They don't, he's making it up? Heh. The Courtney Love article I usually cite right about now basically says the artist gets to keep whatever they get from the tour, but they're required to pay back certain expenses to the record label before they can collect royalties for the record sales.
Heh. No, I don't require expertise on both sides before talking. I just require a common frame of reference. My point was that is harder to find for people who've studied a field as wide as music in any kind of depth. And I was trying to illustrate how that common frame of reference almost never shows itself to me.
Oh well. Probably most posts in this topic are going to come off as pretentious anyway.:)
Oops, didn't mean to type that. What I meant to say was, I quit asking people about music entirely because I find the answers aren't terribly useful. Either I get really pretentious non-musician answers, or really pretentious musician answers. I'm sorry, but I don't really think describing the Sex Pistols as "complex guitar riffs" is going to cut it. That's grade school guitar, isn't it? (Yes, it is!) So for non-pretentious musical discussion, there's non-musicians who, in my experience anyway, don't know enough to talk and therefore *don't* (because they're not pretentious!), and there's musicians who, in my experience anyway, know enough to know that they shouldn't really talk much unless they know a lot about the music they're talking about. Since, in nearly 25 years of playing music of various types on various interests, the one thing I've learned is that I don't know enough music in-depth to guarantee a conversation with any musician on the subject, conversations about music just aren't happening with me. Either you're pretentious, in which case I don't want to talk to you at all, or you're not, in which case you either don't know what you're talking about or the chances we know the same music and can therefore talk about it are very slim.
Even among metalhead guitar players (which I am), I find the opportunities to do more than just say which bands I like and hear which bands you like don't come very often. I do find bass players generally have more to talk about, but I think that's because bass isn't as specialized as metalhead guitar (and also I'm not specialized in any genre in bass, I just lean toward jazz and prefer to avoid any labeling beyond that).
Anyway, I find the most important predictor of whether or not someone will annoy me has more to do with the whiny line. If the music is whiny more than 30% of the time, the person who listens to it as his core choices will annoy me. As the whininess decreases, I like the person more, and more, and more, until I'm exuding infinite love for 0% whiny core music choices.
I disagree. I think Judas Priest is the best for making love, and Tchaikovsky is the best for fucking, especially if you can time all applicable orgasms to coincide with the cannons.
did me best, ey' did, to ignore such petulant grammar first time through, however incessant redundancy, twice of course, is a free ticket to being dragged out into the street and subsequently run over, not once mind you, but of course twice, by a fast-moving DHL wagon, chock full o' two-headed collectible bobble-heads from a recent forced overstock sale at crap-heads.com. Puh-leeze refrain from EVER doing such callous disregard to any known language, again, thanks.
I just can't believe you wrote that paragraph bitching about someone's grammar. Really, I just can't believe it, even though I can see it.
I declared years ago that I would never marry a woman who didn't like Anthrax or Wrathchild America. I didn't require a woman to be a fan of either band. When I asked, I usually answered that it was a way of expediting the whole "your music annoys me so much" argument that comes after you spend a lot of time in close association with somebody. I needed to know that the music I listened to most wouldn't annoy my wife. Of course, that wasn't the real reason.:)
Now would be a good time to point out that Sound of White Noise was the current Anthrax album at the time. Since that album is toward the beginning of a new direction for them, it's important to notice that.
Later, as in "within 2 years", I met a woman who went nuts when she saw I had Attack of the Killer B's. Naturally I exposed her to the rest of the band's offerings at the time, and *she* bought me Stomp 442 when it came out. So I threw Wratchild America at her. She pointed out it wasn't terribly accessible to people who aren't themselves musicians, but she did enjoy listening to it, even though she'd probably never pick it herself to listen to. That was good enough for me.
After we had been married for awhile, she asked me what my requirements had been, and I told her. She picked out the musical requirement, interested in the fact that I didn't exclude any musical preference at all, and asked why it was.
