I'm mostly listening while driving. Now, I first listened to KID A while night driving from DC to NYC- yes, it was fresh. However, upon repeated listenings, TRACK 2 just isn't as good as Track 1 (everything in its right place) and Track 3 (national anthem), so I always hit Next track.
Also, Mourning Bell on Amnesiac isn't worth my time, because all it does is make me think how great the version on KID A is...
Well, next time I'm not driving and looking for some late-night headphone biz, I'll slap down KID A.
I'm sorry, I love radiohead as much as the next guy, but I remixed my own Kid A and Amnesiac album. I found KID A to be laden with fluff.
Once you combine the best of one with the best of the other, you get the album that I would want to buy. If they can't understand that, then I can't be bothered spending money on "Hail to the theif"- due to "artistic difference between me and the band."
At a recent trade show, the company demonstrated a new chip capable of displaying a film with a resolution of 2,000 lines.
"The picture was stunning - the audience stood and applauded," said Nick Dager, publisher of the Digital Cinema Report, an Internet trade publication. "Still there was no 'wow' factor there; it was as good as 35-millimeter film, but no better."
Lets see, 2,000 lines being AS good as, and then the savings... They stand to save $1 billion each year if they no longer have to produce and ship film prints to each of the world's 150,000 screens but instead can transmit them as electronic files through a high-speed data link, or physically deliver them on a hard disk or other storage medium.
No, I couldn't disagree more. Give me that 2,000 line prototype chip, and the billion dollar savings in the first year ALONE I have to say that this is becoming viable in the near-term.
I'm sure these would be set at the "You Have To Be KIDDING me!" price point, but I'm sure these would be delicious machines to get a hold of.
Would these be CHRP (common hardware ref. platform) compliant? Or has apple abandoned that? Cuz then you could run MacOS, or Linux, or AIX all native on the same box.
Why does every/. story need to have some little cynical tagline at the end of the intro. Why can't people just post the story, let other's read it, and formulate their own opinions?
Its obvious you have only a passing knowledge of transistors, and as such, couldn't truly comprehend what is going on in your computer. No talk of valence vs. conduction band, no talk of doping concentrations, no talk of electron current vs. Hole current; good sir, you have given semiconductor physics a slap in the face with your cursory knowledge! You're the type who'd forget body effects ignore adding a contact to the substrate! Phillistine!
(P.S.- this is a joke. Laugh. Except for forgetting the substrate contact- thats no joke, the first mistake every rookie EE makes. Even if you tie it to the drain, you GOTTA have it. )
Sorry kid. You are a coward. Get a username and then come back and play. There are unhappy times at EVERY job. But they are jobs. You have a responsibility. I write real time human-grade code. I love my job, but that doesn't mean that I come home after a hard day, completely bushed, and say "I need to better my life."
Oh wait, I do. Infact, I got a Masters in 3 years of night school, and I'm working out again. So I'm bettering my life. But I'm also playing tekken. So step the fuck off, son.
This is why I stopped wearing a watch. I don't need it. Not only does my cell phone tell time, but I can zap Outlook calendar appointments to it (either from the IRDA on my laptop or from my Visor) and have it vibrate (ringing in meetings or movies will get you SHOT) to tell me when I have to do something.
I don't even have to look at the time! It buzzes, and then I go and do my next thing (pick up wife; go to status meeting (I almost wrote beating); eat; etc.)
Since filing a lawsuit against IBM, SCO has made public statements and accusations about IBM's Unix license and about Linux in an apparent attempt to create fear uncertainty and doubt among IBM's customers and the open source community.
Yeah, SCO. Don't even think for a moment that you can out FUD IBM. They invented FUD. Its their world, you're just a squirrel trying to get a nut! Now step off!
I think the ish is that There is some SCO code in AIX (dispatching and such). IBM used that code in LINUX (the L in AIX 5L stands for LINUX). SCO wants all your base.
As a victim of said cameras, they get you from behind- where you are required to have a valid plate. I believe the cameras are directional (i.e.- one camera can only get those west bound on Street X, another can get those north bound on street Y) however I could be wrong about that.
Now GLARE paint sounds like a plan!;)
(or I could just not run the red lights... but whatever)
why are the Geeks right alongside them? I truly wonder
So they can put in their time and make the switch to management. Then THEY don't work the long hours, their UNDERLINGS do.
Whats "great", is that the managers who grossly under bid the contract and are thus slave driving their employees are the ones who get bonuses if the employees pull it off! (however I've seen some botch it enough that they are relieved of their duty)
The most productive times for me at work are during the holidays between christmas and New Years- no one is in the office. Also, during Saturday and Sunday- again- no one is in the office.
As long as your work product is not dependent upon others you can get a massive amoutn done when not going from meeting to meeting to conference call to meeting, etc.
