He's probablly into that shit just to get inspiration for those bizarre lyrics he writes... mix scientology with all the chicano culture in LA and you can write some pretty weird stuff to sing about.
I checked the HelloWorld example, it look very similar to Tapestry (another Apache project). Two very similar projects under the same roof... no wonder web development is such a mess. Granted, Tapestry is more complex than wicket (at first sight; I'd have to look deeper). Looks like in wicket they got rid of the intermediate.page of.jwc files (XML files with the component definitions for the stuff in the HTML files; the page/jwc files is where you define the connections between UI components and the control classes).
Worth checking out, this wicket. If it's as powerful as Tapestry and is really simpler, I think we might switch. We have some medium to large size apps in Tapestry.
Find good new music is certainly hard. Things like Pandora, last.fm etc are very helpful for that; I've been using last.fm for a while, uploading everything I listen to on my iPod, using Yamipod (just the info of what I heard and when I heard it, not the actual sound files). After a while I could start listening to the recommendations the site made and have found a couple of good things. With Pandora I wasn't that lucky; the recommendations turned out to be purely song-based so I ended up buying some albums that had only one track I liked and other stuff that I just don't listen to.
I'm 34 and I also listen to a lot of music from the 90's. The new albums I buy are from artists that are still around like Rush, NIN, Chemical Brothers, etc. The newest bands I listen to are Interpol and The Killers. But I think it's not only the normal aging process we're going through; this time the music industry is changing, fast, and it reflects on the kind of artists that are out now. Check out some new bands (anything after 2000) and look at how many records they have; very few bands get to a second album and even fewer put out a third one. It's all disposable. Of course there have always been one-hit wonders but it's now becoming the standard.
Ah yes, the IT crowd. My favorite scene is when Moss explains to Jen something he's doing on the computer and suddenly all you can hear is static... I understood immediately how my girlfriend feels when I ramble on about tech stuff.
I really liked their text editor BRIEF. I had the version that ran on OS/2 and it was a nice editor with macros, autocomplete, brace count and other stuff that wasn't usually available on DOS/Windows. The OS/2 version could compile on a different thread while you kept typing or doing something else. One thing I miss to this day is block selection, I really wish Eclipse would implement that.
You've never seen a tab? It's just a plain text file, with lines representing the guitar or bass strings, and there are numbers representing the fret that you have to press to play a note. There is no timing information (you don't know how fast or slow to play or for how long you have to hold the note). Sometimes you can get an idea of the relative timing by the separation of the numbers but that's it, so you have to hear the song to know what it sounds like; you can't actually just read a tab and play a song you've never heard before (as opposed to full music notation which tells you the duration of each note, etc). They look like this:
This is a chord and then an arpeggio in a guitar line (I'm omitting the first and sixth strings where nothing is played, in order to pass the lameness filter):
I've been playing guitar and bass for about 16 years, never professionally, just as a hobby. I love to play, I love music; I've learned a lot from reading tabbed music (I remember an FTP site fwup or something like that, before OLGA). I've even submitted tabs, that was my way of contributing back to the people who transcribed all those songs that taught me a lot. Throughout the years I ocasionally download tabs for songs that get my attention ("how do they play that?"). Lately I was downloading some Tool stuff but it's been getting harder and harder to find anything.
I've never made a penny off of this. A tab is useless for me if I haven't heard the song; usually I download tabs for songs that I have on CD so that I can follow it; you download a tab for a song you already know and want to learn how to play. Tabs don't usually tell you anything about timing, it's just a sequence of numbers telling you what frets to hit but to play it right you HAVE to know the song. This is why I think it's just stupid to ban this. Plus, at least in the case of the tabs I've downloaded over the years, nothing is available on print. I've purchased printed music for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Depeche Mode, and other mainstream stuff that you can find on print, but for example for King Crimson, Tool, Rush, Porcupine Tree, and some south american bands that I like, there is very little or no printed music available (or just "easy guitar" versions with the chords over the lyrics).
I've been thinking about making a torrent of all the tabs I have and putting it somewhere, listing the tabs I've got, I don't know if it will be very useful but at least the content will still be available even if it's not in the most convenient form.
Wow. Thanks for the info. I just killed the torrent I had downloading Finux-2.0.3.4.
What I meant was that the van eck phreaking was more fi than sci... AFAIK van eck phreaking is real but only works on CRT (until now), but the hack in the book was done to a laptop, and the description was very convincing, hence my question. Much of the WWII and crypto stuff is pretty accurate also, IMHO.
you've gone way off topic IMHO... people spying on your screen is pretty bad. But this does not make BPL a bad thing... protocols like SSL allow you to transfer information over TCP securely, regardless of the physical medium. If it works on wireless, it works on BPL, right?
So the hack that is mentioned in Cryptonomicon is pure sci-fi? It says that van-eck was possible on a laptop because of some backwards compatibility issue, in which laptops still refreshed the display 60 times per second or so, even if they didn't need to, so you could pick up on that radiation or something for the phreaking. It wasn't really possible until now? Or is this a different method where you can spy on LCD's using some method specific to LCD's?
