Well, then color me anachronistic! For me, Usenet almost always offers much greater speed and reliability than any p2p network--especially for my precious, precious pornography. I throw a fit like a dandy boy if I have to condescend to using the p2p networks of the proletariat.
Providing decent wireless access to a university with a student body of 7,000 is considerably less challenging than accomodating 20,000+ students, staff, and faculty. I wonder if this was taken into consideration, since Intel's description only seems concerned with signal saturation.
Several of the schools on the list have comparitively small campuses; I noticed that neither of the two biggest universities in the US--Michigan State U. and Ohio State U.--made the list. If MSU, for example, offered sufficient wireless access to accomodate even 1/4 of its student body, that would be an admirable feat.
Flawed though the results may be, it's rather interesting to see Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 schools on this list--especially since so many Tier 3 schools beat out Harvard.
Well, I think there's a keen difference between corporatations trying to impose a monoculture, versus the advocates and tech professionals who choose sides in the software wars for political, technical, and aesthetic/idiosyncratic reasons.
While the situations are analagous in a sense, corporate zeal is about money first and foremost, not about religious fervor. Any corporate doctrine about what software and IP law should be is financially motivated; any other trappings in their apparent software philosophy is a consequence of these economic concerns.
With OSS people, devotion to the use and development of Free software is not always separable from the politics of Free software. It's this inherent relationship that differentiates OSS advocates from, say, Mac advocates (whose devotion typically has more to do with aesthetics than politics).
Perhaps taking PIXAR's high profile into account, Terry concedes that "The commercial environment is still best served by Linux clusters" at the end of the article.
As one of Cray's most prominent customers, Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) implicitly makes a better argument. They've long advocated clusters for massive computing purposes, as evidenced by the Avalon, Loki, et al.
It's also worth mentioning that Loki won the Gordon Bell Price/Performance Prize in 1997.
Fun side note: I've never gotten to see these clusters in RL, but I did get to see Sandia National Labs' Paragon and some other boxen when I was there in 1995 as part of the AiS Challenge.
So the conclusion for all this is that in the near future, do not expect SATA controllers to support any optical drives, except the chipset-based controllers, and then only the Intel chip has been confirmed to work.
That's quite a generalization based on such limited experience with SATA optical drives and one rep at SIIG. Based on the Thread text, it seems that the problems with optical drives lie primarily with the host controller firmware and secondarily with the drivers. Considering that SATA optical drives haven't really hit the market yet, is it surprising that the present generation of controllers' firmware and software aren't supporting them yet?
Our source of info tells us that it seems to work very well with chipset-based SATA controllers, and not very well with PCI-based controllers.
Which ones? How many different makes and models were tested? The author later states that identical chipsets in the tested onboard controller and PCI-based controller had "slightly different" firmware.
I think I'm a bit more optimistic than the author that firmware and driver support for these drives will come when SATA optical drives have a reasonably sound market presence. I don't think there are hardware-based incompatibilities with the current generation of SATA controllers, which was my initial fear reading the gloom and doom in the article. Then again, I'm pretty optimistic about SATA and Serial Attached SCSI in general (even though the latter seems to be progressing at a snail's pace). I have an onboard SI 3112 SATARaid controller, and I can't wait to put it to use. 2.5" SuperSlim drives + SATA = extremely lightweight, low-profile storage, hot-pluggable mass storage with a much faster bus than FastUSB or Firewire.
Why is it almost always Sun and Solaris that makes this kind of news, as opposed to other Unices? Is Sun really the only UNIX vendor who takes Linux this seriously? Is this indicative of Sun's overwhelming dominance of what remains of the commercial UNIX market, or is it simply that Sun's Linux initiative and Microsoft ties make it good fodder for regular news blurbs?
I don't follow commercial UNIX much anymore, so maybe I'm overestimating SGI's (Irix) and HP's (HP-UX) market share. Maybe it's simply that more/.ers follow Sun news.
