This article on Homeopathy was posted last week, who was checking submissions?

Perhaps this just highlights how mechanical and un-emotional Mozart was? If the app could create something comparable to Beethoven's works then maybe we are going somewhere.

The other point is that most 'great' music is created in the transitional state of musical styles: think Elvis, but it was the same for Beethoven etc.. The musicians playing the same style were generally not regarded as highly.

Could the app create something 'new' and compelling?

What happened to the tried and tested option of ignoring the browsers you don't want to support; web1.0 was built on these sound principles. When we could not access the site due to the webmaster (remember them?) implementing the latest Netscape tag, we would assume it was our fault and upgrade.

I blame agile development practices for worrying about what the user can handle: pussies.

Why does it irk you so?

I haven't had a printer in the last five years.

Thats not to say I've never needed one, but when I do I go down to the shop and have them print it out - sure its more expensive, but then I do it maybe thrice yearly.

Just don't print, duh!

Come steal our music, its FREE and we don't care!

http://www.gamatam.com/music.jsp

ciao

Seriously, get over it already :)

Here's a thought: Why not bury a laptop with all the data on it? That way you store the mean to read the data again, but maybe install a media friendly OS that you will be able to work 16 years from now (because computer interfaces will have improved SOOOO much by then you won'y be able to work Windows Vista).

You probably don't want to store the battery connected, I'm not sure..

Do you remember releasing your application and the best way to solve a bug was to restart the entire frikin machine? ..oh, we still do that?

No, it was Jack Bauer, but he's not telling and nobody can make him.

I think you are missing something here: App Engine is a specific platform for specific needs. To quote Wikipedia:

Compared to other scalable hosting services such as Amazon EC2, App Engine provides more infrastructure to make it easy to write scalable applications, but can only run a limited range of applications designed for that infrastructure.

If you are writing for GAEJ then you are writing for that specific platform/framework, just as you would for J2EE5 or J2EE1.4 or a none EJB host or mobile application etc..

In my experience and to generalize:

1. Threads: Not used in web applications
2. Writing to file: Only used for file upload (images, pdf etc..) where streaming to a RDB would create a performance hit) - store in BigTable rather
3. Network access: Used to be used where SOAP services are used today. ..and then there is System.exit which is not implemented, probably a good thing, it used to do horrible thing in tomcat years ago :)

I short, it is as much of a lock in as the Spring framework or J2EE itself, two of the most popular business application frameworks.

three times less expensive - is that the same as a third of the cost?

I'm not being a grammar nazi, just doesn't make sense (its morning here after a late night, so maybe the synapses haven't whatevered).

I've found it frustrating to get heard on last.fm. Our music is all freely download-able (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Willing+Mind and http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Silberbauer), but we're just not getting hits..

Surely there should be a good way for Creative Commons licensed music to be promoted as we're not making money out of the downloading, its difficult to justify buying into the last.fm promotions.

I just think there is something missing out there, I make music, I'm not a marketer.

Or maybe our music just sucks??