Musical Archaeology - Rhapsody Playlists ('n' More)

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Blog Archives: [Current, 2007], [2006], [2005].

For You Lazy YouTubers: YouTubeify It Bookmarklet + FREEDB = Easy YouTube music searches.
For Those Who Haven't Patience To Use YouTube: CHANN3L Z - What If YouTube was TV. (NEW!!!, 2/07) Quicktime (30MB), YouTube One and Two, Tutes.
Cheapest way to podify yourself: Buy this mp3 player (I own two of these with 1 gig SD cards ) (--> DEMOSTRATION VIDEO)
Cheapest way to listen to audio:Dell A215, Get Some Clip On Headphones, Sound Blaster Live!
Best way to veggitate:

www.chann3lz.com Youtube + Me = Chann3lz, a completely random music video playing jukebox of content, managed by the audience, no registration necessary, all mechanism, no policy.. www.youtube.com Videos, Videos, Videos and more Videos, and you don't have to download anything, you don't even really need a Video Codec. It's all FLASH!! Tubeify Everyhit Take YouTube, Combine with Everyhit.com, What Do you get? iTunes How-to-install iTunes (v) here is a downloadable tutorial (v) if you have a slow line. RSS NETCASTS (Hint: Drag&Drop These Links onto iTunes "Podcasts"): Wikipedia Synthesized Mind "Fart" Synthesized (Monthly) Musical Archeology Synthesized Wikipedia Turkeys Synthesized If you want your own netcast (netcast = podcast, Apple is trademarking podcast), but are not sure how to set one up, get my drop-it-in netcast generator script. Script is provided as-is, use at your own risk, thus I'm not liable if somehow you don't get it to work or it eats your cattle and causes you to lose a bunch of money. My tutorials require Real Video not because I'm a Real-Rhapsody fan, but because RealVideo happens to be the best format for low-bandwidth tutorials

Rhapsify Everyhit.com looks for albums of a date range precise to a month, providing links to rhapsody-online (and YouTube).
YouTubeify Everyhit.com is much better for tracking down music videos to precise songs on "YouTube.com".

BEST WAY TO PERUSE YOUTUBIFIED LINKS
1. go to url "about:config" in address bar of firefox browser.
2. toggle 'browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs' to true (pre 1.5; post v1.5, search Advanced Options )
3. then middle mouse click on each youtubified search link
4. click on the videos, bookmark, make into playlists, enjoy..

How Fast Is Your, Connection, Really!! a script I wrote that computes data connection uproute/downroute rates (here is mine, Comcast).

Where to Find Quicktime Pro Forums (and many disgruntled owners): Quicktime for Windows Forum.

Best way to secure your computer: Grisoft AVG (free), ZoneAlarm (free*!) {flash demo}, TCPView (free) {for semi-advanced users}.
Best way to discover music besides this one: Coverville.com
Best way to access your computer remotely: VNC, in particular TightVNC (stay away from www.gotomypc.com)
Best way to obtain/distribute huge files (bit-torrent clients): Azureus
Best way to make backups: Knoppix (Linux/DVD*R), Audiograbber (CD2mp3), DVD Shrink (FreeDVDBackup)
Free Knowledge: UC Berkeley Courses (no credit)

Interesting netcasts for programmers: Software Engineering Radio
How to painlessly publish/purchase a book: LULU.COM
Best of the Best (non-obnoxious): 46 freeware utils
Best webhosting: Geocities (free, commercially scaleable), phpwebhosting (commercial with ssh/sftp-access), Find Hosting.
Best information resources: Google (no brainer), Wikipedia (def)
Best place to lust for synthesizers: Vintage Synth Explorer
Best way to convert wikipedia articles to sound TextAloud, the Eddie voice, and my custom UserTranslations.chl file (put in install directory). TA also comes with a firefox/IE plugin that will read web pages for you, making it easier.. I use it when I hate reading web pages..

Alternative Content Discovery: Blogdigger, WebJay
Trouble Viewing Videos? You need some Codecs: Matroska Pack (good), free-codecs (works, but it may have a Trojan)
Need to convert Media format X to media format Y? Use Mediacoder its a freeware media swiss army knife, that is supposedly open source (its on sourceforge, huh?).
Need to convert video formats that Mediacoder doesn't? Use AVS Convert , I own a copy myself, and it lets me do stuff with Quicktimes and WMV's that neither Microsoft nor Apple will permit me (note the site looks kinda cheap, but the program isn't.
My most favorite rhapsody playlist: Smooth And Punchy Playlist
My most favorite bands (and most played): Level 42 (r), Nik Kershaw, Cock Robin, Double (not played, on my wishlist), etc.
My most favorite years (musically):1978 (r), pretty much any year from 1976 to 1989
My most favorite movie (note: works, and could be made on a low budget):Brainstorm
Most Favorite Music Video (5/12/07):Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to The Rhythm..

Why is this page so huge: Google can cache it all, audience is broadband users, I use less than 50% of my quota per month.
Your most favorite rhapsody playlist: The Brian Eno Playlist
Big application wish: SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! PRESET EXPORT, so I can share with you some of my killer rooms.

Cool way other than Chann3lz for listening to audio.

Say No To Software Patents
Thanks to: JESUS (CHRIST) *, Richard Stallman (AVI, RM, RM2-SP), and the respective creators of these packages and places.

Bag 'O' Tricks Directory lists tips/tricks and reminders and other stuff I would love to clog my header with.

* - Wikipedia is edited by anarchy, don't use for christian inspiration. Christian Bahai is a oxymoron BTW.
*! - I use Zonealarm Pro, which is what that flash demo is demonstrating, ZoneAlarm costs about fifty dollars a
year with updates, but is well worth it, it also comes with spyware weeding software, so there is no need for an application like "Ad-Aware",
"Spybot Search & Destroy" or "Spyware Doctor".

Companies/Organizations I Currently Consider Evil or Stupid:
Why?: Claims to save time and accelerate processing but Wastes Hours of Time Submitting Rebate Offers no Recourse if Rebate Fails!! DELIBERATE THIEVES

All Rhapsody Playlists found in this page (and some not).. All Rhapsody Playlists YouTubeified

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(7/27/05 5:41 PM): You may have noticed a small overuse of wikipedia(w) _ _ and wiktionary _ references, I just added some PHP(w) _ _ code to parse(w) _ _ my entries for references _ to wikipedia and wiktionary, I guess _ its the start of a small markup(w) _ _ of my own.. I got an account _ on Wikipedia, as an editor, and learned a bit of the existing markup there, and decided to prevent confusion _ and to use the markup more, I would use some in my blog(w) _ _..

(7/27/05 4:24 PM): I love Talking Heads(w) _ _, but I had to compose this playlist of Talking Heads and the Clones.. See if you tell which one(s) are not Talking Heads without peeking _. The one that is, is my favorite _ Talking Heads song.

(7/26/05 3:15 PM): Believe it or Not, I don't care if you don't, but I really was searching for this song "Because We Want To (r)", and I just happened to be looking for songs from Billie Piper because I'm a Dr Who 2005 fan.. And I found this song without looking for it.. Weird.. The two just met.. BILLIE PIPER did that song.. And it fits, with her strong accent.. I had this on a CD, a sampler, I got in New York, that I had since lost the cover sheets for (I dismantle my CD jewel cases the minute I get them because they are space hogs (r))..

I was happy to find the song, but its a round about way in searching for stuff.. If you need proof I can recall the CD collection I got it from (It was one of those NOW albums).. I had thought I got it from my landlord's collection, but considering when the song came out, in 1999, I had pictured it as something from 1995.. Anyhow, it was part of a CD I bought at Virgin in Union Square, it was close to where I lived, and I would buy a CD everytime I was depressed, and this was one of those times.. To happen upon this song accidentally, *shrug* wow..

Anyhow, I had always pictured the lead singer of "Because We Want To" as being this 13 year old black girl.. And I knew of a group of three girls from the 90s, I remember the video with them jumping up and down on a bed.. When I finally saw the music video, it wasn't the song.. But for some reason my brain was connecting the two.. So I was looking for three little black girls, not one little white girl.. This so reminds me of the day I heard "another one bites the dust" from Queen and thought it was someone like the Gap Band..

Black's are smoother and more manicured at how they sing than whites, I mean - can you see a white group doing all of Earth Wind and Fire's hits? impossible..

This is where Political Correctness doesn't really apply.. God makes people different for a reason, it has nothing to do with hiearchies, more like body parts..

Well I will have to get used to the new Doctor, Christopher Eccleston left because he felt he was getting type-cast, Yeah Whatevah!!! (r) If you put Chris and Tom Baker together, they look like they are from the same family, maybe the role was too much of a challenge for him and he didn't have the energy to act that well.

Billie will have a better chance of breaking into and cementing herself into the American market assuming it's worth something in five years.. Yeah, thanks to me!! :)

(7/26/05 8:18 AM): Got that iTunes/mp3-player installer tutorial done (that link streams, or you can download the tutorial), it tells you all you need to know to get iTunes up and working on your machine, how to deinstall it, and how to get podcasts on your mp3 player, and if you don't have a mp3 player, it shows you were you can buy mp3 players and even suggests a cheap mp3 player and its functions.. If this doesn't convert you, I can't really help you there..

