Using the image linked in the post I'm replying to, I was able to paste into Imageready CS and then switch from Imageready to Photoshop CS with no problems. I'm using OS X. Interesting.
I find this interesting as well. I received a 20GB iPod for Christmas and quickly made my way to the Apple store to exchange it for a 40GB 'Pod. They were very much out of stock, so instead I was able to get the full $400 on a gift card.
Now the cool thing is that the date on the receipt noted that I had until January 3rd to exchange it, but the gift card has a 2 year expiration.
I want to know what else might be happening on the 6th. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up a 60 or *hey* maybe an 80GB iPod for the price of the current 40GB one.
Hopefully someone can chime in here- but I believe a few Macworlds back there were rampant rumors about a product release that everyone claimed was going to happen and it completely didn't. Steve-O even made a reference to the rumors in his keynote. I'd be thrilled if he hit us with a video-capable/OLED-screened iPod or some other great evolution of the beloved 'Pod!
I'm still trying to figure out why I should be paying a subscription for access to music that I have to buy anyway. I don't pay a monthly fee to gain "access" to movies at Blockbuster. I stroll into a video store and rent a movie just as I stroll into a music store and buy a CD.
Subscriptions are a good form of revenue, but in the infancy of accepted online music sales they are in the wrong place.
Just a guess, but wouldn't they have a hard time getting advertising space in both print and on TV with an AO rating. You see M rated games advertised all over. With an AO-rated game, what would that give them for marketing outlets? Playboy? Spike TV?
Yes... true, although I encounter piracy of M$ software on a regular basis at my Web job with clients and others- it's insanely rampant on both OS X and Windows machines...
I have used Partitionmagic and Copy Commander, but neither has ever been successful. I was charged with the task of setting up 25+ client machines with some proprietary ASP.net apps to run remotely at client sites, with Windows XP. All the machines were identical, hardware wise. It made NO sense to set each one up individually. We purchased one of these: Logicube Echo. If you have the means to purchase this $500+ device, I highly recommend doing so. I did a mirror copy of the 40GB HDs in these machines and within 2 days had all 25 machines up and running. Essentially, the single installation of XP I copied was duped bit by bit. Each drive took about 40-60 minutes to dupe. It's truly a process of plug in two drives and hit copy. The catch is, all XP installs were under the same serial number- however- we purchased a copy of XP for each system so I have a legit license for each instance.
Microsoft's policy with duping/copying is FUCKING INANE. I've switched PCI cards in my home PC only to have it flip out and require a repair install of XP on top of everything. It's just plain stupid. That poor Windows XP activation operator woman at midnight a few Saturdays ago...she got a piece of my mind.
You can also purchase the R33 and R32 models, as well. The company that did it is Motorex in California. The reason they are so expensive is because they took a crash-test approach which, according to the article, was not practical for the 959. Also, a *new* R34 will set you back 93-95k, whereas a used one is 78-88k. I got my information from the source- skylinegtr.com
I would put an R34 Vspec up against any automobile for $90,000 on the race track. It's a stunning car and once again, us American car enthusiasts who could care less about big blocks and domestic trash are left out in the cold.
Here at my office, we have a number of Titanium Powerbooks. Hand my boss a laptop, and it's going to be destroyed. As such, all our 'books have 3 years of AppleCare on them. So far, we've had to send back two of them in the last 6 months. The first time we sent one back, it had a broken LCD. The screen hinges were broken and it was practically falling off. The wires were sheared. The case was scratched to hell. The keys were sticky. It was quite the mess. When we got the machine back, it wasn't only repaired, it was one model newer and 133mhz faster. The machine had been dropped off at an Apple Store, and was back within 2 weeks. Excellent.
Second time around we sent in a 500mhz machine. It had obviously been dropped numerous times. The sides were dented and the hard drive was randomly spinning down and up. (Interestingly, OS X hardly skipped a beat) When this machine was returned about 18 days later (dropped it off at our local Apple Store) once again, we were bumped to a 667mhz machine.
Needless to say, our AppleCare has been well worth the price of admission. As of me typing this, the 667 has been abused and broken by my boss and is due for another round of repairs.
I hope they don't fix it, because I want to order a 17" model.:)
I've been using Thunderbird as my primary PC mail client at home since the first nightly build. Aside from a few small issues at first, I haven't had any problems for a while. It's the nicest looking alternative that I've found. Eudora has a nasty interface, and the MS stuff is well, just that. It's nice to have a decent alternative and I highly recommend it.
Back in early 1999, I was involved in a business venture with my roommate. We opened an online music store to sell electronica vinyl and CDs. Our goal was to offer an alternative to the 800lb gorilla (Satellite Records).
