Reminds me of how mplayer utterly dies on Leopard. Not only can't it play back video, it actually somehow corrupts parts of OS X so that you can't run QuickTime Player or VLC until the next rebbot, but Quick Look works fine. Since this happens only to mplayer, I assume that they, too, don't use the APIs quite like they're supposed to.
Seriously, is there anyone who's surprised at this? I own a MacBook Pro, but I don't have any illusions about Apple not being a bunch of scumbags. I mean, look at their rich tradition of suing rumor sites. Apple is evil, but they make good stuff. I might as well go and buy from another manufacturer, who is evil as well, but then I don't have a cleaner conscience and I don't get to use OS X.
Of course you can build your own computer, but you still support a good bunch of evil companies because someone needs to manufacture the parts you're building with. If you don't want to support evil corporations you need to abandon pretty much everything our society is about.
Although in this case they appear to be working with a record company that was enlightened enough to let them do this. I doubt many artists have contracts that allow for this kind of thing.
Yeah, but they actually spent some time without a record company.
As for the presence: They gain more presence by making commission work (for example, German gaming mag [i]GameStar[/i] occasionally uses their music on special edition DVDs), although I first heard of them before that started - over the internet. Their CDs certainly didn't hit music stores in my area.
Relaxed redistribution rights allow for much broader advertisement, too; for example they occasionally get played on Nectarine Demoscene Radio, a web radio the focuses mainly on chiptunes and related stuff (MaSu is relevant because they have several metal medleys of C64 game tunes). Other radios play them as well, but Nectarine is one I actually know about. Of course being in rotation on popular web radios improves one's visibility - at zero cost, even. Especially when said radios feature a download link for the music they play, which conveniently points to one's website.
So, if you want your band's website to gather attention, you need to use other online services to tell people about it. When you give away some tracks anyway, you can send your stuff to online radio stations as well; no difference. Make videos involving your music and put them on YouTube. Put a link to your site into your Slashdot sig. Explicitly allow people to use your video as background music for their noncommercial stuff as log as they credit you. All those things get you into people's minds. Also, offer to do live gigs for everyone who pays your travel and lodging expenses and maybe a small tip; once you've gathered a bit attention in the 'net people might want you to play at their conventions. Offering to play there for cheap gets you more attention (and a positive image with con-goers). The opportunities are many; you just have to be agile enough to use them. Most of the promotion is actually done by other people once you've got it going.
By the way, I don't know whether MaSu is completely self-sustaining, but they're certainly self-sustaining enough to not fall apart. Their business model seems to work.
It's fairly easy to build up a fanbase like that. The Swedish Band Machinae Supremacy, which plays something they call SID Metal, offer most of the songs that don't make it on their albums as free downloads on their site. They offer some of the songs that do make it on their albums there, as well. For example, their last album was released in two versions - one from their website, one via retail*. Someone who has bought one version can go to their site and download the tracks he didn't buy.
This has gotten them my attention. I mean, free music! What's not to like about that? You listen to your free music, you like it and then you decide that you want to support the band that was nice enough to entertain you for free. And they have a new fan.
Yeah, I shamelessly plugged them. They deserve it. Not onl for their muic but also because they show that a band can make a decent living without subscribing to the MPAA's "omg copying is teh evul" stance.
* They did that because they and the publisher couldn't agree on which tracks should go on the album.
Solution: Add a bar to the captcha image that contains a message like "NETSYS ROUTER CONFIGURATION LOGIN". Redirecting captchas is feasible, but cutting off part of the imag is pretty involved for something contained within an tag.
I think one ebola virus can still foul up one cell. So 500ml of Ebola solution injected into the brain could lead to just enough brain cells dying to kill the victim. Well, of course any fast intracranial injection of 500ml of anything is bound to create problems, especially when administered in a combat situation.
For some reason I still don't think it's going to become the next superweapon.
They could make the new better-strict rendering mode the default for proper any (X)HTML version that only gets supported after IE7. You know, show people that you actually care about standards instead of putting in a stopgap measure and declaring that it's good for eternity.
new HTML revisions are just more leavings of white tower masturbation.
Just like the concept of a browser failing bad syntax. Sure, it's technologically possible, but almost nobody is going to use that language - why should they? Plain HTML makes development much easier...
Why should anyone use XHTML when IE still the majority browser - will treat it as regular HTML anyway? If you want to avoid weird bugs that arise from one browser being in XML mode and one being in HTML mode you write everything as HTML from the start.
XHTML is kind of nice, but Microsoft has rendered it irrelevant by ignoring it. So we use HTML 5, which maybe has a better chance of supplanting HTML 4.01.
