Cruithne is a named Near Earth Asteroid which has been known about for some years. Asteroids only get names and numbers after their orbit is well known - which means a good few solar orbits.
I've gone and higlighted it on my NEO map so you can all see where it is right now. (look near Venus). I presume this is the same object they're talking about.
It's not actually a moon of the earth, at least I wouldn't consider it a moon. Trojan objects aren't bound to their objects in the same way that moons are. Certainly the Earth's influence acts to stabilise the orbit, but if that's teh only criteria for an object being a moon then perhaps we should consider Pluto a Moon of Neptune since pluto is help in the 3:2 resonance with Neptune.
Oddly enough - the 1:1 resonance of trojan objects with respect to the Earth make it almost dynamically impossible for the object to ever become a true satellite of the Earth.
The most common OS in the world isn't something I'd consider secure enough to cast online votes with. I mean can you imagine voting viruses taking over as many copies of Lose2000 as possible and casting votes one way or another.
It's not just making sure that the correct votes are cast, but htat those people who still don't bother (tsk... some people) don't have their votes appropriated.
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Myplay have a 'public playlists' section
If you think your music collection is cool you can make a playlist publically available. It's still gotta conform to DMCA rules - but anyone can listen.
Hey maybe I just like this feature because I've got to #2....
So... with a bit of hacking it would be possible to upload the hamsterdance song instead of the actual mp3. Lots of scope for nasty minded individuals to ruin the service.
e.g. get CD, get first 8kbytes (usually pretty quiet I'd imagine). Tell their servers you've got an labum by.... The Who... then upload the hamsterdance song instead as the mp3.
repeat.
then the next person to upload will get the Hamsterdance instead of My Generation.
your points 1) Myplay lets you choose the bitrate you encode at to suit your connection - in fact you're not even limited to mp3 files - almost any format is supported. Also - you don't need the special windows only client. (Although I would say that myplay should get their arse in gear and produce an encoding client) So... myplay does require you to upload your mp3's but the Beam-It client doesn't let you get at your own mp3s, they get uploaded to the server and then you have to trick the mp3.com servers to download to you so that you can get a copy. 2) Yup there's a limit, maybe I should point out that when I first found myplay that mp3.com were offering an I-drive account to its users - offering a vast 50Megabytes of storage for mp3.com users. I'm sure myplay will respond by offering more space Incidently my cd collection works out at about 300+ cd's - about 18GB in mp3's. 3) True, but this only works for mp3.com partners. Myplay's version appears to be more online - buy stuff from emusic and you get a copy automatically added to myplay.
Not a carbon copy - but I'm shocked at how much mp3.com seem to have copied.
Thankfully 'look and feel' lawsuits don't usually go very far.
True true, and you have to guarnatee yourself a 128kbit connection wherever you go...
Perhaps if some technological crisis hits storage and suddenly nobody could make any bigger hard disks. Then if... at the same time a technological breakthrough gave every device in the world a high bandwidth internet connection....
then *maybe* there mioght be a big future in this.
More likely - mp3.com want to use this as the distribution medium for their artists. Instead of buying the mp3's, instead you buy the rights to stream the mp3's from their server. The notion of owning music takes a step further back.
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Oddly enough I posted this story last week but Slashdot ignored it..... Perhaps because I pointed out that the whole site is an exact carbon copy (check some of the html and layouts) of Myplay.com.
Myplay have been offering an online storage system like this for free for the last 4 months and they don't force you to use their technology, or limit you to streaming only.
So - for all you Unix users who don't want to cart a CD selection back and forth here's an online music HOWTO
(1) Get CD Paraoia or cdda2wav (2) get LAME ( You can also get GRIP - that's a fancy GUI system that uses GTK - nice and easy) (3) Extract your favourte CD audio to.wav files (4) encode.wav files to.mp3 files using LAME (5) Delete the.wav files
then.... (6) Get XMMS (7) Listen to your funky mp3's
Now for the anytime/anywhere part.... (8) go to Myplay.com (9) Get an account (they're free) (10) upload your chosen tracks (11) Listen to them wherever you go
okokok but there's more
If you want to show off your music taste you can assemble your favourite tracks into public playlists which anybody can listen to - so it's like creating a radio show. (they use icecast for this BTW)
Plus they've also got a few free tracks, both from themselves and from affiliates like emusic.com....
