What need is there for a new music format? CDs *are* too big and prone to scratching. Mini disks would have been a superior format because of their size and enclosure, but they pretty much failed like the digital audio tape. The need for a new storage medium for music is just not there, we have iPods and other similar personal audio devices that can store a whole library of music and plug into just about any system. Home and car stereo systems will just have a firewire, USB (or Bluetooth) interface for personal audio devices, which will become much cheaper as online music stores advance and become more popular. Those who don't have computers available can just download music directly to their personal audio devices via a wireless web interface and build a portable library. Bigger libraries will require a computer or a home stereo system with a web interface for browsing/buying or subscribing to music services.
We already have universal digital audio formats, DRM and universal device interfaces. Most likely wireless phones will incorporate every aspect (pda/phone/music player/web browser), and communicate with nearby devices (home/car stereos etc) via Bluetooth or a direct hardware link.
There does not require any technological breakthroughs, and many manufacturers are moving in this direction. CDs may last a little while longer, so there is not much need for an interem storage medium as described in the article, especially if the medium required a technical breakthrough. R&D, marketing to hype the medium and manufacturing overhead costs would not be recouped for a long time, time enough for existing technology to make it unnecessary.
Ah, yes, the padding of 'core hours'. They made that a mandatory practice at our company. I told them my hours are staying the same, if they don't like it, fire me. I don't leave my desk for lunch, I bring food from home because there is nothing to eat in the area worth paying for. When I worked at Midway Games, we regularly worked 10-15 hour days to meet a deadline. That was fun for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with working on video games, but I digress... Also, we get 10 days of PTO (paid time off) and nothing else. If you have the flu for 4 days, there goes four days of vacation down the tubes. Which is why a lot of sick people who should be at home show up for work anyway. Its not generally a bad place to work, but the policies that come down from corporate are making it less appealing every month.
to use Free Software. Can this limitation be attributed to bad software/faulty engineering or is it mostly due to Microsoft licensing policy? Normally one needs to re-install Windows to clean off all the crap that you unintentionally installed while using IE/Outlook, so in this case a OS image would be useless.
I would need a lot more than stock options and a relaxed atmosphere to work 80-120 hours a week. Thats seriously bad for your health. I could do that for a few months, if I was going to make a few hundred thousand in the end. I'd have to live in the office, so it had better have a health club with swimming pools and all the works, good food (not well stock snacks, I'm talking about a real kitchen with chefs and stuff) and I would definately take lots of breaks to visit the 'entertainment complex'. I work around 40 hours now, I'm getting burned out on that.
I dont get what the problem is. I make and play 'illegal' bootlegs in public regularly. This is a widely accepted practice among DJs, all the top DJs have big collections of bootlegs which we trade freely. It's only a bootleg until a major label puts it out as a remix, which happens now and then. If we are not allowed to make bootlegs, then why do the major labels release all the big singles with accapellas? It's part of the business. Bootlegs just increase the popularity of the artists being bootlegged, it doesn't detract from CD sales, because the bootlegs are whole new tracks with completely different music under the vocals.
Any OS function that finds uses for the Function keys is instantly innovative.
I'm guessing you've never used it, or seen it work. It's one of those features that makes you wonder, 'why did no one else do that?'. It will become ingrained in your expectations of a windowing system withing hours. Therein lies it's innovation. I actually don't find it all that useful, I usually have a pretty good idea of what applications are open, and use alt+tab to switch between them efficiently enough. 'Clean up all windows' with eye candy it's not. Anyone foolish enough to use that feature of a windowing system will quickly realize it's shortcomings.
The JBoss code and the Apache code both appear to be copied from an example that was originally created by Apache. Exibit A and B are both logging classes, both use Log4J (Apache's logging utility) and can be expected to be similar. Exibit C looks Almost identical, but not entirely. The similarities are so trivial, Apache is bound to make a few quick changes and be done with this thing before it starts. What sillyness.
How could this be avoided? Both are implemented against the same guidelines, using the same suggested/implied patterns. I guess it's just a matter of who did it first a this point. Java's syntax does not allow for (thankfully) a million different ways of expressing the same idea (at the lanuage level anyway). Given the pervasiveness of design patterns, it's not unlikely that large pieces of architecture will be functionally and syntactically similar. And given that both are open source software, what are the chances that one developer happened to peek at the other's code for a little insight? Chances are pretty good. Once you see a solution or pattern/class design that works nicely, it's hard not to follow the idea.
