Make your music FREE for COMMERCIAL use. Seriously.
Moby's Play: made it free to use for anything. Every song on Play was picked up in at least one major advertising campaign. As a result, Moby is now huge.
Let someone do the advertising for you. (-:
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Re:My dream AI always plays just outside my reach
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Keep Playing With AI
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What I want is AI that will suck at the game when I suck, and get better as I get better.
Like those racing games, where the cars would slow down until you passed them, then fly around with eber-precision and unprecedented speed?
This patent-only license is needed in case the mp3 software is developed in-house or licensed from a third party. Decoder US$ 0.75 per unit or US$ 50 000.00 one-time paid-up
Couldn't the FSF/Redhat/UnitedLinux/SOMEONE become a legal re-distributor of "third-party licensed" decoders by coughing up $50,000, so long as developers were game?
Not that anyone really wants to blow 50 grand, but this might work.
Of COURSE you shouldn't have to pay them extra to not give your domain to someone else..
Although, you DO have to pay Fedex and UPS extra to no break your packages.
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Re:Some haikus for filtering!
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Haiku vs Spam
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NOOOOOO!!
This is such a bad idea!
Usually, I can foresee the newest email virus by the bad grammar ("I send this you for you approval.."), but if I start getting mails that end in semi-readable gibberish like this, I'll NEVER be able to separate the good from the bad! (-:
Mind you, feeding a bunch of data into a read only system to be queried in a high deterministic way is hardly a real demanding task for a database system
Maybe it's not "demanding" from a RDBMS point of view, but that's what almost all sites do -- read data from a database, and MySQL fits this niche perfectly.
Not dozens of pounds or anything, but enough to make me "feel" better and more healthy.. losing the mini-gut I had.
I now walk 20 minutes from the Train to work (and back at the end of the day).
I've nearly stopped drinking Coke and Pepsi.. once in a while.. Also cut back my beer intake from ~1 per day to a couple a week.
Stopped eating take-out for lunch -- my GF usually makes my lunches now; she's the best (-:
And I've reduced my carbohydrate intake. I love my carbs. I love pasta and rice and bread. Sure, I still eat some, but not as much as before.
BUT, since the question was about excercises, I'd say: "get out more". Seriously, those 20 minute walks suck some days, but I know it's good for me, so I (almost always) do it.
Grad: "I know how to design a web page so that it only works under Internet Explorer."
Should read: Grad: "I know how to design a web page." Industry: "Ok, let's see.. [clickityclicky] Wow! It's really messed up." Grad: "Oh. That's 'cause you're using a non-standard browser." Industry: "Uh, no. This browser follows the W3C's reccomendation very closely" Grad: "But it's not the de facto standard... Nobody uses those browsers anyway.. just fire up IE9.3XPMT"
Matt Groening spoke in Montreal a few weeks ago, and he specifically stated that Futurama has "at least one more season" he was hoping for more, and that he also "has a few projects up [his] sleeve"
I'm actually a bit nervous posting in this thread, because the whole thing reeks of flamebait, but:
What about a common toolkit (common-dialogue) system that automagically lower-cases all filenames when entered in the common dialogue?
ie, if KDE/QT or GIMP/GTK+ automatically lowercased any filenames saved or loaded through its common file-loading dialogues.
This would have to be easily turned off, but would solve the problem for most non-power users, while other users could turn it off, and never have to deal with it again.
6. Catalog sales of music are up a little or at least steady. However hit sales are way, way down. The industry believes it to be because of burning.
I believe it to be because anyone who actually likes the "hits" merely has to wait 30 minutes before it comes back up in any top 40 radio station's rotation.
You, in response to this infamous behavior on my part, hack my machine so I can't see it? Way to twist your head up your *ssh*le. What industry thinks that way?
Apparently any industry involving any sort of intellectual property.
Beer 3.2 is still a beta, and will be released when it's content reaches version 5.0.
In the long-standing tradition of Microsoft code-naming upcoming software after city names, rumour has it that Beer 3.2 and 5.0 are code named "Milwaukee" and "Montreal", respectively.
Among other features, such as an improved product image, Beer 5.0 will eliminate bugs such as "tastes like sh*t".
