I haven't installed the new iLife package yet, but I'd agree that GarageBand in and of itself isn't likely to make people switch, but the ensemble that it is part of, from iLife all the way up to OS X in general, likely would be enough for some people to switch. And GB (or any other iLife app, or iChat, or Expose) might just be the thing that *does* catch someone's eye and gets them off the fence.
Apple just released Logic Pro and Logic Express, so it isn't necessarily a case of just giving up software. Some software is available on both platforms, some only on one.
It's the solar wind instrument that failed on VII, but its working on Voyager I which is about a year behind VII on its journey out of the solar system.
I seem to remember somethign about The Matrix Reloaded getting leaked online prior to theater release. That must have been why it did so poorly at the box office.
Movie and music studios don't want you to sample their product before purchase so they can slip duds past you behind the weight of marketing. THis is more relevant for music really, but if people see a movie online that looks great, they'll want to go to the theater for the eye candy and ambiance (spelling?) regardless. If they download a good album, they'll buy it later. But if the release sucks, no one is going to pay for it later, and that chafes the producers.
It also seems that quite plausible that parents would become even MORE inattentive what their little ones are doing if they had a tag like this on. These tags only give locations, not descriptions of sticking screwdrivers in sockets, eating bleach, drowning in the backyard, etc.
I've been registered with the NYTimes for 4 years and haven't received any spam from them.
Just because you give out an address doesn't mean it will necessarily get spammed. And it isn't difficult to create special accounts (yahoo/ hotmail/ etc) just for this.
entertaining, if not educational is Pacifica's DemocracyNow! radio show. Archives of the show daily show (now 2 hours I believe) are available for download in mp3 or a RealAudio stream within a few days of the broadcast. I used to listen to this a lot but haven't much lately since I scored a bunch of audio books on tape. I'd probably be better off listening to DemocracyNow, but the audio stuff is entertaining. And I ripped about 15 hours of programming from BBC Radio4, which was mentioned previously.
FYI, AudioHijack for OSX will rip RealAudio streams to mp3 or aiff (for further transformation of your choice). I'm sure an equivalent exists for windows and perhaps linux users.
I have a couple live shows where Charlie does that. I personally think its the greatest thing. He was really polite once, just pointing out that it would be great if people wouldn't talk, but another time he tore into someone saying "I don't need to hear this 'Oprah this and that crap' in my solo'". It was awesome that the rest of the crowd hooted and applauded him for saying it.
Charlie Hunter - 8 string (3 bass, 5 guitar - plays the two simultaneously, and it isn't a gimmick). Natty Dread was the album (jazz cover of Marley's great) that got me into it. He has all sorts of albums in his name with quartets, trios, a duo, and a solo album. He has also played with Pound for Pound and TJKirk (who covered T=henolius Monk, J=ames Brown, and Roland Rahsaan Kirk). Norah Jones among many other guests was on his second to last album as well. Also plays with Garage-a-trois, but they haven't released an album yet.
Then there is Medeski Martin and Wood, a great great jazz trio famous for their live jams. Their tonic album is all acoustic, but usually Medeski play the organ. Worth checking out, but you may need to listen to them a couple times. Combustication was the album that got me into them.
Both of these bands are taper-friendly, and Charlie's stuff is available at Archive.org's audio archive, including Garage-a-trois. While you are there, might as well check out Steve Kimock and Garaj Mahal, a couple other killer jazz musicians.
My last recommendation: Jazz is Dead. Jimmy Herring, Alphonso Johnson, a couple other guys I can't remember their names off hand, do jazz covers of Grateful Dead songs. They have at least 2 albums out that are just insane.
The key difference is whether the cash offer is a one-time deal or not. People are more likely to accept even $1 if it is a one-time offer, but if the game is played in rounds and reputation can be a factor, then people turn it down more often.
The title of this topic is kind of misleading, since there is logic underlying both decisions. I thought it was going to be about stuff like Antonio Damasio's research (see his book Descartes Error for more) that shows when someone's emotional centers in the brain are destroyed, they lose the ability to make decisions. They effectively become pure rational machines, but without an emotional center to give the options some sort of value with relation to the person, no decision can be made. It basically showed that rationality depends on emotion in many cases.
But iTMS prevents single track sales if the track is over 7 minutes as well, so I would assume that at least *some* album sales are driven by the desires to get the longer songs.
I'd settle for the option to download longer songs at a higher price. It would be cool if they'd sell really short tracks for a reduced price (say $0.49), regular 3-7 minute tracks for $0.79, and long tracks for $0.99. Plus they should give away the tiny interludes and connector tracks for free.
