I believe that this is being suggested as a way of funding new journals publishing (maybe) less rigorusly reviewd research. The idea being to open up debate by airing new ideas before they gain mainstream accptance. They clearly run the risk of publishing a greater number of bad items but it's a balance all scientific journals make. Have Fun
Not fussy on XML at all myself. How ever if this is open source (and all the tools?) then it's a single point re-write, all be it a large one, to re write the parser. If any body's that interested then all the one deamon good ness can be kept but the evil nasty (spit) XML implementation can be replaced with something more acceptable. Acutally the more I say it the less I like it XML XML XML there all my swearing done early in the morning:)
Until there is a way of pulling (good, relevant) metadata out of most (all) file types Spotlight etc will be at best half features.
I have difficulty getting users (intelegent users, mind) to file things in a single directory consistantly (yes I know this is ment to avoid directories but a location is only one example of metadata) . Fill in meta data as well? I may as well ask them to fly!
Ok text docs, spreadsheets etc will be fine (ish) as some occasionally appropriate info will be extractable, but what about drawings, scans, films. I know companies and the analy retentive will fill this in but an awful lot of people will not.
On the plus side I see this as the near end of application (un)installation hell....
rm *.mozilla !
ls *.apache !
or whatever syntax you choose, as the metadata will gladly be added by distro builders/app programmers. I've never heard this mentiond.
Ah well I'm off for two weeks holiday. Promise to think of you all while walking the dog:)
Wot? Just like there were no (princess) Diana jokes, Piper Alpha jokes (exploding oil platform), PanAm 103 jokes? Different country, mabye? Different way of dealing with trauma (own or others)? Humor saved my mind after my grandparents died, including some very distastfull and hillarious remarks. Ho hum, I guess different people deal with their empathy differently. (Shock horror) Take care Jo
Fair enough, but, and this is where personal taste comes into it, I've never heard an album produced by "Hiring musicians, singers, flying them in, putting them up,..'' that lit my fire. If you've spent a year in a studio... I can only imagine that you didn't have much of a clue as to what you wanted to do before you went in there... then why waste such an expensive resorce? Your composing and brainstorming can (should?) be done elsewhere. Sorry if I am really talking to Peter Gabriel or someone, but it was my understanding that people of that ilk have their own studio ''at the bottom of the garden'' therefore stidio time is no more expensive than living room time! I certainly a (cheap!!!) studio setup at home that is more than able to rough out the (no always so) basic ideas for material. This attitude, that you can just spend this much money on time and other people to get a result, is exactly why much moderm music sucks - it just ends up soooo cold, and I'm not talking about boy/girl band here either. Too much time and too many people with only a passing interest in what you're really doing (no matter what they say to your face these guns are hired and are there for the cash). How much time have you spent at a desk ''massaging'' material? I thought digital was ment to make life easier? Producers seem now to be addicted to reaching unattainable perfection instead of helping a band/artist to get people EXCITED by new pieces of music. And musicians fall for it, which I think is sadder. I think the current thrust - is welcome to the real world, work more efficiently and expect less just like the rest of the working population have to.
I've just re-read that and it come across as a bit hot, sorry not meant like that. I'd be interested in a response from someone deep(?) in the music industry, even if this thread is now cold, cause when we look from outside we see PHB's, middle management and pemadonnas whining. I'm sure it's not like that;) but it is the impression.
Hear! Hear! As a musician (singer) I agree completly. The money will be harder to make (you'll have to work for it) so the hangers on of this world will ***k off and interfear with someone else's hobby. One option we have is to give the recordings away as shareware. Personally I like that idea. And before anyone says anything, hi quality recordings are cheap...4 weeks in a good local studio for about £3000, seems cheap to me. BTW the band's called Gouged Eye - no URL as the new site is under construction.;)
Bollocks, I've seen how much perfectly good food supermarkets sling in the bin (worked on rubbish/refuse collection for a while). If we're going to carp on about waste then this is the place to start.
Debian? How small a foot print do you want? You still can run all your sever services on *almost* any running box if you care (and we all clearly care).
If your distro is slow cut the crap from the init scripts, remember I'm not talking to the uninitiated here, this is/.
If you want it as a desktop pick a light manager and small apps. There ARE good graphical apps for all occasions.
Of the two big desktops, in my experience (debian testing), KDE is much faster than gnome. Which is a shame as I prefer Gnome.
Keep smiling. The bastards'll think you know something....
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I believe that this is being suggested as a way of funding new journals publishing (maybe) less rigorusly reviewd research. The idea being to open up debate by airing new ideas before they gain mainstream accptance.
They clearly run the risk of publishing a greater number of bad items but it's a balance all scientific journals make.
Have Fun
Not fussy on XML at all myself. How ever if this is open source (and all the tools?) then it's a single point re-write, all be it a large one, to re write the parser. :)
If any body's that interested then all the one deamon good ness can be kept but the evil nasty (spit) XML implementation can be replaced with something more acceptable.
Acutally the more I say it the less I like it XML XML XML there all my swearing done early in the morning
So... it'll be easy to configure with vi then!
