the easiest way to get any sort of record contract, or anything from anyone is to tour. tour like you have never toured before. an amazing live set will help sell your cd's a lot better than a nice web site. on top of that, most label executives like music completely different from the stuff their label puts out. this means that they use crowd reaction to guage a band's talent a lot of times. i think the numbers are to the tune of 95% of bands are signed in this way, the other 5% send in a demo. you will want to try to be part of the 95%. once you get to be able to fill small clubs in nearly any city in the states, you will be able to take your pick of any independant label you want. chances are you will likely have one before that point.
in spite of what you may think, signing to a smaller label doesn't mean you will still have to work a day job to keep things together, i'm constantly surprised to hear that smaller (indie if you will) bands often make as much as the smaller big label bands (ie, the ones that haven't put out an album that sold 3 zillion copies).
by the way, yes, i do run a record company, so i do understand a thing or two.
i used to use a powerbook back when i did live music. the latency on the built in audio cards is top notch, and the notebook all around rocks for live audio playback. mine was even relatively old.
it did indeed run in 32 bit mode, but you could get 64 bit version of most programs. the speed problems were due to the fact that the os was essentially a 32 bit os, but thats where the added stability came from, for some reason the 64 bit cpu seems to not choke on nt near as much as a 32 bit cpu.
those extra bits must do something for stability. its likey the failed instruction tolerance the alphas are famous for.
...i always get nervous in airports, something about missing my flight or getting onto the wrong plane, or possibly customs or security accusing me of something and me having a ridiculous hold up (which in turn could make me miss my plane).
on the other hand, many moons ago i had done a few rather illegal things in airports. interestingly enough, those are some of the rare occasions i have been exceedingly calm in airports. in other words i would likely pass when i should fail, and fail when i should pass. what a stupid system.
likely this wont get implemented, but if it does i would imagine they would use still be wary of anyone who passes it, and take those who fail with a grain of salt.
microsoft doesnt offer a lower level of support for most things than the support i went for. im not sure if redhat has a lower tier for support (id imagine so, considering that they make a large portion of their income from it), but a guaranteed minimum $275usd charge for each support call to microsoft sure does take the average university student out of the picture for calling them.
uhh, ever called ms support? i had to call a few days back regarding a bug in one of their api's that surfaced in xp, but wasn't in anything else. it went like so:
i called, was on hold for 20 minutes
when i was finally talking to someone the first 5 minutes were spent taking our credit card info (even though the company is registered with msdn), they charge $150usd per incident straight up (unless it turns out to be a bug), and an extra $125usd per hour spent on an issue.
the support rep simply gave me the run-around, accusing my use of the api as the culprit. i was using example code from the documentation for the api.
after a solid 10 minutes, the rep finally accepted that there was a problem, but he continued to insist that it wasn't their fault.
eventually it came to me telling him to forward me to person who has used that api and made it work like the documentation does
no such luck. the rep found some internal memo saying that this is a bug, and there is no fix planned.
i'm forced to find another api
the one good thing about that waste of an hours time is that i found out it was a bug. had the support rep never found out that this is a bug i'd have just wasted about $275usd of the company cash, and i wouldnt have gotten any sort of resolution, but because this was eventually found to be a bug im just up the creek without an api.
had this been a commercial linux api (even a closed source one), i suspect i'd have had a much better time discovering that this was a bug. chances are there would even be a fix out for it, as linux vendors are remarkably better at patching bugs than ms (who frankly doesn't care, because without that api, im likely going to have to use another ms supplied api).
ill take linux's support any day, if you are part of an organization who is able to get 800 number phone support, it rocks. I recently had a rather pleasant experience with a rehat phone rep while getting a linux subsystem running on one of our as/400's, but thats another story, the upshot is, they were really nice, didn't hassle me for a credit card, pointed out the error in their documentation immediately, then took the time to ensure i got running. on top of that redhat's per incident support is about one third the cost of microsoft, and they are a lot better about admitting bugs (eliminating the incident charge).
> Exactly what do mean by "running alright"? I've seen CPU usage stats on our Wintel machines at work at the CPU is idle 80%+ of time.
i mean running about as well as the machine before it. when i say slow, i simply mean the feel and general performance (os load times, application load times, os stability).
