...is software that can drink beer, and listen to music for us. While we're at it let's code up something that can relieve us of our tedious skiing, flying, and reading habits.
Can I possibly be the first person to point out that O'Reilly (the tech publisher) is based out of Sebastopol? I would tend to think that a little more geek-friendly hippyness could be brought to bear on the local governement.
As an asides Sebastopol is also where Tom Waits lives.
Uh.. I call it UIUC. For what it's worth my wife grew up in Urbana, and her brother is a physics student living in Champaign (I prefer Champaign myself). Still when we are visiting I tend to say "we're going to Chambana".
... with that pedestrian death statistic. First, pedestrian deaths are always due to automobile mis-use (either accidental or intentional). Well, there may be one or two incidents of fatal falls taken by the very old per year, but they dont really change the stats.
So, those deaths should be chalked up with cars. Add to that the rest of the deaths caused by cars. Compare the number with deaths caused by guns.
Now, ask yourself what could happen if politicians really start paying attention to the numbers? Do you think they don't know about this stuff? I think it's pretty clear that they're focusing on guns because even slightly restricting cars in the USA is politically impossible.
Heck, they can't even get people to drive at a reasonable speed.
In around 2000 my wife and I found these compact flourescent bulbs in the IKEA in Emeryville and decided to try them. We were super pleased with the lack of flicker. About a year later we moved to Geneva, Switzerland and of course there's an IKEA not far away in Allaman. We got a bunch of bulbs and replaced all the incandescent ones in the new apartement. Now after 5 years the SIG still owes us money for what we overpayed the first year!
I prefer Nukes. I've long ago set aside my concerns about the possible problems with nuclear energy because of the very real problems with burning up all of the fossil fuel we can dig up.
I'm sorry, but the parent post is just nutso. France alone is the 4th largest economy on the planet, comparing more closely to California than lowly Alabama. Have you ever seen what a newly constructed French house looks like? Compare the quality to new housing in the states.
Americans do spend a bit more as a percentage of their earnings, but that means Europeans are saving more, which is hardly a bad thing.
I just can't believe anybody would recite such claptrap. The poster must have never been to Europe to be able to type such rubbish.
Think about how it got to be that you live so far from work. The fact that American cities are built in such a way that car ownership and use is mandatory is just about the worst thing about an otherwise great country. As it stands you either have to pay huge amounts of money to own a stupid automobile, or pay huge amounts of money to live in one of the few places which is built to a reasonably decent scale and still has jobs.
Why not just build cities to a proper human scale?
I'm a programmer working at the W.H.O., which is just down the road from the exibition hall, so I've been looking at the schedule to see what events might be interesting or useful to attend.
Looks like a lot of local linux users (see G.U.L.L) are planning to attend at least the panel with Larry Lessig and RMS on Wednesday. RMS is also speaking on Thursday.
I read the email from emusic as soon as it had landed in my inbox, and the change did annoy me, especially the fact that they buried it 3/4ths of the way down, where presumably they thought folks weren't going to read it.
Still, I think I'm probably going to keep the subscription since I average about 3 albums a month anyhow. I just wish they would let unused downloads accrue.
The really annoying thing for me about Emusic is that I can't access certain albums from Europe, and I'm too lazy to change my billing info and set up a proxy server.
84c84 At this the officials at NAFA became very solemn. This was ABSOLUTELY out of the question. ONLY NAFA's (and FAFA's) "waggonauts" could go out into the desert. "Missions" were FAR too important and difficult for mere "ordinary members of the public" to take part. But, since this showed that the public were keen for even more space activity, NAFA was happy to propose that the public should pay for NAFA to start a new "Desert Exploration Initiative", greater and more difficult than any previous mission: NAFA would build a fleet of ENTIRELY NEW desert-wagons, which would carry at least six NAFA "waggonauts" right across the desert (something they hadn't done for twenty years now despite the cosmic amounts of money that they used), and then explore RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. This would cost a truly heroic amount of taxpayers' money, commensurate with NAFA's importance, and fully ten times what the original mission across the desert had cost. It would double the nation's debt at a stroke, and demonstrate clearly what a stupendous organisation NAFA was..... or something. --- >
At this the officials at NAFA became very solemn. This was ABSOLUTELY out of the question. ONLY NAFA's (and FAFA's) "waggonauts" could go out into the desert. "Missions" were FAR too important and difficult for mere "ordinary members of the public" to take part. But, since this showed that the public were keen for even more desert activity, NAFA was happy to propose that the public should pay for NAFA to start a new "Desert Exploration Initiative", greater and more difficult than any previous mission: NAFA would build a fleet of ENTIRELY NEW desert-wagons, which would carry at least six NAFA "waggonauts" right across the desert (something they hadn't done for twenty years now despite the cosmic amounts of money that they used), and then explore RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. This would cost a truly heroic amount of taxpayers' money, commensurate with NAFA's importance, and fully ten times what the original mission across the desert had cost. It would double the nation's debt at a stroke, and demonstrate clearly what a stupendous organisation NAFA was..... or something.
