It looks really nice. Especially the addition of "Base", the database portion which appears to be much more well thought out than most "easy to use" database products. FileMaker Pro? Forget about it. More like FileMangler Pro!;P
So how can you get a whole bunch of dumb small things doing something smart?
I can tell you how NOT to do it. Take a look at the U.S. congress, senate and pesidential cabinet and you'll see what happens when a bunch of dumb small things do something stupid on e adaily basis.;P
IP as in Internet Protocol or IP as in Intellectual Property. I tell ya kids... someday we're going to TLA ourselves into a language that means nothing and says multiple things all at once. I'm getting old.
I still don't get what the big deal is about. People have done this kind of thing before. But I can't seem to find any information about who else was on the flight with him.
... the robot toy bear in A.I. that keeps the A.I. kid company on his entire journey through life. The only difference is that a toy like the one in A.I. would actually do a pretty good job and "just work". So it's probably an Apple product. Watch for Sony to jump on the bandwagon and produce something that looks like Astroman to watch over your kid. There will undoubtedly be an open source version made out of discarded Teddy Ruxpins, X10 cameras, and PDA guts and will probably resemble the Paddingtonstein bear. (Remember folks, I'm a free/open source proponent, so this is what is called a JOKE) Then Grundig (a German company) will make Nanabot which will be very strict and won't spare the rod. There are bound to be some designer nanny bots from various "stylish" companies that will cost more than an SUV but will fit in with your Conran and Ikea furnished rooms. And of course, don't forget the fear factor... In capitalist America, we will have security mom avatar bots armed with land-to-air missiles and night vision that will be trained to say, "Don't go near the bushes, there are terrorists in there" and "Remember kids. Don't trust anyone who is Unamerican. If they aren't with us they're against us! Now let's play hopscotch"!
No. But, when I finished soldering my Sinclair ZX-80 together in 1981 and I typed:
"What is the circumference of the world?"
at the prompt and got "SYNTAX ERROR", I knew something was wrong. I shudder to think that if Google existed back then, I never would have gotten into computers as much as I have now because I COULD have asked that kind of question and gotten some responses. I suppose I would have wound up focusing on other interests (electronics, kite building, mechanics, etc...)
Say what you will... at least I learned how to share early on whic probably explains why I use Free/Open software now. Any kid on the block could have asked for time on my compute cluster and I would have been happy to give it.
(Just in case you are a humor challeneged reader and were born after 1980, I am using something called 'sarcasm'. ie. I didn't mean the above seriously.)
Actually, I'm quite surprised to find that there aren't that many people in my generation (1965-1970) who are heavily involved with computers. It just doesn't make sense.
Star Trek the Original series is where I first learned the word "computer" when I was a three year old (c. 1973). The next week I tried to build one using all my wind up toys, string and the legs of the kitchen table. My mom asked what I was doing and I said, "building a computer". It was an obsession that continues to this day. At that age, Star Trek posed the concept to me of a machine that could figure anything out and answer all my questions. What child wouldnt' be inspired by that?
Games don't drive hardware unless you are the CEO of Alienware or some hole in the wall computer shop that builds gaming systems. What will drive these CPUs to larger market share is virtualization. Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix alludes to that. I expect that they will take the virtualization technology and incorporate it into some vuture version of Windows in order to provide much more robust system recovery. Hard drive space is cheap, RAM is still relatively cheap and if Dual cores get cheaper and faster, the home user will probably be able to transparently take advantage of virtualization. That is what will drive the dual core market. That's the only reason I am considering a dual Opteron solution for the home server. (Expect to see home servers a commonplace fixture in the future. They will be called something else, but they will be home servers)
...and I say that music is the only reason to ever use a computer and business and profit motive are reasons to NEVER touch one.
