Battery life in the 16 hours range (most people could read two average books in this amount of time).
Uhh.... What books are you reading? Archie comics? Maybe I could read the two latest Hardy Boys Mysteries in 16 hours, but good luck reading the latest best-selling novel (S. King, Grisham, et al) in that time span.... Hmmm, speaking of comic books, e-book readers should eventually allow for full-color displays so you could read comics on them. Imagine storing a full year's worth of your favorite monthly comic in full color. Granted, it's not exactly the same thing as the real thing if you're an avid collector. But if you're a casual fan, 'twould be quite cool.
heh... The ATT demo handled this annoying catchphrase with a bit of the Max Headroom syndrome: "wa-wa-wa-waz-you-you-you-you-pp". This should entertain me for at least another 15 minutes!;)
For fuck's sake man, how many times does a similar study have to be posted here, only to have everyone point out that just because two traits are apparent, they are not necessarily cause-and-effect related. I'm sorry Katz; I too wish that playing lots of video games would make me sexy, desirable, rich, and funny. Unfortunately, as I think both you and I can attest to, none of those are the case.
(And apologies if that's not what Katz's actual rant was about; I merely skimmed it. I don't have the stomach to take full-on Katz.)
Crikey, IBM's been on slashdot more than Microsoft lately--just about every day. Granted, it's been mostly good news. Don't ya think it's about time to get an official/. IBM icon. Hmmm, but how could they Borg-ify that...
Sweet. Misplaced Childhood is in my top-five. Excellent concept album that actually works. Marillion and Genesis (pre-Hackett departure, like you said--Selling England rules) are my two favorite bands at the moment. Some neo-prog that I'm really into right now is the mighty Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, echolyn, and Pain of Salvation. As for old school, I like Gentle Giant, Camel, Tull, and the Floyd.
I've used Napster maybe three times. I buy on average two-threee cds per month and have for probably for the last two years. Probably less than 10% of the albums are modern/recent material. There's lots of great stuff out there that I haven't heard yet. Hell, getting the entire Yes back catalogue is gonna take some time. There's lots of great older bands to get on CD (Jethro Tull, Marillion, etc) that I still have yet to run out of CDs to buy. And this is all without the help of Napster.
Another thing that I do is hit Amazon.com and check some of the user-made lists of cds for the musical genre I like. For example, I listen to progressive rock, so I check all the music lists in that category, and find some really cool cd's that I've never heard of. See, music isn't shit if you know what to look for.
It's a shame. This means I'll never end up using their software, and I would gladly pay for their service, if they would serve me.
When I read that I automatically assumed that the editor who posted this was CmdrTaco. That is until I clicked thru and read the rest of the editorial. That's the difference. Taco flippantly writes one-liners without any real thought or anything to back up his "opinion". Michael generally supports his statements with well-thoughtout ideas. I don't always agree with them, but at least I see he puts the effort in. I've been getting fairly aggravated by Taco's latest editorial snippets where it's obvious he put no thought or even read the corresponding article before posting. Thank you Michael for keeping me sane!!
umm... yeah. Take responsibility, hemos.
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someone who really hated geometry (What bad high school teachers can do)
Or, what someone who did poorly in geometry and tries to pass off their own inadequecies on others can do. Seriously, Geometry is a subject; you can like it on its own, regardless of who presents it. I had what I thought was a bad professor for CS I and II but I don't hate CS, I hate the professor.
Damn, Taco, it's cool to be Atheist and all, but "Geezus"? Come on. That's one right you have for being religious, is the ability to shout out "Jesus!" There is no "Geezus". What is that?
Was it me, or was that one of the cooler release statements. The humor strewn throughout the otherwise informative release statment shows me that, hey, these are just some guys working on a good product. The statement even made fun of themeselves! You don't see that very often. That's the one thing I like most about the hacker culture, is things like this. I just feel comfortable with these people. "Dude, use our new tool! It's cool. Here's why..."
