I'm with you Ender and only use MP3 and CDs now BUT I do still go and get the free track from iTunes and use it to listen to the preview of an LP. Then I pop down to tesco and buy the thing on unprotected CD for half the price (minor CDs I bite the bullet and go on down to my local Nick Hornby style record shop because the guy really needs the trade). After that the CDAs get whished off the CD, after I've finished leering over the glossy booklet - something that buying tracks over the web stick hasn't managed to come up with a decent compensation for (I don't find those little Flash booklets very appealing). I distribute my stuff onto:
A) My file server PC that has some nice Mission Speakers attached to it.
B) My iPod.
C) A copy of the MP3's onto my laptop.
D) The disk itself goes into a bumper suitcase thingy that holds 300 of the little critters and is in the boot of my car - so I'm prepared for any musical whim when traffic snags me.
(e?) The case and shiny booklet go onto the shelf in the living room so people can come round and nod knowingly at my collection of empty plastic.
Pay then pay for replay? I don't think so - it doesn't go with the 'i-don't-take-two-bottles-into-the-shower-i-just-w ash-and-go' kind of lifestyle I lead.
When my wife got so pregnant she couldn't move I introduced her to the joys of Diablo. It was easy to play together with vastly unequal skills - however she soon rapidly ascended to supremacy. I remember leave the house to go to work and when I came back she had filled the entire village with little heaps of gold and started complaining 'there wasn't anything expensive enough' to spend her money on. How soon gamers become jaded...
Ok so we go from 3 x 10^8 ms-1 to 1 x 10^6 ms-1.
But if you think about it thats the difference between having to make microFarad capacitors and picoFarad capacitors. Its state of the art capacitors that have stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons (by... ahem.. close monitoring).
There is a bit of info in the article about making the composite interface between silcon and optical parts but isnt it going to be ludicrously hard to control the heat dissipation? We already have server rooms with air conditioning like a power station - how long before the room needs to be waist deep in coolant?
"Go and reboot server 12 will you Pete?"
"Can't - forgot to bring my waders."
It might be more helpful to point out that the fermentation process for this product leads to something along the lines of a traditionally made soft drink, such as ginger beer, dandelion & burdock or fermented lemonade, having nearly or actually no alcohol. The process they employ is radically different because of the oil seperation stage followed by the now everyday nitrogen injection (like Caffreys who cannot complete their website because their staff are drunk).
An interesting and patent free alternive to this would be to make ginger beer as normal except to include expresso grounds in the jar with it. Its pretty stunning stuff, but don't stop there take a leaf out of the brewers books and try lemon or orange zest, liquorice (a favourite with darker beers) or cherry skins.
There is a basic recipe here: http://thefoody.com/drinks/gingerbeer.html
All of these work with proper beer fermentation but you have to wait 20 days longers to get the result. Also remember that keeping everything sterile is the art of good brewing.
We recently had a great deal of success converting a project similar to your own by having content re-generated every 6 hours but including way more JavaScript etc. in the site itself - I have to say that going client side with more complexity caused some unbelievable testing expenditure but it DID give us immense concurrency increases which saved amazing sums on the cost per subscriber.
On top of that we became platform independent with the exception of the ISAPI filter we wrote for lightweight sessions, data submission and e-commerce requests. Even the C++ filter could be ported with no serious effort. This came into play when we just found out the thing will go over to Apache in six months (gotta love those suprises).
I love Java but I hate to this how I could have implemented as cheap and effective solution in it that didn't bind us and the client permanently at the hip.
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I'm with you Ender and only use MP3 and CDs now BUT I do still go and get the free track from iTunes and use it to listen to the preview of an LP. Then I pop down to tesco and buy the thing on unprotected CD for half the price (minor CDs I bite the bullet and go on down to my local Nick Hornby style record shop because the guy really needs the trade). After that the CDAs get whished off the CD, after I've finished leering over the glossy booklet - something that buying tracks over the web stick hasn't managed to come up with a decent compensation for (I don't find those little Flash booklets very appealing). I distribute my stuff onto: A) My file server PC that has some nice Mission Speakers attached to it. B) My iPod. C) A copy of the MP3's onto my laptop. D) The disk itself goes into a bumper suitcase thingy that holds 300 of the little critters and is in the boot of my car - so I'm prepared for any musical whim when traffic snags me. (e?) The case and shiny booklet go onto the shelf in the living room so people can come round and nod knowingly at my collection of empty plastic. Pay then pay for replay? I don't think so - it doesn't go with the 'i-don't-take-two-bottles-into-the-shower-i-just-w ash-and-go' kind of lifestyle I lead.
When my wife got so pregnant she couldn't move I introduced her to the joys of Diablo. It was easy to play together with vastly unequal skills - however she soon rapidly ascended to supremacy. I remember leave the house to go to work and when I came back she had filled the entire village with little heaps of gold and started complaining 'there wasn't anything expensive enough' to spend her money on. How soon gamers become jaded...
Ok so we go from 3 x 10^8 ms-1 to 1 x 10^6 ms-1. But if you think about it thats the difference between having to make microFarad capacitors and picoFarad capacitors. Its state of the art capacitors that have stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons (by... ahem.. close monitoring). There is a bit of info in the article about making the composite interface between silcon and optical parts but isnt it going to be ludicrously hard to control the heat dissipation? We already have server rooms with air conditioning like a power station - how long before the room needs to be waist deep in coolant? "Go and reboot server 12 will you Pete?" "Can't - forgot to bring my waders."
It might be more helpful to point out that the fermentation process for this product leads to something along the lines of a traditionally made soft drink, such as ginger beer, dandelion & burdock or fermented lemonade, having nearly or actually no alcohol. The process they employ is radically different because of the oil seperation stage followed by the now everyday nitrogen injection (like Caffreys who cannot complete their website because their staff are drunk). An interesting and patent free alternive to this would be to make ginger beer as normal except to include expresso grounds in the jar with it. Its pretty stunning stuff, but don't stop there take a leaf out of the brewers books and try lemon or orange zest, liquorice (a favourite with darker beers) or cherry skins. There is a basic recipe here: http://thefoody.com/drinks/gingerbeer.html All of these work with proper beer fermentation but you have to wait 20 days longers to get the result. Also remember that keeping everything sterile is the art of good brewing.
We recently had a great deal of success converting a project similar to your own by having content re-generated every 6 hours but including way more JavaScript etc. in the site itself - I have to say that going client side with more complexity caused some unbelievable testing expenditure but it DID give us immense concurrency increases which saved amazing sums on the cost per subscriber. On top of that we became platform independent with the exception of the ISAPI filter we wrote for lightweight sessions, data submission and e-commerce requests. Even the C++ filter could be ported with no serious effort. This came into play when we just found out the thing will go over to Apache in six months (gotta love those suprises). I love Java but I hate to this how I could have implemented as cheap and effective solution in it that didn't bind us and the client permanently at the hip.