There's only one way I know of to make it in the music biz, and that is to play lots of shows. Here's a way to work it:
1. Make the band's music available online for free
so that....
2. When you email a club for a booking you can
send the URL. Most indi bands have two primary
expenses, telephone and CD's. By posting high
quality MP3s or oggs you can potentially get
around both of them. Gas for the van is nothing
compared to the price of setting up a tour by
phone and mailing out crap.
3. Play every night. OK, allow maybe one night a
week for R&R, but seriously, it's a job. It
should be a job that the band members love, but
still, it's a job, and it needs to be treated
like one. That means tour tour tour. Play the
cities. Play the college towns. Play the Southern
frat boy circuit. Play everywhere, and keep
coming back. People in Chicago, NY, Cleveland...wherever... should all think you are a local
band. Ditch the day job, then work, work, work.
3. Do allow live taping. Also let your fans make
their own t-shirts. I've seen several posters
refer to Phish or whatever. Don't be put off
if you don't like that band, it doesn't matter
what kind of music you play the technique will
work. Let the fans tape and share the shows.
This will form an emotional bond with them that
will never end. If you think this is just for
hippy bands, then you should check out how well
this has worked for the avant-guard jazz group
Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Also read up on the
history and politics of Fugazi. Now, they sure
aren't a jam band, but they have been very successful
with NO industry support. Also read up about the
Jesus Lizard.
4. Did I mention that you'll have to play every night?
Also spend all of the time you can sending email
to clubs. Establish relationships. Some club
owners are cool, others will try to rip you off.
Ask the fans what place to play at, but then always
come back to the places that treat you right, maybe
three, four times a year. Successful indi bands
drive for a living, and play every night for fun.
Playing out is better than practice anyhow, always
remember that.
Art is, in a very loose definition, anything you do creatively, if it inspires you, go with it.
Bingo!!
Joseph Beuys defined art as any task undertaken for the love of the task. Designing and coding free software is most definitely art by this definition, and so is the kind of computer art this poster describes.
Quoting Beuys:
"Creativity isn't the monopoly of artists. This is the crucial fact I've come to realise, and this broader concept of creativity is my concept of art. When I say everybody is an artist, I mean everybody can determine the content of life in his particular sphere, whether in painting, music, engineering, caring for the sick, the economy or whatever. All around us the fundamentals of life are crying out to be shaped or created. But our idea of culture is severely restricted because we've always applied it to art. The dilemma of museums and other cultural institutions stems from the fact that culture is such an isolated field, and that art is even more isolated: an ivory tower in the field of culture surrounded first by the whole complex of culture and education, and then by the media which are also part of culture. We have a restricted idea of culture which debases everything; and it is the debased concept of art that has forced museums into their present weak and isolated position. Our concept of art must be universal and have the interdisciplinary nature of a university, and there must be a university department with a new concept of art and science".
Next time you are in a crit like that one start quoting Beuys. That should shut them up.
Better yet, start making real computer art --> Free software...
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I'm a little dissappointed to see that people are still being taken in by the Nazi's clever propiganda move.
Yes, they put the word "Socialist" in the name of their party. Socialism was very popular in the late 20's and early 30's in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, so it was possible to get a large number of working class votes by claiming to be "Socialist".
The actual behavior of the Nazis was anything but however, in fact their retoric was decidedly anit-socialist, and violently anti-communist.
The name of the Nazi party was an early example of Double-Speak, and regardless of your feelings about "the left" doesn't deserve to be repeated or supported in this forum. ____________________________________
Some of you may remeber a story from *last* February about one Mr. Bad, at pigdog.org who wrote an interesting little program for stripping cascading style sheets out of an html page.
The program of course was named DeCSS, and was meant to lure the MPAA into filing false suites.
For a while it looked like the MPAA was going to ignore this other DeCSS, but it looks like they've finally gone for the bait:
As much as I hate to suggest doing anything that might actually add to the patent frenzy, it seems like it might actually be time to create a free patent library, and patent everything immaginable.
The idea would be to collect a library of patents questionable or not on everything that Free Software enthusiasts can think of. The patents would be licenced free to Free projects, but at a royalty for Commercial project.