Can't RTFA thanks to 'the effect'. Anyone know how much they are charging for this contraption? I have been in the music business for 7 years or so, never heard of 'Lionstracs'. Is this a complete digital audio workstation? Does it offer any significant advantages? I use Logic 4.7 on a G4 tower and Logic 6 on a G3 iBook. I can hook up a usb midi controller for the keyboard if I wanted one. (I prefer to click all the notes into place with a mouse..) I can't imagine anything being more powerful than Logic at this time. Other packages have been getting better, but Logic outdoes them all these days, even pro-tools.
Actually that would read:
In the rest of the world it's a computerized keyboard.
In soviet russia, it's keyboardized computer.
Soviets don't seem to have 'a' or 'an' to speak of.
Barring superstar athletes and media personalities, because they are obviously the most grossly overpaid citizens, I would say lawyers, mutual fund managers, and CEOs are the most undeserving, overpaid people in the world. Everyone knows that companies make most of their money on the efforts of under-appreciated engineers and scientists. Writing a few peices of usefull code or solving a new problem makes tons more money than the hundreds of strategic 'planning' meetings that middle and upper management are always in, mostly for the purpose of justifying their positions. Engineers and R&D people are the most underpaid. Them and Wallmart employees. I truly feel for them. At the rate things are going, I am seriously considering applying for work at a shipping port. I don't mind a little physical labor, especially at those pay rates.
The other most underpaid folks around are military grunts. The infantry put their asses on the line for about $18k per year. This looks good until you are deployed to a desert for 12+ months.
The govt' gives way too much money to the likes of DynCorp and Haliburton, most of the time they don't know what they are getting for the money.
There promotional literature mentions the scientific and technical mission goals briefly, I'm sure they are hoping to make good use of their lunar orbiter. I just think giving people a way to put their junk on the moon is silly. If I am ever on the moon and I find some junk, I'll make sure it gets recycled properly.
Moore's law applies directly to the number of transistors on a chip, but since we are all using Maas Biochips these days, none of that applies anymore. Unless you own one of those old Ono-Sendai peices of crap...
TransOrbital wants to send its lunar orbiter to the moon so it can deposit a buch of people's random garbage:
Delivered to the Moon surface in a special capsule
will be your certificates, business cards, cremated remains, jewelry, artwork and
many other items of choice.
What? Does anyone else have a problem with this? Ok, so lots of people want to strip mine the moon and melt its polar caps and stuff, it's not a national park or anything, but depositing random junk on the surface? This is just plain stupid sentimental crap. I hope their orbiter burns up on the launch pad.
I haven't seen a cash cow like that since... gosh I don't know when. All they have to do is keep a couple racks of X-Serves running and rake in the $$.
Did the beginning of the end of the audio CD start a long time ago?
Usually it takes about twice the time to code it as it does to drive..
I dont see the code anymore.. to me it's just blonde, brunette, redhead...
Seriously, what are they 'coding'? Assuming they are talking about data entry, there must be a serious shortage of good tools out there if it takes them more time to enter the data than it does to drive the route.
This could be done much quicker with satellite images and some AI to help. Of course, we would need street signs that faced *UP* so they can be read by the satellite imaging systems...
Maybe Navtech should improve their current tools first.
When I used to do raves we would sometimes have to communicate by sticking our fingers in eacho ther's ears. The vibrations from speech would travel up your arm and vibrate directly in the listener's ear. We could carry on pretty detailed conversations that way, which is important when your trying to manage an event with 20k+ people and a sound system that is causing earthquakes on the other side of the globe. It's a little muddy, kind of like speaking through liquid, but it is much better than having someone shout full volume into your ear. Most people find it funny to see two people talking with their finger's in each others ears.
Jumping headfirst into this debate:
The big sources of greenhouse gasses aren't power plants so much as factories, [but] the ones that make the things than [that?] we use to maintain our standard of living
Our standard of living is unsustainably high. If maintaining our standard of living involves burning fossil fuels and producing millions of tons of toxic garbage, then what long term benefit does our near term comfort have?
Exactly. Intel has been pushing the 'how many transistors can we fit on a chip' envelope for a while. I wonder if they are exploring the 'how much can we do with fewer transistors?' question.
Should have been called 'Moore's Prediction' cause it was little more than that. Or 'Moore's Observation'. The only unsavory consequence of Moore's Law is the imortalizing of Moore himself.
of code cowboy bounty hunters? How very Gibsonesque.