I would have to say it's a toss up between Mac OS and my Atari ST. When I was a hardcore Mac OS (pre OS X) and Atari ST user, I actually made a lot of original music. I'd spend about 6-8 hours a day working on original stuff and usually came up with about two to three songs per day, four or five on a good day. But then college ended and I couldn't afford a Mac of my own and I wanted more than my ST provided me with. Namely the audio capabilities of the Mac. So I wound up knuckling under and got a PC with Windows 3.1, WAVE audio editor, Cakewalk 5, and S.A.W. (Software Audio Workshop). I found that it took me a lot longer to actually make music because there were all these settings to mess with either out of necessity of just "what does this do"-ness. Then I moved to Win95 and Cakewalk Pro Audio + Syntrillium Cool Edit. That made things a little easier, but I still had a lot of tweaking that was necessary to do per song arrangement just to squeeze performance out of the box. It wasn't until I hit Windows 98 (first edition) + Cool Edit Pro + Steinberg Wavelab + Steinberg VST 24 that I finally found something on the Windows platform that was almost as good as what I had in college on a Mac Performa running OS 7 and Opcode's MIDI interface/patchbay. But it was still lacking. Fortunately, Linux's audio/MIDI stuff is finally catching up and I have to say that Rosegarden is starting to make me feel like my old self again. But I can't say that I was ever more productive than when I used a Mac or an Atari ST.
He did what all real men do and wrote a web interface in PHP that allows him to list out all of his music on a web page. He can select individual tracks, entire albums or a collection of albums by an artist and then generate a *.m3u file that gets sent to the client and with proper file association, launches the proper media player. The playlist just contains http URLs in it that point to what he chose. Since bandwidth restrictions aren't a part of what this kid is asking for, that should be fine. Oh yeah.. you also have to alter the mime types configuration on your Apache server so that the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis data is streamed via http rather than downloading it as a file I believe.
But kid... try this. Put a few MP3s in a directory on your Apache htdoc path. Then go to any box that has a web browser and some kind of media player that will play MP3s and put in a URL like this:
If you are smart and you use Winamp or Xmms, Xine or MPlayer, you will just hear the song start to play. No SAMBA needed. Now... the part about not having to install a player, that's a different kettle of fish and much harder to achieve. I'd recommend that you search the net for Java media players. Once you find one, you'll need to figure otu a way to deliver that to the client and then send that player a playlist with http URLs.
If you don't get any of what I'm saying, then you really don't need to be asking the question.
My thought exactly. It reminds me so much of KDE that I think I will be sticking with my custom pseudo Mac OS X theme for my wife, kid and folks and will be moving to Enlightenment 0.17 for myself. If you haven't checked out Enlightenment recently, you should. It's as fast as twm and has more eye candy thatn any other environment out there. Now... if only Evidence (the Enlightened file manager) would get to a point where it could be used reliably for day to day use.
...that should remain secret from you. I hope that the Bush admin locks this terrorist in prison and throws away the key. The reason that mag stripes where chosen as a way of encoding the information on your IDs was to keep you from screwing with it. You'd better believe that people who do this kind of thing are up to no good. What possible reason do you have to not trust the authorities who are responsible for access to this information? Business and the Bush administration only have your best interests at heart and just want to keep the entire world safe. I think the problem with people like this guy is that they are too smart for their own good and ask too many questions. When you have an inquisitive person on your hands, you have a dangerous individual on your hands. A lo[tt] of people are complaining that the state of today's educational institutions is bad. I say they are wrong. There is too much access to information and people who are encouraged to think a little too much. If anything, we need some kind of informational quota system to make certain that people with more natural inquisitiveness are limited more strictly from information than people who are less inquisitive. If this can be done, the world will be a safer place. I can't believe that people would applaud the work of a criminal like this. It's disgusting.
Look, it's simple. There are businesses built around the traditional landline system. Businesses that make a lot of people a lot of money. And when those businesses make money, the shareholders make money. As soon as some hippies come around trying to steal business with a free and cheaper way of doing phones and long distance, they are doing serious damage to a vaunted infrastructure that has made many millionaires. This applies to open source too but that's another discussion.
What I've noticed is that there are tons of people who are looking to damage this system because they think that they are doing something noble or for the greater good. But they don't realize that by hurting businesses they are only hurting themselves. I can just hear the liberal weenies crying out now. How, you may ask, does taking down a big bad evil corporation hurt us? Open your mind and read on...
Let's say that telco X who sells local and long distance service in an unregulated market has achieved the largest market share because of their good services. Telco X is making a lot of money and the shareholders are makeing a lot of money. You win! It's simple really.
But, you whiny liberals always want to ask the question, "how does that help me"? Never satisfied by anything as a group, are you? Well, Telco X takes a good chunk of their profits and puts it into investments in private firms that and maybe some VC outings. Those companies benefit from the money that telco X has given them and they make tremendous profit. Let's say the CEO of one of the companies decides to buy a luxury yacht for his family. He pays maybe $500,000 for it. That money goes to a private compay that employs about 25 people. There you go! Indirectly, telco X has paid some of the wages for the employees of the boat company. You win!