Fast forward to mid-2000. Sales were starting to increase significantly and my roommate's wife began to run the store full-time (my friend and I still had normal dot-com day jobs). We used Worldpay, or some other international credit card processing and verification service. Over a 4 or 5 week period in the summer we got orders of $100, $200, $300. Record bags and orders of 20+ records. At the time, this was relatively normal as business was picking up. The credit cards were all checked through the service (matched 1st line of mailing address, city, state, zip/postal, country).
Suddenly, in one day we got about $900 in chargebacks on 2 or 3 cards. All were orders placed in the Czech Republic and as far as we knew, the order information was verified. Over the course of several days we received more chargebacks as people received statements. When all was said and done, about 4 cards were used. We incurred about $3000 in damage because of it.
The credit card processing company was less than helpful, and the FBI even got involved as it was an international fraud case. We never got any money back, no one was ever caught, and ultimately this relatively small case of fraud caused us to close up shop a few months later.
The whole experience definitely soured my ambition in wanting to reach a global audience. We sold a lot of records to people in England, France, and Belgium. I'd estimate 60% of our sales initially were from overseas, but thinking back it's probably because no on else would sell to them. Perhaps things have changed since then, but there is no cheap, easy, or compelling reason for anyone that isn't Amazon or Outpost to sell to people overseas. Logistically it's a huge pain in the ass and as I learned first hand, it can also be devastating.
I know I'm not the only person that fields calls from desperate relatives and family friends looking to recover their lost Word document. There is absolutely a gap in knowledge that is only widened with the introduction of more lingo.
#1 on my list of annoyances is how people CONSTANTLY mix up "memory" with "hard disk space".
"I can't save this file, I think I need more memory." "Won't a bigger hard disk speed everything up?"
I think you're absolutely right about this. Having been laid off before myself, I can attest to the unfriendliness of it all. It's practically a feeling of betrayal in some aspects because sometimes the people laying you off were who you would consider "friends", if only at work.
When I watched my entire development team dissolve before my very eyes, someone swiped the source code, among other things. That isn't the only thing, either. But still, it's in a company's best interest to get people off-site quickly.
I find myself doing a number of things when I'm not on a computer. My main passion is working on my Nissan Sentra SE-R. I recently purchased a 2nd one for a new project. Big cams and large turbines on 4-bangers is definitely a fun thing.:) Of course, all of it ties into being a geek as I run the largest SE-R forum on the web (linked above). I have found many of my car buddies have tech jobs, or have been laid off from them.
My other means to unwind is with some good house music and my turntables. It's mainly a hobby but I've strayed out of my bedroom and into the odd nightclub or party now and then. Some of the best DJs to pass through Boston in their early days are geeks (Mike Walsh, Shannon Shalako).
Finally, I will find myself on my GT mountainbike when I need to blow off some steam and burn some calories.
I want to agree with you on your point about manufacturers putting cameras on everything. I have both a SprintPCS phone and a Sidekick with T-Mobile. For AIM and email, the SK is a wonderful little brick. It's got more heft, but it does what it does very well. The keypad is well-executed, as is the functionality when it comes to navigating around the device. However, it absolutely sucks as a phone. Dialing is a chore, and it feels weird against your head. The camera attachment is, for lack of a better term, completely useless.
Now that the color SK is out, I feel pretty ripped off having shelled out the $200 for this B&W one hardly 8 months ago, but those are the breaks. I'm a geek.:)
The bottom line is, for the basic function of chatting and email, the SK does it better than any fully-featured multifunction gadget I've ever used. Beyond that, it leaves many points with much to be desired.
Back during the big ol' bubble of the late nineties, I worked with a development team that came up with everything that end-users interacted with. Back then, we were doing just as you described- endless hours, little or no compensation... but we all still believed in the dream that was "we'll be millionaires soon enough". Thinking back, we were all in a perfect position to leave and start something on our own.
NDAs and other such things in your contract might not let you break off "en masse". That is something to be careful of. Make sure you don't have contractual limitations or obligations that could prevent you from making a clean break. Using your collective knowledge and contacts, I think you all have a pretty good shot at making it on your own.
Wireless adoption has, to be sure, grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years. I remember my first cell phone at the end of '97. I was headed off to college and I picked up a Nokia 252 (Verizon Wireless, in VT). Aside from the general lack of good deals on plans it was still a relatively new deal for most people. Seeing what you get now it quite impressive in comparison, but it's crazy you're so locked with one provider.
The two issues I think are number portability as well as the fundamental fact that you still pay for incoming calls. The wireless industry has claimed essentially we don't want it, which is quite silly. I'm glad the FCC won this time, because I'm somewhat unhappy with my current carrier. Since switching to digital at the beginning of '99, I have kept the same number. I want to move to another carrier but, like many, I have an established number that I want to keep. Use an online voicemail service as my home number and it's great not getting solicitors waking me up at 7am. Switching to a provider with better coverage in my area will make my life so much easier- and I keep my number!
