Now that the server can handle the load, I can browse the selections. I gotta tell you, I really like what I see. Granted, I am 40 years old so I am looking for new songs as well as 25 year old songs by Ambrosia (don't ask) and there is a lot here. In fact, I'm finding that I have a lot of the newer things (Audioslave, etc.) but it has a bunch of singles from the past n years (where n > 20) that I have been looking for. Lots of songs an oldster like me is looking for and I am old enough to have disposable income. Yep, Apple has me pegged. Bay City Rollers, here I come (don't ask)!
Sure we do. I listen to CDs in my car with the top off. I hear most of my music through these little Sony headphones here at work (sorry but the kids aren't interested in all those Renaissance CDs I just bought). My passion for music is what drives me to listen to music when I can. I'd rather hear music through the M&Ks at home but it's not always possible (hardly ever possible, these days).
Excuse me but how poor are you that you own a computer and have a connection to the file trading networks? I thought so. Maybe if you weren't spending all that money on stealing music you could go out and buy yourself some used CDs.
so according to you, college students shouldnt be able to listen to music now?
According to you, if a college student can't afford to buy jeans at the Gap he should just steal them? Why not, you're above getting a job at McDonalds, you're probably above the law, too, right?
Back in the day, if you couldn't afford to buy music, ancient cavepeoples used a device called a radio to hear music. It's free and most caves had radios.
They tell me a company called Porsche makes cars that not all people can afford. Bastards! Why can't they make cars that EVERYONE can afford. Guess you'll need to steal one of those, too. Fight the power, bro'.
Luckily, all the animation in that movie was in Disney's vector-based computer animation format, so all they had to do was scale it up and clean it a little.
No, "The Lion King" was all raster graphics, not vector-based. Fortunately, the frames are 2k and the Disney digital-to-film people are very smart.
You do need that second checking account. If you get audited, the IRS wants to see that you're conducting your business like a business and not a hobby. Having a separate checking account and a separate charge card, both used just for the business, help in that department.
I think if the past decade has taught us anything, its that gross (or awards) doesn't mean good.
Agreed. However, as far as living up to the hype goes, they're the only objective answer to that. Whether you or I liked "The Lion King" is irrelevant because Simba sold a helluva lot of tickets so, by that objective measure, he lived up to the hype.
Excuse me? "Jurassic Park" and "The Lion King" made over $300 million and "T-2" was #1 at the box office the year it came out (as was "Jurassic Park"--"The Lion King" was #2). All three are Academy Award winners. They'll do.
You'd be suprised how many candidates professed knowledge of an alphabet soup of industry technologies and languages, but had a difficult time correctly forming a "for" statement in C.
During my pass through the dot-coms (actually, it still might be true), the one technical question that would weed people out the fastest was, "Sort a list of strings." That's it. They could do it in C or Perl or pseudo-code orwhatever they wanted to. People who claimed to have 5 years of C experience would get that deer-in-the-headlights look. There would be other questions if they could answer that but 90% of candidates couldn't. Amazing.
Perl 6 is not a big switch, such that when it is thrown/released we will be doing all Perl development with it and dumping 5. Perl 5 development is going to continue for a long time, making this book far from a dead-end.
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Now that the server can handle the load, I can browse the selections. I gotta tell you, I really like what I see. Granted, I am 40 years old so I am looking for new songs as well as 25 year old songs by Ambrosia (don't ask) and there is a lot here. In fact, I'm finding that I have a lot of the newer things (Audioslave, etc.) but it has a bunch of singles from the past n years (where n > 20) that I have been looking for. Lots of songs an oldster like me is looking for and I am old enough to have disposable income. Yep, Apple has me pegged. Bay City Rollers, here I come (don't ask)!
If have lived to see The Residents called mainstream. The end must be near...
When will US media companies learn that breaking the world into regions is a terrible idea?
Err, when countries eliminate their borders and we're living under a one-world government?
Check out the ads. They're not all horrible but Floyd and Nic (warning: white guy rapping "Baby Got Back") are scary.
