Buying and selling music second hand allows you to listen to all kinds of great stuff and even subsidise the costs with cds you no longer listen to or want to own. And the RIAA won't see a penny.
This puzzled me a bit. I thought if the CD was ripped digitally, and then encoded with a given mp3 encoder, it should be bit for bit identical with other rips of the same cd with the same encoder and encoder settings? Doesn't seem like this technique would scale to modern, "standardised" ripping packages like WMP9 and iTunes.
Case in point, WMP9 sometimes pulls up album art for Mp3s that have arrived from "outside" its ripping space. Not sure if it's doing it via hash or metadata though.
Dave Sims, of Cerebus fame parodied The Endless as The Clueless. Their ranks included Sulk ( Despair ), Sleaze ( Desire ) and Swoon ( Dream ). There were probably some more. I don't know. I don't read Cerebus.
This is the "golden age" Sandman, a member of the JLA. They are not related, except by a passing ret-con in Gaimans Sandman issue #1. I believe his series was recently revived as Sandman Mystery Theater.
The Sandman referred to here ( as I'm sure other people will point out ) is one of several anthropomorphic personifications, in this case Dream. Gaimans comic tells a long and quite cool story regarding Dream and his siblings, Desire, Death, Destruction, Despair, Delirium ( nee Delight ) and Desire.
I highly recommend this series in its anthologised graphic novel format ( The Sandman Library ). It is one of the few comics I read religiously apart from Lone Wolf and Cub.
-- YLFI
P.S. Death got her own spinoffs as well. These are very cool also.
Just as a curio, the linked page features as the second selection Wesley Willis - who sadly passed away just a little while ago on the 21st of August, aged 40. I also used to listen to Wesleys strange stream of conciousness punk rants while coding. I'll miss you, Wes.
And the marriage of the Mac's non-cap-sensitive filesystem with the fundamental case expectations of Unix is FAR from a match made in heaven. It is just awkward and annoying as hell.
Hi. I can't stand Cringely, and didn't read his article, but you might be interested to know that the Panther betas/seeds from around August 3 have supported a case sensitive HFS+. I've been waiting for this for a long time ( switched my desktops from Linux ), and it was heartbreaking to watch a bunch of knuckleheads complaining in a mac forum that this would 'destroy mac as we know it' ( movie at 11 ). Seriously, where do these people come from?
When you need a window manager that's just BARELY a window manager, that's your choice.
I don't think it's a very good choice though, because iDesk doesn't manage windows or do other WM functions. It just draws icons into the root window and launches programs.
iDesk does this as well. It's convenient when you want to manipulate windows relative to the desktop image ( for example in iDesks mouse-over transparency ). I seem to recall that just pulling in the root window gives you a snapshot of the entire desktop, including other windows, wm decorations etc.
If you need a pristine copy of the background, there's really no other way you can do it except for keeping a copy in memory at the time you set it I think.
I think a better way would be to use Shaped windows. I wrote the glow code a long time ago and it was a dirty hack then, and it's a dirty hack now. I really should fix it one of these days.
Gnome seems to change the 'preferred' window manager every now and then. I believe the current favourite for Gnome2 is Metacity, although I could be mistaken.
I think a little more research would do some good before raining the fire down on Acxiom.
I have to deal with Acxiom occasionally where I work, and while I don't necessarily get along real well with them, they're not the avatars of evil that most people envision when they think 'data miners'.
They specialise ( at least in my part of the world ) in cleaning up customer data, addresses, name casing, etc - checking it against national do-not-mail lists and providing a GUI marketing tool to independant companies without the IT/Marketing manpower to cook something up for themselves. They don't to my knowledge resell the customer data and are in fact bound by heinous contract clauses not to do so.
I can understand you're cross about the usual mindless data accumulation and resale that goes on in the industry, but I don't think Acxiom falls into that basket. They're more like tool outsourcers.
I don't think anyone has intentionally "loaned" their personal information to Acxiom. Before the initial story was reported here, I'd never heard of Acxiom, though various articles proclaim them to be [one of] the biggest data-mining compan[y|ies] around. If they have any data on me, I sure as hell didn't loan it to them.