I doubt this will become a trend, but if it did, it just might create a new type of hacker. More likely the guy's friends will get greedy and just give him up. It's pretty easy to get a virus out there and not get caught.
will hopefully dissapear soon. Some of the larger ones in my area are already closed. (Some people) used to make a good profit stealing hundreds of CDs from the clueless major retailers and selling them for half price at the independent shops. You could pull in around $4-5k before the police and hired security would be all over the retailers like stick on glue. The indepenents would keep their mouths shut, cause it was good business for them too.
Hopefully there will be no more big, stupid, ugly music retailers selling nothing but crap. I'm sure the indepenents won't mind if they dissapear altogether. Of course, what are the independents going to be selling? Used CDs? Vinyl? For a while maybe.
Google will probably do better, if the two go into head to head competition. MS is giving every appearance of doing so, placing a bid for google (and getting rejected) being a major indicator.
1. Google's adds are unobtrusive, that sets it apart from other search services, and almost any other free service on the web for that matter. Microsoft would do well to follow google on this one, it's a major part of the reason that Google is successful.
2. Google is working on lots of useful tools, some of which may eventually be incorporated into our information seeking lexicon, just as google itself has. Microsoft may spend billions in R&D to come up with some innovations of it's own, more likely it will take a shortcut and buy up someone else's.
3. Google has good results, probably better than any of it's competitors currently, and who really uses any other services these days? Which leads to my third point:
4. 'I'm going to switch to Microsoft's search engine! Its *gotta* be better and I'm tired of that familiar, easy to use, well engineered Google site.' Not likely to happen. Why would I stop using google when it has served me well for years?
5. Unless.. Microsoft is hoping to get users by tying their search functionality into all of their products. Which they are most certainly going to do. IE and IIS will most likely have many hard coded references to MSN's search tools. Many people will simply be satisfied to use what's given to them..
IFO don't have a need for any Microsoft products anymore, so I'm outside the range of this marketing strategy.
who ask me to write them a virus (they think that because I'm a programmer I automatically know how write win32 viruses), hack into some database of email addresses so they can spam everyone on it (look, here is his email address, can you hack into his database?), and do all kinds of other unsavory things so they can make money. These people can't hold down a job, can't come up with an idea of their own, and have no real talents or skills to speak of. They are always looking for some windfall in lieu of actually working, are easily fooled by 'get rich quick' schemes, and would rather get hit by a car and sue for damages than get a job.
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What need is there for a new music format? CDs *are* too big and prone to scratching. Mini disks would have been a superior format because of their size and enclosure, but they pretty much failed like the digital audio tape. The need for a new storage medium for music is just not there, we have iPods and other similar personal audio devices that can store a whole library of music and plug into just about any system. Home and car stereo systems will just have a firewire, USB (or Bluetooth) interface for personal audio devices, which will become much cheaper as online music stores advance and become more popular. Those who don't have computers available can just download music directly to their personal audio devices via a wireless web interface and build a portable library. Bigger libraries will require a computer or a home stereo system with a web interface for browsing/buying or subscribing to music services. We already have universal digital audio formats, DRM and universal device interfaces. Most likely wireless phones will incorporate every aspect (pda/phone/music player/web browser), and communicate with nearby devices (home/car stereos etc) via Bluetooth or a direct hardware link. There does not require any technological breakthroughs, and many manufacturers are moving in this direction. CDs may last a little while longer, so there is not much need for an interem storage medium as described in the article, especially if the medium required a technical breakthrough. R&D, marketing to hype the medium and manufacturing overhead costs would not be recouped for a long time, time enough for existing technology to make it unnecessary.
Ah, yes, the padding of 'core hours'. They made that a mandatory practice at our company. I told them my hours are staying the same, if they don't like it, fire me. I don't leave my desk for lunch, I bring food from home because there is nothing to eat in the area worth paying for. When I worked at Midway Games, we regularly worked 10-15 hour days to meet a deadline. That was fun for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with working on video games, but I digress... Also, we get 10 days of PTO (paid time off) and nothing else. If you have the flu for 4 days, there goes four days of vacation down the tubes. Which is why a lot of sick people who should be at home show up for work anyway. Its not generally a bad place to work, but the policies that come down from corporate are making it less appealing every month.
to use Free Software. Can this limitation be attributed to bad software/faulty engineering or is it mostly due to Microsoft licensing policy? Normally one needs to re-install Windows to clean off all the crap that you unintentionally installed while using IE/Outlook, so in this case a OS image would be useless.