Here is what I told her, as best as I can reconstruct it. (I should write this as a folk song, but I'll spare you all)
Anthrax's old music is fun-loving. It mostly doesn't approach serious political or social issues, it's not into devil-worshipping or any of that. It's all about being the best *you* you can be and having a good time of it. When it does approach serious political and social issues, the underlying concepts presented are personal freedom, responsibility (in particular corporate and government responsibility), tolerance towards people who are different (either because of race, religion, or whatever), and generally being cool to people. In order to like this music, even a little bit, I figured you needed to be somewhere to the left of conventional thought. You need to have the tolerance they talk about (I've never known a racist who liked Anthrax!). You need to be generally fun-loving, not take yourself too seriously, and value personal freedom.
Wrathchild America is a little on the weird side. Here I wasn't looking for anything connected with lyrics, since they went into a lot of areas where the songs either don't make any sense, or they don't have much meaning to many people. One in particular was obsolete almost as soon as it was made due to the iron curtain falling. But here there is a fusion of jazz and metal in a really nice package that isn't just another rip of, er, I forgot the name, had the album with the inverted cross foldout...ummm.... former Misfits singer.... Anyway, most people can get past the lyrics just fine, no problems associating with the songs that aren't about vampires, no problems with the songs that are about vampires. Most people I've known get hung up on the music, in particular the fact that only somewhere around 40% of the music is in 4/4 time, with the rest having really weird timing. I figured the ideal wife for me wouldn't have any problems with the timing, and this would reflect that she could think in any direction she chose. I don't want to say open-minded, because it's a given that having an open mind was required to like either band, but it's close to the concept anyway.
My wife prefers rap and country music, no use denying that. But she bought me tickets to an Anthrax show and then went with me, and we had a great time.:) Went to what amounted to the second row to mosh a bit, then decided we needed to back up because the pressure on people down in the front was so high we couldn't breathe, I don't know how those people could hang in the whole show. Anyway, these days I don't really give a rat's ass
Oh hell, even flogging is better than this. Then he just walks away with a few scars, a horrible hour or two of life experience, gets some pity pussy, and goes back to work.
And yes, I think Gorbachev is the right person to be making a fuss about this. He's gone all human-rights-sappy since the iron curtain got pulled back, and I think that's a good thing. He's just asking Gates to show a soul, and Gates is adding more evidence onto the pile that indicates humans don't have souls.
However, the question that comes to mind, since Putin has said something, is will Russia be looking at correcting the obvious flaw in their legal system? Maybe this is a political move by Russia to show what unchecked enforcement of "intellectual property" looks like? Now would be a good time for Putin to screw up and say "Isn't this what Bush was asking us to do?"
Death of the creator. Also, they shouldn't be transferable, either in a sale, contract, or by inheritance. There are, however, good arguments for allowing works created near the end of a person's life to remain in copyright for some time afterwards to protect them from gratuitous commercial exploitation, but the copyright shouldn't pass to someone else. Instead, it should be held and protected by the state until expiry.
Copyright isn't at all like farmland. It makes no sense that an heir should be able to derive income from their parents' works indefinitely.
C) There's no money to be made there, since apparently only women know how to do it. (It's true! My psych teacher told all us men we needed to get books and study because we all suck at it. Not that she gave any sort of test, either individual or spot-test)
No. It was to provide a mechanism by which an artist could create art, have an opportunity at making a living at it, and therefore be more productive. Copyright is useless unless the material goes into the public domain in a timely manner, the whole point being to encourage artists to be more productive and for their work to be owned by the people. The artist who is "worthwhile" should be able to make a living off of his creations, and when his copyright expires, the work goes into the public domain.
And that's how it should be. You have to go to a subset of the group to find a united vision, and then you work with that subset. Why should anybody expect 2 million people to all work on the same 2-3 things? We're not ants, we're not bees, and we're not slaves. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is. (Rather, the grandparent poster here, I'm agreeing with you, I think:) )
(Note: I pulled the 2 million figure from my ass. It could easily be much larger)
I've never bought 90% of a car and finished building it myself.