(7/26/05 2:24 AM): You'd think the guys who update Rhapsody's database had a clue about music, the note on "Umphrey's McGee's - Anchor Drops" says that UG is billed as a jam band.. And then says if that's the case King Crimson (r) is a Blue GRass band.. No, UG does sound like strictly a jam band.. When they start soundling like something Progressive like from the 70s, like yes (r), rush (r), King Crimson.. Then they will stop sounding like a jam band.. Jam is defined, I believe, by how well the members play, if they have skill over their art.. If you jam, its like punk, you improvise but you kind of wonder around the mark.. Its like trying to piss while you are drunk.. You can bet Kind Crimson doesn't get on stage half stoned.. They use all their attention to play as well as possible.. Same with Yes, Rush, etc.. I will give you an example of Jam: Phish (r), Grateful Dead (r), Most Blues (r), anything that lacks originality but just kind of hovers about the song.. All the way to punk, which includes mindless improvisation (r) because punk means you can play with no talent whatsoever, punk is about having fun playing, and jamming is similar.. When your art gets precise and crafted, even when you can jam and not sound like it, that's when you reached the progressive rock level.. When you can do licks like Adrian Belew (r), you've reached that level.. When you stop sounding like Fishbone (r) or an improvisational Jethro Tull (r), you've reached that level of what is called Progressive Rock.. Being progressive it implies you've exceeded the 70s, but I find more modern Prog Rock to have heavy Ska/Punk influences, what happened to the influences of the 70s (r)? Where did the Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny influences go.. Why does everyone sound like the String Cheese Incident (r)? This is flat and uninteresting.. I can only listen to maybe a few AWB songs, like "Picking up the Pieces (r)" which is jazzy prog rock, but thats the root that Umphrey's McGee comes from.. And don't compare them to King Crimson.. When you mix Punk and Prog Rock in the same sentence, it makes you out to look like a idiot, because historically they were at quite different ends of the spectrum.. AT best you could maybe bring them together by Talking Heads and Laurie Anderson (r) which are punk and techno (or poetic experimental electronica, Kraftwerk and Laurie Anderson (r) have a lot in common if you listen to them, and Peter Gabriel collaborated with LAurie.. Kraftwerk with New Order (r).. Kate Bush.. Adrian Belew and David Bowie (r).. Many of them owning Fairlights, experimenting with sound in the 80s), but they mastered their art and can be somewhat classified as progressive, but nothing stylistic and tough about Laurie's work.. And The Talking Heads at best were technically progressive in African guitar licks.. Adrian Belew is kind of the center piece, he defined King Crimson's style over the years, and he influenced other musicians, as well as being influenced by the beatles and their experimentation.. I believe there is a song that David and Adrian did together on Tin Machine, but I forget, I only recall the music video, Adrian Belew or maybe Iggy Pop could be classified as the Kevin Bacons of the music world (such as in a game of six degrees of seperation) .. I think it was a combination of the work that the Beatles did early on combined with workds like Revolution Number #9 that created the Progressive Rock genre. Punk is unstylized banging on the guitar it was actually formed as a rebelion against AOR and Progressive Rock bands, it was the anti-technical-rock, Progressive rock is precise it developed from players that mastered their instruments before getting on stage, or mastered by musicians that found their edge.. Umphrey McGee sounds like every post 80s, 90s band that's at best a Dave Matthews or Fishbone, ska/jazz rip off.. I have yet to find anything more creative than King Crimson these days.. Look there isn't very many people that want to play Guitar like there was in the 70s, this was what pushed the need for progressive rock, it was a bit a competition to see who could out-do who's licks.. These days, its a genre, and those that were falsely classified at Alternative in the 90s, are getting classified as anything else, and some appear in Prog Rock.. I think the genre has-been bent to include more tastes that really belong somewhere else..

(7/26/05 12:19 PM): Finished up a tutorial on how to install and use iTunes, as well as where to get an MP3 player.. And while I was waiting for the video to encode, I made a Weird Al Playlist comparing his Parodies to the original songs (r) (r,Alternate version where the originals come first and then Weird Al's Parodies.., this is the music preservation version.. ) (text).. I'm going to go through an construct another playlist of all the parodies that had no original counterpart (because the musicians did a good job of keeping their stuff off of Rhapsody), so maybe it will influence those musicians to put up their originals (Weird Al can be quite torturesome to a musician in terms of branding. I suspect most musicians on Rhapsody have their collections there to leave their mark and get representation, more than to make money off Rhapsody.

(7/25/05 2:41 AM): DAG wins the funk game, I just can't get anything rocking as close as DAG.. I tried, believe me I tried (r).. Maybe someone can get something more rocking.. Boy I hate to ask it, but whatever happened to DAG?? (r).. I really can't tell you how many times I've listened to "Lovely Jane". The 90s were not really good for emerging artists, too much too fast..

(7/24/05 10:50 PM): Robert Palmer's Addictions Vol.1 and 2, are not completely provided on rhapsody, but I was able to create a playlist [Robert Palmer's Addictions Volume 1 and 2 (r)] that offers both in the most complete form, no I didn't use covers, its him, just that like with a lot of offerings on Rhapsody, the artists or record companies drop some songs in hopes that people will go out and buy the album, or for whatever reason, the entire work is not presented together.. Well what will it be..

I like to think of Robert Palmers music as 80s NYC Snob music, in the good way when I like being a total snob, drinking warm salty water (reality) or 7-Up and pretending its a martini (for those who don't drink, its salty, the only purpose is the buzz and to eat the olive), wearing shorts and shirt pretending I'm wearing a 5th, broadway, or 7th avenue suit, I've got one from Union Square (for real)... Everyone should go to NYC and live and act like a snob just for the fun of it.. Its fun!!

I know enough to be dangerous.. But anyhow, (if you want to spoof your friends on your snobness, go down second, around st. Marks there, on the west side of the street, down from the Japanese restraunt on Third, there is some middle-eastern restraunt there offering tabacco salads, I'm not kidding, I almost got one!!).

But he's really just a guy on the Island with unique tastes.. Its a chicken or egg thing, was Sade influenced by Robert Palmer, or vice versa, it was just that time in music history when musicians seemed to be influencing each other in the mid-80s.. Influenced somehow by Jazz.. I don't really know..

Which one do I like? "What's It Take?", its what really appeals to me.. I wonder what kind of woman appealed to Robert, cause he said these women in his videos were not his style.. But I don't think he ever really defined what he preferred.. Being a teenager, those women in those videos were plenty, as far as looks go, but models can sit around and get dumb, if that's all they do. That's probably what he meant.. However, I can handle dumb, I;m pretty dumb.. Not serriously, but I can play dumb..

(7/24/05 8:14 PM): Discussed, and moved it to my blog: We Must Standardize The Form Statistics Take.

(7/23/05 10:26 PM): I'm really going to have to get some blogging software that is more official than writing my own, but where else do you get everything on one page.. I have to fix that too.. Anyhow.. I was promissing a certain vlogger from Detroit, Michigan that I'd put up some happy pictures.. Here they are, sorry some of them are anaglyphs if you have red/blue glasses, or if youa re capable of looking at parallel-view stereograms there are some of those too, I made some of these this morning with a program called 3Dcombine, its great for making 3D images out of stills, but you have to just about be able to look at images in 3D already to use the tools, its for converting images so others who can't overlap images with their eyes can see the images in 3D.. I hope to have a 3D digital video camera someday soon with the help of roger's 3D blog, but for now, my 3D is "snap, move to the right, snap, bring into 3D Combine. Dump.. ".

(7/22/05 4:17 AM): Icenrye's vlog is like watching SCTV (vlog feed).. Oh its in Canada, that figures..

(7/22/05 3:52 AM): Cruising Vlogs, growing tired, and I come across this Gem (torrent)... *NOT*.. No wonder some disco groups from Europe never made it to America.. Obtained from the DV Guide Vlog off FireANT..

(7/21/05 6:54 PM): Fixing to play some BF2.. Anyhow, I was on this site, looking at some of Roger's 3D videos on FireANT.. I think it would be nice to have some parallel and anaglyph video blogs on the Internet, which it seems is his interest right now.. I don't know why this technology hasn't already hit the consumers, I think part of it is that people generally are not capable of viewing things in 3D, and there are few such as myself that can handle 3D games and view sterograms in parallel (versus Cross-eyed, some people, at best can handle SIRDS {aka Autostereograms}). Anyhow, here is the general trick to taking 3D photos, right..

When you take 3D images, do this: 1. Keep camera’s one to two inches apart, too much space makes big things look small (like toys), too little makes things look far off (flat, like mountains).. 2. Zoom out (telephotos flatten 3D space, best to keep camera as macro as possible and to physically carry the camera to the spot). 3. Avoid having both cameras focus on the same spot, unless for small things; or else only the front part of objects will be 3D and the back part will be confusing.. BTW, I think I recall somewhere on the web there was this German guy who made some stereo videos using what looked like a special Panasonic (or some consumer model) of stereo 3D camera.. I think it would do better if there was a special name for Stereo video as it can be confusing looking for stereo video versus stereo audio.. If there is a standard organization for stereography, they need to come up with another catchphrase that can help distinguish stereo stuff from everything else that might use the term stereo.. Advantages to using Stereoscopic imagery: 1. tangible, more convicing.. 2. you can discern gasses, glass, mirrors, anisotropic effects ( suede/plush toys), practically anything you can see with your own eyes.. 3. impossible to fake (photoshop, in the words of MC Hammer, "can't touch this"). 4. Would be perfect for selling items on EBAY if everyone had anaglyph glasses or LCD shutter glasses, or in the best case the ability to shift their eyes to overlap images (the best way), another is to use prism glasses. 5. use on robots for inspecting ultra microscopic stuff in 3D. Imagine in the future a robot the size of ant, with microscopic video cameras on it, and being able to move the robot and see what it sees on a very small scale, like fleas, ants, etc.. Appearing like mountains.. It's possible!! If you are interested in developing such technology, I've done stereoscopic photographs for over three years now, without the aide of anaglyph glasses.. I can take 3D in the field and judge the images to determine the correctness of the images, by overlapping images with my eyes.. Why is it not used more? Consumers are idiots? Cinmatographers are brainless dweebs who don't know didly about filming 3D.. I'm the only wierdo that understand this stuff and uses it like its yesterdays news.. There is some comspiracy to keep it out of the hands of the public? I have no idea..

(7/21/05 5:09 PM): One thing I did enjoy about living in New York was all the dance clubs, I found a compilation, by way of "4 Strings", called the NYC Underground collection.. I call it "Websters Hall (second floor) Dance Music (r)". I can't dance, but I love this kind of music.. In another life I would have been a raver.. This girl Sam Obernik, on Tim Deluxe's "It just won't do" is like the Fran Drescher of Dance Pop.. Don't ask me why if you haven't a clue. (it's the voice stupid!!) (video) (BTW, I don't believe in Darwin, I think he had his place but his theories has proven little about evolution, its just one of the many options to avoiding Christianity.. Besides, if it wasn't for Darwin we wouldn't have had the Nazi's and all that crap about the Arian race..)

(7/21/05 4:39 PM): Inspired by a LRB song, I made a small playlist of Stolen Beats (r). In the style of the headlines of Redherring, Business 2.0 and other MBA porn, "Its the beat stupid!!". Adrian Belew is I believe the legit son of John and Paul. Speaking of which, I found a beatles songs for the techno generation..

(7/21/05 2:31 PM): Supposedly Jim and Dan Seals have a album coming out, well I've produced by own (r), from "England Dan & John Ford Coley" and "Seals & Crofts". Beware, "mid-70s starchild sunshine music". BTW, Dan Seals' own music has a tinge of Seals and Crofts in it (r), I wonder if Jim is still involved in the creative process. He's got a cover tune of the Little River Band's Reminiscining (r) in that playlist.. Boy LRB and Supertramp have something musically in common on these songs (r) (well in the beginning, then "Take it easy on me" starts sounding like a Neil Diamond Song {coming to america (r)} or the eagles {Tequila Sunrise (v), I can't Tell You Why (v)}, however this is typical of the late 70s sound). Dang it, I would be more precise if The Eagles would be represented on the pre-3.0 Rhapsody, which is what I'm using. As I recall Real is using their material to encourage people to shift, but I'm not going to, Rhapsody 3.0+ sucks.

(7/21/05 4:44 AM): I guess this is 90s music, but I thought it was cool for childrens music (r), probably more adult's music, but it beats listening to "The Wiggles".

