The sad part of the whole IU deal with M$ was that there are still parts of the deal that haven't been made public to the students. One of the things I've heard was the major reason of the deal was that M$ was about to sue IU because their students all pirated M$ products for bout 10x what the deal was. IU in their infinate wisdom supposedly settled by paying for the site license. Now this is all rumor, but we've all heard it at IU. I don't know if its the truth or just anti-M$ sentiment. All I know is that my boss won't buy me another mac because the higher authorities won't allow for it now that we are a M$ school. I don't mind using NT, but I hate the fact that I'm forced into it. I don't like the fact that NT and Win2k obsolete my machines in no time flat and I have to get rid of my perfectly legitimate 486 novell file server as we no longer can get a decent deal on the upgrades...oh well it just means that will be a linux server too as its way too slow for NT (or 98 for that matter).
blah...thinking I should have logged in as an AC even though this is clearly marked as rumor and inuendo and hearsay. I don't know nor do I claim to know, just reporting what I've heard.
The best custom case I've been able to build for a computer out of wood was from a '50s RCA Victor Record / Radio case. $30 for the Case at an antiques dealership, $70 for the dremmel and several other attachments (ie., yer gonna need the router bit to make things look professional). Be prepared to take several days (weeks) to get this right...least thats how long it took me with no woodworking skills:(
The speaker still worked and was able to hook it up to the builtin sound board on my MB. The only problem I've had so far was having to drill the case of my powersupply (to hold the damn thing inplace) I got metal shards all over and wiped out the supply in bout half a minute (doh!) Make sure ya clean all surfaces well before hooking up any electricity.
Now if I could only get a laptop display to work with a standard VGA connection, I'd hook up my monochrome inside the case where the record player once opened up...
I came upon this a few weeks ago while working on a simple to use menuing option for the administrators at my website. There are about 10 of us covering different aspects and we all take responisibilities answering emails and decided to keep the hotmail account one of us had set up.
I set up the 'click here to check email' on our menu, with all the form filled out as it was on the M$ site and it worked...I then noticed that it didn't require the password, but I thought that was because it had been cached some how. I tried it again from my laptop later that night (after forgetting to fix it) and it worked...hmmm...the next day I tried it again and the login proceedure no longer would let me access it even once I had the password entered in the hidden form...it'd only take me to the front login page.
Maybe this was just a temporary whole...shit I have kept holes wide open in attempts to keep my machines running at times while I'm working on something. To my former boss, there ain't nothing worse than a downed machine...he'd even accept hackers broke the system, but it was running than downing it. Lucky my latest one, cares more about protecting valuable information than someone being inconvienced...
Let me add my support to the mix as well. I use what ever OS I need to do for a job, sometimes its because one OS is superior to another for one application, sometimes its because we are designing a product that we will want others to be able to implement without having to hire geeks, even if it isn't the most stable platform.
Its kinda funny as I've got one application leak on my mac that I haven't been able to trace in the coding...my boss keeps telling me that this is the reason I should switch over to NT even though it takes approximately a month and a half before it starts to bomb out.
Now most people's NT boxes don't stay up that long, though my image servers (we archive several terrebytes of student data) haven't been rebooted in about 6 months...and the last was due to a hard disc failure on the primary drive.
My linux boxes stay in a corner where no one messes with them (though I haven't figured how to get my damn MB to allow booting without a keyboard attached...need to upgrade the BIOS if I ever take any down and see if this takes care of that). They have unpresidented uptime, but I'm, the only one that knows how to use them.
When picking a machine, ya have to ask whats it going to be used for and whos going to use them. A moron can administer a Mac and a Moron with a MCSE can administer an NT box (hmmm...was that redundant...I don't doubt there are MCSE's that know what time it is, but I haven't met one). You're gonna be hard pressed to find a geek that will be able to administer a linux box past installing Apache and maybe a few other services. If you find someone who knows whats going on, ye not going to have the problems with any OS that seems to do the job.
Ya know why/.-ers hate Apple, because they like the mysticism that has gone away in computers. They like the command prompts that make them look like wizards, when they are only slight-of-hand con artists. The Mac takes all this away. Any friggin moron can use a mac, and these morons actually do better and are more productive at using these machines than they are. No, ya can't get to some of the more powerful features without hacking them first and you won't find a CLI until ten...and thats going to have to be hacked out as well as Apple has already said it won't be in as a default.
Having said this, I admin Mac Servers, NT Boxez and one or two Linux (as soon as I find the right drivers for the second...) servers. I've also installed/set up everyone myself. Whats my prefered machine? The one that gets the job done the fastest and for most of my work, its my Powerbook G3 (even if I am telneting into my linux box across the building).
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To be honest, this doesn't make a hell of alot of sense. Censorship is determined by any criteria that the censor decides to censor on. In the '50s Congress led a movement to censor anyone that was in or rumored to be in the Communist party, regardless of their message. This was still censorship and it was not based on content of the message, but of the possibility of the content of the message.
By censoring ISPs that are on the RBL, you are censoring based on the assumption that the message is spam, not the actuality that it is spam. I run two listserves, both are high volume and would fit under your assumption that they are spam. OT, but this is one of the reasons I get a little tickd when someone mentions methods of controling spam through charging for email. One list I run has had at times over 1000 individuals...charging.1 cents per email (that $0.0001 for those who are as bad at math as I am) would bankrupt me in a matter of weeks. Its not spam but it is high volume...