SO.... my.mp3.com is not Innovative... it's a copy.
Given his status as big name physicist, I'd be interested to know his opinions on 'The End Of The World' - Specifically the suggestions that going to higher and higher energies in particle accelerators might produce particels which end up having catastrophic effects on the local environment.
Or are we more likely to get hit by a killer asteroid before this happens - in which case should we not be spending more money on NEO research than on Particle accelerators.
I must say I was initially skeptical about digital TV but when I was home over christmas I used it every day...
One thing I found rather absurd is that there was no direct equivalent of the teletext information services in digital form. We had fancy online shopping and whatnot but none of the magazine style content that traditional teletext gives.
The picture is sharper, and a widescreen TV is definately a good thing. But if you've spent any amount of time playing around with video codecs then you'll see the kind of artifacts that mpeg produces. - YOu have to know what to look for though.
The US needs someone like the BBC to kick them into shape - the BBC have always take a lead in supporting standards - RDS is a good example. No radio station was going to get RDS until radios included RDS and the manufacturers weren't going to include RDS until stations started using it. The BBC set it up and now it's spreading....
I rememebr at this time last year someone posted about shoutcast making audio streaming... and in my typical manner I posted a Been there, done that years ago response.
Well... time to spoil your fun again - I've had video streaming using mpeg working Using icecast.
The *big* problem right now is getting a low bitrate video codec which will work in real time.
But if you're a user with one of those fancy mpeg hardware encoedrs and you can get it to work under linux then you can stream mpeg video across icecast with very few changes to the server.
Welll britain is quite small but you have to rememebr that even a small (500 metre) object can have global effects. The UK sits right next to the atlantic - a Tsunami would not be good for it.
Because we had neglected a small part of the physics - the meteor stream is in resonance with Jupiter.
This year we think we've got it figured - everyone in europe should be in for a good show.
Microcasting.... Sharing music and sticking to the
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Once interesting place - in the middle ogf all this is myplay.com - they give you 250MB of disk space to upload mp3s. The main idea is that you can access your own stuff anywhere in the world with a network connection.
But the interesting thing is their new 'Share' feature where you can make up a playlist of music you own... and let anyone hear it.....
All very nice - make your own little radio stations - 2 years ago I had to write mp3serv if I wanted to do mp3 radio.
Anyway..... you still have to follow the DMCA rules on programming. So myplay are another company who are staying within the limits they see in the legislation.
I wonder how they see the legal action against napster?
mp3.com - they require an e-mail address before doing anything on their site - they are of course monitoring all the users and selling this information on.
The record companies love to know what artists they can associate with each other - mp3.com probably gets most of it's money from analysing your listening patterns and selling this information.
mp3.com has rubbish music anyway... they are becoming the Microsoft of the online music world with poor service,applications, and generally a bad attitude
I was amazed over the weekend when someone showed me his conversions to icecast to let it stream video.. they were running live coverage of a party in Finland using icecast for the audio and video.
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I've gone and higlighted it on my NEO map so you can all see where it is right now. (look near Venus). I presume this is the same object they're talking about.
It's not actually a moon of the earth, at least I wouldn't consider it a moon. Trojan objects aren't bound to their objects in the same way that moons are. Certainly the Earth's influence acts to stabilise the orbit, but if that's teh only criteria for an object being a moon then perhaps we should consider Pluto a Moon of Neptune since pluto is help in the 3:2 resonance with Neptune.
Oddly enough - the 1:1 resonance of trojan objects with respect to the Earth make it almost dynamically impossible for the object to ever become a true satellite of the Earth.