(7/21/05 4:26 AM): My brother Bren told me in college that he had an instructor who knew Seals & Crofts (r).. Said that in college they used to drive around town, and I think it was Crofts, he would put ketchup on his arm, then jump into the trunk and hang his arm out the back.. What a bunch of clowns.. Of all the albums I played so much when I was young, I really dug Seals & Crofts, this was before, though, I cgot exposed to Paul Simon.. Now it would really be something if Rhapsody had Seals & Croft's "Get Closer", BTW, Rhapsody doesn't have their complete discography, such as Sudan Village, they made more albums than this.

(7/21/05 4:14 AM): They have Starz now, and Rhapsody and such, but what I want, this is what I want: Music Video Central (all music videos, footage from every year up until now, everything, and no its not hard fro me to find the music videos on the net, I even know where to get all the videos I want, Usenet. But you'd think the entertainment industry would wise up and have a central site for music videos.. Come to think of it, I guess MTV required the artists tot sign over their rights, preventing anyone from having such a service.. But there is no reason for me to get VH1 or MTV, I don't want to wait until a favorite artist comes on, its stupid.. Considering we have random access, why go back to a linear format?

(7/21/05 4:02 AM): I've screwed up my sleeping schedule and can't get it fixed.. Oh Well.. This seems to work well considering I'm a web programmer, it doesn't really matter when I go to sleep.. Anyhow.. I'm a sucker for colorful art, almost doesn't matter what it is.. I was wondering what was wrong with Donald Fagan's upper lip in a certain video of him doing "FM", something recent, I'm wondering if its some kind of cancer or something.. Anyhow, I did a search for that and found this ladies website, I really love her stuff, its cheesy old person stuff, like what your grandmama might wear, but heck its cool!! Some people can make anything look good regardless of the form it takes.

(7/19/05 7:41 AM): Nathan's cousin Josh got to see Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) at Comicon ( BTW, that looks like Jon Heder's sister behind Jon, look they have the same nose), I'm so Jealous, well it's time to go feed Tina, need any tuperware or breast enlargement pills?

(7/18/05 4:38 PM): Weird Al Yankovic just released practically , I think, all of his albums on rhapsody.. Including the very first one he made just out of high school. I put a simple playlist together that is end to end all the major releases.. I know some people hate his music and think its annoying, but the truth is he is a musical and studio production genius, its amazing how he is able to replicate, almost perfectly, every performer he parodies.. Its just that he prefers to do parodies, but he also has his own compositions that are each an individual work of art, in the comic sense that is. The Weird Al Yankovic Collection (r). Of his albums, my favorite songs are the theme song to "This Is The Life (Theme to Johnny Dangerously)" and "Mister Frump and His Iron Lung".

(7/17/05 8:11 PM): Eventually someone is going to invent XML objects.. But I doubt there is anyone any brighter than me who can do it.. That's a challenge, nudge nudge..

1. just implement a sandboxed language
2. pop methods into XML packets and call the XML file an object

Here is an adobe PDF of what I'm thinking about: XML-RPC_Object_Idea.pdf

(7/17/05 7:56 PM): Found something, haven't tried it out, but what it is is a web caching method that uses something like bit-torrent to distribute files.. It's called Dijjer. I think the idea is you install this program and when you hit a link that it recognizes as referring to it, then it takes over, probably connects to a database that searches for other nodes downloading the same file, then everyone's dijjer plugins connect and collabroate on downloading the same file in pieces, then they distribute the pieces to each other (perfect for a cable connection), that way the more people there are downloading the file, the faster the download goes, otherwise it just tries to download it from the site. But if your website has bandwidth problems, it probably won't make the transmission fast initially, but if its like bit torrent, those downloading the file will extend your bandwidth making the file transmit faster and taking less hits to your website..

(7/16/05 11:28 PM): I was having this discussion with another friend of mine, who happens to be a videographer, our conversation was much longer, but I think I summed up the roles of podcasts and the other forms of Internet media:

MY FRIEND (9:00:09 PM): i think podcasts are good but i feel like video will overtake it somehow ME (9:00:35 PM): audio podcasts are easier to consumer because you can be doing something else.. MY FRIEND (9:00:43 PM): yeah ME (9:00:49 PM): But video podcasts are interesting because you can experience more.. ME (9:01:11 PM): So people listen to audio podcasts on walks and at work.. ME (9:01:27 PM): And the video when they are wanting to experience something (escape).. MY FRIEND (9:02:06 PM): good point ME (9:02:13 PM): The web is good for research.. ME (9:02:31 PM): But I've found podcasts are good for accidental information, better than reading MY FRIEND (9:02:35 PM): is there any research on podcast users and when they listen and all that ME (9:03:15 PM): I think that can be collected, I know enough I could make something that works, but if you use bittorrent it would be impossible to be precise because of how bittorrent works.. MY FRIEND (9:03:37 PM): yeah MY FRIEND (9:04:00 PM): i'm just wondering if anyone has surveyed users to see where they listen and all that ME (9:04:06 PM): Its a matter of having a script in place that acts as a proxy and serves up the content... But unlike streaming, you can't really know when somebody stopped watching.. ME (9:05:01 PM): But different from streaming, anyone can podcast.. If you are careful about getting head counts, you might use streaming.. But the drawback of streaming is that you limit the number of people that can watch by your network bandwidth.. ME (9:05:20 PM): But bit-torrent you can reach a large audience and not ever know it.. ME (9:05:59 PM): I think the next step will be some way that "FireANT" can collect this information, but it will have to be standardized so people don't feel like its invading their privacy..

(7/16/05 8:21 PM): You can read the FireANT URL two ways: "Ant is not tv" or "Anti snot tv". (coincidence?).

(7/16/05 8:26 AM): On a whim, thinking there might be such a thing as a video podcast, I did a search on google, and found out iTunes supports video podcasts.. There is also a application called "FireANT" that will let you download tons of video, and even subscribe to video podcasts.. However it was next to impossible to figure out how to obtain a URL for videos that I can place here.. Evidently its freeware and not open source.. Anyhow, there is this great speech Richard Stallman gives about open source software and the Evils of Microsoft (v).. You can find more here.. (or you can do a search in FireANT for "Richard Stallman"). Richard Stallman started GNU, GNU, created the GNU Public License, which in effect kick started the open source movement, and thus copy-lefting of such programs as firefox, apache, azureaus, filezilla, etc.. In fact, if Richard hadn't made this license, there might not have been an Internet that was freely useable and available to all, no free web server software, no free operating systems like Linux, etc.. It's really tough to imagine..

(7/16/05 4:10 AM): (cut down, I was unable to think at 4 in the morning, but I hated the fact that I could not use my unlocked weapon, I spun this story with a partisan slant on Saturday at 8:18 PM).. Once again, EA drives another video game into the ground.. I told you about the silliness of ranked servers and how servers must be made official to be ranked. Well beyond that if you advance to a rank where you can achieve a weapon unlock, you can only use the weapon on an unranked server.. Now imagine, if you have an unranked server, and everyone is playing the ranked servers: One, people will never want to get into your unranked server (A. Its like a ranked server but their rank never advances {what's the advantage?}), people who rank higher have weapons the beginners don't so the beginners will go to the ranked servers, anyhow.. ). Two, ranked servers allow people to advance, and its fairer for everyone (people can increase in skill apart from the weapons).. You can take it either way, but I think the lack of modding and the gifts of the ranked server are practically useless (what's the purpose?).. There should be two classifications of servers, maybe with two seperate ranks, have the unfair and the fair.. Fair ranked servers would allow people to continue in rank without using unfair weapons, relying only on skill. Then on the unfair servers, people will be able to get better weapons and use them on everyone, even beginners.. I would classify the fair servers as the conservative servers.. And the unfair servers as the liberal servers.. Or would they go the other way around?

(7/14/05 9:26 AM):