I give props to the guy for sculpting the case, for sure. I think it looks great, for what it is. I wouldn't want it, but that's just my taste. I think he did a good job and I'm impressed with his skill and planning.
Naysayers are just jealous, methinks.
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Survivor was pretty good. Kind of a cross between Choke and FC. Recommended.
I'll grant that perhaps the Onion has a few more bits o' humor packed into its text, but the Boomer Bible busted my guts plenty. As for depressing, I don't see it, unless you mean that its depressing to have human folly pointed out to you. But even then, the BB does it with style, wit, and grace, which is the sugar needed to swallow the bitter pill of knowledge.
I second this one. Great intro to Ev Psych as well as a nice little biography of Charles Darwin. This book got me hooked on evolutionary approaches to understanding humanity.
Another great book that I feel compliments this is Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. That, and the Durant's Lessons of History. Nice thing about the latter book is that it is only a 100 or so pages of easy readying, but its significant stuff. IF you don't know who the Durant's are, they wrote a few massive histories of civilizaiton (11 volumes, I think) and philosophy. Lessons distills the uh, lessons, they learned in the course of writing the history of the world. Great stuff.
I second this one. Great intro to Ev Psych as well as a nice little biography of Charles Darwin. This book got me hooked on evolutionary approaches to understanding humanity.
Another great book that I feel compliments this is Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. That, and the Durant's Lessons of History. Nice thing about the latter book is that it is only a 100 or so pages of easy readying, but its significant stuff. IF you don't know who the Durant's are, they wrote a few massive histories of civilizaiton (11 volumes, I think) and philosophy. Lessons distills the uh, lessons, they learned in the course of writing the history of the world. Great stuff.
My final recommendations today: Intelligence!
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The other is George Dyson's Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. Incredible history of communication and computing with a pretty cool argument abuot the possible future of computer intelligence. He doesn't follow the well-worn tracks of those who basically posit a Short-Circuit-esque Johnny5 for the future of computers, instead exploring the actual nature of intelligence and how it may emerge uniquely among computer networks. A presentation of the thesis is available at Edge.org.
No, I'm not getting all Christian on you here. It's more of a commentary on humanity and modern society that co-opts the structure of the Holy Bible. Excellent reading indeed.
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Odd Facts Some odd facts about The Boomer Bible . ..
Considering that at least one reviewer called this book "impressively empty-headed" and that the Vatican of American literature (a.k.a. The New York Times) refused to review it at all, the fact that the answer to all of the following questions is "The Boomer Bible" seems odd indeed...
What work of fiction is so diverse in its content that it includes songs, anapestic verse, hymns, slide presentations, commercials, prayers, limericks, mathematical equations, word and number games, treasure hunts, and computer programs?
Given that chapter-and-verse is a poetic form, what work is demonstrably the longest poem ever written in English?
What work of fiction is written in first- second-, and third-person points of view?
What work of fiction contains, or makes significant use of, references to more than 200 works from the canon of English literature?
What work besides the Holy Bible contains more than 12,000 internal references?
What work of any kind other than the Holy Bible is so comprehensive in its subject matter that quotes from its text can be used to comment on virtually any news or feature story in the headlines, from pop culture to hard science to highbrow art to everyday politics?
What work of any kind anticipates and satirizes in its text every single criticism leveled against it by unwitting reviewers?
What work of any kind can be read linearly, concentrically, in random order, or in infinite variations of all of these without either losing coherence or requiring any retroactive reconstruction of linearity to divine its meaning?
What work of any kind has so confused bookstore clerks as to wind up being shelved, variously, in Humor, Fiction, Sociology, Philosophy, Religion, and Bible sections?
Illuminatus! Trilogy Shroedinger's Cat Trilogy Masks of the Illuminati
This is a trilogy of sorts that includes trilogies for the first 2 books of the trilogy. Great reading though, very stimulating, funny, and you'll probably learn something.
The Principia Discordia is a fun read too, and available online. Better to check it out as a book and randomly flip through it though.
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I haven't installed the new iLife package yet, but I'd agree that GarageBand in and of itself isn't likely to make people switch, but the ensemble that it is part of, from iLife all the way up to OS X in general, likely would be enough for some people to switch. And GB (or any other iLife app, or iChat, or Expose) might just be the thing that *does* catch someone's eye and gets them off the fence.
Not entirely true. Reason is fully supported on OS X and OS 9.
