From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #234 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, August 30 2005 Volume 11 : Number 234 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Hardly the end of it (was: Fwd: Record Industry at Odds with Apple) [Phil] had to share - ecto reference in my own code [Damon ] Re: had to share - ecto reference in my own code [Bernie Mojzes Subject: Hardly the end of it (was: Fwd: Record Industry at Odds with Apple) Hello, Karen: I'm not really surprised by what's going down in the mainstream right now - and that's given Apple's share of the OS market (Mac OS X vs. Windows i.e.). Ah, and me using OS X Tiger and Linspire on different machines... Of course, if that's the way the Big Four wanna play, I'll just simply stay clear of 'em. Oh, and one side note: All _otaku_ hoping to get their J-fix from Apple's iTunes Music Store for Japan are not happy campers right now: Not only have some of the big players stayed away (Sony Music Japan? JVC-Victor?), but unless you're a resident of Japan proper, you're not allowed to make a purchase. Do I need to add that finding J-pop and anime music on iTunes USA is near-impossible? No Geneon USA, ADV, or Bandai Entertainment tracks (often licensed from JVC or King Record's StarChild label). If you want Mari Iijima's four US releases to date, you have to do a search of her name to get to them. As for the other big acts with discs licensed here...well, there's some Puffy, but no TMRevolution or X Japan. No Maaya Sakamoto, although Geneon got to release her _Hotchpotch_ compilation here. Oh, yeah..._some_ Utada Hikaru, but minus her first name (read: the crappy Universal stuff). I pass. Philip David ([sigh]... back to MySpace and the Internet Archive - and hopefully the Linspire-friendly MP3Tunes soon) 2005.08.29-30 n.p.: _I Psydoll_ (_The Daughter of Dr. Neumann_ + _A War in the Box_ and one former maxi-single track) - Psydoll (Planet Ghost UK comp.) - --- Popular Domain [Mediaworks] - intent on setting the captive audiences free... http://www.pdmediaworks.net/ - --- "So when we find you, we want your _obento_ lunch." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:46:22 -0700 From: Damon Subject: had to share - ecto reference in my own code i just cracked open some old code for the first time in three years (a set of elisp functions for inserting words, sentences and paragraphs of gibberish into an emacs buffer, based on my old c code at http://usrbin.ca/gibberserver/). i was quite amused to find, at the top, a pair of comments heading the vowel and consonant definitions. the first is for the vowels, and describes how the vowels are defined. the second is for the consonants, and reads as follows: ; consonants - like vowels (not like darts) it made me inordinately pleased. and it got me thinking - has anyone else seen any ectophilic references in code (not necessarily their own) or, more generally, in other unexpected places? i know i have, though of course now that it comes down to it i can't recall any. - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:28:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: had to share - ecto reference in my own code dunno how relevant the b52s are to ecto lovers, but: a friend of mine, george robbins, aka GRR, was a primary designer of amiga motherboards. this is one of his: http://www.whom.co.uk/grundig/a500.htm brni On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Damon wrote: > i just cracked open some old code for the first time in three years (a > set of elisp functions for inserting words, sentences and paragraphs > of gibberish into an emacs buffer, based on my old c code at > http://usrbin.ca/gibberserver/). > > i was quite amused to find, at the top, a pair of comments heading the > vowel and consonant definitions. the first is for the vowels, and > describes how the vowels are defined. the second is for the > consonants, and reads as follows: > > ; consonants - like vowels (not like darts) > > it made me inordinately pleased. and it got me thinking - has anyone > else seen any ectophilic references in code (not necessarily their > own) or, more generally, in other unexpected places? i know i have, > though of course now that it comes down to it i can't recall any. > > -damon > > -- > dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > > EWS starts here! < > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #234 ***************************