If it's that simple then I look forward to your new business. Time to walk the walk. Let us all know when it opens so we can patronize it.
Sure we do. I listen to CDs in my car with the top off. I hear most of my music through these little Sony headphones here at work (sorry but the kids aren't interested in all those Renaissance CDs I just bought). My passion for music is what drives me to listen to music when I can. I'd rather hear music through the M&Ks at home but it's not always possible (hardly ever possible, these days).
Excuse me but how poor are you that you own a computer and have a connection to the file trading networks? I thought so. Maybe if you weren't spending all that money on stealing music you could go out and buy yourself some used CDs.
agree with what most other people have posted: $0.99 per 128kb/sec song is overcharging.
Remember that it's not a 128k MP3, it's AAC which Apple claims is higher quality. Anybody know what MP3 rate it's comparable to?
so according to you, college students shouldnt be able to listen to music now?
According to you, if a college student can't afford to buy jeans at the Gap he should just steal them? Why not, you're above getting a job at McDonalds, you're probably above the law, too, right?
Back in the day, if you couldn't afford to buy music, ancient cavepeoples used a device called a radio to hear music. It's free and most caves had radios.
They tell me a company called Porsche makes cars that not all people can afford. Bastards! Why can't they make cars that EVERYONE can afford. Guess you'll need to steal one of those, too. Fight the power, bro'.
Oh crap -- I hope I didn't just upset the Til Tuesday fans ...
I just checked and she's not upset.
:-)
Luckily, all the animation in that movie was in Disney's vector-based computer animation format, so all they had to do was scale it up and clean it a little.
No, "The Lion King" was all raster graphics, not vector-based. Fortunately, the frames are 2k and the Disney digital-to-film people are very smart.
George W. Bush is a cartoon. "The Lion King" is a movie.
There is ALWAYS some idiot conversing on the telephone who is convinced he needs to yell for long distance phone calls.
They preferred to be called "salespeople" rather than "idiots".You do need that second checking account. If you get audited, the IRS wants to see that you're conducting your business like a business and not a hobby. Having a separate checking account and a separate charge card, both used just for the business, help in that department.
The comments weren't directed at me, but I could tell they weren't impressed, for they know not what I do (code Java).
Obligatory bitchy Perl comment (sorry, couldn't resist):
:-) :-) :-)
I think if the past decade has taught us anything, its that gross (or awards) doesn't mean good.
Agreed. However, as far as living up to the hype goes, they're the only objective answer to that. Whether you or I liked "The Lion King" is irrelevant because Simba sold a helluva lot of tickets so, by that objective measure, he lived up to the hype.
There have got to be better examples then that!
Excuse me? "Jurassic Park" and "The Lion King" made over $300 million and "T-2" was #1 at the box office the year it came out (as was "Jurassic Park"--"The Lion King" was #2). All three are Academy Award winners. They'll do.
Name 3 movies in the last 20 years that recieved lots of hype before launch, and ended up deserving it.
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
You'd be suprised how many candidates professed knowledge of an alphabet soup of industry technologies and languages, but had a difficult time correctly forming a "for" statement in C.
During my pass through the dot-coms (actually, it still might be true), the one technical question that would weed people out the fastest was, "Sort a list of strings." That's it. They could do it in C or Perl or pseudo-code orwhatever they wanted to. People who claimed to have 5 years of C experience would get that deer-in-the-headlights look. There would be other questions if they could answer that but 90% of candidates couldn't. Amazing.
Eight times.
Thereafter, the students objectize everything. This leads to situations where you've got horribly bloated code that runs slow as hell.
Or, as I like to say, I shouldn't have to instantiate the world to tell it "Hello". ;-)
Six times.
Make that three times.
This has got to be the worse version yet.
Agreed. It's already crashed twice today. Once when I was scrolling. Once when I clicked a link.
Perl 6 is not a big switch, such that when it is thrown/released we will be doing all Perl development with it and dumping 5. Perl 5 development is going to continue for a long time, making this book far from a dead-end.