Acxiom collate, clean and break down client data for client companies, as far as I know they don't actually use it themselves. If you're in Acxioms db's, chances are someone you bought something from decided they wanted a point and click marketing / bulk mailing / demographics breakdown tool ( "It's NAVIGABLE!" ) and sent them the corporate accounts.
Bad news, your data might have been in that unsecured stream - address, name, purchasing history, phone #, other confidentials. Good news, your CC # is very unlikely to have been included, at least if our deployment is indicitative.
I have to deal with these guys where I work, and they mostly seem like alright people ( if a bit nontechnical ). We would have just stuck with our existing systems for demographics, but Marketing somehow outflanked us with their request for a new IT toy.;-)
I have one of these ( bought it at Terrific Scientific in Sydney, Au ). They're pretty cool, and a good way to demonstrate the self propagating vortex *except* for the fact that firing 'clear' air means the vortex is invisible.
Some of them are curiously shipping without the self tapping screws driven through the handles ( or without screws at all, as in my case ), so make sure you check it before turning it over to Junior if you don't want him/her screaming about a broken toy ten minutes later.
Ha, who needs UAE? With my held-together-with-bootlaces-and-duct-tape Amiga 500 and Back 2 The Roots, there's enough to be entertained for decades! Mainly due to loading times.:-/
Trying to put those images back onto disks can be a holy terror if you have no hard drive and only 1Mb of RAM. I eventually cooked up a solution using zmodem to download the images into the PIPE: AmigaOS device, while using its superior multitasking capabilities to write the image to DF1:. To my amazement, it actually worked first time.
One of our favourite passtimes 'round here is searching google for "Index of/" + interesting stuff. Just two days ago we found someones mbox.bz file - however, after a quick email, they got it in under cover.
This technique is quite old now. I first heard it as a method of squirrelling out mp3s without using P2P.
The value of the work is the current market value, Tatia looks to under cut that by bringing in cheap labor.
Ugh, just reading this comment makes me feel nauseous. Disregarding all the obvious ranting ( I particularly liked the way the first thing out of your mouth were some murky allegations of bias or shady dealings, instead of, for example, a respect for the free market ), You're supposed to be the greatest capitalist nation on earth, and this is called 'competition'. Get with the program!
Most of the ppl from these outsource labor countries do not evne like the US, they just like its money, and most send the money back home.
So, I imagine that our 10 yr high in unemployment,
Sure, there's a real unemployment problem, but I've lost count of the number of times I've watched unemployed casual acquaintainces ( or slashdotters ) turn down a job or the possibility of a job because its not the job they want, and then whining about being unemployed.
I worked for a while as a kitchenhand in University. Filthy bloody work, covered in soot and grease, burns and blisters from chopping wood and hot ovens, late nights, low pay. But it was better than being poor and waiting for a cushy web design job to come floating past my nose [1].
If I was a farmer, or a steel worker, or an electronics assembler, tv repairman, textiles worker or what have you, I think you could make an honest argument about the unemployment statistic. But I think a lot of moderate to highly skilled IT people who complain of being some kind of employment harijans have simply failed to evaluate their options to their full extent.
Hi. I also received my BSc just as the dust from the IT market collapsing was starting to settle. Here are some random pieces of advice for you, they served me pretty well:
There are other jobs available. A BSc on your resume, in any school, shows some modicum of discipline, rational thinking and learning ability. People look for this kind of thing, I don't know why nobody else seems to have noticed. Try government research divisions, in particular, even if your degree isn't remotely relevant ( friend with BSc in Biology is now working in Geosurvey, for instance ).
Academia is good. Start networking with your professors. Here in Australia, you can make a comfortable living tutoring at my university for eight hours a week as a casual academic. If you're worried about what's going to happen to you post-university ( I wasn't ), hold off final graduation as long as possible - start looking into those post graduate scholarships ( free money! )
Teaching computers in high-school is rewarding, survivable income with great advancement prospects, great holidays and a ( sometimes ) real sense of achievement, by all accounts. I'm hoping to start a part-time B.Ed. next year.
There's always the Army, Navy, Fire Brigade, Police, Ambulance Service, etc etc etc.
Keep all this in mind. And keep one ear open all the time - lean on your friends for leads, read the paper, start applying for positions now. And when that opportunity for an IT job comes along, jump on it and pound it into submission - I did, and I'm still holding that job almost two years later.