Not only that, he lists Entourage! I hate that piece of shit! I also love QuickSilver, BTW. I can't get by without it now... it's my app launcher and I also use it a lot to find addresses, phones, etc...
I use SpringIDE pluging on Eclipse 3.2 and it works great for spring beans. There are several plugins to work with Hibernate, which can generate POJOs based on the mappings file, or viceversa. I don't use Struts, but I bet there are many plugins for that too. I use JBoss and the JBossIDE is pretty good. I can also test DB connections from Eclipse. So what am I missing here?
Well now at least I know it's not just me. I hate that! Sometimes I hit the back button and right after that I hit my forehead for forgetting that/. will crash Safari. Something to do with the new discussion system, I guess.
Exactly what I was going to recommend... I like last.fm because you can look for bands similar to the ones you already know and love. You can discover interesting music that way. I use Yamipod to upload the info of what I listen to on my iPod and after a while the site has enough info to recommend stuff to me. I've listened to a couple of indie bands that way and I've liked them.
Pandora.com is a similar service, not as complete though. But you can specify a band or even a record or a song, and it builds a playlist from there. You start telling it which songs you like and which you didn't, and after a while the recommendations get better. I've also listened to some bands I've never heard before this way, and even bought some CD's. Not as many indie bands, though.
I'm sorry but the APE is not easy to uninstall at all. And it causes a lot of trouble; I once used x-shade or whatever its name was and it installed APE; after some time I started having some problems with the machine being slow and some other stuff, I looked for solutions and a lot of people were posting about how APE causes many problems. I uninstalled it by following the directions in the forums (which include removing files buried deep in some directory) and my problem was fixed.
Why would the solutions require using a third-party application such as APE? QuickTime can be fixed by Apple and they can issue a security update; VLC is open source and it would only require downloading a newer version. I really hope APE is not necessary for any fixes (except for fixing the unsanity stuff, which I stay away from).
The problem with SEP devices is that they have to work for people who don't have. If you have a beer, then everything else is somebody else's problem. But you can't cover a spaceship in beer and expect people to ignore it. Quite the contrary would happen. So beer cannot be used for SEP.
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He's probablly into that shit just to get inspiration for those bizarre lyrics he writes... mix scientology with all the chicano culture in LA and you can write some pretty weird stuff to sing about.
I checked the HelloWorld example, it look very similar to Tapestry (another Apache project). Two very similar projects under the same roof... no wonder web development is such a mess. Granted, Tapestry is more complex than wicket (at first sight; I'd have to look deeper). Looks like in wicket they got rid of the intermediate .page of .jwc files (XML files with the component definitions for the stuff in the HTML files; the page/jwc files is where you define the connections between UI components and the control classes).
Worth checking out, this wicket. If it's as powerful as Tapestry and is really simpler, I think we might switch. We have some medium to large size apps in Tapestry.
Find good new music is certainly hard. Things like Pandora, last.fm etc are very helpful for that; I've been using last.fm for a while, uploading everything I listen to on my iPod, using Yamipod (just the info of what I heard and when I heard it, not the actual sound files). After a while I could start listening to the recommendations the site made and have found a couple of good things. With Pandora I wasn't that lucky; the recommendations turned out to be purely song-based so I ended up buying some albums that had only one track I liked and other stuff that I just don't listen to.
I'm 34 and I also listen to a lot of music from the 90's. The new albums I buy are from artists that are still around like Rush, NIN, Chemical Brothers, etc. The newest bands I listen to are Interpol and The Killers. But I think it's not only the normal aging process we're going through; this time the music industry is changing, fast, and it reflects on the kind of artists that are out now. Check out some new bands (anything after 2000) and look at how many records they have; very few bands get to a second album and even fewer put out a third one. It's all disposable. Of course there have always been one-hit wonders but it's now becoming the standard.
Unfortunately it's no longer accessible from outside the US.
"Change Toner" is not an encrypted message
PC Load Letter? WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Ah yes, the IT crowd. My favorite scene is when Moss explains to Jen something he's doing on the computer and suddenly all you can hear is static... I understood immediately how my girlfriend feels when I ramble on about tech stuff.
I really liked their text editor BRIEF. I had the version that ran on OS/2 and it was a nice editor with macros, autocomplete, brace count and other stuff that wasn't usually available on DOS/Windows. The OS/2 version could compile on a different thread while you kept typing or doing something else. One thing I miss to this day is block selection, I really wish Eclipse would implement that.
Oh man, that's just GREAT!!! I was scheduled to go for Paris to calibrate a scale and now my boss has cancelled the trip. DAMN!
