So you change the weather patterns so that hurricanes don't hit the coast (or at least not as hard).....suddenly, fertile farmlands 200 miles in from the coast have a severe drop in annual rainfall....those interviewed say "we have no food - we are going to die"
Nope....but I do know where you can get as much cow excretion as you could possibly want (is 14000 cubic feet enough?) and absolutely 100% free - just pick it up
When you drink enough caffiene, you begin to get jittery...the heat your body produces through the muscle spasms is similar to that produced by shivering....hence the caffeine helps keep you warm.
Actually thats the exact situation I'm dealing with for my grandparents.
They just got the computer you decsribed (except with a 90Mhz Pentium) from their son (my Uncle Frank - yes his name is Frank) and complain about the internet being slow, and things not working (my brother supposedly has it running in safe mode)....its a nightmare i tell you. You love computers as a kid, quickly learn more than anyone else in the family ever will - and all of a sudden you are expected to help fix everyone's underpowered 'value' machines when they buy 'em.
aparently you haven't seen the Spirit of Troy counter march for Stanford. The band spreads out accross the entire field (at about a 3 yard grid they fill the entire field). Then the proceed to play while doing various maneuvers in perfect syncronization. The best part is that at several points during the march, everyone breaks apart, does whatever they want, runs around in circles, whatever, while still playing, and then all on the same beat they return to perfect synch again. Its really an awe-inspiring perfomance (from size, technicality, etc.) and really puts to shame the signature-chaos of Stanford's band.
On any given day I must use the following programs on the same workstation:
Photoshop 3D Studio FormZ Dreamweaver Filemaker Pro
On many days I also must use: Combustion AutoCAD Flash
While my primary job function is a digital artist, I am also expected to handle day-to-day in house IT on my spare time. This involves administrating 5 Win2k/XP boxes, 30 Mac boxes (NOT OSX!), 1 NT4 server, 5 old Macs running as servers, 2 tape backup systems, 2 color printers, 3 office laser printers, 2 large-scale HP plotters, a CD burning station, and 2 tape backup systems.
I am simeltaneously a digital artist, and the only in-house IT support staff. Besides not having the ability to run the applications I need (most notibly 3DStudio and AutoCAD) on other platforms, I don't have time to learn how to configure and administrate a network through command line and config files. I'd like my office to go to Linux servers, but since I'm the only one who has any inkling of how, and because I don't have the time to figure it out - it ain't gonna happen.
For some reason the symlink to the OS9 desktop from the OSX desktop keeps randomly disapearing from my test machine here in the office (granted its an old POS to begin with....but we won't go into that)
The only way I've been able to relocate it is through Sherlock which finds the original in a hidden folder. And I need it there because for some stupid reason OSX (or 9.2 for that matter) won't recognize the generic replacement IDE CDROM....and the manufacturer of my external SCSI CDRW has said they aren't going to release the OSX drivers.
Most cities are near some major bodies of water, which usually means that having the ocean rise a couple meters means deep sh*t for a lot of peope and a lot of financial centers. Before anybody goes "but but" - Even if the city does not drown, you will have serious sewage problems, kay?
Everyone loves this argument about rising sea level drowning cities.
I don't buy it - the Dutch have been dealing with the situation for centuries.
right, but the article said it would shave distance off the trip between Europe and Asia. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but my poor U.S. geography education taught me that Europe is on the Mediterranean, and that the Red Sea empties into the Indian Ocean, which happens to be one of the oceans that Asia is situated upon.
From my experience, this would be a horrible thing for tech support databases.
As it is, most major tech support sites already rank and display information based on how many people have already accessed it, informed them of usefullness, etc.
Invariably, when I visit vendor tech support pages looking for information, I am looking for some of the most obscure problems. And I have a hell of a time finding the information that I need, because I'm not looking for the 'popular' stuff. And if I ever do find what I need, I better bookmark it or print it, because if I come back later, there's no way I'm ever going to find it again.