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Buying and selling music second hand allows you to listen to all kinds of great stuff and even subsidise the costs with cds you no longer listen to or want to own. And the RIAA won't see a penny.
Second hand music - it's what's for dinner.
YLFI
If you follow this counsel, make sure you erase the ID3 tags at the very least. The RIAA is now establishing provenance by file hash.
This puzzled me a bit. I thought if the CD was ripped digitally, and then encoded with a given mp3 encoder, it should be bit for bit identical with other rips of the same cd with the same encoder and encoder settings? Doesn't seem like this technique would scale to modern, "standardised" ripping packages like WMP9 and iTunes.
Case in point, WMP9 sometimes pulls up album art for Mp3s that have arrived from "outside" its ripping space. Not sure if it's doing it via hash or metadata though.
YLFI
Hunter S Thompson?
--YLFI
Dave Sims, of Cerebus fame parodied The Endless as The Clueless. Their ranks included Sulk ( Despair ), Sleaze ( Desire ) and Swoon ( Dream ). There were probably some more. I don't know. I don't read Cerebus.
--YLFI
Dee stands for lots of things.
That first "Desire" should read "Destiny".
This is the "golden age" Sandman, a member of the JLA. They are not related, except by a passing ret-con in Gaimans Sandman issue #1. I believe his series was recently revived as Sandman Mystery Theater.
The Sandman referred to here ( as I'm sure other people will point out ) is one of several anthropomorphic personifications, in this case Dream. Gaimans comic tells a long and quite cool story regarding Dream and his siblings, Desire, Death, Destruction, Despair, Delirium ( nee Delight ) and Desire.
I highly recommend this series in its anthologised graphic novel format ( The Sandman Library ). It is one of the few comics I read religiously apart from Lone Wolf and Cub.
-- YLFI
P.S. Death got her own spinoffs as well. These are very cool also.
Thats density, numb-nuts. Does ice float on water? Does ice "weigh" less than water?
-- YLFI
Just as a curio, the linked page features as the second selection Wesley Willis - who sadly passed away just a little while ago on the 21st of August, aged 40. I also used to listen to Wesleys strange stream of conciousness punk rants while coding. I'll miss you, Wes.
-- YLFI
...but space has a terrible secret, my friend!!1!
Do you have stairs in your house?
This is something we give to first-years. The answer is "rm -- --help". Hope this --helps.
YLFI
Hang on... are you trying to tell me that no one will back it?
YLFI
Hi. I can't stand Cringely, and didn't read his article, but you might be interested to know that the Panther betas/seeds from around August 3 have supported a case sensitive HFS+. I've been waiting for this for a long time ( switched my desktops from Linux ), and it was heartbreaking to watch a bunch of knuckleheads complaining in a mac forum that this would 'destroy mac as we know it' ( movie at 11 ). Seriously, where do these people come from?
YLFI
I don't think it's a very good choice though, because iDesk doesn't manage windows or do other WM functions. It just draws icons into the root window and launches programs.
YLFI
Err.. I'm thinking about two different iDesk problems here. *blush* Disregard!
YLFI
iDesk does this as well. It's convenient when you want to manipulate windows relative to the desktop image ( for example in iDesks mouse-over transparency ). I seem to recall that just pulling in the root window gives you a snapshot of the entire desktop, including other windows, wm decorations etc.
If you need a pristine copy of the background, there's really no other way you can do it except for keeping a copy in memory at the time you set it I think.
I think a better way would be to use Shaped windows. I wrote the glow code a long time ago and it was a dirty hack then, and it's a dirty hack now. I really should fix it one of these days.
YLFI a.k.a. curious
Gnome seems to change the 'preferred' window manager every now and then. I believe the current favourite for Gnome2 is Metacity, although I could be mistaken.
YLFI
I think a little more research would do some good before raining the fire down on Acxiom.
I have to deal with Acxiom occasionally where I work, and while I don't necessarily get along real well with them, they're not the avatars of evil that most people envision when they think 'data miners'.
They specialise ( at least in my part of the world ) in cleaning up customer data, addresses, name casing, etc - checking it against national do-not-mail lists and providing a GUI marketing tool to independant companies without the IT/Marketing manpower to cook something up for themselves. They don't to my knowledge resell the customer data and are in fact bound by heinous contract clauses not to do so.