Sun still gives me a warm feeling (pun), and I imagine I'm not alone. I mostly cut my teeth on SunOS 4.x as a teenager, and I'll always have a soft spot (sunspot?) for Sun.
Although the article doesn't mention it, Ashcroft has praised the Meese Commission's attempt to "free" the US from pornography during the Reagan administration, despite the fact that it failed miserably.
The sociologists and other experts commissioned to study the sociological effects of pornography submitted a report that the administration didn't like at all: basically, it said that there's no causal link between porn and violent crime (sexual or otherwise), and that pornography is a good thing in general.
Ashcroft admires Meese, of course, and has called him a defender of 'liberty.' Just another example of the modern American trend consistently to refer to the retraction of civil liberties as the definition of the defense of freedom.
Yet even now, I could take this ThinkPad on the road and, working around the rough spots, get my work done. I would not have said that a year ago. I call this progress. (Gilmore)
Why not? What was missing then that has now suddenly allowed Gilmore to use Linux and on his relatively old Thinkpad? Were the desktop distributions really so horrible one year ago? Were StarOffice 6 and Xandros 1.x so undeveloped that a Thinkpad released in 2000 couldn't handle simple office tasks and networking?
I don't think it's Linux that has suddenly caught up, but Gilmore. He seems to want to make it sound as though he was right both then and now, rather than admitting that his previous appraisal of desktop Linux was lacking.
Ostensibly, the main idea was to make readers more aware of the realities of living life as a row in a database. But then there's Chief Editor Gillispie's closing quote: "What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you? That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read." This seems to indicate a conflict of interests; that Reason recognizes the peril, but can't help but consider the possibilities of catering to individual readers by exploiting personal data.
Of course, this attempt at pandering generally fails in my experience. My being interested in 'Gardening' or 'Outdoor Life' is lightyears away from wanting a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens or Sports Illustrated, personalization or no. This is due to the critical distinction between essence and product.
The phrase "Free Minds, Free Markets" also seems to me to be a contradiction in terms, although "Free Markets" leaves room for interpretation. I guess I'm reading this wrong, because to my mind, the notion of individuality resists the concept of demographic marketing, no matter how "free."
My former employer was notorious for this kind of manipulation. They assume that employees falsify their times, and thus feel justified in "correcting" hypothetical discrepencies.
Or in %sysroot% itself. Or in the maze of subdirectories (other than System32) under %sysroot%. Or in hidden files/directories in the root directory. But yeah, other than that, it's Program Files, the registry, or System32.:)
I'm guessing that "sea urchin" is most likely a mistranslation of some kind of pointing device (stylus?). Sea urchins are pointy after all...
________
The NEC personal products, selling the liquid crystal information terminal which specializes in browsing
LOOKPAL
On sale in late June
Standard price: 68,250 Yen (tax included) [approx. $644.47 USD]
Ahead communicating: DMS division business promotion group. Tel. 03-6479-5852
On May 30th, the NEC Corporation announced the "LOOKCLUB series" LCD information terminal with built-in CD-ROM drive. The list price is 68,250 Yen (including tax).
As for sale at the mass sales store and the like the bundle incoming order sale which for the time being leads the action and direct sales section becomes the main force. In addition, it does not do either the sale with the NEC direct it is the NEC direct sales sight. In the sales planning first year 4,000, it ships late from June.
As for the same product "you see", "you read", "you hear", opening being something which was given out as the product which specializes, "in PC and the product of the new genre which does not belong in PDA. Like PC it cannot compile the file and it cannot process, but it is suitable for the perusal of the picture and the file. At one time, when in the radio-cassette tape recorder market whose sound recording function is necessary, playback private walkman appeared it becomes the product of the same image ", (the NEC personal products DMS division mountain village good Hiroshi group manager) with you define.
Positioning of LOOK CLUB series 2nd feature, 3rd also feature is prepared.
