But that's only the tip of the iceburg. For every artist that the record industry has chosen to support there are another hundred that are just as good who are out there gigging every night. My experience is that, even if they're not on the list, they're open to taping.
There may be some excellent artists out there, but you can't tell by listening to them. In music-industry funded Manhattan, venues have excellent sound systems and no shortage of name brand acts. Even the minor acts get some radio time before appearing on stage.
In grunge-fest Seattle, even the best acts sound like ass, as they are pumped through the aging lo-fi systems installed in clubs throughout the city. The music here is either painfully loud, or bad, or both.
I don't like the way the RIAA conducts their business anymore than I like the way indie bands record their music.
Since moving to Seattle, I've switched almost entirely to techno, as the laptop producers finally have the production values to make decent recordings. Too bad it is just blips and squeaks.
That's one of the key features of iTunes music store, you don't necessarily have to buy -anything- that sucks. If you did, well... you had a chance to sample it.
Giving a listener a 30 second segemnt of a 6 minute long song is like offering an elephant for sale to a blind man, but handing him the trunk for evaluation. The blind man isn't going to be very happy when he gets his new python home only to find out that it is somewhat different than he expected.
but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then
Linux had a very compitent TCP/IP stack, including SLIP and later PPP. Combine that with X11 and a Mosaic binary, and you had a fast and reliable Websurfer. Even at 14.4k bps.
As for the biz side, in 1993 I replaced a big IBM RS6000/530 with a dual proc Pentium 100 running Linux. Since there were about 100 dumb terminals on the system, IBM wanted around $100k for an OS upgrade. The Linux box was roughly twice as fast as the aging IBM and cost less than $6k to put together.
It wasn't until 1995 that I became a CompSci student, and found that completing my assignments was far easier than it would be on Windoze with Borland C or MSVC.
I downloaded my SLS Linux.99pl12 distribution at 2400 bps over two days. When the download finished, I found that most of my floppy images had checksum errors.
Fortunately, Jana publications imploded the next day, and started hemorrhaging CDs everywhere. I managed to get one and was up and running a few days later.
At about the same time, I had a borrowed Sun 3/110 runing SunOS 3.x. It was fun to play with the big old sun, but even then Linux seemed much faster and more modern. It didn't hurt that Linux was running on my 486DX-50, while the Sun was a 68020 of some kind.
10M songs? Yeah, but it's only 0.99 per song, so that's less than $10M. IIRC, Apple keeps about a third of that, so ~$3M.
Forget about the money Apple is making from the store, and notice that it is a great big Get Out Of Jail Free card for Apple.
The Apple platform is so great for digital media because it provides a set of powerful and easy tools for manipulating digital content. With a moto like "Rip, Mix, Burn," and products like the MP3-playing iPod apple was about half a step from Napster's legal trouble.
With the iTunes Store, Apple has turned into the best way for the music industry to market their wares online. Legal trouble averted. Cool thing is that they have made three million dollars doing this. Double Cool!
The only way to be sure there is no power flowing is to unplug the thing
Unplugging the power supply only guarantees that there is no power flowing *into* the unit. But if there is a voltage potential difference of 500 V between the unplugged PS and yourself, you will feel all of the stray electrons as they seek to equalize the difference as soon as you touch the power supply.
Though with any decent ATX power supply you can utilize the switch on the back.
You should leave the computer plugged in so that it is grounded. Before touching the computer, ground yourself. At that point, you know the voltage difference between you and your computer is 0 v, and it is safe to tocuh.
Intel has budgeted at least $300 Million for Centrino's marketing budget.
To get the "Centrino" cert, you need to use a mobile pentium, the Intel 802.11 chipset, and one of the low power intel chipsets.
If you are a WISP, this is great. You can tell your customers to get either an Apple with Airport or a PC with Centrino. Sure a lot of other WiFi solutions will work, but Centrino is the easy solution.
