For me, I find that the ideal way to organize things would be a combination of folders, piles, and stored searches (or virtual folders). While folders don't always meet my need, I still find that they are a perfect starting or ending point for information. Say if I'm starting to research on "Small World Networks", I almost always start by creating a folder, to place collected data. But while researching, I often find the need for saved states--its one of the primary reasons why I enjoy tabbed browsing. Being able to quickly saved 5 or 20 open sites, and then go back to them is just great.
The concept of piles, I love as well, the ability to just quickly dump things into piles of interest, that can be later organized better, is a great concept. Typically when something is active it need to be related to lots of other things, and for me the piles concept allows this. Of course this brings me to stored searches.
I find I used the concept of stored searches like data mining. I typically do it for past projects, or to gain new insight on past experiences. I remember Sherlock use to allow you to save search criteria as a clickable link that would then rerun and update the results when selected. I don't think the new version does, but I am hoping that Apple will introduce the opportunity to do so, when they start making improvements on the new finder to be introduced in Panther.
Came with the system. I'm in process of setting up a brand new laptop with OS X 10.2.6, and emacs is there. I haven't even installed Developer Tools as of yet, which is where it was before. So sometime, probably in some update from 10.2.3 to 10.2.6 emacs was added to the basic OS.
Try the direct URL http://ak.buy.com/buy_assets/v6/buymusic/commercia ls/rappersdelight300k.wmv this is the ad using Rapper's Delight. It's a bad rip-off. You'll still need Windows Media Player, but the Mac OS version plays it fine. Also you can visit http://iheartmena.typepad.com/weblog/2003/07/buyyo urowncomme.html for direct links to ALL three commercials, and some commentary.
Yeah, Safari loaded it perfectly fine. Was even able to play the rip-off ads, once, I could get there direct link.
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Maybe your just in a city with too many radio stations. Though, I live in San Francisco, which I think has a fair number of stations, and I use the iTrip with no problem. I'm not a radio listener, in general, so I can't say how many radio stations there are in San Francisco, but I started with the low end of the dial, and ended up on channel 89.7FM, which works like a charm for me.
This has also worked in two of my friends car, but admittedly they were just local trips, so I can't say how well it would travel from say San Francisco to San Jose or further. The sound quality is fantastic, well on my stereo, in the cars it was as good as the radio, which was ok to better than average. The only other issue I notice is for some purely instrumental songs, especially with quiet sections, the connection may lose its signal, this has happen to me when playing "Elegia" by New Order, but then skipping to the next song returns the signal, nice and strong.
Its already out and wonderful. I've been using mine for a few months now, and its wonderful...marvelous (yeah, yeah, and other showtunes). I've used it in friends cars as well, and it works fine. I would assume easier to use than an adapter kit, once you've selected a radio channel, and just overrides the current stream of music with your playlist (of course this works better on stations that you can't get a clear single from, otherwise its battle of the competing radio streams).
I mostly use iTrip with my home stereo system, because the external speakers attached to my computer are puny. My only compliant is the little prong that goes into your firewire port on the old iPods. I don't like my port covered, because you can still charge and stream, if you rotate the iTrip slightly. That said, blasting my iPod to my stereo for work, play, and even those relaxing evenings spent reading in my garden, is fantastic. The iTrip is the best $30+ dollars, I've spent in awhile.
Actually, the two definitions of theft as most commonly applied to crimes anyway are: (1) To take (the property of another) without right or permission; and (2) to get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
Obviously, taking photos of the 100 plus pages of a magazine with a digital camera would fall well within the second category of obtaining something (in this case, the magazine material) both surreptitiously and artfully, and without right or permission. So it is qualified as theft, its just not theft that deprives the owner of the property.
Larceny (grand, petty, and petit) sets the requirements for unlawful taking or removal of anothers property with intent to permanently deprive the owner; as does burglary, though theft does has some legal definition its more of a moral term, used as the building block for other crimes.
Now that's a great album list. Of course the fact that you've listed ten artist that I never heard of before has me running to ITMS to see if I can hear what they sound like. But anyone who can put Ani, Tori, Ministry, Guns & Roses, Miles, and Me'shell on the same list has succeeded in making me want to hear Godflesh, Talib Kweli, and Tor Lundvall, something their labels couldn't do.