What the fuck is this different than the subject that showed up two days ago (RE:Censorware...)??? Ya'll complain when someone censors your account for no apparent reason, threating to take action and use the law, but when you want to do this, its perfectly legitimate.
This is no different than any other self-regulation. Either ya allow the censorware morons out there censor any page with a naughty wordy-word or ya don't censor anyone that spams you. They are both opt-in agreements. No one has to be apart of that arrangement if they do not wish to be.
I am opposed to both spam and censorship, but unless we pass laws, then there is no way to deal with both...oh yeah, I forgot, geeks don't get involved with politics unless cryptography is involved.
How come every fucking moron quotes the price of the media not the price to produce? As an amatur (ie., I don't get paid for what I do), I have a studio worth several thousand $$$s. Decent studio time is at a premium ($75 an hour last I recorded outside of my home...mostly because I didn't have a Bosendorfer at my fingertips...the rental of that was extra even though it is a studio fixture). As a programmer, I guess I should charge everyone $1 for my custom work as thats all it costs for the media I give over in the final project.
BTW complaining about the RIAA ripping off the artists and then ripping MP3s as a protest is just stealing from the same source as the RIAA is stealing from.
LPs may have better sound but this is not because of the higher range, its because of the process it takes to produce them...the vinyl adds some warmth to the process but at the same time losing alot of the high end frequency. When I buy a record (yeah you can still get them), I usually buy two if they are keepers. One to listen to all the time, the other to listen to on special occasions. Any gain you get from a record is lost even with high quality needles after the first play (ok, maybe the 10th play is when I start noticing a change). The first play, I usually stream a copy to CDR anyways.
Case in point, Sting's Nothing like the Sun album is probably one of the best works I've ever heard. The CD version (even the gold master) sounds too brittle and I would not have liked it half as much if I'd heard the CD version first. The vinyl adds just enough warmth (read distortion, the analogue version of antialiasing) to make this disc perfect. By recording this to disc from the vinyl, I get the best of both worlds.
The problem before digital is the fact that people did not realize vinyl and even tape is an fx not just a media and did not record their digital the same way. Right now, I am finishing up another album and am looking into pressing some vinyl first before I re-record it to disc. There are even programs that emulate this, but not to the effect that I want.
On a second point, as for dynamics and otherwise, what the hell are you people listening to. Letsee, most mp3s are of pop, rap or punk nature, the first because its what most listen to and the latter because these mediums have always used what ever means possible to get their message out...they aren't as dissimilar as people would like to believe. None of these genres really don't employee techniques that need higher range or bits. Few people will ever notice the difference between mp3 and the high end. The audiophiles will always have the option of getting the higher quality shit. Then again most of you who fancy themselves as audiophiles, would be sorely disappointed to find they are not...I know I'm not even though I've spent alot of money on high end JBL studio monitors that are flat as hell. I won't notice the diffence but maybe someone else will, but I doubt it...
Damn, am I old or what??? I remember a time when few computers I connected to actually had domain names. I still remember with my first university account, it was actually fast to type in telnet 129.79.1.2 than to use the university's designation as the lookup took too long.
Hell most of the muds I played on didn't have names til much later, nor any of the other informational telnetable BBSs that seemed at the time light years ahead of anything I'd ever seen. It just felt like memorizing phone numbers to me (which actually I can't do anymore without the help of my palmtop...damn I hope I don't get stranded somewhere without a charge:)
Getting rid of copyrights is like giving everyone a license to steal. In my line(s) of work, I do nothing but provide intellectual property. With my professional job, I do alot of psychometric research and computer programming to go along with it. Most of the stuff we do has never been done before of it has been done and that that have been implemented bave been rather poorly. For instance, I am working on a project that rates essays for content much like ETS (Educational Testing Services) now implements on the GRE. I'll be damned if someone is going to take what we have designed and implement it for free within their own multimillion dollar institution.
Think about this, all those who've signed NDAs on the source you've had them peruse would now be free to take what you've developed and rebrand it as their own bcause the contract would no longer be valid. Then they sell it to M$ because even though their stuff sucks and they ruin everything they touch, Gates is one of the best damn salesmen in the world (if not the best)...Not one of you can argue this point.
In my side business, I design websites and povide content. I rely on my (c) to let people know that even if they want to take my shit and repost it, it will still bear my name and a link back to my site...this is the only thing I charge for reproducing my creations, but the (c) ensures that I will not be ripped off from even that.
Finally as my hobby (its starting to look like a business since the opening of our newest website) is that I'm musician and mostly a synthesist. I don't mind people passing around mp3 of my music, I would however mind them being put on another website or burned by someone other than end user. Unfortunately, MP3 doesn't store copyright information or let others know who created this stuff. I've even taken the shit off my site that I might want to shop around at some point and left the more arty stuff up there (ie., couldn't sell it if I wanted to). Past the mp3, I also design sound sets for the Kurzweil series of samplers. The cost of recording these didn't come cheap and if they weren't for my own personal usage, I would be charging others for their usage.
The whole point is that few people actually provide content and the rest of you damn vampires suck it up and expect us to work for free. If it wasn't for intellectual property protections, I wouldnt have a job. I could easily go back to repairing computers ad make far more than I do right now...as I find a great distain for this kinda stuff the last year I actually let people know I did it I was charging $75 and hour to swap a damn hard drive in the privacy of their own home (and what I see gets forgotten later, unlike bestbuy). I hate that shit, and unfortunately for most of the lusers reading this board, this is all you are cut out to do. If you really beleive in giving away your time for free, quit work and do so. If you don't, then your a fucking hypocrite.
