Funny you should mention how petty people get when food is involved. I worked for Subway years and years ago, and saw the trashiest behavior over the slightest amounts of food.
One of my bosses from the time said she'd worked in a bank and made $10000 mistakes and had the affected party react by saying "okay, just fix it," but man, you put the mandated four black olive slices on someone's sandwich, and they act like you've just pissed in their cornflakes or something.
Bottom line: I'm inclined from my experiences to say that the food services industry is different from other business sectors (in terms of 'the customer is always right').
Okay, I suck for not having researched this as fully as I would otherwise, but for completeness' sake, I wanted to point out two things:
1. IIRC, Macromedia, some years ago, upped the version number of Freehand to make it seem more mature than Adobe's Illustrator. Or was it the other way around? Of course, now they give us version numbers like 'MX' and 'CS'.
2. Microsoft has sometimes *originally released* products at version 3 to make them seem more mature than they actually were. I believe NT started at version 3, I think IE (at least for the Mac) did the same, and if there weren't a Twilight Zone marathon going on, I'd try to run down some more examples....
I agree that it makes sense (to me) that Apple should be trying to get FairPlay/AAC/iTMS compatibility on as many music players as possible, but what about the possibility that he's working on gettting WMA support on the iPod & iTunes and maybe also the iTMS, thereby pretty much requiring him to diss Real and other possible alliances against M$?
By "our tax dollars," I'm assuming you mean in the USA--is this true? Do you have any idea how much? Dit this start back when the US still had TVs being manufactured here? If not, do you have any idea what the rationale was?
Maybe, but they couldn't have done much better in terms of casting: Jude Law will bring in a lot of non-geek women (and, I'd guess, a number of gay men who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead at a geekfest movie like this), and Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie stand to bring in a lot of non-geeks of both sexes.
It could, of course, still end up a high profile, multi star flop. I'm thinking the stars will bring people in for a weekend or two; actual quality will determine the rest.
I reacted to it with the sort of enthusiasm I haven't felt since the trailers for Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then I'm a sucker for the pulp era...
This is an example of one of those things that 'everyone knows', only it's wrong (or at least there's good reason to remain skeptical). Cf. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pag ename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1 067209807247
--Kimota!
PS: other examples: Medieval scholars thought the world was flat, what vomitoriums were used for.
I think he would've been fine with it, as long as he was getting his cut. You have to remember that most of his plays were adaptations of others' work (in other literary forms sometimes), he gave us sequels, and at least in one major case (King Lear), he took a popular legend and gave it a surprise ending. He strikes me as having been *perfectly* willing to let a story morph as necessary to make it more interesting for its medium.
Let me wax pedantic: when they are in trade paperback (or even hardcover) form and have an ISBN, call them graphic novels. When they're 32 (or so) pages and have a magazine cover, call them comic books.
Moore's work, like that of so many other comic book writers of the last decade or so, has readily lent itself to being collected in one trade paperback volume. (Many writers explicitly compose their storylines for this, since it's aparently one of the most lucrative aspects of the comics industry right now.)
If you've read Watchmen (the TBP, as opposed to the twelve individual comics--but geez, even *then*), you'd be pretty hard pressed to call it something other than a graphic novel....
--Kimota! (Owes his name, his sig, and much of his ideology to Alan Moore)
>Just because you can't get 85 FPS doesn't mean there is no entertainment value. If you'll recall, the Mona Lisa, which is only ONE FRAME, has been going strong for quite a while now.
And while it might only be one frame, the resolution is *bitchin'*!
It is in fact, *negative* surprise since Apple bought NeXT explicitly to get its OS, and Steve was part of the package (See http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/history.html for more.)
>Well, Election 2004 ended this morning. Like him or not, Bush is the man right now.
"Right now" is nearly a year away from the elections themselves. GHW Bush was "the man" in 1991 but still managed to blow the elections in '92.
