We live in a capitalist system. Companies that don't operate in a profit-making model die faster than staph-infected peasants. Perhaps this sucks but it's our system. If a company comes up with a miracle cure at the expense of millions of dollars, should its next move be to give it all away and go out of business? The solution is for the government to subsidize the cost of the cure so sick people can afford it. In a free market system, big business has no mandate to look out for anybody's well being. That's where the government is supposed to come in.
"Beat, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Tone" - These ideals haven't been held up as "proof of music" since 1750, when Bach died and the Romantic age began. People started to play with and redefine these ideas, especially harmony. With the coming of the 20th century and the contemporary movement, artists like Stravinsky in the nineteen twenties was working far outside of your parameters for "good music" and just about every rule has been thrown out the window since (it must all be noise.) The fact that your favorite music conforms to these ideals is a testament to your lack of interest in hearing anything new.
And in general, the masses don't want to hear anything new. When you go to an Eagles concert, of course you want to hear Hotel California and not something off their latest terrible album. People get excited and rush the dancefloor when a song they recognize comes on at the club. Introducing truly new music into the mainstream is hard on the average listener: a new sound requires thought, analysis, interpretation. Too much work! Most just want to turn on the radio and hear something pleasant to fill up the background. As an analogy: they don't want art, they want wallpaper.
Also, what about lyrical music? For example rap/hiphop, which has "beat, but not much else" actually contains all the elements you list above (check out buck65. anticon. Saul Williams. etc.) with the addition of words. Words have meaning outside of the music, though their meaning can be augmented or modified through the music they accompany. What the artist is saying can have a profound effect on the way that the listener interprets music. From Rass Kass' "Nature of the Threat," Josh Martinez' "Deny," and that nazi punk band called Sieg Heil, lyrics are another major contributor to how we interpret music.
From reading the article it would seem that the only people who could pull off something like this are "Bank Programmers," but there's a much bigger security hole that i can think of.
Here in Canada we have non-bank ATM machines proliferating across the countryside - it's basically a machine that performs an Interac (debit) transaction and spits out money. It runs over a telephone line, you can buy one for a few thousand dollars, and you plonk it down in the middle of a bar where people are too drunk to care that you're adding $2.00 to every transaction.
But who are the people making these machines? They have no certification that I'm aware of. I've seen at least a dozen varieties of these "mini-ATMs" from companies whose names I have never heard of. It seems to me that it would be very easy to build a few of these, rent them to bar owners or corner stores (also very common) and just log magnetic strips and PINs till the cows come home. What does the guy who owns the corner store know about security? He'll just be glad that he has an alternative in his store to offering debit himself, which costs him money on every transaction.
So anyway, if anybody has some plans or examples of how to build your own Interac-ATM please post them on the net ASAP and lets talk business.
My employer owns SQL Server 2000 license and we develop applications around it. I can tell you that my boss has no idea who made the components of the software, any more than an average consumer cares that that their Dell computer has a Fujitsu CDRom and a Maxtor HD, or that the frame of their Toyota Matrix came from a Pontiac assembly line.
Microsoft is selling an integrated product and I don't want to worry about where the various parts came from. I bought one box and agreed to one license - i've never heard of TimeLine and I've never seen their logo or copyright anywhere in the product. If Microsoft illegally include patented technologies in their product without informing me I just can't see logically how I could be liable. But then the law can be illogical sometimes. At the very least, I think a suit against Microsoft on behalf of its customers would have a great chance of success.
I'm a recent convert to tabbed browsing so i may be overenthused, but i think it's the cat's pyjamas.
I can open slashdot, a google search, a news site, etc. and click my mousewheel on every story that interests me as i scroll down the page. by the time i finish reading the front of the site, all the content I'm interested in has loaded in background tabs and is ready to be browsed with no wait time for downloads. Snap-back can't offer that kind of functionality.
As a programmer just starting out, I'm curious what direction to take my training in the future. I was planning to learn to use C# and ASP.NET to develop database-driven web applications. After seeing all this criticism/skepticism/pessimism i'm curious: what would _you_ recommend?
Can this device really compete with GBA?
1. For all the stuff that's in it, from wireless technology, a cellphone, backlit screen, etc etc it would have to cost more than GBA.
2. Does a 9-year old GBA junkie need a cell phone?
While listening to a community radio show last night I heard a man espousing a few different theories about what really "caused" the accident. Although these ideas have no evidence behind them and seem patently absurd, i thought you might find them interesting:
- They saw something up there they weren't supposed to - he didn't know what, but it obviously involved the grays.
- There was a payload in the shuttle containing radioactive material. The american government has already built an orbiting missle defense system without the knowledge of the general public, and the entry of this material into the atmosphere over the US triggered something it shouldn't have - ZAP!