I'd rather have a plain, simple, boolean word search engine over an 'intelligent' support database any day.
Well, since you are limiting yourself to Mac, then 3D Studio Max/Viz is out.
Maya is incredibly powerfull, but equally difficult to master - great for 'organic' forms.
Blender is free...but difficult to use, and lacks support.
FormZ is very easy to use, very easy to master, and much much cheaper than Maya. It is also both Mac and Win. However, it lends itself more towards architectural work, and is useless for animation (currently only the camera path can be animated).
I would recommend 3DStudio in your shoes...but you've eliminated that option. If you aren't going to do animation, and if you are unfamiliar with working in 3D - check out FormZ (it has a free demo). But, if you are ready to jump to the big time and deal with a lot of up-front learning - go with Maya.
In my college room, I had 2 modern PCs with 3 monitors, my roommate had his laptop. And we had an old Gateway full tower, and 13 SGI indegos with 21" monitors
Ironic, considering the Chinese government's stance as a champion of the repression of independent belief systems...
speaking as US citizen...I can say not really that suprising. they supposedly do things for and by the mass public. unlike here in the US where everyone knows its all corporate
and early screenshots of WinXP looked like Win2k with minor 'photoshop tweaks'
and early screenshots of ME looked like 98 and early screenshots of 98 looked like 95
Your point isn't one.
Of course early longhorn screenshots are going to look like XP. They take a stable version of their product and work from there. Plus they just invested heavily in this new look and feel that sets XP apart from 2k, and the previous 95/98/NT. They aren't going to abandon it that quickly.
There's no way to overcome the problems and still make it as durable and cost less than existing technology.
don't mean to be a pessimist, but...
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You'll never keep a vaccum with this.
Not with the hundreds of miles of tube. Not with termal expansion/contraction. Not in an active city with people building, digging holes, running infrastructure. Not in an even remotely seismic active area (remember the earthquake in NY?).
While its a cool idea, its just that, an idea. There's no way to overcome the problems and still make it as durable and cost less than existing technology.
You cannot buy a 2003 ford mustang, remove the muffler, and drive around at 3am generating 100db of sound. Yes, it's your hardware, but rules exist to further a public good--a (relatively) pollution and noise free environment.
Your analogy is flawed. In this case you are talking about modifying your personal property to do something forbidden by law.
In the case of the tivo its like a VCR. The only things you can't do with something you've videotaped on your VCR is sell it or publicly display/broadcast it without permission of the copyright holder.
A better analogy with the Mustang, is if you weren't allowed to chip it, replace the exhaust system, the spark plugs, lower it, replace the spoiler, add neon lights, NOS, and everything else that rice rockets do.
The 'chipping it' option is even more appropriate. The tivo ships with options that are disabled by a password. The Mustang ships with more horsepower and torque but is 'disabled' by a computer chip. Replacing that chip to give yourself more HP is not illegal (even though it does void the warranty). So why can't someone find the password to give them the features already in the hardware?
As the FCC forces digital broadcast and begins to sell off the UHF and VHF ranges for communications equipment....what will happen if a TV station is still broadcasting.
For instance, in San Diego the local Fox affiliate actually has their broadcast tower in Mexico (they can get a permit for a stronger signal there). If a nationwide carrier developes communications equipment uses that part of the spectrum...their equipment won't work in San Diego.
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So you change the weather patterns so that hurricanes don't hit the coast (or at least not as hard).....suddenly, fertile farmlands 200 miles in from the coast have a severe drop in annual rainfall....those interviewed say "we have no food - we are going to die"
XP Pro Corp. Ed. does include IIS - the only difference between it and the boxed retail version is the lack of the dial-home authentication stuff.
IIS is included because other packages are dependent on it (Terminal Services via the web for instance)
Nope....but I do know where you can get as much cow excretion as you could possibly want (is 14000 cubic feet enough?) and absolutely 100% free - just pick it up
When you drink enough caffiene, you begin to get jittery...the heat your body produces through the muscle spasms is similar to that produced by shivering....hence the caffeine helps keep you warm.