The PC vendors asked Microsoft out on a date. Microsoft agrees, and the relationship begins to grow and develop. After dating for a while, a new girl shows up (Be), and some PC vendors ask her to dinner. Microsoft complains that Be is getting all of the attention now, and threatens to be less available for dinner and drinks on Friday. Most of the PC vendors decide they prefer Microsoft, so they leave Be to go patch things up with MSFT. Be dies of heartbreak and her parents (children?) sue Microsoft for wrongful death.
I've been applying to PHB type jobs on an occasional basis. For the first few applications, I sent Microsoft.DOC documents produced with OfficeX. After several got stripped out by the corporate email firewall, I started sending my resume in Adobe PDF. The resumes are no longer stripped and I have yet to receive a complaint.
One of OS X's more underrated features is the standard "Save as PDF" button in every print dialog. Any OS X application that can print can make a nice virus and Microsoft free PDF.
When driving in New jersey, the merge procedure is as follows:
1) Match car speed to just faster than ambient traffic 2) Identify a suitable spot to slide into 3) Position my car near the spot 4) Rapidly glance at the driver, don't make much eye contact 5) Move closer to spot until it begins to open up 6) Slide in safely.
The key here is that no one wants to give up their lane position, so you have to give the no choice. When there is an option to have a high speed freeway collision or let the other driver merge in, most will allow the new driver to merge in. It is very important to step near the threshold of danger without stepping over. You don't want to cause an accident or road rage.
Of course, in Seattle, the procedure is entirely different:
1) drive 2) slide into one of the numerous 2-carlength slots
The 520 to I5 South merge, possibly the wors in Seattle, is nothing compared to any number of North 'Jersey merges.
I think a fast copmuter with high resolution data acquisition should be able to solve either merge.
When a system is available for widespread use that takes control away from the humans and places it in the hands of predictable machines, what insurance company will insure a car that has a steering wheel?
Insurance companies will definitely favor the self driving car over "real drivers." When there is a lawsuit, the insurance lawyers will.forward it over to the makers of the self driving system, most likely insured by another company.
Consider drunk driving, for example. With self driving cars, the only way a drunk driver can kill themselves is by drowning in their own vomit. Look for cars that have vomit drains in the floor soon.
Most will become pr0n stars, producers, editors, distributors.
A few will be called to the noble profession of espresso manufacture.
Those troubled few, clinging to the last vestages of the labor-lifestyle, will continue to debate the merits of Windows and Linux while occasionally confusing the former with an 8-bit NES.
You forgot to mention that you've spent the last decade simulating close encoutners with all kinds of terrifying space aliens. Once you've found a way into space, you will have an army of geeks already trained in advance alien smashing techniques.
It seems like you've put a lot of careful thought into this project. Best of luck!
If you want to get pedantic, pick any pair (x,y). unless equals(x,y) is true, different(x,y) is true. Now better(x,y) is a special case of different(x,y), but its meaning is context dependant.
Sometimes better(x,y) maps to greater(x,y) or less(x,y). So it is entirely possible that for some value of better(), better(tube, silicon) is true. If, for example, I'm a salesdude at a hifi store and you are a customer with stacks of cash. Then *clearly* better(silicon, tube) is true. However, after I sell you the tube amp and I'm spending my commission check on my own amp, better(tube, silicon) is true as long as I'm trying to optimize for a maximal personal bank account.
If I'm trying to create the best listening device for my music, then... it doesn't matter. All my music is in MP3 format which horribly degrades the original signal. A nicely distorting vintage tube amp and a nice martini are probably the ideal combination to help me forget.
You can find more information in the Almanac of China's Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. I found the 2001 edition in the Seattle Public Library about a year ago. The 2002 edition should be available now since the edition-year indicates the year that is being reported on.
Some of the numbers were amazing. I don't remember the pizza / hamburger / noodles metric, but I do recall that a C230 Mercedes was priced at about 800k Yuan, which is about US$100k (a $30k car in USA, and the smallest Mercedes sold here). Salaries in Yuan and US$ are supposed to be comparable, so that is like spending a million dollars for an imported compact car. The Audi A6 was priced at about half that, probably due to the fact that VW-Audi have joint venture factories in China. For those not into cars, the A6 is a midsized car with AWD and lots of cool gadgets. Logos aside, the A6 is a much cooler car than the C-class. Interestingly, the young telecom generation live a very rockstar lifestyle, comparable to the 1996-1999 period in the USA. Difference is that they are still living it. So cars like these are well within their grasp.