Things that can still hurt W:
1. another terrorist attack (unless it's so bad that this (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/ 20/185048.shtml) occurs, which may or may not remove W.
2. not finding Osama. If they can get him in August or September of next year, *then* the election is over.
3. a trial for Saddam that brings to light all the dirty stuff the US did back when he wasn't considered the anti-Christ. You're right, though, it could well start late enough to be a non-issue.
4. more insurgents (despite what country they're actually from) and more quagmire for a supposed "mission accomplished"
5. North Korea
6. An economic downturn, or a rally that peters out
7. what else? I'm curious to hear others' comments.
Frankly, if I were a Macchiavellian bastard who wanted to stay in power, I'd arrange to have several 'necessary' military actions (of the apparently non-quagmire type) going on at the same time as the elections. As long as it's considered treason to question those actions, there will be a majority of people who think a continuity of leadership is necessary, so I know I could be re-elected.
However, the librarians of the Multnomah County Central Library (in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.) have told me that putting a book in their system costs $30, and somehow it is cheaper to buy a new one! Over the years I have often mentioned the illogic in this. But all of them continue parroting the same line.
Well, apparently many, MANY new books can be bought pre-processed (book jacket removed or plastic one added), pre-indexed (following the standard with Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress index numbers), even pre-stickered, so all the library has to do is put it on the shelf once it shows up. I'm assuming that entry into the catalog is probably electronic and mostly automated as well. Compare this to taking a donated book, determining if it's intact or needs repair, creating an index number to use for it (and making sure it's not already in use), preparing a new sticker, and then putting it on the shelf plus adding into the catalog system.
That $30 amount probably is inflated in the sense of including all the invisible costs, like health care and whatnot, but I can buy the argument that in some cases, it's cheaper to go new than it is donated.
Also, while people's intentions are usually pretty good, QUITE a lot of this donated stuff is crap, redundant, obsolete, or whatnot. (Most libraries don't need anyone too bring them another old National Geographic ever again!) High quality, "must have" and known circulating materials probably will end up on the shelf.
Finally, while you may have items you'd donate if you knew they'd be available for you to check out in the future, you've got to take into consideration the possibility that they'll be stolen. I suspect this is the main reason you don't see really hot (as in trendy) items in the video collection.
Am I the only one here who's disappointed that "Real Genius" came out in 1985 and this technology *doesn't* exist yet? I mean, the 80s gave us secret governments, secret wars, and Star Wars (as in SDI, not ANH). Why the hell didn't they give us a working version of the Real Genius particle beam so it could've been used on Saddam Hussein, his family, and lookalikes? Think of how many protesters that would've shut up, how many fewer Iraqis would've died, and how much money it would've saved....
Damn. You can't rely on the malevolent and shadowy "them" for anything, can you?
I also started off with a Plus/4, although it wasn't my fault. The next summer, I bought myself a C-128, which if you'll recall, had a C-64 built-in!
I still refer to peeking versus poking.
I remember fantasizing about the idea of having a portable C-64 and getting "online" and making my first million through trading "online." Somehow I never managed to become a day trader.
I remember a friend handing me a pornographic (text-based) C-64 game called "Farmer's Daughter." I never did get to the end of that....
I still remember the fascination with programming, with knowing that I could make this computer do the things the programs I bought (or typed in for hours from magazines) could. I despair when I see my stepkids interested in only playing games, in only being an audience and not creators....
Although, that said, Raid On Bungeling Bay freakin' ROCKED!
How is it that there's been this much of a thread without any Mac OS fan plugging the wonderful BBEdit text editor?
It really and truly doesn't suck (note company slogan if you go to the site), and it's a mite bit more intuitive than vi.
(That said, once someone explained that vi was intended to be that way (rather than the result of some hostile foreign nation or malicious artificial intelligence), it actually started to make sense to me and became usable.)
