Here are some new models from a fictional (yet ever expanding) home furnishing outlet, La Piere. My personal favorite is the Powerpot III diesel powered toilet.
As General Manager for a college radio station in upstate New York, we too have felt the pressure of maintaining an online presence. I've been getting contract after contract to sign with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers ) who want to charge us royalties for the amount of hits and number of listens on our website. The radio station, on a limited budget already, pays royalties to ASCAP and BMI to just play songs on our airwaves, now they want more money for our online feed. Being the cheap SOB that I am, I wonder if it's really worth it to maintain an online feed for an extra $600 a year. That's $600 that could be going to new headphones, new microphones, new turntables, etc. Making your station available to the world sounds glamorous, but baby, does it ever come with a price.
Since Apple's looking for feedback anyway, this might be a good opportunity to do so. I'm sure there *has* to be a way they could make this work. Somehow it seems unfair to stifle this kid. I understand there are legal ramifications, but that's never stopped anyone before. Also, I like how I'm paying for a subscription to Slashdot, yet there are still banner ads at the top of the screen. Thanks, Taco.
This sounds vaguely similar to Sewer Shark, an old school game for Sega CD. Basically, you flew around in this hovercraft shooting at rats. Now this was entertainment! I can only imagine that the helicopter version is ten times better...
Looks like Steve didn't jive on our plot for some free beer.
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I think they'd be more likely to wonder what the heck a 99/4A is! I remember writing programs for it, and then storing them on audio tape. I also remember when my Dad picked up a speech synthesis module for his, and some huge thing the size of a modern day PC -- I think it was a floppy drive.
Good to see that someone's working on this. The QT/KDE Anti-Aliasing was shady at best -- no pun intended -- it always seemed to mess up my terminals... and the different fonts that could be used were severely limited.
Fortunately, I've still got my SO Beta 6 installed, which so far hasn't given me any problems. Almost makes me wish I hadn't deleted the installation file -- could've burned it to CD, or posted it on my site for the poor schmoes who got in a day late and a dollar short. I *almost* feel like I'm getting away with something, when I consider how good the Beta is.
I used to do that too. My professors know I'm a totally incompentent programmer, so I would "dumb the code down" (i.e. take out recursive code, use crappy search algorithms, etc.) or sometimes get it to the point where it didn't even work anymore. Now I just do what I can and turn it in. I've decided I'm just going to get my CS degree and go into Broadcasting : )
I've found Gnome to be horribly slow in and of itself. I don't think that's something you should necessarily blame on the kernel, although it might be a factor. I was a devout Gnome/Enlightenment user for a few years. Eventually I got tired of it crapping out on me and switched over to KDE, which, although not as pretty, seems to run much faster and with fewer hiccups.
I've been running 2.4.13 since the end of December with little or no trouble. However, there's an unexplainable occurrence where kswapd takes a dump and just starts chewing up all my CPU cycles. I haven't invesitigated this (mainly because I'm lazy) because it goes away after awhile. I've never experienced this with any other kernel I've used -- going back to '94.
Right click on any image... say ones produced by ads.x10.com -- or maybe us.a1.yimg.com -- or everyone's favorite ads.doubleclick.net... and then you're presented with a nice option to "Block Images From This Server". Thanks Mozilla!
But if you *really* wanted to buy one, you could. If I can't find a product I really want, I go online. Or I go a couple extra miles out of my way. If I go to my local Target/Circuit City/Best Buy/whatever, and they don't have what I want, that doesn't cause me to sit and sulk and wonder when Product X will trickle it's way into Anytown, USA. So the "it's less/not available around here" explanation is hooey.
You do college radio. I honestly think that I'd have dropped out of school a while ago if I didn't have something to occupy my free time other than learning about old technology and studying automata. Automata!!
Yeah, I can really see a potential employer asking me about Turing machines... or to code them a little application in Prolog. Another misconception my CS program makes is that all CS majors want to be programmers. I *hate* programming. I'm much more interested in the hardware/network/administration aspects of computer systems. Coding up a Java application to simulate an ATM is like pulling teeth.
Maybe that's just the CS program here at SUNY Binghamton. What's it like elsewhere?
I can honestly say I've garnered myself more experience / knowledge setting up and administering the network in my *house* than I've learned in any classroom.
Right now the objective is to finish up my degree and get out. Like a co-worker suggested to me a couple summers back (I should have listened) -- your degree -- and 75 cents -- will buy you a cup of coffee at 7-Eleven. And as was mentioned earlier, the declining job market/salaries isn't much of a motivator either. That's why I have a job at one of the local commercial radio stations here (in addition to working at the campus station), -- it NEVER hurts to have a backup plan.
