Perhaps this just highlights how mechanical and un-emotional Mozart was? If the app could create something comparable to Beethoven's works then maybe we are going somewhere.
The other point is that most 'great' music is created in the transitional state of musical styles: think Elvis, but it was the same for Beethoven etc.. The musicians playing the same style were generally not regarded as highly.
Could the app create something 'new' and compelling?
What happened to the tried and tested option of ignoring the browsers you don't want to support; web1.0 was built on these sound principles. When we could not access the site due to the webmaster (remember them?) implementing the latest Netscape tag, we would assume it was our fault and upgrade.
I blame agile development practices for worrying about what the user can handle: pussies.
Thats not to say I've never needed one, but when I do I go down to the shop and have them print it out - sure its more expensive, but then I do it maybe thrice yearly.
Here's a thought: Why not bury a laptop with all the data on it? That way you store the mean to read the data again, but maybe install a media friendly OS that you will be able to work 16 years from now (because computer interfaces will have improved SOOOO much by then you won'y be able to work Windows Vista).
You probably don't want to store the battery connected, I'm not sure..
I think you are missing something here: App Engine is a specific platform for specific needs. To quote Wikipedia:
Compared to other scalable hosting services such as Amazon EC2, App Engine provides more infrastructure to make it easy to write scalable applications, but can only run a limited range of applications designed for that infrastructure.
If you are writing for GAEJ then you are writing for that specific platform/framework, just as you would for J2EE5 or J2EE1.4 or a none EJB host or mobile application etc..
In my experience and to generalize:
1. Threads: Not used in web applications 2. Writing to file: Only used for file upload (images, pdf etc..) where streaming to a RDB would create a performance hit) - store in BigTable rather 3. Network access: Used to be used where SOAP services are used today...and then there is System.exit which is not implemented, probably a good thing, it used to do horrible thing in tomcat years ago:)
I short, it is as much of a lock in as the Spring framework or J2EE itself, two of the most popular business application frameworks.
I've found it frustrating to get heard on last.fm. Our music is all freely download-able (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Willing+Mind and http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Silberbauer), but we're just not getting hits..
Surely there should be a good way for Creative Commons licensed music to be promoted as we're not making money out of the downloading, its difficult to justify buying into the last.fm promotions.
I just think there is something missing out there, I make music, I'm not a marketer.
Most companies that use tests in the interview process are generally lacking in soft skills. Interviewing a developer requires TALKING to them and accessing them as you go along.
There are no rules for this, just basic flesh to flesh experience. Most interviewers have been put in that position with no real experience other than the technical kind and tend to aim for that in the interview.
Handing out tests in an interview is a helpful warning sign, as is cheap toilet paper in the bathroom. If they are being tight on the toilet paper they are trying to save money in the wrong places and will generally have a narrow outlook to life.
I'd rather hire somebody competent enough to learn my technology than someone who flies through a test, but will argue indefinitely about what framework to use (sooner or later you have to commit).
You won't necessarily burn off fat to the same extent as other exercises, but as a group we tend to be sitting in front of computers for years and getting really bad posture. If you combine that with exercising hard now without correcting your posture you are going to hurt something.
The other advantage of Tai Chi is that you will become more aware of your body and what your body needs (e.g. diet and exercise).
Make sure you get a good school and don't be afraid to ask about lineage, there are a lot of iffy teachers out there and you can damage your body if you do it wrong.
Be prepared to learn patience though, this is not like picking up a manual.
The missing link is finding music that suites your taste without trial and error, but the more people start listening and recommending to friends the easier it will become.
In order to see The_Big_Picture (TBP) you have to be part of TBP.:)
I have clients who run ecommerce stores and their most successful marketing is done online (mostly google adwords).
What sort of words they use and how much they pay has a huge impact on their business - it works! I have no idea who clicks through (and buys the products), because its not me..
I am South African, previously classified as 'white' under apartheid.
I'm not going to go into your post in detail, because, well, its long and completely off topic, but a couple of things to help our international readers:
A major point is that South Africa went from 'white' rule to multiracial rule, not black rule. It just so happens that most of our country men have a darker skin than us and that is represented in the government. The previous government was absolutely great and safe as long as you were 'white' (this should be a duh! moment for you), if you weren't, well, the pale skins' kids could beat you up for your weakly wage without fear of incrimination or rape your daughters, sister or mothers because, well, they weren't human so who cares.