I was listening to Steve Jobs' keynote about the OS 10 transition to Intel platform, and all the fanfare.. Mac users are easily amused.. Mac is already based on BSD, the switch to Intel is only a major difficulty for the hardware vendors/manufacturers.. The software went through the major change with the transition from OS9 to OS10. Unix's are CPU independent, that's why linux is ported to everything that has a CPU, there is even a linux that runs on the iPod, this is because the kernel is small and has a minimal functioning.. Note, Linux's kernel is republican if it were partisan, keep things private (leave application implementation up to the programmers) but the government (os kernel) is small.. Anyhow, this is what I foresee, hearing the rumors about Microsoft's switching to linux or a unix like operating system, which Mac OS10 is (Unix BSD based, no different than free bsd, at least from what I hear, even the GUI for OS10 is X Windows).. So what's the next step? naturally world dominance, Microsoft controls the device drivers, and Mac OS10 and Windows running atop Linux/BSD with the device driver API from windows running below that, meaning everyone pays for the Mac and Windows interface, and can get the operating system for free, depending on their desired level of simplicity or flexibility. But really iwe'll be pating for the device driver layer, like being tarriffed for items entering a country through its ports.. This way Microsoft is the middle-man for the hardware vendors/manufacturers, software developers, operating system developers, and the users alike.. We would all pay for that complexity we are not willing to manage between us, the software developers and the hardware designers.. Look at my chart (pdf), it just visualizes this.. Copy this and pass it around to your mac friends.. Steve Jobs has a feduciary responsibility to Bill Gates to make money, so there is no reason why Steve must do this, but lets face it, Steve is getting old and will care less how the hardware is managed, and if it makes money for Bill, that's one of his responsibilities. Anyhow.. You can also see how with the lack of device drivers linux users would be attracted to this platform.. Rather than paying for the operating system, as a linux user you would be paying for the device drivers. Considering the lowering cost of ram and the capability to store code in flash memory, I would suspect that Windows device drivers may eventually move into the hardware, mind melding Intel and Windows Device drivers into the same thing. Thus everyone would have no choice when getting a Intel platform motherboard, they would get Windows device drivers with the motherboard, it would be apart of the bios. This also would make chinese imports dependent on Microsoft's proprietary code to function (thus allowing Microsoft to even out the disparity between the cost of Chinese PC's and American PC's, which is a good thing, but this is only good assuming Bill spends his money here in America).. A global market does not prefer America.. It allows companies to become aristocracies (this is the danger of internationalization of american based businesses, if the money doesn't come back, it doesn't benefit us, this is not selfish, money is like blood, if it doesn't move around limbs fall off.. Countries die.. People die.. ). There is good reason for europe to develop its economy, its trying to become a super power, this is the reason there is a preference in europe for peace-making, its a result of the countries inability to be effective as a super power in the way America is, they've depended for years on our keeping the peace.. Read this book "Of Paradise And Power - America and Europe in the New World Order - Robert Kagan". I got it on audio-cd, its worthwhile to understand the disparity of thought between the way the American and European governments work. I think the liberals in this country are confused that everyone has the same world view they do and this is what keeps them confused about the best approach to peace.. The best way to handle a marriage , so I've heard, is not through quiet resentment.. Sometimes you need people who are willing to use force to take care of problems. This follows the Christian saying to paraphrase "if you use a rod to discipline a child, it will not kill the child" its a form of love, another concept that confuses many pacifistic liberals. Taking it from a different POV, It also could be that America has not advanced to the same level of understanding. But europe, ask yourself, can history repeat.. Will you return to the power struggles of your past?? Also to those liberals that have tried to rewrite history in our schools and rhetoric, that's just self deception in the interest of a selfish intent (what we Christians call evil).. And those who don't believe in absolute truth have no reason to be truthful.. (back to the discussion about the aquisitions and mergers going on with Mac OS and Windows.. This is presumptive, but do I have reason to think otherwise?) There is a lot of room here for conspiracy theory, but I can see all this stuff melding together, and thinking like Bill Gates, and other businessmen like him, seek for -at least- a central point of dependency, and Windows has-been dominant because it goes between the developers and the hardware vendors/manufacturers, it governs what the software can do, and how it talks to the devices on your computer. You think Microsoft made a supreme set of API's for game developers? No, it created these API's to leverage its own survival as a dependency to hardware vendors and software developers.. And believe me, they fight to keep dominion over that complexity, if it means oversimplifying the user's interfaces (treating everyone the same) or undersimplifying the hardware API's (keeping the hardware/software developers clueless about the best optimal approach to developing for windows). Now if the Open Source community and vendors/manufacturers are smart (logically, I don't mean commercially clever/deceptive/untruthful), they will search for a object oriented standard to go in between the hardware and software, so that Microsoft will have to compete with other device drivers vendors/manufacturers.. To keep things fair, otherwise Microsoft will make life unbearable.. That won't be the end of Bill Gates, he is a smart guy he will find ways to make money, he may start selling PC's, but its much easier to replicate data and resell it than it is to replicate motherboards and solder chips to them.. I'm sure Intel has-been envious of Microsoft on this point. Microsoft's tech overhead is small, its more politics than technology.. Microsoft develops standards for hardware vendors/manufacturers and software vendors/developers (called API's), but anytime Microsoft wants to make money, they only need to change the API's slightly, and the vendors/developers are all forced to seek training from Microsoft to adapt.. We know this will happen because its happened at every level of Microsoft's software platforms, Office X -> office X+1, Windows OS X -> Windows OS X+1, etc.. Its Microsoft's businessplan: make software tell people its the future get people to purchase it people become dependent on it An addendum to this, which works when Microsoft comes in contact with competition: Bleeding edge technologies, research, students, hire/buy/hide if there is potential to become a competitor to existing technology.. (this is why I laugh at Microsoft commercials about "inspired by your accomplishments", sure they are, they count on them.. They want to own your accomplishments and leave you penniless if they can.. If competition is small, buy them out or buy out a competitor, force out of business, especially if competition is not favorable to Microsoft's business. Sell off purchased company.. If that fails, purchase patents, research technology, obtain patents and attempt to smother competition, constraining them by a patent flood (this is a corporate preditory practice). If all else fails, consider stealing/purchasing competitors technology and manipulating so it will ruin the brand of the competitor. Examples: Stacker in MSDOS 6 (def), such as in the case of perverting the Java language to make java apps on microsoft platform incompatible with sun's java applications, this has the effect of ruining Sun's brand and competing Sun unjustifiably.. This is how directX was developed, Microsoft establishes ties with SGI (def) (note: Microsoft is holding patents now that are limiting the advancement to OpenGL 2.0, it was not abandoned like this article on wikipedia says, my friend Igor Choromanski told me "SGI is prostituting themselves to Microsoft" .. also Microsoft had purchased Softimage at the time, and SGI purchased all of Softimage's competitors (Alias, Wavefront, TDI Explore --> Maya) for fear of losing market share to Windows and Intel based machines.. Sometimes history loses stuff) , anyhow, Microsoft then gets SGI to collaborate on a technology, Microsoft captures the essence of the technology, changes the language (openGl -> directX), makes SGI look inferior by extending the technology to favor certain vendors, a right vendors pay for, making SGI look worse and worse.. I don't really mind Microsoft doing this, SGI's hardware and software was overpriced, but in the case of Sun, Java was freely distributed.. Some other's OLE -> COM, COM -> SOAP (CORBA go between), MS purchased Medical Manager which pushes HL7 - a medical interface standard based on XML - preferring this over CORBA which is an openly defined language for object interfacing (and is better than XML becausse it has support for distributed processing). And was windows better? Ever heard of a multitasking operating system running on the 486s called GeOS? How about BeOS? AmigaOS (which reached a level that it could work well without crashes on a computer without a memory management unit).. Thank goodness for Linux.. Anyhow, changing the language of communication is one method of seperating two communities socially and functionally, Microsoft uses this approach a lot!!! I'm serious, its like the details of a fractal, you can see the pattern in the intricate details of Microsoft and in the larger portions of their business, its there at every level). Microsoft's manipulation of perception through advertisements like the ones I've mentioned, their brand development and such, is another tool they justifably wield to get the more ignorant of us to make decisions based on popularity and familiarity than upon careful examination. The TV is the Boob tube.. If you don't discern what you see, you consume and due to familiarity with the brand, assume it to be popular and therefore correct.. This is the danger in advertising, there is a lot of freedom to imply ideas that seem true that are false, or to make unpopular stuff popular despite its quality.. Believe me Microsoft is fully aware of what they are saying, manipulating information is an art just as the management of public relations. A capitalistic interpretation of public relations is taking the sales person and having him in place of the PR representative, so that people voice their concerns to someone whose only intent is to sell them more of the same, either taking the comments back to marketing or ignoring the consumer completely.. This is roughly the definition of what a "Corporate Evangelist" does, such as the ones that often write articles in company paid magazines to encourage technologies that favor certain vendors, like Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, etc.. How is this any different than government propaganda (def)? You've probably heard of the concept that progress is change, but change is not necessarily progress. Design is concerned with making change progressive solidly.. Hacking is concerned with making changes progressive sloppily. Microsoft hacks, Apple designs.. If Apple is smart they will use their Object Oriented assets to develop a standard for the device drivers so they can run Microsoft out of the software business (or at least contain them) without losing Bill Gates money (because they have a feduciary responsibility to bill, but Bill doesn't own votive stock, so he can't have much say in what Apple does). Steve Jobs is a smart guy, he's been down this road before, when NeXT switched to the Intel platform back in the mid-90s. Switching to the Intel platform doesn't necessarily make the Mac OS suceptible to viruses, as viruses rely on operating system idiosyncracies, though some viruses can work on the bios level, most work on the operating system level, and there are steps being taken to keep viruses and hackers out of the CPU by differentiating the operation levels (I think the Windows platform has two operating modes, user and administrator). Anyhow, to foil the virus and trojan designer's plans is to make hacking impossible on the hardware level and allow people to choose their operating system, to allow operating configurations to be custom compiled, like linux is now. But Microsoft should not be allowed to make any part of the system standard and consistent, otherwise the exploits that work on one Microsoft machine will work on all of them.. Also because Microsoft changes the software (hacks it) and don't design it to be optimal (which is one to one with being simplified), the extra bureaucracy that Microsoft creates has the effect of leaving loopholes in the operating environment, just like it does in a highly democratic government. Its through these loopholes that viruses and hackers come. Trojans and spyware actually get into the operating system by the users, because all a trojan is is its something like a screenblanker that executes as the user, opens a port to the Internet, and then allows port scanners (hackers) to crack into the computer through the open port that the trojan opened.. Trojans are spyware are synonymous.. Spyware is just software that transmits data about your system to computers on the Internet.. Trojans however setup rootkits.. A rootkit is a program a hacker uses to hide from the user of the operating system (you).. It patches your system commands to hide the hacker's activities, so that you can't see that your system is already compromised. And I believe a lot of Windows machines are already compromised.. Get a copy of TCP View, execute it on your machine, and check to see if "explore.exe" opens a UDP port.. If you can't see it, just use zone alarm to block explorer.exe from becoming a server.. There is no reason it should be a server to the Internet, that's like saying "please use my computer". Zonealarm is a firewall.. There are two kinds of firewalls, software and hardware.. Software firewalls are much finer than hardware firewalls.. A software firewalls can specify what kind of content can be transmitted to the net, they can specify which applications and components can have access to the net, and even the ports that the applications can use. Hardware firewalls work much faster, because they either use a dedicated CPU (sequential processor) or no CPU at all (streamlined parallel hard-wired components) rather than sharing your computers processor like a software firewall. But the hardware firewalls no less about your operating system and which applications are accessing the net. There are 65,536 ports by the TCP standard, for internet communications, for each computer. So your computer could be theoretically be offering 65,536 services like web servers, email servers, etc.. The Trojans/Spyware open their own port (of which there is a great many to open).. When you open a web page, what is happening is your web browser accesses a port on another computer that offers a web service, usually on port number 80. By communicating over this port, the web browser can tell its a web service port because the handshake it performs on the port comes out as a success.. The handshake is part of the protocol, like having a secret door knock. It doesn't mean web service is just a web server, but as far as the protocol goes its satisfying the web browser client.. Clients are applications that access servers.. When a computer contacts another, it uses a client to access the server on the other end. A peer is a server that is also a client.. So when you hear about peer2peer communications, that means two computers intermingle constantly, passing data back and forth.. Anyhow, trojan rootkits tend run as servers on your machine offering services to clients from the net. Spyware tends to be a client that just connects with a specific server on the net (or does a search on a server for another server to connect to, called a proxy). Anyhow, the hardware firewall usually doesn't look at the content that goes out or comes in, but looks at where the content is going.. The content is broken into packets. Each packet contains the IP address of the computer its destined for, and the port number its destined for on that computer. Anyhow, without this being a complete introduction to networking, I will let you use your imagination about this.. If you want a trojan to not offer web services, you could limit it from opening port 80, or dsiallow it access to the libraries that provide web services, but this would be dependent on your firewall software. I use Zonealarm, and at best it can tell each application whether it can be a client, server or both, and whether it can access the Internet or access a trusted network, or both, or none of the above (meaning absolutely no access). A trusted network is just a group of computers or a range of ip addresses you can specify, the range is usually local computers, like on a LAN. So if you wanted to setup a intranet web service, you might prevent your web server application from becoming a service to the Internet, but to a specific range of local IP addresses on your LAN. So you would say the web server has no server capability on the Internet, but it has trusted network access. Maybe in the future zonealarm will have ways of specifying which trusted network, but there is only one trusted network, for now.. If you have a hardware firewall, you would specify which ports computers on the Internet could see.. Normally your internet provider has a firewall, limiting most all access to your machine, so a hardware firewall might not benefit you, but you can use the firewall to determine what ports applications on your machine can open up on other machines.. So you could keep applications from opening port 80 on other machines, meaning you can't access web servers on the Internet from your machine.. The opposite, disabling packets destined for port 80 on your machine, prevents people on the outside from accessing the web server running on your machine. Your web browser is not a web server, its a web client, so having your brwoser open doesn't mean people can access it via the Internet, unless your web browser has the capacity to run as a server (meaning it will process packets destined for port 80 on your machine). Spyware/Trojans-Rootkits can open any port on your machine that you let them, for offering services, and can send packets destined for ports on other machines that you let them.. So if you don't have a firewall, you can't do this, thus allowing anything to happen.. Microsoft only recently addressed this need in the recent SP pack update.. If you have an Internet connection (like DSL or Cable), open Microsoft Internet Explorer to "http://update.microsoft.com/", which will update your operating system if you have Windows. Mac doesn't face this problem to the same degree as Windows because Mac's are not popular, Virus/Trojan designers target popular operating systems, for the same reason that terrorists target cities for bombers (greater effect). Anyhow, its not that consistency allows viruses and trojans into machines, no consistency is your friend, but its the lack of quality design of the interfaces and the software that controls access to the applications.. As long as Microsoft has control over the API's and interface standards for the Windows machines, there will be trojans and viruses. Capitalists by default have a tendency to avoid agreements and standards, because their first motive is to establish a monopoly, this is their primary objective, secondary is to establish a standard that gets in the most of the features that they need to leverage their assets.. If you deny these, they are forced to compete with others in a free market place.. To disallow first and secondary motives, you must have a complete specification of the interfaces.. And I'm saying the only way to do this is to make the standards completely open sourced, so everyone can make sure they will work and continue to work.. But no single vendor should have control over this specification, otherwise you will have the same troubles with trojans and viruses that you've had int eh past, and will be forced to pay for training to understand the differences in the API's and GUI's... Mcirosoft tends to change stuff to stimulate a purchase, not for optimization.. The reason Windows has so many security holes is that Microsoft only covers up problems in their many servers running on your machine when someone finds them.. Windows applications and API's tend to be overly complex, not due to being optimal, but due to the business practices of Microsoft. When they cover up a problem, they do this to win trust and approval and are careful to mention the holes for fear that it will effect people's perception of them.. But people have little choice and so there is little incentive for Microsoft to optimize their system.. From their perspective, I'm sure, its a big huge mess, created by programmers hired and fired/quit/left, some documented, some not.. To optimize it would require a huge overhaul.. But if anyone knew how poorly designed it was (the reason the government was demanding the source code to windows in the late 90s) then people would be sueing Microsoft right and left, they would be bankrupt, or at worst would have to shift brands because Microsoft's brand would be worthless, so would Bill Gates perception (which he's tried for years to keep above water, part of the reason he puts money into AIDS research {question, is this to help AIDS victims or drug companies?} nevertheless Bill Gates has no intent of releasing the sources to Windows to the government, his reasons {los orf proprietary technology} BS, Linux and BSD are just as efficient, if Windows is more its because of the focus on multi-threading [hence the special ties with Intel] its not for reasons not understood, but then Bill pulls the "well if you understand, why should I release it," because its a sign of the shadey business practices of Microsoft.. Now you know why Microsoft also tries to patent software, so it will be perceived as hard technology, proprietary, and not a flavor of software design.. It's also so they can protect it from having its API's replicated, to say Linux. ). Because of the complexity of the politics and how computers work, people in general tend not to want to understand why Microsoft's bad.. Most people are intimidated by computers because they don't expect they could understand computers or the complexities behind them. I think its just a matter of someone making it simpler, then people could understand, or informing the people so they will become less intimidated, but Microsoft and Apple hides themselves in the user's intimidation.. The europeans tend to be driven to understand the technology they use, the Russians are known for making their own software and operating systems, even computers, because they were denied the capability to purchase the equipment and software they needed.. But here in America, we tend to want to be the professionals we are and not concern ourselves with the stuff we use, unless its something we can see and understand like a car.. But as we get more complex in our understanding of computers, our understanding of computers will get simpler, and companies like Microsoft will have to find other ways to seperate themselves from what we know, and what their vendors/manufacturers/developers know, because they make money on what we don't care to deal with.. Those people who are intent on eliminating dependence on Windows, adopt linux, but its not without complexity.. However, software developed on MAC-OSX (OS-10), can be easily ported to Linux, and considering this, there is a great potential for developers on linux to develop a object structure to support device drivers and other things that the mac operating system would use.. Steve jobs could contribute development costs to this, making Bill Gates money so he can't claim Steve is not improving the sales of Apple. This would force Microsoft to fit itse technologies into an object structure that Apple and Hardware Manufacturers develop in the interest of keeping Microsoft from monopolizing the space between the operating system, applications and underlying hardware.