My notes from the Almanac include a section from p138: Government encourages growth of Software and Hardware so that it reaches international advanced level by 2010. IC facilities should lead Development and Production world wide. Encourage Domestic enterprise (...)
I recall that every page had an URL at the top pointing to a.cn web site with more statistics and information. The whole book may have been available as a PDF as well. Unfortunately, the margin appears to have been too narrow to record the URL:)
China has set a goal to be a world leader in semiconductor manufacture and a competitive force in software development in the next few years. I'm sure there will be more news to come.
Language is a major roadblock for Chinese IT. Either you have to learn english or use a cumbersome encoding system to work in Mandarin. This will work as a slowing factor in software development and motivate research into new data entry methods.
What you propose is essentially what is happening now. The mouse hires lawyers, paying their salaries to keep disney's works from entering the public domain. Creating a government fee would only transfer this money into the hands of the government, and may still require the army of lawyers.
This really hurts the small developer who released a game back in 1999, but takes several years to secure new funding to redeploy the game for a new platform in 2004. They may not have the funds to keep their unpublished work properly registered. Disney then steps in and acquires the title for nothing and the small developer gets to improve his coffee making skills.
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But that's only the tip of the iceburg. For every artist that the record industry has chosen to support there are another hundred that are just as good who are out there gigging every night. My experience is that, even if they're not on the list, they're open to taping.
There may be some excellent artists out there, but you can't tell by listening to them. In music-industry funded Manhattan, venues have excellent sound systems and no shortage of name brand acts. Even the minor acts get some radio time before appearing on stage.
In grunge-fest Seattle, even the best acts sound like ass, as they are pumped through the aging lo-fi systems installed in clubs throughout the city. The music here is either painfully loud, or bad, or both.
I don't like the way the RIAA conducts their business anymore than I like the way indie bands record their music.
Since moving to Seattle, I've switched almost entirely to techno, as the laptop producers finally have the production values to make decent recordings. Too bad it is just blips and squeaks.
That's one of the key features of iTunes music store, you don't necessarily have to buy -anything- that sucks. If you did, well... you had a chance to sample it.
Giving a listener a 30 second segemnt of a 6 minute long song is like offering an elephant for sale to a blind man, but handing him the trunk for evaluation. The blind man isn't going to be very happy when he gets his new python home only to find out that it is somewhat different than he expected.
but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then
Linux had a very compitent TCP/IP stack, including SLIP and later PPP. Combine that with X11 and a Mosaic binary, and you had a fast and reliable Websurfer. Even at 14.4k bps.
As for the biz side, in 1993 I replaced a big IBM RS6000/530 with a dual proc Pentium 100 running Linux. Since there were about 100 dumb terminals on the system, IBM wanted around $100k for an OS upgrade. The Linux box was roughly twice as fast as the aging IBM and cost less than $6k to put together.
It wasn't until 1995 that I became a CompSci student, and found that completing my assignments was far easier than it would be on Windoze with Borland C or MSVC.
I downloaded my SLS Linux .99pl12 distribution at 2400 bps over two days. When the download finished, I found that most of my floppy images had checksum errors.
Fortunately, Jana publications imploded the next day, and started hemorrhaging CDs everywhere. I managed to get one and was up and running a few days later.
At about the same time, I had a borrowed Sun 3/110 runing SunOS 3.x. It was fun to play with the big old sun, but even then Linux seemed much faster and more modern. It didn't hurt that Linux was running on my 486DX-50, while the Sun was a 68020 of some kind.
10M songs? Yeah, but it's only 0.99 per song, so that's less than $10M. IIRC, Apple keeps about a third of that, so ~$3M.
Forget about the money Apple is making from the store, and notice that it is a great big Get Out Of Jail Free card for Apple.