The most common OS in the world isn't something I'd consider secure enough to cast online votes with. I mean can you imagine voting viruses taking over as many copies of Lose2000 as possible and casting votes one way or another.
It's not just making sure that the correct votes are cast, but htat those people who still don't bother (tsk... some people) don't have their votes appropriated.
Myplay have a 'public playlists' section
If you think your music collection is cool you can make a playlist publically available. It's still gotta conform to DMCA rules - but anyone can listen.
Hey maybe I just like this feature because I've got to #2....
So... with a bit of hacking it would be possible to upload the hamsterdance song instead of the actual mp3. Lots of scope for nasty minded individuals to ruin the service.
.... The Who... then upload the hamsterdance song instead as the mp3.
e.g. get CD, get first 8kbytes (usually pretty quiet I'd imagine). Tell their servers you've got an labum by
repeat.
then the next person to upload will get the Hamsterdance instead of My Generation.
could be fun
Therefore there must be something to it ;-)
Anyone who had anything to do with 'The Clash' must be worth listening to.
Joe Strummer's current stuff is available at emusic.com.....
An almost infinite number of monkeys bagning away on a similar number of typewrites will eventually reqproduce the works of shakespeare.
The internet disproves this hypothesis.
But seriously - has anyone figured out how long it would take to requroduce certain random documents? - such as the works of shakespeare?
I actually have some code for producing long, seamless mp3's..
I just make one big one and then use a frame splitter to break it up -
then just do something like
cat file*.mp3 | mpg123 -v -
your points
1) Myplay lets you choose the bitrate you encode at to suit your connection - in fact you're not even limited to mp3 files - almost any format is supported. Also - you don't need the special windows only client. (Although I would say that myplay should get their arse in gear and produce an encoding client)
So... myplay does require you to upload your mp3's but the Beam-It client doesn't let you get at your own mp3s, they get uploaded to the server and then you have to trick the mp3.com servers to download to you so that you can get a copy.
2) Yup there's a limit, maybe I should point out that when I first found myplay that mp3.com were offering an I-drive account to its users - offering a vast 50Megabytes of storage for mp3.com users. I'm sure myplay will respond by offering more space
Incidently my cd collection works out at about 300+ cd's - about 18GB in mp3's.
3) True, but this only works for mp3.com partners.
Myplay's version appears to be more online - buy stuff from emusic and you get a copy automatically added to myplay.
Not a carbon copy - but I'm shocked at how much mp3.com seem to have copied.
Thankfully 'look and feel' lawsuits don't usually go very far.
True true, and you have to guarnatee yourself a 128kbit connection wherever you go...
Perhaps if some technological crisis hits storage and suddenly nobody could make any bigger hard disks. Then if... at the same time a technological breakthrough gave every device in the world a high bandwidth internet connection....
then *maybe* there mioght be a big future in this.
More likely - mp3.com want to use this as the distribution medium for their artists. Instead of buying the mp3's, instead you buy the rights to stream the mp3's from their server. The notion of owning music takes a step further back.
Oddly enough I posted this story last week but Slashdot ignored it..... Perhaps because I pointed out that the whole site is an exact carbon copy (check some of the html and layouts) of Myplay.com.
.wav files .wav files to .mp3 files using LAME .wav files
Myplay have been offering an online storage system like this for free for the last 4 months and they don't force you to use their technology, or limit you to streaming only.
So - for all you Unix users who don't want to cart a CD selection back and forth here's an online music HOWTO
(1) Get CD Paraoia or cdda2wav
(2) get LAME
( You can also get GRIP - that's a fancy GUI system that uses GTK - nice and easy)
(3) Extract your favourte CD audio to
(4) encode
(5) Delete the
then....
(6) Get XMMS
(7) Listen to your funky mp3's
Now for the anytime/anywhere part....
(8) go to Myplay.com
(9) Get an account (they're free)
(10) upload your chosen tracks
(11) Listen to them wherever you go
okokok but there's more
If you want to show off your music taste you can assemble your favourite tracks into public playlists which anybody can listen to - so it's like creating a radio show. (they use icecast for this BTW)
Plus they've also got a few free tracks, both from themselves and from affiliates like emusic.com....