Now you may be wondering why someone like me would say such things, what do I hope to gain? I'm a Radical Idealist Republican.. I believe is simplification, I believe in free market, but I also believe there is a better way that does not involve compromise. And it takes someone like me, who is somewhat Communistic, to say this, any other guy would be looking for how it would benefit them commercially.. I'm clueless about how to make people pay me for this information, to me its common sense and I feel common sense should be commonly discussed.. I also have a profound hatred for capitalists (well for a intense love of money, everyone has a balance of evil and good in them, so we all are guilty) that do not consider consumers interests as their own.. The stock market drives companies to have to have a feduciary responsibility to their investors, this means that the interests of the consumers come second or inasmuch as the investors holding votive stocks care to respect the consumers, but governmental regulations determine how free the capitalists can be with their products.. I believe in regulation, as far as it doesn't eliminate markets but such that it prevents monopolies from occuring. I also believe a great bit of the government could be replaced with computers and policy and politics replaced with applications and software.. Computers these days are buggy more because Microsoft is in power, and because capitalists lead the development of these systems.. Capitalists have no interest in making software optimal, because its sufficient that things work.. Fixes are perceived as improvements, than patches on a failure to design things correctly.. The departure of developers from Object Oriented design is more revealing of developers inability to conceive of a method to compete with other developers (job insurance by obscure designs).. I believe object oriented design does work, it just that many object oriented designs are designed by people with concerns for personal survival. And as a result many designs are designed to leverage others into dependencies like how Microsoft works.. Apple has a operating system called Pink, it was developed by a friends brother, my friend Sean Ogle from college. As he told me, the operating system can be easily ported to any machine just by changing about 10,000 lines of assembly code (miniscule).. The kernel has to be written in assembly, so I'm assuming this is the kernel and the device drivers. is mostly device drivers.. Anyhow, Apple has a object oriented system already, that they purchased, called pink.. And it can be wrapped around anything, its simple, it works, it's efficient, it's written in assembly (object oriented systems tend to be fundamentally languageless, due to how objects operate).. There is no need for fully-fledged polymorphism, PHP is proof of that.. You can have a combination of simplicity and complexity that works, just the operating system should be fundamentally object oriented with details and complexity embedded in the objects themselves.. Is this the end of the computer industry? No, we developers becomes managers of complexity just as we've always had, just we weed out all those who sell products whose major interest is in controlling interfaces, API's, being middle-men.. These people are those who sell products on the stock market, their business practices are what have made the computer industry what it is today.. Is this communism? You need a little bit to make things work, you need democracy.. At the center of any free market is a ounce of giving back, of producing standards that keep things fair (like our digestive systems work seperate from our other systems, but are dependent on one another, but to either extreme would make survival impossible.. I was going to use eukaryotes and prokaryotes as an example, but I lost touch with the concept and failed to make the analogy work without much description).. Extreme capitalism is monopolization.. Extreme communism is suffication of individuality, creativity.. Socialism is a go-between that intends to turn capitalism into communism, often ends up in totalitarian-rule (an extreme form of monopolization, where the entire domain is like one large company).. I personally feel the fundamental beliefs that communism was based on where Christian in origin, its just that in the interest of establishing a totalitarian government from within the perception of socialism, the first step is to eliminate communications (individuality) to eliminate details, to eliminate rights, freedoms and people's abilities to discern.. This is why the Christian perception of seperation of church and state is not the same as the liberal perception, Christians see it as a elimination of discernment, liberals see it as a lack of free discernment. But the liberal's logic is self-contradicting, and they will avoid at all costs even allowing Christians into the discussion.. But that's a seperate discussion.. So call me what you will, consider my logic purely.. Don't clutter it with capitalistic logic that is intent on deception to support oneself.. God is what we don't understand, true, from the atheistic point of view, but who made this? God.. So how can you not believe? I think some atheists are atheists to avoid beliveing in the Christian god, or is an intense belief in science (good luck wasting the next 3 billion years finding that one out). Anyhow, man is limited, as my reasoning is limited just as anyones would be.. Christ said to paraphrase "why worry about what you will wear, or eat, you cannot change one hair to white or black, but God takes care of everything." And he said "the love of money is the root of evil". And "he who searches will find". And "love continues forever". Of course I assume you have the same world view as I, you have to read the bible to see where I am coming from.. Christ said that there will be prophets that will use his word for evil, you will recognize these by their fruit. If my logic is evil, its fruits will be evil.. There is a logic to the bible, but you have to search for it, and you may find its object oriented in nature or not, God is complex and emense, he does not need to be structured, but we do.. Existentialists believe that they can arrive at a higher level of understanding by their own means, and life extension will allow them more.. In the bible it proves that people with extended life (before Noah) were evil, because they weren't constrained to be selfless, death makes you selfless eventually because you realize you cannot take it with you. The best way we can support the work of those in the future, is to be structured, concerned with the design of things, and detailed.. My method of doing this is to be object oriented..

(7/13/05 3:00 PM): Just what we need, vegas style covers of heavy metal songs done by Pat Boone.. Next will be Wayne Newton.. I'm looking for the Karoke release.. Added most of the originals for good measure, but unfortunately there was no AC/DA, and the Led Zepplin "Stairway To Heaven" I had to substitute with a Frank Zappa version.. Here is an interlaced version of the same playlist just with the original song followed by Pat Boone's version..

(7/13/05 2:46 PM): Put together a little list of rock'n'rags (r) inspired by the Van Halen song I found yesterday.. I'd like to find more, and I'm sure there are more.. But I went through those I thought might and didn't find anything, for instance J.Geils, Doobies, Marc Bolan/T.Rex, I didn't really search Elton John but I'm sure he probably has at least one.. Of the ones I was sure of, Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Queen.. Anyhow.. I give up.. There was some time in the 70s where many groups were somewhat inspired by rags, I think it was in T.Rex songs like "ride a white swan", but that's not on rhapsody.. And threw a few oldtimers in there just to throw people off the scent, maybe.. One is obvious (earl scruggs), but aside from that you may be guessing if you keep your eyes closed.. I really wanted to find a white strips rag, since I know they are influenced by blind willy mctell, but I couldn't bare to listen to all their heavy stuff.. I'm a metal wimp, unless its something RoCkN like Judas Priest..