Listen- I hear you. "principles" of software engineering; you know, making estimates of work based upon metrics of past performance, and the idea of fully clarified requirements specification before starting a project? Yeah, its all BS. Doesn't happen where I work, and I work an enormous Software Engineering projects and my customers are the FAA and NATS (UK's equivalent). They throw tantrums, and they act like children. But they pay the bills.
So 6 weeks? Is it limited to that? Because that's do-able. You work real hard, the end date comes and goes, and then its over- time to have a party.
Can you hold this over your managers head for compensation during the next performance review? It is worth a shot to mention it to him/her in clear language- I am a team player. I am busting hump. I want this reflected in my performance evaluations.
Also, are there any perks? Lunches provided on Sunday? Foosball table? Free movie tickets? Maybe this should be suggested to management- 12/7 does NOT improve morale, and with tight deadlines thats when you need morale the most.
IF its only 6 weeks, this can be sustained. When it grows to 6 months, to a year plus, that is NOT sustainable. You break down. You wear out. Productivity goes down the tubes. And you break out into stress-related rashes. Its not a pretty sight.
I was a fan of "C how to program". I thought it was a gentle book. My professor had nothing but bad things to say about Dietel's JAVA book, and I can see why. Its heavily applet based so there is a lot of "bulky" support code around the stuff you really care about.
Why am I mentioning this? The QBASIC "Currency Converter" program reminds me of Dietel's example program for RMI. MY GOD! It was like 10 pages of pain! ANd it was only mildly useful- it was about WEATHER report updates! who cares? Some of my teammates tried to use it as an example for RMI but got hoplessely lost. The layers upon layers of code just obfuscated things horribly. I stuck with it (cuz I'm the networking guy, dammit!) but it sure wasn't easy.
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aight, since we're OT, I'll come clean.
I'm mostly listening while driving. Now, I first listened to KID A while night driving from DC to NYC- yes, it was fresh. However, upon repeated listenings, TRACK 2 just isn't as good as Track 1 (everything in its right place) and Track 3 (national anthem), so I always hit Next track.
Also, Mourning Bell on Amnesiac isn't worth my time, because all it does is make me think how great the version on KID A is...
Well, next time I'm not driving and looking for some late-night headphone biz, I'll slap down KID A.
I'm sorry, I love radiohead as much as the next guy, but I remixed my own Kid A and Amnesiac album. I found KID A to be laden with fluff.
Once you combine the best of one with the best of the other, you get the album that I would want to buy. If they can't understand that, then I can't be bothered spending money on "Hail to the theif"- due to "artistic difference between me and the band."
Protools gives away a free copy
and invariably, someone responds by saying "this is not for any currently available operating system!"
And invariably, I respond "Tough titty."
which probably caused a bunch of dirty looks from other audience members until it happened on-screen.
After that, the other little kids made a pact to either get invited over to your house, or to kick you and your brother's ass if you said no.
Here is the ref
Because the POWER4 chip IS, and the PowerPC is the 1 year behind hand-me-down kid brother of the POWER architecture.
Okay, points of clarification:
1 billion in the first year of 95%+ conversion.
And yes, that billion is for the distributors.
..but instead can transmit them as electronic files through a high-speed data link..
First off, they like it when it saves them billions, not when it costs them billions. And Second, Kazaa!=high-speed.
At a recent trade show, the company demonstrated a new chip capable of displaying a film with a resolution of 2,000 lines.
"The picture was stunning - the audience stood and applauded," said Nick Dager, publisher of the Digital Cinema Report, an Internet trade publication. "Still there was no 'wow' factor there; it was as good as 35-millimeter film, but no better."
Lets see, 2,000 lines being AS good as, and then the savings...
They stand to save $1 billion each year if they no longer have to produce and ship film prints to each of the world's 150,000 screens but instead can transmit them as electronic files through a high-speed data link, or physically deliver them on a hard disk or other storage medium.
No, I couldn't disagree more. Give me that 2,000 line prototype chip, and the billion dollar savings in the first year ALONE I have to say that this is becoming viable in the near-term.
Coke is supposed to go the other way through your nose. Thats a very expensive lesson you just learned.
Oh wait, you meant the beverage...
nevermind.
I'm sure these would be set at the "You Have To Be KIDDING me!" price point, but I'm sure these would be delicious machines to get a hold of.
Would these be CHRP (common hardware ref. platform) compliant? Or has apple abandoned that? Cuz then you could run MacOS, or Linux, or AIX all native on the same box.
Somehow something must be wrong.
Dammit! I thought I fixed that rip in the space-time continuum!!
allright, I'll go get my pliers and patch it once and for all.
Why does every /. story need to have some little cynical tagline at the end of the intro. Why can't people just post the story, let other's read it, and formulate their own opinions?