Still not convinced? Well, let's focus on philanthropy because every major company gives to charity quite freely. Telco X takes another chunk of it's money and spends it on promoting and planning a race for disabled children. The money pays for hotdogs, signage, lemonade, bags of chips, and t-shirts with the corporate logo. The families get to see their kids compete in a race tht would have never happend if it were only based on donations from the public. That is because the individual is selfish and corporations are giving. Again, you win!
So it makes sense that Costa Rica would make this move. The reason that they are so well off compared to all the communist/socialist states in South America is because they have embraced the corporation in it's proper role: the benevolent provider. Treat the corporations right and they will treat you right. Never forget that and make it your life's mo[tt]o. If you oppose corporations, you are only hurting yourself, because no matter how much you may dream, the good intentions of individuals never amount to as much as the kindness and goodness of corporations. Because, after all, we are all part of the corporations. We work for them because we ARE them. Never let anyone tell you any different. Anyone who does is a filthy hippy liar.
...fear fashion is scaring people away from potentially rewarding relationships. If we are to follow through and make everyone safe we must also push through legislation that requires every bar in the country to post a sign on the door saying:
WARNING: The guys in this bar tha[tt] may approach you have not had criminal background checks or FBI checks done on them. Interact with them at your own risk!!
Mr. Vest, let me be the first to say that you deserve a criminal background check yourself. As well as a psych eval. I'll bet there's some unsavory events in your past that you'd prefer other don't know about. I sincerely hope that someone digs some of that up and then posts up a dating profile for you on true.com.
You must have one weird grandmother. All six of my grandmothers (on my father's side) are not only interested in Opteron clusters, but have full Alpha clusters in their basements to serve out recipe databases that contain centuries of family favorites.
...I thought that I should go to/etc and look for linux.conf.au and then I realized that this was something completely different. I need to get out more.;P
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It looks really nice. Especially the addition of "Base", the database portion which appears to be much more well thought out than most "easy to use" database products. FileMaker Pro? Forget about it. More like FileMangler Pro! ;P
I can tell you how NOT to do it. Take a look at the U.S. congress, senate and pesidential cabinet and you'll see what happens when a bunch of dumb small things do something stupid on e adaily basis. ;P
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IP as in Internet Protocol or IP as in Intellectual Property. I tell ya kids... someday we're going to TLA ourselves into a language that means nothing and says multiple things all at once. I'm getting old.
And what does Han Solo have to do with anything...? ;P
I still don't get what the big deal is about. People have done this kind of thing before. But I can't seem to find any information about who else was on the flight with him.
... the robot toy bear in A.I. that keeps the A.I. kid company on his entire journey through life. The only difference is that a toy like the one in A.I. would actually do a pretty good job and "just work". So it's probably an Apple product. Watch for Sony to jump on the bandwagon and produce something that looks like Astroman to watch over your kid. There will undoubtedly be an open source version made out of discarded Teddy Ruxpins, X10 cameras, and PDA guts and will probably resemble the Paddingtonstein bear. (Remember folks, I'm a free/open source proponent, so this is what is called a JOKE) Then Grundig (a German company) will make Nanabot which will be very strict and won't spare the rod. There are bound to be some designer nanny bots from various "stylish" companies that will cost more than an SUV but will fit in with your Conran and Ikea furnished rooms. And of course, don't forget the fear factor... In capitalist America, we will have security mom avatar bots armed with land-to-air missiles and night vision that will be trained to say, "Don't go near the bushes, there are terrorists in there" and "Remember kids. Don't trust anyone who is Unamerican. If they aren't with us they're against us! Now let's play hopscotch"!
No. But, when I finished soldering my Sinclair ZX-80 together in 1981 and I typed:
"What is the circumference of the world?"
at the prompt and got "SYNTAX ERROR", I knew something was wrong. I shudder to think that if Google existed back then, I never would have gotten into computers as much as I have now because I COULD have asked that kind of question and gotten some responses. I suppose I would have wound up focusing on other interests (electronics, kite building, mechanics, etc...)
Say what you will... at least I learned how to share early on whic probably explains why I use Free/Open software now. Any kid on the block could have asked for time on my compute cluster and I would have been happy to give it.
Yeah. But they don't matter. They're green. ;P
(Just in case you are a humor challeneged reader and were born after 1980, I am using something called 'sarcasm'. ie. I didn't mean the above seriously.)