(7/12/05 10:30 PM): If you want your voice to be heard, get a website like me, and start your own blog.. If you want to make other people money, like c|net, by submitting what you think about iPod's, send them your piece of mind, they can go ahead and sell that as marketing information to Apple. But if you put it on a blog like mine, you will influence consumer decisions, who are those who really control the market, not the suggestions you give privately in forms to Apple's marketing/PR department.. Let it be shouted from the rooftops.. I hate iPod's because of this.. I like iPod's because of this.. And believe me, Apple will really respond to that.. My problem with the iPod's is they contain a hard drive, and hard drive's crash.. Pretty simple.. BTW, I just bought a 1 GB SD/MMC card from tiger direct with a rebate for 20 dollars, the price after rebate will be about 50 dollars.. So I got a PVR-A1 and a 1 GB card for a total of about 158 dollars, given I submit the rebate, not bad considering the 1GB card will store about 15 hours of high quality mp3 audio or 2 hours of mp4 video, and it can't crash (no moving parts)..

(7/12/05 1:54 PM): BTW, the Trio player from tigerdirect.com (do a search on google for "tiger" if you forget), is still available with the rebate.. I can vouch for this player, its a worthwhile purchase but you need an SD/MMC memory cards to use it. But if you want something more, like a mpeg4 encoder and builtin TV screen, you could probably get a Mustek PVR-A1.. I just recently purchased from ebay (which is a sales venue, not a auction site) one for around 108 dollars (including shipping).. It will be a worthwhile purchase.. I mean if you look at the specs (BTW, you can kick me now for not having purchased this from TigerDirect, here I will bend over and you can kick me as hard as you want.. ).. I've heard lots of good reviews about it, I'll tell you what I think later..

(BTW, I had a look around for software for the PVR-A1, and mustek pretty much disowns it, other from the sales end.. You get what you pay for, low margins come with little support.. Anyhow, it seems to be widely axxpected anyhow.. The internal video format seems to be some flavor of ASF, which is the pre-patented name of WMV.. It seems a lot of people are using WMV or MPEG4 encoder software to make videos for the PVR-A1.. Note, MPEG format is not reallly designed to be cut up like an ASF/WMV file.. I think the deal is ASF/WMV cuts things up as frames and MPEG is encoded like a video signal, so converting from one to the other and back could be a bit of a problem anyhow.. I found a good discussion here on the topic, some google searches here and here)..

(7/12/05 11:30 AM): (BTW, the reason my messages end up reading like some 13 yeard old girl on ludes and caffiene, its that I write everything on one line, my php scripts reformat it into 130 columns, but it make revisions tough.. however I can spend all day revising my letters)..

Somewhere there is some greeting card artists having fun and being paid.. Hoops & yoyo.. I wouldn't know about these fellas unless I had received some special coupon in the email.. I'm not a big fan of blockbuster, but there is some buy 3 greeting cards and get some video.. Big hoop deee do, we know blockbuster videos rent for about the cost it would take to buy a movie, then they charge the families that are frequent viewers some monthly or yearly fee for something like unlimited viewing, Netflix is still better Block Buster.. I like jabbing Block Buster where it hurts.. If you've been living in a vacuum like me, you will know the problems blockbuster has had with netflix.. But here in Los Alamos, there is a nearby video store on the hilltop that charges about $1.50 for a three day rental.. In Manhattan, around St. Marks, there is a Kim's video that charges about a buck for a sameday rental and return.. I don't know what blockbuster's logic is or what the logic is of those who go there.. Remember when movies on VHS tapes used to sell for eighty dollars, boy the movie industry must have been paranoid, thank god for p2p applications, to bring movies down against their margins.. I bought "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, it was one of these movies that was suppposed to be some kind of metaphysical time travel movie. There was a time when I didn't know the movie title, and would end up renting out "Time after time" which is the movie with Mary Steenburgen (this movie made her career, along with about 3000 re-broadcasts on HBO) and Malcom McDowell (who later evolved into Sting) about Herbert Wells entering the 70s to catch Jack the Ripper (played by David Warner, who has been in so many movies its not even funny). I got "Somewhere in Time" from my grocery store for about 10 dollars. I got "Cloak & Dagger," the movie named after the popular Atari game of the same name (note I was a huge arcade game fanatic, but these days if I feel nostalgic, I fire up MAME), with Dabney Coleman (boss in 9 to 5, no relation to Gary?) and Henry Thomas (ET's Elliot, pronounced: EL-E-UTT), bought that for $6 (PS- opening credits claim the sountrack score was written by Brian May, I don't believe it, someone is having some fun with the credits, naw its a different Brian May, not the one we know.. ). "Dark City" with William Hurt, Kieffer Sutherland (Donald's son) and Jennifer Connelly (who is 6 months younger than me), bought that for $6. Also bought "Princess Bride" for about 9 dollars, and "Lady Hawke" for about as much.. If I keep going at this rate, I will have to join the columbia video club..

(7/12/05 2:27 AM): The Rock'N'Roll Geek Show.. Rock from those that are not kissing the RIAA's butt, and cool rock historian talk and trivia.. I highly advise this.. (hey anyone who starts a show with a song from the New York Dolls, David "Buster Poindexter (r)" Johansen on lead, btw in that rpl I added Jim Carroll because it seems David and Jim have something in common, Leo De Caprio, and both had that New York style punk, it fit, why do I get Leo confused with Matt Damon? I think they are evil twins... yeah of me!! ) I guess "The Geek R&R Show" is the Internet equivalent of the X (r) (aka wolfman jack (def) or Bob Smith's pirate transmitting on antenae in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico.. aka how to break FCC regulations without breaking them.. transmit from another country with a really strong radio transmitter. I guess these days AM is unregulated, thanks to Bob Smith).. Well nothing can be that rebelious, except maybe a p2p client, like napster, b4 it became a commercial music service.. Wolfman Jack had a face when Kiss didn't, so there wasn't that mystery of not knowing the Wolfman.. But my generation had Kiss. Today it would be much harder to suspend disbelief.. I guess "Daft Punk" is this generations mystery star, or "Gorrillaz".. Anyhow, George Lucas hired wolfman to star in American Graffitti, more just to help generate some income for Wolfman to help him out of some financial burdens.. If you want to see the Wolfman, I suggest renting out American Grafitti on DVD.. It was only George Lucas' second official movie.. It made Richard Dreyfus a star (he was a actor before then, showing up on episodes of Gunsmoke and such, but that doesn't really count).. These days you may here Richard doing voice overs for Boeing commercials. Others.. Cindy Wiliams (Shirley of Laverne and Shirley), Ron Howard (director, oppie), well your can check out the imdb database it made a lot of stars careers to be in that movie.. Another one to see is the Lords of Flatbush which was what made Silvester Stalone's and Henry Winklers careers, in fact the Fonz's character was based on Sly's character in Lords of Flatbush.. And thus Happy Days, Henry Winkler and Ron Howard, Fonz and Richard Cunningham. Then see Heroes.. And who is that in Heroes? Henry Winkler, Sally field.. And Harrison Ford (who was also in American Graffitti).. The little girl that badgers Paul Le Mat's character was Mackenzie Phillips (from "One Day At A Time", the show Valerie Bertinelli was known for.. And we all know Valerie is Eddie Van Halen's wife (X?, now we are back to X's)).. BTW, Eddie Van Halen, is the famous Jan Van Halen (r)'s son (Jan's the clarinet player in this song, yes I am being pretensious, I've never heard of Jan until now.. but note this style of music is David Lee Roth's favorite, 30's jazz).. Note: I threw "Dancing in the Streets" into that Rhapsody playlist because its a good Van Halen song..

Anyhow.. (this is where Jimmie Walker from Good Times steps in and says "Dynomite!!")

Sorry for the tangent but it was necessary.. Rhapsody is about the closest I can get without being a pirate low-life..

Okay I guess I'm kissing RIAA's butt, but very remotely, keep the margins minimal, I say.. But don't suck all the rocker's blood, just the BURReaucrapcy of those who still think there is a need to charge for distribution.. The p2p nature of the net has exposed the music industry for what it is.. Even with a better form of distribution, they still want to charge 15 dollars a cd.. Baffling!!! It's also available on iPodder (I just converted to ipodder) at "Adam Curry's Pod Squad -> The Rock and Roll Geek Show" ..

Newfound respect for Adam Curry, even though I was more of a Alan Hunter kind of guy.. No, the only reason I liked Alan Hunter is he looked like Bruce Boxleitner.. And Bruce was tron, of course..

Yeah, I was 11 or 12 when I first saw MTV, that was about 1981-1982.. I think for the first year I didn't eat or sleep and all my grades went south.. But after the commercials started kicking in it got less and less interesting.. When MTV started having these shows like 60 minutes of rock, it was obvious what was happening.. I guess what I knew as MTV is what MTV2 is now.. But MTV1 is really a joke.. Viacom openly sells MTV1's audience to advertisers like a commodity, the teenagers are a commodity to be exploited.. MTV has become it's own worst enemy, but its not like the Alan Hunter and others didn't know this, it was the plan all along.. Well it was good to have music videos from a 24/7 channel of music videos, I mean in the old days you usually had to watch some TV show like "Solid Gold" or Casey Kasem's Top 20, American Band Stand (50s-70s,80s show) to see musicians singing.. In those days television was a commodity, period.. A musician was lucky to get on TV at all.. Most of the time people just read album covers and played LP's, remember those days?

(7/12/05 2:04 AM): iPodder does download torrents, but it doesn't seed the torrents.. This is pretty silly because it means all you can do is leech torrents off other people.. For bit-torrent to work you have to have the capability to accept a torrent and to seed a torrent, otherwise the benefits of using a torrent will never be realized.. I hope the authors of iPodder realize how stupid it is to suppport torrents but not to allow the client to seed a torrent.. Some said it could be a option that's turned off by default.. Well maybe I'm reading an old message on the subject, maybe it does now.. We'll see.. Yeah, its on the list, good.. This should allow Sean and Rush to publish their podcasts affodably.. Or it will make people realize how backward they are if they choose not to, in favor of making some money.. Heck I wouldn't care if their podcasts had commercials.. But their value-add for the monthly service is commercial-free.. If they offered a torrent feed, it would be roughly the same as a radio feed..

(7/12/05 1:48 AM): Now I feed dumb... iPodder, the sourceforge distributed open source cross platform podcast client supports torrents.. (Note: all these people you see on websites that look like iPodder representatives, these are what webdesigners call "CD People" because the web designers purchase a CD full of stock photography of these people and then just make flash animations with these people who hav no idea their faces are being used to market some product, like iPodder, which is an open source non-commercial product {or is it?}).

(7/12/05 1:16 AM): AHHHHHH, one of those things where you go , I wish, I wish, google, ah its there, yeah!!

iPodderX supports podcasts distributed through bit-torrents (but its MAC only, Windows coming soon?)

There is a thing in the FCC, that if you quote from video you must show the boarder of the viewer or monitor to be able to legally distribute the video.. This is to allow news organizations to quote other organization's content without facing copyright infringement liabilities. But Windows Media player and Realvideo both allow you to play fullscreen.. Apple is just lame.. the reason apple isn't of a majority? Steve Jobs, the arrogant jerk, chose not to license the hardware.. Because, obviously, Apple was going to do so well with the macs.. I think even now the hardware is proprietary.. Another Christ-like thing, IBM sacrificed its motherboard design without obtaining a patent so that we would all be saved and have the freedom to pursue other platforms.. Apple suffer!!! Well, at the very least, Apple's hardware is American made, methinks, thus its something we can export, wherease PC's are generally imported from china.. I will not lie, I bought my PC on ebay and most of it was chinese made... I've had it for about 2-3 years, haven't had to have it fixed..

