the signup cd, along with changing your internet connection settings and resetting your homepage to the comcast one, also helps you configure your comcast email (the last time i installed it). without it, i think you didn't get an email address (because it performed acct lookup using its ie based widget).
just a thought, some people care about those things and those folks are the same ones that probably don't mind using comcast webmail (or who have nothing else to use). i'm pretty sure they're not all that inconvenienced by the install cd, but you never know.
i believe that as much as i believe "you're born knowing how to do math." It's all learned, it's all exposure and, to some weird degree, attitude. You want to make art, start doing it. You want to get better? get critiques, start studying, immitate others, practice new techniques. You may be a terrible artist at first, but hey, everyone's a terribie something at first. Developing this kind of introspection is something like actively reading more programming books, trying to code challenging projects, talking to other people.
For everyone that's sold on the concept of art being elusive, think about line cooks. You ever wonder why your food doesn't look as fancy as it does at a restaurant? Here's some news for you: half the line cooks working at the fanciest restaurant you've eaten at didn't know how to cook when they started. You really think they know some magic that we don't? they've just been practicing a lot.
As a graphic designer AND degree carrying computer scientist, 'artistry,' is the ability to desire more from yourself that just mindless repetition. That 'attitude' i mentioned earlier is experimentation, taking risks, asking difficult questions, and doing what you love (and doing it well), that's artistry.
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i can't believe the reviewer actually made that comparison. thanks for posting that.
Amen! I believe that IT has achieved the same status and responsibility of being a system care-giver, not developer. To be clear, i am removing actual developers, dbas, programmers and the like from this statement. peope who only study proprietary certification are the ones i am looking at, that is, the computer care-takers who perform rudimentary maintenance tasks without doing any development.
To that end, I would liken IT to learning a trade like being a mechanic or even a line cook, but those professions provide at least a sense of underlying knowledge of a system, whereas IT may not require someone to understand paging, actual system threading, and so forth. And while the skill is useful, its permanence is transient because the metrics used to judge it are always in flux.
CS and applied math teach a theory that is inherently computer-agnostic. If IT can become such a profession, based on solid theory, then there will be respect for these positions.
This is like saying that movie reviewers should give positive reviews based on trailers and other promotional material.
The fact is, we can't just praise everything in order to boost some pay-starved developer's ego. Read some reviews for movies from the new yorker and you'll find pieces that are fun to read because they are both critical and well informed.
Nobody ever improved from getting positive feedback all the time. The fact is, people do need negative feedback, people need to hear that they're doing ok, but they need to hear that they're capable of more than they're doing right now.
There should be reviews written about poor titles specifically because they remind us that we live in a society where both good and bad 'oeuvres' are produced, we can pan the bad ones and use them as a benchmark for other reviews, otherwise the 70-100% critiques all the titles get become meaningless. Who gets a 30?
I see that there are only two avenues that can actually persue these 'journalistic avenues': blogs and titty mags like maxim and playboy that include 'gadgets and toys' as part of their content. Because these are supplementary sections to the mainly 't&a' content, they can be as ciritcal as they please without disturbing their true advertising overlords.
honestly, i am surprised it has taken this long for this discussion to come up. --
the intent of the research is to clone human embryos in order to extract the stem cells from them.
This isn't about 'brave new world' or 'dr. mengeles,' it's about stem cell research.
''This is exactly the kind of work that we envisioned for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute," said Harvard biologist Douglas Melton, the senior researcher on one of the teams. ''We want new ways to study and hopefully cure diseases."
you can still only carry 2 zippos on board, even if they have no fuel. I ended up going back to the gate, finding a box for ten zippos without fuel, and checking that as luggage.
the tsa lady said "be careful to wrap them up good, or they'll get stolen." talk abuot peace of mind.
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I don't understand how creating a proprietary OS for a possibly nonexistent handheld helps apple at all. For ease of use, i expect that the device should at least run PalmOS programs because it seems like it'd be very stupid to exclude users' ability to run a majority of the programs that already exist for the PDA market unless apple wants to devote time to pda program development. It seems like a bad idea to worry about that from a corporate perspective and i think that apple, very well aware of the pda glut, would be wise to offer a better alternative to a Palm instead of a replacement for the Palm.