I'm a linux fanboy, don't get me wrong. And I love the idea of grabbing an open source program that does 90% for me and adding the remaining 10%, but really, is this sustainable? Who wants to buy partial solutions?
I think we need to move away from suggesting partial solutions to problems. Everybody's looking for a silver bullet, and I really don't think that's beyond the reach of the larger open source community. It is, however, completely beyond the reach of any proprietary software company. Think about that.:)
(Minor side note: There is groupware for linux that supposedly does everything Exchange does. I've never used either Exchange or any of the open source products, but it's just another one of those "give it time" things, and we'll have it ready to drop in there without your users ever noticing you switched servers)
I don't think workstation computing will suffer at all, for the reason you mentioned.:)
The average consumer uses an Office product, e-mail, and a browser.
Multi-core processors will hopefully schedule each of those on a different core, which will give the user added performance in task-switching. I, for one, am sick and tired of waiting for my computer to catch up whenever I switch tasks. When I'm "in the zone" on some program I'm working on, the cost of task-switching goes up significantly when those 1-3 seconds I have to wait for shit to finish switching is required. I could fall out of the zone waiting for my computer to catch up to me. I thought computers were supposed to be faster than people!
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VEnus shouldn't be affected at all, it has a dark surface. The clouds reflect all of the sunlight. The surface on Venus is hot because it's a very hot planet, very hot core, well insulated, etc.
Similarly, Mars has been dead for so long that there may not be any signs there either.
Because it's ridiculously bloated and uses a completely non-standard toolkit (meaning nothing is cached)? There is a quickstarter app that preloads components and speeds up startup time quite a bit. Also, startup time has improved a lot since the 1.0 release.:)
Heh. Just imagine what would've happened if I'd have asked why he didn't do linear approximation, when he could've computed how accurate his approximation was.
Luckily, OO.o isn't written in Java. It used to use Java for some features, I don't know if it still does or not, but it is not and never has been "entirely written in java".
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INflation during the 20th century was not linear, I believe it was concave up. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. :)
They don't, he's making it up? Heh. The Courtney Love article I usually cite right about now basically says the artist gets to keep whatever they get from the tour, but they're required to pay back certain expenses to the record label before they can collect royalties for the record sales.
Haha, hey, good point. Don't know what I was thinking. Not only do women have the capability to violate my copyright, they also do it all the time!
That song puts me to sleep. :)
Heh. No, I don't require expertise on both sides before talking. I just require a common frame of reference. My point was that is harder to find for people who've studied a field as wide as music in any kind of depth. And I was trying to illustrate how that common frame of reference almost never shows itself to me.
Oh well. Probably most posts in this topic are going to come off as pretentious anyway. :)
Dude, you're annoying.
Oops, didn't mean to type that. What I meant to say was, I quit asking people about music entirely because I find the answers aren't terribly useful. Either I get really pretentious non-musician answers, or really pretentious musician answers. I'm sorry, but I don't really think describing the Sex Pistols as "complex guitar riffs" is going to cut it. That's grade school guitar, isn't it? (Yes, it is!) So for non-pretentious musical discussion, there's non-musicians who, in my experience anyway, don't know enough to talk and therefore *don't* (because they're not pretentious!), and there's musicians who, in my experience anyway, know enough to know that they shouldn't really talk much unless they know a lot about the music they're talking about. Since, in nearly 25 years of playing music of various types on various interests, the one thing I've learned is that I don't know enough music in-depth to guarantee a conversation with any musician on the subject, conversations about music just aren't happening with me. Either you're pretentious, in which case I don't want to talk to you at all, or you're not, in which case you either don't know what you're talking about or the chances we know the same music and can therefore talk about it are very slim.
Even among metalhead guitar players (which I am), I find the opportunities to do more than just say which bands I like and hear which bands you like don't come very often. I do find bass players generally have more to talk about, but I think that's because bass isn't as specialized as metalhead guitar (and also I'm not specialized in any genre in bass, I just lean toward jazz and prefer to avoid any labeling beyond that).