Here at my office we have a number of G4s, including a few Titanium Powerbooks. An older one (500mhz) was sent in for repair and it came back as a 667 (which was one model newer, too). Well, it broke again a few months later and we just got it back and it's an 867mhz machine.
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As a geek yourself, you don't mind your livlihood being shipped overseas? How noble and righteous!
Using the image linked in the post I'm replying to, I was able to paste into Imageready CS and then switch from Imageready to Photoshop CS with no problems. I'm using OS X. Interesting.
Now the cool thing is that the date on the receipt noted that I had until January 3rd to exchange it, but the gift card has a 2 year expiration.
I want to know what else might be happening on the 6th. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up a 60 or *hey* maybe an 80GB iPod for the price of the current 40GB one.
Hopefully someone can chime in here- but I believe a few Macworlds back there were rampant rumors about a product release that everyone claimed was going to happen and it completely didn't. Steve-O even made a reference to the rumors in his keynote. I'd be thrilled if he hit us with a video-capable/OLED-screened iPod or some other great evolution of the beloved 'Pod!
I'm still trying to figure out why I should be paying a subscription for access to music that I have to buy anyway. I don't pay a monthly fee to gain "access" to movies at Blockbuster. I stroll into a video store and rent a movie just as I stroll into a music store and buy a CD.
Subscriptions are a good form of revenue, but in the infancy of accepted online music sales they are in the wrong place.
What VOIP service do you use? Impressions? I'm considering a switch when I move in a few months...
The guy was arrested for kiddie porn and this theft of communications crap was tacked on, because, they could.
Contribute to the greater good, bust those wardrivers.
Just a guess, but wouldn't they have a hard time getting advertising space in both print and on TV with an AO rating. You see M rated games advertised all over. With an AO-rated game, what would that give them for marketing outlets? Playboy? Spike TV?
Yes... true, although I encounter piracy of M$ software on a regular basis at my Web job with clients and others- it's insanely rampant on both OS X and Windows machines...
Microsoft's policy with duping/copying is FUCKING INANE. I've switched PCI cards in my home PC only to have it flip out and require a repair install of XP on top of everything. It's just plain stupid. That poor Windows XP activation operator woman at midnight a few Saturdays ago...she got a piece of my mind.
I would put an R34 Vspec up against any automobile for $90,000 on the race track. It's a stunning car and once again, us American car enthusiasts who could care less about big blocks and domestic trash are left out in the cold.
I would be happy to although I'm American and need a cut-and-paste solution. Someone please do the footwork for me. :)
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It's been done. It's made by 3M and it's called "Fluorinert".
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Here at my office, we have a number of Titanium Powerbooks. Hand my boss a laptop, and it's going to be destroyed. As such, all our 'books have 3 years of AppleCare on them. So far, we've had to send back two of them in the last 6 months. The first time we sent one back, it had a broken LCD. The screen hinges were broken and it was practically falling off. The wires were sheared. The case was scratched to hell. The keys were sticky. It was quite the mess. When we got the machine back, it wasn't only repaired, it was one model newer and 133mhz faster. The machine had been dropped off at an Apple Store, and was back within 2 weeks. Excellent.
:)
Second time around we sent in a 500mhz machine. It had obviously been dropped numerous times. The sides were dented and the hard drive was randomly spinning down and up. (Interestingly, OS X hardly skipped a beat) When this machine was returned about 18 days later (dropped it off at our local Apple Store) once again, we were bumped to a 667mhz machine.
Needless to say, our AppleCare has been well worth the price of admission. As of me typing this, the 667 has been abused and broken by my boss and is due for another round of repairs.
I hope they don't fix it, because I want to order a 17" model.
I've been using Thunderbird as my primary PC mail client at home since the first nightly build. Aside from a few small issues at first, I haven't had any problems for a while. It's the nicest looking alternative that I've found. Eudora has a nasty interface, and the MS stuff is well, just that. It's nice to have a decent alternative and I highly recommend it.
Back in early 1999, I was involved in a business venture with my roommate. We opened an online music store to sell electronica vinyl and CDs. Our goal was to offer an alternative to the 800lb gorilla (Satellite Records).
Fast forward to mid-2000. Sales were starting to increase significantly and my roommate's wife began to run the store full-time (my friend and I still had normal dot-com day jobs). We used Worldpay, or some other international credit card processing and verification service. Over a 4 or 5 week period in the summer we got orders of $100, $200, $300. Record bags and orders of 20+ records. At the time, this was relatively normal as business was picking up. The credit cards were all checked through the service (matched 1st line of mailing address, city, state, zip/postal, country).
