<asr> 'fo sheezy.
<Sabboth> what the fuck does that mean in english? you should understand that having a day job precludes me from 'keeping it real' and as such, I lack a certain familiarity with the language of the 'streets' as it were.
The Arrogant Worms are way ahead of you with their track "No Sale/No Store":
This week! This week only! No money down! No payments till Spring! No payments in Spring! No payments in Summer! No payments ever! When? This week! This week only! We pay the GST! We pay the PST! We pay for delivery! We pay for everything! How do we do it? How do we offer these fabulous deals?
VOLUME!
We've got the most! The best! The worst! We've got it all! We've got everything! Except one thing! What's that? We've got... NO STORE! No products! So come on down! This week! This week only! No parking problems! No parking payments! No parking lot! You don't have to park! You don't even have to come! So don't come down! Stay away! This week! Every week! Every year! No money down! No payment ever!
DRM is a neccessary evil, unfortunately, because no record company, in their right mind, would agree to selling media without it.
Not true. I get a lot of good music from there, completely DRM free. Sure, there's none of the big labels, but that doesn't affect the quality at all. Just the names you recognise.
(Oh, and a plug for my program for Linux users: eMusic/J)
I think you misunderstood the article. It's not saying "people found these styles good". It's saying "people found these tracks good if they thought others thought they were good". At least, that's what I got from it.
Oh, weird. It shows up in Firefox fine. Although I think there should be a clearer link to the downloadable versions (which are on the sf project page). I'll chase that up now. Cheers.
...to each of these, is iRATE radio which uses collaberative filtering and user ranking of tracks to give you freely available music that you (hopefully) like.
Not quite. To start with, that site claims my ISP is 'net.nz'. That's pretty broad:) Secondly, the first random quote I got said "No, I am not a meat popsicle". I think it's been shown that the RI/MPAA folks are nothing more than meat popsicles.
An almost similar thing happen(s|ed) here. One of the major ISPs pulled out of the central peering point, and also dropped peering with one of the other large ISPs (or something like that, anyway). The net result was that communication between two people who may have lived next door was likely routed via Australia. This also occured at a time when people were quotaed on international traffic. I'm not sure what the situation now is however. Hopefully the ISP stopped acting like a jerk, but I doubt it.
When I got my MP3 player, I got a set of Shure e2s with it. If not connected to anything, they are effectively earplugs. When listening to the player, I can happily have the volume right down because a) they seem to be louder for a given volume level on the player (something to watch for if switching between them and cheap earbuds) and b) there is no external noise.
As much as I like them for sitting down and working (screening out people around me, loud machinery hums, whatever), I still find myself using earbuds a lot. There are two reasons for this. One is that when walking around I like to hear surrounding noise, cars nearby when I'm crossing the road, people calling out to me, or whatever. The other is that the e2s are annoying to put in/take out repeatedly.
This said, I'd recommend that people look into getting something similar as it does make for nice quiet environments (sometimes I'll have them in with the player turned off), and it's also interesting to see what parts of music you can hear with quality earphones that you never knew existed beforehand.
I've had a Palm m125 for a few years now, and bout 18 months ago it developed this problem. What I did to deal with it was get an SD card, and the pay-for copy of CardBackup, which allows you to schedule backups of the Palm's memory to the SD card (the shareware doesn't do scheduling, you may be able to live without that and just do it manually, but sometimes I forget about it for ages, and by the time I change the batteries the Palm won't even turn on). So I have it automatically backup up to the card once a day, and after hotsync. Then when I change the batteries, I just run the program from the card to put it all back.
This may be a useful solution for those of you who can't participate in the suit and don't feel the need to go buy a new device.
(No association with the program or the author, I just like it because it made my m125 useful again.)
It doesn't require Java web start. You can also download builds, however JWS is the easiest way of having it work for people, and having it autoupdate.
If you don't like using the java interface, there is also kirate, which is a plugin for KDE's noatun.
it's not so bad, I've done similar things with ham radio transmitters. All I did was use a handheld, removed the antenna, and carried a paperclip to use in place, so that I could change the reception abilities of the receiver. Through turning around and blocking the signal with your body you can relatively easily get a direction. You don't need to do fancy triangulations involving signal strength.
That sounds quite different to what we have (in New Zealand). We have a three-year undergrad program, where you have your major set from the outset, although it is pretty easy to change. In my case, a BSc in computer science, I was required to do a few particular cosc papers, a small amount of maths, some more of any science. This added up to four of the seven or eight papers for a year (in first year, anyway). The rest could be filled with anything we liked. I did more math (for my own interest sake), physics (because I like it), and classics (just to be a bit more rounded). The remaining two years are similar, although you are required to do a few more core papers. I did more classics in second year, and Latin in third. I tended to do more of the computer science and maths papers than I was actually required to, just because I wanted to. A large number of people go though with just the computer science and maths prerequisites, and fill the rest with English, philosophy, and other things. In general they get a BA in cosc, but it doesn't have to be the case. There would have been no objection (indeed, it was encouraged) to me also taking chemistry, economics, or whatever else outside the mainstream.
