Ulanism

“High-quality” African-American Jazz musician are hard to find…

Re: I read that and it’s hard to figure. Yes, there are fewer black jazz musicians than there were, say 30 years ago, but why no black musicians this year? Very strange. I think (the new) Yoshi’s is pretty much run strictly as a business, so maybe that explains something.

Yup. If things do not matter, people do not notice. Obviously, working with black musicians is not a big deal for either Berkeley or Yoshi’s.

In my opine, most racism is not intentional… it is passive and only because folks feel comfortable working with people who are like them. Most folks define “like them” at some level to include the color of their
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Re: Can you ‘xplain me how to take an .avi movie and burn it to watch on a regular dvd and not computer only?

One word: Toast

Grab the latest version. Drop the file into Toast. Toast it (ie: burn the disk). Plop it in your DVD player. Works like a charm.

There are other ways, but this is the best - for a fee.

Crunch and Popcorn are less expensive and work as well ;)

Note: If you need to make a copy of a “real” (ie: copy protected) DVD, you will want to either use MacTheRipper to grab the files off the DVD and then use Toast to duplicate them… or with one pass, use
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Live discussion from D - May 31, 2007

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7

So I watched the entire thing and was happy. Not much new ground, but it is cool to see such important people have high respect for one another. I only wish our political leaders could act with such intelligence.