>To say that win2000 needs a PIII 700 is absolutely stupid. I ran it for a long time on a PII 400 and it was zippy
odd, when dell first started shipping win2k, they reccomended a dual pIII 500 as an absolute minimum. with good reason at that. i had tried it here on a pIII 550, "zippy" was as far from the truth as possible.
>YOU CAN TURN OFF THE PRETTY GUI SHIT YOU KNOW
you can do a lot of things microsoft doesn't really want you to do.
yea, they are overpowered, but where are you going to buy a new (with warranty) pII 450?
besides, the new versions of windows pretty much require double the processor as the previous ones. here is an example:
win95 -ran great on a-> p150
win98 -ran great on a-> pII300
win2000 -ran great on a-> pIII700 (bigger jump there)
winMe -seen it running alright on-> pIV1ghz
XP -well, we will see-> ???
strange how a list like this for all of the linux distros would probably max out around the pII300 systems.
the library of congress will not move any of their audio archive over to cd from vinyl, mostly as a result of something like this. they know that cds will degrade in quality over time, and they had speculated that a fungii such as this may exist. this and the fact that they seem to agree that there is a degradation of sound quality between the cd's and the original vinyl. it doesnt really surprise me that they have confirmed this finally.
i used to work in the states, and my god, we would work 10 - 12 hour days, we were however paid to take large breaks, and a big lunch, which went like so:
7am - 9am work
9am - 930 break
930 - 1130 work
1130 - 1pm lunch
1pm - 3pm work
3pm - 330 break
330 - 430 work
430 - 5pm break
5pm - 6pm work
while this looks like an 11 hour work day, i was really on break for a good 3 hours, that didnt include all of the tea breaks, bathroom breaks, internet time breaks, personal call breaks, etc, etc, etc. I figure i was probably working for about 5 hours and screwing around for another 6. i would often stay late, and that meant another hour or so of work, but an extra three hours on the timesheet. since ive moved to canada, im on the clock for 8 hours, and i probably work for about 7.5 of them (i sign out for my 30 min lunch).
you see, this is the beauty of the bsd license. this is the only truly free license out there, as it allows the source code to be free. midsize to large companies tend to not want to touch gpl code due to the red tape surrounding its use. it usually has nothing to do with their desire to "give back" to the community, the bsd licensee is just a lot easier to deal with. as a person who likes the idea of great and powerful "free code" to evolve, that makes the bsd licensee great. who really cares if bigger users don't submit bugfixes/enhancements, someone will.
as for apple, im sure they will contribute to this so called community, it may take a fair bit longer to happen, and it may not be too obvious to the slashdot community, but as soon as everyone sees how similar osx and linux are from a development standpoint, our benefit will be the applications that are ported from osx over to linux/bsd.
look close enough and youll see the line saying that only the first 100 will be eligable. hate to see 150 goatse.cx themes get submitted today, and make it so that the quality themes arent even eligable.
at my work, my boss made the policy tabs, with exactly one tab before any comments that happen to be on the same line as code. this way everyone writes the same code, and they can setup their editors to use their preferred number of spaces.
html (php included) has no policy however, so everyone that has to do any of that gets to deal with idiot code. i tend to put all of my html/php onto one single line. i wish i could do the same for c.....
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/forum_messa ge.html?forum=2&head=32&id=32
this article was about that big internet security audit, around week three there is a story of a security intrusion originating from a smb server that everyone forgot about, sitting in an isp in australia. may as well have been behind a fucking wall. wonder if anyone had done one of these.
technically the wording says to all living beings. unfortunately they seem to regularly overlook non-humans with these rights, mostly because people are the only ones who are capable of complaining in a way other people notice.
assuming that they landed on us soil, and werent immiediately killed/captured by rednecks or the government, they would be extended all the rights set fourth in your constitution. the constitution doesnt apply to citizens, but to anyone on us soil. they wouldnt be allowed to work, or stay any longer than six months untill the proper paper work is filled out however.
imagine a grey driving a taxi, or working in a 7-11.....