I also think that selected="selected" is pretty redundant. selected="true" would convey as much information, but look less, wel, redundant. Granted, it's just a few bytes, but it does look kind of stupid...
Think of Opera's automatic linking of back and forward on webpages, except we could customize our browsers to say, display blogs and other online reading in a different way than more utilitarian pages, simply because the browser recognizes , , , etc.
Just a little heads up: Slashdot ate the gast you entered; you have to use < and > instead of the brackets.
Some kind of <verbatim> tag would be nice for Slashdot. Something that just makes sure that the enclosed text is bracket-transformed but otherwise retained verbatim. That would allow easy mixing of formatted text and HTML tags.
You could inject every enemy soldier with 500ml of Ebola solution. Of course then you could also inject them with 500ml of Coca Cola, which would be far more cost effective and just as deadly. Or just inject them with a combat knife, which already is popular with the military.
But still, if you get every enemy soldier to line up for the biggest shot of their life you could easily wipe them all out with this strain.
if that ever happens and that modified Ebola mutates and gets out of isolation, we are in a world of shit.
Well, regular in-the-wild ebola can also mutate into something more dangerous. I don't really see the chance for a dangerous mutation as substantially higher. Remember, these are labs that deal with extremely dangerous virus and are thus rather serious about nothing getting out.
What are the alternatives? Either working with regular, deadly Ebola (so if it escapes and infects someone, a lethal outbreak is ensured) or not working with Ebola at all (meaning that there's also no chance of developing an Ebola vaccine or more effective medication). I think gene-tinkerng is our best option in this case.
So essentially you propose letting the children multithread? Are they capable of that? Does the human brain have Hyperthreading built in? Is it even superscalar? Men are said to be multicore, but given the size of two of the cores I think they're Synergistic Processing Units at best.
There are many questions regarding that approach. Perhaps it's be best to go with a microkernel approach - just take one body and add servers (heads) servers as needed. This kind of approach was developed in Thailand, I think, but only with two servers.
He wants ONE child? Okay, so either he doesn't want his family to go anywhere or his grasp of the Unix way is very light. Of course he needs MANY children, each good at one and only one thing:
One child can read and write.
One child can do math.
One child knows how to operate a car.
And so on.
Then, in order to do anything useful he pipes together the children. That's the proper Unix way of founding a family.
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Reminds me of how mplayer utterly dies on Leopard. Not only can't it play back video, it actually somehow corrupts parts of OS X so that you can't run QuickTime Player or VLC until the next rebbot, but Quick Look works fine. Since this happens only to mplayer, I assume that they, too, don't use the APIs quite like they're supposed to.
Seriously, is there anyone who's surprised at this? I own a MacBook Pro, but I don't have any illusions about Apple not being a bunch of scumbags. I mean, look at their rich tradition of suing rumor sites. Apple is evil, but they make good stuff. I might as well go and buy from another manufacturer, who is evil as well, but then I don't have a cleaner conscience and I don't get to use OS X.
Of course you can build your own computer, but you still support a good bunch of evil companies because someone needs to manufacture the parts you're building with. If you don't want to support evil corporations you need to abandon pretty much everything our society is about.
Yeah, our society is somewhat broken.
As for the presence: They gain more presence by making commission work (for example, German gaming mag [i]GameStar[/i] occasionally uses their music on special edition DVDs), although I first heard of them before that started - over the internet. Their CDs certainly didn't hit music stores in my area.
Relaxed redistribution rights allow for much broader advertisement, too; for example they occasionally get played on Nectarine Demoscene Radio, a web radio the focuses mainly on chiptunes and related stuff (MaSu is relevant because they have several metal medleys of C64 game tunes). Other radios play them as well, but Nectarine is one I actually know about. Of course being in rotation on popular web radios improves one's visibility - at zero cost, even. Especially when said radios feature a download link for the music they play, which conveniently points to one's website.
So, if you want your band's website to gather attention, you need to use other online services to tell people about it. When you give away some tracks anyway, you can send your stuff to online radio stations as well; no difference. Make videos involving your music and put them on YouTube. Put a link to your site into your Slashdot sig. Explicitly allow people to use your video as background music for their noncommercial stuff as log as they credit you. All those things get you into people's minds. Also, offer to do live gigs for everyone who pays your travel and lodging expenses and maybe a small tip; once you've gathered a bit attention in the 'net people might want you to play at their conventions. Offering to play there for cheap gets you more attention (and a positive image with con-goers). The opportunities are many; you just have to be agile enough to use them. Most of the promotion is actually done by other people once you've got it going.