For site testing, most of us get spoiled using IE or netscape. Mozilla's strong adherence to the HTML 3.2 Spec is a perfect wakeup call for us developers who would like to be as close to W3C spec as possible. Sadly, i wonder whether this mozilla will be obsoleted when and if W3C's HTML4.0 spec is released. Either way, it's doing pretty well for me, and i love the RDF support, but then again, i'm a nerd like that.
bitrate is 128 or 24 depending on hi/lo fi... the bit with the linux port means the following for everyone who didn't get it: A program, written for linux, would upload the same TOC/track info/whatever to the same server in almost the same way that the windoze(1.7meg) or mac(499k) app does. For anyone who really cares, the program sends an average of 60k to the server each time you 'beam it'. also, for those of you who'd be curious in knowing more, currently i have only been able to use windoze media player and Realplayer to listen to the streaming mp3s which it appears can ALSO be saved to the hard drive when listened to in HIFI mode. Yeah, this is a very potentially bugged issue... note, in their faq it sez: CAN I SHARE MY PASSWORD WITH SOMEONE ELSE and the answer is 'NO'... i like their justification, don't you? i'm outta here. --nsfmc
I thought that clipper chip1,2,3,etc had dealt with the issue of secure, bugged transmission. Basically, i guess we don't have that much to worry about, just keep on using your pgp, and keep on browsing with your OC-3 connection and i'm sure you'll notice if you're being tapped.
How free did you think you were to begin with?? --nsfmc
Ok, HP's doing it, small developers in iowa are doing it, the Army's doing it, soon, everything'll be gpl'd. It's the *chic* thing to do nowadays if you've got something of value:
Ok, i think i'll GPL my totally k-rad product and then lo-and-behold, maybe lots of linux freaks'll want it.
It's really nothing more than a PR thing anymore (in my opinion). Nowadays, if you've got a nice lil' linux app, you've really got only 1 option: GPL it. Anything less would be uncivilized and most likely heavily criticized.
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the signup cd, along with changing your internet connection settings and resetting your homepage to the comcast one, also helps you configure your comcast email (the last time i installed it). without it, i think you didn't get an email address (because it performed acct lookup using its ie based widget).
just a thought, some people care about those things and those folks are the same ones that probably don't mind using comcast webmail (or who have nothing else to use). i'm pretty sure they're not all that inconvenienced by the install cd, but you never know.
i believe that as much as i believe "you're born knowing how to do math." It's all learned, it's all exposure and, to some weird degree, attitude. You want to make art, start doing it. You want to get better? get critiques, start studying, immitate others, practice new techniques. You may be a terrible artist at first, but hey, everyone's a terribie something at first. Developing this kind of introspection is something like actively reading more programming books, trying to code challenging projects, talking to other people.
For everyone that's sold on the concept of art being elusive, think about line cooks. You ever wonder why your food doesn't look as fancy as it does at a restaurant? Here's some news for you: half the line cooks working at the fanciest restaurant you've eaten at didn't know how to cook when they started. You really think they know some magic that we don't? they've just been practicing a lot.
As a graphic designer AND degree carrying computer scientist, 'artistry,' is the ability to desire more from yourself that just mindless repetition. That 'attitude' i mentioned earlier is experimentation, taking risks, asking difficult questions, and doing what you love (and doing it well), that's artistry.
i can't believe the reviewer actually made that comparison. thanks for posting that.
Amen! I believe that IT has achieved the same status and responsibility of being a system care-giver, not developer. To be clear, i am removing actual developers, dbas, programmers and the like from this statement. peope who only study proprietary certification are the ones i am looking at, that is, the computer care-takers who perform rudimentary maintenance tasks without doing any development.
To that end, I would liken IT to learning a trade like being a mechanic or even a line cook, but those professions provide at least a sense of underlying knowledge of a system, whereas IT may not require someone to understand paging, actual system threading, and so forth. And while the skill is useful, its permanence is transient because the metrics used to judge it are always in flux.