The LOOKPAL's features include an 8.4" LCD and built-in CD-ROM drive. Using its touch-screen interface, the user can easily load pictures and other files.
For the first time, it is easy to know even with the person who is touched PC indicating just the idea contest of 4 types such as sea urchin and at starting point in time perusal of Internet. It is easy to operate even in the person who is poor overlap click it can operate with the long pushing above the sea urchin and 1 second. In addition, have tried to be able to input making use of the software keyboard according to need. As for the software keyboard, other than QWERTY system, those of 50 sound arrangements are prepared.
Even with NEC PDA "Sigmarion" we can load the browser of England Picsel Technologies which has the result of adoption, other than the file of HTML, PDF and JPEG etc., we can peruse the file format of approximately 20 types such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint of Microsoft without doing the installation of various application software.
Adopting Linux to OS. "At the beginning it examined also TRON, but from the fact that among other things it is insecure in the control and the like of CD-ROM it made Linux", that it has explained. Concerning the adoption of Windows, "before turning off power in addition to cost being high, in state you remembered in memory, after that you turned on power and directly, you continued and it was loaded you applied the function which can do operation, but with such job you waived from the fact that possibility of freezing is high", that it did.
Adopting Intel PXA255 400MHz to CPU. The memory of 64MB is loaded.
As for external size 243x161x34mm (width x depth x height). As for the weight which includes the battery approximately 1.1Kg. Battery drive time approximately 2 hours.
Already we have started the business talk with the self-governing community and the like, preparing CD-ROM of each national language in for sight-seeing area of local end, the same terminal loan to the sightseer. You say that method of kind of using which can do the sight-seeing guide in the sightseer from world nations is supposed. In addition, we have assumed that other than method of using which was called the terminal and the business support tool for accessing to the electronic self-governing community, the private user peruses the picture of the digital camera mutually, while perusing burning of CD-ROM at the kitchen, works and/or is also a use w
Seriously, if you're a gearhead and you have the real estate for it, get a big dish. There's a ton of excellent free content, all non-free channels are available for subscription a la carte, you get the closest possible thing to a first-gen signal, HDTV broadcasts are available at no extra charge, there are analog and digital bands, packages are available for those who want them, you can modify and upgrade your own hardware, and the net access options are better than any internet offerings a DSS package has ever boasted. Big dishes are a geek dream come true.
Actually, you'd potentially have to block as many as 34,028,236,692,093,846,346,333,165,775,879 more addresses, assuming everyone else decides to start spamming you, and don't spam yourself.:)
"...the main asset of having MusicXML-output is that users can migrate away from LilyPond more easily, and that doesn't give me warm fuzzies."
Yes, that's a damning (and disappointing) quote, especially coming from an OSS developer.
Claiming that MusicXML fails on many levels was a concession to its critics, but not a hollow one. However, I'll respect your wishes and refrain from expounding on this point here. I reject the criticisms of MusicXML that condemn it simply because it's based on XML. However, there are some valid criticisms that stem from this issue, one or two of which Han-Wen articulated. Recordare itself made sacrifices in developing the format (verbalized on the website), which may or may not ultimately impair its acceptance.
To be honest, I was very excited when I first learned about MusicXML (when Sharpeye started supporting it), but my enthusiasm waned when I learned how much MusicXML's interoperability depends on propietary plugins (Dolet) and third-party converters in most cases. Hopefully this is temporary inconvenience that would be chiefly allieviated by official support in the next releases of Finale and Sibelius. OSS purists could target Recordare with comments similar to that which you made about Han-Wen: that there can exist a dichotomy of open source code and proprietary constrictions that betray a conflict of interests.
I personally think that the 1.0 DTD status should have been accompanied--if not preceded--by web browser plugins. This may be one of the most significant things that Recordare can do to bolster MusicXML's popularity and profile.