The Apple platform is so great for digital media because it provides a set of powerful and easy tools for manipulating digital content. With a moto like "Rip, Mix, Burn," and products like the MP3-playing iPod apple was about half a step from Napster's legal trouble.
With the iTunes Store, Apple has turned into the best way for the music industry to market their wares online. Legal trouble averted. Cool thing is that they have made three million dollars doing this. Double Cool!
The only way to be sure there is no power flowing is to unplug the thing
Unplugging the power supply only guarantees that there is no power flowing *into* the unit. But if there is a voltage potential difference of 500 V between the unplugged PS and yourself, you will feel all of the stray electrons as they seek to equalize the difference as soon as you touch the power supply.
Though with any decent ATX power supply you can utilize the switch on the back.
Yes, go for the PS with the switch on the back!
You should leave the computer plugged in so that it is grounded. Before touching the computer, ground yourself. At that point, you know the voltage difference between you and your computer is 0 v, and it is safe to tocuh.
You may want to read this document carefully:
C Re quirements.html
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OA
Intel has budgeted at least $300 Million for Centrino's marketing budget.
:)
To get the "Centrino" cert, you need to use a mobile pentium, the Intel 802.11 chipset, and one of the low power intel chipsets.
If you are a WISP, this is great. You can tell your customers to get either an Apple with Airport or a PC with Centrino. Sure a lot of other WiFi solutions will work, but Centrino is the easy solution.
I'll stick with the mac though
Actually, I wonder how many people will read the NYT article and think, "Wow! Easy access to porn! I gotta download that now!
Can anyone point me to the Linux-PR0N-Webmaster's-HOWTO?
The PC vendors asked Microsoft out on a date. Microsoft agrees, and the relationship begins to grow and develop. After dating for a while, a new girl shows up (Be), and some PC vendors ask her to dinner. Microsoft complains that Be is getting all of the attention now, and threatens to be less available for dinner and drinks on Friday. Most of the PC vendors decide they prefer Microsoft, so they leave Be to go patch things up with MSFT. Be dies of heartbreak and her parents (children?) sue Microsoft for wrongful death.
With a SCO Linux license going for $699, HP must be planning on selling a lot of linux applications for these boxes to turn a profit :)
I've been applying to PHB type jobs on an occasional basis. For the first few applications, I sent Microsoft .DOC documents produced with OfficeX. After several got stripped out by the corporate email firewall, I started sending my resume in Adobe PDF. The resumes are no longer stripped and I have yet to receive a complaint.
One of OS X's more underrated features is the standard "Save as PDF" button in every print dialog. Any OS X application that can print can make a nice virus and Microsoft free PDF.
When driving in New jersey, the merge procedure is as follows:
1) Match car speed to just faster than ambient traffic
2) Identify a suitable spot to slide into
3) Position my car near the spot
4) Rapidly glance at the driver, don't make much eye contact
5) Move closer to spot until it begins to open up
6) Slide in safely.
The key here is that no one wants to give up their lane position, so you have to give the no choice. When there is an option to have a high speed freeway collision or let the other driver merge in, most will allow the new driver to merge in. It is very important to step near the threshold of danger without stepping over. You don't want to cause an accident or road rage.
Of course, in Seattle, the procedure is entirely different:
1) drive
2) slide into one of the numerous 2-carlength slots
The 520 to I5 South merge, possibly the wors in Seattle, is nothing compared to any number of North 'Jersey merges.
I think a fast copmuter with high resolution data acquisition should be able to solve either merge.
When a system is available for widespread use that takes control away from the humans and places it in the hands of predictable machines, what insurance company will insure a car that has a steering wheel?
.forward it over to the makers of the self driving system, most likely insured by another company.
Insurance companies will definitely favor the self driving car over "real drivers." When there is a lawsuit, the insurance lawyers will
Consider drunk driving, for example. With self driving cars, the only way a drunk driver can kill themselves is by drowning in their own vomit. Look for cars that have vomit drains in the floor soon.
Most will become pr0n stars, producers, editors, distributors.
A few will be called to the noble profession of espresso manufacture.