Anyhow, we need a open source podcast client that supports bit-torrent..

(7/12/05 12:54 AM): Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, ABC News, etc.. Charge for monthly access to their services.. Rush charges about 7 dollars a month, same with Sean Hannity.. They are now my least favorite Republicans.. I guess they were never on my list, but they are even more not on my list now.. And ABC news? Well at least they are offering me podcasts, Hannity and Limbaugh are charging 7 dollars a moth for PODCASTS.. They must really want to kill the podcasting medium.. Clue: Rush and Sean, Al Franken is among the top 20 most played podcasts.. Feel free to rip the carpet right out from under these highly capitalistic republicans.. Note I'm a republican only because I can't stand the stupidity of the liberals and democrats.. But I may be forced to become a communist or a isolationist.. I have a profound disgust for suits and their vain hyperbole-infused politically/commercially-leveraged deceptive logic. If I'm a republican, I'm more of a radical idealist republican, than a putrid selfish republican.

Calm down.. Okay

Anyhow, I think one of the reason for these high costs is the costs of serving up the content, what is really needed is something like a cross between bit-torrent with a podcast client.. I mean, you have a high demand for the podcasts, the files are large, the cost to serve the content is too much to be effective, why not use a bit-torrent to deliver the podcasts?

(7/11/05 11:26 PM): Battlefield Fanatics, EA really messed up BF2, they added hidden collision in a lot of places (under bridges, signs, on sides of buildings).. If you've ever played ghost recon, its dumb flow control using boundries, stuff like that.. Also, if you do play BF2, Stay away from Trinity servers if you can, their TK threshold is so low it bans everyone from playing even commanders (this is one reason why I say EA screwed things up, the anti-TK conditions are so general that even a few accidents, misplaced mines, arting your own base when its full of the enemy, etc.. you can automatically get kicked.. ). Unfortunately EA only thinks about their feduciary responsibilities to their investors, consumers come last. BTW, the purpose for the rank servers is to give gamers something to work for, thus encouraging them to play whether they are interested or not. Its a typical method employed by managers to give people a concept of success is to give them a coin jar and for each sale throw a coin in the jar. Except in this case, give them little carrots to reach for and achieve, it doesn't mean anything, just that some people in higher rank have less of a life or more time than you.. I've also heard EA makes money off the ranked the servers, whereas the non-ranked servers are reserved for those who can't afford a license.. I'm sure EA is patting themselves on the back for this one, watch that stock go up, all because they locked up 20% of the game you already own, in the interest of making a 1000% return on the servers you play on to get back the 20% you already own.. Someone should call consumer affairs, this is a monopoly. BTW, have you seen any mods for this game?? Is it any wonder why?

(7/11/05 2:55 AM): Collection of songs I call Ode To A Terrorist (r) in light of the london attacks.

(7/8/05 3:26 AM): I found that one of the best places to get podcasts is Digital Podcast, the site looks about as good as mine (:|) , but its got a little search engine, and full description of the podcasts.. If its not there, try getting on google and doing a search for your special interest and the podcast.. I've found quite a few good podcasts, but there are good and bad podcasts.. Maybe later I will have a list of my favorite podcasts.. BTW, What a podcast is, is its list of references to mp3 files.. The podcast client just chooses to download the mp3 files when the mp3 files become available.. For commuters its a salad bar of radio-like programming. I'd like to say more but I've been up for a couple fo days, and I can hardly concentrate..

(7/7/05 4:15 AM): Good thing my boss doesn't read my blog.. Hint, time, time.. Anyhow, I'm addicted to podcasts.. Go to this page.. Drag and drop the "BuzzNet" podcast to your podcast screen in iTunes.. These guys are crazy, I used to learn stuff with their training videos on 3D packages, I've been hoping they would do a whole set on softimage.. But everytime I listen to these, it kinda flashesmeback to college.. When I was using Alias/Wavefront packages and Hording the SGI workstations, and thinking I was going to set the 3D industry on fire.. Which was a load, but still it was a fun time.. Buzz is like the FM radio announcer for the 3D Training industry, it doesn't matter really what they are saying, its just entertaining to listen to them..

(7/6/05 9:36 AM): Boy I wish I could link to the videos within iTunes.. They have some good high resolution music videos of groups like the "Kings of Convenience".. IThey are cool but I don't understand why I like them.. See that's coolness..

I like Gwen Stefani and No Doubt, I think they are cool, they have style, but they have a good sound, they know how to wield it.. I can look at a video like "It's my life" and be totally attracted to Gwen, but its not all I see, its the music its well done, and she's tough, its a femme fatale.. Madonna couldn't even play this part that well.. There is a sense of humor to the video, the music would sound good without a video.. It wouldn't even matter what they look like.. Its good in spite of them.. Gwen could be ugly, and it wouldn't matter..

(7/6/05 9:15 AM): This is a theory of mine, but it seems like the record industry is pushing new stuff because all the old stuff is floating around.. There is no way they can make a profit on the old stuff.. This is why we find more musicians coming out of retirement like Blondie and such.. Its that they can no longer pull in the royalties, and we are to blaim.. Those of us that has to satisfy our curousities.. For better or for worse, we've awaken the dead.. But in a sense, I feel like what I am doing with my playlists is helping people to recognize that the record industry, with its media, its intent to make money on its stocks, to make the industry profitable, it has to establish itself again with a multitude of music to make it profitable.. But the only way it can become such is by cooperation from the consumers, and from concert sales.. Record sales are a joke now.. That's why you see more and more albums on rhapsody, its the realization that the jeanie is out fo the bottle, and there is no way to stuff it back in.. And as a result the artists are coming out of the wood work, mad has heck and wanting to find the people would woke them and wring their necks.. All I'm doing is pointing out to people, with rhapsody, that the current music industry, all this music is nothing, its mechanized for a world market, its an experiment and all of you are the guinea pigs.. Its trying to mechanize taste.. See if you like the music in my playlists, even if you've heard it a 100 times, and when you see the same musicians pulling hits out of thin air and then you look at someone like Christina or some rapper, and they have to rely on something completely different to communicate to their generation.. For the last 10-20 years, its essentially been genreless.. Aside from the Alternative of the 90s.. And some techno.. Its easy to tell what is not really creative.. Female/male singers and rappers, and that's all, its not enough to sound heavy and be beautiful. When you like something it shouldn't matter what the person looks like.. And really good music is good in spite of the artist behind it.. I mean, how many people in the 80s thought when they heard "Another one bites the dust" that it was some "Black group?" . Me, Me.. I liked it, I thought at first, man that gap band really got it on.. But it was Queen.. It was like Queen's first disco song.. Completely thrown.. You have to be good to throw someone like that.. Fancy videos, nice sexy women, etc.. That doesn't get it.. Good rock is good in spite of the ego of the musician, in spite of their looks, and in spite of their style.. You can't control perception, nor can you know how people will perceive something.. But I'm beyond old school. I know.. I like Alternative, Beck.. But I like Stevie Wonder, a few Michael Jackson albums.. I started listening to this stuff when I was like 6, so I attached with it instantly.. But I'm also a computer junky.. A computer junky who has been to New York.. Made animations, spoiled.. I deserve to work in a gas station for the rest of my life, or end up a bum on the street, I know.. Like any artist, I pay for my time.. I don't care whether you read or not.. I write to satisfy myself, not you..

(7/6/05 8:32 AM): I don't expect people to read this, because I don't even read it.. :) .. Anyhow, if you are, I had placed a playlist, I guess a few days ago (r) that I collected together some of the best music, I thought, for Air Guitar or Air Microphone.. Songs you can sing because the melodies and lyrics are clear.. Power Pop mostly, hence the Air guitar aspect.. Who wasn't young and didn't play the guitar like someone like Gene simmons, or wanted to spit blood and fire? Okay, that was just a short lived thing for me, but I admit, yeah I was a kiss fan.. But that lasted up until I got a few others albums like Steve Miller band, Bob Seger and some others.. Hey, I actually like Foghat.. And BTO, etc.. One man's trash is another's treasure.. Or one brothers, ... well you know.. Anyhow..

(7/6/05 8:01 AM): Ain't the Internet cool? Where else can you read up on CBGB's and not get some glorified perception of the site where punk got popular.. PS - Hilly, I'm not much fo a fan of Blues country and Blue Grass, but I have relatives who like it.. About the closest I get to liking country is Roger Miller..

I was going to write a long winded blog about my experiences visiting CBGB's, and living in New York and my feeelings about living in a apartment with mice and cockroaches, but it ended up sounding like somethind someone's 12 yr. sister would write..

anyhow, hanging out there really din't make me feel as cool as cool Blondie was, or the Talking heads for that matter.. But I was there more than once, so I didn't feel like a tourist.. To not be a tourist, you have to kill yourself on the stairs to the bathroom.. I think that qualifies aas intiation..

But what is this thing with flinging your Tennies up on the bar stalls.. I guess I should have asked more questions.. But some things one can't understand no matter how much questions you ask.. Stuff is cooler when you don't understand it.. I mean, to me, that's the definition of cool. I like it, but I don't know why..

(7/6/05 6:50 AM): I think I'm a self inflicted insomniac.. Well, Rhapsody added on all of Blondie's singles (r)..

(7/6/05 2:56 AM): I'm a bit of a newbie to podcasts, but those interested in becoming less of a newbie, the new iTunes comes shipped with the capability of people to download podcasts to a directory on a computer in mp3 format, as well as to do searches on these podcasts, read the (i)nformation about the podcast and to subscribe to these.. Its the new way of getting music and news.. I understood its XML driven (which is a superset of HTML, what web pages are written in).. But to use these XML files (typified as RSS feeds), you have to have a program that understands this format and how to extract the podcasts from them.. Its like a web browser for some other kind of content with a tag language specific to it.. The reason for the hype about XML is its just the mass-realization that you can use the tags (like in HTML) to describe data and content for other kinds of applications..

A Method is a function (like a program you would write in C) that can only operate on the data its contained in.. So that when you want to do something with some data you would use these functions (called methods) to use the data..

