I imagne someone has said it already, but the Warp Records site (www.warprecords.com) has alot of streaming media available, as well as some of the fantastic videos that accompany some of their artists.
if you've never seen any of Chris Cunningham's work, the Warp site has his best videos.
I guess Warp is regarded as one of the more "avant gard" labels, in that their electronic music is typically rather odd - I just happen to love it.
For what it's worth, may fave artists are:
Aphex Twin - he's impossible t categorise really - he's hopped every single electronica genre, and has invented a few of his own
Squarepusher - another frankly bizarre Warp artist
Orbital - widely ranging electronica
Future Sound Of London - specialising in soundscapes (Dead Cities - their magnum opus I feel) and dreamy ambient stuff
www.ninjatune.com is the website for the hightly renowned Ninja Tune label, who make some of the best highly chilled and funky beats known to creation. The compilation "Xen Cuts - 10 years of nija tunes" is a great intro to the kind of suff they do.
Argh there's so much stuff to write that I don't have time for...
Internet time wasa new standard developed by Swatch a few years ago... it splits each 24 hour day into 1000 sections, which I believe are called "beats".
I have an internet clock running here (a prog called TClockEX in Windoze), it's currently 896 - that's 9:30pm to you and me.
The great thing about internet time is that it's universal all over the world. If I fly to Australian now, it'd read the same time on my watch as it would on theirs. Days just start at different times depending on your timezone.
'tis a cool idea, and a pity it hasn't really caught on.
Being a very recent Linux convert (still busy in the process of migrating), I have been told that a great many of open source streamers DO incorporate a save function to save the audio stream.
Isn't there a possibility that features like this will be made illegal by the RIAA oligopolists? Since the media is provided to you on a "pay (or not) per listen basis", would incorporating a "save stream" function break their IP distinctions?
I am probably just being stupid or paranoid, but I sense a DeCSS style backlash to products like this if decentralised "pirate" streamers ever become popular.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of the RIAA, this IS piracy.
Because you can have many people listening to the same tune at once, none of whom may have bought the CD it came off, whilst the person who DOES own the CD ALSO gets to listen to it.
Obvioulsy, whilst I think this is rubbish, it won't stop them bashing down the door to your server room with a sledge, burning the music server on a sacrificial pyre fuelled by their spare $1000 bills and suing you and your company for the entire US gold reserves.
"you probably already know that you're more different from the average person than you think"
...argh! That doesn't make sense...! You know you're more different than the average person... and yet you're somehow more different than you know you are...?
Not meaning to be pernickety, I just found it odd;)
GNOME 2 looks promising... I've not tried it yet, I just thought I'd post this to be useless and generally ruin someones day. Karma to burn, Karma to burn...
The cable/DSL companies just want people to use their expensive high bandwidth connections so people can use the net for browsing, email, maybe downloading the new patches for the latest 'doze vuln, and maybe stream some prepackaged media crap from the music piRIAAtes.
If this trend carries on (along with the ever incresing size of banner ads and spam) cable and DSL will be about as fast as 56K in a few years time.
Fair do's to the tech companies for speaking out against this though. If stuff doesn't become available on the net any more, why will people bother buying X number of fancy new multimedia computer enhancements? Sad but true, most people have CD/DVD burners to make copies of music/warez/movies etc... make these difficult to get at, and people just won't buy them as much any more.
The whole rubbish about "not running a server" is nonsense. Once I get linux figured out, I plan to have my old computer set up as a mail server/net gateway so I can access the net from any PC in the house over a communal connection. Not lettring me do this is total nonsense.
I don't care how much you want me to pay for my bandwidth - just let me use it as I want to do. I don't mind paying extra for a 1 Mbit line with no caps, just let me do what the hell I want with it!
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"The web sever market is definitely not IIS."
At the moment, no. But if this Palladium thing goes ahead, you will only be able to access a Palladium web server from a Palladium client. If your Palladium PC tries to access an Apache server, it'll do the old "whoops! Not part of a trusted network!", thus forcing all the web host to adopt a Palladium compatible server solution to avoid losing customers.
"There's 25,000,000 Linux users out there and they bough their machines because they wanted it."
Not quite. Many, myself included, just tried it out to play around with, simply because it was so easy to. If Palladium puts any more obstacles in the way of installing Linux on your OEM PC, who's going to bother?
