There is an album out of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys as indicated below. My favorite rock singer Andrea Corr is on it, dragooned by her friendship with punk rocker Gavin Friday and rocker Bono who are also involved.
Wednesday June 21, 2006
GORE VERBINSKI, JOHNNY DEPP AND HAL WILLNER JOIN FORCES WITH ANTI RECORDS FOR THE AUGUST 22 RELEASE: "ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS"
BONO, STING, LOU REED, BRYAN FERRY, JOHN C. REILLY, RICHARD THOMPSON, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCINDA WILLIAMS ARE AMONG THE DIVERSE ARTISTS ON THIS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION
"The ocean. It's all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it's not in our memory, it's in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It's what makes us feel so alone." --Gore Verbinski
Film director GORE VERBINSKI, actor JOHNNY DEPP and music producer HAL WILLNER have joined forces with ANTI RECORDS for the truly extraordinary two-CD set ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS. Due out August 22, the collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared. BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT are only a few of the distinguished artists who turn in uncompromising and honest performances that illuminate the power of traditional sea songs.
The idea for ROGUE'S GALLERY originated when Verbinski and Depp were working on their second film together, the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey," explains Verbinski. "I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea."
Verbinski then "described the project in detail to my old friend Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph and Anti) who immediately understood its wondrous and strange potential. I also asked Johnny Depp if it might be something that he would like to be involved with. He has a great musical aesthetic, and as my partner in the films, his opinion is one I value. I've always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job. We met with Brett and put together a list of artists that we intended to go after, but were immediately confounded with the question: who would produce? Who would be mad enough to take this on?"
The project took shape when Hal Willner became "the captain of this vessel," says Verbinski. "From that germinating withering pubic hair of an idea, Hal set sail and returned with what you hear today. He did everything." Willner brought his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material to the project, as shown on his best-selling Disney tribute album Stay Awake and his acclaimed tributes to Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Nino Rota and others.
"When I was asked to do the album, I went into a world I didn't know--which is what appealed to me," says Willner. Immersing himself in antique bookstores, eBay, old record stores, and the Internet for hours and hours, Willner collected some 600 songs and then went about narrowing the song selection down for the album. In March 2006, the recordings began--and the process was joyously freewheeling.
"We were just crawling around, just seeing who was around," he explains. "The Akron/Family was rehearsing, so we recorded them. And then we found Baby Gramps. And that's kind of how we worked all over. We'd go up to London or Dublin or to New York and L.A., with just a sketch and one or two things planned. And then we got on the phone. Most of the time people just came into the studi
If you happen to be at sea - on land, you stretch necks or lop off heads...
A lad's gotta make port some time - to refresh the rum supply and barter the loot for a lass (assuming said lad isn't taking "bugger" too literally while at sea)...
"I don't think this is news to anybody that MySQL is quicker at connecting and issueing simple queries."
If that's true - and I think it is - then why did you bother?
It seems to me to be common knowledge that MySQL was a poorly designed DBMS intended to be fast at the application of serving up Web pages for a Web site. It is not and never was designed to be a general purpose database for enterprise class production database and data warehousing applications. It's gotten better since version 5.0 was introduced, but still has a LONG way to go to be considered a serious database for larger applications. It's fine for replacing crap like Microsoft Access systems and it's fine for Web page serving - where the Web site is not trying to be a "real Web APPLICATION".
For anything else, more mature DBMS systems like Postgres are clearly preferred by anyone who knows anything about database and application design.
I would suggest that the next time you discuss the use of databases in Web site design, you make this clear to your audience. Then maybe people wouldn't misinterpret your meaning - or maybe they will anyway; this is/. after all.
"With all that going on, do you really think data consistency is that big of a problem? Come on, writing a few scripts to make sure data in the MyISAM tables is dead simple. I mean really, really, really simple. I wish all my problems could be solved so easily."
You've never written a "real" business application, right?
Data vetting can easily be a HUGE portion of ANY application - involving much more code than the core function of the application. And if it isn't done, stupid shit like required files not being there and breaking the app - or worse, inconsistent results - is what happens next.
I'll grant you that probably most WEB apps weren't (originally) that sophisticated - which seems to me to be what Lerdorf was saying - the Web is broken BECAUSE Web apps weren't and aren't considered "real" applications and thus the necessary design and data vetting isn't done. If all you're doing is serving up pages from a MySQL database in response to page requests, that may be acceptable. My impression is that most Web sites today are trying to be some kind of "real Web application", which requires a different set of technologies and a different set of programming and design skills than just knowing HTML and JavaScript to do a mouse rollover.