Sorry to be so inflamatory, but some of us actually provide a service to the world that dosn't include manual labor or flipping burgers (like your ISP job isn't anything but). I may be an intellectual snob, but this is not less of an inflamatory notion that the Nazi's stealing from and killing the Jews just because they had the wealth of the time. When one doesn't have the intellectual capacity to create something on their own, those who can shouldn't be punished because of it.
clif
(yeah yeah, had to throw in some nazi imagery...it shows just how tired his arguement is. Whos law was it that said if ya brought up nazi's the arguements already been decided:)
Yes, but Caffeine and Nicotine do not effect work place activities in the same way that pot does. I myself see no harm in pot in moderation, but that does not mean that I should have to hire someone who I know does illegal activities and brings them into the workplace (even a trace residue in the blood stream is bringing it with you).
As for the war on drugs, everyone knows this is a crock of shit. It is a war on minorities and those that just don't fit into society. I don't like drugs myself as I believe in a pure mind and body...this doesn't mean that I support the gov't restriction of a substance unless it effects others (ie. someone smoking anything on a crouded anything where I have to inhale the shit as well...)
I agree. I don't mind accounts being moderated up as a default, but one of the guidlines was to promote not to demote. Why start someone where they are gona wanna start fresh?
Ya think thats a bad thing? I believe in privacy and I also think drugs should be legalized (not just some, but all) but why should an employeer be forced to hire some fucking pothead. If you want to work for someone else, you are giving up a bit of privacy by virtue of working there...
If you don't like their hiring practices, don't work there. If you don't like DIVX because it violates your privacy, don't buy that shit either.
First everyone tries to push friggin linux on everyones desktops and now people complain when the dirty masses try to take up your suggestions. I keep Win NT as a server because my boss understands this technology and I can have any moron administer it...it doesn't crash as frequently as ya'll liked to beleive but then again I run t pretty tight. I keep a Mac on my desktop because us stoopid users don't want to think...we want to do.
A computer is a tool. Did ya have to read the instruction manual to use a hammer? Did ya try using a hammer when ya should have been using a screwdriver? On a mac, ya don't get these problems because its intuative which is how machines should be. At home, I keep a linux box as my router so my sister can dial into the internet from her Win95 box and I can get in with one of my various machines and my other roomate can hook in with his Compaq Laptop. Do they know how this works? The answer is : They don't need to.
Yes, this might be a bit inflamatory, but if you're gonna promote an OS as the OS, then you have to factor in the Human anomolies. It's like communism...on paper its good and in the right hands it might work, but if you throw a real human into the soup ya get Socialism and Stallinism. Its not the OS (or ideology) ya have to worry about its the people.
Well I had someone try stealing a radio from a bobbytrapped car (I think I there might still be a link to this in my userinfo somewhere) and the criminal did just that. The fuckers parents as well as the police blamed me for putting a CD Player in a convertible knowing that it was (how did they call it) an 'Attractive Nuisence'. He ended up with a trip to the hospital and I ended up at the police station because I planted hidden razorblades behind the console.
Yes, they do use this excuse. Everyone else is to blame but the criminal. I've done stupid and maybe criminal activities myself in the past, but they were of my doing, not my parents or societies.
Apple's main problem has always been in the marketing department. They've always has a great GUI that any moron could use and until recently, it was far more stable than anything Gates could produce. Before anyone flames (or moderates) me, realize Linux is not a user platform right now...if my mom can't use it, it ain't the platform.
I've had a Newt MP, 100, 120 and a 130. These all worked like a charm (though the 120 I gave a coworked finally died the other week...though I wouldn't be supprised if she just has a dead battery). The handwritting is still better than anything else I've found and I really wish I could switch away from a dead product, but it's still head and shoulders above the competition. The only thing consumer oriented that I've found that I'd even consider would be the Libretto. I've borrowed my bosses when my PB G3's been too much to cary for presentation and the only problem with it is that it only runs Windows (I couldn't even get NT to install on it...grrr).
If Steveybaby had gotten over his hatred of the newton, it would still be a viable technology today. I'd still pick another up today for my "museum of computer stuff that I stuck on my wall" if I had the cash. It'd go between my little HP calc (114??? I can't remember) and my parted out 1541.
I agree with all of these...I too work for a university. I manage the developement area for my department. I do research, program, system admin, supervise my people, project manage the stuff I have contracted all over the country and I still get people asking when I will get a 'real' job. I've walked out of interviews because assholes who obviously idn't know what they were talking about talked down my position...they kept infering that what I had was a student position mainly because of the pay. I too won't mention how much I get payed now.
My position is funded by grants from anything from the US Gov't to large medical facilities to at least one ivy league school (of which I am one of the project leaders for AItype software for the assessment of writtings). Outside of this work, I find enough consulting to keep me busy, but I need my position at the university to keep his coming in. I'm at the point I want a 40 hr a week job and to stop doing stuff that makes my head spin most of the time.
The school gives me lots of benefits, the first of which is free tuition. The people are the best I've ever workd for, even if they all have quirks that might not be tolerated in the business world...then again, they might have these quirks only because we allow them. Hell I've never had another job that allows me to come in in full motorcycle leather. University positions are quirky, but I still end up doing a hell of a lot more than I would in usiness and with a larger variety of equpiment.
If I could find a company that could compensate me the way this place does and a raise at the same time, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but until that time comes, I'm just going to keep passing up these wonderful jobs.
