It strange that no TV or film version of Butler's work has ever been made, but an adaptation, Dawn, is finally in the works: http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/o...
Years after her death, her work is only getting more relevant so this could be great if done well.
The stylebooks are recognizing that certain people identify specifically as "they" meaning they don't identify as male or female. This is not the same as the thing many of us find logical, using "they" instead of "he or she."
For years I hated MS. But of late they are doing really nice work and getting mocked despite doing real innovation. It feels weird to like MS as an underdog, but that's what it's come to. And I will be be getting a Surface 3 - it's the one that finally kills it in terms of compact size and decent computing power. I just gotta save up cuz it's not a cheap machine.
A Ventra card is basically a Debit card. So one would expect simple best security practices.
Imagine my surprise when I hit the forgot Name and Password button and after entering in my Debit card number and email, I was sent the original password I used (not a reset). As with Adobe, this is asking for a massive breach.
$454 Mil apparently can't buy programmers/designer familiar with password hashing, salt and slow algorithms. Or a basic security audit.
I generally don't bother to post about my experiences with MS products. The zealots of other platforms don't want to hear anything that doesn't jive with their world view and will brand you a shill for making simple factual statements. The whole idea of arguing about this stuff is silly, especially since most of the people arguing don't have extensive experience in all the major platforms from which to form a real opinion.
What gets me is that many of these record companies will release tracks they don't own on compilations - a major infringement. They are clearly commercially profiting, they clearly know better, but because they have teams of lawyers they release this stuff in violation of copyright laws. Friends of mine have had their recordings essentially bootlegged by major labels in this fashion - and never seen a cent.
When you get into sample clearance it gets even uglier. The little guy gets sued if he sampled, and ripped off if he's being sampled. And his only recourse are legal fees he can hardly pay on a musicians income.
Eric Freitas is an artist/clock maker that makes all his gears, screws, etc. by hand. He has step by step photos showing his techniques on his site if you want examples on how it's done.
The time messing with paperwork is a waste of time, an invasion of my privacy and a big hassle for all parties involved. No one is paid more for this stuff and on a day that already promises to be a long shoot, it is not welcome. Nothing quite as lovely when you're trying to get in headspace as having a stack of papers to fill out and sign, and then taking videos of your face with the ids, and signing across copies of your ids to "prove" you had them there.
Add in the loveliness about all the fake security at TSA when I fly to the shoot and the complexity of tax forms and the government is slowly wasting half my life for what is essentially a hobby - cuz porn doesn't pay well at all for performers.
I'm not sure how much will change soon. I'm doing a shoot tomorrow and will once again be giving out way too much info once again. Unless this is it for government appeals, no producer of content will want to risk not having the records - so tomorrow I'll be spending the hour or so before each shoot doing unpaid paperwork for the government, and wondering if the creeps working in the office can be trusted with a big file of information that can be used to steal my identity...
I'm only 5'7. I and one other guy together could handle some pretty scary and violent characters and get them out of the club - without weapons or even handcuffs. That six highly trained professionals could not handle this kooky kid who probably has never fought in a real fight ever boggles the mind.
Sorry but I don't buy it. Yeah the kid was obnoxious and a problem. But the problem was handled poorly all the way around.
Well there is no reason why the dynamic range on digital audio shouldn't be greater than that of vinyl LPs. 16 bits (or 24 with newer formats) is a LOT of dynamic range. Typically you have to do a lot of compression, especially of the low frequency ranges, in order to master for vinyl. With CD's you can pump the bass without worrying about the needle jumping the groove...
I can hear the difference, but I mix audio professionally. I still enjoy music on the radio. But I enjoy it more on a nice stereo or even on a player with good converters (i.e. not iPod) and good headphones (like Shure's high end offerings).
None of this is about piracy or the RIAA. This is about reducing the incentive for meth heads to smash open your car windows to steal cds (unlike skis, cars or a lot of other loot, CDs are small and very portable, of reasonable value if all you're looking to do is score some drugs and difficult to identify as belonging to someone since they don't have serial numbers, etc).
The store credit bit - well this is STILL about killing the incentive to steal CDs (and not in the RIAA way). If there is no cash to be had, the meth heads won't bother.
How effective is this? I dunno, but it doesn't seem farfetched. However like a lot of things these days in the country, we see our freedoms being reduced by the government to keep us safe. Not all of us like these kinds of measures, and often there are ulterior motives. But this time around it doesn't look like any conspiracy. On the other hand, is it the governments job to keep people from doing stupid things like leaving cds sitting out in their cars?
Right now I'm looking at a stack of responses to an RFP for a block of work that could result in 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for the winning vendor. The RFP is unique and is asking for things that won't be in the boiler plate offerings of most major IT consultancy shops.