GETTING CEREBRAL: For those who know how to program, its just a method of encapsulating and "typing" data using meta information in the form of tags. The side-effect though, is you have a lot of data that is useless unless you have an application that understand the meta-language.. It will encourage the enforcement of interface standards for objects.. But an interface standard does not mean the data in the objects can't change structure.. It just means the method sets should contain at least a minimal set of methods to support objects of that type.. Like if its a picture object, and there is a standard for picture objects, then the object must contain a working set of the methods that are required of picture objects, to be useful, but it can contain an extended set of methods to allow it to elaborate on the object's design.. I really don't belive people understand the concept of objects, nor do many developers.. ITs why I think the OOP design is going to pot.. I think to some degree its the lack of creative sensibilities of the programmers.. Programming is an art, not a science.. But the science of art is called design. And there is a design aspect to coding that should be considered when developing new technologies.. You have to really believe that objects can work to make them work.. But the best object oriented designs are the ones where the developers are overly empathetic towards the users, and toward their own use of the objects.. Those programmers that discourage the use of objects, especially without a valid reason, are against it for motivations I would classify as "political competitiveness".. We are humans, we must survive.. Developers are driven to adopt uncommon programming languages sometimes for an uncommon need that that language is best suited for, but if the programmer can't adequately discern to you why they do, it's probably the case that they are trying to carve out a niche for themselves, hoping that you won't find a programmer that can do what they can do.. Some programmers place a lot of their value and protection in things that are merely different, but offer no logical advantage.. The only time you should use a different language is in the interest of discouraging the development of a prototype or when the use of the language calls for it.. But since OOP is languageless, its a way of structuring and upholding a policy designed to serve a specific purpose.. The assumption of a OOP design is that you as a coder are not perfect and will forget how to use the code you create, so why not put the code that has most to do with the data close to it.. It's kinda Christ like, Christ is God with Man, Objects are functions with data.. Data is clueless and stupid by itself, but once you add functions that know everything about how to handle the data, then it becomes this powerful entity.. See Objects are Christian!! Now I think you will think I'm crazy, but there is some divine intervention going on here, I think.. But if you need LISP, why not have objects that can operate on themselves? Isn't that all LISP (and Assembly) are for that matter? If you had a XML file that was a picture, you might have a method in the XML that displays picture.. (but you might argue, but why the method, why not use a library to interpret the data?).. How many files have you produced a decade ago that you can still access? I'm willing to bet very few.. Why? 1. applications stop being supported, or 2. applications stop supporting formats of files.. But what if the method set of the object was in the object? Then it would never become obsolete.. Also if you wanted to define a new kind of file without changing the method of interfacing with the data, you would have to update everyone's libraries.. Using libraries to interpret the data.. But if the methods are in the data, what is called a mobile object sometimes, then the data can be specialized and support even extended interfaces, without becoming incompatible with the software that uses them.. If there was a concept as media object, like a file format for media but with methods builtin, I believe it would lead to a convergence of file formats and to the standardization and end of leveraging software on the grounds of interface incompatibilities, and enforce it on the grounds of value.. There is no reason why a good application should be superceded by something of lesser value just because the file format the better application is not as popular.. Also when you arrive at an agreement for an object interface, the applications can be as specialized as they need, without being leveraged out of use over variations of a file format.. An application like a picture viewer also doesn't have to be concerned with the brand of media object, it only needs to at least suppport the basic interface to the object.. In a nutshell, it will become impossible to make file formats different for the sake of leveraging data formats to encourage or discourage use (this is why there are humpteen gillion image formats and not a general acceptance of a single kind of picture format. Note, for businesses, consensus is good for monopolies but bad for competition. Companies will seldom agree on interface standards because its how they differentiate them from their competition, its their firewall againt competition.. Rather than making newer and better file formats, we would settle on a method interface and allow the internals of the file format to evolve as much as they want, without affecting the use of the object.. Anything arguing something outside of this for reasons that don't acknowledge the benefits of this idea, should be considered with a lot of thought because this is politically very dangerous, but since when did politics govern what a programmer should or shouldn't do? Well yeah, Being employed is enough for some to make illogical decisions.. Their logic is reliant on the fear of death, because we as humans are not capable of surviving by our will to do good.. Or can we.. Could we support a group of people interested in the bettering of the software design focused on making such technologies to end the unecessary development of old technology? See the concerns people have about drug companies is the same concerns people should have about their software.. Structure does matter and it can kill people (in the lack of efficiency and accessibility of features in a time of need). Systems in hospitals for instance are often incompatible, to discourage the competition from other vendors, this is in effect killing people, like accident victims unable to obtain records in a timely manner for surgey and application of anesthesia (a drug allergy could kill you even if your condition is treatable) due to the incompatibilities of data structures (like the patient record, and the system used to interpret the data). See people don't see the lack of a useful technology as an intent to commit murder, because duh, they don't know any better.. People should be sueing hospitals over their lack of effectiveness in the access of patient information in a timely manner to save lives.. It's pretty stupid, and all because vendors choose to be incompatible!! If you want to continue this discussion, there is a guy by the name of David Kilman that will enlighten you on some of the same things (e.g. the selfishness of healthcare vendors) that Marcia Angell informs people about, but on matters that are more complex and involved than merely the legislation of drug companies and the demand for accountability.. There are people in the world who have an intent to do evil by their own arrogance and invalid perceptions of the world.. Hey see if I care if you die in a car wreck just because they can't get a SSN number from your car to identify you and obtain your records to assess your drug allergies to avoid improper treatment.. Note, some doctors choose not to work on patients that have not signed a waver, in the interest of protecting themselves in a malpractice suit.. So the fact that people die in car wrecks is not just a fact of life but in some cases its a given considering the political nature surrounding healthcare and to some degree the lack of innovation in the healthcare industry.. Hey, if you are a Christian, is this not a Christian trait, to concern yourself about the use of software by people, than for your own personal agenda.. What did Christ say about the lillies of the field? They do not toil and spin? Does not God know what you want? Thus, your measly concern over your need to survive should not come before your concern to do others good.. And political differences in the interest of making money are a sign of the devil. If you think not, I suggest to contemplate it.. What are your feeling, where the hell is your faith Man! What is your talent? What is it that makes you such a good programmer? Job security, cookie code, in short form something like vnedor lockin???? Who the heck speaks in tongues to be misunderstood? Only gnostics that believe they have some special one to one relationship with God, who speak in the interest of satisfying an ego, a perception of specialness.. Believe me, they get their reward, for they are not concerned with the interests of God.. Which is to use your tallents for the betterment of others.. Not for selfish personal gain and scheming in the interest of creating a nest egg for yourself.. I personally am not concerned with retirement, nor do I worry about it.. It's a form of faithlessness.. Its a sign of unbelief.. Get off it man, you are deceiving yourself and leading the rest of us to hell, all for the sake of storing up for yourself wealth so one day you can retire in comfort.. One day you will be dead.. Then what can you do?? Can you convince Jesus of your intent to do good when obviously you were tempted due to your faithlessness to do something in the interest of personal gain.. The reason why Christianity is considered by some intellectuals to be the working class religion (r), is that its a religion of loyalty and consideration (or it should be!! the concern of Christians shouldn't be governed by their brothers lack of grace.. You have grace by god but not a visible grace, especially if you do things for a selfish intent.. ), however CEOs and executives tend not to be loyal, nor Christian.. It also makes them terrible leaders, ones that consider an exit strategy in the interest of protecting their association with the company when it does go bankrupt.. Anyhow.. I've proposed to a number, including at one point, that XML should contain methods as well.. (I told Richard that we need in the open source community a virtual machine like Java, but completely open sourced, focused around the the concept of a data-centric language for XML files, something like PHP or Perl, but creating a sandbox around the object to prevent it from acting like a virus, then interfacing with the object through its method interface, rather than reading the data in it directly.. I know that would look bulky, but what if one object could use another's method sets to interpret and use its own data? Which is somewhat like what a library is.. Then if you obtain an object of a type and you already have that object, you can strip the methods from the object and use the existing object type to operate on the data). ..

(7/6/05 2:50 AM): Playing BF2, servers that kick and ban you from a site for accidental TKing is weak.. Servers that do this will not have anyone interested in playing the server again.. Also its weak that Electronic Arts would allow such stupidity, that they generated.. BTW, the reason for the initial login to EA? That's to prevent piracy and so they can track consumers.. Its also stupid on EA's part because they haven't the server to handle the load, so it bottlenecks people from enterting the online experience by about 3 minutes.. And it limits it when people get into a game because there ia a delay of about a minute to verify client data.. This is why developers/execs in large companies like this could stand to learn something from from peer2peer networking.. Why not distribute the load across other nodes, particularly use the clients to verify the data from peer clients, or servers of clients, etc..

(7/3/05 4:47 PM): All those who believe in conspiracy theories, say aye, "aye!".. Anyhow, it seems that my rhapsody playlists are changing the face of the industy in small form.. The top40 on about.com where I got my lists, no longer has 100 top hits for every year of every decade.. They have become a advertising medium for current pop.. Well I know the world doesn't revolve around me, I know this is because the New York times recently purchased About.com, that its not about free speech anymore, but thought control.. New York is the micormanager capital of the freaking planet.. And everyone else lives in a desert without their contribution.. Blah Blah Blah, and the average cost of a house in New Jersey is a million dollars because of it.. No wonder it's the Financial And Sales/Marketing capital of the world, that's about all it is.. Whata Waste!!!!

Well I'm wrong, again.. I guess the New York Times figured there was just too much replications of the Billboard's Top 100 List, and decided to remove it from About.com.. I found several sources for the same list.. But there are usually a number of ways to track down the same information using Google.. Anyhow, I got both 1987 and 1988 converted..

Yeah, that completes the 80s!!

(7/2/05 4:17 AM): Knowing what I know about David Bowie, when I listen to "Ashes to Ashes", when David says "My mam says to get things done you better not mess with major tom". Ziggy Stardust, his stage character personified his identity on stage. The glamour rock movement was about creatiung a cartoon character on stage, a personality you could pull on.. When David bowie said he would not play Ziggy again, he meant, he would not be ziggy and he would qui all the drugs he was on.. And when he did Ashes to Ashes, I think subtly he was saying "don't mess with drugs if you want to get things done." It could have been a funeral for Ziggy and MAjor Tom. I don't know if Major Tom means marijuana, and it would be to simple to derive that..

(7/1/05 3:05 AM): Going to bed.. but before I made a playlist of covers done by imposters (r).. Not bad considering these are not the original performers.. You could probably very well place these as background music for some game, I wonder if this stuff is royalty free. What compelled me to go to Rod Stewart's profile? Oh Passion.. (v) Believe it or not, Rod Stewart was one of the few rock-n-rollers that were anti-Disco.. I guess when he made Dyathinkmsexy, it was a learning experience.. I wonder if there is that footage somewhere on the net of him cussing about disco and the futility of the business.. BTW, HEart of Glass was originally a Reggae song.. So disco was more a business decision than a artist one at the time. But there was a lot of really sucky disco at the time as well (r). I didn't go to bed, but I am now.. Here is a collection of 80s songs, what I call "80sUnion (r)". A Majority of it is pre 1982 or thereabouts.. In the years from 1980 to 1984, the way albums were produced changed a lot, things got more professional.. Thanks to MTV, so most every one of these songs as an associated music video which I can still picture in my head.

(7/1/05 2:09 PM): This is probably the best cover I've ever heard of a Bonnie Tyler song (v) ever..

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