I understand what you're getting at, but I've seen too many instances of other parties getting involved. Accounting hears about the request for a drink of water and demands they get the same, only at x gallons per minute for their needs; your boss, the magazine reader, reads about purified water and decides nothing less than that will do; the physical plant says you have to make the drink of water tie into the fifth iteration of their drink of water system, which has never actually successfully produced a drink of water; auditing says you have to comply to the ISO "drink of water" standards; and marketing wants to be able to say that your company offers the BEST drink of water of any company in the market in order to convince potential customers that your company's not going out of business anytime soon. Hence, the water treatment plant. In my experience, this is what happens to make a simple project (d?)evolve into, for lack of a better word, uncompletability.
>Sign yourself up to an IPv6 tunnelbroker today, and get your own n * 2^64 addresses to play with.
Except, they aren't your own addresses. They're owned and provisioned by your ISP. Change ISPs, and you have to renumber every device on your network. Supposedly this isn't *that* difficult, and IPv6 lends itself to doing this, but still....
--Kimota!
PS: Also, I've gotten the impression that 6to4 doesn't play nice with NAT.
I'm not sure I agree that IPv6 is going to happen soon. The Internet2 people are BEGGING for more traffic over IPv6, and the most they've seen is NNTP. If that can't fill a pipe....
Check out slide 22 (warning, PowerPoint ahead!) of this presentation
I mean, geez, the pr0n market alone, not to mention waReZ or college kids--this is Internet2 we're talking about-- and their MP3s, should have found this niche, filled it, and have seen new legislation about it by now, if the normal rules applied here...
I suppose, 10+ years ago, when Apple, IBM, and Motorola formed the PowerPC Consortium, this was noteworthy, but it's been a part of Mac fans' daily lives since then, to one degree or another.
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Funny you should mention how petty people get when food is involved. I worked for Subway years and years ago, and saw the trashiest behavior over the slightest amounts of food.
One of my bosses from the time said she'd worked in a bank and made $10000 mistakes and had the affected party react by saying "okay, just fix it," but man, you put the mandated four black olive slices on someone's sandwich, and they act like you've just pissed in their cornflakes or something.
Bottom line: I'm inclined from my experiences to say that the food services industry is different from other business sectors (in terms of 'the customer is always right').
--Kimota!
Okay, I suck for not having researched this as fully as I would otherwise, but for completeness' sake, I wanted to point out two things:
1. IIRC, Macromedia, some years ago, upped the version number of Freehand to make it seem more mature than Adobe's Illustrator. Or was it the other way around? Of course, now they give us version numbers like 'MX' and 'CS'.
2. Microsoft has sometimes *originally released* products at version 3 to make them seem more mature than they actually were. I believe NT started at version 3, I think IE (at least for the Mac) did the same, and if there weren't a Twilight Zone marathon going on, I'd try to run down some more examples....
--Kimota!
I agree that it makes sense (to me) that Apple should be trying to get FairPlay/AAC/iTMS compatibility on as many music players as possible, but what about the possibility that he's working on gettting WMA support on the iPod & iTunes and maybe also the iTMS, thereby pretty much requiring him to diss Real and other possible alliances against M$?
--Kimota!
By "our tax dollars," I'm assuming you mean in the USA--is this true? Do you have any idea how much? Dit this start back when the US still had TVs being manufactured here? If not, do you have any idea what the rationale was?
--Kimota!
I was thinking more along the lines of, and I quote,
"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits"
--Kimota!
More Welles information to make you feel bad about yourself:
He directed the radio WotW at the age of 23, and he made Citizen Kane at 26!
Damn.
--Kimota!
Maybe, but they couldn't have done much better in terms of casting: Jude Law will bring in a lot of non-geek women (and, I'd guess, a number of gay men who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead at a geekfest movie like this), and Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie stand to bring in a lot of non-geeks of both sexes.
It could, of course, still end up a high profile, multi star flop. I'm thinking the stars will bring people in for a weekend or two; actual quality will determine the rest.