One of the original models from the original ST series is hanging in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum in Washington DC. You get to walk under it.
Actually thats the exact situation I'm dealing with for my grandparents.
They just got the computer you decsribed (except with a 90Mhz Pentium) from their son (my Uncle Frank - yes his name is Frank) and complain about the internet being slow, and things not working (my brother supposedly has it running in safe mode)....its a nightmare i tell you. You love computers as a kid, quickly learn more than anyone else in the family ever will - and all of a sudden you are expected to help fix everyone's underpowered 'value' machines when they buy 'em.
aparently you haven't seen the Spirit of Troy counter march for Stanford. The band spreads out accross the entire field (at about a 3 yard grid they fill the entire field). Then the proceed to play while doing various maneuvers in perfect syncronization. The best part is that at several points during the march, everyone breaks apart, does whatever they want, runs around in circles, whatever, while still playing, and then all on the same beat they return to perfect synch again. Its really an awe-inspiring perfomance (from size, technicality, etc.) and really puts to shame the signature-chaos of Stanford's band.
And anyways, nothing compares to the Greatest Marching Band in the History of the Universe.
Well, Tommy, being a human on a horse, can surely display a wide range of emotions.
:)
Of course, being from Stanford you've probably only seen him wearing a grin of victory
BEAT CAL!
BEAT STANFORD
FUCLA!
FIGHT ON!
On any given day I must use the following programs on the same workstation:
Photoshop
3D Studio
FormZ
Dreamweaver
Filemaker Pro
On many days I also must use:
Combustion
AutoCAD
Flash
While my primary job function is a digital artist, I am also expected to handle day-to-day in house IT on my spare time. This involves administrating 5 Win2k/XP boxes, 30 Mac boxes (NOT OSX!), 1 NT4 server, 5 old Macs running as servers, 2 tape backup systems, 2 color printers, 3 office laser printers, 2 large-scale HP plotters, a CD burning station, and 2 tape backup systems.
I am simeltaneously a digital artist, and the only in-house IT support staff. Besides not having the ability to run the applications I need (most notibly 3DStudio and AutoCAD) on other platforms, I don't have time to learn how to configure and administrate a network through command line and config files. I'd like my office to go to Linux servers, but since I'm the only one who has any inkling of how, and because I don't have the time to figure it out - it ain't gonna happen.
trust me, this joke works much better w/ accountants:
An extroverted accountant looks at your shoes when talking with you.
crap....this is a bad thing
For some reason the symlink to the OS9 desktop from the OSX desktop keeps randomly disapearing from my test machine here in the office (granted its an old POS to begin with....but we won't go into that)
The only way I've been able to relocate it is through Sherlock which finds the original in a hidden folder. And I need it there because for some stupid reason OSX (or 9.2 for that matter) won't recognize the generic replacement IDE CDROM....and the manufacturer of my external SCSI CDRW has said they aren't going to release the OSX drivers.
AARHRHRHHAAAGHGHHGH!!!!
Most cities are near some major bodies of water, which usually means that having the ocean rise a couple meters means deep sh*t for a lot of peope and a lot of financial centers. Before anybody goes "but but" - Even if the city does not drown, you will have serious sewage problems, kay?
Everyone loves this argument about rising sea level drowning cities.
I don't buy it - the Dutch have been dealing with the situation for centuries.
right, but the article said it would shave distance off the trip between Europe and Asia. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but my poor U.S. geography education taught me that Europe is on the Mediterranean, and that the Red Sea empties into the Indian Ocean, which happens to be one of the oceans that Asia is situated upon.
From my experience, this would be a horrible thing for tech support databases.
As it is, most major tech support sites already rank and display information based on how many people have already accessed it, informed them of usefullness, etc.