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or it could have been a real doll.
.brad
the easiest way to get any sort of record contract, or anything from anyone is to tour. tour like you have never toured before. an amazing live set will help sell your cd's a lot better than a nice web site. on top of that, most label executives like music completely different from the stuff their label puts out. this means that they use crowd reaction to guage a band's talent a lot of times. i think the numbers are to the tune of 95% of bands are signed in this way, the other 5% send in a demo. you will want to try to be part of the 95%. once you get to be able to fill small clubs in nearly any city in the states, you will be able to take your pick of any independant label you want. chances are you will likely have one before that point.
in spite of what you may think, signing to a smaller label doesn't mean you will still have to work a day job to keep things together, i'm constantly surprised to hear that smaller (indie if you will) bands often make as much as the smaller big label bands (ie, the ones that haven't put out an album that sold 3 zillion copies).
by the way, yes, i do run a record company, so i do understand a thing or two.
i'd like to shove 6 large angorian rabbits into danese cooper's snatch, then fuck her tight anus.
i used to use a powerbook back when i did live music. the latency on the built in audio cards is top notch, and the notebook all around rocks for live audio playback. mine was even relatively old.
.brad
it did indeed run in 32 bit mode, but you could get 64 bit version of most programs. the speed problems were due to the fact that the os was essentially a 32 bit os, but thats where the added stability came from, for some reason the 64 bit cpu seems to not choke on nt near as much as a 32 bit cpu.
.brad
those extra bits must do something for stability. its likey the failed instruction tolerance the alphas are famous for.
anyone think it cool that this is hosted on the ibm site?
.brad
nt4 ships with an alpha version. i ran it for a while, silly stable, but not that fast compared to tru64.
.brad
on the other hand, many moons ago i had done a few rather illegal things in airports. interestingly enough, those are some of the rare occasions i have been exceedingly calm in airports. in other words i would likely pass when i should fail, and fail when i should pass. what a stupid system.
likely this wont get implemented, but if it does i would imagine they would use still be wary of anyone who passes it, and take those who fail with a grain of salt.
microsoft doesnt offer a lower level of support for most things than the support i went for. im not sure if redhat has a lower tier for support (id imagine so, considering that they make a large portion of their income from it), but a guaranteed minimum $275usd charge for each support call to microsoft sure does take the average university student out of the picture for calling them.
.brad
uhh, ever called ms support? i had to call a few days back regarding a bug in one of their api's that surfaced in xp, but wasn't in anything else. it went like so:
the one good thing about that waste of an hours time is that i found out it was a bug. had the support rep never found out that this is a bug i'd have just wasted about $275usd of the company cash, and i wouldnt have gotten any sort of resolution, but because this was eventually found to be a bug im just up the creek without an api.
had this been a commercial linux api (even a closed source one), i suspect i'd have had a much better time discovering that this was a bug. chances are there would even be a fix out for it, as linux vendors are remarkably better at patching bugs than ms (who frankly doesn't care, because without that api, im likely going to have to use another ms supplied api).
ill take linux's support any day, if you are part of an organization who is able to get 800 number phone support, it rocks. I recently had a rather pleasant experience with a rehat phone rep while getting a linux subsystem running on one of our as/400's, but thats another story, the upshot is, they were really nice, didn't hassle me for a credit card, pointed out the error in their documentation immediately, then took the time to ensure i got running. on top of that redhat's per incident support is about one third the cost of microsoft, and they are a lot better about admitting bugs (eliminating the incident charge).
.brad
> Exactly what do mean by "running alright"? I've seen CPU usage stats on our Wintel machines at work at the CPU is idle 80%+ of time.
i mean running about as well as the machine before it. when i say slow, i simply mean the feel and general performance (os load times, application load times, os stability).
>To say that win2000 needs a PIII 700 is absolutely stupid. I ran it for a long time on a PII 400 and it was zippy
odd, when dell first started shipping win2k, they reccomended a dual pIII 500 as an absolute minimum. with good reason at that. i had tried it here on a pIII 550, "zippy" was as far from the truth as possible.
>YOU CAN TURN OFF THE PRETTY GUI SHIT YOU KNOW
you can do a lot of things microsoft doesn't really want you to do.
