Setting up a specialized filesystem for music storage seems both overkill in terms of implementation and maintenance issues, and underkill in terms of features. What would be more appropriate is a database table schema that stored music and lots of metadata (Artist info, title/album/recording/remix/venue info about a track, genre information, record label, user ratings/comments) about different recordings, storing the recordings themselves as either BLOBS of mp3s/oggs or (probably better) indexes into a normal filesystem containing the mp3s. Write a quick table browser to go through the collection, and construct a bunch of SQL queries to generate playlists by artist or genre.
What an optimist. The aesthetics of vehicle design don't necessarily get _better_ over time. In fact, if you look at cars over the past thirty years, the overall trend has been to get blander and less-distinctive looking. Compare a '70s Grand Turino to today's Ford Taurus. Or a '79 Vette to the blobby, blah 1997 Firebird. So it makes complete sense that the chunky, cool-looking NX-01 could evolve into the smoother, more advanced-but-less-cool-looking NCC-1701.
Lego is being amazingly clueful about this. I'm happy that they're not going to be pissy about the hacker community playing with their toys, and I hope that they check in on this thread and see how much support and goodwill their position is garnering.
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Setting up a specialized filesystem for music storage seems both overkill in terms of implementation and maintenance issues, and underkill in terms of features. What would be more appropriate is a database table schema that stored music and lots of metadata (Artist info, title/album/recording/remix/venue info about a track, genre information, record label, user ratings/comments) about different recordings, storing the recordings themselves as either BLOBS of mp3s/oggs or (probably better) indexes into a normal filesystem containing the mp3s. Write a quick table browser to go through the collection, and construct a bunch of SQL queries to generate playlists by artist or genre.
According to a couple fan sites, and to TV Guide, the new Enterrprise episode, "Silent Enemy", airs this Wednesday.
Yeah... if I remember correctly, warp is a base 10 logarithmic scale, similar to the richter scale.
What an optimist. The aesthetics of vehicle design don't necessarily get _better_ over time. In fact, if you look at cars over the past thirty years, the overall trend has been to get blander and less-distinctive looking. Compare a '70s Grand Turino to today's Ford Taurus. Or a '79 Vette to the blobby, blah 1997 Firebird. So it makes complete sense that the chunky, cool-looking NX-01 could evolve into the smoother, more advanced-but-less-cool-looking NCC-1701.
Lego is being amazingly clueful about this. I'm happy that they're not going to be pissy about the hacker community playing with their toys, and I hope that they check in on this thread and see how much support and goodwill their position is garnering.
Yahoo is carrying it.
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http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.y
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