I own a few macs but administer PCs at work. You're just a fucking troll ut I think I'll respond anyways. Yeah there's alot of crap we don't like on the Mac side, but when a give us an alternative that does the same things as efficiently and intuatively as a mac, I'll switch over. At home, I run a music studio. Started off years ago with a 468 and Win3.1 (which still the most stable and tightest platform for Midi on the PC side). It really pissed me off to set their with friends ready to record and I'm sitting their debuging the shit. My macs do crash and properly configured they do so less than my PCs, but when they do it's relatively easy to fix the shit. 3 minutes as opposed to a half hour (if I don't have to reinstall).
Getting to the point at hand, the Y2k shit that this software developer was railing against really has nothing to do with the Mac, but at certain programing styles out there, as noted by a few dozen other articles. Hell, most mac programmers aren't even use to programming 2 digit years anyways (I program at times for a living, multiplaform). I'm never amazed when I see crap PC programmers actual source at the true shit one can output. The mac isn't the easist platform to program for, so it kinda throws off alot of the hacks out there. Now the problem with the 2 digit year will be mostly from users with spreadsheets and databases. People generally only enter 2 digits for their dates on these things (I do as well)...fortunately, usually the computer changes this into a real time format the second on put these in there and then one does not have to worry about these. A year fom now, I'll probably be searching my database by 2/1/00 or entering dates that way as long as the computer changes it instantly.
I consider myself a Christian though in the last several years if someone asked me that I usually say something like 'No, but I try to follow the teachings of Christ'. Another AC above pointed out one of my favorite Moby quote, which I feel is applicable.
Too many people do not know how to read, nor comprehend as you say. The bible was written by poets who reveled in the words as provided by God. Not everything can be taken at face value nor was it ever intended to be. Morons who have only basic enough intelligence to breath and breed should not be interpreting the words of poets, prophets and gods (ok I believe in only 1 God, but yer free to believe wrongly is ya want...thats what free choice is all about:-) Once one knows how to read, then ya learn how to interprete....it doesn't matter if ya can read the pretty words if ya can't understand the page.
clifyt (sinner but trying harder...feeling like a alternate universe thumper)
Wasn't there a lawsuit against / by the RIAA several years back when second hand discs were popular? I forgot he intent of the suit, but it was either a 'major' second hand company was forced to stop selling these or risk loosing getting preferential status with the original manufactures of the discs. Something like that, very/./m$ian conspiracy:)
Anyways however the suit turned out, soon after this I noticed a big decline in used discs. Theres only a few places now I can find any an the ones they have are crap. It is mostly in college towns where one can find these things anymore. Which brings up the point...most people who hord mp3s are college kiddies, most places that sell used discs are in college towns. If ya like the artist you are listening through mp3s, then people usually buy new discs as a used one holds as little worth as an mp3...before mp3 used discs were my way of auditioning new artists at a very cheep price. So who are we puting out of business? The mom and pop used industry that the RIAA hates so much anyways. The bestbuys are never going to see a decrease just bcause us geeks play music on our computers and by continually bitching when the RIAA tries something new, you are just encouraging them more so:)
I thought he just sold the publishing rights to his old catalogue and technically, didn't he set it as a public (?) corporation where he was still CEO of the corp that held this catalogue? He'd still make money even if he sold all the stock. Then again, he should have just sold it all to Michael Jackson and bitched about it 10 years later when MJ won't give back what he paid millions for.
Does this mean all Macs are evil now, cause I think they all have networking built into the board anymore. There was something one one of the apple boards today about figuring out ones mac address on der mac. Anyone with any networking knowledge would be able to figure this out in a minute, but then again these computers weren't meant for geeks with time on their hand to learn every OS out there.
Hmmm...next program I write, I might have to see if I can use this in the licencing function just to be a dick:)
I really don't think most of these geeks realize what it takes to record a work nor the time involved. I have always had to pay for my instruments and I'd like to make some of my money back one of these days, unfortunately I don't see me going on the road with my baby grand strapped on the back of my bike so I release stuff on the net.
At the moment, I only have my noncommercial stuff out there as I want to put this stuff on disc one of these days. The last time I put out commercial sounding stuff, I found it on a hotline server even though all the instructions said no redistribution...the operator claimed ignorance and mentioned there was nothing preventing him from redistributing it as it was on the net already. Yeah it was on the net, but at my friggin server with appropriate copyright data and credit to those who helped me. Since then, I've only put out my noise works. Music I love dearly but could probably never sell enough copies to buy me lunch. Maybe if MP3 could store (natively) all copyright data and provide a hyperlink back to my website(s), I'd be more interested in releasing more.
Regardless of whether one thinks my stuff is crap or not (a good deal of it is), I paid for the equipment to make this and the cost just keep piling up. As a side note, I program / develop software for a living. Most of the people arguing all software should be OpenSource or free are idiots. These people have no idea of what something takes to create it. If information wants so hard to be free, why did it cost $40k for my education. I don't mind OS but it is only another way to sell your wares. A few years from now after I am a bit more establisheed in my field, I will probably open up all my source to the public and go entirely into consulting. Don't kid yourselves, OS is not altruistic, it is just marketing. I hate capitalism, but the modern alternatives just don't seem to work.