Anyway, I find the most important predictor of whether or not someone will annoy me has more to do with the whiny line. If the music is whiny more than 30% of the time, the person who listens to it as his core choices will annoy me. As the whininess decreases, I like the person more, and more, and more, until I'm exuding infinite love for 0% whiny core music choices.
I disagree. I think Judas Priest is the best for making love, and Tchaikovsky is the best for fucking, especially if you can time all applicable orgasms to coincide with the cannons.
I just can't believe you wrote that paragraph bitching about someone's grammar. Really, I just can't believe it, even though I can see it.
Do you ever worry about what might happen if you find out that 30% of the people that like all the same music as you are child molestors?
I declared years ago that I would never marry a woman who didn't like Anthrax or Wrathchild America. I didn't require a woman to be a fan of either band. When I asked, I usually answered that it was a way of expediting the whole "your music annoys me so much" argument that comes after you spend a lot of time in close association with somebody. I needed to know that the music I listened to most wouldn't annoy my wife. Of course, that wasn't the real reason. :)
Now would be a good time to point out that Sound of White Noise was the current Anthrax album at the time. Since that album is toward the beginning of a new direction for them, it's important to notice that.
Later, as in "within 2 years", I met a woman who went nuts when she saw I had Attack of the Killer B's. Naturally I exposed her to the rest of the band's offerings at the time, and *she* bought me Stomp 442 when it came out. So I threw Wratchild America at her. She pointed out it wasn't terribly accessible to people who aren't themselves musicians, but she did enjoy listening to it, even though she'd probably never pick it herself to listen to. That was good enough for me.
After we had been married for awhile, she asked me what my requirements had been, and I told her. She picked out the musical requirement, interested in the fact that I didn't exclude any musical preference at all, and asked why it was.
Here is what I told her, as best as I can reconstruct it. (I should write this as a folk song, but I'll spare you all)
Anthrax's old music is fun-loving. It mostly doesn't approach serious political or social issues, it's not into devil-worshipping or any of that. It's all about being the best *you* you can be and having a good time of it. When it does approach serious political and social issues, the underlying concepts presented are personal freedom, responsibility (in particular corporate and government responsibility), tolerance towards people who are different (either because of race, religion, or whatever), and generally being cool to people. In order to like this music, even a little bit, I figured you needed to be somewhere to the left of conventional thought. You need to have the tolerance they talk about (I've never known a racist who liked Anthrax!). You need to be generally fun-loving, not take yourself too seriously, and value personal freedom.
Wrathchild America is a little on the weird side. Here I wasn't looking for anything connected with lyrics, since they went into a lot of areas where the songs either don't make any sense, or they don't have much meaning to many people. One in particular was obsolete almost as soon as it was made due to the iron curtain falling. But here there is a fusion of jazz and metal in a really nice package that isn't just another rip of, er, I forgot the name, had the album with the inverted cross foldout...ummm.... former Misfits singer.... Anyway, most people can get past the lyrics just fine, no problems associating with the songs that aren't about vampires, no problems with the songs that are about vampires. Most people I've known get hung up on the music, in particular the fact that only somewhere around 40% of the music is in 4/4 time, with the rest having really weird timing. I figured the ideal wife for me wouldn't have any problems with the timing, and this would reflect that she could think in any direction she chose. I don't want to say open-minded, because it's a given that having an open mind was required to like either band, but it's close to the concept anyway.
My wife prefers rap and country music, no use denying that. But she bought me tickets to an Anthrax show and then went with me, and we had a great time. :) Went to what amounted to the second row to mosh a bit, then decided we needed to back up because the pressure on people down in the front was so high we couldn't breathe, I don't know how those people could hang in the whole show. Anyway, these days I don't really give a rat's ass
I'll keep that in mind next time my 8 year old daughter says "He stole my idea!"
(Think about it, that's what copyright and patent is all about. "He stole my idea!" Yes, I consider these laws childish and abusive)
Oh hell, even flogging is better than this. Then he just walks away with a few scars, a horrible hour or two of life experience, gets some pity pussy, and goes back to work.