Ugh! Watts S. Humphrey. (Note: Not "Humphreys", which everyone, including myself until last month, usually says). I recognize some of the things he's brought to the software engineering industry, but I just don't agree with many of his practices. PSP, while a good idea conceptually, is almost never used due to practicality. If I'm writing down everything I've done and in the last hour (including interruptions), then I'm losing time doing the things that I'm sitting there writing about! Not to mention, Watts Humphrey represents everything that I HATE about S/W Engineering. I'm not saying the things he professes are wrong, just that I hate them. I'm currently reading two books by him (Managing the Software Process, An Introduction to the The Team Sofware Process) in my S/W Eng Process class at RIT and I can't stand them. They are so dry and boring and seemingly dated even though one of the books was published just this year! I'm reading his team version of PSP (TSP) and it basically incorporates all of the bad things about PSP into a team-oriented environment, which according to Fred Brooks makes everything all the more inefficient. So I would personally say avoid Watts Humphrey books like the plague. If you want to learn about SW Process, read Fred Brooks.
I can assure you that Phil Collins does not wish he was Peter Gabriel, at least financially speaking. Phil Collins has raked in huge amounts of cash from the (overly) mainstream, pop-oriented Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance albums, as well as his Tarzan and upcoming Disney soundtracks. Gabriel's last album So came out in '92 which was mildly successful. What's he been doing since then? His next album is coming out next year... Any mild success his last album had is surely not going to carry over 10 years later. Most people won't even know who/remember who he is, outside of the die-hards. Now, does Phil Collins wish he was Peter Gabriel with respect to integrity and sticking to his progressive rocks roots and not selling out, that's a different question. We do know that Phil doesn't wish he was Gabriel for his hair. They're both bald!
Getting 8 hours of sleep is tough! Do people really do this? I get between 5.5 - 6 hours on average, and it's not because of work. I strictly work 8 hours a day, but the problem is free time. If you count an hour out of the day for commuting, maybe an hour or so of waking up time, an hour of handling daily errands, that leaves you with 5 (!!) hours of free time, out of 8 hours in your model. That's not enough time to spend with your family, watch X-Files, and hack some code. And I'm not being funny here. If I go to sleep for more than 6 hours, I feel as if I'm wasting my time. I'm missing out on something that I could be doing. By only sleeping for 6 hours, I can read the latest O'Reilly book for 2 hours that day. Does anybody else feel this way?
Point taken, but you missed what I was trying to say:
Look, seriously, do you think a person's work is all that determines "meaningful" or "making a difference?
I then cited my example of what is meaningful to me, not that that would (or should) be meaningful to everyone. I think the ambiguity stems from what exactly is the definition of "meaningful"? Success? Wealth? Happiness? How many people are remembered after they're gone by people outside of relatives and friends? Not many of us have operating systems named after us that will keep our legends alive posthumously for years and years. So just because your job is shite, doesn't mean that you can't still find meaning and success and happiness in your life. That is what I was trying to say.
Whoa, there! Take the revolver away from your head and put it back in the desk drawer...
Look, seriously, do you think a person's work is all that determines "meaningful" or "making a difference?" I plan on having kids and raising them, and teaching them right from wrong. I don't know of anything more meaningful than that. Am I making a difference? Hell yeah...
So while you may be working the tedious, unchallenging job of Greeter at the local Wal-Mart, which is inherently inconsequential in the Grand Scheme of Things... When you come home at the end of the day, and hold your children in your arms, that's when you know that what you do is meaningful and damn well makes a difference. There's other things in life that you can judge yourself on besides work.
Well, at least he didn't say "and I use it to send money to my children at college!";)
Violent Femmes reference...
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Did anyone catch it when one of the guys started singing "Life was fun, life was great, until I made my big mistake..." and no one else knew what the hell he was talking about. That's the beginning of the V-Femmes song Gone Out the Window. I just got giddy because I saw the Femmes last week in Santa Ana, CA and they sang this song. And then I hear it on GIS. Oh, such a small world.
Paying per song is ideal. However, how do you figure out cost/song? For example, I listen to alot of progressive rock music: some Yes albums have 3 or 4 songs on an album. Should the cost of one of these songs, which is say 1/3 of the entire album length (say 20 minutes long), be equivalent to a song off a Beatles disc (one of sixteen 2 min 30 sec songs)? Should the cost be based on time, or whatever the recording artist deems appropriate. For example, on some albums there are small intro tracks of 30 seconds or less, maybe of someone talking or whatever. Should there really be a set fee for all songs, where I have to pay the same price for a 30 sec as for a 3 min+ song? I am just curious about how to go about this.
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Battery life in the 16 hours range (most people could read two average books in this amount of time).
... Hmmm, speaking of comic books, e-book readers should eventually allow for full-color displays so you could read comics on them. Imagine storing a full year's worth of your favorite monthly comic in full color. Granted, it's not exactly the same thing as the real thing if you're an avid collector. But if you're a casual fan, 'twould be quite cool.