That said, if Lerdorf deprecated using a reasonably well designed DBMS such as Postgres over a wannabe DBMS like MySQL strictly for performance reasons, he's wrong. If you need performance, it means your database is big and/or complicated - or you simply have a LOT of users of a simpler one. If the former, you NEED the better designed database. Only in the latter case can you get away with MySQL - and sometimes even in that situation, you may need database features that are implemented poorly or not at all in MySQL. The application determines what features a database needs to have implemented, not the performance requirements. You do design FIRST, performance tuning SECOND in any application development.
I agree - the FAQ just hangs. Presumably, since these people are so enamored with.Net, their Web site is unusable in Firefox...
That immediately turned me off to the entire project - not that the words ".NET" didn't also have something to do with my reaction.
When are the idiots doing these projects going to start doing competent Web sites?
When are the idiots doing these projects going to start producing their documentation in PDF or some other downloadable format so we can download it and use it locally - not in useless online Web pages?
Actually, when are the idiots doing these projects going to do ANY documentation?
The FBI must have shit a brick when they hit MY name and seen the paperwork that came up! Unless they were only trolling foreign students, in which case I wouldn't show up.
Besides, all they had to do was ask my PO where I was.
Stupid program - you'd have to be one dumb terrorist to use your real name on a FAFSA application if you know the Feds know your real name.
Just find a site with a ton of cracked ebooks and download the suckers.
When I was in college back in the Seventies, I asked a friend who had one of those big grey Kodak microfilm cameras like they had in libraries to microfilm all my textbooks. Sold them back to the bookstore, bought a handheld microfiche reader and used that. Teacher gave me funny looks when he told the class to open their books to page so-and-so and I whip out a little plastic gadget and some plastic sheets and start peering through a lens at them.
Today it's easier.
And always ask the teacher if he's going to assign homework from the book. If not, just get an equivalent ebook that covers the same material. If he is, buy the book, copy the homework pages, then sell the book back.
Meanwhile he can do whatever the hell he wants, as he is likely to see his PO maybe once every three months.
I was in for armed bank robbery and rarely saw my PO. Fill out the form once a month and that's it. If you have no history of drugs, you won't even take drug tests. Oh, yeah, he might have to go to a bottom of the barrel shrink once a week for "therapy" - that's the biggest annoyance.
In essence, he got away with it. Supervised release is an annoyance, nothing more.
In the process of helping another country violate our laws, OUR law enforcement gets to violate our laws.
Obvious.
Don't know why they didn't think of this before - outside of the known use of the Echelon system by each country that is a part of it to allow other countries to spy on their citizens and share the info. The NSA doesn't spy on us (well, supposedly they didn't USED to!), they just let Britain do it and tell them about it.
They just extended the principle with this treaty.
Trying to link a client's Access tables to an offsite SQL Server yesterday.
Guess what? Norton AV's Office Plugin was blocking the link table dialog.
You'd click on Link Tables, get the dialog, navigate to your ODBC data sources, click the dropdown box for the ODBC databsses, click that, the dialog box then just vanishes, no errors, no nothing. Simply wouldn't function.
Four hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Finally from a Google search in a MySQL thread where somebody was trying to ODBC from Access to MySQL, somebody mentions the Norton AV problem
Norton is CRAP!
Anybody who uses it is out of their minds. Dump that junk. Put those morons out of business.
Again, clients I have are generally adverse to paying much for this stuff - that's why I get hired, I'm cheap. Even though routers are only $30-40, a free software firewall is just that - free. Also, again, when they hear the word "router", they figure that they can't install it, so they'll have to pay me again - more expense. They like it when I tell them all the software I put on their system to protect them is "free for home users."
Besides, I've used Kerio for four years and never had a problem. While hardware firewalls ARE better, a software firewall that blocks both in and outbound traffic is adequate for a home user - even though there are a lot of trojans that can get past most of them going outbound.
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Dammit, Jim, I'm a DOCTOR, not a PIRATE!
There is an album out of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys as indicated below. My favorite rock singer Andrea Corr is on it, dragooned by her friendship with punk rocker Gavin Friday and rocker Bono who are also involved.
Wednesday June 21, 2006
GORE VERBINSKI, JOHNNY DEPP AND HAL WILLNER
JOIN FORCES WITH ANTI RECORDS FOR THE AUGUST 22 RELEASE:
"ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS"
BONO, STING, LOU REED, BRYAN FERRY, JOHN C. REILLY, RICHARD THOMPSON, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCINDA WILLIAMS ARE AMONG THE DIVERSE ARTISTS ON THIS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION
"The ocean. It's all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it's not in our memory, it's in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It's what makes us feel so alone."