I reacted to it with the sort of enthusiasm I haven't felt since the trailers for Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then I'm a sucker for the pulp era...
--Kimota!
This is an example of one of those things that 'everyone knows', only it's wrong (or at least there's good reason to remain skeptical). Cf. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pag ename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1 067209807247
--Kimota!
PS: other examples: Medieval scholars thought the world was flat, what vomitoriums were used for.
I think he would've been fine with it, as long as he was getting his cut. You have to remember that most of his plays were adaptations of others' work (in other literary forms sometimes), he gave us sequels, and at least in one major case (King Lear), he took a popular legend and gave it a surprise ending. He strikes me as having been *perfectly* willing to let a story morph as necessary to make it more interesting for its medium.
--Kimota!, exit, pursued by a bear....
Let me wax pedantic: when they are in trade paperback (or even hardcover) form and have an ISBN, call them graphic novels. When they're 32 (or so) pages and have a magazine cover, call them comic books.
Moore's work, like that of so many other comic book writers of the last decade or so, has readily lent itself to being collected in one trade paperback volume. (Many writers explicitly compose their storylines for this, since it's aparently one of the most lucrative aspects of the comics industry right now.)
If you've read Watchmen (the TBP, as opposed to the twelve individual comics--but geez, even *then*), you'd be pretty hard pressed to call it something other than a graphic novel....
--Kimota! (Owes his name, his sig, and much of his ideology to Alan Moore)
>Just because you can't get 85 FPS doesn't mean there is no entertainment value. If you'll recall, the Mona Lisa, which is only ONE FRAME, has been going strong for quite a while now.
And while it might only be one frame, the resolution is *bitchin'*!
--Kimota!
It is in fact, *negative* surprise since Apple bought NeXT explicitly to get its OS, and Steve was part of the package (See http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/history.html for more.)
--Kimota!
>Well, Election 2004 ended this morning. Like him or not, Bush is the man right now.
/ 20/185048.shtml) occurs, which may or may not remove W.
"Right now" is nearly a year away from the elections themselves. GHW Bush was "the man" in 1991 but still managed to blow the elections in '92.
Things that can still hurt W:
1. another terrorist attack (unless it's so bad that this (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11
2. not finding Osama. If they can get him in August or September of next year, *then* the election is over.
3. a trial for Saddam that brings to light all the dirty stuff the US did back when he wasn't considered the anti-Christ.
You're right, though, it could well start late enough to be a non-issue.
4. more insurgents (despite what country they're actually from) and more quagmire for a supposed "mission accomplished"
5. North Korea
6. An economic downturn, or a rally that peters out
7. what else? I'm curious to hear others' comments.
Frankly, if I were a Macchiavellian bastard who wanted to stay in power, I'd arrange to have several 'necessary' military actions (of the apparently non-quagmire type) going on at the same time as the elections. As long as it's considered treason to question those actions, there will be a majority of people who think a continuity of leadership is necessary, so I know I could be re-elected.
--Kimota!
Well, apparently many, MANY new books can be bought pre-processed (book jacket removed or plastic one added), pre-indexed (following the standard with Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress index numbers), even pre-stickered, so all the library has to do is put it on the shelf once it shows up. I'm assuming that entry into the catalog is probably electronic and mostly automated as well. Compare this to taking a donated book, determining if it's intact or needs repair, creating an index number to use for it (and making sure it's not already in use), preparing a new sticker, and then putting it on the shelf plus adding into the catalog system.
That $30 amount probably is inflated in the sense of including all the invisible costs, like health care and whatnot, but I can buy the argument that in some cases, it's cheaper to go new than it is donated.
Also, while people's intentions are usually pretty good, QUITE a lot of this donated stuff is crap, redundant, obsolete, or whatnot. (Most libraries don't need anyone too bring them another old National Geographic ever again!) High quality, "must have" and known circulating materials probably will end up on the shelf.