Those troubled few, clinging to the last vestages of the labor-lifestyle, will continue to debate the merits of Windows and Linux while occasionally confusing the former with an 8-bit NES.
I want mine lowered first.
I think you will find that Russia also leads the US in number of frozen spacedudes still in orbit!
John,
You forgot to mention that you've spent the last decade simulating close encoutners with all kinds of terrifying space aliens. Once you've found a way into space, you will have an army of geeks already trained in advance alien smashing techniques.
It seems like you've put a lot of careful thought into this project. Best of luck!
Here is a '66 Lear 24 with fresh inspections for $345k http://www.aso.com/i.aso/AircraftView.jsp?aircraft _id=76001
t _id=65894
Another, with "XR advances" for $695k http://www.aso.com/i.aso/AircraftView.jsp?aircraf
Soon you will be able to buy a shiny new Eclipse 500 for just under $1 M: http://www.eclipseaviation.com/
Or prehaps you were one of the people who in 1994 claimed that the $1500 linux box could *never* do what a $20 k SparcStation could do?
If you want to get pedantic, pick any pair (x,y). unless equals(x,y) is true, different(x,y) is true. Now better(x,y) is a special case of different(x,y), but its meaning is context dependant.
Sometimes better(x,y) maps to greater(x,y) or less(x,y). So it is entirely possible that for some value of better(), better(tube, silicon) is true. If, for example, I'm a salesdude at a hifi store and you are a customer with stacks of cash. Then *clearly* better(silicon, tube) is true. However, after I sell you the tube amp and I'm spending my commission check on my own amp, better(tube, silicon) is true as long as I'm trying to optimize for a maximal personal bank account.
If I'm trying to create the best listening device for my music, then... it doesn't matter. All my music is in MP3 format which horribly degrades the original signal. A nicely distorting vintage tube amp and a nice martini are probably the ideal combination to help me forget.
my favorite is SMS/MMS.
You can find more information in the Almanac of China's Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. I found the 2001 edition in the Seattle Public Library about a year ago. The 2002 edition should be available now since the edition-year indicates the year that is being reported on.
.cn web site with more statistics and information. The whole book may have been available as a PDF as well. Unfortunately, the margin appears to have been too narrow to record the URL :)
Some of the numbers were amazing. I don't remember the pizza / hamburger / noodles metric, but I do recall that a C230 Mercedes was priced at about 800k Yuan, which is about US$100k (a $30k car in USA, and the smallest Mercedes sold here). Salaries in Yuan and US$ are supposed to be comparable, so that is like spending a million dollars for an imported compact car. The Audi A6 was priced at about half that, probably due to the fact that VW-Audi have joint venture factories in China. For those not into cars, the A6 is a midsized car with AWD and lots of cool gadgets. Logos aside, the A6 is a much cooler car than the C-class. Interestingly, the young telecom generation live a very rockstar lifestyle, comparable to the 1996-1999 period in the USA. Difference is that they are still living it. So cars like these are well within their grasp.
My notes from the Almanac include a section from p138:
Government encourages growth of Software and Hardware so that it reaches international advanced level by 2010. IC facilities should lead Development and Production world wide. Encourage Domestic enterprise (...)
I recall that every page had an URL at the top pointing to a
Bonus points to anyone who posts it.
China has set a goal to be a world leader in semiconductor manufacture and a competitive force in software development in the next few years. I'm sure there will be more news to come.
Language is a major roadblock for Chinese IT. Either you have to learn english or use a cumbersome encoding system to work in Mandarin. This will work as a slowing factor in software development and motivate research into new data entry methods.
What you propose is essentially what is happening now. The mouse hires lawyers, paying their salaries to keep disney's works from entering the public domain. Creating a government fee would only transfer this money into the hands of the government, and may still require the army of lawyers.
This really hurts the small developer who released a game back in 1999, but takes several years to secure new funding to redeploy the game for a new platform in 2004. They may not have the funds to keep their unpublished work properly registered. Disney then steps in and acquires the title for nothing and the small developer gets to improve his coffee making skills.