Beer 5.0 is also much more user friendly, allowing users with as much as three years less experience to legally use the product.
FWIW, products like these have been out for some time and still seem to work effectivly. They're *repellants*, not killers.
Exactly. If they actually work properly as repellents, then the insects wouldn't be around long enough to micro-evolve a tolerance for the thing they're avoiding.
A couple years ago, I played with some software that would recognize a tune by analysing the actual music data. I can't remember what it was called, and I only had limited success with it, but I did have some success.
I'd like to play with said software again to see if it has matured.. Anyone know what it might be called?
How do we know it is _actually_ Dr. Wallace answering, and not some clever AI app, in a modern, twisted Turing Test of "your" newest technology?
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Re:Still the Best: Herman Miller Aeron
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Painless Chairs?
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I agree completely with your cross-the-legs problem.
Personally, I hate my aeron. I just sit in it because it's easier than sitting in my old chair and answering my boss' questions about why I don't like my $1800 chair.
Here's what I do appreciate: - I LOVE the "fabric" they're made out of. - I love that the arm rests are adjustable. - I like that the lumbar support comes off -- it's sitting on my desk -- yes, I've tried it extensively in and out.
Overall, though, I don't find the chair comfortable. We added forward-tilt last week, so it's definitely better now, but my back was much more comfortable in my old (mid-range -- $50-100) chair. My lower back actually HURTS now when I sit in anything BUT the aeron. This was never a problem before. And my upper-back/neck get sore when I _do_ sit in it.
Definitely not worth the boatload of cash we had to shell out for them, if you ask me.
Unsatisfied, to say the least. My co-workers seem to really like theirs, though.
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Make your music FREE (for personal use)!
Make your music FREE for COMMERCIAL use.
Seriously.
Moby's Play: made it free to use for anything. Every song on Play was picked up in at least one major advertising campaign. As a result, Moby is now huge.
Let someone do the advertising for you. (-:
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What I want is AI that will suck at the game when I suck, and get better as I get better.
Like those racing games, where the cars would slow down until you passed them, then fly around with eber-precision and unprecedented speed?
No thanks. That just gets annoying.
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a perfect example (flash warning).
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This patent-only license is needed in case the mp3 software is developed in-house or licensed from a third party. Decoder US$ 0.75 per unit or US$ 50 000.00 one-time paid-up
Couldn't the FSF/Redhat/UnitedLinux/SOMEONE become a legal re-distributor of "third-party licensed" decoders by coughing up $50,000, so long as developers were game?
Not that anyone really wants to blow 50 grand, but this might work.
Or not.
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rfc2606 says that you, Mr. 456/23, do not exist.
HAND.
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Of COURSE you shouldn't have to pay them extra to not give your domain to someone else..
Although, you DO have to pay Fedex and UPS extra to no break your packages.
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NOOOOOO!!
This is such a bad idea!
Usually, I can foresee the newest email virus by the bad grammar ("I send this you for you approval.."), but if I start getting mails that end in semi-readable gibberish like this, I'll NEVER be able to separate the good from the bad! (-:
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[joke]
Check out the WAST. It's free, and IMHO, better, and easier to use than ab (apache benchmark)... although, it's comparing tangerines to oranges.
http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com/
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Mind you, feeding a bunch of data into a read only system to be queried in a high deterministic way is hardly a real demanding task for a database system
Maybe it's not "demanding" from a RDBMS point of view, but that's what almost all sites do -- read data from a database, and MySQL fits this niche perfectly.
S
Not dozens of pounds or anything, but enough to make me "feel" better and more healthy.. losing the mini-gut I had.
I now walk 20 minutes from the Train to work (and back at the end of the day).
I've nearly stopped drinking Coke and Pepsi.. once in a while.. Also cut back my beer intake from ~1 per day to a couple a week.
Stopped eating take-out for lunch -- my GF usually makes my lunches now; she's the best (-:
And I've reduced my carbohydrate intake. I love my carbs. I love pasta and rice and bread. Sure, I still eat some, but not as much as before.
BUT, since the question was about excercises, I'd say: "get out more". Seriously, those 20 minute walks suck some days, but I know it's good for me, so I (almost always) do it.
S
Grad: "I know how to design a web page so that it only works under Internet Explorer."