Some people who claim that they exchange scores online ask what MusicXML can do for them, since conversion apparently isn't a problem for them. I feel that being able to render music seemlessly in the browser is a big deal, and I think it would make a lot of people sit up and take notice of the format.
P.S., It would be nice if you made the mailing list archives publically accessible sans login.
I agree with Han-Wen's criticisms of MusicXML, (some of which he voiced previously in a response to the short article I submitted in January). I readily admit that the blurb had some errors in it; and especially after witnessing the prevailing confusion over the issues involved, I wish I had written a full-length article on the state of free music score publishing and interchange.
MusicXML fails in many ways, but neither Lilypond's native format nor the various binary formats fits the bill, either. My intention in submitting the article was to make people aware that there is currently no open, editable, universal, web-renderable music notation format. Please bear in mind that MIDI is not a music notation format, and is inadequate for the purposes described above. LilyPond is a great program and a high caliber open-source development project which I admire and endorse--this is a lot more than I can say for MusicXML (regardless of the apples and oranges comparison). But I don't think it will thrive until it has a GUI and expands into the markets ruled by Sibelius, Finale, and (to a lesser extent) Encore. In other words, I think that to become a major player, LilyPond must eventually must, in addition to being the superb typesetting program that it is, it must also reach those who want an intuitive score editor.
I'm very please that open source music typesetting and publishing are topics of ongoing discussion (and controversy). Finally, I should mention that I'm affiliated with neither Recordaire nor LilyPond in any way.
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Well, then color me anachronistic! For me, Usenet almost always offers much greater speed and reliability than any p2p network--especially for my precious, precious pornography. I throw a fit like a dandy boy if I have to condescend to using the p2p networks of the proletariat.
Providing decent wireless access to a university with a student body of 7,000 is considerably less challenging than accomodating 20,000+ students, staff, and faculty. I wonder if this was taken into consideration, since Intel's description only seems concerned with signal saturation.
Several of the schools on the list have comparitively small campuses; I noticed that neither of the two biggest universities in the US--Michigan State U. and Ohio State U.--made the list. If MSU, for example, offered sufficient wireless access to accomodate even 1/4 of its student body, that would be an admirable feat.
Flawed though the results may be, it's rather interesting to see Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 schools on this list--especially since so many Tier 3 schools beat out Harvard.
Now I can pirate movies with a fax machine and some scissors. ... and then eat the evidence.
I wonder if they're flushable?
They'll still come in a spindle, but just in roll form. :)
Watch my blog for instructions on making your own wall-mount!
Well, I think there's a keen difference between corporatations trying to impose a monoculture, versus the advocates and tech professionals who choose sides in the software wars for political, technical, and aesthetic/idiosyncratic reasons.
While the situations are analagous in a sense, corporate zeal is about money first and foremost, not about religious fervor. Any corporate doctrine about what software and IP law should be is financially motivated; any other trappings in their apparent software philosophy is a consequence of these economic concerns.
With OSS people, devotion to the use and development of Free software is not always separable from the politics of Free software. It's this inherent relationship that differentiates OSS advocates from, say, Mac advocates (whose devotion typically has more to do with aesthetics than politics).
Perhaps taking PIXAR's high profile into account, Terry concedes that "The commercial environment is still best served by Linux clusters" at the end of the article.
As one of Cray's most prominent customers, Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) implicitly makes a better argument. They've long advocated clusters for massive computing purposes, as evidenced by the Avalon, Loki, et al.
It's also worth mentioning that Loki won the Gordon Bell Price/Performance Prize in 1997.
And let's not forget the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Beowulf cluster(s).
Fun side note: I've never gotten to see these clusters in RL, but I did get to see Sandia National Labs' Paragon and some other boxen when I was there in 1995 as part of the AiS Challenge.
So the conclusion for all this is that in the near future, do not expect SATA controllers to support any optical drives, except the chipset-based controllers, and then only the Intel chip has been confirmed to work.