Go find a windows user. Show them Linux. Then ask them if they had a choice, would the a) use Windows for the rest of their life and never touch Linux or b) vice versa.
I think most people will stick with Windows. As it stands, Palladium has the ability to hold down the spread of Linux by simply not letting it run on home computers.
Just because similar schemes have failed before, doesn't mean they will again. M$ is the king of marketing, the god of spin.
If anyone can sell ice cubes to the Inuit, it's Bill Gates. If M$ really are dedicated to getting Palladium out, then they will. Mark my words.
"Remember: Palladium can only work if every company joins the conspiracy. Some, maybe even a lot, won't."
Don't you think that in a Palladium world they'd be stupid not to? Like it or not, Windows will be the dominant desktop OS for the next five years. If M$ forces this DRM cr@p into Longhorn, then any coder who doesn't do Palladium won't be able to release programs on a Windows OS.
Otherwise known as "business suicide".
On the adoption of Linux: most people (myself included) who started out on Windows changed to Linux mainly cos with n00b distro's like Mandrake, it's just a case of booting from CD and you're away.
If Palladium does everything that they say it can do, and M$ uses their leverage to force GPL code to have to PAY to run on a Palladium mobo, and you have to get your mobo chipped (if possible) - how many people are gonna do that? Palladium will effectively put yet another barrier to people co-adopting Linux as an alternative OS.
The minute this starts happening, GNU/Linux will loose it's momentum, and with all the obstacles in place will become the OS of choice only for those who are prepared to jump through fiery hoops (well, it's preferable to being anally raped my M$ IMO).
Call me a cynic, but I think everyone who stands for the GPL and free software (not to mention those who think competition is a healthy thing) should be very worried about this Palladium rubbish. If it goes ahead as outlined here, it DOES have the potential to severely damage the GPL, and Linux in general.
"...if only more people realized that just because something is good for a big company doesn't mean that it is neccesarily the best thing for the economy or the citizens of the country..."
Hey, what about the world?
There has already been a significant backlash to M$ over here in Europe (less so in the UK, unfortunately, what with our Prime Minister in bed with Bush), simply I feel because our governments are becoming more and more concerned that Microsoft may not have their best interests at heart.
Personally, I despise this system. And I do think it has the potential to break the GPL even if it is only a smokescreen (if you tell the big businesses NOW that in 5 years time Linux won't work on x86, they'll all bail out now - fait accompli).
People and governments need to be notified of this now. Microsoft have already been found guilty of anticompetitive practices, and this protocol has the potenial to outdo all of these. If it comes true and you need an M$ signature for every prog you run (including kernel etc.) then M$ has the potential to force the entire x86 spectrum into M$ only products (hmm, I see PPC, ARM's and Sparc's booming in popularity all of a sudden).
I can't see Intel, IBM et al buying into this at the moment, but maybe they have their reasons.
"Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours-- making all those things easier."
Well, I have recently just finished helping a friend build his own PC, and I plan to build my own after that. Why? Partly, I am fast becoming a geek. Secondly, I was pretty appalled by the build quality on cheap desktop OEM's, with their rubbish components and zero upgrade potential.
Why build your own? True, it's often more expensive than a cheap "off the shelf" OEM... but you do get a PC catered to your EXACT needs (I don't need a GeForce 4 or whatever), higher quality components (well, if they're what you choose anyway:) and tonnes of upgrade potential. It also lets you track down or recycle second hand components like monitors, cases, keyboards and mice.
My friend and I built entirely from online vendors... the process of thinking what specs he wanted to installing the OS took about two weeks from a standing start (neither of us had any PC experience before so we had a fair amount of researching to do). He also decided on an expensive case, since the case will outlast the computer...
Final specs were: Athlon XP 1800 (£90) Thermaltake heatsink (£15) Gigabyte KT333 XP mobo c/w onboard (creative) sound and ethernet (only the RAID array doesn't work in Linux - but apparently Promise have a Linux controller for RH in beta) (£95) Lian Li PC 60 Case (£130) Enermax 350W PSU (£53) Generic GeForce 2 (£30) 256 MB Crucial DDR (I didn't order this one) 60 GB Barracuda 4 (£80) USR 56K external modem (£70) Pioneer DVD-ROM (£65) s/h 17" monitor (£80) Free stuff that either came with the components or was codged from friends/junked PC's included all the cabling and screws, thermal paste, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
OS was RedHat 7.3 that the guy in the shop burned for him for a fiver.