SO.... my.mp3.com is not Innovative... it's a copy.
So - why isn't myplay in the related links box?
Rubbish ....
try pointing lynx at the URL's genrated
lynx -dump -source URL > file.mp3
Any linux hacker knows how to do that
Beam It was put together for my.mp3.com which is a straight rip off of myplay.com.
Of course myplay have had linux support from Day one.
And .... when she does decide to get dressed up she does have some really good dress sense...
Given his status as big name physicist, I'd be interested to know his opinions on 'The End Of The World' - Specifically the suggestions that going to higher and higher energies in particle accelerators might produce particels which end up having catastrophic effects on the local environment.
Or are we more likely to get hit by a killer asteroid before this happens - in which case should we not be spending more money on NEO research than on Particle accelerators.
I must say I was initially skeptical about digital TV but when I was home over christmas I used it every day...
One thing I found rather absurd is that there was no direct equivalent of the teletext information services in digital form. We had fancy online shopping and whatnot but none of the magazine style content that traditional teletext gives.
The picture is sharper, and a widescreen TV is definately a good thing. But if you've spent any amount of time playing around with video codecs then you'll see the kind of artifacts that mpeg produces. - YOu have to know what to look for though.
The US needs someone like the BBC to kick them into shape - the BBC have always take a lead in supporting standards - RDS is a good example. No radio station was going to get RDS until radios included RDS and the manufacturers weren't going to include RDS until stations started using it.
The BBC set it up and now it's spreading....
I rememebr at this time last year someone posted about shoutcast making audio streaming... and in my typical manner I posted a Been there, done that years ago response.
Well... time to spoil your fun again - I've had video streaming using mpeg working Using icecast.
The *big* problem right now is getting a low bitrate video codec which will work in real time.
But if you're a user with one of those fancy mpeg hardware encoedrs and you can get it to work under linux then you can stream mpeg video across icecast with very few changes to the server.
That's probably why Armagh is really interested in it..
Cool Idea - with all this running around promoting Spaceguard I could do with some time on his cluster....
All we need is a few clones of Mark...
And I could do with a clone to do the hard work while I surf slashdot.
Welll britain is quite small but you have to rememebr that even a small (500 metre) object can have global effects. The UK sits right next to the atlantic - a Tsunami would not be good for it.
Go on get on there - it just needs telnet, no fancy web browser and there's a complete self contained community there.
Don't complain about it - get on these things and keep them alive.
Because we had neglected a small part of the physics - the meteor stream is in resonance with Jupiter.
This year we think we've got it figured - everyone in europe should be in for a good show.
Once interesting place - in the middle ogf all this is myplay.com - they give you 250MB of disk space to upload mp3s. The main idea is that you can access your own stuff anywhere in the world with a network connection.
But the interesting thing is their new 'Share' feature where you can make up a playlist of music you own... and let anyone hear it.....
All very nice - make your own little radio stations - 2 years ago I had to write mp3serv if I wanted to do mp3 radio.
Anyway..... you still have to follow the DMCA rules on programming. So myplay are another company who are staying within the limits they see in the legislation.
I wonder how they see the legal action against napster?
Interestingly.... it was one of the biggest ISP's in Finland that arranged all this.. they're using Icecast over Real Player.
Icecast has a couple of other big names using it.
mp3.com - they require an e-mail address before doing anything on their site - they are of course monitoring all the users and selling this information on.
The record companies love to know what artists they can associate with each other - mp3.com probably gets most of it's money from analysing your listening patterns and selling this information.
mp3.com has rubbish music anyway... they are becoming the Microsoft of the online music world with poor service,applications, and generally a bad attitude
Alternatives?
Icecast.....
I was amazed over the weekend when someone showed me his conversions to icecast to let it stream video.. they were running live coverage of a party in Finland using icecast for the audio and video.