you know the thing about kludging your code to fit with the problems that microsoft's browser has is that microsoft knows that everyone is doing it. when they do decide to fix things (ie 7 or 70 who knows) they will leave a ton of folks with their own non-ie browsers that now appear broken compared to the new ie browser.
then of course they will come out and proclaim they have better standards compliance than everyone else out there. this will of course be true, but only true because everyone was trying to work around the bugs and lack of implementation that were part of the previous version of ie...
just seems to fit in line with their fudamentals...
of course if the music business is as bad as the riaa claims that few tens of dollars will be more than they would have gotten from the hordes of pirates stealing all their music./sarcasm off
i see this service being useful primarily to people who listen to pop music. people who are always wanting to listen to the new singles that come out on the radio. folks like me? i don't see how it can or will ever make sense. and no, i don't listen to much in the way of music on the radio as it's pretty much crap (and the same crap on every channel thanks to monolithic radio companies).
i have an enormous music collection. on my 40gig ipod i have it filled with less than 1/3rd of my music. i don't buy cd's very often but when i do i buy them a bunch at a time. my tastes are very wide and eclectic. i also listen to my music in a half a dozen different ways. ipod while walking or driving, computer at work or home, mp3 cd player when i need to play standard discs not just mp3's.
my music collection is a part of me, my identity. it is a culmination of years of picking through racks, dusty nooks in cd shops and discovering artists way before they were famous.
i don't like the idea of renting something as personal as music. i like to have something to show for my effort, to show for my money. this service seems like the primestar digital satellite service of music. sure it worked great for some folks (folks who couldn't afford a directv system or didn't want to worry about equipment maintenance and installation) but in the end better services came out and it died. i suspect this will end up happening with napster too.
the reality of the situation is that the ipod sells because it works great, is easy to use and also it looks great. it is cross platform and has a huge community behind it. napster wants us to believe that the player doesn't matter (much like primestar did). fact is that it does matter and judging by the sales of the ipod most people seem to understand this.
btw, i also think that napster's ads are very misleading ($10k to fill an ipod) because who do you know other than maybe a little kid that doesn't already own a pile of cd's they listen to? there are advantages of renting (ie, houses, cars, music), but in the end you have nothing to show for it other than a pile of bills and little else. i guess there will always be room for the beige box market, even in online music stores, but count me out of it.
and buy a printer that has proper postscript 3 support. your life will be much easier as will your prints. it looks like the 550 has postscript 3 for instance (yes it's more expensive but the lack of headaches will be worth the cost)...
really folks, when you buy a printer don't just look at features and speed. look at the printer languages it features. if it only features a proprietary language (like yours does), be prepared for what you are getting into. pcl5 is okay, but postscript 3 is where its at.
especially because postcript 3 has native support for transparant images (ever wonder why when you print a page of text with graphics that have white borders from a low end printer it produces a box that has a dithered crosshatches in it?) which is really important for b&w printers. having worked in a large copying and printing business i always chuckle when i see printers that can't halftone worth a damn...
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heh, however jobs did seem to understand sound in computers with the mac and next computers having great audio support. something that took the pc many, many years to feature.
on top of that was the apple iigs, which though it was severely crippled in many other ways (due to fear of competition with the mac) like having mono out only (though it had a better sound chip than any other computer available up into the 90's including the atari st and amiga). sadly it went largely unused as it was a pain to implement stereo sound through various hacks and audio trickery like demuxing.
interestingly it was the iigs, not the mac, that first got apple into trouble with the beatles apple records after their initial agreement to not enter the music industry (currently they are battling apple records again due to the ipod, itms and garageband).
i use opera for many reasons, but one of them is because it handles many tabs open very nicely. i typically have 20-30+ tabs open at any given time, some with tons of graphics some with huge amounts of text. it is partially because of the way i work (sort of ADD i guess) and partially because i can organize the work i'm doing visually by moving tabs around.
no other browser handles that many windows as deftly as opera. i start getting nervous about ie crashing after about 10 windows. firefox bogs down immensely after about 10 tabs and becomes very difficult/annoying to work with at about 20. mozilla is even worse and becomes very sluggish much sooner than firefox.
i expect a lot of performance out of a browser and i both can't and won't change my requirements or browsing habits due to a program that doesn't work the way i want it to.
that said, i think firefox is a great program but it doesn't work the way i work and therefore i don't use it nearly as often as i do opera...
that's the interesting thing about many large companies, they are sometimes successful in spite of themselves.
for instance kinko's is a big printing company. they waste amazing amounts of paper (some of which can't be avoided). due to the nature of the business, there is a lot of inefficiency. problems with copiers and printers, jams, print quality issues, production error, etc. often leads to wasting inordinate amounts of paper. however for all the waste they are still successful. part of this is because they can do things that many smaller copy shops can't do, like turn around huge jobs in a very short amount of time.
a company like ibm (as in your example) is in a similar boat. they have lots of bloat and innefficency, however they can do things that smaller companies can't. in turn, even though they may not be as efficient as they could be, they still trudge along and continue to lead in their market. my guess is that microsoft is like that too...
btw, apple, sun and nintendo may not have as much leeway in the ways i talked about above due to their size, they have an advantage they share with ibm in many of their products in that they control much of their product base from hardware to software. this of course microsoft doesn't have other than with xbox.
