i personally sometimes get too caught up in defense of cyberspace to the detriment of greater causes, but if i were part of an organization, i'd hope to do better -- the kind of effort SPEWS and other black holes have directed would be wonderful if it were expended against forms of commerce that cause real human suffering.. in most cases a chain of contractual responsibility could be followed, rather than an unfocussed taint of casual association with malfeasance
according to this (German) article, there's a somewhat outdated Windows font tool, Manutius, that is now free
not open-source, but free, Adobe offers an OpenType Font Development Kit which is Python-based and runs on (at least) Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and some Windows versions.. i'm not sure how "graphical" it is
who process those rebates.. it's boring, anti-productive, destructive to self-respect.. a friend a while back got RSI processing pet-food coupons, spent a year fighting the company about it (couldn't quit).. so if you are gung ho on rebates think about what kinds of occupations you want to create.. in my opinion the rebate world is worse than government beaurocracy -- it doesn't even have a goal (much less a result) of benefiting society
no, my description must have been too terse -- i'd examined the ID3v2 spec and as best i can tell, only BPM is already part of it (and not accessible by my preferred mp3 manager).. i find many tracks belong in multiple genres.. i see no tag that is designed to hold the kinds of animal sounds a track has, nor "reminds me of" type information
it's big news because it heralds the mainstream emergence of yet another P2P technology challenging the status quo
how so? if you focus on the interconnection, and "ranking" aspect of blogging, now going through heavy experimentation and discussion, you'll see that searching & blogging are different expressions of exactly the same desire -- to find the best information
it gets very conceptual... some speak of a "blogosphere", or a self-regulating "ecology" of blogs that has potential to organize information far better than any centralized resource, including Google.. in this sense, the blogosphere is a direct competitor to "page rank".. whether or not buying Pyra will help Google, it's a smart gamble, because i think we'll soon see a "Searchster" p2p phenomenon that will vastly outdo any of today's search engines
i have been adding mood tags (really in the comments, but structured) to my tracks for some time.. there is much room for improvement in what ID3 tags allow -- they are geared for management, not *use* of tracks.. i had hoped to migrate my "tags" (many other types, such as multiple genres, similarites to other music, bpm, containership of special sounds, etc.) into a personal database, but a universal database would be even better
it won't stop the helicopters, they are tools for the TV and radio stations to out-glitz each other, and the current climate, in Denver at least, is not for the stations to care at all about helicopter noise, since their advertisers target the undisquieted suburban market.. even if it works, they'll still regularly fly directly over my home to the more central part of the highway where a rebuild (and thus traffic sensors) is about a decade away
and this is without mentioning the more important issues, for which traffic-management technology is a mere palliative: the selfish behavior and ignorance of many drivers, the decades-old mistake of building highways through neighborhoods and riparian zones, the refusal of leaders to deal with sprawl...
i also lived in Minneapolis, where a much more comprehensive system than Denver's did nothing to alleviate aggressive and clumsy driving, which causes many accidents and slowdowns.. and now in Denver, with TRex just south of me, the alternate routes "smart" drivers take mean i live with lots of vehicles cutting through my central residential neighborhood
so who cares if Denver uses some nothing-new technology to sugar coat another feeder tube for the cancer of sprawl?
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i personally sometimes get too caught up in defense of cyberspace to the detriment of greater causes, but if i were part of an organization, i'd hope to do better -- the kind of effort SPEWS and other black holes have directed would be wonderful if it were expended against forms of commerce that cause real human suffering.. in most cases a chain of contractual responsibility could be followed, rather than an unfocussed taint of casual association with malfeasance
not open-source, but free, Adobe offers an OpenType Font Development Kit which is Python-based and runs on (at least) Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and some Windows versions.. i'm not sure how "graphical" it is
who process those rebates.. it's boring, anti-productive, destructive to self-respect.. a friend a while back got RSI processing pet-food coupons, spent a year fighting the company about it (couldn't quit).. so if you are gung ho on rebates think about what kinds of occupations you want to create.. in my opinion the rebate world is worse than government beaurocracy -- it doesn't even have a goal (much less a result) of benefiting society
no, my description must have been too terse -- i'd examined the ID3v2 spec and as best i can tell, only BPM is already part of it (and not accessible by my preferred mp3 manager).. i find many tracks belong in multiple genres.. i see no tag that is designed to hold the kinds of animal sounds a track has, nor "reminds me of" type information
it's big news because it heralds the mainstream emergence of yet another P2P technology challenging the status quo how so? if you focus on the interconnection, and "ranking" aspect of blogging, now going through heavy experimentation and discussion, you'll see that searching & blogging are different expressions of exactly the same desire -- to find the best information it gets very conceptual ... some speak of a "blogosphere", or a self-regulating "ecology" of blogs that has potential to organize information far better than any centralized resource, including Google.. in this sense, the blogosphere is a direct competitor to "page rank".. whether or not buying Pyra will help Google, it's a smart gamble, because i think we'll soon see a "Searchster" p2p phenomenon that will vastly outdo any of today's search engines
i have been adding mood tags (really in the comments, but structured) to my tracks for some time.. there is much room for improvement in what ID3 tags allow -- they are geared for management, not *use* of tracks.. i had hoped to migrate my "tags" (many other types, such as multiple genres, similarites to other music, bpm, containership of special sounds, etc.) into a personal database, but a universal database would be even better
it won't stop the helicopters, they are tools for the TV and radio stations to out-glitz each other, and the current climate, in Denver at least, is not for the stations to care at all about helicopter noise, since their advertisers target the undisquieted suburban market.. even if it works, they'll still regularly fly directly over my home to the more central part of the highway where a rebuild (and thus traffic sensors) is about a decade away
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and this is without mentioning the more important issues, for which traffic-management technology is a mere palliative: the selfish behavior and ignorance of many drivers, the decades-old mistake of building highways through neighborhoods and riparian zones, the refusal of leaders to deal with sprawl
i also lived in Minneapolis, where a much more comprehensive system than Denver's did nothing to alleviate aggressive and clumsy driving, which causes many accidents and slowdowns.. and now in Denver, with TRex just south of me, the alternate routes "smart" drivers take mean i live with lots of vehicles cutting through my central residential neighborhood
so who cares if Denver uses some nothing-new technology to sugar coat another feeder tube for the cancer of sprawl?