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The sad part of the whole IU deal with M$ was that there are still parts of the deal that haven't been made public to the students. One of the things I've heard was the major reason of the deal was that M$ was about to sue IU because their students all pirated M$ products for bout 10x what the deal was. IU in their infinate wisdom supposedly settled by paying for the site license. Now this is all rumor, but we've all heard it at IU. I don't know if its the truth or just anti-M$ sentiment. All I know is that my boss won't buy me another mac because the higher authorities won't allow for it now that we are a M$ school. I don't mind using NT, but I hate the fact that I'm forced into it. I don't like the fact that NT and Win2k obsolete my machines in no time flat and I have to get rid of my perfectly legitimate 486 novell file server as we no longer can get a decent deal on the upgrades...oh well it just means that will be a linux server too as its way too slow for NT (or 98 for that matter).
blah...thinking I should have logged in as an AC even though this is clearly marked as rumor and inuendo and hearsay. I don't know nor do I claim to know, just reporting what I've heard.
clif
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The best custom case I've been able to build for a computer out of wood was from a '50s RCA Victor Record / Radio case. $30 for the Case at an antiques dealership, $70 for the dremmel and several other attachments (ie., yer gonna need the router bit to make things look professional). Be prepared to take several days (weeks) to get this right...least thats how long it took me with no woodworking skills :(
The speaker still worked and was able to hook it up to the builtin sound board on my MB. The only problem I've had so far was having to drill the case of my powersupply (to hold the damn thing inplace) I got metal shards all over and wiped out the supply in bout half a minute (doh!) Make sure ya clean all surfaces well before hooking up any electricity.
Now if I could only get a laptop display to work with a standard VGA connection, I'd hook up my monochrome inside the case where the record player once opened up...
clif
I came upon this a few weeks ago while working on a simple to use menuing option for the administrators at my website. There are about 10 of us covering different aspects and we all take responisibilities answering emails and decided to keep the hotmail account one of us had set up.
I set up the 'click here to check email' on our menu, with all the form filled out as it was on the M$ site and it worked...I then noticed that it didn't require the password, but I thought that was because it had been cached some how. I tried it again from my laptop later that night (after forgetting to fix it) and it worked...hmmm...the next day I tried it again and the login proceedure no longer would let me access it even once I had the password entered in the hidden form...it'd only take me to the front login page.
Maybe this was just a temporary whole...shit I have kept holes wide open in attempts to keep my machines running at times while I'm working on something. To my former boss, there ain't nothing worse than a downed machine...he'd even accept hackers broke the system, but it was running than downing it. Lucky my latest one, cares more about protecting valuable information than someone being inconvienced...
clif
Let me add my support to the mix as well. I use what ever OS I need to do for a job, sometimes its because one OS is superior to another for one application, sometimes its because we are designing a product that we will want others to be able to implement without having to hire geeks, even if it isn't the most stable platform.
Its kinda funny as I've got one application leak on my mac that I haven't been able to trace in the coding...my boss keeps telling me that this is the reason I should switch over to NT even though it takes approximately a month and a half before it starts to bomb out.
Now most people's NT boxes don't stay up that long, though my image servers (we archive several terrebytes of student data) haven't been rebooted in about 6 months...and the last was due to a hard disc failure on the primary drive.
My linux boxes stay in a corner where no one messes with them (though I haven't figured how to get my damn MB to allow booting without a keyboard attached...need to upgrade the BIOS if I ever take any down and see if this takes care of that). They have unpresidented uptime, but I'm, the only one that knows how to use them.
When picking a machine, ya have to ask whats it going to be used for and whos going to use them. A moron can administer a Mac and a Moron with a MCSE can administer an NT box (hmmm...was that redundant...I don't doubt there are MCSE's that know what time it is, but I haven't met one). You're gonna be hard pressed to find a geek that will be able to administer a linux box past installing Apache and maybe a few other services. If you find someone who knows whats going on, ye not going to have the problems with any OS that seems to do the job.
clif (damn, I'm rambling today)
Ya know why /.-ers hate Apple, because they like the mysticism that has gone away in computers. They like the command prompts that make them look like wizards, when they are only slight-of-hand con artists. The Mac takes all this away. Any friggin moron can use a mac, and these morons actually do better and are more productive at using these machines than they are. No, ya can't get to some of the more powerful features without hacking them first and you won't find a CLI until ten...and thats going to have to be hacked out as well as Apple has already said it won't be in as a default.
Having said this, I admin Mac Servers, NT Boxez and one or two Linux (as soon as I find the right drivers for the second...) servers. I've also installed/set up everyone myself. Whats my prefered machine? The one that gets the job done the fastest and for most of my work, its my Powerbook G3 (even if I am telneting into my linux box across the building).
clif
To be honest, this doesn't make a hell of alot of sense. Censorship is determined by any criteria that the censor decides to censor on. In the '50s Congress led a movement to censor anyone that was in or rumored to be in the Communist party, regardless of their message. This was still censorship and it was not based on content of the message, but of the possibility of the content of the message.
.1 cents per email (that $0.0001 for those who are as bad at math as I am) would bankrupt me in a matter of weeks. Its not spam but it is high volume...
By censoring ISPs that are on the RBL, you are censoring based on the assumption that the message is spam, not the actuality that it is spam. I run two listserves, both are high volume and would fit under your assumption that they are spam. OT, but this is one of the reasons I get a little tickd when someone mentions methods of controling spam through charging for email. One list I run has had at times over 1000 individuals...charging
clif
What the fuck is this different than the subject that showed up two days ago (RE:Censorware...)??? Ya'll complain when someone censors your account for no apparent reason, threating to take action and use the law, but when you want to do this, its perfectly legitimate.