If you wish, replace the (pretty) aluminium case with a POS £30 job and you just have a slightly uglier and harder to access machine, and knocking £100 off that total.
For this he's got a damned sexy looking computer with pretty good specs for what he needs, which is alot more reliable than his previous OEM computers and will last a heck of a lot longer.
I too have vowed never to buy an OEM model again. I'm sick of forking out a fortune for Windows on a hidden "recovery" partition when I already own a licensed version of Win2k. I'm sick of computers coming bundled with winmodems. I'm sick of missing cabling in computers and all the rest of it (I "fixed" a friends computer recenty - only one IDE channel, no CD -> soundcard cable, badly fixed heatsink, loose motherboard).
Sure, there are OEM's who will give you good quality machines (mine isn't bad), but building your own will still give you a far better computer. Yeah, it may cost a little more, but if you BYO in the long run it'll cost you much less for a far superior computer.
When I build mine, all I'm going to need to buy is a processor, heatsink, mobo, PSU, RAM and maybe a coupla new HDD's... then I can retire this P3 to be used as a local servery thing and put it back in it's old case.
I would seriously recommend building your own. Not only is it interesting and fun, but you'll ghet a much more reliable PC at the end of it - and depending on your needs, it may even be cheaper than one of the dreaded "off the shelf" budget OEM's of equivalent spec (although it won't come bundled with all the bumpf).
Here's some of the sites we ordered from or found helpful (all UK based):
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/index.htm - scan products index
http://www.overclock.co.uk - have some nice high end components at relatively cheap prices
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk - again, some high end components and other stuff to make your computer look different
http://www.eclipse-computers.com - wide range of standard to high end components
http://www.pcindex.co.uk - large price list of all kinds of components
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I imagne someone has said it already, but the Warp Records site (www.warprecords.com) has alot of streaming media available, as well as some of the fantastic videos that accompany some of their artists.
if you've never seen any of Chris Cunningham's work, the Warp site has his best videos.
I guess Warp is regarded as one of the more "avant gard" labels, in that their electronic music is typically rather odd - I just happen to love it.
For what it's worth, may fave artists are:
Aphex Twin - he's impossible t categorise really - he's hopped every single electronica genre, and has invented a few of his own
Squarepusher - another frankly bizarre Warp artist
Orbital - widely ranging electronica
Future Sound Of London - specialising in soundscapes (Dead Cities - their magnum opus I feel) and dreamy ambient stuff
www.ninjatune.com is the website for the hightly renowned Ninja Tune label, who make some of the best highly chilled and funky beats known to creation. The compilation "Xen Cuts - 10 years of nija tunes" is a great intro to the kind of suff they do.
Argh there's so much stuff to write that I don't have time for...
: goes to buy suit :
Internet time wasa new standard developed by Swatch a few years ago... it splits each 24 hour day into 1000 sections, which I believe are called "beats".
I have an internet clock running here (a prog called TClockEX in Windoze), it's currently 896 - that's 9:30pm to you and me.
The great thing about internet time is that it's universal all over the world. If I fly to Australian now, it'd read the same time on my watch as it would on theirs. Days just start at different times depending on your timezone.
'tis a cool idea, and a pity it hasn't really caught on.
"Fake Tux: NOOO! How do they know I'm not real?!?!"
Here's why: real pengiuns don't sweat that much, Mr. Ballmer.
"Note the lack of a 'save' button in RealPlayer."
Being a very recent Linux convert (still busy in the process of migrating), I have been told that a great many of open source streamers DO incorporate a save function to save the audio stream.
Isn't there a possibility that features like this will be made illegal by the RIAA oligopolists? Since the media is provided to you on a "pay (or not) per listen basis", would incorporating a "save stream" function break their IP distinctions?
I am probably just being stupid or paranoid, but I sense a DeCSS style backlash to products like this if decentralised "pirate" streamers ever become popular.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of the RIAA, this IS piracy.
Because you can have many people listening to the same tune at once, none of whom may have bought the CD it came off, whilst the person who DOES own the CD ALSO gets to listen to it.