I would need a lot more than stock options and a relaxed atmosphere to work 80-120 hours a week. Thats seriously bad for your health. I could do that for a few months, if I was going to make a few hundred thousand in the end. I'd have to live in the office, so it had better have a health club with swimming pools and all the works, good food (not well stock snacks, I'm talking about a real kitchen with chefs and stuff) and I would definately take lots of breaks to visit the 'entertainment complex'. I work around 40 hours now, I'm getting burned out on that.
I dont get what the problem is. I make and play 'illegal' bootlegs in public regularly. This is a widely accepted practice among DJs, all the top DJs have big collections of bootlegs which we trade freely. It's only a bootleg until a major label puts it out as a remix, which happens now and then. If we are not allowed to make bootlegs, then why do the major labels release all the big singles with accapellas? It's part of the business. Bootlegs just increase the popularity of the artists being bootlegged, it doesn't detract from CD sales, because the bootlegs are whole new tracks with completely different music under the vocals.
Any OS function that finds uses for the Function keys is instantly innovative.
I'm guessing you've never used it, or seen it work. It's one of those features that makes you wonder, 'why did no one else do that?'. It will become ingrained in your expectations of a windowing system withing hours. Therein lies it's innovation. I actually don't find it all that useful, I usually have a pretty good idea of what applications are open, and use alt+tab to switch between them efficiently enough. 'Clean up all windows' with eye candy it's not. Anyone foolish enough to use that feature of a windowing system will quickly realize it's shortcomings.
The JBoss code and the Apache code both appear to be copied from an example that was originally created by Apache. Exibit A and B are both logging classes, both use Log4J (Apache's logging utility) and can be expected to be similar. Exibit C looks Almost identical, but not entirely. The similarities are so trivial, Apache is bound to make a few quick changes and be done with this thing before it starts. What sillyness.
How could this be avoided? Both are implemented against the same guidelines, using the same suggested/implied patterns. I guess it's just a matter of who did it first a this point. Java's syntax does not allow for (thankfully) a million different ways of expressing the same idea (at the lanuage level anyway). Given the pervasiveness of design patterns, it's not unlikely that large pieces of architecture will be functionally and syntactically similar. And given that both are open source software, what are the chances that one developer happened to peek at the other's code for a little insight? Chances are pretty good. Once you see a solution or pattern/class design that works nicely, it's hard not to follow the idea.
that sounds right now.
He keyboardized computer. He have wirus. You should clean now. Wery bad wirus.
Can't RTFA thanks to 'the effect'. Anyone know how much they are charging for this contraption? I have been in the music business for 7 years or so, never heard of 'Lionstracs'. Is this a complete digital audio workstation? Does it offer any significant advantages? I use Logic 4.7 on a G4 tower and Logic 6 on a G3 iBook. I can hook up a usb midi controller for the keyboard if I wanted one. (I prefer to click all the notes into place with a mouse..) I can't imagine anything being more powerful than Logic at this time. Other packages have been getting better, but Logic outdoes them all these days, even pro-tools.
Actually that would read: In the rest of the world it's a computerized keyboard.
In soviet russia, it's keyboardized computer.
Soviets don't seem to have 'a' or 'an' to speak of.
Barring superstar athletes and media personalities, because they are obviously the most grossly overpaid citizens, I would say lawyers, mutual fund managers, and CEOs are the most undeserving, overpaid people in the world. Everyone knows that companies make most of their money on the efforts of under-appreciated engineers and scientists. Writing a few peices of usefull code or solving a new problem makes tons more money than the hundreds of strategic 'planning' meetings that middle and upper management are always in, mostly for the purpose of justifying their positions. Engineers and R&D people are the most underpaid. Them and Wallmart employees. I truly feel for them. At the rate things are going, I am seriously considering applying for work at a shipping port. I don't mind a little physical labor, especially at those pay rates. The other most underpaid folks around are military grunts. The infantry put their asses on the line for about $18k per year. This looks good until you are deployed to a desert for 12+ months. The govt' gives way too much money to the likes of DynCorp and Haliburton, most of the time they don't know what they are getting for the money.
There promotional literature mentions the scientific and technical mission goals briefly, I'm sure they are hoping to make good use of their lunar orbiter. I just think giving people a way to put their junk on the moon is silly. If I am ever on the moon and I find some junk, I'll make sure it gets recycled properly.
Moore's law applies directly to the number of transistors on a chip, but since we are all using Maas Biochips these days, none of that applies anymore. Unless you own one of those old Ono-Sendai peices of crap...
TransOrbital wants to send its lunar orbiter to the moon so it can deposit a buch of people's random garbage:
Delivered to the Moon surface in a special capsule will be your certificates, business cards, cremated remains, jewelry, artwork and many other items of choice.