And yes, I think Gorbachev is the right person to be making a fuss about this. He's gone all human-rights-sappy since the iron curtain got pulled back, and I think that's a good thing. He's just asking Gates to show a soul, and Gates is adding more evidence onto the pile that indicates humans don't have souls.
However, the question that comes to mind, since Putin has said something, is will Russia be looking at correcting the obvious flaw in their legal system? Maybe this is a political move by Russia to show what unchecked enforcement of "intellectual property" looks like? Now would be a good time for Putin to screw up and say "Isn't this what Bush was asking us to do?"
Death of the creator. Also, they shouldn't be transferable, either in a sale, contract, or by inheritance. There are, however, good arguments for allowing works created near the end of a person's life to remain in copyright for some time afterwards to protect them from gratuitous commercial exploitation, but the copyright shouldn't pass to someone else. Instead, it should be held and protected by the state until expiry.
Copyright isn't at all like farmland. It makes no sense that an heir should be able to derive income from their parents' works indefinitely.
C) There's no money to be made there, since apparently only women know how to do it. (It's true! My psych teacher told all us men we needed to get books and study because we all suck at it. Not that she gave any sort of test, either individual or spot-test)
No. It was to provide a mechanism by which an artist could create art, have an opportunity at making a living at it, and therefore be more productive. Copyright is useless unless the material goes into the public domain in a timely manner, the whole point being to encourage artists to be more productive and for their work to be owned by the people. The artist who is "worthwhile" should be able to make a living off of his creations, and when his copyright expires, the work goes into the public domain.
Screw that. I'm going to copyright "bring woman to orgasm".
And that's how it should be. You have to go to a subset of the group to find a united vision, and then you work with that subset. Why should anybody expect 2 million people to all work on the same 2-3 things? We're not ants, we're not bees, and we're not slaves. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is. (Rather, the grandparent poster here, I'm agreeing with you, I think :) )
(Note: I pulled the 2 million figure from my ass. It could easily be much larger)
It needs to be easier to configure for idiots like me. :(
I've never bought 90% of a car and finished building it myself.
I'm a linux fanboy, don't get me wrong. And I love the idea of grabbing an open source program that does 90% for me and adding the remaining 10%, but really, is this sustainable? Who wants to buy partial solutions?
I think we need to move away from suggesting partial solutions to problems. Everybody's looking for a silver bullet, and I really don't think that's beyond the reach of the larger open source community. It is, however, completely beyond the reach of any proprietary software company. Think about that. :)
(Minor side note: There is groupware for linux that supposedly does everything Exchange does. I've never used either Exchange or any of the open source products, but it's just another one of those "give it time" things, and we'll have it ready to drop in there without your users ever noticing you switched servers)
I don't think workstation computing will suffer at all, for the reason you mentioned. :)
Multi-core processors will hopefully schedule each of those on a different core, which will give the user added performance in task-switching. I, for one, am sick and tired of waiting for my computer to catch up whenever I switch tasks. When I'm "in the zone" on some program I'm working on, the cost of task-switching goes up significantly when those 1-3 seconds I have to wait for shit to finish switching is required. I could fall out of the zone waiting for my computer to catch up to me. I thought computers were supposed to be faster than people!
VEnus shouldn't be affected at all, it has a dark surface. The clouds reflect all of the sunlight. The surface on Venus is hot because it's a very hot planet, very hot core, well insulated, etc.
Similarly, Mars has been dead for so long that there may not be any signs there either.
Because it's ridiculously bloated and uses a completely non-standard toolkit (meaning nothing is cached)? There is a quickstarter app that preloads components and speeds up startup time quite a bit. Also, startup time has improved a lot since the 1.0 release. :)
Heh. Just imagine what would've happened if I'd have asked why he didn't do linear approximation, when he could've computed how accurate his approximation was.
A line is straight, by definition.
Luckily, OO.o isn't written in Java. It used to use Java for some features, I don't know if it still does or not, but it is not and never has been "entirely written in java".