However, as an entire movement, they've managed to convince me that it isn't primarily greed that's motivating them, rather the genuine ideological conviction that culture and information should be accessible and free to anyone who seeks it out.
Short background: Project Gutenberg is a "digital printing press" for all works that have fallen into the public domain. (They will "soon" run out of material to digitize, since nothing has hit the public domain since 1923. "Soon" could be decades, but Eldred didn't win in the Supreme Court, so expect more copyright extensions...)
I've read Einstein, Mark Twain, Leonardo DaVinci, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and many others without risking violating copyright while reading on my Palm. Highly recommend them! I now understand the two Theories of Relativity, which is no small feat.:) I recommend Plucker as the reader, it's also open source (GPL).
I think, tried talking to an RIAA musician whose output you admire.
Although, I agree that it was rather unclear, without any quoting.
I haven't tried communicating with him yet, but I completely love between 90-95% of his music. That's impressive! I haven't yet sent him any money but I intend to as I derive a great deal of joy from listening. If he came to my area, I'd attend a show (and yes, I used his Eventful link on this page to make sure he shows up!).
I've communicated successfully with Beth Thornley; although her music isn't Creative Commons, it's still very good and independent so I don't mind advertising for her:). And you can listen to all her music there (click the "Beth Thornley Jukebox" link, top right). I love her lyrics, very intelligent, and different (like changing the chorus slightly each time, to reflect the story line of the song).
I've been bookmarking all the links in this story. Thanks very much to the originator, the editor, and all those who have contributed these links, helping me find amazing musicians.
I know it's an ad but I haven't sent him any money yet for all the joy he's given me by hanging his songs out for a clever wget scripter, so: "Shop Vac" is one of Jonathan Coulton's best songs. He has a lot of best songs... He also wrote "Code Monkey". I very much appreciate seeing a reference to my new favorite "open source musician". His web site is here but it seems to be down at the moment. There's a bunch of his stuff on YouTube though; this video for "Re: Your Brains" looks professionally produced.
Difference with hard drives is that it's been going on since day one [...]
It most certainly has not; I am that old.
Can't find a reference, but I remember purchasing the first hard drive that did not conform to binary rules (it conformed to SI decimal rules), sometime in the early 90s. It was Maxtor who did it first, IIRC.
Well, that reminded me of a "talking car" from a carpool back in the 80s, which would say "A door is ajar". We would respond with "No it's not, it's a door!"
Exactly. I've recently found Jonathan Coulton, who is selling his entire catalog for $70, or you can buy it on a per-song basis for $1 each, or $10 per album of 12-15 songs. Although he's selling them, he has also released them to the Creative Commons, and on his site he mentions "Lots of it is freely available depending on how technical you are - you can get all of it for free if you really try." (so wget-fu nets you it all:).
If you haven't yet heard Code Monkey, you need to! It speaks to most of us...
Also Re: Your Brains is great (second song on that page), and Shop Vac has a great beat. In fact, about half his songs are multiply listenable, which is way more than most of the tripe RIAA members are putting out these days. And he gives it away.
He also uses Eventful for anyone to "demand a show" in their area.
The coolest part about it being Creative Commons is the derivative works. Check out this video for Re: Your Brains -- it's very well done, and seems professionally produced. And it's free. I bet the filmmakers get business based on their efforts, which is great!
Not sure whether you know this, but when you get all the tags in the first city, you get 4 weapons in the kitchen of CJ's house. When you get all the horseshoes, you also get 4 weapons at Woozie's casino. Not sure about the oysters or pictures, but I'd imagine similar benefits. Also, if you complete the Vigilante missions (best done with the tank:) ), you get 150% armor, and for the Ambulance mission, 150% health. Look up the walkthroughs, they're very enlightening and add to my enjoyment of the game (I finished it a few times before I saw the walkthrough; not sure whether that's better or not, just the way I did it).
And yeah, I'm very much looking forward to 4 as well!
Actually,San Andreas and Vice City had a lawyer in it, Ken somethingorother (Rosenberg, after looking it up:). Sniveling, coke-snorting dude. I think he represented Love Fist, a rock band, which had Paulo and Maccar; the latter could not stop masturbating, at least in San Andreas. Any moral objections are spurious at best, I've played the game through 5 times now and never skip a cut-scene; it's like watching a 40-hour (or so) movie.
Samuel L. Jackson plays the part of Officer Tenpenny, and Chris Penn plays his sidekick, Officer... Pulaski? Yeah, that's it; the game is on IMDB, and has received a whopping 9.5 out of 10. (My number's a 10, but I'm not creating an account there...:)
Okay, now that I've had a chance to look at the IMDB site, I see that it's really a star-studded cast! Ice-T, Peter Fonda, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, Wil Wheaton (hi Wil!), Christopher Plummer, Pol Pot, and many more.
