"The Republicans/Democrats/Whigs are dangerously naive about Soviet/Al Qaida/Chinese/Brazilian intentions regarding multicore MIMD instruction code. We must maintain supremacy in cyberspace to protect FREEDOM."
This would be almost as good as a bridge across the Pacific for keeping cold warriors busy.
sound systems circa 1962, midi circa 1982, protools 1990-ish. They've had machines to do that for a while.
"first they came for the rhythm sections, but as I did not play bass
signed,
a still sometimes working musician
ps: File sharing screwed the lawyers, not the players. Won't someone think of the lawyers
$3.99 is too much for a sheet. I say big pro composer guy should understand that. Maybe a couple of (IMHO) hack musicals shouldn't make him as much. They should make him something though.
I'm a long time professional who has probably lost big publishing $ to file sharing but saw it coming 20 years ago so wasn't surprised. (and yes my music would probably not be on musical theater girls iPod)
Times change. I still make a living in meat space - playing live - but there's a lot less work to go around.
I also make $ coding, have had clients that said they didn't like it, didn't want to pay and then found my code live on their site. They knew enough to copy the html, css and javascript. It's digital so my labor was worth nothing. Small claims court? I didn't bother but I wonder how it would have played out.
I wonder how all the people who scream that any IP restriction is EVIL feel when they work away at OSS and make very little money. Did they see it coming?
Not that I'd advocate some DRM / IP technological scheme imposed by the state. It's not that you can't put the genie back in the bottle, there is no longer a bottle.
But is it *not possible* to deallocate memory in JS? That is (or used to be) the case with Flash player. Even using best practices and ugly hacks the memory still starts (started?) to bloat. I do a lot of dynamic games and by not importing graphics I've had pretty good success keeping the Flash player under control - though I do slam the CPU but that comes with the territory.
As far as I know Flash Player 10.1 has not fixed the graphics memory leak which was not caused by delveloper bloat. Flash was not releasing memory from loaded graphics according to Macromedia/Adobe. This was a big problem for developing browser based state pages. That may, however, be fixed in 10.1. Were you aware of that problem? Curious why my comment says I'm not experienced. The main problem I have with Actionscript is mobile penetration, and if canvas allows me to port client games and animations to iPhone/Pad it would be a big plus right now. jQuery takes the ugly out of javascript and makes lots of client friendly dynamic menu fades and swooshes easy that I used to push for Flash (to avoid javascript). That allows all updatable content in the html for easy (client?) update eliminating an XML import. I don't think Actionscript is going away and I do think html5 will eventually catch on, I just find it better for me as little guy to play both sides of some when-megacorps-rumble holy war.
This sounds better than the actual Flash player! I've been playing with canvas in an effort to get away from Actionscript but this, especially open sourced, sounds like the best of both worlds.
I don't care if they monetize which obscure pop song I quote in my status or have a record of an occasional flame war with old friends who have emerged from the decades across some political divide. (I probably shouldn't have posted my SS # as a status however
What I find strange is the lack of certain kinds of innovation on the popular sites.
For instance
The problem is getting paid for it. Is there money in presenting local news on the internet? Yes. Is there "enough" money? Stay tuned
> It wouldn't make sense for a local restaraunt or auto dealer to pay to advertise to people 500 miles away, let alone on the other side of the world.
If that's your opinion I won't be investing in your start up.
> And nobody came for the music business, they're killing themselves from their own greed and evilness,
The only disagreement I have with that statement is the tense. They killed themselves. It's all over but the drying up and blowing away. And pop music seems to be getting a little better lately but that's just IMHO.
... and I didn't speak up because the music business sucked.
Anybody in local newspapers had better have seen this coming since craigslist if not before. Can the blogosphere figure out how to monetize at a rate high enough to support independent reporting on a local level? That depends on how much money there is in advertising in an interactive medium where space is free (and the wind blows hot). One thing seems certain, we are entering an age where media skills are not based on specialization, have a limited shelf life and the playing field changes every 2 years. Kind of like the music business of the late 20th century.
As far as I know Marx never advocated a "Marxist" state and his contemporary Bakunin predicted many of the problems encountered later by the 20th century disasters.
Anyway I'm a lot more interested in Lennon.
Weird thing about Starship Troopers - in the movie the humans seem to be the bad guys. It's a distopian take on Heinlein's trains-running-on-time. Forever War by Haldeman was a response to the Heinlein.
" moore-money-moore-problems"
is a very good gag.
My personal "recent" favorite is "weapons-of-map-reduction" about big table IIRC, but I laugh out loud periodically. Good work
I think someone (else besides me) should put together a list of the best depts and hack some voting software together.
Looks interesting but behind pay wall.
Any related free links?
So if we pump a bunch of air into it and wear wings can we fly around?
Sorry I didn't read the story just can't resist the reference.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