This is no different than any other self-regulation. Either ya allow the censorware morons out there censor any page with a naughty wordy-word or ya don't censor anyone that spams you. They are both opt-in agreements. No one has to be apart of that arrangement if they do not wish to be.
I am opposed to both spam and censorship, but unless we pass laws, then there is no way to deal with both...oh yeah, I forgot, geeks don't get involved with politics unless cryptography is involved.
Nevermind...
clif
How come every fucking moron quotes the price of the media not the price to produce? As an amatur (ie., I don't get paid for what I do), I have a studio worth several thousand $$$s. Decent studio time is at a premium ($75 an hour last I recorded outside of my home...mostly because I didn't have a Bosendorfer at my fingertips...the rental of that was extra even though it is a studio fixture). As a programmer, I guess I should charge everyone $1 for my custom work as thats all it costs for the media I give over in the final project.
BTW complaining about the RIAA ripping off the artists and then ripping MP3s as a protest is just stealing from the same source as the RIAA is stealing from.
I thought the Sorenson compression wasn't owned by Apple and thats why it is proprietary...
clifyt
LPs may have better sound but this is not because of the higher range, its because of the process it takes to produce them...the vinyl adds some warmth to the process but at the same time losing alot of the high end frequency. When I buy a record (yeah you can still get them), I usually buy two if they are keepers. One to listen to all the time, the other to listen to on special occasions. Any gain you get from a record is lost even with high quality needles after the first play (ok, maybe the 10th play is when I start noticing a change). The first play, I usually stream a copy to CDR anyways.
Case in point, Sting's Nothing like the Sun album is probably one of the best works I've ever heard. The CD version (even the gold master) sounds too brittle and I would not have liked it half as much if I'd heard the CD version first. The vinyl adds just enough warmth (read distortion, the analogue version of antialiasing) to make this disc perfect. By recording this to disc from the vinyl, I get the best of both worlds.
The problem before digital is the fact that people did not realize vinyl and even tape is an fx not just a media and did not record their digital the same way. Right now, I am finishing up another album and am looking into pressing some vinyl first before I re-record it to disc. There are even programs that emulate this, but not to the effect that I want.
On a second point, as for dynamics and otherwise, what the hell are you people listening to. Letsee, most mp3s are of pop, rap or punk nature, the first because its what most listen to and the latter because these mediums have always used what ever means possible to get their message out...they aren't as dissimilar as people would like to believe. None of these genres really don't employee techniques that need higher range or bits. Few people will ever notice the difference between mp3 and the high end. The audiophiles will always have the option of getting the higher quality shit. Then again most of you who fancy themselves as audiophiles, would be sorely disappointed to find they are not...I know I'm not even though I've spent alot of money on high end JBL studio monitors that are flat as hell. I won't notice the diffence but maybe someone else will, but I doubt it...
clifyt
Damn, am I old or what??? I remember a time when few computers I connected to actually had domain names. I still remember with my first university account, it was actually fast to type in telnet 129.79.1.2 than to use the university's designation as the lookup took too long.
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Hell most of the muds I played on didn't have names til much later, nor any of the other informational telnetable BBSs that seemed at the time light years ahead of anything I'd ever seen. It just felt like memorizing phone numbers to me (which actually I can't do anymore without the help of my palmtop...damn I hope I don't get stranded somewhere without a charge
clify t
Getting rid of copyrights is like giving everyone a license to steal. In my line(s) of work, I do nothing but provide intellectual property. With my professional job, I do alot of psychometric research and computer programming to go along with it. Most of the stuff we do has never been done before of it has been done and that that have been implemented bave been rather poorly. For instance, I am working on a project that rates essays for content much like ETS (Educational Testing Services) now implements on the GRE. I'll be damned if someone is going to take what we have designed and implement it for free within their own multimillion dollar institution.
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Think about this, all those who've signed NDAs on the source you've had them peruse would now be free to take what you've developed and rebrand it as their own bcause the contract would no longer be valid. Then they sell it to M$ because even though their stuff sucks and they ruin everything they touch, Gates is one of the best damn salesmen in the world (if not the best)...Not one of you can argue this point.
In my side business, I design websites and povide content. I rely on my (c) to let people know that even if they want to take my shit and repost it, it will still bear my name and a link back to my site...this is the only thing I charge for reproducing my creations, but the (c) ensures that I will not be ripped off from even that.
Finally as my hobby (its starting to look like a business since the opening of our newest website) is that I'm musician and mostly a synthesist. I don't mind people passing around mp3 of my music, I would however mind them being put on another website or burned by someone other than end user. Unfortunately, MP3 doesn't store copyright information or let others know who created this stuff. I've even taken the shit off my site that I might want to shop around at some point and left the more arty stuff up there (ie., couldn't sell it if I wanted to). Past the mp3, I also design sound sets for the Kurzweil series of samplers. The cost of recording these didn't come cheap and if they weren't for my own personal usage, I would be charging others for their usage.
The whole point is that few people actually provide content and the rest of you damn vampires suck it up and expect us to work for free. If it wasn't for intellectual property protections, I wouldnt have a job. I could easily go back to repairing computers ad make far more than I do right now...as I find a great distain for this kinda stuff the last year I actually let people know I did it I was charging $75 and hour to swap a damn hard drive in the privacy of their own home (and what I see gets forgotten later, unlike bestbuy). I hate that shit, and unfortunately for most of the lusers reading this board, this is all you are cut out to do. If you really beleive in giving away your time for free, quit work and do so. If you don't, then your a fucking hypocrite.
