Ad Terras Per Aspera

Tuning Terms by Marc Jones.

Satanic comma: The difference between 665 fifths and 359 octaves, less than 1/10 of a cent, around 1/15878 of an octave. Marc sees this as a possible musical insight into the cryptic quote from the Book of Revelation, citing “the beast” as a man-made number which only someone with understanding could calculate: “It stands to reason that if the 665th turn of the cycle of fifths, modulo octave, is so close to unison as to be imperceptible, and deceive you as unity, then similarly the 666th turn would be able to deceive you as being a true fifth. (coined 1990, as a parody on the name of the syntonic comma.)

You’d think “Mega Man” and “Rock Opera” would be completely and totally seperate concepts… The Protomen. Really great music, and really great lyrics, and I can’t wait until they release their album.

Wow, time flies… I’ve been running this blog for one whole year now.

I’ve been looking at plastic models for a long time, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone model an Itano Circus.

It looks like he took cotton balls and glued them on posable wire, but I’m not sure. Anyone out there have ideas?

Mick Sorenson, from his blog Inside The dotNET, has admitted that Microsoft has been stealing Open Source Software.

Our lawyers have pretty much assured us that the GNU Public License (and other related viral licenses) are invalid due to them giving too many rights to the users; and by giving the code away, they are making the code public domain and giving up their copyright… or something like that. IANAL, but thats pretty much the gist of it.

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Project Sierra Tango Foxtrot Uniform Apple (or, simply, STFU Apple) is the official name of the GNUstep intergration project. Right now, we’re using Gorm 1.0 (which came out a few days ago) , an application like Apple’s Interface Builder, but vastly improved and easier to use.

I’m not sure if this is real or not, but the screenshot looks pretty good (although easy to fix), and what he’s saying rings true. Microsoft knows they have fallen behind Apple, and it’s because Apple integrated NextSTEP into OSX when they bought them out. Though, stealing GNUstep isn’t quite the answer… infact, its an illegal answer, the kind that allows the FSF to sue Microsoft into the ground, and then sue them some more. I’m willing to say that the FSF will sue Microsoft so hard, Bill Gates’ great grandchildren will have an irrational fear of lawyers.