That's quite a generalization based on such limited experience with SATA optical drives and one rep at SIIG. Based on the Thread text, it seems that the problems with optical drives lie primarily with the host controller firmware and secondarily with the drivers. Considering that SATA optical drives haven't really hit the market yet, is it surprising that the present generation of controllers' firmware and software aren't supporting them yet?
Our source of info tells us that it seems to work very well with chipset-based SATA controllers, and not very well with PCI-based controllers.
Which ones? How many different makes and models were tested? The author later states that identical chipsets in the tested onboard controller and PCI-based controller had "slightly different" firmware.
I think I'm a bit more optimistic than the author that firmware and driver support for these drives will come when SATA optical drives have a reasonably sound market presence. I don't think there are hardware-based incompatibilities with the current generation of SATA controllers, which was my initial fear reading the gloom and doom in the article. Then again, I'm pretty optimistic about SATA and Serial Attached SCSI in general (even though the latter seems to be progressing at a snail's pace). I have an onboard SI 3112 SATARaid controller, and I can't wait to put it to use. 2.5" SuperSlim drives + SATA = extremely lightweight, low-profile storage, hot-pluggable mass storage with a much faster bus than FastUSB or Firewire.
McNealy doesn't look too receptive, either. Has anyone ever noticed that Ballmer looks like the Wicked Witch of the West?
Why is it almost always Sun and Solaris that makes this kind of news, as opposed to other Unices? Is Sun really the only UNIX vendor who takes Linux this seriously? Is this indicative of Sun's overwhelming dominance of what remains of the commercial UNIX market, or is it simply that Sun's Linux initiative and Microsoft ties make it good fodder for regular news blurbs?
/.ers follow Sun news.
I don't follow commercial UNIX much anymore, so maybe I'm overestimating SGI's (Irix) and HP's (HP-UX) market share. Maybe it's simply that more
Sun still gives me a warm feeling (pun), and I imagine I'm not alone. I mostly cut my teeth on SunOS 4.x as a teenager, and I'll always have a soft spot (sunspot?) for Sun.
Although the article doesn't mention it, Ashcroft has praised the Meese Commission's attempt to "free" the US from pornography during the Reagan administration, despite the fact that it failed miserably.
The sociologists and other experts commissioned to study the sociological effects of pornography submitted a report that the administration didn't like at all: basically, it said that there's no causal link between porn and violent crime (sexual or otherwise), and that pornography is a good thing in general.
Ashcroft admires Meese, of course, and has called him a defender of 'liberty.' Just another example of the modern American trend consistently to refer to the retraction of civil liberties as the definition of the defense of freedom.
Yet even now, I could take this ThinkPad on the road and, working around the rough spots, get my work done. I would not have said that a year ago. I call this progress. (Gilmore)
Why not? What was missing then that has now suddenly allowed Gilmore to use Linux and on his relatively old Thinkpad? Were the desktop distributions really so horrible one year ago? Were StarOffice 6 and Xandros 1.x so undeveloped that a Thinkpad released in 2000 couldn't handle simple office tasks and networking?
I don't think it's Linux that has suddenly caught up, but Gilmore. He seems to want to make it sound as though he was right both then and now, rather than admitting that his previous appraisal of desktop Linux was lacking.
Silly syllogist, products are for those who want them.
(Or at least think they do.)
Ostensibly, the main idea was to make readers more aware of the realities of living life as a row in a database. But then there's Chief Editor Gillispie's closing quote: "What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you? That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read." This seems to indicate a conflict of interests; that Reason recognizes the peril, but can't help but consider the possibilities of catering to individual readers by exploiting personal data.
Of course, this attempt at pandering generally fails in my experience. My being interested in 'Gardening' or 'Outdoor Life' is lightyears away from wanting a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens or Sports Illustrated, personalization or no. This is due to the critical distinction between essence and product.