Uhh.... What books are you reading? Archie comics? Maybe I could read the two latest Hardy Boys Mysteries in 16 hours, but good luck reading the latest best-selling novel (S. King, Grisham, et al) in that time span.
heh... The ATT demo handled this annoying catchphrase with a bit of the Max Headroom syndrome: "wa-wa-wa-waz-you-you-you-you-pp". This should entertain me for at least another 15 minutes! ;)
For fuck's sake man, how many times does a similar study have to be posted here, only to have everyone point out that just because two traits are apparent, they are not necessarily cause-and-effect related. I'm sorry Katz; I too wish that playing lots of video games would make me sexy, desirable, rich, and funny. Unfortunately, as I think both you and I can attest to, none of those are the case.
(And apologies if that's not what Katz's actual rant was about; I merely skimmed it. I don't have the stomach to take full-on Katz.)
Crikey, IBM's been on slashdot more than Microsoft lately--just about every day. Granted, it's been mostly good news. Don't ya think it's about time to get an official /. IBM icon. Hmmm, but how could they Borg-ify that...
Sweet. Misplaced Childhood is in my top-five. Excellent concept album that actually works. Marillion and Genesis (pre-Hackett departure, like you said--Selling England rules) are my two favorite bands at the moment. Some neo-prog that I'm really into right now is the mighty Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, echolyn, and Pain of Salvation. As for old school, I like Gentle Giant, Camel, Tull, and the Floyd.
Good to hear from a fellow Proglodyte.
On the plus side, .af domains should be real cheap.
.af domain I could register like goatse.cx, but all I can come up with is rice-pil.af...
Hmmm... I was trying to thing of a clever
I've used Napster maybe three times. I buy on average two-threee cds per month and have for probably for the last two years. Probably less than 10% of the albums are modern/recent material. There's lots of great stuff out there that I haven't heard yet. Hell, getting the entire Yes back catalogue is gonna take some time. There's lots of great older bands to get on CD (Jethro Tull, Marillion, etc) that I still have yet to run out of CDs to buy. And this is all without the help of Napster.
Another thing that I do is hit Amazon.com and check some of the user-made lists of cds for the musical genre I like. For example, I listen to progressive rock, so I check all the music lists in that category, and find some really cool cd's that I've never heard of. See, music isn't shit if you know what to look for.
It's a shame. This means I'll never end up using their software, and I would gladly pay for their service, if they would serve me.
When I read that I automatically assumed that the editor who posted this was CmdrTaco. That is until I clicked thru and read the rest of the editorial. That's the difference. Taco flippantly writes one-liners without any real thought or anything to back up his "opinion". Michael generally supports his statements with well-thoughtout ideas. I don't always agree with them, but at least I see he puts the effort in. I've been getting fairly aggravated by Taco's latest editorial snippets where it's obvious he put no thought or even read the corresponding article before posting. Thank you Michael for keeping me sane!!
someone who really hated geometry (What bad high school teachers can do)
Or, what someone who did poorly in geometry and tries to pass off their own inadequecies on others can do. Seriously, Geometry is a subject; you can like it on its own, regardless of who presents it. I had what I thought was a bad professor for CS I and II but I don't hate CS, I hate the professor.
Wordstar? Geezus
Damn, Taco, it's cool to be Atheist and all, but "Geezus"? Come on. That's one right you have for being religious, is the ability to shout out "Jesus!" There is no "Geezus". What is that?
To, litterally, squash the idea from the public mind.
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Ummm... yeah. As opposed to figuratively squashing the idea from the public mind. Sorry, I'm in a pedantic mood.
Was it me, or was that one of the cooler release statements. The humor strewn throughout the otherwise informative release statment shows me that, hey, these are just some guys working on a good product. The statement even made fun of themeselves! You don't see that very often. That's the one thing I like most about the hacker culture, is things like this. I just feel comfortable with these people. "Dude, use our new tool! It's cool. Here's why..."
Not trolling or anything, but why is this of so much interest? It's been on slashdot quite a few times, but I can't figure out why. Just curious.