I agree, "Operation Mindcrime" is probably the last good concept album, I've heard as well. Though, I will admit that there have been just some amazingly good albums in the last 10years. I do believe some artist work really hard to make their albums good, which for me means that the album has more than five good songs, and maybe only one or two songs that will ever make a radio single. Albums by Radiohead and Tori Amos tend to have amazing songs, and are often best purchased as an album.
That said, I'm now a strong believer the album as a collection of tracks, is more important than the album as laid out on your standard CD. My iPod and the shuffle function, has had me rediscover albums that I use to think were merely adequate or slightly good, but I had purchased for two or three songs. For example, the new Annie Lennox album Bare, my first listen was in artist compilation mode (straight from the CD order), and while, I was impressed by a few songs, my response to the overall album was, "It's okay". I then relisten to it in shuffle mode, and now I've listen to the damn thing over 20 times, and I have to say, it's a very good album.
I think artist get to caught up in I want to start here and end here. I'm not saying that that method won't be successful, just that even of the artist fans, only a % will be super responsive to the album in that format. Digital downoads and the digital format, allow those who weren't so impressed by the order the artist selected to rediscover the album, to mix it up, to discover secrets and talents of the artist that they missed the first listen.
I've had Absolute Torch & Twang in heavy rotation this last week, because iPod shuffle mode. I purchased it through ITMS so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of converting it from cassettee to mp3. I had then placed my recent purchase list in shuffle mode, and low in behold intermixed with songs from Annie Lennox, Hall & Oates, Missy Elliot, Tori Amos, and Live, came "Wallflower Waltz." "Wallflower Waltz" was a song I was somewhat dismissive of on the album, but tossed into this 50 minute mix of songs, it grabbed my attention and wouldn't let me go.
I then just went back to the entire Absolutely Torch and Twang album, and listen, and listen, and am still listening. The variations offered by shuffle mode, just keep making the album more attractive, and allow me to see different songs as cornerstone to the album. Now I have an album that has 12 really good songs, when it use to be an album of 3 great songs, and 2 additional good songs, that I hadn't listen to in years. So it doesn't take a concept album to make an album a work of art, but it takes more than the artist desire as well.
That said, I find the single is often enticement to the album. I find if I've purchased more than two singles of the same album, I reconsider purchasing the album. The road to discover of a great album starts with a single song. Some people will purchase a single, and never return. Others will purchase a single, then another, than return for the album, and of course there will always be those who purchase the album outright, because the recognize the artist and the artist capability to deliver good songs and albums worthy of being purchased. But a single song can and does often act as the foundation for building an artist to someone who is worthy of full album purchases.
I hear you. I particularly liked the details on the percentage of "One-Click" purchases. After one week of using iTMS, I switched to shopping cart mode. I've purchased to date 279 songs, most as albums. Its been a big time savior in my quest to convert ALL my 500+ cassettes into digital format. For any cassettee, that I knew I wanted to convert, and was planning on cheating and buying the CD to convert, I've just started downloading them. Of course its also been a big boon for my "music quests" to find and rate every recorded rendition of partitcular jazz vocal favorites, as well.
My thought is, eventually Apple will offer a method to purchase gift certificates for friends, as well as a method to hoard cash for iTMS spending (well that ones more of a wish), but I know I overspent my first week budget for iTMS, and the next week, I just upped my budget.
True, but the websites that host to the bit torrent files are very vunerable to slashdot effect. The last article on Slashdot crumled some of the more popular sites. Three of my five favorite sites were down for 2-5 days. That said, once people grab the files and actually start downloading, when there is a more than 60 people streaming the file, downloads rock.
I've always (well last year or so) that this should be true, at least for smaller sites. I don't feel that people have to tell Apple, Microsoft, or Google that they've posted links to your site, but I've always felt that those of us posting articles or links to smaller sites, should offer some warning to the site, or temporarily mirror the download link (when its a file, etc.). Let's face it this sites are generally paid for by a single individual who is offering something we consider valuable or at least momentarily intersting enough that we may raise their monthly hosting rates from $10/mo to an overusage charge of a couple hundred bucks.
Free speech and personal liberation aside, just because you can do almost anything you want, has never meant that you should. Courtesy is the backbone to civility. If your frequenting a site that you love, thats been posting daily how hard they've been getting hit by DoS, how they've been forced to switch ISPs because the ISP is tired of the DoS, and they are begging for donations so they can purchase more bandwidth, then common courtesy might state that you speak to the site owner before posting the site address on Slashdot.
Maybe some/. rules of etiquette would be in order, nothing major, just some written common courtesies that people could read when they sign-up for an account.