What? Does anyone else have a problem with this? Ok, so lots of people want to strip mine the moon and melt its polar caps and stuff, it's not a national park or anything, but depositing random junk on the surface? This is just plain stupid sentimental crap. I hope their orbiter burns up on the launch pad.
I haven't seen a cash cow like that since... gosh I don't know when. All they have to do is keep a couple racks of X-Serves running and rake in the $$.
Did the beginning of the end of the audio CD start a long time ago?
Usually it takes about twice the time to code it as it does to drive..
I dont see the code anymore.. to me it's just blonde, brunette, redhead...
Seriously, what are they 'coding'? Assuming they are talking about data entry, there must be a serious shortage of good tools out there if it takes them more time to enter the data than it does to drive the route.
This could be done much quicker with satellite images and some AI to help. Of course, we would need street signs that faced *UP* so they can be read by the satellite imaging systems... Maybe Navtech should improve their current tools first.
When I used to do raves we would sometimes have to communicate by sticking our fingers in eacho ther's ears. The vibrations from speech would travel up your arm and vibrate directly in the listener's ear. We could carry on pretty detailed conversations that way, which is important when your trying to manage an event with 20k+ people and a sound system that is causing earthquakes on the other side of the globe. It's a little muddy, kind of like speaking through liquid, but it is much better than having someone shout full volume into your ear. Most people find it funny to see two people talking with their finger's in each others ears.
Jumping headfirst into this debate:
The big sources of greenhouse gasses aren't power plants so much as factories, [but] the ones that make the things than [that?] we use to maintain our standard of living
Our standard of living is unsustainably high. If maintaining our standard of living involves burning fossil fuels and producing millions of tons of toxic garbage, then what long term benefit does our near term comfort have?
Exactly. Intel has been pushing the 'how many transistors can we fit on a chip' envelope for a while. I wonder if they are exploring the 'how much can we do with fewer transistors?' question.
Should have been called 'Moore's Prediction' cause it was little more than that. Or 'Moore's Observation'. The only unsavory consequence of Moore's Law is the imortalizing of Moore himself.
of code cowboy bounty hunters? How very Gibsonesque. I doubt this will become a trend, but if it did, it just might create a new type of hacker. More likely the guy's friends will get greedy and just give him up. It's pretty easy to get a virus out there and not get caught.
will hopefully dissapear soon. Some of the larger ones in my area are already closed. (Some people) used to make a good profit stealing hundreds of CDs from the clueless major retailers and selling them for half price at the independent shops. You could pull in around $4-5k before the police and hired security would be all over the retailers like stick on glue. The indepenents would keep their mouths shut, cause it was good business for them too. Hopefully there will be no more big, stupid, ugly music retailers selling nothing but crap. I'm sure the indepenents won't mind if they dissapear altogether. Of course, what are the independents going to be selling? Used CDs? Vinyl? For a while maybe.
Google will probably do better, if the two go into head to head competition. MS is giving every appearance of doing so, placing a bid for google (and getting rejected) being a major indicator.
1. Google's adds are unobtrusive, that sets it apart from other search services, and almost any other free service on the web for that matter. Microsoft would do well to follow google on this one, it's a major part of the reason that Google is successful.
2. Google is working on lots of useful tools, some of which may eventually be incorporated into our information seeking lexicon, just as google itself has. Microsoft may spend billions in R&D to come up with some innovations of it's own, more likely it will take a shortcut and buy up someone else's.
3. Google has good results, probably better than any of it's competitors currently, and who really uses any other services these days? Which leads to my third point:
4. 'I'm going to switch to Microsoft's search engine! Its *gotta* be better and I'm tired of that familiar, easy to use, well engineered Google site.' Not likely to happen. Why would I stop using google when it has served me well for years?
5. Unless.. Microsoft is hoping to get users by tying their search functionality into all of their products. Which they are most certainly going to do. IE and IIS will most likely have many hard coded references to MSN's search tools. Many people will simply be satisfied to use what's given to them.. IFO don't have a need for any Microsoft products anymore, so I'm outside the range of this marketing strategy.
who ask me to write them a virus (they think that because I'm a programmer I automatically know how write win32 viruses), hack into some database of email addresses so they can spam everyone on it (look, here is his email address, can you hack into his database?), and do all kinds of other unsavory things so they can make money. These people can't hold down a job, can't come up with an idea of their own, and have no real talents or skills to speak of. They are always looking for some windfall in lieu of actually working, are easily fooled by 'get rich quick' schemes, and would rather get hit by a car and sue for damages than get a job.