Should read:
Grad: "I know how to design a web page."
Industry: "Ok, let's see.. [clickityclicky] Wow! It's really messed up."
Grad: "Oh. That's 'cause you're using a non-standard browser."
Industry: "Uh, no. This browser follows the W3C's reccomendation very closely"
Grad: "But it's not the de facto standard... Nobody uses those browsers anyway.. just fire up IE9.3XPMT"
Their company name is "Gyration" what were you EXPECTING?
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Matt Groening spoke in Montreal a few weeks ago, and he specifically stated that Futurama has "at least one more season" he was hoping for more, and that he also "has a few projects up [his] sleeve"
I'm looking forward to said sleeve-projects.
S
I'm actually a bit nervous posting in this thread, because the whole thing reeks of flamebait, but:
What about a common toolkit (common-dialogue) system that automagically lower-cases all filenames when entered in the common dialogue?
ie, if KDE/QT or GIMP/GTK+ automatically lowercased any filenames saved or loaded through its common file-loading dialogues.
This would have to be easily turned off, but would solve the problem for most non-power users, while other users could turn it off, and never have to deal with it again.
Just an idea.
OTOH, people are probably already somewhat used to this. If I go to http://slashdot.org/CoMMenTs.pL, I get a 404.
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6. Catalog sales of music are up a little or at least steady. However hit sales are way, way down. The industry believes it to be because of burning.
I believe it to be because anyone who actually likes the "hits" merely has to wait 30 minutes before it comes back up in any top 40 radio station's rotation.
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Too bad he hasn't learned basic rules of HTML:A M%201_map.gif
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~barrettjf/Images\T
Backslashes and spaces. Pfft. (fixed in the link above).
(-:
That said, someone else prolly did the site.
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You, in response to this infamous behavior on my part, hack my machine so I can't see it? Way to twist your head up your *ssh*le. What industry thinks that way?
Apparently any industry involving any sort of intellectual property.
S
I know it's not a novel (or maybe it is... ?), but Arlington_Road (film) is amazing. Definitely in my top 10 movies..
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Beer 3.2 is still a beta, and will be released when it's content reaches version 5.0.
In the long-standing tradition of Microsoft code-naming upcoming software after city names, rumour has it that Beer 3.2 and 5.0 are code named "Milwaukee" and "Montreal", respectively.
Among other features, such as an improved product image, Beer 5.0 will eliminate bugs such as "tastes like sh*t".
Beer 5.0 is also much more user friendly, allowing users with as much as three years less experience to legally use the product.
S
FWIW, products like these have been out for some time and still seem to work effectivly. They're *repellants*, not killers.
Exactly.
If they actually work properly as repellents, then the insects wouldn't be around long enough to micro-evolve a tolerance for the thing they're avoiding.
S
Nice.
(-:
Reminds me of elgooG, the Google mirror.
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# Commercial binaries are not compatible with libraries compiled with the new GCC.
Does this affect VMWare?
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A couple years ago, I played with some software that would recognize a tune by analysing the actual music data. I can't remember what it was called, and I only had limited success with it, but I did have some success.
I'd like to play with said software again to see if it has matured.. Anyone know what it might be called?
S
How do we know it is _actually_ Dr. Wallace answering, and not some clever AI app, in a modern, twisted Turing Test of "your" newest technology?
S
I agree completely with your cross-the-legs problem.
Personally, I hate my aeron.
I just sit in it because it's easier than sitting in my old chair and answering my boss' questions about why I don't like my $1800 chair.
Here's what I do appreciate:
- I LOVE the "fabric" they're made out of.
- I love that the arm rests are adjustable.
- I like that the lumbar support comes off -- it's sitting on my desk -- yes, I've tried it extensively in and out.
Overall, though, I don't find the chair comfortable. We added forward-tilt last week, so it's definitely better now, but my back was much more comfortable in my old (mid-range -- $50-100) chair. My lower back actually HURTS now when I sit in anything BUT the aeron. This was never a problem before. And my upper-back/neck get sore when I _do_ sit in it.
Definitely not worth the boatload of cash we had to shell out for them, if you ask me.
Unsatisfied, to say the least.
My co-workers seem to really like theirs, though.
S