Obvioulsy, whilst I think this is rubbish, it won't stop them bashing down the door to your server room with a sledge, burning the music server on a sacrificial pyre fuelled by their spare $1000 bills and suing you and your company for the entire US gold reserves.
"you probably already know that you're more different from the average person than you think"
;)
...argh! That doesn't make sense...! You know you're more different than the average person... and yet you're somehow more different than you know you are...?
Not meaning to be pernickety, I just found it odd
GNOME 2 looks promising... I've not tried it yet, I just thought I'd post this to be useless and generally ruin someones day. Karma to burn, Karma to burn...
(Well, it can't get any lower anyway)
The cable/DSL companies just want people to use their expensive high bandwidth connections so people can use the net for browsing, email, maybe downloading the new patches for the latest 'doze vuln, and maybe stream some prepackaged media crap from the music piRIAAtes.
If this trend carries on (along with the ever incresing size of banner ads and spam) cable and DSL will be about as fast as 56K in a few years time.
Fair do's to the tech companies for speaking out against this though. If stuff doesn't become available on the net any more, why will people bother buying X number of fancy new multimedia computer enhancements? Sad but true, most people have CD/DVD burners to make copies of music/warez/movies etc... make these difficult to get at, and people just won't buy them as much any more.
The whole rubbish about "not running a server" is nonsense. Once I get linux figured out, I plan to have my old computer set up as a mail server/net gateway so I can access the net from any PC in the house over a communal connection. Not lettring me do this is total nonsense.
I don't care how much you want me to pay for my bandwidth - just let me use it as I want to do. I don't mind paying extra for a 1 Mbit line with no caps, just let me do what the hell I want with it!
"The web sever market is definitely not IIS."
At the moment, no. But if this Palladium thing goes ahead, you will only be able to access a Palladium web server from a Palladium client. If your Palladium PC tries to access an Apache server, it'll do the old "whoops! Not part of a trusted network!", thus forcing all the web host to adopt a Palladium compatible server solution to avoid losing customers.
"There's 25,000,000 Linux users out there and they bough their machines because they wanted it."
Not quite. Many, myself included, just tried it out to play around with, simply because it was so easy to. If Palladium puts any more obstacles in the way of installing Linux on your OEM PC, who's going to bother?
Go find a windows user. Show them Linux. Then ask them if they had a choice, would the a) use Windows for the rest of their life and never touch Linux or b) vice versa.
I think most people will stick with Windows. As it stands, Palladium has the ability to hold down the spread of Linux by simply not letting it run on home computers.
Just because similar schemes have failed before, doesn't mean they will again. M$ is the king of marketing, the god of spin.
If anyone can sell ice cubes to the Inuit, it's Bill Gates. If M$ really are dedicated to getting Palladium out, then they will. Mark my words.
"Remember: Palladium can only work if every company joins the conspiracy. Some, maybe even a lot, won't."
Don't you think that in a Palladium world they'd be stupid not to? Like it or not, Windows will be the dominant desktop OS for the next five years. If M$ forces this DRM cr@p into Longhorn, then any coder who doesn't do Palladium won't be able to release programs on a Windows OS.
Otherwise known as "business suicide".
On the adoption of Linux: most people (myself included) who started out on Windows changed to Linux mainly cos with n00b distro's like Mandrake, it's just a case of booting from CD and you're away.
If Palladium does everything that they say it can do, and M$ uses their leverage to force GPL code to have to PAY to run on a Palladium mobo, and you have to get your mobo chipped (if possible) - how many people are gonna do that? Palladium will effectively put yet another barrier to people co-adopting Linux as an alternative OS.
The minute this starts happening, GNU/Linux will loose it's momentum, and with all the obstacles in place will become the OS of choice only for those who are prepared to jump through fiery hoops (well, it's preferable to being anally raped my M$ IMO).
Call me a cynic, but I think everyone who stands for the GPL and free software (not to mention those who think competition is a healthy thing) should be very worried about this Palladium rubbish. If it goes ahead as outlined here, it DOES have the potential to severely damage the GPL, and Linux in general.
"...if only more people realized that just because something is good for a big company doesn't mean that it is neccesarily the best thing for the economy or the citizens of the country..."
Hey, what about the world?