Of course it will cost money. IP lawyers are expensive. Specifically it would cost a lot of money to get started, however once the FPF was actually awarded a patent for anything useful perhaps royalties charged to corporate users could probably pay the bills quite nicely.
Maybe some IP lawyer could take it on speculation? I seem to recall one in Chicago that writes for a punk rock fanzine and might be approachable... More on that later...
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What gun control in Germany?
I don't understand why people keep thinking that European countries have strict gun control. Most of them don't really.
...is software that can drink beer, and listen to music for us. While we're at it let's code up something that can relieve us of our tedious skiing, flying, and reading habits.
Can I possibly be the first person to point out that O'Reilly (the tech publisher) is based out of Sebastopol? I would tend to think that a little more geek-friendly hippyness could be brought to bear on the local governement.
As an asides Sebastopol is also where Tom Waits lives.
Uh.. I call it UIUC. For what it's worth my wife grew up in Urbana, and her brother is a physics student living in Champaign (I prefer Champaign myself). Still when we are visiting I tend to say "we're going to Chambana".
Works out to be between 15 and 20 mph, which oddly enough is exactly the speed a cyclist can go.
Next time you're driving in a big city notice how the same guy on the same bicycle passes you over and over again.
This is why. If you slow to the same speed as the bicycle not only will everybody be a bit safer, but you'll be preventing traffic jams too!
-mark... with that pedestrian death statistic. First, pedestrian deaths are always due to automobile mis-use (either accidental or intentional). Well, there may be one or two incidents of fatal falls taken by the very old per year, but they dont really change the stats.
So, those deaths should be chalked up with cars. Add to that the rest of the deaths caused by cars. Compare the number with deaths caused by guns.
Now, ask yourself what could happen if politicians really start paying attention to the numbers? Do you think they don't know about this stuff? I think it's pretty clear that they're focusing on guns because even slightly restricting cars in the USA is politically impossible.
Heck, they can't even get people to drive at a reasonable speed.
In around 2000 my wife and I found these compact flourescent bulbs in the IKEA in Emeryville and decided to try them. We were super pleased with the lack of flicker. About a year later we moved to Geneva, Switzerland and of course there's an IKEA not far away in Allaman. We got a bunch of bulbs and replaced all the incandescent ones in the new apartement. Now after 5 years the SIG still owes us money for what we overpayed the first year!
I prefer Nukes. I've long ago set aside my concerns about the possible problems with nuclear energy because of the very real problems with burning up all of the fossil fuel we can dig up.
It's about durned time somebody rekonized that we wuz put here by Ayleens! I luv Intellegent design!
.. SCOG claims this as having been stolen from the code they think they own?
Hey, slashdot editors. Consider updating the story with the coralized version of the URL:n mast.com/tangentideaproductions/Ep3-TheLinePeople. mov
http://redirect.nyud.net:8090/?url=http://www.rya
Just a thought. I'm surprised you guys don't just do this automatically by now.
Many Googlers bike to work.
I'm sorry, but the parent post is just nutso. France alone is the 4th largest economy on the planet, comparing more closely to California than lowly Alabama. Have you ever seen what a newly constructed French house looks like? Compare the quality to new housing in the states.
Americans do spend a bit more as a percentage of their earnings, but that means Europeans are saving more, which is hardly a bad thing.
I just can't believe anybody would recite such claptrap. The poster must have never been to Europe to be able to type such rubbish.
Think about how it got to be that you live so far from work. The fact that American cities are built in such a way that car ownership and use is mandatory is just about the worst thing about an otherwise great country. As it stands you either have to pay huge amounts of money to own a stupid automobile, or pay huge amounts of money to live in one of the few places which is built to a reasonably decent scale and still has jobs.
Why not just build cities to a proper human scale?
I haven't been able to find the particulars, but I remember from grad school that the decision actually invokes the 13th amendment.
It should probably be something like:
.... given a green light".
"new
which preserves the metaphor.
I'm a programmer working at the W.H.O., which is just down the road from the exibition hall, so I've been looking at the schedule to see what events might be interesting or useful to attend.
Looks like a lot of local linux users (see G.U.L.L) are planning to attend at least the panel with Larry Lessig and RMS on Wednesday. RMS is also speaking on Thursday.
I read the email from emusic as soon as it had landed in my inbox, and the change did annoy me, especially the fact that they buried it 3/4ths of the way down, where presumably they thought folks weren't going to read it.
Still, I think I'm probably going to keep the subscription since I average about 3 albums a month anyhow. I just wish they would let unused downloads accrue.
The really annoying thing for me about Emusic is that I can't access certain albums from Europe, and I'm too lazy to change my billing info and set up a proxy server.