--Gore Verbinski
Film director GORE VERBINSKI, actor JOHNNY DEPP and music producer HAL WILLNER have joined forces with ANTI RECORDS for the truly extraordinary two-CD set ROGUE'S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS. Due out August 22, the collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared. BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT are only a few of the distinguished artists who turn in uncompromising and honest performances that illuminate the power of traditional sea songs.
The idea for ROGUE'S GALLERY originated when Verbinski and Depp were working on their second film together, the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey," explains Verbinski. "I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea."
Verbinski then "described the project in detail to my old friend Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph and Anti) who immediately understood its wondrous and strange potential. I also asked Johnny Depp if it might be something that he would like to be involved with. He has a great musical aesthetic, and as my partner in the films, his opinion is one I value. I've always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job. We met with Brett and put together a list of artists that we intended to go after, but were immediately confounded with the question: who would produce? Who would be mad enough to take this on?"
The project took shape when Hal Willner became "the captain of this vessel," says Verbinski. "From that germinating withering pubic hair of an idea, Hal set sail and returned with what you hear today. He did everything." Willner brought his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material to the project, as shown on his best-selling Disney tribute album Stay Awake and his acclaimed tributes to Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Nino Rota and others.
"When I was asked to do the album, I went into a world I didn't know--which is what appealed to me," says Willner. Immersing himself in antique bookstores, eBay, old record stores, and the Internet for hours and hours, Willner collected some 600 songs and then went about narrowing the song selection down for the album. In March 2006, the recordings began--and the process was joyously freewheeling.
"We were just crawling around, just seeing who was around," he explains. "The Akron/Family was rehearsing, so we recorded them. And then we found Baby Gramps. And that's kind of how we worked all over. We'd go up to London or Dublin or to New York and L.A., with just a sketch and one or two things planned. And then we got on the phone. Most of the time people just came into the studi
If you happen to be at sea - on land, you stretch necks or lop off heads...
A lad's gotta make port some time - to refresh the rum supply and barter the loot for a lass (assuming said lad isn't taking "bugger" too literally while at sea)...
"In fact now I just sneer at absolutely everything that isn't a flattering airbrush picture of myself."
You work for Don Rumsfeld, right?
Does that work?
It does in San Francisco...
"I don't think this is news to anybody that MySQL is quicker at connecting and issueing simple queries."
/. after all.
If that's true - and I think it is - then why did you bother?
It seems to me to be common knowledge that MySQL was a poorly designed DBMS intended to be fast at the application of serving up Web pages for a Web site. It is not and never was designed to be a general purpose database for enterprise class production database and data warehousing applications. It's gotten better since version 5.0 was introduced, but still has a LONG way to go to be considered a serious database for larger applications. It's fine for replacing crap like Microsoft Access systems and it's fine for Web page serving - where the Web site is not trying to be a "real Web APPLICATION".
For anything else, more mature DBMS systems like Postgres are clearly preferred by anyone who knows anything about database and application design.
I would suggest that the next time you discuss the use of databases in Web site design, you make this clear to your audience. Then maybe people wouldn't misinterpret your meaning - or maybe they will anyway; this is
"With all that going on, do you really think data consistency is that big of a problem? Come on, writing a few scripts to make sure data in the MyISAM tables is dead simple. I mean really, really, really simple. I wish all my problems could be solved so easily."
You've never written a "real" business application, right?
Data vetting can easily be a HUGE portion of ANY application - involving much more code than the core function of the application. And if it isn't done, stupid shit like required files not being there and breaking the app - or worse, inconsistent results - is what happens next.
I'll grant you that probably most WEB apps weren't (originally) that sophisticated - which seems to me to be what Lerdorf was saying - the Web is broken BECAUSE Web apps weren't and aren't considered "real" applications and thus the necessary design and data vetting isn't done. If all you're doing is serving up pages from a MySQL database in response to page requests, that may be acceptable. My impression is that most Web sites today are trying to be some kind of "real Web application", which requires a different set of technologies and a different set of programming and design skills than just knowing HTML and JavaScript to do a mouse rollover.
That said, if Lerdorf deprecated using a reasonably well designed DBMS such as Postgres over a wannabe DBMS like MySQL strictly for performance reasons, he's wrong. If you need performance, it means your database is big and/or complicated - or you simply have a LOT of users of a simpler one. If the former, you NEED the better designed database. Only in the latter case can you get away with MySQL - and sometimes even in that situation, you may need database features that are implemented poorly or not at all in MySQL. The application determines what features a database needs to have implemented, not the performance requirements. You do design FIRST, performance tuning SECOND in any application development.
No, you didn't lose Ug - he's President now...