I love the way the game starts out with you on a bicycle, and by the end of the game you're flying helicopters and a harrier (reminds me of the movie True Lies, "Sorry!"), in fact I'm going to go work towards 100% right now (I got all the horseshoes, but haven't started on the oysters yet).
Very much looking forward to GTA4, even before Mr. Thompson was paid to advertise.:>
This is sure OT, but my pattern matcher just put on Squeeze, Singles: 45's and Under (for Cool for Cats:) ).
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Haven't seen BodyTalk before; looks similar to what Donna Eden talks about in her Energy Psychology books (the tapping). I myself practice Jin Shin Jyutsu, and can feel the energy in my fingertips (it's a tingling, like when a body part falls asleep but without the numbness). Others experience it as a temperature difference (hotter or colder); my cousin practices Reiki and feels warmth in her hands. I agree with you, there's a lot we don't know, and it's difficult to study energy healing because there's no way to harm with it -- as BodyTalk mentions in one of the first pages.
I'm glad it's worked for your friend.
Their courses are $600, which is something that bothers me with respect to JSJ as well; all businesses must make money, but since I can use the energy healing on myself I don't see the need to spend money on it. I suppose I can get better at the technique, and perhaps get a physical therapy certification so I can bill through insurance, but software development is currently working out for me.:)
The funnier part is that the posts were one minute apart, leading us to believe that the poster was the same.
Funnier why?
The AC post got the karma-affecting mod (Insightful), while the account-holder was moderated up so we can see it, but with no effect to the karma (Funny).
Yes, I can't see the database so I don't know that this is reality; Occam's Razor cuts both ways.:)
Very cool (actually, it was "notched electron" and further reduced to "chipped quantum", and then later "nudged quanta"!). The wikipedia article has a link to the full text (written in 1961), as well.
From it:
[...] all of which were producing *books* in torrents.
How ahead of his time he was!:)
I also liked this gem:
[...] whole branches of knowledge could for the first time be put in a nutshell.
And, wow: he even envisioned Google, over 30 years before it came into existence (emphasis mine):
The position was well put
indeed in a famous speech by Jzbl to the graduates of the Central Saturnian
University, when he said that it was a source of great pride to him that
although hardly anybody knew anything any longer, everybody now knew how
to find out everything.
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You might be interested in this site, Project Gutenberg, or perhaps for helping out the cause, it's companion site, Distributed Proofreaders.
Short background: Project Gutenberg is a "digital printing press" for all works that have fallen into the public domain. (They will "soon" run out of material to digitize, since nothing has hit the public domain since 1923. "Soon" could be decades, but Eldred didn't win in the Supreme Court, so expect more copyright extensions...)
I've read Einstein, Mark Twain, Leonardo DaVinci, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and many others without risking violating copyright while reading on my Palm. Highly recommend them! I now understand the two Theories of Relativity, which is no small feat. :) I recommend Plucker as the reader, it's also open source (GPL).
I think, tried talking to an RIAA musician whose output you admire.
Although, I agree that it was rather unclear, without any quoting.
I haven't tried communicating with him yet, but I completely love between 90-95% of his music. That's impressive! I haven't yet sent him any money but I intend to as I derive a great deal of joy from listening. If he came to my area, I'd attend a show (and yes, I used his Eventful link on this page to make sure he shows up!).
I've communicated successfully with Beth Thornley; although her music isn't Creative Commons, it's still very good and independent so I don't mind advertising for her :). And you can listen to all her music there (click the "Beth Thornley Jukebox" link, top right). I love her lyrics, very intelligent, and different (like changing the chorus slightly each time, to reflect the story line of the song).
I've been bookmarking all the links in this story. Thanks very much to the originator, the editor, and all those who have contributed these links, helping me find amazing musicians.
I know it's an ad but I haven't sent him any money yet for all the joy he's given me by hanging his songs out for a clever wget scripter, so: "Shop Vac" is one of Jonathan Coulton's best songs. He has a lot of best songs... He also wrote "Code Monkey". I very much appreciate seeing a reference to my new favorite "open source musician". His web site is here but it seems to be down at the moment. There's a bunch of his stuff on YouTube though; this video for "Re: Your Brains" looks professionally produced.
So, some of that H2O is ending up in ... Johnson's underwear? ("What if your home... your family... your dope was on fire?")
Well, as Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying. "
It most certainly has not; I am that old.
Can't find a reference, but I remember purchasing the first hard drive that did not conform to binary rules (it conformed to SI decimal rules), sometime in the early 90s. It was Maxtor who did it first, IIRC.
Glad to see them getting their comeuppance.
Well, that reminded me of a "talking car" from a carpool back in the 80s, which would say "A door is ajar". We would respond with "No it's not, it's a door!"
High school was fun. :)
Somewhat OT: Sally reminds me of the Police song.