Finally, while you may have items you'd donate if you knew they'd be available for you to check out in the future, you've got to take into consideration the possibility that they'll be stolen. I suspect this is the main reason you don't see really hot (as in trendy) items in the video collection.
--Kimota!
Am I the only one here who's disappointed that "Real Genius" came out in 1985 and this technology *doesn't* exist yet? I mean, the 80s gave us secret governments, secret wars, and Star Wars (as in SDI, not ANH). Why the hell didn't they give us a working version of the Real Genius particle beam so it could've been used on Saddam Hussein, his family, and lookalikes? Think of how many protesters that would've shut up, how many fewer Iraqis would've died, and how much money it would've saved....
Damn. You can't rely on the malevolent and shadowy "them" for anything, can you?
-Kimota!
I also started off with a Plus/4, although it wasn't my fault. The next summer, I bought myself a C-128, which if you'll recall, had a C-64 built-in!
I still refer to peeking versus poking.
I remember fantasizing about the idea of having a portable C-64 and getting "online" and making my first million through trading "online." Somehow I never managed to become a day trader.
I remember a friend handing me a pornographic (text-based) C-64 game called "Farmer's Daughter." I never did get to the end of that....
I still remember the fascination with programming, with knowing that I could make this computer do the things the programs I bought (or typed in for hours from magazines) could. I despair when I see my stepkids interested in only playing games, in only being an audience and not creators....
Although, that said, Raid On Bungeling Bay freakin' ROCKED!
--Kimota!
Network 23 has announced new high speed commercials, aka "blipverts," applying similar technology, albeit with the occasional side effect.
It really and truly doesn't suck (note company slogan if you go to the site), and it's a mite bit more intuitive than vi.
(That said, once someone explained that vi was intended to be that way (rather than the result of some hostile foreign nation or malicious artificial intelligence), it actually started to make sense to me and became usable.)
--Kimota!
>Gee, I wish I could think of a Standard Slashdot Joke to >post in reply to that one.
I for one welcome our Standard Slashdot joke overlords!
--Kimota!
I understand what you're getting at, but I've seen too many instances of other parties getting involved. Accounting hears about the request for a drink of water and demands they get the same, only at x gallons per minute for their needs; your boss, the magazine reader, reads about purified water and decides nothing less than that will do; the physical plant says you have to make the drink of water tie into the fifth iteration of their drink of water system, which has never actually successfully produced a drink of water; auditing says you have to comply to the ISO "drink of water" standards; and marketing wants to be able to say that your company offers the BEST drink of water of any company in the market in order to convince potential customers that your company's not going out of business anytime soon. Hence, the water treatment plant. In my experience, this is what happens to make a simple project (d?)evolve into, for lack of a better word, uncompletability.
--Kimota!
And definitely, definitely, make sure to set the don't fragment flag!
--Kimota!
> It doesn't matter whether the PDF (they better find some other initials) accurately describes the person it's issued to.
I think they should stick with the thing's actual name, In-Person Proofing. IPP. I mean, what problem could anyone have with that?
-Kimota!
>Sign yourself up to an IPv6 tunnelbroker today, and get your own n * 2^64 addresses to play with.
Except, they aren't your own addresses. They're owned and provisioned by your ISP. Change ISPs, and you have to renumber every device on your network. Supposedly this isn't *that* difficult, and IPv6 lends itself to doing this, but still....
--Kimota!
PS: Also, I've gotten the impression that 6to4 doesn't play nice with NAT.
Check out slide 22 (warning, PowerPoint ahead!) of this presentation
I mean, geez, the pr0n market alone, not to mention waReZ or college kids--this is Internet2 we're talking about-- and their MP3s, should have found this niche, filled it, and have seen new legislation about it by now, if the normal rules applied here...
--Kimota!
I suppose, 10+ years ago, when Apple, IBM, and Motorola formed the PowerPC Consortium, this was noteworthy, but it's been a part of Mac fans' daily lives since then, to one degree or another.
--Kimota!