Actually, I'm quite surprised to find that there aren't that many people in my generation (1965-1970) who are heavily involved with computers. It just doesn't make sense.
No. She probably did when I was a teen and first started to play around with computers though. Now it's more like once every two or three years. ;P
No. It ran Playskool Windup 1973. ;P
Star Trek the Original series is where I first learned the word "computer" when I was a three year old (c. 1973). The next week I tried to build one using all my wind up toys, string and the legs of the kitchen table. My mom asked what I was doing and I said, "building a computer". It was an obsession that continues to this day. At that age, Star Trek posed the concept to me of a machine that could figure anything out and answer all my questions. What child wouldnt' be inspired by that?
Games don't drive hardware unless you are the CEO of Alienware or some hole in the wall computer shop that builds gaming systems. What will drive these CPUs to larger market share is virtualization. Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix alludes to that. I expect that they will take the virtualization technology and incorporate it into some vuture version of Windows in order to provide much more robust system recovery. Hard drive space is cheap, RAM is still relatively cheap and if Dual cores get cheaper and faster, the home user will probably be able to transparently take advantage of virtualization. That is what will drive the dual core market. That's the only reason I am considering a dual Opteron solution for the home server. (Expect to see home servers a commonplace fixture in the future. They will be called something else, but they will be home servers)
That's OK dude. It's not Tuesday, so this discussion no longer interests me. BTW, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claws say: "Hi"! ;P
...and I say that music is the only reason to ever use a computer and business and profit motive are reasons to NEVER touch one.
I would have to say it's a toss up between Mac OS and my Atari ST. When I was a hardcore Mac OS (pre OS X) and Atari ST user, I actually made a lot of original music. I'd spend about 6-8 hours a day working on original stuff and usually came up with about two to three songs per day, four or five on a good day. But then college ended and I couldn't afford a Mac of my own and I wanted more than my ST provided me with. Namely the audio capabilities of the Mac. So I wound up knuckling under and got a PC with Windows 3.1, WAVE audio editor, Cakewalk 5, and S.A.W. (Software Audio Workshop). I found that it took me a lot longer to actually make music because there were all these settings to mess with either out of necessity of just "what does this do"-ness. Then I moved to Win95 and Cakewalk Pro Audio + Syntrillium Cool Edit. That made things a little easier, but I still had a lot of tweaking that was necessary to do per song arrangement just to squeeze performance out of the box. It wasn't until I hit Windows 98 (first edition) + Cool Edit Pro + Steinberg Wavelab + Steinberg VST 24 that I finally found something on the Windows platform that was almost as good as what I had in college on a Mac Performa running OS 7 and Opcode's MIDI interface/patchbay. But it was still lacking. Fortunately, Linux's audio/MIDI stuff is finally catching up and I have to say that Rosegarden is starting to make me feel like my old self again. But I can't say that I was ever more productive than when I used a Mac or an Atari ST.
He did what all real men do and wrote a web interface in PHP that allows him to list out all of his music on a web page. He can select individual tracks, entire albums or a collection of albums by an artist and then generate a *.m3u file that gets sent to the client and with proper file association, launches the proper media player. The playlist just contains http URLs in it that point to what he chose. Since bandwidth restrictions aren't a part of what this kid is asking for, that should be fine. Oh yeah.. you also have to alter the mime types configuration on your Apache server so that the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis data is streamed via http rather than downloading it as a file I believe.
But kid... try this. Put a few MP3s in a directory on your Apache htdoc path. Then go to any box that has a web browser and some kind of media player that will play MP3s and put in a URL like this:
http://myapacheserver.mydomain.net/mymp3s/cat stevens/wild world.mp3
If you are smart and you use Winamp or Xmms, Xine or MPlayer, you will just hear the song start to play. No SAMBA needed. Now... the part about not having to install a player, that's a different kettle of fish and much harder to achieve. I'd recommend that you search the net for Java media players. Once you find one, you'll need to figure otu a way to deliver that to the client and then send that player a playlist with http URLs.
If you don't get any of what I'm saying, then you really don't need to be asking the question.
See what happens when you use Microsoft product? Boy you must feel silly now.
My thought exactly. It reminds me so much of KDE that I think I will be sticking with my custom pseudo Mac OS X theme for my wife, kid and folks and will be moving to Enlightenment 0.17 for myself. If you haven't checked out Enlightenment recently, you should. It's as fast as twm and has more eye candy thatn any other environment out there. Now... if only Evidence (the Enlightened file manager) would get to a point where it could be used reliably for day to day use.