And he's STILL crashing things...
Back in the day, you were all chimpanzees...
Oh, wait: s/Back in the day//
FAQ still hung...
That's the bottom line.
I agree - the FAQ just hangs. Presumably, since these people are so enamored with
That immediately turned me off to the entire project - not that the words ".NET" didn't also have something to do with my reaction.
When are the idiots doing these projects going to start doing competent Web sites?
When are the idiots doing these projects going to start producing their documentation in PDF or some other downloadable format so we can download it and use it locally - not in useless online Web pages?
Actually, when are the idiots doing these projects going to do ANY documentation?
Way to go, missing my point.
The FBI must have shit a brick when they hit MY name and seen the paperwork that came up! Unless they were only trolling foreign students, in which case I wouldn't show up.
Besides, all they had to do was ask my PO where I was.
Stupid program - you'd have to be one dumb terrorist to use your real name on a FAFSA application if you know the Feds know your real name.
He has only ten copies.
The caption on the picture in the article says, "What makes humans, primates, unique?"
Who says they're unique?
Fergeddaboutit.
Mac UNIX will not overtake Linux. Linux will develop every capability the Mac OS has and then some.
However, both Mac OS and Linux will do well at Windows expense.
Just find a site with a ton of cracked ebooks and download the suckers.
When I was in college back in the Seventies, I asked a friend who had one of those big grey Kodak microfilm cameras like they had in libraries to microfilm all my textbooks. Sold them back to the bookstore, bought a handheld microfiche reader and used that. Teacher gave me funny looks when he told the class to open their books to page so-and-so and I whip out a little plastic gadget and some plastic sheets and start peering through a lens at them.
Today it's easier.
And always ask the teacher if he's going to assign homework from the book. If not, just get an equivalent ebook that covers the same material. If he is, buy the book, copy the homework pages, then sell the book back.
Meanwhile he can do whatever the hell he wants, as he is likely to see his PO maybe once every three months.
I was in for armed bank robbery and rarely saw my PO. Fill out the form once a month and that's it. If you have no history of drugs, you won't even take drug tests. Oh, yeah, he might have to go to a bottom of the barrel shrink once a week for "therapy" - that's the biggest annoyance.
In essence, he got away with it. Supervised release is an annoyance, nothing more.
In the process of helping another country violate our laws, OUR law enforcement gets to violate our laws.
Obvious.
Don't know why they didn't think of this before - outside of the known use of the Echelon system by each country that is a part of it to allow other countries to spy on their citizens and share the info. The NSA doesn't spy on us (well, supposedly they didn't USED to!), they just let Britain do it and tell them about it.
They just extended the principle with this treaty.
Trying to link a client's Access tables to an offsite SQL Server yesterday.
Guess what? Norton AV's Office Plugin was blocking the link table dialog.
You'd click on Link Tables, get the dialog, navigate to your ODBC data sources, click the dropdown box for the ODBC databsses, click that, the dialog box then just vanishes, no errors, no nothing. Simply wouldn't function.
Four hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Finally from a Google search in a MySQL thread where somebody was trying to ODBC from Access to MySQL, somebody mentions the Norton AV problem
Norton is CRAP!
Anybody who uses it is out of their minds. Dump that junk. Put those morons out of business.
"You're less willing to publicly humiliate someone you know in real life," he says.'"
Sucker.
Try me. I'd happily humiliate Microsoft at every opportunity even if I was sleeping with Melinda.
"The average I.Q. has been increasing for decades"
/., the Republican OR Democratic Parties membership or Paris Hilton, that's for sure.
This study wasn't based on
Israel is killing civilians.
The US is losing in Iraq.
Tony Blair is sucking Bush's dick.
Pam Anderson got married again - to the same guy.
Mel Gibson is drunk and spewing anti-Semitic crap.
Yup - a normal day in the neighborhood.
"is considered one of the world's leading experts on how to protect installations of Windows."
And Amazon wants this guy?
Time to stop using your credit card at Amazon.
Yeah, this is snark. Sue me.
"...undermining the relationship of trust that has been established between the industry and vendors."
What trust?
Again, clients I have are generally adverse to paying much for this stuff - that's why I get hired, I'm cheap. Even though routers are only $30-40, a free software firewall is just that - free. Also, again, when they hear the word "router", they figure that they can't install it, so they'll have to pay me again - more expense. They like it when I tell them all the software I put on their system to protect them is "free for home users."
Besides, I've used Kerio for four years and never had a problem. While hardware firewalls ARE better, a software firewall that blocks both in and outbound traffic is adequate for a home user - even though there are a lot of trojans that can get past most of them going outbound.