Not true - unfortunately recording companies do have a say in the music their artists create. They hire a producer to manage the recording of your album, the re-recording, re-writes etc until you have a product the company is happy with. Just one of the many things that sucks about the industry...
Do you really think artists like Eminem are better than _crap_ unsigned artists, because they are just so genuinely talented? I would suggest it has more to do with the millions put into cramming those artists down our throats through every conceivable media channel. And the discussion of signed/unsigned is a bit reductionist - most people who choose music as a profession are at least on small/independent record labels. Check out all the "crap" on Alternative Tentacles, Anticon, (in the past)subpop, who brought us the bands that defined most/all rock music since 1991... i could go on.
I recently installed Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix, one of the several applications that includes MSDE - a no-interface version of SQL 2000. After installing and rebooting, I noticed that the server had been installed and was now running on my computer, connected to the internet by a cable modem. Voila. I knew it was a security issue but there are many non-technical users out there who wouldn't have a clue - they install the software and forget about it. It's not unlike the thousands of windows users who are running IIS and don't know it.
"...Defendants will provide $75,700,000 worth of prerecorded music compact discs. The compact discs will be distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs.
Finally, my community centre will get that Britney Spears Box Set we've been saving up for...
Q: How important is Spot toward the goal of ubiquitous computing, where there are smart devices everywhere?
A: It will really make people think. [If] you can get the instant message on your wrist, people will start to think, "Gosh, this information is everywhere." And it's not just text. We can download a program that understands smiley faces and whatever you want. You could even have some specialized symbols that are just for you. So I think it's a big milestone in that.
An example of that can be found here, from an incident in 1998 when a CL-327 Guardian came apart in mid-air. My employer built the chassis for it so we watched it with much interest.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/980610-b ommishap.htm
hundreds of years later, "...." would become a perfectly valid expression in videogame cinematics, meaning... wait a minute, what the hell does that thing mean?
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We live in a capitalist system. Companies that don't operate in a profit-making model die faster than staph-infected peasants. Perhaps this sucks but it's our system. If a company comes up with a miracle cure at the expense of millions of dollars, should its next move be to give it all away and go out of business? The solution is for the government to subsidize the cost of the cure so sick people can afford it. In a free market system, big business has no mandate to look out for anybody's well being. That's where the government is supposed to come in.
"Beat, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Tone" - These ideals haven't been held up as "proof of music" since 1750, when Bach died and the Romantic age began. People started to play with and redefine these ideas, especially harmony. With the coming of the 20th century and the contemporary movement, artists like Stravinsky in the nineteen twenties was working far outside of your parameters for "good music" and just about every rule has been thrown out the window since (it must all be noise.) The fact that your favorite music conforms to these ideals is a testament to your lack of interest in hearing anything new.
And in general, the masses don't want to hear anything new. When you go to an Eagles concert, of course you want to hear Hotel California and not something off their latest terrible album. People get excited and rush the dancefloor when a song they recognize comes on at the club. Introducing truly new music into the mainstream is hard on the average listener: a new sound requires thought, analysis, interpretation. Too much work! Most just want to turn on the radio and hear something pleasant to fill up the background. As an analogy: they don't want art, they want wallpaper.
Also, what about lyrical music? For example rap/hiphop, which has "beat, but not much else" actually contains all the elements you list above (check out buck65. anticon. Saul Williams. etc.) with the addition of words. Words have meaning outside of the music, though their meaning can be augmented or modified through the music they accompany. What the artist is saying can have a profound effect on the way that the listener interprets music. From Rass Kass' "Nature of the Threat," Josh Martinez' "Deny," and that nazi punk band called Sieg Heil, lyrics are another major contributor to how we interpret music.
From reading the article it would seem that the only people who could pull off something like this are "Bank Programmers," but there's a much bigger security hole that i can think of.
Here in Canada we have non-bank ATM machines proliferating across the countryside - it's basically a machine that performs an Interac (debit) transaction and spits out money. It runs over a telephone line, you can buy one for a few thousand dollars, and you plonk it down in the middle of a bar where people are too drunk to care that you're adding $2.00 to every transaction.
But who are the people making these machines? They have no certification that I'm aware of. I've seen at least a dozen varieties of these "mini-ATMs" from companies whose names I have never heard of. It seems to me that it would be very easy to build a few of these, rent them to bar owners or corner stores (also very common) and just log magnetic strips and PINs till the cows come home. What does the guy who owns the corner store know about security? He'll just be glad that he has an alternative in his store to offering debit himself, which costs him money on every transaction.