Humour folks:)
Until there is a way of pulling (good, relevant) metadata out of most (all) file types Spotlight etc will be at best half features.
:)
I have difficulty getting users (intelegent users, mind) to file things in a single directory consistantly (yes I know this is ment to avoid directories but a location is only one example of metadata) . Fill in meta data as well? I may as well ask them to fly!
Ok text docs, spreadsheets etc will be fine (ish) as some occasionally appropriate info will be extractable, but what about drawings, scans, films. I know companies and the analy retentive will fill this in but an awful lot of people will not.
On the plus side I see this as the near end of application (un)installation hell....
rm *.mozilla !
ls *.apache !
or whatever syntax you choose, as the metadata will gladly be added by distro builders/app programmers. I've never heard this mentiond.
Ah well I'm off for two weeks holiday. Promise to think of you all while walking the dog
Jo
Wot? Just like there were no (princess) Diana jokes, Piper Alpha jokes (exploding oil platform), PanAm 103 jokes?
Different country, mabye? Different way of dealing with trauma (own or others)? Humor saved my mind after my grandparents died, including some very distastfull and hillarious remarks.
Ho hum, I guess different people deal with their empathy differently. (Shock horror)
Take care
Jo
You have a pissing section in your pool? Coool! me 'n' a bunch of mates 'll be over now!!!!!
Well.....
...
for (int i=0; i10; i++) {
for (int j=i; j10; j++) {
if (i*j == x)
i=j=10;
}
}
He He He!
What was the TTL on the avian carrier implementation?
Cool dude, but how do I mod a 21" crt like this?
Fair enough, but, and this is where personal taste comes into it, I've never heard an album produced by "Hiring musicians, singers, flying them in, putting them up, ..'' that lit my fire. ... I can only imagine that you didn't have much of a clue as to what you wanted to do before you went in there ... then why waste such an expensive resorce? Your composing and brainstorming can (should?) be done elsewhere. Sorry if I am really talking to Peter Gabriel or someone, but it was my understanding that people of that ilk have their own studio ''at the bottom of the garden'' therefore stidio time is no more expensive than living room time! I certainly a (cheap!!!) studio setup at home that is more than able to rough out the (no always so) basic ideas for material.
;) but it is the impression.
If you've spent a year in a studio
This attitude, that you can just spend this much money on time and other people to get a result, is exactly why much moderm music sucks - it just ends up soooo cold, and I'm not talking about boy/girl band here either. Too much time and too many people with only a passing interest in what you're really doing (no matter what they say to your face these guns are hired and are there for the cash).
How much time have you spent at a desk ''massaging'' material? I thought digital was ment to make life easier? Producers seem now to be addicted to reaching unattainable perfection instead of helping a band/artist to get people EXCITED by new pieces of music. And musicians fall for it, which I think is sadder.
I think the current thrust - is welcome to the real world, work more efficiently and expect less just like the rest of the working population have to.
I've just re-read that and it come across as a bit hot, sorry not meant like that. I'd be interested in a response from someone deep(?) in the music industry, even if this thread is now cold, cause when we look from outside we see PHB's, middle management and pemadonnas whining. I'm sure it's not like that
Have fun!
Welshmnt
Hear! Hear! ;)
As a musician (singer) I agree completly. The money will be harder to make (you'll have to work for it) so the hangers on of this world will ***k off and interfear with someone else's hobby.
One option we have is to give the recordings away as shareware. Personally I like that idea. And before anyone says anything, hi quality recordings are cheap...4 weeks in a good local studio for about £3000, seems cheap to me.
BTW the band's called Gouged Eye - no URL as the new site is under construction.
Bollocks, I've seen how much perfectly good food supermarkets sling in the bin (worked on rubbish/refuse collection for a while). If we're going to carp on about waste then this is the place to start.
welshmnt
Yeah! I know what you mean. I had one once.....people kept 'phoning me! Seriously anoying :)
Really dislike telephones. An I on my own?
Have Fun
Jo
Suerly I'm not the only one who hates the mac ui. What I am err ok then I'll go sit in the corner.
who really dosn't like the mac interface?
;).
/. is on hotmail's spamlist? Tis true.
I feel like I'm working in Willy Wonkas Disnyland
Gnome's going the same way. I used to like that but now... well I'm no so sure.
FYI I'm sat here using blackbox so you can tell where I'm coming from.
Ah well perhaps I'm just too old for LaLa Po and crew now.
Have Fun
PS Did you know the the 'send me my password' on
(Ducking) It's the most positive thing the U.S. has done for the developing world in decades.
Debian? How small a foot print do you want?
/.
You still can run all your sever services on *almost* any running box if you care (and we all clearly care).
If your distro is slow cut the crap from the init scripts, remember I'm not talking to the uninitiated here, this is
If you want it as a desktop pick a light manager and small apps. There ARE good graphical apps for all occasions.
Of the two big desktops, in my experience (debian testing), KDE is much faster than gnome. Which is a shame as I prefer Gnome.
Keep smiling. The bastards'll think you know something....