So, along comes first democratic government that has to pay back the previous government's debts (including all the money spent on the army. The army wasn't that great either btw - cuba came over and kicked our butts, and a lot of 'troupies' got shot up by friendly fire too) so, for instance, the police used to protecting a tenth of the population has to protect everybody, well, well, change is hell.
There is also a certain amount of resentment against people going on about how great it was when we were 'white'.
Anyway, South Africa is not a safe place, its scary as hell sometimes, but I'd rather bring my daughters up here than in Europe or North America.
As someone who creates music on computers I can tell you that there is a big difference between lossy compressed and uncompressed tracks. I was quite shocked the first time I did this, all the subtlety I had created in the track was gone, I then became miffed. I can't be bothered looking up the other steps you go through, but acceptance came after listening to the compressed track after not hearing the tune for a while - it was still a good track and it didn't really matter.
I suppose as creators/producers/engineers we get hung up on the details and then the music gets played in a car with the bass RIGHT up, or through a crappy tv speaker, desktop speakers or headphones with limited range. Generally people don't hear much of the music you lay down anyway - how many people can make out what individual brass instruments make up a stab in a particular song and in doesn't really matter anyway..
There's just one snag (well, maybe more:) - they would have to explain how a 100 million year old organism fits into a world of only 6 thousand years old.
I'm sure logic will not hinder them in finding some lame-ass explanation - news at ten.
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This article on Homeopathy was posted last week, who was checking submissions?
Perhaps this just highlights how mechanical and un-emotional Mozart was? If the app could create something comparable to Beethoven's works then maybe we are going somewhere.
The other point is that most 'great' music is created in the transitional state of musical styles: think Elvis, but it was the same for Beethoven etc.. The musicians playing the same style were generally not regarded as highly.
Could the app create something 'new' and compelling?
What happened to the tried and tested option of ignoring the browsers you don't want to support; web1.0 was built on these sound principles. When we could not access the site due to the webmaster (remember them?) implementing the latest Netscape tag, we would assume it was our fault and upgrade.
I blame agile development practices for worrying about what the user can handle: pussies.
One major ilk I have
What's wrong with the word "compliant"? "Ilk" means alike.
Why does it irk you so?
I haven't had a printer in the last five years.
Thats not to say I've never needed one, but when I do I go down to the shop and have them print it out - sure its more expensive, but then I do it maybe thrice yearly.
Just don't print, duh!
Come steal our music, its FREE and we don't care!
http://www.gamatam.com/music.jsp
ciao
Seriously, get over it already :)
Here's a thought: Why not bury a laptop with all the data on it? That way you store the mean to read the data again, but maybe install a media friendly OS that you will be able to work 16 years from now (because computer interfaces will have improved SOOOO much by then you won'y be able to work Windows Vista).
You probably don't want to store the battery connected, I'm not sure..
Do you remember releasing your application and the best way to solve a bug was to restart the entire frikin machine? ..oh, we still do that?
No, it was Jack Bauer, but he's not telling and nobody can make him.
I think you are missing something here: App Engine is a specific platform for specific needs. To quote Wikipedia:
Compared to other scalable hosting services such as Amazon EC2, App Engine provides more infrastructure to make it easy to write scalable applications, but can only run a limited range of applications designed for that infrastructure.
If you are writing for GAEJ then you are writing for that specific platform/framework, just as you would for J2EE5 or J2EE1.4 or a none EJB host or mobile application etc..
In my experience and to generalize:
1. Threads: Not used in web applications ..and then there is System.exit which is not implemented, probably a good thing, it used to do horrible thing in tomcat years ago :)
2. Writing to file: Only used for file upload (images, pdf etc..) where streaming to a RDB would create a performance hit) - store in BigTable rather
3. Network access: Used to be used where SOAP services are used today.
I short, it is as much of a lock in as the Spring framework or J2EE itself, two of the most popular business application frameworks.
three times less expensive - is that the same as a third of the cost?
I'm not being a grammar nazi, just doesn't make sense (its morning here after a late night, so maybe the synapses haven't whatevered).
I've found it frustrating to get heard on last.fm. Our music is all freely download-able (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Willing+Mind and http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Silberbauer), but we're just not getting hits..