Not so very OT though; it is similar in that it too is "replacement technology". :)
Exactly. I've recently found Jonathan Coulton, who is selling his entire catalog for $70, or you can buy it on a per-song basis for $1 each, or $10 per album of 12-15 songs. Although he's selling them, he has also released them to the Creative Commons, and on his site he mentions "Lots of it is freely available depending on how technical you are - you can get all of it for free if you really try." (so wget-fu nets you it all :).
If you haven't yet heard Code Monkey, you need to! It speaks to most of us...
Also Re: Your Brains is great (second song on that page), and Shop Vac has a great beat. In fact, about half his songs are multiply listenable, which is way more than most of the tripe RIAA members are putting out these days. And he gives it away.
He also uses Eventful for anyone to "demand a show" in their area.
The coolest part about it being Creative Commons is the derivative works. Check out this video for Re: Your Brains -- it's very well done, and seems professionally produced. And it's free. I bet the filmmakers get business based on their efforts, which is great!
Yeah, the one on the left is pretty hot.
... you can tell by the pit stains :)
Really now, I'd agree with "illegal weapons usage", but possession? That reminds of prohibition laws...
Not sure whether you know this, but when you get all the tags in the first city, you get 4 weapons in the kitchen of CJ's house. When you get all the horseshoes, you also get 4 weapons at Woozie's casino. Not sure about the oysters or pictures, but I'd imagine similar benefits. Also, if you complete the Vigilante missions (best done with the tank :) ), you get 150% armor, and for the Ambulance mission, 150% health. Look up the walkthroughs, they're very enlightening and add to my enjoyment of the game (I finished it a few times before I saw the walkthrough; not sure whether that's better or not, just the way I did it).
And yeah, I'm very much looking forward to 4 as well!
Dr. Love Fist, you mean!
I've heard the lawyer's name is revealed later in the game as Tom Jackson.
Sorry to keep you up.
Actually,San Andreas and Vice City had a lawyer in it, Ken somethingorother (Rosenberg, after looking it up :). Sniveling, coke-snorting dude. I think he represented Love Fist, a rock band, which had Paulo and Maccar; the latter could not stop masturbating, at least in San Andreas. Any moral objections are spurious at best, I've played the game through 5 times now and never skip a cut-scene; it's like watching a 40-hour (or so) movie.
Samuel L. Jackson plays the part of Officer Tenpenny, and Chris Penn plays his sidekick, Officer ... Pulaski? Yeah, that's it; the game is on IMDB, and has received a whopping 9.5 out of 10. (My number's a 10, but I'm not creating an account there... :)
Okay, now that I've had a chance to look at the IMDB site, I see that it's really a star-studded cast! Ice-T, Peter Fonda, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, Wil Wheaton (hi Wil!), Christopher Plummer, Pol Pot, and many more.
I love the way the game starts out with you on a bicycle, and by the end of the game you're flying helicopters and a harrier (reminds me of the movie True Lies, "Sorry!"), in fact I'm going to go work towards 100% right now (I got all the horseshoes, but haven't started on the oysters yet).
Very much looking forward to GTA4, even before Mr. Thompson was paid to advertise. :>
This is sure OT, but my pattern matcher just put on Squeeze, Singles: 45's and Under (for Cool for Cats :) ).
Haven't seen BodyTalk before; looks similar to what Donna Eden talks about in her Energy Psychology books (the tapping). I myself practice Jin Shin Jyutsu, and can feel the energy in my fingertips (it's a tingling, like when a body part falls asleep but without the numbness). Others experience it as a temperature difference (hotter or colder); my cousin practices Reiki and feels warmth in her hands. I agree with you, there's a lot we don't know, and it's difficult to study energy healing because there's no way to harm with it -- as BodyTalk mentions in one of the first pages.
I'm glad it's worked for your friend.
Their courses are $600, which is something that bothers me with respect to JSJ as well; all businesses must make money, but since I can use the energy healing on myself I don't see the need to spend money on it. I suppose I can get better at the technique, and perhaps get a physical therapy certification so I can bill through insurance, but software development is currently working out for me. :)
The funnier part is that the posts were one minute apart, leading us to believe that the poster was the same.
Funnier why?
The AC post got the karma-affecting mod (Insightful), while the account-holder was moderated up so we can see it, but with no effect to the karma (Funny).
Yes, I can't see the database so I don't know that this is reality; Occam's Razor cuts both ways. :)
Thanks for the Large Marge flashback.
Very cool (actually, it was "notched electron" and further reduced to "chipped quantum", and then later "nudged quanta"!). The wikipedia article has a link to the full text (written in 1961), as well.
From it:
How ahead of his time he was! :)
I also liked this gem:
And, wow: he even envisioned Google, over 30 years before it came into existence (emphasis mine):