Quantity is not everything, especially when it comes to music; you have to consider who's leaving. Last year was interesting: Radiohead, nine inch nails, Madonna, Paul McCartney. Major influences in different genres, all left their labels. When people who have been in the industry for a long time decide to leave, I think it sends a message to the newcomers. True, they made their career with the old scheme of the record labels but the important thing is they have experience and they're going into a new business model, uncharted territory, same as a new band, only they know what they don't want, so following closely what they do next might give everyone (new bands, as well as well established bands and artists) some ideas on how to make money as a band without the record labels.
I just hope they don't install Windows on them (Slim is also partners with MS it seems; his companies usually push MS products here in Mexico). And I hope he doesn't try to use them for some stupid "subscribe to Prodigy Infinitum and get a free laptop" promotion, which is very likely.
It doesn't say that they're the same 25 guys... it just says the number of core developers hasn't grown. Maybe a new guy came into the team and after a couple of months another guy got hit by a bus, so the number stays the same... another new guy comes in, and someone other guy has a kid and leaves the project, etc.
Yeah me too, that's my main source of music these days. I have enough stats there that the recommendations the system gives are good. Plus the whole neighbor system is very helpful too.
Well I had svn 1.2 at some point but I upgraded to 1.4, so I do have some files in the.subversion/auth/svn.simple dir with "password" and a value in there, but the newer files in there already say "passtype" and "keychain". When I had the older svn I didn't see anything in the keychain so I guess it was using a plaintext file. I noticed the use of the keychain when I installed 1.4 but I never used 1.3 so I wouldn't know exactly when this was included.
I built my svn client from source; the configure script even has an option to disable the use of the Mac Keychain (only useful if you're building on Mac). So I guess they added this functionality to the main branch, which could mean it's been around for a while.
% svn --version svn, version 1.4.5 (r25188) compiled Nov 15 2007, 14:44:28
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I wanted to donate and couldn't. Paypal will not accept my credit card, says something is wrong with the info I'm giving it, and it's the card I usually pay for all online stuff. What now?
I purchased the album from my powerbook using Safari; I didn't have any problems, but that was before the release (I pre-ordered). Maybe nothing loads correctly because the site is being slashdotted?
I just pictured the master tapes crushed under the weight of a hundred pizzas...
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Was that the version of LOGO that could have up to 4 turtles moving at different speeds and you could set a sprite for each one? I remember taking a class when I was 14 on some computers that had this LOGO and it was awesome (I already knew LOGO by that time, learned it when I was 9, but on an Apple II where there was only 1 turtle, you coudn't tell it to move at a set speed, not change its image to something else, it was just a triangle). I remember writing a game with that LOGO, where a plane went by and a parachuter jumped off and you had to land him on a certain spot that moved on the ground. The landing spot was one turtle, the plane was another, the parachuter was another. I wanted to set the 4th turtle to be a bird that would pass by and could break the chute but didn't have enough time, I was only 14 and had no idea about collision detection and stuff like that. LOGO was my first language, I think it was cool because you could learn about recursion, iteration, subroutine calling, parameters, etc. I moved to BASIC later, awful language but more flexible I think (not that I ever tried to write a simple word processor in LOGO, I don't know if that would have been possible at the time).
I think Rails didn't work for him, mainly because it works very different from PHP and you need to do things differently. Plus, reason #5 is pretty much all you need to know... "it's built to my tastes" means "I'm used to code in PHP so it was easier for me to rewrite the whole thing in PHP again, using what I've learned over the years, instead of switching to a new language/framework".
But the same thing applies to anything. He couldn't have ported it to Java with any of the numerous web frameworks out there, or to python or anything else, because he's a PHP programmer. And a Java developer would also probably end up rewriting his own app in Java again, with a different architecture, instead of switching to something else he's not familiar with.
You are assuming that the security guards know that. I don't think they do. Do you really think they know what the book is about (or care enough to find out, maybe reading the back cover or inside flap, etc)? They will see the word SATANIC and assume something is wrong with you.
Australian CD's usually cost $25 but Year Zero is like $35. He asked about the high price to an exec in Australia a few months ago and they told him they could charge whatever they wanted because his fans were loyal and would pay anything for the album. He was outraged at this, the record company telling him they would rip his fans off. He wrote about it on his blog, and it got picked up by a lot of music magazines and sites, so a lot of people read his rant on the record company. They didn't lower the price of the album in Australia. So now that he played in Australia again, he said STEAL IT.