Surely there should be a good way for Creative Commons licensed music to be promoted as we're not making money out of the downloading, its difficult to justify buying into the last.fm promotions.
I just think there is something missing out there, I make music, I'm not a marketer.
Or maybe our music just sucks??
I'm off to brush up on my Somali for Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day :)
The real news is that an he is actively using MySpace, who would have thought?
And here I was thinking it was just promoters promoting to each other.
Most companies that use tests in the interview process are generally lacking in soft skills. Interviewing a developer requires TALKING to them and accessing them as you go along.
There are no rules for this, just basic flesh to flesh experience. Most interviewers have been put in that position with no real experience other than the technical kind and tend to aim for that in the interview.
Handing out tests in an interview is a helpful warning sign, as is cheap toilet paper in the bathroom. If they are being tight on the toilet paper they are trying to save money in the wrong places and will generally have a narrow outlook to life.
I'd rather hire somebody competent enough to learn my technology than someone who flies through a test, but will argue indefinitely about what framework to use (sooner or later you have to commit).
You won't necessarily burn off fat to the same extent as other exercises, but as a group we tend to be sitting in front of computers for years and getting really bad posture. If you combine that with exercising hard now without correcting your posture you are going to hurt something.
The other advantage of Tai Chi is that you will become more aware of your body and what your body needs (e.g. diet and exercise).
Make sure you get a good school and don't be afraid to ask about lineage, there are a lot of iffy teachers out there and you can damage your body if you do it wrong.
Be prepared to learn patience though, this is not like picking up a manual.
Forget about the people whoring their music and see what else is out there, you might be surprised (in a linux over windows kind of way). Try these:
http://www.last.fm/music/+free
http://www.jamendo.com/
http://www.em411.com/
http://www.archive.org/
The missing link is finding music that suites your taste without trial and error, but the more people start listening and recommending to friends the easier it will become.
works fine for me..
hmm, looking at the pic I would say they forgot the anti-shake setting
1. build tower
2. it leans!
3. $$$
In order to see The_Big_Picture (TBP) you have to be part of TBP. :)
I have clients who run ecommerce stores and their most successful marketing is done online (mostly google adwords).
What sort of words they use and how much they pay has a huge impact on their business - it works! I have no idea who clicks through (and buys the products), because its not me..
Its like the 'Who created god?' thing.
I am South African, previously classified as 'white' under apartheid.
I'm not going to go into your post in detail, because, well, its long and completely off topic, but a couple of things to help our international readers:
A major point is that South Africa went from 'white' rule to multiracial rule, not black rule. It just so happens that most of our country men have a darker skin than us and that is represented in the government. The previous government was absolutely great and safe as long as you were 'white' (this should be a duh! moment for you), if you weren't, well, the pale skins' kids could beat you up for your weakly wage without fear of incrimination or rape your daughters, sister or mothers because, well, they weren't human so who cares.
So, along comes first democratic government that has to pay back the previous government's debts (including all the money spent on the army. The army wasn't that great either btw - cuba came over and kicked our butts, and a lot of 'troupies' got shot up by friendly fire too) so, for instance, the police used to protecting a tenth of the population has to protect everybody, well, well, change is hell.
There is also a certain amount of resentment against people going on about how great it was when we were 'white'.
Anyway, South Africa is not a safe place, its scary as hell sometimes, but I'd rather bring my daughters up here than in Europe or North America.
Hi all
As someone who creates music on computers I can tell you that there is a big difference between lossy compressed and uncompressed tracks. I was quite shocked the first time I did this, all the subtlety I had created in the track was gone, I then became miffed. I can't be bothered looking up the other steps you go through, but acceptance came after listening to the compressed track after not hearing the tune for a while - it was still a good track and it didn't really matter.
I suppose as creators/producers/engineers we get hung up on the details and then the music gets played in a car with the bass RIGHT up, or through a crappy tv speaker, desktop speakers or headphones with limited range. Generally people don't hear much of the music you lay down anyway - how many people can make out what individual brass instruments make up a stab in a particular song and in doesn't really matter anyway..
Brian
There's just one snag (well, maybe more:) - they would have to explain how a 100 million year old organism fits into a world of only 6 thousand years old.
I'm sure logic will not hinder them in finding some lame-ass explanation - news at ten.