For a DJ's perspective on electronic dance music you should try Trust the DJ - Official Home of the world's leading DJs. Carl Cox, Boy George, Chris Liberator, Gilles Peterson
You can also listen to TrusttheDJ radio (Windows media only I'm afraid) and to samples of tracks from the DJ mix CDs. Good for an introduction to the numerous various genres: techno, house, drum and bass etc.
Hope you like it. Disclaimer: I work there. And a lot of fun it is too!
"No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work," says Atlantic recording artist Bif Naked, "whether you're washing dishes or recording songs."
The point is that what you do has to make money before you can do it for a living.
The music industry in its' present form has only existed for 50-60 years. Human history is considerably longer. The industry exists in the form it does because of the distribution technologies available. The technology (and their topology) is changing; the industry is going to change.
A model will develop where people can make money from music. It may not be the same people, it may be more it may be less. Perhaps the real question is whether the music is better because of it. With attitudes like this: "Why would anybody sit down and write a novel if it's going to be pirated for free the first day it's released?". I think the music might get better
I started setting this Linux Nurture site up a few months ago. It's not fully functional yet but you can see the idea. It uses a strange, but lightweight mix of awk, bash and the NoSQL RDBMS and I'm having trouble exporting varibles between scripts.
From the site: "This site connects people with little or no experience of Linux with those who are reasonably experienced and feel willing and able to help others"
Is this a good idea? Would people use it, both helpers and helpees?
If anyone wants to give me hand completing it, or even better hosting it I'd be happy to hear from you. One idea was that it could spawn other sites each with different emphasis (language, distro., interests) but all linked together by a webring.
It seems to me that most graduates come out of college knowing more about how to program C++ than C.
The methods of design are quite different.
I'll not argue about the merits of either, but on a practical level it seems that projects written in C++ will develop more rapidly due to all the new talent available.
I know there are other factors involved but doesn't the strength and rapid development of the KDE project stem from it being in C++?
I'd be interested to know how the programmers demographics compare, C against C++, Gnome against KDE.
Gtk-- is good, and very important for Gnome for the reasons above. It could still do with some better documentation though. I'm still trying to get my head round the signalling stuff.
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For a DJ's perspective on electronic dance music you should try Trust the DJ - Official Home of the world's leading DJs. Carl Cox, Boy George, Chris Liberator, Gilles Peterson
You can also listen to TrusttheDJ radio (Windows media only I'm afraid) and to samples of tracks from the DJ mix CDs. Good for an introduction to the numerous various genres: techno, house, drum and bass etc.
Hope you like it. Disclaimer: I work there. And a lot of fun it is too!
The point is that what you do has to make money before you can do it for a living.
The music industry in its' present form has only existed for 50-60 years. Human history is considerably longer. The industry exists in the form it does because of the distribution technologies available. The technology (and their topology) is changing; the industry is going to change.
A model will develop where people can make money from music. It may not be the same people, it may be more it may be less. Perhaps the real question is whether the music is better because of it. With attitudes like this: "Why would anybody sit down and write a novel if it's going to be pirated for free the first day it's released?". I think the music might get better
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I started setting this Linux Nurture site up a few months ago. It's not fully functional yet but you can see the idea. It uses a strange, but lightweight mix of awk, bash and the NoSQL RDBMS and I'm having trouble exporting varibles between scripts.
From the site: "This site connects people with little or no experience of Linux with those who are reasonably experienced and feel willing and able to help others"
Is this a good idea? Would people use it, both helpers and helpees?
If anyone wants to give me hand completing it, or even better hosting it I'd be happy to hear from you. One idea was that it could spawn other sites each with different emphasis (language, distro., interests) but all linked together by a webring.
StephenIt seems to me that most graduates come out of
college knowing more about how to program C++
than C.
The methods of design are quite different.
I'll not argue about the merits of either, but
on a practical level it seems that projects
written in C++ will develop more rapidly due to
all the new talent available.
I know there are other factors involved but
doesn't the strength and rapid development of the
KDE project stem from it being in C++?
I'd be interested to know how the programmers
demographics compare, C against C++, Gnome against
KDE.
Gtk-- is good, and very important for Gnome for the reasons above. It could still do with some
better documentation though. I'm still trying to
get my head round the signalling stuff.
Hope the O' Reilley book covers gtk-- as well.
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Stephen