It doesn't matter that the music is cheaper. The tech is different, production costs are different. The problem here is that in Australia, his album is way more expensive than the rest of the albums in the stores.
What if I could copy the bread from your table and take away my copy without depriving you of your original bread?
He's really saying "download the album from a p2p site" but it doesn't sound so punchy if you say it like that, STEAL IT sounds better. Nobody's gonna go into a CD store and run away with a physical copy, they're just gonna download it.
Yes, the stores' sales will be hurt because no one will be buying the album because they're all downloading. That's the whole point; they're selling it at a very high price. This whole thing started when Reznor talked to some exec in Australia after noticing the high price for the new album and the exec said something like "we know we can charge anything we want for your albums because your fans will buy them anyway". He was very angry by this because the label shouldn't be ripping his fans off like this. But instead of lowering the price, they're against him now for going public with that conversation. So now it comes to this, he's publicly saying to the fans at a concert in Australia to download the new album because the price is not going to go down.
You do realize he's really talking about downloading the album without paying for it, right? He's not telling people to storm into a music store and steal the physical album. It's just that the speech wouldn't have had the same punch if he had said "you what that means: DOWNLOAD IT FROM A FILE SHARING SITE. download it and download it and download it" etc.
Wow I've never seen that TimeCube thing before... been reading a while but it just doesn't make sense. Maybe it was translated from another language by the same translator that produced this?
If you like Pink Floyd, Rush and other prog stuff, you will probably like Porcupine Tree. Granted they started in the 90's but they're still releasing very good stuff today and it's like you say, you can buy their lastest albums and every song in there is good. Deadwing and Fear of a Blank Planet are really good albums.
To me, a really outstanding guitar player today is Gustavo Cerati, from Argentina. I don't know if you can find his records in the US but I highly recommend the last one, called "Ahi Vamos". Real good guitar work. He has a live DVD where he rearranges some of his older songs (and Soda Stereo's, his previous band) and the way he plays the guitar is just amazing.
There is still good stuff out there. There always is. But, just like Zeppelin and Floyd in the 60's/70's, it's not mainstream, you have to look for it.
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Quantity is not everything, especially when it comes to music; you have to consider who's leaving. Last year was interesting: Radiohead, nine inch nails, Madonna, Paul McCartney. Major influences in different genres, all left their labels. When people who have been in the industry for a long time decide to leave, I think it sends a message to the newcomers. True, they made their career with the old scheme of the record labels but the important thing is they have experience and they're going into a new business model, uncharted territory, same as a new band, only they know what they don't want, so following closely what they do next might give everyone (new bands, as well as well established bands and artists) some ideas on how to make money as a band without the record labels.
Shouldn't that be stfd?
I just hope they don't install Windows on them (Slim is also partners with MS it seems; his companies usually push MS products here in Mexico). And I hope he doesn't try to use them for some stupid "subscribe to Prodigy Infinitum and get a free laptop" promotion, which is very likely.
It doesn't say that they're the same 25 guys... it just says the number of core developers hasn't grown. Maybe a new guy came into the team and after a couple of months another guy got hit by a bus, so the number stays the same... another new guy comes in, and someone other guy has a kid and leaves the project, etc.
Yeah me too, that's my main source of music these days. I have enough stats there that the recommendations the system gives are good. Plus the whole neighbor system is very helpful too.
Well I had svn 1.2 at some point but I upgraded to 1.4, so I do have some files in the .subversion/auth/svn.simple dir with "password" and a value in there, but the newer files in there already say "passtype" and "keychain". When I had the older svn I didn't see anything in the keychain so I guess it was using a plaintext file. I noticed the use of the keychain when I installed 1.4 but I never used 1.3 so I wouldn't know exactly when this was included.
Subversion on Mac uses the Keychain to store the passwords instead of the local file. At least since 1.2 I think. Or are you referring to the server?
I wanted to donate and couldn't. Paypal will not accept my credit card, says something is wrong with the info I'm giving it, and it's the card I usually pay for all online stuff. What now?
I purchased the album from my powerbook using Safari; I didn't have any problems, but that was before the release (I pre-ordered). Maybe nothing loads correctly because the site is being slashdotted?
I just pictured the master tapes crushed under the weight of a hundred pizzas...
Was that the version of LOGO that could have up to 4 turtles moving at different speeds and you could set a sprite for each one? I remember taking a class when I was 14 on some computers that had this LOGO and it was awesome (I already knew LOGO by that time, learned it when I was 9, but on an Apple II where there was only 1 turtle, you coudn't tell it to move at a set speed, not change its image to something else, it was just a triangle).