Apple just released Logic Pro and Logic Express, so it isn't necessarily a case of just giving up software. Some software is available on both platforms, some only on one.
It's the solar wind instrument that failed on VII, but its working on Voyager I which is about a year behind VII on its journey out of the solar system.
This is very like true. I'd mod you up for saying what I was going to say, albeit I was going to couch it in terms of "I HOPE those G5s are for VPC."
FWIW, I caught the reference. No mod points today, even though it made me smile.
Go to the iPhoto view menu and select By Roll. ALl the folder names are there now. It would be nice for nesting though.
And support for the little videos that digicams can take.
Um, my comment was sarcastic, yo. The Matrix Reloaded did very well, remember? My point was that it had a huge weekend in spite of being leaked.
I seem to remember somethign about The Matrix Reloaded getting leaked online prior to theater release. That must have been why it did so poorly at the box office.
Movie and music studios don't want you to sample their product before purchase so they can slip duds past you behind the weight of marketing. THis is more relevant for music really, but if people see a movie online that looks great, they'll want to go to the theater for the eye candy and ambiance (spelling?) regardless. If they download a good album, they'll buy it later. But if the release sucks, no one is going to pay for it later, and that chafes the producers.
I suspect that this article was submitted here precisely for this reason!
Good points there.
It also seems that quite plausible that parents would become even MORE inattentive what their little ones are doing if they had a tag like this on. These tags only give locations, not descriptions of sticking screwdrivers in sockets, eating bleach, drowning in the backyard, etc.
Metal Gear had some choice translations too.
I've been registered with the NYTimes for 4 years and haven't received any spam from them.
Just because you give out an address doesn't mean it will necessarily get spammed. And it isn't difficult to create special accounts (yahoo/ hotmail/ etc) just for this.
entertaining, if not educational is Pacifica's DemocracyNow! radio show. Archives of the show daily show (now 2 hours I believe) are available for download in mp3 or a RealAudio stream within a few days of the broadcast. I used to listen to this a lot but haven't much lately since I scored a bunch of audio books on tape. I'd probably be better off listening to DemocracyNow, but the audio stuff is entertaining. And I ripped about 15 hours of programming from BBC Radio4, which was mentioned previously.
FYI, AudioHijack for OSX will rip RealAudio streams to mp3 or aiff (for further transformation of your choice). I'm sure an equivalent exists for windows and perhaps linux users.
I have a couple live shows where Charlie does that. I personally think its the greatest thing. He was really polite once, just pointing out that it would be great if people wouldn't talk, but another time he tore into someone saying "I don't need to hear this 'Oprah this and that crap' in my solo'". It was awesome that the rest of the crowd hooted and applauded him for saying it.
Charlie Hunter - 8 string (3 bass, 5 guitar - plays the two simultaneously, and it isn't a gimmick). Natty Dread was the album (jazz cover of Marley's great) that got me into it. He has all sorts of albums in his name with quartets, trios, a duo, and a solo album. He has also played with Pound for Pound and TJKirk (who covered T=henolius Monk, J=ames Brown, and Roland Rahsaan Kirk). Norah Jones among many other guests was on his second to last album as well. Also plays with Garage-a-trois, but they haven't released an album yet.
Then there is Medeski Martin and Wood, a great great jazz trio famous for their live jams. Their tonic album is all acoustic, but usually Medeski play the organ. Worth checking out, but you may need to listen to them a couple times. Combustication was the album that got me into them.
Both of these bands are taper-friendly, and Charlie's stuff is available at Archive.org's audio archive, including Garage-a-trois. While you are there, might as well check out Steve Kimock and Garaj Mahal, a couple other killer jazz musicians.
My last recommendation: Jazz is Dead. Jimmy Herring, Alphonso Johnson, a couple other guys I can't remember their names off hand, do jazz covers of Grateful Dead songs. They have at least 2 albums out that are just insane.
Enjoy!
The key difference is whether the cash offer is a one-time deal or not. People are more likely to accept even $1 if it is a one-time offer, but if the game is played in rounds and reputation can be a factor, then people turn it down more often.
The title of this topic is kind of misleading, since there is logic underlying both decisions. I thought it was going to be about stuff like Antonio Damasio's research (see his book Descartes Error for more) that shows when someone's emotional centers in the brain are destroyed, they lose the ability to make decisions. They effectively become pure rational machines, but without an emotional center to give the options some sort of value with relation to the person, no decision can be made. It basically showed that rationality depends on emotion in many cases.