I don't know anyone at all who's a real album-art-and-liner-notes kind of guy.
well you've just met one. most fokls i know really enjoy having the art, liner notes, lyrics, etc. i think this could also have to do with what kind of music and what artists you listen to as well as some music doesn't really have much in the way of packaging whatsoever.
i guess if i really didn't care about the packaging i would/could just pirate all my music because, why bother buying it if i know i can get away with pirating it?
when stuff when to compact disc it was a shame to see the cool album art shrink to a miniscule size. i actually have several of my favorite album's covers hanging on the wall because i like the art.
on top of that, some cd's imho need to be listened to as a whole to fully enjoy it. i understand that some folks just want a song, but i think albums are still important. often you just don't get the real feel or meaning of a song if you don't have the context of an album.
however, are albums dead for pop music? probably and why not? most pop is a one off song and has little to do with the next song on a disc. but i think pop is the most glaring exception. artists will always create interesting concept albums that will need to be listened to as an album to be fully appreciated...
the most important thing to remember here is that you will only lose weight by playing games that require constant physical movement. the majority of video games will only raise your heart (as the title suggests) but obviously won't cause you to lose any weight.
in fact if you are severly overweight and are playing videogames constantly without getting a modicum of daily excercise you may be putting yourself at further risk by raising your heart rate and blood pressure...
yeah, makes me wonder what will happen to folks who have autoupdate turned on when microsoft starts implementing their "certified windows copy" program (or whatever it's called) and folks whose computers don't have valid copies on them try looking for updates. also, i wonder if that system is going to affect corporate/enterprise copies...
at the same time it will interesting to watch them further skate on the thin ice that is antitrust laws. of course if the gov't keeps going in the current direction there won't be anything such as antitrust...
on an interesting sidenote about employment laws in california...
if you quit (don't know about being fired but it would be easy enough to find out via the dept of labor website) and you don't get your last paycheck on your final day of work you can seek a penalty against your employer. the requirements for this are that you gave at least 72 hours advance notice of quitting and that you are not a contracted employee.
i actually just went through this with my employer as they didn't have my final paycheck for me until 2.5 weeks after my final day. i told them i was filing a complaint with the dept of labor and they decided to settle out of court and pay me the penalty.
btw, the penalty is whatever you would be paid if you were still employed from the time of your last day (only those days you would normally have been scheduled to work) to the time you finally got your paycheck with a maximum of 30 days. in my case i got a nice check out of this as they screwed me out of 2.5 weeks of having my check...
actually there was a show a few years ago that did a piece on how magazines use computers to adjust pictures for stuff like covergirls etc. they will often stretch womens legs, reduce their thighs, make their lips bigger, supersaturate their eyes and on and on. the lengthening of the legs was really interesting as it is so subtle it's almost unnoticable. however you still see it and it does look more attractive...
say what you will about 3rd party support but the psx and ps2 have a ton of really garbage games from 3rd parties (of course all systems have their share of junk but the psx and ps2's collection are very impressive). the real trick for sony was to get EA and Square on board. the rest just fell in place with the help of excellent marketing.
a few thoughts... first, how well is your computer case insulated from rfi? do you have one of those big plastic windows on the side of your case? are you sitting next to any other electronic equipment? is there a power transformer outside your window?
you probably have thought of some of these, but i thought i'd throw the idea at you in case you didn't. anyway, there could be other issues that could be affecting reception not just the lack of an antenna...
what should get you more up in arms (asuming that it isn't asian foreign movies that you are talking about) is that north america and much of asia use ntsc as the standard whereas the rest of the world uses pal. this is a battle you can neither fight nor win.
thankfully if you are playing dvd's on a computer it handles the translation w/o any messy extra equipment or special dvd player or tv...