Sorry to be so inflamatory, but some of us actually provide a service to the world that dosn't include manual labor or flipping burgers (like your ISP job isn't anything but). I may be an intellectual snob, but this is not less of an inflamatory notion that the Nazi's stealing from and killing the Jews just because they had the wealth of the time. When one doesn't have the intellectual capacity to create something on their own, those who can shouldn't be punished because of it.
clif
(yeah yeah, had to throw in some nazi imagery...it shows just how tired his arguement is. Whos law was it that said if ya brought up nazi's the arguements already been decided
Yes, but Caffeine and Nicotine do not effect work place activities in the same way that pot does. I myself see no harm in pot in moderation, but that does not mean that I should have to hire someone who I know does illegal activities and brings them into the workplace (even a trace residue in the blood stream is bringing it with you).
As for the war on drugs, everyone knows this is a crock of shit. It is a war on minorities and those that just don't fit into society. I don't like drugs myself as I believe in a pure mind and body...this doesn't mean that I support the gov't restriction of a substance unless it effects others (ie. someone smoking anything on a crouded anything where I have to inhale the shit as well...)
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clifyt
I agree. I don't mind accounts being moderated up as a default, but one of the guidlines was to promote not to demote. Why start someone where they are gona wanna start fresh?
Ya think thats a bad thing? I believe in privacy and I also think drugs should be legalized (not just some, but all) but why should an employeer be forced to hire some fucking pothead. If you want to work for someone else, you are giving up a bit of privacy by virtue of working there...
If you don't like their hiring practices, don't work there. If you don't like DIVX because it violates your privacy, don't buy that shit either.
clifyt
First everyone tries to push friggin linux on everyones desktops and now people complain when the dirty masses try to take up your suggestions. I keep Win NT as a server because my boss understands this technology and I can have any moron administer it...it doesn't crash as frequently as ya'll liked to beleive but then again I run t pretty tight. I keep a Mac on my desktop because us stoopid users don't want to think...we want to do.
A computer is a tool. Did ya have to read the instruction manual to use a hammer? Did ya try using a hammer when ya should have been using a screwdriver? On a mac, ya don't get these problems because its intuative which is how machines should be. At home, I keep a linux box as my router so my sister can dial into the internet from her Win95 box and I can get in with one of my various machines and my other roomate can hook in with his Compaq Laptop. Do they know how this works? The answer is : They don't need to.
Yes, this might be a bit inflamatory, but if you're gonna promote an OS as the OS, then you have to factor in the Human anomolies. It's like communism...on paper its good and in the right hands it might work, but if you throw a real human into the soup ya get Socialism and Stallinism. Its not the OS (or ideology) ya have to worry about its the people.
clif
Well I had someone try stealing a radio from a bobbytrapped car (I think I there might still be a link to this in my userinfo somewhere) and the criminal did just that. The fuckers parents as well as the police blamed me for putting a CD Player in a convertible knowing that it was (how did they call it) an 'Attractive Nuisence'. He ended up with a trip to the hospital and I ended up at the police station because I planted hidden razorblades behind the console.
Yes, they do use this excuse. Everyone else is to blame but the criminal. I've done stupid and maybe criminal activities myself in the past, but they were of my doing, not my parents or societies.
Apple's main problem has always been in the marketing department. They've always has a great GUI that any moron could use and until recently, it was far more stable than anything Gates could produce. Before anyone flames (or moderates) me, realize Linux is not a user platform right now...if my mom can't use it, it ain't the platform.
I've had a Newt MP, 100, 120 and a 130. These all worked like a charm (though the 120 I gave a coworked finally died the other week...though I wouldn't be supprised if she just has a dead battery). The handwritting is still better than anything else I've found and I really wish I could switch away from a dead product, but it's still head and shoulders above the competition. The only thing consumer oriented that I've found that I'd even consider would be the Libretto. I've borrowed my bosses when my PB G3's been too much to cary for presentation and the only problem with it is that it only runs Windows (I couldn't even get NT to install on it...grrr).
If Steveybaby had gotten over his hatred of the newton, it would still be a viable technology today. I'd still pick another up today for my "museum of computer stuff that I stuck on my wall" if I had the cash. It'd go between my little HP calc (114??? I can't remember) and my parted out 1541.
nuff said for this post...
clifyt
I agree with all of these...I too work for a university. I manage the developement area for my department. I do research, program, system admin, supervise my people, project manage the stuff I have contracted all over the country and I still get people asking when I will get a 'real' job. I've walked out of interviews because assholes who obviously idn't know what they were talking about talked down my position...they kept infering that what I had was a student position mainly because of the pay. I too won't mention how much I get payed now.
My position is funded by grants from anything from the US Gov't to large medical facilities to at least one ivy league school (of which I am one of the project leaders for AItype software for the assessment of writtings). Outside of this work, I find enough consulting to keep me busy, but I need my position at the university to keep his coming in. I'm at the point I want a 40 hr a week job and to stop doing stuff that makes my head spin most of the time.
The school gives me lots of benefits, the first of which is free tuition. The people are the best I've ever workd for, even if they all have quirks that might not be tolerated in the business world...then again, they might have these quirks only because we allow them. Hell I've never had another job that allows me to come in in full motorcycle leather. University positions are quirky, but I still end up doing a hell of a lot more than I would in usiness and with a larger variety of equpiment.
