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by ethank 15y ago
You do realize a good chunk of the DMCA takedowns on YouTube are via audio fingerprinting?
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by ethank 15y ago
This will lead to a war, but in the end, this war shall be good. A war with a 500 watt amp driving it. On this note, I wish Sonos had an API. You can hack in UPNP commands to it though, so that might work.
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by ethank 15y ago
It always struck me that Jobs would have made a really, really good A&R executive and label president.
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by ethank 15y ago
An Advent was a three tube projection system. It had a triangular arrangement of the CRT's, one red, one green, one blue. You had to focus and align them yourself, but with a good screen you could get a pretty good looking 60" television. I
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by ethank 15y ago
My grandparents had an Advent when I was a kid. That thing probably spat out more radiation than I ever would care to research. It was a beautiful beast though and could heat a room.
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by ethank 15y ago
Yes, but I'm trying to avoid corporate IT :)
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by ethank 15y ago
These deals are most often non-transferrable in the case of acquisition.
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by ethank 15y ago
Anybeat reminds me more of the chat room scene in AOL or IRC or Compuserve and the like in the early 90's. The chance of serendipitous encounters focused around topics and chance. This appealed to me a lot more when I was 13 however.
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by ethank 15y ago
I guess you can use the VMWare one to get it to an AMI importable format.
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by ethank 15y ago
I saw this video at HP in 1992 or 1993 or so called HP 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKX5iuBvZg I was 13 or 14 at the time and to me it was a bit of a "wow" moment. Not because I related to the topic (mostly this was manufacturing)
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by ethank 15y ago
I never said I was. You can run a private EC2 infrastructure and it is sometimes more handy than having your own hypervisor server.
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by ethank 15y ago
I like that it is distributed as an OVF, but is there any thought to doing an AMI as well? I know it isn't meant for public use, but in my case I don't want it in the internal datacenter, nor is it easy to bridge subnets in remote offices.
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by ethank 15y ago
Don't throw the word "sociopath" around so casually.
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by ethank 15y ago
I don't think any of the "asshole" or "genius" articles were diminishing of his humanity. We as humans are made up of all aspects of our beings. The good an the bad, public and private, personal and not. What distinguishes Jobs is he existe
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by ethank 15y ago
No one ever said there was one music service to serve all manners of music consumption. There are many to serve many. It is a fallacy to assume that everyone consumes or enjoys music the same way, or that music has the same role in every li
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Ways of Seeing, a 1972 BBC series by John Berger(ubu.com)
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by ethank 15y ago
The best thing about GoogleTV is that it has HDMI passthrough, so for the most part you don't have to use it unless you really, really need it. The only time we use it on our set (we have the Logitech Revue) is for Amazon VOD. I'll upgrade
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by ethank 15y ago
Lossless music - there is an audience for it, and it creates the ability to stratify prices, which the labels/rights-holders/distributors like. See the vinyl boom, hdtracks.com, http://www.becausesoundmatters.com/ , etc. So will Apple cate
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by ethank 15y ago
Sorry: USE aac. AAC has no patent for streaming or distribution. When we did direct-to-consumer digital sales this is why I used this rather than Mp3, and ALAC for lossless over FLAC because of the support issue. AAC does have a patent fee
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by ethank 15y ago
This is fantastic. Apple uses AAC partly because of the patent royalty ( http://mp3licensing.com/ ) which they have to pay on every iPad/pod/etc sold, as well as because it is just a better format. MP3 is a total racket held by Thompson Tec
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by ethank 15y ago
I rather thing you are either trolling or do not know the specifics on "for hire" work when it comes to either: a) performing b) speaking c) creating value around information and how you disseminate it (RMS' case) Riders are there to ensure
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by ethank 15y ago
That is what is so great about it: it's specific. If you look at the smoking gun's archive, you'll see the more seasoned touring bands have the same level of specificity. When you are respected, in demand, etc you know how people will screw
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by ethank 15y ago
This is one of the least crazy and nicest riders I've ever read.
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by ethank 15y ago
http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2008/08/23/the-frustration-of... I worked in an industry (still do sort of) that took a huge hit from piracy, and reacted by making it more difficult to do things rather than respond to what piracy exposed.
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by ethank 15y ago
This article reads as if its from someone who has never worked for someone like Steve Jobs. I have once, and I worked with another for a long time. People are speaking as if Jobs was alone in his truculent and persnickety management style,
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by ethank 15y ago
I wrote one in Python (Twisted) a while back, but with any of these things: better for more to maintain it than just me. Mine was XMPP but also supported other async protocols (Redis PubSub, Spread).
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by ethank 15y ago
If they add an API, you could theoretically get your Insteon controller (I use Indigo from Perceptive Automation) to pull from it, or maybe Indigo could support its protocol.
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by ethank 15y ago
/Stops writing his own Hubot in coffeescript/node
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by ethank 15y ago
If this supported the Insteon protocol life would be really really good in my house. No word on their site if it does or not. Right now I have a Venstar thermostat that is hooked into Insteon on my MacMini server.
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by ethank 15y ago
I'd argue that any UX is visual storytelling.

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