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For me, I find that the ideal way to organize things would be a combination of folders, piles, and stored searches (or virtual folders). While folders don't always meet my need, I still find that they are a perfect starting or ending point for information. Say if I'm starting to research on "Small World Networks", I almost always start by creating a folder, to place collected data. But while researching, I often find the need for saved states--its one of the primary reasons why I enjoy tabbed browsing. Being able to quickly saved 5 or 20 open sites, and then go back to them is just great.
The concept of piles, I love as well, the ability to just quickly dump things into piles of interest, that can be later organized better, is a great concept. Typically when something is active it need to be related to lots of other things, and for me the piles concept allows this. Of course this brings me to stored searches.
I find I used the concept of stored searches like data mining. I typically do it for past projects, or to gain new insight on past experiences. I remember Sherlock use to allow you to save search criteria as a clickable link that would then rerun and update the results when selected. I don't think the new version does, but I am hoping that Apple will introduce the opportunity to do so, when they start making improvements on the new finder to be introduced in Panther.
Came with the system. I'm in process of setting up a brand new laptop with OS X 10.2.6, and emacs is there. I haven't even installed Developer Tools as of yet, which is where it was before. So sometime, probably in some update from 10.2.3 to 10.2.6 emacs was added to the basic OS.
Try the direct URL http://ak.buy.com/buy_assets/v6/buymusic/commercia ls/rappersdelight300k.wmv this is the ad using Rapper's Delight. It's a bad rip-off. You'll still need Windows Media Player, but the Mac OS version plays it fine. Also you can visit http://iheartmena.typepad.com/weblog/2003/07/buyyo urowncomme.html for direct links to ALL three commercials, and some commentary.
Yeah, Safari loaded it perfectly fine. Was even able to play the rip-off ads, once, I could get there direct link.
Maybe your just in a city with too many radio stations. Though, I live in San Francisco, which I think has a fair number of stations, and I use the iTrip with no problem. I'm not a radio listener, in general, so I can't say how many radio stations there are in San Francisco, but I started with the low end of the dial, and ended up on channel 89.7FM, which works like a charm for me.
This has also worked in two of my friends car, but admittedly they were just local trips, so I can't say how well it would travel from say San Francisco to San Jose or further. The sound quality is fantastic, well on my stereo, in the cars it was as good as the radio, which was ok to better than average. The only other issue I notice is for some purely instrumental songs, especially with quiet sections, the connection may lose its signal, this has happen to me when playing "Elegia" by New Order, but then skipping to the next song returns the signal, nice and strong.
Its already out and wonderful. I've been using mine for a few months now, and its wonderful...marvelous (yeah, yeah, and other showtunes). I've used it in friends cars as well, and it works fine. I would assume easier to use than an adapter kit, once you've selected a radio channel, and just overrides the current stream of music with your playlist (of course this works better on stations that you can't get a clear single from, otherwise its battle of the competing radio streams).
I mostly use iTrip with my home stereo system, because the external speakers attached to my computer are puny. My only compliant is the little prong that goes into your firewire port on the old iPods. I don't like my port covered, because you can still charge and stream, if you rotate the iTrip slightly. That said, blasting my iPod to my stereo for work, play, and even those relaxing evenings spent reading in my garden, is fantastic. The iTrip is the best $30+ dollars, I've spent in awhile.
Actually, the two definitions of theft as most commonly applied to crimes anyway are: (1) To take (the property of another) without right or permission; and (2) to get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
Obviously, taking photos of the 100 plus pages of a magazine with a digital camera would fall well within the second category of obtaining something (in this case, the magazine material) both surreptitiously and artfully, and without right or permission. So it is qualified as theft, its just not theft that deprives the owner of the property.
Larceny (grand, petty, and petit) sets the requirements for unlawful taking or removal of anothers property with intent to permanently deprive the owner; as does burglary, though theft does has some legal definition its more of a moral term, used as the building block for other crimes.
Now that's a great album list. Of course the fact that you've listed ten artist that I never heard of before has me running to ITMS to see if I can hear what they sound like. But anyone who can put Ani, Tori, Ministry, Guns & Roses, Miles, and Me'shell on the same list has succeeded in making me want to hear Godflesh, Talib Kweli, and Tor Lundvall, something their labels couldn't do.