There has already been a significant backlash to M$ over here in Europe (less so in the UK, unfortunately, what with our Prime Minister in bed with Bush), simply I feel because our governments are becoming more and more concerned that Microsoft may not have their best interests at heart.
Personally, I despise this system. And I do think it has the potential to break the GPL even if it is only a smokescreen (if you tell the big businesses NOW that in 5 years time Linux won't work on x86, they'll all bail out now - fait accompli).
People and governments need to be notified of this now. Microsoft have already been found guilty of anticompetitive practices, and this protocol has the potenial to outdo all of these. If it comes true and you need an M$ signature for every prog you run (including kernel etc.) then M$ has the potential to force the entire x86 spectrum into M$ only products (hmm, I see PPC, ARM's and Sparc's booming in popularity all of a sudden).
I can't see Intel, IBM et al buying into this at the moment, but maybe they have their reasons.
"Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours-- making all those things easier."
...it's Windows 1984.
"My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks."
Didn't the aliens in Independence Day already try that one?
It seems USB really is truly universal...
Well, I have recently just finished helping a friend build his own PC, and I plan to build my own after that. Why? Partly, I am fast becoming a geek. Secondly, I was pretty appalled by the build quality on cheap desktop OEM's, with their rubbish components and zero upgrade potential.
:) and tonnes of upgrade potential. It also lets you track down or recycle second hand components like monitors, cases, keyboards and mice.
Why build your own? True, it's often more expensive than a cheap "off the shelf" OEM... but you do get a PC catered to your EXACT needs (I don't need a GeForce 4 or whatever), higher quality components (well, if they're what you choose anyway
My friend and I built entirely from online vendors... the process of thinking what specs he wanted to installing the OS took about two weeks from a standing start (neither of us had any PC experience before so we had a fair amount of researching to do). He also decided on an expensive case, since the case will outlast the computer...
Final specs were:
Athlon XP 1800 (£90)
Thermaltake heatsink (£15)
Gigabyte KT333 XP mobo c/w onboard (creative) sound and ethernet (only the RAID array doesn't work in Linux - but apparently Promise have a Linux controller for RH in beta) (£95)
Lian Li PC 60 Case (£130)
Enermax 350W PSU (£53)
Generic GeForce 2 (£30)
256 MB Crucial DDR (I didn't order this one)
60 GB Barracuda 4 (£80)
USR 56K external modem (£70)
Pioneer DVD-ROM (£65)
s/h 17" monitor (£80)
Free stuff that either came with the components or was codged from friends/junked PC's included all the cabling and screws, thermal paste, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
OS was RedHat 7.3 that the guy in the shop burned for him for a fiver.
If you wish, replace the (pretty) aluminium case with a POS £30 job and you just have a slightly uglier and harder to access machine, and knocking £100 off that total.
For this he's got a damned sexy looking computer with pretty good specs for what he needs, which is alot more reliable than his previous OEM computers and will last a heck of a lot longer.
I too have vowed never to buy an OEM model again. I'm sick of forking out a fortune for Windows on a hidden "recovery" partition when I already own a licensed version of Win2k. I'm sick of computers coming bundled with winmodems. I'm sick of missing cabling in computers and all the rest of it (I "fixed" a friends computer recenty - only one IDE channel, no CD -> soundcard cable, badly fixed heatsink, loose motherboard).
Sure, there are OEM's who will give you good quality machines (mine isn't bad), but building your own will still give you a far better computer. Yeah, it may cost a little more, but if you BYO in the long run it'll cost you much less for a far superior computer.
When I build mine, all I'm going to need to buy is a processor, heatsink, mobo, PSU, RAM and maybe a coupla new HDD's... then I can retire this P3 to be used as a local servery thing and put it back in it's old case.
I would seriously recommend building your own. Not only is it interesting and fun, but you'll ghet a much more reliable PC at the end of it - and depending on your needs, it may even be cheaper than one of the dreaded "off the shelf" budget OEM's of equivalent spec (although it won't come bundled with all the bumpf).
Here's some of the sites we ordered from or found helpful (all UK based):
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/index.htm - scan products index
http://www.overclock.co.uk - have some nice high end components at relatively cheap prices
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk - again, some high end components and other stuff to make your computer look different
http://www.eclipse-computers.com - wide range of standard to high end components
http://www.pcindex.co.uk - large price list of all kinds of components