At this the officials at NAFA became very solemn. This was ABSOLUTELY out of the question. ONLY NAFA's (and FAFA's) "waggonauts" could go out into the desert. "Missions" were FAR too important and difficult for mere "ordinary members of the public" to take part. But, since this showed that the public were keen for even more desert activity, NAFA was happy to propose that the public should pay for NAFA to start a new "Desert Exploration Initiative", greater and more difficult than any previous mission: NAFA would build a fleet of ENTIRELY NEW desert-wagons, which would carry at least six NAFA "waggonauts" right across the desert (something they hadn't done for twenty years now despite the cosmic amounts of money that they used), and then explore RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. This would cost a truly heroic amount of taxpayers' money, commensurate with NAFA's importance, and fully ten times what the original mission across the desert had cost. It would double the nation's debt at a stroke, and demonstrate clearly what a stupendous organisation NAFA was..... or something.
There's only one way I know of to make it in the
....
...wherever... should all think you are a local
music biz, and that is to play lots of shows. Here's
a way to work it:
1. Make the band's music available online for free
so that
2. When you email a club for a booking you can
send the URL. Most indi bands have two primary
expenses, telephone and CD's. By posting high
quality MP3s or oggs you can potentially get
around both of them. Gas for the van is nothing
compared to the price of setting up a tour by
phone and mailing out crap.
3. Play every night. OK, allow maybe one night a
week for R&R, but seriously, it's a job. It
should be a job that the band members love, but
still, it's a job, and it needs to be treated
like one. That means tour tour tour. Play the
cities. Play the college towns. Play the Southern
frat boy circuit. Play everywhere, and keep
coming back. People in Chicago, NY, Cleveland
band. Ditch the day job, then work, work, work.
3. Do allow live taping. Also let your fans make
their own t-shirts. I've seen several posters
refer to Phish or whatever. Don't be put off
if you don't like that band, it doesn't matter
what kind of music you play the technique will
work. Let the fans tape and share the shows.
This will form an emotional bond with them that
will never end. If you think this is just for
hippy bands, then you should check out how well
this has worked for the avant-guard jazz group
Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Also read up on the
history and politics of Fugazi. Now, they sure
aren't a jam band, but they have been very successful
with NO industry support. Also read up about the
Jesus Lizard.
4. Did I mention that you'll have to play every night?
Also spend all of the time you can sending email
to clubs. Establish relationships. Some club
owners are cool, others will try to rip you off.
Ask the fans what place to play at, but then always
come back to the places that treat you right, maybe
three, four times a year. Successful indi bands
drive for a living, and play every night for fun.
Playing out is better than practice anyhow, always
remember that.
Bingo!!
Joseph Beuys defined art as any task undertaken for the love of the task. Designing and coding free software is most definitely art by this definition, and so is the kind of computer art this poster describes.
Quoting Beuys:
Next time you are in a crit like that one start quoting Beuys. That should shut them up.
Better yet, start making real computer art --> Free software...
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Remember, it's the cost per megawatt that counts and solar isn't cost competative yet even if you could run a data center on only solar.
I beg to differ. The price of solar energy has been lower than the price of fossil fuels for a couple of years now.
And what's more... if you live or do business in California the state will share the cost of installation.
http://www.AltEStore.com/cart/
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Yes, they put the word "Socialist" in the name of their party. Socialism was very popular in the late 20's and early 30's in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, so it was possible to get a large number of working class votes by claiming to be "Socialist".
The actual behavior of the Nazis was anything but however, in fact their retoric was decidedly anit-socialist, and violently anti-communist.
The name of the Nazi party was an early example of Double-Speak, and regardless of your feelings about "the left" doesn't deserve to be repeated or supported in this forum.
____________________________________
The program of course was named DeCSS, and was meant to lure the MPAA into filing false suites.
For a while it looked like the MPAA was going to ignore this other DeCSS, but it looks like they've finally gone for the bait:
____________________________________
As much as I hate to suggest doing anything that might actually add to the patent frenzy, it seems like it might actually be time to create a free patent library, and patent everything immaginable.
/.'ers think?
The idea would be to collect a library of patents questionable or not on everything that Free Software enthusiasts can think of. The patents would be licenced free to Free projects, but at a royalty for Commercial project.
Of course it will cost money. IP lawyers are expensive. Specifically it would cost a lot of money to get started, however once the FPF was actually awarded a patent for anything useful perhaps royalties charged to corporate users could probably pay the bills quite nicely.
Maybe some IP lawyer could take it on speculation? I seem to recall one in Chicago that writes for a punk rock fanzine and might be approachable... More on that later...
What do you