This has been mentioned on/. a couple of times before, but it suits this thread.
There is a project underway to not only build Linux drivers for a card, but build the card with open-source in mind. The card designs will be open, and much (if not all) of the firmware will be available, as will the circuit designs and all the specifications to interact with it. It is in the process of being designed, and apparently is moving along at quite a clip (I'm kinda following the development, but have no experience on how these things normally go).
It won't be an nVidia beater, but will be more than sufficient for a non-high-end-gamer desktop. It will also be openly hackable ("you want to overclock it, here's the information how on the official website, run with it!").
Details can be found on the open-graphics list page, and I encourage signing up to the list just to get a feel for what goes on in this kind of development.
When this gets released, we can finally have a recent video card and not have to worry about unfixable drivers causing issues with bizarre hardware configuration Z, like I've had with the nVidia Linux drivers before.
The Tierra project has been around for many years, but seems to be pretty slow moving. It works in a somewhat similar fashion, but has its issues, such as only really optimising for reproduction speed (which is correlated with small size), and so you miss some potentially interesting results as the system tends away from complexity.
A friend and I have been talking about writing something that will use some of the ideas from this system, and a bunch of our own, but haven't really gotten very far yet, aside from writing some notes and some prototype code.
I suspect that precisely the same would occur in Australia and New Zealand, where I understand the internet connectivity possibilities are even less impressive.
Very much so. I pay NZ$50/month (~US$35) for 256k/128k, uncapped through Orcon. These limits are due to a couple of factors, one is our monopoly telco who doesn't provide at-the-DSLAM access to anyone else, and the relative isolation of the country, meaning that international bandwidth (most of what we use) is fairly expensive.
You can get better deals, usually over things like wireless, but they are quite limited geographically. Most cities don't have them.
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There's a great resource here that will tell you everything you need to know!
As the third party who wrote this, cheers for the plug :)
The Arrogant Worms are way ahead of you with their track "No Sale/No Store":
This week!
This week only!
No money down!
No payments till Spring!
No payments in Spring!
No payments in Summer!
No payments ever!
When?
This week!
This week only!
We pay the GST!
We pay the PST!
We pay for delivery!
We pay for everything!
How do we do it?
How do we offer these fabulous deals?
VOLUME!
We've got the most!
The best!
The worst!
We've got it all!
We've got everything!
Except one thing!
What's that?
We've got... NO STORE!
No products!
So come on down!
This week!
This week only!
No parking problems!
No parking payments!
No parking lot!
You don't have to park!
You don't even have to come!
So don't come down!
Stay away!
This week!
Every week!
Every year!
No money down!
No payment ever!
THAT'S NOTHING FOR NOTHING!!
Not true. I get a lot of good music from there, completely DRM free. Sure, there's none of the big labels, but that doesn't affect the quality at all. Just the names you recognise.
(Oh, and a plug for my program for Linux users: eMusic/J)
I think you misunderstood the article. It's not saying "people found these styles good". It's saying "people found these tracks good if they thought others thought they were good". At least, that's what I got from it.
Oh, weird. It shows up in Firefox fine. Although I think there should be a clearer link to the downloadable versions (which are on the sf project page). I'll chase that up now. Cheers.
...to each of these, is iRATE radio which uses collaberative filtering and user ranking of tracks to give you freely available music that you (hopefully) like.
Not quite. To start with, that site claims my ISP is 'net.nz'. That's pretty broad :) Secondly, the first random quote I got said "No, I am not a meat popsicle". I think it's been shown that the RI/MPAA folks are nothing more than meat popsicles.
Well, Linux somehow knows about it anyway. I assumed it came from NTP. From my logs:
Jan 1 12:59:59 sasha kernel: [4616786.935000] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
(I'm currently in a +1300 timezone, hence it happening at 1pm)
An almost similar thing happen(s|ed) here. One of the major ISPs pulled out of the central peering point, and also dropped peering with one of the other large ISPs (or something like that, anyway). The net result was that communication between two people who may have lived next door was likely routed via Australia. This also occured at a time when people were quotaed on international traffic. I'm not sure what the situation now is however. Hopefully the ISP stopped acting like a jerk, but I doubt it.
When I got my MP3 player, I got a set of Shure e2s with it. If not connected to anything, they are effectively earplugs. When listening to the player, I can happily have the volume right down because a) they seem to be louder for a given volume level on the player (something to watch for if switching between them and cheap earbuds) and b) there is no external noise.