So anyway, if anybody has some plans or examples of how to build your own Interac-ATM please post them on the net ASAP and lets talk business.
My employer owns SQL Server 2000 license and we develop applications around it. I can tell you that my boss has no idea who made the components of the software, any more than an average consumer cares that that their Dell computer has a Fujitsu CDRom and a Maxtor HD, or that the frame of their Toyota Matrix came from a Pontiac assembly line. Microsoft is selling an integrated product and I don't want to worry about where the various parts came from. I bought one box and agreed to one license - i've never heard of TimeLine and I've never seen their logo or copyright anywhere in the product. If Microsoft illegally include patented technologies in their product without informing me I just can't see logically how I could be liable. But then the law can be illogical sometimes. At the very least, I think a suit against Microsoft on behalf of its customers would have a great chance of success.
as a point of interest:
in the novel the computers were Cray XMPs.
haha you said you would take DVDA any day
I'm a recent convert to tabbed browsing so i may be overenthused, but i think it's the cat's pyjamas.
I can open slashdot, a google search, a news site, etc. and click my mousewheel on every story that interests me as i scroll down the page. by the time i finish reading the front of the site, all the content I'm interested in has loaded in background tabs and is ready to be browsed with no wait time for downloads. Snap-back can't offer that kind of functionality.
The prohibitive cost of a sub-cranial interface could always be reconciled by having banner popups in your field of vision.
As a programmer just starting out, I'm curious what direction to take my training in the future. I was planning to learn to use C# and ASP.NET to develop database-driven web applications. After seeing all this criticism/skepticism/pessimism i'm curious: what would _you_ recommend?
Can this device really compete with GBA? 1. For all the stuff that's in it, from wireless technology, a cellphone, backlit screen, etc etc it would have to cost more than GBA. 2. Does a 9-year old GBA junkie need a cell phone?
You've obviously never watched Oz.
While listening to a community radio show last night I heard a man espousing a few different theories about what really "caused" the accident. Although these ideas have no evidence behind them and seem patently absurd, i thought you might find them interesting:
- They saw something up there they weren't supposed to - he didn't know what, but it obviously involved the grays.
- There was a payload in the shuttle containing radioactive material. The american government has already built an orbiting missle defense system without the knowledge of the general public, and the entry of this material into the atmosphere over the US triggered something it shouldn't have - ZAP!
and so on.
Not true - unfortunately recording companies do have a say in the music their artists create. They hire a producer to manage the recording of your album, the re-recording, re-writes etc until you have a product the company is happy with. Just one of the many things that sucks about the industry...
Do you really think artists like Eminem are better than _crap_ unsigned artists, because they are just so genuinely talented? I would suggest it has more to do with the millions put into cramming those artists down our throats through every conceivable media channel. And the discussion of signed/unsigned is a bit reductionist - most people who choose music as a profession are at least on small/independent record labels. Check out all the "crap" on Alternative Tentacles, Anticon, (in the past)subpop, who brought us the bands that defined most/all rock music since 1991... i could go on.
I recently installed Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix, one of the several applications that includes MSDE - a no-interface version of SQL 2000. After installing and rebooting, I noticed that the server had been installed and was now running on my computer, connected to the internet by a cable modem. Voila. I knew it was a security issue but there are many non-technical users out there who wouldn't have a clue - they install the software and forget about it. It's not unlike the thousands of windows users who are running IIS and don't know it.
If you actually want to learn more about TV-turnoff culture, go here:
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/
Agreed - how is this publication any different from going public with De-CSS?
Imagine how jarring it would be to repeatedly slam your fingers against such a hard surface...
Hey, it worked just fine on the Enterprise...
"...Defendants will provide $75,700,000 worth of prerecorded music compact discs. The compact discs will be distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs.
Finally, my community centre will get that Britney Spears Box Set we've been saving up for...
Q: How important is Spot toward the goal of ubiquitous computing, where there are smart devices everywhere?
A: It will really make people think. [If] you can get the instant message on your wrist, people will start to think, "Gosh, this information is everywhere." And it's not just text. We can download a program that understands smiley faces and whatever you want. You could even have some specialized symbols that are just for you. So I think it's a big milestone in that.
Way to push the envelope, Mr. Gates.
Here in Canada the average citizen watches three hours of television a day. Why do we need secret radio waves to control the population?
Easy: HomePNA + portable phone! Make sure you use a 2.4 Ghz though.
An example of that can be found here, from an incident in 1998 when a CL-327 Guardian came apart in mid-air. My employer built the chassis for it so we watched it with much interest. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/980610-b ommishap.htm
hundreds of years later, "...." would become a perfectly valid expression in videogame cinematics, meaning... wait a minute, what the hell does that thing mean?