Invariably, when I visit vendor tech support pages looking for information, I am looking for some of the most obscure problems. And I have a hell of a time finding the information that I need, because I'm not looking for the 'popular' stuff. And if I ever do find what I need, I better bookmark it or print it, because if I come back later, there's no way I'm ever going to find it again.
I'd rather have a plain, simple, boolean word search engine over an 'intelligent' support database any day.
But how does this compare to the route through the Suez Canal?
i just posted about what would probably be best for you... FormZ
Pinky and the Brain
Mighty Mouse
Mrs. Frisbee and the Secret of Nymn
Mouse Hunt
etc.
Well, since you are limiting yourself to Mac, then 3D Studio Max/Viz is out.
Maya is incredibly powerfull, but equally difficult to master - great for 'organic' forms.
Blender is free...but difficult to use, and lacks support.
FormZ is very easy to use, very easy to master, and much much cheaper than Maya. It is also both Mac and Win. However, it lends itself more towards architectural work, and is useless for animation (currently only the camera path can be animated).
I would recommend 3DStudio in your shoes...but you've eliminated that option. If you aren't going to do animation, and if you are unfamiliar with working in 3D - check out FormZ (it has a free demo). But, if you are ready to jump to the big time and deal with a lot of up-front learning - go with Maya.
In my college room, I had 2 modern PCs with 3 monitors, my roommate had his laptop. And we had an old Gateway full tower, and 13 SGI indegos with 21" monitors
Ironic, considering the Chinese government's stance as a champion of the repression of independent belief systems...
speaking as US citizen...I can say not really that suprising. they supposedly do things for and by the mass public. unlike here in the US where everyone knows its all corporate
and early screenshots of WinXP looked like Win2k with minor 'photoshop tweaks'
and early screenshots of ME looked like 98
and early screenshots of 98 looked like 95
Your point isn't one.
Of course early longhorn screenshots are going to look like XP. They take a stable version of their product and work from there. Plus they just invested heavily in this new look and feel that sets XP apart from 2k, and the previous 95/98/NT. They aren't going to abandon it that quickly.
you misquoted me.
I qualified that statement like so:
There's no way to overcome the problems and still make it as durable and cost less than existing technology.
You'll never keep a vaccum with this.
Not with the hundreds of miles of tube.
Not with termal expansion/contraction.
Not in an active city with people building, digging holes, running infrastructure.
Not in an even remotely seismic active area (remember the earthquake in NY?).
While its a cool idea, its just that, an idea. There's no way to overcome the problems and still make it as durable and cost less than existing technology.
You cannot buy a 2003 ford mustang, remove the muffler, and drive around at 3am generating 100db of sound. Yes, it's your hardware, but rules exist to further a public good--a (relatively) pollution and noise free environment.
Your analogy is flawed. In this case you are talking about modifying your personal property to do something forbidden by law.
In the case of the tivo its like a VCR. The only things you can't do with something you've videotaped on your VCR is sell it or publicly display/broadcast it without permission of the copyright holder.
A better analogy with the Mustang, is if you weren't allowed to chip it, replace the exhaust system, the spark plugs, lower it, replace the spoiler, add neon lights, NOS, and everything else that rice rockets do.
The 'chipping it' option is even more appropriate. The tivo ships with options that are disabled by a password. The Mustang ships with more horsepower and torque but is 'disabled' by a computer chip. Replacing that chip to give yourself more HP is not illegal (even though it does void the warranty). So why can't someone find the password to give them the features already in the hardware?
This is actually an issue the other way as well.
As the FCC forces digital broadcast and begins to sell off the UHF and VHF ranges for communications equipment....what will happen if a TV station is still broadcasting.
For instance, in San Diego the local Fox affiliate actually has their broadcast tower in Mexico (they can get a permit for a stronger signal there). If a nationwide carrier developes communications equipment uses that part of the spectrum...their equipment won't work in San Diego.
How will the FCC control 'foreign' signals?