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Heh, here's a link. Looks like they took down their forums for the entire project.
you know the thing about kludging your code to fit with the problems that microsoft's browser has is that microsoft knows that everyone is doing it. when they do decide to fix things (ie 7 or 70 who knows) they will leave a ton of folks with their own non-ie browsers that now appear broken compared to the new ie browser.
then of course they will come out and proclaim they have better standards compliance than everyone else out there. this will of course be true, but only true because everyone was trying to work around the bugs and lack of implementation that were part of the previous version of ie...
just seems to fit in line with their fudamentals...
of course if the music business is as bad as the riaa claims that few tens of dollars will be more than they would have gotten from the hordes of pirates stealing all their music. /sarcasm off
i see this service being useful primarily to people who listen to pop music. people who are always wanting to listen to the new singles that come out on the radio. folks like me? i don't see how it can or will ever make sense. and no, i don't listen to much in the way of music on the radio as it's pretty much crap (and the same crap on every channel thanks to monolithic radio companies).
i have an enormous music collection. on my 40gig ipod i have it filled with less than 1/3rd of my music. i don't buy cd's very often but when i do i buy them a bunch at a time. my tastes are very wide and eclectic. i also listen to my music in a half a dozen different ways. ipod while walking or driving, computer at work or home, mp3 cd player when i need to play standard discs not just mp3's.
my music collection is a part of me, my identity. it is a culmination of years of picking through racks, dusty nooks in cd shops and discovering artists way before they were famous.
i don't like the idea of renting something as personal as music. i like to have something to show for my effort, to show for my money. this service seems like the primestar digital satellite service of music. sure it worked great for some folks (folks who couldn't afford a directv system or didn't want to worry about equipment maintenance and installation) but in the end better services came out and it died. i suspect this will end up happening with napster too.
the reality of the situation is that the ipod sells because it works great, is easy to use and also it looks great. it is cross platform and has a huge community behind it. napster wants us to believe that the player doesn't matter (much like primestar did). fact is that it does matter and judging by the sales of the ipod most people seem to understand this.
btw, i also think that napster's ads are very misleading ($10k to fill an ipod) because who do you know other than maybe a little kid that doesn't already own a pile of cd's they listen to? there are advantages of renting (ie, houses, cars, music), but in the end you have nothing to show for it other than a pile of bills and little else. i guess there will always be room for the beige box market, even in online music stores, but count me out of it.
and buy a printer that has proper postscript 3 support. your life will be much easier as will your prints. it looks like the 550 has postscript 3 for instance (yes it's more expensive but the lack of headaches will be worth the cost)...
really folks, when you buy a printer don't just look at features and speed. look at the printer languages it features. if it only features a proprietary language (like yours does), be prepared for what you are getting into. pcl5 is okay, but postscript 3 is where its at.
especially because postcript 3 has native support for transparant images (ever wonder why when you print a page of text with graphics that have white borders from a low end printer it produces a box that has a dithered crosshatches in it?) which is really important for b&w printers. having worked in a large copying and printing business i always chuckle when i see printers that can't halftone worth a damn...
heh, however jobs did seem to understand sound in computers with the mac and next computers having great audio support. something that took the pc many, many years to feature.
on top of that was the apple iigs, which though it was severely crippled in many other ways (due to fear of competition with the mac) like having mono out only (though it had a better sound chip than any other computer available up into the 90's including the atari st and amiga). sadly it went largely unused as it was a pain to implement stereo sound through various hacks and audio trickery like demuxing.
interestingly it was the iigs, not the mac, that first got apple into trouble with the beatles apple records after their initial agreement to not enter the music industry (currently they are battling apple records again due to the ipod, itms and garageband).
i use opera for many reasons, but one of them is because it handles many tabs open very nicely. i typically have 20-30+ tabs open at any given time, some with tons of graphics some with huge amounts of text. it is partially because of the way i work (sort of ADD i guess) and partially because i can organize the work i'm doing visually by moving tabs around.
no other browser handles that many windows as deftly as opera. i start getting nervous about ie crashing after about 10 windows. firefox bogs down immensely after about 10 tabs and becomes very difficult/annoying to work with at about 20. mozilla is even worse and becomes very sluggish much sooner than firefox.
i expect a lot of performance out of a browser and i both can't and won't change my requirements or browsing habits due to a program that doesn't work the way i want it to.
that said, i think firefox is a great program but it doesn't work the way i work and therefore i don't use it nearly as often as i do opera...
the mpaa took my baby away
took my baby away from me
Ring me, ring me, ring me up the president
And find out where my baby went
{also can be used with riaa)
that's the interesting thing about many large companies, they are sometimes successful in spite of themselves.
for instance kinko's is a big printing company. they waste amazing amounts of paper (some of which can't be avoided). due to the nature of the business, there is a lot of inefficiency. problems with copiers and printers, jams, print quality issues, production error, etc. often leads to wasting inordinate amounts of paper. however for all the waste they are still successful. part of this is because they can do things that many smaller copy shops can't do, like turn around huge jobs in a very short amount of time.
a company like ibm (as in your example) is in a similar boat. they have lots of bloat and innefficency, however they can do things that smaller companies can't. in turn, even though they may not be as efficient as they could be, they still trudge along and continue to lead in their market. my guess is that microsoft is like that too...
btw, apple, sun and nintendo may not have as much leeway in the ways i talked about above due to their size, they have an advantage they share with ibm in many of their products in that they control much of their product base from hardware to software. this of course microsoft doesn't have other than with xbox.