Guess what. Some of these folks are unable to write, never mind express a complex original thought. Given all that who wins the block of work? The person that cheated their way through school by copying papers (and who continues this by reusing boilerplate text over and over) or the person who actually took the time to learn, think and write?
Don't assume these skills aren't important. Thinking and communicating are the biggest two skills in IT and term papers exercise both.
Cheaters are only cheating themselves in the end. Think of it as the revenge of the nerds plus one. Do your work, take you knocks and do better next time. You'll win in the end.
There is still a missing piece for us "Indy" people. AFAIK, Apple still expects us to be exclusive to them i.e. they demand exclusive online distribution. Which still runs afoul of what many of us believe in. We're not especially interested in having 1 big bully distributor dictate all of our terms to us. Having spend time fighting the stranglehold of the majors, seeing the whole thing consolidated to one jumbo major is a step backwards arguably. This betrays the real promise of internet distribution in a big way.
While the snotty attitude works on slashdot, in the real world intelligent, but not terribly tech savvy people have real uses for this technology. There are lots of similar sites that don't have the massive number of XSS exploits and related scams you see on MySpace. It's mind boggling that they haven't figured out how to even come close to shoring up these problems.
And when someone spots XSS redirects on an account, you'd think that all links to the phishing page would be cleaned up - but I've seen the same redirect logon page URL go for weeks, appearing on account after account.
While catching XSS at the parser output level would be better, MySpace doesn't even do the less desirable but easier approach of blacklisting known phishing URLs from scripts.
Other social networking sites manage this - why not the biggest and best funded one?
The main thing that is finally pushing me to use only Open Source software is the amount of spying and bloat and DRM nonsense MS is using to make sure I'm honest. I *am* honest and if you want to harass your honest paying customers with this crap, don't be surprised that we get resentful and prefer open source software that doesn't have all this bloat.
True, it doesn't block them - but they no longer automatically come up for install like they used to. If I don't actively look for them, they don't get applied. I know to look and apply them when I learn about them - but your average user probably does not.
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It strange that no TV or film version of Butler's work has ever been made, but an adaptation, Dawn, is finally in the works: http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/o...
Years after her death, her work is only getting more relevant so this could be great if done well.
The stylebooks are recognizing that certain people identify specifically as "they" meaning they don't identify as male or female. This is not the same as the thing many of us find logical, using "they" instead of "he or she."
For years I hated MS. But of late they are doing really nice work and getting mocked despite doing real innovation. It feels weird to like MS as an underdog, but that's what it's come to. And I will be be getting a Surface 3 - it's the one that finally kills it in terms of compact size and decent computing power. I just gotta save up cuz it's not a cheap machine.
Maybe we can just deport the chimps back to where they came from....?
A Ventra card is basically a Debit card. So one would expect simple best security practices.
Imagine my surprise when I hit the forgot Name and Password button and after entering in my Debit card number and email, I was sent the original password I used (not a reset). As with Adobe, this is asking for a massive breach.
$454 Mil apparently can't buy programmers/designer familiar with password hashing, salt and slow algorithms. Or a basic security audit.
I generally don't bother to post about my experiences with MS products. The zealots of other platforms don't want to hear anything that doesn't jive with their world view and will brand you a shill for making simple factual statements. The whole idea of arguing about this stuff is silly, especially since most of the people arguing don't have extensive experience in all the major platforms from which to form a real opinion.
Or the Apple Computer...
Which courts said was ok as long as you don't get into music. Ooops...
...and don't get me started on equal temperament!
While tasteless, in the end this company has always been activist and worked hard to raise money and awareness of important causes. Michael Musto says cut him a break and I think he's right: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2011/02/kenneth_cole_ca.php
What gets me is that many of these record companies will release tracks they don't own on compilations - a major infringement. They are clearly commercially profiting, they clearly know better, but because they have teams of lawyers they release this stuff in violation of copyright laws. Friends of mine have had their recordings essentially bootlegged by major labels in this fashion - and never seen a cent.
When you get into sample clearance it gets even uglier. The little guy gets sued if he sampled, and ripped off if he's being sampled. And his only recourse are legal fees he can hardly pay on a musicians income.
Eric Freitas is an artist/clock maker that makes all his gears, screws, etc. by hand. He has step by step photos showing his techniques on his site if you want examples on how it's done.
Well I noticed you didn't mention Windows ME...
Ya might wanna get a spell check before you start tagging...
Pretty much all shoots have a fixed fee.
The time messing with paperwork is a waste of time, an invasion of my privacy and a big hassle for all parties involved. No one is paid more for this stuff and on a day that already promises to be a long shoot, it is not welcome. Nothing quite as lovely when you're trying to get in headspace as having a stack of papers to fill out and sign, and then taking videos of your face with the ids, and signing across copies of your ids to "prove" you had them there.