Horrific, deplorable violence is OK as long as it doesn't have any naughty language. That's what this is all about. - Cartman's Mom
You've never seen a tab? It's just a plain text file, with lines representing the guitar or bass strings, and there are numbers representing the fret that you have to press to play a note. There is no timing information (you don't know how fast or slow to play or for how long you have to hold the note). Sometimes you can get an idea of the relative timing by the separation of the numbers but that's it, so you have to hear the song to know what it sounds like; you can't actually just read a tab and play a song you've never heard before (as opposed to full music notation which tells you the duration of each note, etc). They look like this:
This is a chord and then an arpeggio in a guitar line (I'm omitting the first and sixth strings where nothing is played, in order to pass the lameness filter):
-1----------1---------
-0--------0---0-------
-2-----2---------2----
-3---3-------------3--
I've been playing guitar and bass for about 16 years, never professionally, just as a hobby. I love to play, I love music; I've learned a lot from reading tabbed music (I remember an FTP site fwup or something like that, before OLGA). I've even submitted tabs, that was my way of contributing back to the people who transcribed all those songs that taught me a lot. Throughout the years I ocasionally download tabs for songs that get my attention ("how do they play that?"). Lately I was downloading some Tool stuff but it's been getting harder and harder to find anything.
I've never made a penny off of this. A tab is useless for me if I haven't heard the song; usually I download tabs for songs that I have on CD so that I can follow it; you download a tab for a song you already know and want to learn how to play. Tabs don't usually tell you anything about timing, it's just a sequence of numbers telling you what frets to hit but to play it right you HAVE to know the song. This is why I think it's just stupid to ban this. Plus, at least in the case of the tabs I've downloaded over the years, nothing is available on print. I've purchased printed music for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Depeche Mode, and other mainstream stuff that you can find on print, but for example for King Crimson, Tool, Rush, Porcupine Tree, and some south american bands that I like, there is very little or no printed music available (or just "easy guitar" versions with the chords over the lyrics).
I've been thinking about making a torrent of all the tabs I have and putting it somewhere, listing the tabs I've got, I don't know if it will be very useful but at least the content will still be available even if it's not in the most convenient form.
To me it was even more shocking to find out that there are small guys in the porn industry (all of them must be off camera)
Wow. Thanks for the info. I just killed the torrent I had downloading Finux-2.0.3.4. What I meant was that the van eck phreaking was more fi than sci... AFAIK van eck phreaking is real but only works on CRT (until now), but the hack in the book was done to a laptop, and the description was very convincing, hence my question. Much of the WWII and crypto stuff is pretty accurate also, IMHO.
you've gone way off topic IMHO... people spying on your screen is pretty bad. But this does not make BPL a bad thing... protocols like SSL allow you to transfer information over TCP securely, regardless of the physical medium. If it works on wireless, it works on BPL, right?
So the hack that is mentioned in Cryptonomicon is pure sci-fi? It says that van-eck was possible on a laptop because of some backwards compatibility issue, in which laptops still refreshed the display 60 times per second or so, even if they didn't need to, so you could pick up on that radiation or something for the phreaking. It wasn't really possible until now? Or is this a different method where you can spy on LCD's using some method specific to LCD's?
It's accurate - Mexico didn't follow. We just changed to DST last weekend.
Not only that, he lists Entourage! I hate that piece of shit! I also love QuickSilver, BTW. I can't get by without it now... it's my app launcher and I also use it a lot to find addresses, phones, etc...
I use SpringIDE pluging on Eclipse 3.2 and it works great for spring beans. There are several plugins to work with Hibernate, which can generate POJOs based on the mappings file, or viceversa. I don't use Struts, but I bet there are many plugins for that too. I use JBoss and the JBossIDE is pretty good. I can also test DB connections from Eclipse. So what am I missing here?
Well now at least I know it's not just me. I hate that! Sometimes I hit the back button and right after that I hit my forehead for forgetting that /. will crash Safari. Something to do with the new discussion system, I guess.
Exactly what I was going to recommend... I like last.fm because you can look for bands similar to the ones you already know and love. You can discover interesting music that way. I use Yamipod to upload the info of what I listen to on my iPod and after a while the site has enough info to recommend stuff to me. I've listened to a couple of indie bands that way and I've liked them.
Pandora.com is a similar service, not as complete though. But you can specify a band or even a record or a song, and it builds a playlist from there. You start telling it which songs you like and which you didn't, and after a while the recommendations get better. I've also listened to some bands I've never heard before this way, and even bought some CD's. Not as many indie bands, though.
OK so you have to smoke a joint before entering the room and yelling the commands. Big deal.
And it emits a super fluid that when placed in the right spot, produces people.
I'm sorry but the APE is not easy to uninstall at all. And it causes a lot of trouble; I once used x-shade or whatever its name was and it installed APE; after some time I started having some problems with the machine being slow and some other stuff, I looked for solutions and a lot of people were posting about how APE causes many problems. I uninstalled it by following the directions in the forums (which include removing files buried deep in some directory) and my problem was fixed. Why would the solutions require using a third-party application such as APE? QuickTime can be fixed by Apple and they can issue a security update; VLC is open source and it would only require downloading a newer version. I really hope APE is not necessary for any fixes (except for fixing the unsanity stuff, which I stay away from).
The problem with SEP devices is that they have to work for people who don't have. If you have a beer, then everything else is somebody else's problem. But you can't cover a spaceship in beer and expect people to ignore it. Quite the contrary would happen. So beer cannot be used for SEP.
TPS reports, on the other hand...
You can remote-control and zombify certain humans with carbon in a compressed form.