I can understand you're cross about the usual mindless data accumulation and resale that goes on in the industry, but I don't think Acxiom falls into that basket. They're more like tool outsourcers.
Hth, YLFI
FYI
I don't think anyone has intentionally "loaned" their personal information to Acxiom. Before the initial story was reported here, I'd never heard of Acxiom, though various articles proclaim them to be [one of] the biggest data-mining compan[y|ies] around. If they have any data on me, I sure as hell didn't loan it to them.Acxiom collate, clean and break down client data for client companies, as far as I know they don't actually use it themselves. If you're in Acxioms db's, chances are someone you bought something from decided they wanted a point and click marketing / bulk mailing / demographics breakdown tool ( "It's NAVIGABLE!" ) and sent them the corporate accounts.
Bad news, your data might have been in that unsecured stream - address, name, purchasing history, phone #, other confidentials. Good news, your CC # is very unlikely to have been included, at least if our deployment is indicitative.
I have to deal with these guys where I work, and they mostly seem like alright people ( if a bit nontechnical ). We would have just stuck with our existing systems for demographics, but Marketing somehow outflanked us with their request for a new IT toy. ;-)
YLFI
I have one of these ( bought it at Terrific Scientific in Sydney, Au ). They're pretty cool, and a good way to demonstrate the self propagating vortex *except* for the fact that firing 'clear' air means the vortex is invisible.
Some of them are curiously shipping without the self tapping screws driven through the handles ( or without screws at all, as in my case ), so make sure you check it before turning it over to Junior if you don't want him/her screaming about a broken toy ten minutes later.
YLFI
Ha, who needs UAE? With my held-together-with-bootlaces-and-duct-tape Amiga 500 and Back 2 The Roots, there's enough to be entertained for decades! Mainly due to loading times. :-/
Trying to put those images back onto disks can be a holy terror if you have no hard drive and only 1Mb of RAM. I eventually cooked up a solution using zmodem to download the images into the PIPE: AmigaOS device, while using its superior multitasking capabilities to write the image to DF1:. To my amazement, it actually worked first time.
-- YLFI
One of our favourite passtimes 'round here is searching google for "Index of /" + interesting stuff. Just two days ago we found someones mbox.bz file - however, after a quick email, they got it in under cover.
This technique is quite old now. I first heard it as a method of squirrelling out mp3s without using P2P.
YLFI
Ugh, just reading this comment makes me feel nauseous. Disregarding all the obvious ranting ( I particularly liked the way the first thing out of your mouth were some murky allegations of bias or shady dealings, instead of, for example, a respect for the free market ), You're supposed to be the greatest capitalist nation on earth, and this is called 'competition'. Get with the program!
Most of the ppl from these outsource labor countries do not evne like the US, they just like its money, and most send the money back homeBring me your tired, your poor...
YLFI
Links should be two and four respectively.
Great site, guys! Wish I was in the US so I could come and visit!
YLFISure, there's a real unemployment problem, but I've lost count of the number of times I've watched unemployed casual acquaintainces ( or slashdotters ) turn down a job or the possibility of a job because its not the job they want, and then whining about being unemployed.
I worked for a while as a kitchenhand in University. Filthy bloody work, covered in soot and grease, burns and blisters from chopping wood and hot ovens, late nights, low pay. But it was better than being poor and waiting for a cushy web design job to come floating past my nose [1].
If I was a farmer, or a steel worker, or an electronics assembler, tv repairman, textiles worker or what have you, I think you could make an honest argument about the unemployment statistic. But I think a lot of moderate to highly skilled IT people who complain of being some kind of employment harijans have simply failed to evaluate their options to their full extent.
I eagerly await dissenting replies. :-P
YLFI
[1] Didn't feel like it at the time.
Hi. I also received my BSc just as the dust from the IT market collapsing was starting to settle. Here are some random pieces of advice for you, they served me pretty well:
Keep all this in mind. And keep one ear open all the time - lean on your friends for leads, read the paper, start applying for positions now. And when that opportunity for an IT job comes along, jump on it and pound it into submission - I did, and I'm still holding that job almost two years later.
Good luck.