No, we dropped two nukes for the explict purpose of defeating Japan. Even after the first they did not surrender. Hence the second.
Just to be clear, Japan didn't know what hit them and the US didn't exactly give enough time to for Japan to reassess the situation. Given the level of devastation, there was nobody left in Hiroshima to report to "higher command" about the destruction. Japan didn't have all the information to call a cease-fire let alone surrender, so the U.S. decided to drop another just 3 days later. At the time, with remote-communication fascilities most likely down, it would have taken at least that many days to get down and back from HQ (Tokyo) to give a damage assessment. Just look at the tsunami situation. It took days before people began to realize the level of carnage. And this is 50 years later!
Here's for hoping it'll never happen again. Which unfortunately even this many years later, is not a guarantee
Whenever talk about management gets a little out-of-hand, I find it helpful to recount Peter Drucker's famous line:
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
Helps to put things in perspective when you're in a rut.
Good luck.
actually, Jobs essentially announced the new iMacs to be coming in September during the WWDC keynote. It was just in a subliminal form. Watch the keynote again for his presentation on the spotlight/search technology in forthcoming Tiger. First, he does a search for "iMac". Then he does a search (in addressbook) for "Paris". Mac Expo in Paris is during the first week of September:)
Ogg Vorbis wasn't chosen because nobody from Xiph went to try and proselytize it. DVD-Forum is a group of companies each loyal to a codec or two, none of who believe they have any commercial interest in Vorbis, let alone know what it is. If Xiph wants to see their Vorbis work being standardized, they should think about joining the DVD-Forum. There are plenty of other opporunities. They already missed the DVD AR standard (Audio Recording), as well as the DVD CA Zone standard (for Compressed Audio). It's nice to see some headway with their efforts in the IETF, but everyone knows they take... years:) I know some people don't agree with the whole standards process, but being a part of the committe would help just to publicize it, let alone vote down some other formats...
How do they plan to deal with the IRS and other tax mongers? innocent until proven guilty doesn't necessarily mean ignorance is on your side... hopefully they're just anonymizing the sales, and not purging all records completely...
I just wonder how many people realize where the word "anime" really comes from. For those who never knew, `anime' is really just the Japanese-truncated pronunciation of the American word `Animation'. So it amuses me that "anime" now essentially signifies "Japanese cartoons", when in truth everything from Batman to Donald Duck are "anime" as well.
gotta love how cultures mix and bounce things around.
It also depends a bit on their DRM structure. DRM is definitely not my expertise, but the frameworks I have seen usually involve some central source that monitors and verifies or denies access, keys, what-have-you. Even if they hand out all the client code, it will probably have to access some DRM server that is not public. Sure, you could change the client code to access some other DRM server, but then you might not be able to get the content you want. Perhaps a free-based DRM framework project is needed?
What I cannot believe in all this discussion is the pure lack of academic insight. Having spent quite some time studying the roots -- and I mean ROOTS -- of electronic music, i'm sad to see so many associate electronic music with just variants of dance/beats, or something loud. Yes, these are genres, but what you list are not "main" genres.
Why has nobody mentioned the core composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, or even Max Mathews? What about concepts such as "music concrete", used by well known musicians as The Beatles, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd (maybe even The Who)? These are the real pioneers of electronic music, the real influencers of today's electronic musicians.
Do yourself a favor and search some of those names in Google. You'll be glad you did.
Since you mention you're a developer, definitely check out their developer discounts. If you register as a developer and spend the hundred dollars or so, you get a once-in-a-lifetime discount of about 20-25% off any hardware. A substantial savings over the retail price.
the normal reps don't usually know about this -- you'll have to order through the developer's phone number.
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No, we dropped two nukes for the explict purpose of defeating Japan. Even after the first they did not surrender. Hence the second.
Just to be clear, Japan didn't know what hit them and the US didn't exactly give enough time to for Japan to reassess the situation. Given the level of devastation, there was nobody left in Hiroshima to report to "higher command" about the destruction. Japan didn't have all the information to call a cease-fire let alone surrender, so the U.S. decided to drop another just 3 days later. At the time, with remote-communication fascilities most likely down, it would have taken at least that many days to get down and back from HQ (Tokyo) to give a damage assessment. Just look at the tsunami situation. It took days before people began to realize the level of carnage. And this is 50 years later!
Here's for hoping it'll never happen again. Which unfortunately even this many years later, is not a guarantee
Whenever talk about management gets a little out-of-hand, I find it helpful to recount Peter Drucker's famous line: Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. Helps to put things in perspective when you're in a rut. Good luck.
I once had a physics teacher who said
"Math is to Physics as masturbation is to sex"
dude, this thing is more retro than the original game - phone relays?!
actually, Jobs essentially announced the new iMacs to be coming in September during the WWDC keynote. It was just in a subliminal form. Watch the keynote again for his presentation on the spotlight/search technology in forthcoming Tiger. First, he does a search for "iMac". Then he does a search (in addressbook) for "Paris". Mac Expo in Paris is during the first week of September :)
the individual who writes a screen scaper to notify when a threshold has passed, and then purchases large albums until they cross over 100 mil.
yay.
Ogg Vorbis wasn't chosen because nobody from Xiph went to try and proselytize it. DVD-Forum is a group of companies each loyal to a codec or two, none of who believe they have any commercial interest in Vorbis, let alone know what it is. If Xiph wants to see their Vorbis work being standardized, they should think about joining the DVD-Forum. There are plenty of other opporunities. They already missed the DVD AR standard (Audio Recording), as well as the DVD CA Zone standard (for Compressed Audio). It's nice to see some headway with their efforts in the IETF, but everyone knows they take ... years :) I know some people don't agree with the whole standards process, but being a part of the committe would help just to publicize it, let alone vote down some other formats...
just say "hm...maybe"
How do they plan to deal with the IRS and other tax mongers? innocent until proven guilty doesn't necessarily mean ignorance is on your side... hopefully they're just anonymizing the sales, and not purging all records completely...
I just wonder how many people realize where the word "anime" really comes from. For those who never knew, `anime' is really just the Japanese-truncated pronunciation of the American word `Animation'. So it amuses me that "anime" now essentially signifies "Japanese cartoons", when in truth everything from Batman to Donald Duck are "anime" as well.
gotta love how cultures mix and bounce things around.
It also depends a bit on their DRM structure. DRM is definitely not my expertise, but the frameworks I have seen usually involve some central source that monitors and verifies or denies access, keys, what-have-you. Even if they hand out all the client code, it will probably have to access some DRM server that is not public. Sure, you could change the client code to access some other DRM server, but then you might not be able to get the content you want. Perhaps a free-based DRM framework project is needed?
What I cannot believe in all this discussion is the pure lack of academic insight. Having spent quite some time studying the roots -- and I mean ROOTS -- of electronic music, i'm sad to see so many associate electronic music with just variants of dance/beats, or something loud. Yes, these are genres, but what you list are not "main" genres.
Why has nobody mentioned the core composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, or even Max Mathews? What about concepts such as "music concrete", used by well known musicians as The Beatles, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd (maybe even The Who)? These are the real pioneers of electronic music, the real influencers of today's electronic musicians.
Do yourself a favor and search some of those names in Google. You'll be glad you did.
Since you mention you're a developer, definitely check out their developer discounts. If you register as a developer and spend the hundred dollars or so, you get a once-in-a-lifetime discount of about 20-25% off any hardware. A substantial savings over the retail price.
the normal reps don't usually know about this -- you'll have to order through the developer's phone number.
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NIME
CCRMA program
Joe Paradiso @ at MIT Media Lab doing some interesting stuff
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