Add in the loveliness about all the fake security at TSA when I fly to the shoot and the complexity of tax forms and the government is slowly wasting half my life for what is essentially a hobby - cuz porn doesn't pay well at all for performers.
I'm not sure how much will change soon. I'm doing a shoot tomorrow and will once again be giving out way too much info once again. Unless this is it for government appeals, no producer of content will want to risk not having the records - so tomorrow I'll be spending the hour or so before each shoot doing unpaid paperwork for the government, and wondering if the creeps working in the office can be trusted with a big file of information that can be used to steal my identity...
I'm only 5'7. I and one other guy together could handle some pretty scary and violent characters and get them out of the club - without weapons or even handcuffs. That six highly trained professionals could not handle this kooky kid who probably has never fought in a real fight ever boggles the mind.
Sorry but I don't buy it. Yeah the kid was obnoxious and a problem. But the problem was handled poorly all the way around.
Well there is no reason why the dynamic range on digital audio shouldn't be greater than that of vinyl LPs. 16 bits (or 24 with newer formats) is a LOT of dynamic range. Typically you have to do a lot of compression, especially of the low frequency ranges, in order to master for vinyl. With CD's you can pump the bass without worrying about the needle jumping the groove...
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At home... http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html
On the road... http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/detail_mp3.php
I can hear the difference, but I mix audio professionally. I still enjoy music on the radio. But I enjoy it more on a nice stereo or even on a player with good converters (i.e. not iPod) and good headphones (like Shure's high end offerings).
You forgot
IMBN (It's MY ball now)
None of this is about piracy or the RIAA. This is about reducing the incentive for meth heads to smash open your car windows to steal cds (unlike skis, cars or a lot of other loot, CDs are small and very portable, of reasonable value if all you're looking to do is score some drugs and difficult to identify as belonging to someone since they don't have serial numbers, etc).
The store credit bit - well this is STILL about killing the incentive to steal CDs (and not in the RIAA way). If there is no cash to be had, the meth heads won't bother.
How effective is this? I dunno, but it doesn't seem farfetched. However like a lot of things these days in the country, we see our freedoms being reduced by the government to keep us safe. Not all of us like these kinds of measures, and often there are ulterior motives. But this time around it doesn't look like any conspiracy. On the other hand, is it the governments job to keep people from doing stupid things like leaving cds sitting out in their cars?
Right now I'm looking at a stack of responses to an RFP for a block of work that could result in 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for the winning vendor. The RFP is unique and is asking for things that won't be in the boiler plate offerings of most major IT consultancy shops.
Guess what. Some of these folks are unable to write, never mind express a complex original thought. Given all that who wins the block of work? The person that cheated their way through school by copying papers (and who continues this by reusing boilerplate text over and over) or the person who actually took the time to learn, think and write?
Don't assume these skills aren't important. Thinking and communicating are the biggest two skills in IT and term papers exercise both.
Cheaters are only cheating themselves in the end. Think of it as the revenge of the nerds plus one. Do your work, take you knocks and do better next time. You'll win in the end.
There is still a missing piece for us "Indy" people. AFAIK, Apple still expects us to be exclusive to them i.e. they demand exclusive online distribution. Which still runs afoul of what many of us believe in. We're not especially interested in having 1 big bully distributor dictate all of our terms to us. Having spend time fighting the stranglehold of the majors, seeing the whole thing consolidated to one jumbo major is a step backwards arguably. This betrays the real promise of internet distribution in a big way.
While the snotty attitude works on slashdot, in the real world intelligent, but not terribly tech savvy people have real uses for this technology. There are lots of similar sites that don't have the massive number of XSS exploits and related scams you see on MySpace. It's mind boggling that they haven't figured out how to even come close to shoring up these problems.
And when someone spots XSS redirects on an account, you'd think that all links to the phishing page would be cleaned up - but I've seen the same redirect logon page URL go for weeks, appearing on account after account.
While catching XSS at the parser output level would be better, MySpace doesn't even do the less desirable but easier approach of blacklisting known phishing URLs from scripts.
Other social networking sites manage this - why not the biggest and best funded one?
The main thing that is finally pushing me to use only Open Source software is the amount of spying and bloat and DRM nonsense MS is using to make sure I'm honest. I *am* honest and if you want to harass your honest paying customers with this crap, don't be surprised that we get resentful and prefer open source software that doesn't have all this bloat.
True, it doesn't block them - but they no longer automatically come up for install like they used to. If I don't actively look for them, they don't get applied. I know to look and apply them when I learn about them - but your average user probably does not.