The phrase "Free Minds, Free Markets" also seems to me to be a contradiction in terms, although "Free Markets" leaves room for interpretation. I guess I'm reading this wrong, because to my mind, the notion of individuality resists the concept of demographic marketing, no matter how "free."
Have you considered the CLIE PEG-UX50?
A buddy of mine swears by it (technically he has the Japanese version).
My former employer was notorious for this kind of manipulation. They assume that employees falsify their times, and thus feel justified in "correcting" hypothetical discrepencies.
Or in %sysroot% itself. Or in the maze of subdirectories (other than System32) under %sysroot%. Or in hidden files/directories in the root directory. But yeah, other than that, it's Program Files, the registry, or System32. :)
Sorry about the lack of paragraphs... accidentally set it to HTML.
I'm guessing that "sea urchin" is most likely a mistranslation of some kind of pointing device (stylus?). Sea urchins are pointy after all... ________ The NEC personal products, selling the liquid crystal information terminal which specializes in browsing LOOKPAL On sale in late June Standard price: 68,250 Yen (tax included) [approx. $644.47 USD] Ahead communicating: DMS division business promotion group. Tel. 03-6479-5852 On May 30th, the NEC Corporation announced the "LOOKCLUB series" LCD information terminal with built-in CD-ROM drive. The list price is 68,250 Yen (including tax). As for sale at the mass sales store and the like the bundle incoming order sale which for the time being leads the action and direct sales section becomes the main force. In addition, it does not do either the sale with the NEC direct it is the NEC direct sales sight. In the sales planning first year 4,000, it ships late from June. As for the same product "you see", "you read", "you hear", opening being something which was given out as the product which specializes, "in PC and the product of the new genre which does not belong in PDA. Like PC it cannot compile the file and it cannot process, but it is suitable for the perusal of the picture and the file. At one time, when in the radio-cassette tape recorder market whose sound recording function is necessary, playback private walkman appeared it becomes the product of the same image ", (the NEC personal products DMS division mountain village good Hiroshi group manager) with you define. Positioning of LOOK CLUB series 2nd feature, 3rd also feature is prepared. The LOOKPAL's features include an 8.4" LCD and built-in CD-ROM drive. Using its touch-screen interface, the user can easily load pictures and other files. For the first time, it is easy to know even with the person who is touched PC indicating just the idea contest of 4 types such as sea urchin and at starting point in time perusal of Internet. It is easy to operate even in the person who is poor overlap click it can operate with the long pushing above the sea urchin and 1 second. In addition, have tried to be able to input making use of the software keyboard according to need. As for the software keyboard, other than QWERTY system, those of 50 sound arrangements are prepared. Even with NEC PDA "Sigmarion" we can load the browser of England Picsel Technologies which has the result of adoption, other than the file of HTML, PDF and JPEG etc., we can peruse the file format of approximately 20 types such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint of Microsoft without doing the installation of various application software. Adopting Linux to OS. "At the beginning it examined also TRON, but from the fact that among other things it is insecure in the control and the like of CD-ROM it made Linux", that it has explained. Concerning the adoption of Windows, "before turning off power in addition to cost being high, in state you remembered in memory, after that you turned on power and directly, you continued and it was loaded you applied the function which can do operation, but with such job you waived from the fact that possibility of freezing is high", that it did. Adopting Intel PXA255 400MHz to CPU. The memory of 64MB is loaded. As for external size 243x161x34mm (width x depth x height). As for the weight which includes the battery approximately 1.1Kg. Battery drive time approximately 2 hours. Already we have started the business talk with the self-governing community and the like, preparing CD-ROM of each national language in for sight-seeing area of local end, the same terminal loan to the sightseer. You say that method of kind of using which can do the sight-seeing guide in the sightseer from world nations is supposed. In addition, we have assumed that other than method of using which was called the terminal and the business support tool for accessing to the electronic self-governing community, the private user peruses the picture of the digital camera mutually, while perusing burning of CD-ROM at the kitchen, works and/or is also a use w
Seriously, if you're a gearhead and you have the real estate for it, get a big dish. There's a ton of excellent free content, all non-free channels are available for subscription a la carte, you get the closest possible thing to a first-gen signal, HDTV broadcasts are available at no extra charge, there are analog and digital bands, packages are available for those who want them, you can modify and upgrade your own hardware, and the net access options are better than any internet offerings a DSS package has ever boasted. Big dishes are a geek dream come true.