Solidarity, my brothers and sisters in CS suckiness...
Been getting CR hits like wildfire, so I figured i'd give this a shot (until recently I had a default.ida file that refreshed to someone's page whom I don't care for very much -- I'm sure all the hits referenced from my machine confused him). However, after watching the logs for a little and ping'ing and lynx'ing the "offending" box, it would seem that the script doesn't do jack. Maybe it did at one point, but not anymore.
If you need exposure to new music, try your local college station. They get the opportunity to play new music before most of the big boys -- and often choose better stuff than commercial radio program directors, whose music taste is dictated by $$$. Remember when no one thought we would need anything more than AM? Then FM came along...but I don't think digital radio will get the same lucky break.
I couldn't make it through the article without thinking about that image of Bill Gates with all the Borg apparati strapped to him. As a second year CS student at SUNY Binghamton, I can attest that it would seem that there are a lot fewer female students in the upper level CS classes. There are a few though, and most of them are smarter than me... although I'm not sure that would take too much...
NASATV covers launches from beginning to end already FOR FREE on the web, and they've been doing so for quite some time. So obviously even having such content available isn't going to be enough to interest the average Joe Citizen. http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html Maybe Jimmy Lovell and Buzz Aldrin need to have a big weenie roast and invite the neighborhood folks. They could pass out pamphlets and watch "The Right Stuff". P.S. Apollo 13 was worth every penny.
NASATV covers launches from beginning to end already FOR FREE on the web, and they've been doing so for quite some time. So obviously even having such content available isn't going to be enough to interest the average Joe Citizen. http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html Maybe Jimmy Lovell and Buzz Aldrin need to have a big weenie roast and invite the neighborhood folks. They could pass out pamphlets and watch "The Right Stuff". P.S. Apollo 13 was worth every penny.
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my baby shouts Haskell! Haskell! Haskell!... but my name is Mike...
Here are some new models from a fictional (yet ever expanding) home furnishing outlet, La Piere. My personal favorite is the Powerpot III diesel powered toilet.
I guess it would also be safe to say that Slashdot has really gone to shit this time. And oddly enough, it's not off topic.
As General Manager for a college radio station in upstate New York, we too have felt the pressure of maintaining an online presence. I've been getting contract after contract to sign with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers ) who want to charge us royalties for the amount of hits and number of listens on our website. The radio station, on a limited budget already, pays royalties to ASCAP and BMI to just play songs on our airwaves, now they want more money for our online feed. Being the cheap SOB that I am, I wonder if it's really worth it to maintain an online feed for an extra $600 a year. That's $600 that could be going to new headphones, new microphones, new turntables, etc. Making your station available to the world sounds glamorous, but baby, does it ever come with a price.
Since Apple's looking for feedback anyway, this might be a good opportunity to do so. I'm sure there *has* to be a way they could make this work. Somehow it seems unfair to stifle this kid. I understand there are legal ramifications, but that's never stopped anyone before. Also, I like how I'm paying for a subscription to Slashdot, yet there are still banner ads at the top of the screen. Thanks, Taco.
This sounds vaguely similar to Sewer Shark, an old school game for Sega CD. Basically, you flew around in this hovercraft shooting at rats. Now this was entertainment! I can only imagine that the helicopter version is ten times better...
I think when we consider the definition of "tech-savvy" to be "I can program my VCR" -- we're taking giant leaps backwards.
Looks like Steve didn't jive on our plot for some free beer.
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I think they'd be more likely to wonder what the heck a 99/4A is! I remember writing programs for it, and then storing them on audio tape. I also remember when my Dad picked up a speech synthesis module for his, and some huge thing the size of a modern day PC -- I think it was a floppy drive.
Good to see that someone's working on this. The QT/KDE Anti-Aliasing was shady at best -- no pun intended -- it always seemed to mess up my terminals... and the different fonts that could be used were severely limited.
Fortunately, I've still got my SO Beta 6 installed, which so far hasn't given me any problems. Almost makes me wish I hadn't deleted the installation file -- could've burned it to CD, or posted it on my site for the poor schmoes who got in a day late and a dollar short. I *almost* feel like I'm getting away with something, when I consider how good the Beta is.