As much as I like them for sitting down and working (screening out people around me, loud machinery hums, whatever), I still find myself using earbuds a lot. There are two reasons for this. One is that when walking around I like to hear surrounding noise, cars nearby when I'm crossing the road, people calling out to me, or whatever. The other is that the e2s are annoying to put in/take out repeatedly.
This said, I'd recommend that people look into getting something similar as it does make for nice quiet environments (sometimes I'll have them in with the player turned off), and it's also interesting to see what parts of music you can hear with quality earphones that you never knew existed beforehand.
Hey, long time no see. Email or something :)
I've had a Palm m125 for a few years now, and bout 18 months ago it developed this problem. What I did to deal with it was get an SD card, and the pay-for copy of CardBackup, which allows you to schedule backups of the Palm's memory to the SD card (the shareware doesn't do scheduling, you may be able to live without that and just do it manually, but sometimes I forget about it for ages, and by the time I change the batteries the Palm won't even turn on). So I have it automatically backup up to the card once a day, and after hotsync. Then when I change the batteries, I just run the program from the card to put it all back.
This may be a useful solution for those of you who can't participate in the suit and don't feel the need to go buy a new device.
(No association with the program or the author, I just like it because it made my m125 useful again.)
"My voice is my credit card. Pay for me"
It doesn't require Java web start. You can also download builds, however JWS is the easiest way of having it work for people, and having it autoupdate. If you don't like using the java interface, there is also kirate, which is a plugin for KDE's noatun.
Been done (kinda).
iRATE Radio. It gives you bucket-loads of free music, legally. We want more users, and hopefully also more developers.
it's not so bad, I've done similar things with ham radio transmitters. All I did was use a handheld, removed the antenna, and carried a paperclip to use in place, so that I could change the reception abilities of the receiver. Through turning around and blocking the signal with your body you can relatively easily get a direction. You don't need to do fancy triangulations involving signal strength.
That sounds quite different to what we have (in New Zealand). We have a three-year undergrad program, where you have your major set from the outset, although it is pretty easy to change. In my case, a BSc in computer science, I was required to do a few particular cosc papers, a small amount of maths, some more of any science. This added up to four of the seven or eight papers for a year (in first year, anyway). The rest could be filled with anything we liked. I did more math (for my own interest sake), physics (because I like it), and classics (just to be a bit more rounded). The remaining two years are similar, although you are required to do a few more core papers. I did more classics in second year, and Latin in third. I tended to do more of the computer science and maths papers than I was actually required to, just because I wanted to. A large number of people go though with just the computer science and maths prerequisites, and fill the rest with English, philosophy, and other things. In general they get a BA in cosc, but it doesn't have to be the case. There would have been no objection (indeed, it was encouraged) to me also taking chemistry, economics, or whatever else outside the mainstream.
Microsoft is working hard on this, according to Bill Gates' The Road Ahead pg 265:
(Yes, I know that it is simply an error. It's funny nonetheless)
This has been mentioned on /. a couple of times before, but it suits this thread.
There is a project underway to not only build Linux drivers for a card, but build the card with open-source in mind. The card designs will be open, and much (if not all) of the firmware will be available, as will the circuit designs and all the specifications to interact with it. It is in the process of being designed, and apparently is moving along at quite a clip (I'm kinda following the development, but have no experience on how these things normally go).
It won't be an nVidia beater, but will be more than sufficient for a non-high-end-gamer desktop. It will also be openly hackable ("you want to overclock it, here's the information how on the official website, run with it!").
Details can be found on the open-graphics list page, and I encourage signing up to the list just to get a feel for what goes on in this kind of development.
When this gets released, we can finally have a recent video card and not have to worry about unfixable drivers causing issues with bizarre hardware configuration Z, like I've had with the nVidia Linux drivers before.
The Tierra project has been around for many years, but seems to be pretty slow moving. It works in a somewhat similar fashion, but has its issues, such as only really optimising for reproduction speed (which is correlated with small size), and so you miss some potentially interesting results as the system tends away from complexity.
A friend and I have been talking about writing something that will use some of the ideas from this system, and a bunch of our own, but haven't really gotten very far yet, aside from writing some notes and some prototype code.
Another picture, with a comparison to not dark matter.
Very much so. I pay NZ$50/month (~US$35) for 256k/128k, uncapped through Orcon. These limits are due to a couple of factors, one is our monopoly telco who doesn't provide at-the-DSLAM access to anyone else, and the relative isolation of the country, meaning that international bandwidth (most of what we use) is fairly expensive.
You can get better deals, usually over things like wireless, but they are quite limited geographically. Most cities don't have them.