But iTMS prevents single track sales if the track is over 7 minutes as well, so I would assume that at least *some* album sales are driven by the desires to get the longer songs.
I'd settle for the option to download longer songs at a higher price. It would be cool if they'd sell really short tracks for a reduced price (say $0.49), regular 3-7 minute tracks for $0.79, and long tracks for $0.99. Plus they should give away the tiny interludes and connector tracks for free.
I give props to the guy for sculpting the case, for sure. I think it looks great, for what it is. I wouldn't want it, but that's just my taste. I think he did a good job and I'm impressed with his skill and planning.
Naysayers are just jealous, methinks.
Survivor was pretty good. Kind of a cross between Choke and FC. Recommended.
I'll grant that perhaps the Onion has a few more bits o' humor packed into its text, but the Boomer Bible busted my guts plenty. As for depressing, I don't see it, unless you mean that its depressing to have human folly pointed out to you. But even then, the BB does it with style, wit, and grace, which is the sugar needed to swallow the bitter pill of knowledge.
I second this one. Great intro to Ev Psych as well as a nice little biography of Charles Darwin. This book got me hooked on evolutionary approaches to understanding humanity.
Another great book that I feel compliments this is Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. That, and the Durant's Lessons of History . Nice thing about the latter book is that it is only a 100 or so pages of easy readying, but its significant stuff. IF you don't know who the Durant's are, they wrote a few massive histories of civilizaiton (11 volumes, I think) and philosophy. Lessons distills the uh, lessons, they learned in the course of writing the history of the world. Great stuff.
I second this one. Great intro to Ev Psych as well as a nice little biography of Charles Darwin. This book got me hooked on evolutionary approaches to understanding humanity.
Another great book that I feel compliments this is Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. That, and the Durant's Lessons of History . Nice thing about the latter book is that it is only a 100 or so pages of easy readying, but its significant stuff. IF you don't know who the Durant's are, they wrote a few massive histories of civilizaiton (11 volumes, I think) and philosophy. Lessons distills the uh, lessons, they learned in the course of writing the history of the world. Great stuff.
Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid . Good stuff. A thinking book.
The other is George Dyson's Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. Incredible history of communication and computing with a pretty cool argument abuot the possible future of computer intelligence. He doesn't follow the well-worn tracks of those who basically posit a Short-Circuit-esque Johnny5 for the future of computers, instead exploring the actual nature of intelligence and how it may emerge uniquely among computer networks. A presentation of the thesis is available at Edge.org.
You won't go wrong with these books.
The Boomer Bible.
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No, I'm not getting all Christian on you here. It's more of a commentary on humanity and modern society that co-opts the structure of the Holy Bible. Excellent reading indeed.
Note:
Odd Facts
Some odd facts about The Boomer Bible . .
Considering that at least one reviewer called this book "impressively empty-headed" and that the Vatican of American literature (a.k.a. The New York Times) refused to review it at all, the fact that the answer to all of the following questions is "The Boomer Bible" seems odd indeed...
What work of fiction is so diverse in its content that it includes songs, anapestic verse, hymns, slide presentations, commercials, prayers, limericks, mathematical equations, word and number games, treasure hunts, and computer programs?
Given that chapter-and-verse is a poetic form, what work is demonstrably the longest poem ever written in English?
What work of fiction is written in first- second-, and third-person points of view?
What work of fiction contains, or makes significant use of, references to more than 200 works from the canon of English literature?
What work besides the Holy Bible contains more than 12,000 internal references?
What work of any kind other than the Holy Bible is so comprehensive in its subject matter that quotes from its text can be used to comment on virtually any news or feature story in the headlines, from pop culture to hard science to highbrow art to everyday politics?
What work of any kind anticipates and satirizes in its text every single criticism leveled against it by unwitting reviewers?
What work of any kind can be read linearly, concentrically, in random order, or in infinite variations of all of these without either losing coherence or requiring any retroactive reconstruction of linearity to divine its meaning?
What work of any kind has so confused bookstore clerks as to wind up being shelved, variously, in Humor, Fiction, Sociology, Philosophy, Religion, and Bible sections?
Illuminatus! Trilogy
Shroedinger's Cat Trilogy
Masks of the Illuminati
This is a trilogy of sorts that includes trilogies for the first 2 books of the trilogy. Great reading though, very stimulating, funny, and you'll probably learn something.
The Principia Discordia is a fun read too, and available online. Better to check it out as a book and randomly flip through it though.