... because when you disable your account there's one that allows you to allow Facebook to continue to contact you. As long as you choose to not allow that they'll never email you. Nary an email from them since I killed my account. Facebook is a mountain of suck, but so is this story.
So 6 extra characters (known_) is apparently a bridge too far? Its not that the posted headline can be interpreted in different ways; it is outright wrong.
He didn't pay Personal Audio any money. There ended up being an out of court settlement where PA promised not to sue Carolla or a group of other podcasters for something like 5 years. Carolla did a great job of highlighting what PA were doing and they basically wanted to get out of the spotlight.
In the late 80s when my high school library got brand new IBM PCs the computer class was still taught using TRS-80s (networked to a single TRS-80 with dual hard drives).
Our computer team would show up toting these machines, when ever other school had state of the art PCs. We kicked their asses.
Wrote the obligatory Snake game for it. Had it been a decade earlier it could have probably made a little money (I did take some personal satisfaction in a couple of kids almost failing out the class because they would play it instead of listening to the teacher).
Oddly, one of the projects I'm still weirdly proud of was writing a networked Battleship program that used the rudimentary network. It was a class project for the 2nd year of CS. I wrote the networking code. It was a ball of hack, but damn if it didn't work.
I'm an old fart, but the VAST majority of my internet consumption is via RSS. Loved Google Reader until they kneecapped it. Switched over to Feedly after Reader's untimely death.
I rarely have to leave Feedly, and thus never notice when sites like/. fubar their CSS file (like they apparently have today)
In 5th grade my computer teacher challenged me to write something other than simple graphics, so I wrote a rudimentary line editor in Atari Logo. I still remember the effort I had to put into designing it / solving the problems that cropped up and the feeling I had when it finally worked.
Its going to have a bigger effect on local government financing than anything else. In theory there will be a huge drop in red light / speeding / parking tickets that will smack the municipal bottom line pretty hard. That's why I'm not so gung ho about the prospects of automated cars. In order to make up for the loss of revenue municipalities will regulate the shit out of the industry, most likely treating it like a utility (for our own good, of course), and limiting the competition so that they have to buy (expensive) licenses from the city. It'll be Taxi Medallions Part 2.
I'd (somewhat) disagree. Amazon Fire or Roku sticks are cheap and easy to set up/use. The only downside is that you now have two remotes to worry about instead of one. On the plus side, you've probably saved some money buying a good but dumb TV and a stick, when the Roku/Fire stick gets long in the tooth its cheaper to replace than the SmartTV once the manufacturer stops supporting it, and you can change ecosystems fairly cheaply with minimal disruptions.
Smart TVs are like "infotainment" head units in cars: wildly out of date within a year of purchase. Give me a dumb TV/monitor with HDMI inputs and I'll connect a Roku/Chromecast/Amazon Fire/Apple TV. The Roku / Chromecasts are cheap enough to upgrade if and when needed.
I run it on an old Nexus 4 for shits and grins. Basically the only advantage that I can see (and the only reason I haven't wiped it off the Nexus) is I think the "hook the phone up to a monitor/keyboard and turn it into a computer" is the next big step in mobile computing. Whoever gets it right first will have the advantage. Microsoft is trying with Continuum, and Ubuntu has their version. Android has their home grown merging of ChromeOS/Android, plus third party things like RemixOS, and it looks like Apple are moving OSX and iOS closer to each other as well.
Odds are Ubuntu won't be the winner but its interesting to see where they're going with their phone OS.
Other than that, though, there's no compelling reason to use it. App ecosystem is basically barren, and there's nothing compelling about the UI to recommend it above all the other options.
"The REAL question, at least in my eyes, for Metro, is given the damage shown during the March 17th shutdown [washingtonpost.com], how did these cables POSSIBLY have passed the inspection that was claimed to have been done after the L'Enfant Plaza incident. .."
Like most things having to do with DC there's a complete and utter lack of accountability (see DC Gov't, DCPS, etc.). When the inevitable shit hits the fan just wave your hands and yell something like "lack of a dedicated funding," point the finger-of-blame at an outsider and the buck is magically passed.
"However, the cost of creating recordings has gone down."
Way to not read the article.
From Mr Lowery
“Well artists are making less money but recording costs are lower, so the artists are doing okay”.
In other words technology has lowered your revenues in the form of unlicensed file-sharing on an industrial scale but that’s okay because Digidesign (the makers of Pro-Tools) has given back some cost savings. As if Kim Dotcom and Digidesign share the same bank account. These people believe in technology like it is a religion. The lord Technology Industry taketh, and The Lord Technology Industry giveth back.
