Demand is usually a motivator if it can be proven profitable. The city has infrastructure from services that they already provide (i.e. light and power poles, extensive widely dispersed real estate, etc.) that make it feasible for them, but perhaps not for private entities.
OK, so what about power, gas, water, sewer, garbage? I don't see anything wrong with cities providing utilities. They should be able to run this at cost or at a profit, and they're providing a service that private industry hasn't gotten around to doing yet.
There are tens of thousands of professional musicians recording, and most of them have music available online. To find some interesting artists, listen to some streams from Santa Monica public radio station KCRW. They have some amazing DJs and have a consistent track record for discovering and promoting great new artists. They feature a wide range of music -- undergound soul, indy rock, electronica, etc. Keane, Butterfly Boucher, Dido, Norah Jones, and Damien Rice are just a few of the artists that have gotten their big break on KCRW. (I have no affiliation other than being a listener.) They're also the only radio station I know that plays established, but quirky non Top-40 artists -- everything from Steve Earle to Massive Attack.
Making a complex microprocessor without the capital and equipment sounds quite complicated, but if you know what you're doing, it's actually quite easy.
This is only one of a million different reasons a one-person project can be orphaned from an OSS viewpoint...
1. Girlfriend demands more of author's time
2. That new Role-playing game
3. New, more exciting projects
4. Author dies
5. Etc.
but this is not the google calendar we were looking for. Come on, Google -- you know everything else about me -- my shopping habits, my personal emails, what I search for at 3am, don't you want my daily scheduling info as well?
You know where your stuff is? Really? You know which platter, which sector, which actual iron particles actually hold your data? Folder trees are abstractions that don't actually relate very closely to the physical order in which the data is stored. A desktop search tool is just a different sort of mechanism for finding data that may be stored in various chunks all over your hard drive.
What great luck! Any idea of its composition? Because by then we'll be running low on quite a few of our essential minerals. Shouldn't be impossible to nudge it into orbit and mine it. This might be just what we need to bootstrap ourselves into space.
I'm 9 miles from work, in a straight line, but in two dimensions on the ground, I have to drive 17 miles to get there. Not to mention stop and go traffic. Flying lets you take more efficient routes, and avoid traffic, at least if you're an early adopter.
Yeah, you have to consider formats. mp4/aac bring nothing to the table I don't get through ogg and mp3, except for DRM. Which I won't use.
But you also have to consider capacity. Using FLAC, or Apple lossless, you could fit 2-3 albums on your iPod Shuffle.
Karma sounds better, and has superior onboard tools for handling playlists, and also handles formats that the iPod doesn't handle, like ogg and flac, so I don't have to base my mixing decision on file formats.
Rio Music Manager is an awful interface, but not as bad as iTunes, which has majorly mucked up every computer I've tried to run it on, not to mention its crappy encoding, and non-standard id3 tags.
Smart playlists are trivial -- music jukeboxes have been doing that for years. It doesn't even compare to what the Predixis software can do. And yes, there's a Linux version. And a Mac version. And no, I don't work for them.
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You're right. That's ridiculous. He should be locked up for driving drunk, not for pissing.
All the descriptive names are taken.
So says "RealProgrammer." Now that's irony.
Moderation gripe: How can that post be overrated, if it has not been previously rated? Hopefully the meta mods can sort that one out...
Demand is usually a motivator if it can be proven profitable. The city has infrastructure from services that they already provide (i.e. light and power poles, extensive widely dispersed real estate, etc.) that make it feasible for them, but perhaps not for private entities.
OK, so what about power, gas, water, sewer, garbage? I don't see anything wrong with cities providing utilities. They should be able to run this at cost or at a profit, and they're providing a service that private industry hasn't gotten around to doing yet.
Nice. Tempe moves up a few notches on my list of second home possibilities.
They should be fine. If I remember correctly, they have at least one lawyer on staff.
that I try to convince people to eat their veggies instead of beef. Better for them, better for society as a whole.
There are tens of thousands of professional musicians recording, and most of them have music available online. To find some interesting artists, listen to some streams from Santa Monica public radio station KCRW. They have some amazing DJs and have a consistent track record for discovering and promoting great new artists. They feature a wide range of music -- undergound soul, indy rock, electronica, etc. Keane, Butterfly Boucher, Dido, Norah Jones, and Damien Rice are just a few of the artists that have gotten their big break on KCRW. (I have no affiliation other than being a listener.) They're also the only radio station I know that plays established, but quirky non Top-40 artists -- everything from Steve Earle to Massive Attack.
Who would want to live on beans and rice for 5 years anyway?
Um... maybe the 500 million+ children who are severely underfed? Or us vegans.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Rendered body fat is actually an excellent substitute for diesel. And today's adolescents have quite a bit of body fat.
Making a complex microprocessor without the capital and equipment sounds quite complicated, but if you know what you're doing, it's actually quite easy.
This is only one of a million different reasons a one-person project can be orphaned from an OSS viewpoint...
1. Girlfriend demands more of author's time
2. That new Role-playing game
3. New, more exciting projects
4. Author dies
5. Etc.
but this is not the google calendar we were looking for. Come on, Google -- you know everything else about me -- my shopping habits, my personal emails, what I search for at 3am, don't you want my daily scheduling info as well?
There would be plenty of room in prison for rapists if we hadn't locked up millions of nonviolent drug users for mandatory multiple-year sentences.
You know where your stuff is? Really? You know which platter, which sector, which actual iron particles actually hold your data? Folder trees are abstractions that don't actually relate very closely to the physical order in which the data is stored. A desktop search tool is just a different sort of mechanism for finding data that may be stored in various chunks all over your hard drive.
Can you see me now? Good. Can you see me now? Good.
What great luck! Any idea of its composition? Because by then we'll be running low on quite a few of our essential minerals. Shouldn't be impossible to nudge it into orbit and mine it. This might be just what we need to bootstrap ourselves into space.
I'm 9 miles from work, in a straight line, but in two dimensions on the ground, I have to drive 17 miles to get there. Not to mention stop and go traffic. Flying lets you take more efficient routes, and avoid traffic, at least if you're an early adopter.
I did a demo on ProTools in 1992. It was four-track. We had to rent a 1-gb hard drive -- for $100 a day.
Yeah, you have to consider formats. mp4/aac bring nothing to the table I don't get through ogg and mp3, except for DRM. Which I won't use. But you also have to consider capacity. Using FLAC, or Apple lossless, you could fit 2-3 albums on your iPod Shuffle.
Karma sounds better, and has superior onboard tools for handling playlists, and also handles formats that the iPod doesn't handle, like ogg and flac, so I don't have to base my mixing decision on file formats. Rio Music Manager is an awful interface, but not as bad as iTunes, which has majorly mucked up every computer I've tried to run it on, not to mention its crappy encoding, and non-standard id3 tags.
Some of us avoid our insane families by moving out of the basement and into our own apartments.
Smart playlists are trivial -- music jukeboxes have been doing that for years. It doesn't even compare to what the Predixis software can do. And yes, there's a Linux version. And a Mac version. And no, I don't work for them.