Oops, sorry, the real number is even bigger... my calculater couldn't handle it!
Actually, you'd potentially have to block as many as 34,028,236,692,093,846,346,333,165,775,879 more addresses, assuming everyone else decides to start spamming you, and don't spam yourself. :)
"...the main asset of having MusicXML-output is that users can migrate away from LilyPond more easily, and that doesn't give me warm fuzzies."
Yes, that's a damning (and disappointing) quote, especially coming from an OSS developer.
Claiming that MusicXML fails on many levels was a concession to its critics, but not a hollow one. However, I'll respect your wishes and refrain from expounding on this point here. I reject the criticisms of MusicXML that condemn it simply because it's based on XML. However, there are some valid criticisms that stem from this issue, one or two of which Han-Wen articulated. Recordare itself made sacrifices in developing the format (verbalized on the website), which may or may not ultimately impair its acceptance.
To be honest, I was very excited when I first learned about MusicXML (when Sharpeye started supporting it), but my enthusiasm waned when I learned how much MusicXML's interoperability depends on propietary plugins (Dolet) and third-party converters in most cases. Hopefully this is temporary inconvenience that would be chiefly allieviated by official support in the next releases of Finale and Sibelius. OSS purists could target Recordare with comments similar to that which you made about Han-Wen: that there can exist a dichotomy of open source code and proprietary constrictions that betray a conflict of interests.
I personally think that the 1.0 DTD status should have been accompanied--if not preceded--by web browser plugins. This may be one of the most significant things that Recordare can do to bolster MusicXML's popularity and profile.
Some people who claim that they exchange scores online ask what MusicXML can do for them, since conversion apparently isn't a problem for them. I feel that being able to render music seemlessly in the browser is a big deal, and I think it would make a lot of people sit up and take notice of the format.
P.S., It would be nice if you made the mailing list archives publically accessible sans login.
I agree with Han-Wen's criticisms of MusicXML, (some of which he voiced previously in a response to the short article I submitted in January). I readily admit that the blurb had some errors in it; and especially after witnessing the prevailing confusion over the issues involved, I wish I had written a full-length article on the state of free music score publishing and interchange.
MusicXML fails in many ways, but neither Lilypond's native format nor the various binary formats fits the bill, either. My intention in submitting the article was to make people aware that there is currently no open, editable, universal, web-renderable music notation format. Please bear in mind that MIDI is not a music notation format, and is inadequate for the purposes described above. LilyPond is a great program and a high caliber open-source development project which I admire and endorse--this is a lot more than I can say for MusicXML (regardless of the apples and oranges comparison). But I don't think it will thrive until it has a GUI and expands into the markets ruled by Sibelius, Finale, and (to a lesser extent) Encore. In other words, I think that to become a major player, LilyPond must eventually must, in addition to being the superb typesetting program that it is, it must also reach those who want an intuitive score editor.
I'm very please that open source music typesetting and publishing are topics of ongoing discussion (and controversy). Finally, I should mention that I'm affiliated with neither Recordaire nor LilyPond in any way.
Kettle, check your blackness. The unofficial GoogleBar doesn't emulate the features (e.g., 'sad face') the poster described.
Every time I hit one of these para-sites I reach up to my trusty old Google toolbar and click the blue sad face. I encourage others to do the same.
:p
Of course you realize you're also simultaneously encouraging people to use IE on Windows, because (sadly) that's all the Toolbar runs on.