Suddenly, in one day we got about $900 in chargebacks on 2 or 3 cards. All were orders placed in the Czech Republic and as far as we knew, the order information was verified. Over the course of several days we received more chargebacks as people received statements. When all was said and done, about 4 cards were used. We incurred about $3000 in damage because of it.
The credit card processing company was less than helpful, and the FBI even got involved as it was an international fraud case. We never got any money back, no one was ever caught, and ultimately this relatively small case of fraud caused us to close up shop a few months later.
The whole experience definitely soured my ambition in wanting to reach a global audience. We sold a lot of records to people in England, France, and Belgium. I'd estimate 60% of our sales initially were from overseas, but thinking back it's probably because no on else would sell to them. Perhaps things have changed since then, but there is no cheap, easy, or compelling reason for anyone that isn't Amazon or Outpost to sell to people overseas. Logistically it's a huge pain in the ass and as I learned first hand, it can also be devastating.
I know I'm not the only person that fields calls from desperate relatives and family friends looking to recover their lost Word document. There is absolutely a gap in knowledge that is only widened with the introduction of more lingo.
#1 on my list of annoyances is how people CONSTANTLY mix up "memory" with "hard disk space".
"I can't save this file, I think I need more memory."
"Won't a bigger hard disk speed everything up?"
I think you're absolutely right about this. Having been laid off before myself, I can attest to the unfriendliness of it all. It's practically a feeling of betrayal in some aspects because sometimes the people laying you off were who you would consider "friends", if only at work.
When I watched my entire development team dissolve before my very eyes, someone swiped the source code, among other things. That isn't the only thing, either. But still, it's in a company's best interest to get people off-site quickly.
I find myself doing a number of things when I'm not on a computer. My main passion is working on my Nissan Sentra SE-R. I recently purchased a 2nd one for a new project. Big cams and large turbines on 4-bangers is definitely a fun thing. :) Of course, all of it ties into being a geek as I run the largest SE-R forum on the web (linked above). I have found many of my car buddies have tech jobs, or have been laid off from them.
My other means to unwind is with some good house music and my turntables. It's mainly a hobby but I've strayed out of my bedroom and into the odd nightclub or party now and then. Some of the best DJs to pass through Boston in their early days are geeks (Mike Walsh, Shannon Shalako).
Finally, I will find myself on my GT mountainbike when I need to blow off some steam and burn some calories.
Daikatana...
I want to agree with you on your point about manufacturers putting cameras on everything. I have both a SprintPCS phone and a Sidekick with T-Mobile. For AIM and email, the SK is a wonderful little brick. It's got more heft, but it does what it does very well. The keypad is well-executed, as is the functionality when it comes to navigating around the device. However, it absolutely sucks as a phone. Dialing is a chore, and it feels weird against your head. The camera attachment is, for lack of a better term, completely useless.
:)
Now that the color SK is out, I feel pretty ripped off having shelled out the $200 for this B&W one hardly 8 months ago, but those are the breaks. I'm a geek.
The bottom line is, for the basic function of chatting and email, the SK does it better than any fully-featured multifunction gadget I've ever used. Beyond that, it leaves many points with much to be desired.
IIRC, the whole Wolfenstein series was banned.
Back during the big ol' bubble of the late nineties, I worked with a development team that came up with everything that end-users interacted with. Back then, we were doing just as you described- endless hours, little or no compensation... but we all still believed in the dream that was "we'll be millionaires soon enough". Thinking back, we were all in a perfect position to leave and start something on our own.
NDAs and other such things in your contract might not let you break off "en masse". That is something to be careful of. Make sure you don't have contractual limitations or obligations that could prevent you from making a clean break. Using your collective knowledge and contacts, I think you all have a pretty good shot at making it on your own.
Wireless adoption has, to be sure, grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years. I remember my first cell phone at the end of '97. I was headed off to college and I picked up a Nokia 252 (Verizon Wireless, in VT). Aside from the general lack of good deals on plans it was still a relatively new deal for most people. Seeing what you get now it quite impressive in comparison, but it's crazy you're so locked with one provider.
The two issues I think are number portability as well as the fundamental fact that you still pay for incoming calls. The wireless industry has claimed essentially we don't want it, which is quite silly. I'm glad the FCC won this time, because I'm somewhat unhappy with my current carrier. Since switching to digital at the beginning of '99, I have kept the same number. I want to move to another carrier but, like many, I have an established number that I want to keep. Use an online voicemail service as my home number and it's great not getting solicitors waking me up at 7am. Switching to a provider with better coverage in my area will make my life so much easier- and I keep my number!
Here at my office we have a number of G4s, including a few Titanium Powerbooks. An older one (500mhz) was sent in for repair and it came back as a 667 (which was one model newer, too). Well, it broke again a few months later and we just got it back and it's an 867mhz machine.
Go Apple!