I remember writing a game with that LOGO, where a plane went by and a parachuter jumped off and you had to land him on a certain spot that moved on the ground. The landing spot was one turtle, the plane was another, the parachuter was another. I wanted to set the 4th turtle to be a bird that would pass by and could break the chute but didn't have enough time, I was only 14 and had no idea about collision detection and stuff like that.
LOGO was my first language, I think it was cool because you could learn about recursion, iteration, subroutine calling, parameters, etc. I moved to BASIC later, awful language but more flexible I think (not that I ever tried to write a simple word processor in LOGO, I don't know if that would have been possible at the time).
I can turn wine into water...
I think you meant introvert, not introspect. And if someone's an introvert, there's not much they can do about it.
you might as well post any picture from Napoleon Dynamite...
I think Rails didn't work for him, mainly because it works very different from PHP and you need to do things differently. Plus, reason #5 is pretty much all you need to know... "it's built to my tastes" means "I'm used to code in PHP so it was easier for me to rewrite the whole thing in PHP again, using what I've learned over the years, instead of switching to a new language/framework".
But the same thing applies to anything. He couldn't have ported it to Java with any of the numerous web frameworks out there, or to python or anything else, because he's a PHP programmer. And a Java developer would also probably end up rewriting his own app in Java again, with a different architecture, instead of switching to something else he's not familiar with.
You are assuming that the security guards know that. I don't think they do. Do you really think they know what the book is about (or care enough to find out, maybe reading the back cover or inside flap, etc)? They will see the word SATANIC and assume something is wrong with you.
Ew. Remind me to never buy a laptop from you.
Australian CD's usually cost $25 but Year Zero is like $35. He asked about the high price to an exec in Australia a few months ago and they told him they could charge whatever they wanted because his fans were loyal and would pay anything for the album. He was outraged at this, the record company telling him they would rip his fans off. He wrote about it on his blog, and it got picked up by a lot of music magazines and sites, so a lot of people read his rant on the record company. They didn't lower the price of the album in Australia. So now that he played in Australia again, he said STEAL IT.
It doesn't matter that the music is cheaper. The tech is different, production costs are different. The problem here is that in Australia, his album is way more expensive than the rest of the albums in the stores.
What if I could copy the bread from your table and take away my copy without depriving you of your original bread? He's really saying "download the album from a p2p site" but it doesn't sound so punchy if you say it like that, STEAL IT sounds better. Nobody's gonna go into a CD store and run away with a physical copy, they're just gonna download it. Yes, the stores' sales will be hurt because no one will be buying the album because they're all downloading. That's the whole point; they're selling it at a very high price. This whole thing started when Reznor talked to some exec in Australia after noticing the high price for the new album and the exec said something like "we know we can charge anything we want for your albums because your fans will buy them anyway". He was very angry by this because the label shouldn't be ripping his fans off like this. But instead of lowering the price, they're against him now for going public with that conversation. So now it comes to this, he's publicly saying to the fans at a concert in Australia to download the new album because the price is not going to go down.
You do realize he's really talking about downloading the album without paying for it, right? He's not telling people to storm into a music store and steal the physical album. It's just that the speech wouldn't have had the same punch if he had said "you what that means: DOWNLOAD IT FROM A FILE SHARING SITE. download it and download it and download it" etc.
I couldn't watch the w/386 commercial completely. Had to stop after she starts rapping, it's way worse than the dos5 rap...
probably because if he had been reading Neal Stephenson, he would have ommitted the "hilarious consequences" part and just stop mid-sentence.
Wow I've never seen that TimeCube thing before... been reading a while but it just doesn't make sense. Maybe it was translated from another language by the same translator that produced this?
GIVE CONES CHANGE THE MACHINE!!!
If you like Pink Floyd, Rush and other prog stuff, you will probably like Porcupine Tree. Granted they started in the 90's but they're still releasing very good stuff today and it's like you say, you can buy their lastest albums and every song in there is good. Deadwing and Fear of a Blank Planet are really good albums.
To me, a really outstanding guitar player today is Gustavo Cerati, from Argentina. I don't know if you can find his records in the US but I highly recommend the last one, called "Ahi Vamos". Real good guitar work. He has a live DVD where he rearranges some of his older songs (and Soda Stereo's, his previous band) and the way he plays the guitar is just amazing.
There is still good stuff out there. There always is. But, just like Zeppelin and Floyd in the 60's/70's, it's not mainstream, you have to look for it.