...that should remain secret from you. I hope that the Bush admin locks this terrorist in prison and throws away the key. The reason that mag stripes where chosen as a way of encoding the information on your IDs was to keep you from screwing with it. You'd better believe that people who do this kind of thing are up to no good. What possible reason do you have to not trust the authorities who are responsible for access to this information? Business and the Bush administration only have your best interests at heart and just want to keep the entire world safe. I think the problem with people like this guy is that they are too smart for their own good and ask too many questions. When you have an inquisitive person on your hands, you have a dangerous individual on your hands. A lo[tt] of people are complaining that the state of today's educational institutions is bad. I say they are wrong. There is too much access to information and people who are encouraged to think a little too much. If anything, we need some kind of informational quota system to make certain that people with more natural inquisitiveness are limited more strictly from information than people who are less inquisitive. If this can be done, the world will be a safer place. I can't believe that people would applaud the work of a criminal like this. It's disgusting.
Look, it's simple. There are businesses built around the traditional landline system. Businesses that make a lot of people a lot of money. And when those businesses make money, the shareholders make money. As soon as some hippies come around trying to steal business with a free and cheaper way of doing phones and long distance, they are doing serious damage to a vaunted infrastructure that has made many millionaires. This applies to open source too but that's another discussion.
What I've noticed is that there are tons of people who are looking to damage this system because they think that they are doing something noble or for the greater good. But they don't realize that by hurting businesses they are only hurting themselves. I can just hear the liberal weenies crying out now. How, you may ask, does taking down a big bad evil corporation hurt us? Open your mind and read on...
Let's say that telco X who sells local and long distance service in an unregulated market has achieved the largest market share because of their good services. Telco X is making a lot of money and the shareholders are makeing a lot of money. You win! It's simple really.
But, you whiny liberals always want to ask the question, "how does that help me"? Never satisfied by anything as a group, are you? Well, Telco X takes a good chunk of their profits and puts it into investments in private firms that and maybe some VC outings. Those companies benefit from the money that telco X has given them and they make tremendous profit. Let's say the CEO of one of the companies decides to buy a luxury yacht for his family. He pays maybe $500,000 for it. That money goes to a private compay that employs about 25 people. There you go! Indirectly, telco X has paid some of the wages for the employees of the boat company. You win!
Still not convinced? Well, let's focus on philanthropy because every major company gives to charity quite freely. Telco X takes another chunk of it's money and spends it on promoting and planning a race for disabled children. The money pays for hotdogs, signage, lemonade, bags of chips, and t-shirts with the corporate logo. The families get to see their kids compete in a race tht would have never happend if it were only based on donations from the public. That is because the individual is selfish and corporations are giving. Again, you win!
So it makes sense that Costa Rica would make this move. The reason that they are so well off compared to all the communist/socialist states in South America is because they have embraced the corporation in it's proper role: the benevolent provider. Treat the corporations right and they will treat you right. Never forget that and make it your life's mo[tt]o. If you oppose corporations, you are only hurting yourself, because no matter how much you may dream, the good intentions of individuals never amount to as much as the kindness and goodness of corporations. Because, after all, we are all part of the corporations. We work for them because we ARE them. Never let anyone tell you any different. Anyone who does is a filthy hippy liar.
...fear fashion is scaring people away from potentially rewarding relationships. If we are to follow through and make everyone safe we must also push through legislation that requires every bar in the country to post a sign on the door saying:
WARNING: The guys in this bar tha[tt] may approach you have not had criminal background checks or FBI checks done on them. Interact with them at your own risk!!
Mr. Vest, let me be the first to say that you deserve a criminal background check yourself. As well as a psych eval. I'll bet there's some unsavory events in your past that you'd prefer other don't know about. I sincerely hope that someone digs some of that up and then posts up a dating profile for you on true.com.
You must have one weird grandmother. All six of my grandmothers (on my father's side) are not only interested in Opteron clusters, but have full Alpha clusters in their basements to serve out recipe databases that contain centuries of family favorites.
man pages are for gurly-men! Real men use 'cat' and 'strings' for their documentation!! ;P
...I thought that I should go to /etc and look for linux.conf.au and then I realized that this was something completely different. I need to get out more. ;P