If I could find a company that could compensate me the way this place does and a raise at the same time, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but until that time comes, I'm just going to keep passing up these wonderful jobs.
clifyt
I own a few macs but administer PCs at work. You're just a fucking troll ut I think I'll respond anyways. Yeah there's alot of crap we don't like on the Mac side, but when a give us an alternative that does the same things as efficiently and intuatively as a mac, I'll switch over. At home, I run a music studio. Started off years ago with a 468 and Win3.1 (which still the most stable and tightest platform for Midi on the PC side). It really pissed me off to set their with friends ready to record and I'm sitting their debuging the shit. My macs do crash and properly configured they do so less than my PCs, but when they do it's relatively easy to fix the shit. 3 minutes as opposed to a half hour (if I don't have to reinstall).
Getting to the point at hand, the Y2k shit that this software developer was railing against really has nothing to do with the Mac, but at certain programing styles out there, as noted by a few dozen other articles. Hell, most mac programmers aren't even use to programming 2 digit years anyways (I program at times for a living, multiplaform). I'm never amazed when I see crap PC programmers actual source at the true shit one can output. The mac isn't the easist platform to program for, so it kinda throws off alot of the hacks out there. Now the problem with the 2 digit year will be mostly from users with spreadsheets and databases. People generally only enter 2 digits for their dates on these things (I do as well)...fortunately, usually the computer changes this into a real time format the second on put these in there and then one does not have to worry about these. A year fom now, I'll probably be searching my database by 2/1/00 or entering dates that way as long as the computer changes it instantly.
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clify t
Amen, brotha...
:-) Once one knows how to read, then ya learn how to interprete....it doesn't matter if ya can read the pretty words if ya can't understand the page.
I consider myself a Christian though in the last several years if someone asked me that I usually say something like 'No, but I try to follow the teachings of Christ'. Another AC above pointed out one of my favorite Moby quote, which I feel is applicable.
Too many people do not know how to read, nor comprehend as you say. The bible was written by poets who reveled in the words as provided by God. Not everything can be taken at face value nor was it ever intended to be. Morons who have only basic enough intelligence to breath and breed should not be interpreting the words of poets, prophets and gods (ok I believe in only 1 God, but yer free to believe wrongly is ya want...thats what free choice is all about
clifyt (sinner but trying harder...feeling like a alternate universe thumper)
Wasn't there a lawsuit against / by the RIAA several years back when second hand discs were popular? I forgot he intent of the suit, but it was either a 'major' second hand company was forced to stop selling these or risk loosing getting preferential status with the original manufactures of the discs. Something like that, very /./m$ian conspiracy :)
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Anyways however the suit turned out, soon after this I noticed a big decline in used discs. Theres only a few places now I can find any an the ones they have are crap. It is mostly in college towns where one can find these things anymore. Which brings up the point...most people who hord mp3s are college kiddies, most places that sell used discs are in college towns. If ya like the artist you are listening through mp3s, then people usually buy new discs as a used one holds as little worth as an mp3...before mp3 used discs were my way of auditioning new artists at a very cheep price. So who are we puting out of business? The mom and pop used industry that the RIAA hates so much anyways. The bestbuys are never going to see a decrease just bcause us geeks play music on our computers and by continually bitching when the RIAA tries something new, you are just encouraging them more so
back to sleepytime
clify t
I thought he just sold the publishing rights to his old catalogue and technically, didn't he set it as a public (?) corporation where he was still CEO of the corp that held this catalogue? He'd still make money even if he sold all the stock. Then again, he should have just sold it all to Michael Jackson and bitched about it 10 years later when MJ won't give back what he paid millions for.
Does this mean all Macs are evil now, cause I think they all have networking built into the board anymore. There was something one one of the apple boards today about figuring out ones mac address on der mac. Anyone with any networking knowledge would be able to figure this out in a minute, but then again these computers weren't meant for geeks with time on their hand to learn every OS out there.
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Hmmm...next program I write, I might have to see if I can use this in the licencing function just to be a dick
clif
I really don't think most of these geeks realize what it takes to record a work nor the time involved. I have always had to pay for my instruments and I'd like to make some of my money back one of these days, unfortunately I don't see me going on the road with my baby grand strapped on the back of my bike so I release stuff on the net.
At the moment, I only have my noncommercial stuff out there as I want to put this stuff on disc one of these days. The last time I put out commercial sounding stuff, I found it on a hotline server even though all the instructions said no redistribution...the operator claimed ignorance and mentioned there was nothing preventing him from redistributing it as it was on the net already. Yeah it was on the net, but at my friggin server with appropriate copyright data and credit to those who helped me. Since then, I've only put out my noise works. Music I love dearly but could probably never sell enough copies to buy me lunch. Maybe if MP3 could store (natively) all copyright data and provide a hyperlink back to my website(s), I'd be more interested in releasing more.
Regardless of whether one thinks my stuff is crap or not (a good deal of it is), I paid for the equipment to make this and the cost just keep piling up. As a side note, I program / develop software for a living. Most of the people arguing all software should be OpenSource or free are idiots. These people have no idea of what something takes to create it. If information wants so hard to be free, why did it cost $40k for my education. I don't mind OS but it is only another way to sell your wares. A few years from now after I am a bit more establisheed in my field, I will probably open up all my source to the public and go entirely into consulting. Don't kid yourselves, OS is not altruistic, it is just marketing. I hate capitalism, but the modern alternatives just don't seem to work.