I agree, "Operation Mindcrime" is probably the last good concept album, I've heard as well. Though, I will admit that there have been just some amazingly good albums in the last 10years. I do believe some artist work really hard to make their albums good, which for me means that the album has more than five good songs, and maybe only one or two songs that will ever make a radio single. Albums by Radiohead and Tori Amos tend to have amazing songs, and are often best purchased as an album.
That said, I'm now a strong believer the album as a collection of tracks, is more important than the album as laid out on your standard CD. My iPod and the shuffle function, has had me rediscover albums that I use to think were merely adequate or slightly good, but I had purchased for two or three songs. For example, the new Annie Lennox album Bare, my first listen was in artist compilation mode (straight from the CD order), and while, I was impressed by a few songs, my response to the overall album was, "It's okay". I then relisten to it in shuffle mode, and now I've listen to the damn thing over 20 times, and I have to say, it's a very good album.
I think artist get to caught up in I want to start here and end here. I'm not saying that that method won't be successful, just that even of the artist fans, only a % will be super responsive to the album in that format. Digital downoads and the digital format, allow those who weren't so impressed by the order the artist selected to rediscover the album, to mix it up, to discover secrets and talents of the artist that they missed the first listen.
I've had Absolute Torch & Twang in heavy rotation this last week, because iPod shuffle mode. I purchased it through ITMS so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of converting it from cassettee to mp3. I had then placed my recent purchase list in shuffle mode, and low in behold intermixed with songs from Annie Lennox, Hall & Oates, Missy Elliot, Tori Amos, and Live, came "Wallflower Waltz." "Wallflower Waltz" was a song I was somewhat dismissive of on the album, but tossed into this 50 minute mix of songs, it grabbed my attention and wouldn't let me go.
I then just went back to the entire Absolutely Torch and Twang album, and listen, and listen, and am still listening. The variations offered by shuffle mode, just keep making the album more attractive, and allow me to see different songs as cornerstone to the album. Now I have an album that has 12 really good songs, when it use to be an album of 3 great songs, and 2 additional good songs, that I hadn't listen to in years. So it doesn't take a concept album to make an album a work of art, but it takes more than the artist desire as well.
That said, I find the single is often enticement to the album. I find if I've purchased more than two singles of the same album, I reconsider purchasing the album. The road to discover of a great album starts with a single song. Some people will purchase a single, and never return. Others will purchase a single, then another, than return for the album, and of course there will always be those who purchase the album outright, because the recognize the artist and the artist capability to deliver good songs and albums worthy of being purchased. But a single song can and does often act as the foundation for building an artist to someone who is worthy of full album purchases.
I hear you. I particularly liked the details on the percentage of "One-Click" purchases. After one week of using iTMS, I switched to shopping cart mode. I've purchased to date 279 songs, most as albums. Its been a big time savior in my quest to convert ALL my 500+ cassettes into digital format. For any cassettee, that I knew I wanted to convert, and was planning on cheating and buying the CD to convert, I've just started downloading them. Of course its also been a big boon for my "music quests" to find and rate every recorded rendition of partitcular jazz vocal favorites, as well.
My thought is, eventually Apple will offer a method to purchase gift certificates for friends, as well as a method to hoard cash for iTMS spending (well that ones more of a wish), but I know I overspent my first week budget for iTMS, and the next week, I just upped my budget.
True, but the websites that host to the bit torrent files are very vunerable to slashdot effect. The last article on Slashdot crumled some of the more popular sites. Three of my five favorite sites were down for 2-5 days. That said, once people grab the files and actually start downloading, when there is a more than 60 people streaming the file, downloads rock.
I've always (well last year or so) that this should be true, at least for smaller sites. I don't feel that people have to tell Apple, Microsoft, or Google that they've posted links to your site, but I've always felt that those of us posting articles or links to smaller sites, should offer some warning to the site, or temporarily mirror the download link (when its a file, etc.). Let's face it this sites are generally paid for by a single individual who is offering something we consider valuable or at least momentarily intersting enough that we may raise their monthly hosting rates from $10/mo to an overusage charge of a couple hundred bucks.
/. rules of etiquette would be in order, nothing major, just some written common courtesies that people could read when they sign-up for an account.
Free speech and personal liberation aside, just because you can do almost anything you want, has never meant that you should. Courtesy is the backbone to civility. If your frequenting a site that you love, thats been posting daily how hard they've been getting hit by DoS, how they've been forced to switch ISPs because the ISP is tired of the DoS, and they are begging for donations so they can purchase more bandwidth, then common courtesy might state that you speak to the site owner before posting the site address on Slashdot.
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