The data I have from recording studios says something different. Recording budgets are lower because artists spend dramatically less time recording. They just don’t have the money.
Recording budgets didn’t start shrinking until after the advent of file-sharing. 2002 ish. While most of the improvements in technology and gains in productivity occurred in the early 1990s. By 1996 the home studio/pro studio production chain was firmly in place. Pro studios used for “tracking” and “mixing.” Home or project studios used for overdubs and editing. If lower recording budgets were caused by improvements in technology they should have started shrinking 10 years earlier.
Sound recordings are very labor intensive. If you want to make good ones you are relying on highly skilled labor. The cost of sound recordings is largely dependent on labor costs. Technological advances have little effect on recording cost.
This is the main problem with the technologists contention recordings should be free. They seem to think that the only people who work on recordings are the touring performers themselves. Artists still have to pay for that highly skilled labor.
Is the mix engineer gonna follow us around on tour hawking HIS T-shirts to the audience?
Have to second Zimbra. We just finally got a proper mail / calendering server (after limping along with vanilla Imap and google calendars... ug). There's an Evolution plugin in beta but it seems to be flaky. However, I was surprised on how much I liked the web client. Not perfect, but pretty damn useful. If the Evolution plugin is ever completed I may switch the client back to that, but in the meantime I'm quite happy with the web client.
Interestingly the first thing I thought of when I read this was "If it turns out that VMWare is in violation of the GPL and Microsoft is smart, they will bankroll a suit against VMWare." It would be a win-win for them. If the GPL is upheld it cripples a competitor, if they lose they weaken the GPL.
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... because when you disable your account there's one that allows you to allow Facebook to continue to contact you. As long as you choose to not allow that they'll never email you. Nary an email from them since I killed my account. Facebook is a mountain of suck, but so is this story.
He was a lot of what made early Slashdot fun.
Audiophiles and Cyclists shake their head in disagreement.
So 6 extra characters (known_) is apparently a bridge too far? Its not that the posted headline can be interpreted in different ways; it is outright wrong.
Subject says it all.
He didn't pay Personal Audio any money. There ended up being an out of court settlement where PA promised not to sue Carolla or a group of other podcasters for something like 5 years. Carolla did a great job of highlighting what PA were doing and they basically wanted to get out of the spotlight.
DOH. Dual floppy drives...
In the late 80s when my high school library got brand new IBM PCs the computer class was still taught using TRS-80s (networked to a single TRS-80 with dual hard drives).
Our computer team would show up toting these machines, when ever other school had state of the art PCs. We kicked their asses.
Wrote the obligatory Snake game for it. Had it been a decade earlier it could have probably made a little money (I did take some personal satisfaction in a couple of kids almost failing out the class because they would play it instead of listening to the teacher).
Oddly, one of the projects I'm still weirdly proud of was writing a networked Battleship program that used the rudimentary network. It was a class project for the 2nd year of CS. I wrote the networking code. It was a ball of hack, but damn if it didn't work.
Anything by James Burke. For example:
- Connections
- The Day The Universe Changed
- The Real Thing
Its already happening. Follow @RealPeerReview on Twitter sometime. What gets published in the Angry Sciences is hysterical/frightening.
I'm an old fart, but the VAST majority of my internet consumption is via RSS. Loved Google Reader until they kneecapped it. Switched over to Feedly after Reader's untimely death.
I rarely have to leave Feedly, and thus never notice when sites like /. fubar their CSS file (like they apparently have today)
[SMUG condition="On" level="HIGH"]
I stand
[/SMUG]
In 5th grade my computer teacher challenged me to write something other than simple graphics, so I wrote a rudimentary line editor in Atari Logo. I still remember the effort I had to put into designing it / solving the problems that cropped up and the feeling I had when it finally worked.
A great intro to programming.
Its going to have a bigger effect on local government financing than anything else. In theory there will be a huge drop in red light / speeding / parking tickets that will smack the municipal bottom line pretty hard. That's why I'm not so gung ho about the prospects of automated cars. In order to make up for the loss of revenue municipalities will regulate the shit out of the industry, most likely treating it like a utility (for our own good, of course), and limiting the competition so that they have to buy (expensive) licenses from the city. It'll be Taxi Medallions Part 2.