Ugh! Watts S. Humphrey. (Note: Not "Humphreys", which everyone, including myself until last month, usually says). I recognize some of the things he's brought to the software engineering industry, but I just don't agree with many of his practices. PSP, while a good idea conceptually, is almost never used due to practicality. If I'm writing down everything I've done and in the last hour (including interruptions), then I'm losing time doing the things that I'm sitting there writing about! Not to mention, Watts Humphrey represents everything that I HATE about S/W Engineering. I'm not saying the things he professes are wrong, just that I hate them. I'm currently reading two books by him (Managing the Software Process, An Introduction to the The Team Sofware Process) in my S/W Eng Process class at RIT and I can't stand them. They are so dry and boring and seemingly dated even though one of the books was published just this year! I'm reading his team version of PSP (TSP) and it basically incorporates all of the bad things about PSP into a team-oriented environment, which according to Fred Brooks makes everything all the more inefficient. So I would personally say avoid Watts Humphrey books like the plague. If you want to learn about SW Process, read Fred Brooks.
I can assure you that Phil Collins does not wish he was Peter Gabriel, at least financially speaking. Phil Collins has raked in huge amounts of cash from the (overly) mainstream, pop-oriented Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance albums, as well as his Tarzan and upcoming Disney soundtracks. Gabriel's last album So came out in '92 which was mildly successful. What's he been doing since then? His next album is coming out next year... Any mild success his last album had is surely not going to carry over 10 years later. Most people won't even know who/remember who he is, outside of the die-hards. Now, does Phil Collins wish he was Peter Gabriel with respect to integrity and sticking to his progressive rocks roots and not selling out, that's a different question. We do know that Phil doesn't wish he was Gabriel for his hair. They're both bald!
Getting 8 hours of sleep is tough! Do people really do this? I get between 5.5 - 6 hours on average, and it's not because of work. I strictly work 8 hours a day, but the problem is free time. If you count an hour out of the day for commuting, maybe an hour or so of waking up time, an hour of handling daily errands, that leaves you with 5 (!!) hours of free time, out of 8 hours in your model. That's not enough time to spend with your family, watch X-Files, and hack some code. And I'm not being funny here. If I go to sleep for more than 6 hours, I feel as if I'm wasting my time. I'm missing out on something that I could be doing. By only sleeping for 6 hours, I can read the latest O'Reilly book for 2 hours that day. Does anybody else feel this way?
Point taken, but you missed what I was trying to say:
Look, seriously, do you think a person's work is all that determines "meaningful" or "making a difference?
I then cited my example of what is meaningful to me, not that that would (or should) be meaningful to everyone. I think the ambiguity stems from what exactly is the definition of "meaningful"? Success? Wealth? Happiness? How many people are remembered after they're gone by people outside of relatives and friends? Not many of us have operating systems named after us that will keep our legends alive posthumously for years and years. So just because your job is shite, doesn't mean that you can't still find meaning and success and happiness in your life. That is what I was trying to say.
Whoa, there! Take the revolver away from your head and put it back in the desk drawer...
Look, seriously, do you think a person's work is all that determines "meaningful" or "making a difference?" I plan on having kids and raising them, and teaching them right from wrong. I don't know of anything more meaningful than that. Am I making a difference? Hell yeah...
So while you may be working the tedious, unchallenging job of Greeter at the local Wal-Mart, which is inherently inconsequential in the Grand Scheme of Things... When you come home at the end of the day, and hold your children in your arms, that's when you know that what you do is meaningful and damn well makes a difference. There's other things in life that you can judge yourself on besides work.
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Well, at least he didn't say "and I use it to send money to my children at college!"
Did anyone catch it when one of the guys started singing "Life was fun, life was great, until I made my big mistake..." and no one else knew what the hell he was talking about. That's the beginning of the V-Femmes song Gone Out the Window. I just got giddy because I saw the Femmes last week in Santa Ana, CA and they sang this song. And then I hear it on GIS. Oh, such a small world.
Paying per song is ideal. However, how do you figure out cost/song? For example, I listen to alot of progressive rock music: some Yes albums have 3 or 4 songs on an album. Should the cost of one of these songs, which is say 1/3 of the entire album length (say 20 minutes long), be equivalent to a song off a Beatles disc (one of sixteen 2 min 30 sec songs)? Should the cost be based on time, or whatever the recording artist deems appropriate. For example, on some albums there are small intro tracks of 30 seconds or less, maybe of someone talking or whatever. Should there really be a set fee for all songs, where I have to pay the same price for a 30 sec as for a 3 min+ song? I am just curious about how to go about this.