EULA I guess) that are knowingly and willingly handed off to various third parties.
The Oracle Social Network piece seems pretty solid, but some people think the configuration might be a little difficult (until they pass their Oracle cert tests).
Here's the sample SCLINIT.ORA (it should be "social-init.ora" but damn that 8+3 filename convention):
FRIEND_LIST_LISTENER = /mongolia/otrar/) /no_california/silicon_valley/) /no_california/marin_county/)
(FRIEND_LIST =
(FRIEND_DESC =
(GLOBAL_FRIENDNAME = GENGHIS.KHAN)
(FRIEND_HOME =
(FRIEND_NAME = my-doppelganger)
)
)
(FRIEND_LIST =
(FRIEND_DESC =
(GLOBAL_FRIENDNAME = COMMANDER.TACO)
(FRIEND_HOME =
(FRIEND_NAME = cmdrtaco)
)
)
(FRIEND_LIST =
(FRIEND_DESC =
(GLOBAL_FRIENDNAME = MARC.BENIOFF)
(FRIEND_HOME =
(FRIEND_NAME = markee-mark)
)
)
)