I'd (somewhat) disagree. Amazon Fire or Roku sticks are cheap and easy to set up/use. The only downside is that you now have two remotes to worry about instead of one. On the plus side, you've probably saved some money buying a good but dumb TV and a stick, when the Roku/Fire stick gets long in the tooth its cheaper to replace than the SmartTV once the manufacturer stops supporting it, and you can change ecosystems fairly cheaply with minimal disruptions.
Smart TVs are like "infotainment" head units in cars: wildly out of date within a year of purchase. Give me a dumb TV/monitor with HDMI inputs and I'll connect a Roku/Chromecast/Amazon Fire/Apple TV. The Roku / Chromecasts are cheap enough to upgrade if and when needed.
I run it on an old Nexus 4 for shits and grins. Basically the only advantage that I can see (and the only reason I haven't wiped it off the Nexus) is I think the "hook the phone up to a monitor/keyboard and turn it into a computer" is the next big step in mobile computing. Whoever gets it right first will have the advantage. Microsoft is trying with Continuum, and Ubuntu has their version. Android has their home grown merging of ChromeOS/Android, plus third party things like RemixOS, and it looks like Apple are moving OSX and iOS closer to each other as well.
Odds are Ubuntu won't be the winner but its interesting to see where they're going with their phone OS.
Other than that, though, there's no compelling reason to use it. App ecosystem is basically barren, and there's nothing compelling about the UI to recommend it above all the other options.
... the OP didn't wedge how sexist and racist the "black box" is as well. Might as well aim for the Angry Studies trifecta.
"The REAL question, at least in my eyes, for Metro, is given the damage shown during the March 17th shutdown [washingtonpost.com], how did these cables POSSIBLY have passed the inspection that was claimed to have been done after the L'Enfant Plaza incident. . ."
Like most things having to do with DC there's a complete and utter lack of accountability (see DC Gov't, DCPS, etc.). When the inevitable shit hits the fan just wave your hands and yell something like "lack of a dedicated funding," point the finger-of-blame at an outsider and the buck is magically passed.
"*political scientist* Andrew Hacker"
Well there's your problem. From "science" that is softer than a new born's bowel movement. [/snark]
"However, the cost of creating recordings has gone down."
Way to not read the article.
From Mr Lowery
“Well artists are making less money but recording costs are lower, so the artists are doing okay”.
In other words technology has lowered your revenues in the form of unlicensed file-sharing on an industrial scale but that’s okay because Digidesign (the makers of Pro-Tools) has given back some cost savings. As if Kim Dotcom and Digidesign share the same bank account. These people believe in technology like it is a religion. The lord Technology Industry taketh, and The Lord Technology Industry giveth back.
The data I have from recording studios says something different. Recording budgets are lower because artists spend dramatically less time recording. They just don’t have the money.
Recording budgets didn’t start shrinking until after the advent of file-sharing. 2002 ish. While most of the improvements in technology and gains in productivity occurred in the early 1990s. By 1996 the home studio/pro studio production chain was firmly in place. Pro studios used for “tracking” and “mixing.” Home or project studios used for overdubs and editing. If lower recording budgets were caused by improvements in technology they should have started shrinking 10 years earlier.
Sound recordings are very labor intensive. If you want to make good ones you are relying on highly skilled labor. The cost of sound recordings is largely dependent on labor costs. Technological advances have little effect on recording cost.
This is the main problem with the technologists contention recordings should be free. They seem to think that the only people who work on recordings are the touring performers themselves. Artists still have to pay for that highly skilled labor.
Is the mix engineer gonna follow us around on tour hawking HIS T-shirts to the audience?
To bad it wasn't 99 to life. Could have played some kick-ass Social Distortion in honor of the sentence.
I always thought that Farscape was Blake's 7 done right. Same basic story idea, same basic characters, much, much better execution.
Loved Blake's 7 as a kid, but saw it again a few years ago and it hadn't held up as well as my memory of it had led me to believe.
Have to second Zimbra. We just finally got a proper mail / calendering server (after limping along with vanilla Imap and google calendars... ug). There's an Evolution plugin in beta but it seems to be flaky. However, I was surprised on how much I liked the web client. Not perfect, but pretty damn useful. If the Evolution plugin is ever completed I may switch the client back to that, but in the meantime I'm quite happy with the web client.
Interestingly the first thing I thought of when I read this was "If it turns out that VMWare is in violation of the GPL and Microsoft is smart, they will bankroll a suit against VMWare." It would be a win-win for them. If the GPL is upheld it cripples a competitor, if they lose they weaken the GPL.