.brad
yea, they are overpowered, but where are you going to buy a new (with warranty) pII 450?
besides, the new versions of windows pretty much require double the processor as the previous ones. here is an example:
win95 -ran great on a-> p150
win98 -ran great on a-> pII300
win2000 -ran great on a-> pIII700 (bigger jump there)
winMe -seen it running alright on-> pIV1ghz
XP -well, we will see-> ???
strange how a list like this for all of the linux distros would probably max out around the pII300 systems.
....it sure is easy to get useless stuff posted here now-a-days. this will probably get modded down, but i am trying to make a point.
.brad
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...but it doesn't tell us how much these "subscriptions" will cost. anyone know?
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suse linux used to (may still) ship their 6 cd distro on a single dvd. i thought it was cool back then.
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the library of congress will not move any of their audio archive over to cd from vinyl, mostly as a result of something like this. they know that cds will degrade in quality over time, and they had speculated that a fungii such as this may exist. this and the fact that they seem to agree that there is a degradation of sound quality between the cd's and the original vinyl. it doesnt really surprise me that they have confirmed this finally.
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i used to work in the states, and my god, we would work 10 - 12 hour days, we were however paid to take large breaks, and a big lunch, which went like so:
7am - 9am work
9am - 930 break
930 - 1130 work
1130 - 1pm lunch
1pm - 3pm work
3pm - 330 break
330 - 430 work
430 - 5pm break
5pm - 6pm work
while this looks like an 11 hour work day, i was really on break for a good 3 hours, that didnt include all of the tea breaks, bathroom breaks, internet time breaks, personal call breaks, etc, etc, etc. I figure i was probably working for about 5 hours and screwing around for another 6. i would often stay late, and that meant another hour or so of work, but an extra three hours on the timesheet. since ive moved to canada, im on the clock for 8 hours, and i probably work for about 7.5 of them (i sign out for my 30 min lunch).
.brad
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you see, this is the beauty of the bsd license. this is the only truly free license out there, as it allows the source code to be free. midsize to large companies tend to not want to touch gpl code due to the red tape surrounding its use. it usually has nothing to do with their desire to "give back" to the community, the bsd licensee is just a lot easier to deal with. as a person who likes the idea of great and powerful "free code" to evolve, that makes the bsd licensee great. who really cares if bigger users don't submit bugfixes/enhancements, someone will.
as for apple, im sure they will contribute to this so called community, it may take a fair bit longer to happen, and it may not be too obvious to the slashdot community, but as soon as everyone sees how similar osx and linux are from a development standpoint, our benefit will be the applications that are ported from osx over to linux/bsd.
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look close enough and youll see the line saying that only the first 100 will be eligable. hate to see 150 goatse.cx themes get submitted today, and make it so that the quality themes arent even eligable.
.brad
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at my work, my boss made the policy tabs, with exactly one tab before any comments that happen to be on the same line as code. this way everyone writes the same code, and they can setup their editors to use their preferred number of spaces.
html (php included) has no policy however, so everyone that has to do any of that gets to deal with idiot code. i tend to put all of my html/php onto one single line. i wish i could do the same for c.....
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http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/forum_messa ge.html?forum=2&head=32&id=32
.brad
this article was about that big internet security audit, around week three there is a story of a security intrusion originating from a smb server that everyone forgot about, sitting in an isp in australia. may as well have been behind a fucking wall. wonder if anyone had done one of these.
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well, if it were an nt 3.51 server, it would have crashed about 3 years and 11 months ago. then it would have been lost forever.
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real doll
theres even real hamster
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technically the wording says to all living beings. unfortunately they seem to regularly overlook non-humans with these rights, mostly because people are the only ones who are capable of complaining in a way other people notice.
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assuming that they landed on us soil, and werent immiediately killed/captured by rednecks or the government, they would be extended all the rights set fourth in your constitution. the constitution doesnt apply to citizens, but to anyone on us soil. they wouldnt be allowed to work, or stay any longer than six months untill the proper paper work is filled out however.
imagine a grey driving a taxi, or working in a 7-11.....
.brad
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