I used to do that too. My professors know I'm a totally incompentent programmer, so I would "dumb the code down" (i.e. take out recursive code, use crappy search algorithms, etc.) or sometimes get it to the point where it didn't even work anymore. Now I just do what I can and turn it in. I've decided I'm just going to get my CS degree and go into Broadcasting : )
I've found Gnome to be horribly slow in and of itself. I don't think that's something you should necessarily blame on the kernel, although it might be a factor. I was a devout Gnome/Enlightenment user for a few years. Eventually I got tired of it crapping out on me and switched over to KDE, which, although not as pretty, seems to run much faster and with fewer hiccups.
I've been running 2.4.13 since the end of December with little or no trouble. However, there's an unexplainable occurrence where kswapd takes a dump and just starts chewing up all my CPU cycles. I haven't invesitigated this (mainly because I'm lazy) because it goes away after awhile. I've never experienced this with any other kernel I've used -- going back to '94.
Right click on any image... say ones produced by ads.x10.com -- or maybe us.a1.yimg.com -- or everyone's favorite ads.doubleclick.net... and then you're presented with a nice option to "Block Images From This Server". Thanks Mozilla!
But if you *really* wanted to buy one, you could. If I can't find a product I really want, I go online. Or I go a couple extra miles out of my way. If I go to my local Target/Circuit City/Best Buy/whatever, and they don't have what I want, that doesn't cause me to sit and sulk and wonder when Product X will trickle it's way into Anytown, USA. So the "it's less/not available around here" explanation is hooey.
Alternatively, Tiscali has a pretty fast mirror; I've been getting 90KB/Sec from them from the U.S. East Coast...
Have fun!!
Interesting idea, but for the cost of the optical equipment alone -- you could probably just buy a digital picture frame.
Sounds like a fun project though.
You do college radio. I honestly think that I'd have dropped out of school a while ago if I didn't have something to occupy my free time other than learning about old technology and studying automata. Automata!!
Yeah, I can really see a potential employer asking me about Turing machines... or to code them a little application in Prolog. Another misconception my CS program makes is that all CS majors want to be programmers. I *hate* programming. I'm much more interested in the hardware/network/administration aspects of computer systems. Coding up a Java application to simulate an ATM is like pulling teeth.
Maybe that's just the CS program here at SUNY Binghamton. What's it like elsewhere?
I can honestly say I've garnered myself more experience / knowledge setting up and administering the network in my *house* than I've learned in any classroom.
Right now the objective is to finish up my degree and get out. Like a co-worker suggested to me a couple summers back (I should have listened) -- your degree -- and 75 cents -- will buy you a cup of coffee at 7-Eleven. And as was mentioned earlier, the declining job market/salaries isn't much of a motivator either. That's why I have a job at one of the local commercial radio stations here (in addition to working at the campus station), -- it NEVER hurts to have a backup plan.
Solidarity, my brothers and sisters in CS suckiness...
Mike
Been getting CR hits like wildfire, so I figured i'd give this a shot (until recently I had a default.ida file that refreshed to someone's page whom I don't care for very much -- I'm sure all the hits referenced from my machine confused him). However, after watching the logs for a little and ping'ing and lynx'ing the "offending" box, it would seem that the script doesn't do jack. Maybe it did at one point, but not anymore.
The real question is, when is CowboyNeal going to be on TV?
If you need exposure to new music, try your local college station. They get the opportunity to play new music before most of the big boys -- and often choose better stuff than commercial radio program directors, whose music taste is dictated by $$$. Remember when no one thought we would need anything more than AM? Then FM came along...but I don't think digital radio will get the same lucky break.
I couldn't make it through the article without thinking about that image of Bill Gates with all the Borg apparati strapped to him. As a second year CS student at SUNY Binghamton, I can attest that it would seem that there are a lot fewer female students in the upper level CS classes. There are a few though, and most of them are smarter than me... although I'm not sure that would take too much...
NASATV covers launches from beginning to end already FOR FREE on the web, and they've been doing so for quite some time. So obviously even having such content available isn't going to be enough to interest the average Joe Citizen.
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html
Maybe Jimmy Lovell and Buzz Aldrin need to have a big weenie roast and invite the neighborhood folks. They could pass out pamphlets and watch "The Right Stuff". P.S. Apollo 13 was worth every penny.
NASATV covers launches from beginning to end already FOR FREE on the web, and they've been doing so for quite some time. So obviously even having such content available isn't going to be enough to interest the average Joe Citizen. http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html Maybe Jimmy Lovell and Buzz Aldrin need to have a big weenie roast and invite the neighborhood folks. They could pass out pamphlets and watch "The Right Stuff". P.S. Apollo 13 was worth every penny.