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Its obvious you have only a passing knowledge of transistors, and as such, couldn't truly comprehend what is going on in your computer.
No talk of valence vs. conduction band, no talk of doping concentrations, no talk of electron current vs. Hole current; good sir, you have given semiconductor physics a slap in the face with your cursory knowledge! You're the type who'd forget body effects ignore adding a contact to the substrate! Phillistine!
(P.S.- this is a joke. Laugh. Except for forgetting the substrate contact- thats no joke, the first mistake every rookie EE makes. Even if you tie it to the drain, you GOTTA have it. )
Sorry kid. You are a coward.
Get a username and then come back and play.
There are unhappy times at EVERY job. But they are jobs. You have a responsibility. I write real time human-grade code. I love my job, but that doesn't mean that I come home after a hard day, completely bushed, and say "I need to better my life."
Oh wait, I do. Infact, I got a Masters in 3 years of night school, and I'm working out again. So I'm bettering my life.
But I'm also playing tekken. So step the fuck off, son.
This is why I stopped wearing a watch. I don't need it. Not only does my cell phone tell time, but I can zap Outlook calendar appointments to it (either from the IRDA on my laptop or from my Visor) and have it vibrate (ringing in meetings or movies will get you SHOT) to tell me when I have to do something.
I don't even have to look at the time! It buzzes, and then I go and do my next thing (pick up wife; go to status meeting (I almost wrote beating); eat; etc.)
Since filing a lawsuit against IBM, SCO has made public statements and accusations about IBM's Unix license and about Linux in an apparent attempt to create fear uncertainty and doubt among IBM's customers and the open source community.
Yeah, SCO. Don't even think for a moment that you can out FUD IBM. They invented FUD. Its their world, you're just a squirrel trying to get a nut! Now step off!
I think the ish is that There is some SCO code in AIX (dispatching and such). IBM used that code in LINUX (the L in AIX 5L stands for LINUX). SCO wants all your base.
some of you people need to grow a pair
This, from an Anonymous COWARD? Yeah, fuckin' right! bitch.
As a victim of said cameras, they get you from behind- where you are required to have a valid plate. I believe the cameras are directional (i.e.- one camera can only get those west bound on Street X, another can get those north bound on street Y) however I could be wrong about that.
;)
Now GLARE paint sounds like a plan!
(or I could just not run the red lights... but whatever)
why are the Geeks right alongside them? I truly wonder
So they can put in their time and make the switch to management. Then THEY don't work the long hours, their UNDERLINGS do.
Whats "great", is that the managers who grossly under bid the contract and are thus slave driving their employees are the ones who get bonuses if the employees pull it off! (however I've seen some botch it enough that they are relieved of their duty)
I know, right?!
Everything I learned about Software Engineering from classes and journals is BULLSHIT in the "real world."
The most productive times for me at work are during the holidays between christmas and New Years- no one is in the office. Also, during Saturday and Sunday- again- no one is in the office.
As long as your work product is not dependent upon others you can get a massive amoutn done when not going from meeting to meeting to conference call to meeting, etc.
Listen- I hear you. "principles" of software engineering; you know, making estimates of work based upon metrics of past performance, and the idea of fully clarified requirements specification before starting a project? Yeah, its all BS. Doesn't happen where I work, and I work an enormous Software Engineering projects and my customers are the FAA and NATS (UK's equivalent). They throw tantrums, and they act like children. But they pay the bills.
So 6 weeks? Is it limited to that? Because that's do-able. You work real hard, the end date comes and goes, and then its over- time to have a party.
Can you hold this over your managers head for compensation during the next performance review? It is worth a shot to mention it to him/her in clear language- I am a team player. I am busting hump. I want this reflected in my performance evaluations.
Also, are there any perks? Lunches provided on Sunday? Foosball table? Free movie tickets?
Maybe this should be suggested to management- 12/7 does NOT improve morale, and with tight deadlines thats when you need morale the most.
IF its only 6 weeks, this can be sustained. When it grows to 6 months, to a year plus, that is NOT sustainable. You break down. You wear out. Productivity goes down the tubes. And you break out into stress-related rashes. Its not a pretty sight.
I was a fan of "C how to program". I thought it was a gentle book. My professor had nothing but bad things to say about Dietel's JAVA book, and I can see why. Its heavily applet based so there is a lot of "bulky" support code around the stuff you really care about.
Why am I mentioning this? The QBASIC "Currency Converter" program reminds me of Dietel's example program for RMI. MY GOD! It was like 10 pages of pain! ANd it was only mildly useful- it was about WEATHER report updates! who cares? Some of my teammates tried to use it as an example for RMI but got hoplessely lost. The layers upon layers of code just obfuscated things horribly. I stuck with it (cuz I'm the networking guy, dammit!) but it sure wasn't easy.