CS and applied math teach a theory that is inherently computer-agnostic. If IT can become such a profession, based on solid theory, then there will be respect for these positions.
--nsfmc
This is like saying that movie reviewers should give positive reviews based on trailers and other promotional material.
The fact is, we can't just praise everything in order to boost some pay-starved developer's ego. Read some reviews for movies from the new yorker and you'll find pieces that are fun to read because they are both critical and well informed.
Nobody ever improved from getting positive feedback all the time. The fact is, people do need negative feedback, people need to hear that they're doing ok, but they need to hear that they're capable of more than they're doing right now.
There should be reviews written about poor titles specifically because they remind us that we live in a society where both good and bad 'oeuvres' are produced, we can pan the bad ones and use them as a benchmark for other reviews, otherwise the 70-100% critiques all the titles get become meaningless. Who gets a 30?
I see that there are only two avenues that can actually persue these 'journalistic avenues': blogs and titty mags like maxim and playboy that include 'gadgets and toys' as part of their content. Because these are supplementary sections to the mainly 't&a' content, they can be as ciritcal as they please without disturbing their true advertising overlords.
honestly, i am surprised it has taken this long for this discussion to come up.
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the intent of the research is to clone human embryos in order to extract the stem cells from them.
This isn't about 'brave new world' or 'dr. mengeles,' it's about stem cell research.
''This is exactly the kind of work that we envisioned for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute," said Harvard biologist Douglas Melton, the senior researcher on one of the teams. ''We want new ways to study and hopefully cure diseases."
boston globe 13 oct article by Garth Cook, "Harvard Teams Want OK to Clone"
jeez
you can still only carry 2 zippos on board, even if they have no fuel. I ended up going back to the gate, finding a box for ten zippos without fuel, and checking that as luggage.
the tsa lady said "be careful to wrap them up good, or they'll get stolen."
talk abuot peace of mind.
I don't understand how creating a proprietary OS for a possibly nonexistent handheld helps apple at all. For ease of use, i expect that the device should at least run PalmOS programs because it seems like it'd be very stupid to exclude users' ability to run a majority of the programs that already exist for the PDA market unless apple wants to devote time to pda program development. It seems like a bad idea to worry about that from a corporate perspective and i think that apple, very well aware of the pda glut, would be wise to offer a better alternative to a Palm instead of a replacement for the Palm.
For site testing, most of us get spoiled using IE or netscape. Mozilla's strong adherence to the HTML 3.2 Spec is a perfect wakeup call for us developers who would like to be as close to W3C spec as possible.
Sadly, i wonder whether this mozilla will be obsoleted when and if W3C's HTML4.0 spec is released.
Either way, it's doing pretty well for me, and i love the RDF support, but then again, i'm a nerd like that.
--NSFMC
--nsfmc
bitrate is 128 or 24 depending on hi/lo fi... the bit with the linux port means the following for everyone who didn't get it:
A program, written for linux, would upload the same TOC/track info/whatever to the same server in almost the same way that the windoze(1.7meg) or mac(499k) app does.
For anyone who really cares, the program sends an average of 60k to the server each time you 'beam it'.
also, for those of you who'd be curious in knowing more, currently i have only been able to use windoze media player and Realplayer to listen to the streaming mp3s which it appears can ALSO be saved to the hard drive when listened to in HIFI mode.
Yeah, this is a very potentially bugged issue...
note, in their faq it sez: CAN I SHARE MY PASSWORD WITH SOMEONE ELSE and the answer is 'NO'... i like their justification, don't you? i'm outta here. --nsfmc
I thought that clipper chip1,2,3,etc had dealt with the issue of secure, bugged transmission.
Basically, i guess we don't have that much to worry about, just keep on using your pgp, and keep on browsing with your OC-3 connection and i'm sure you'll notice if you're being tapped.
How free did you think you were to begin with?? --nsfmc
It's the *chic* thing to do nowadays if you've got something of value:
It's really nothing more than a PR thing anymore (in my opinion). Nowadays, if you've got a nice lil' linux app, you've really got only 1 option: GPL it. Anything less would be uncivilized and most likely heavily criticized.
--Nsfmc