I don't know anyone at all who's a real album-art-and-liner-notes kind of guy.
well you've just met one. most fokls i know really enjoy having the art, liner notes, lyrics, etc. i think this could also have to do with what kind of music and what artists you listen to as well as some music doesn't really have much in the way of packaging whatsoever.
i guess if i really didn't care about the packaging i would/could just pirate all my music because, why bother buying it if i know i can get away with pirating it?
when stuff when to compact disc it was a shame to see the cool album art shrink to a miniscule size. i actually have several of my favorite album's covers hanging on the wall because i like the art.
on top of that, some cd's imho need to be listened to as a whole to fully enjoy it. i understand that some folks just want a song, but i think albums are still important. often you just don't get the real feel or meaning of a song if you don't have the context of an album.
however, are albums dead for pop music? probably and why not? most pop is a one off song and has little to do with the next song on a disc. but i think pop is the most glaring exception. artists will always create interesting concept albums that will need to be listened to as an album to be fully appreciated...
good riddance to her. wonder what she'll do now that she's finished fucking up hp/compaq/dec... :/
the most important thing to remember here is that you will only lose weight by playing games that require constant physical movement. the majority of video games will only raise your heart (as the title suggests) but obviously won't cause you to lose any weight.
in fact if you are severly overweight and are playing videogames constantly without getting a modicum of daily excercise you may be putting yourself at further risk by raising your heart rate and blood pressure...
yeah, makes me wonder what will happen to folks who have autoupdate turned on when microsoft starts implementing their "certified windows copy" program (or whatever it's called) and folks whose computers don't have valid copies on them try looking for updates. also, i wonder if that system is going to affect corporate/enterprise copies...
Where does NetBSD fit in? Somewhere between various flavors of it running a ton of mission critical machines and a lame joke about BSD being dead.
at the same time it will interesting to watch them further skate on the thin ice that is antitrust laws. of course if the gov't keeps going in the current direction there won't be anything such as antitrust...
yeah no kidding. i'll keep an eye out for it when i'm 51...
imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
in soviet russia gnu/hurds you!
god, i think i've been here too long. i would have mentioned a hot grits thing but it just hurds too much. i kill me.
on an interesting sidenote about employment laws in california...
if you quit (don't know about being fired but it would be easy enough to find out via the dept of labor website) and you don't get your last paycheck on your final day of work you can seek a penalty against your employer. the requirements for this are that you gave at least 72 hours advance notice of quitting and that you are not a contracted employee.
i actually just went through this with my employer as they didn't have my final paycheck for me until 2.5 weeks after my final day. i told them i was filing a complaint with the dept of labor and they decided to settle out of court and pay me the penalty.
btw, the penalty is whatever you would be paid if you were still employed from the time of your last day (only those days you would normally have been scheduled to work) to the time you finally got your paycheck with a maximum of 30 days. in my case i got a nice check out of this as they screwed me out of 2.5 weeks of having my check...
actually there was a show a few years ago that did a piece on how magazines use computers to adjust pictures for stuff like covergirls etc. they will often stretch womens legs, reduce their thighs, make their lips bigger, supersaturate their eyes and on and on. the lengthening of the legs was really interesting as it is so subtle it's almost unnoticable. however you still see it and it does look more attractive...
even then they were doing multiple clocking. dx2 and dx4 chips...
i think sony is hoping that you won't look to hard into that feature. by the time you find the answer the batteries will have died. ;p i kid!
say what you will about 3rd party support but the psx and ps2 have a ton of really garbage games from 3rd parties (of course all systems have their share of junk but the psx and ps2's collection are very impressive). the real trick for sony was to get EA and Square on board. the rest just fell in place with the help of excellent marketing.
a few thoughts... first, how well is your computer case insulated from rfi? do you have one of those big plastic windows on the side of your case? are you sitting next to any other electronic equipment? is there a power transformer outside your window?
you probably have thought of some of these, but i thought i'd throw the idea at you in case you didn't. anyway, there could be other issues that could be affecting reception not just the lack of an antenna...
a robot monkey? sorry, had to plug...
what should get you more up in arms (asuming that it isn't asian foreign movies that you are talking about) is that north america and much of asia use ntsc as the standard whereas the rest of the world uses pal. this is a battle you can neither fight nor win.
thankfully if you are playing dvd's on a computer it handles the translation w/o any messy extra equipment or special dvd player or tv...
that would be fun as an active desktop background too. wonder if anyone has done one for windows yet?