By the way, I don't know whether MaSu is completely self-sustaining, but they're certainly self-sustaining enough to not fall apart. Their business model seems to work.
It's fairly easy to build up a fanbase like that. The Swedish Band Machinae Supremacy, which plays something they call SID Metal, offer most of the songs that don't make it on their albums as free downloads on their site. They offer some of the songs that do make it on their albums there, as well. For example, their last album was released in two versions - one from their website, one via retail*. Someone who has bought one version can go to their site and download the tracks he didn't buy.
This has gotten them my attention. I mean, free music! What's not to like about that? You listen to your free music, you like it and then you decide that you want to support the band that was nice enough to entertain you for free. And they have a new fan.
Yeah, I shamelessly plugged them. They deserve it. Not onl for their muic but also because they show that a band can make a decent living without subscribing to the MPAA's "omg copying is teh evul" stance.
* They did that because they and the publisher couldn't agree on which tracks should go on the album.
I think Disney would favor a two-pronged approach to copyright:
- Author's life + 70 minutes for everyone who isn't Disney
- Author's life + 70 centuries for Disney
Solution: Add a bar to the captcha image that contains a message like "NETSYS ROUTER CONFIGURATION LOGIN". Redirecting captchas is feasible, but cutting off part of the imag is pretty involved for something contained within an tag.
Oh, right. That foo="foo" weirdness was X(HT)ML-only. Yet another reason why I don't really like XHTML.
I think one ebola virus can still foul up one cell. So 500ml of Ebola solution injected into the brain could lead to just enough brain cells dying to kill the victim. Well, of course any fast intracranial injection of 500ml of anything is bound to create problems, especially when administered in a combat situation.
For some reason I still don't think it's going to become the next superweapon.
Actually, that can't be true for a simple reason: The three-domain system was introduced in 1990...
They could make the new better-strict rendering mode the default for proper any (X)HTML version that only gets supported after IE7. You know, show people that you actually care about standards instead of putting in a stopgap measure and declaring that it's good for eternity.
Why should anyone use XHTML when IE still the majority browser - will treat it as regular HTML anyway? If you want to avoid weird bugs that arise from one browser being in XML mode and one being in HTML mode you write everything as HTML from the start.
XHTML is kind of nice, but Microsoft has rendered it irrelevant by ignoring it. So we use HTML 5, which maybe has a better chance of supplanting HTML 4.01.
I also think that selected="selected" is pretty redundant. selected="true" would convey as much information, but look less, wel, redundant. Granted, it's just a few bytes, but it does look kind of stupid...
That's pretty much CSS's solution to most hairy problems: Put it in a and style that.
Some kind of <verbatim> tag would be nice for Slashdot. Something that just makes sure that the enclosed text is bracket-transformed but otherwise retained verbatim. That would allow easy mixing of formatted text and HTML tags.
And a bunch of other MP3 players and every single MP4 player manufactured in China.
And who talks to Microsoft to actually make XHTML relevant?
You could inject every enemy soldier with 500ml of Ebola solution. Of course then you could also inject them with 500ml of Coca Cola, which would be far more cost effective and just as deadly. Or just inject them with a combat knife, which already is popular with the military.
But still, if you get every enemy soldier to line up for the biggest shot of their life you could easily wipe them all out with this strain.
And then Ebola is like "No way!" and we're all like "Yeah, whatever". And the look on Ebola's face is, like, going to be so totally awesome...
What are the alternatives? Either working with regular, deadly Ebola (so if it escapes and infects someone, a lethal outbreak is ensured) or not working with Ebola at all (meaning that there's also no chance of developing an Ebola vaccine or more effective medication). I think gene-tinkerng is our best option in this case.
So essentially you propose letting the children multithread? Are they capable of that? Does the human brain have Hyperthreading built in? Is it even superscalar? Men are said to be multicore, but given the size of two of the cores I think they're Synergistic Processing Units at best.
There are many questions regarding that approach. Perhaps it's be best to go with a microkernel approach - just take one body and add servers (heads) servers as needed. This kind of approach was developed in Thailand, I think, but only with two servers.
Yeah, but you need one to do the other anyway. It's a bit of a compromise.
He wants ONE child? Okay, so either he doesn't want his family to go anywhere or his grasp of the Unix way is very light. Of course he needs MANY children, each good at one and only one thing:
One child can read and write.
One child can do math.
One child knows how to operate a car.
And so on.
Then, in order to do anything useful he pipes together the children. That's the proper Unix way of founding a family.