I've been thinking of replacing the iBook that I got last year with something a bit speedier. I'm not sure I want to pay the premium for a mac, but I love being able to drop into a console. I'd like to get a laptop that runs linux, but I'm not looking forward to paying a MS tax for a laptop with XP installed, just to install linux over it.
What are some good places to get a laptop with linux-preinstalled? (or a dual-boot linux/XP laptop?)
This isn't really comparable to MS's OS business, but it is directly comparable to their X-Box business.
General consensus on slashdot when MS wanted to keep people from using mod chips on their x-boxes was that MS was evil for keeping people from their god given right to use hardware they bought for anything they want. Funny how when Apple does something very similar, the general consensus is that they are justified.
I also work at a government lab. I can say that within my division ~150 engineers & scientists, we do have a central cvs repository. We don't have a very good system for diseminating information about the contents of that cvs repository. It's fairly well organized, so you can search through it, but mostly it's best to just ask around. Code is often shared between projects.
Unfortunately our division is only about 25% of the entire organizations, and their is no sharing between divisions and I think little sharing within the other divisions. I've heard that most of them don't even have cvs repositories. In their defense, our division is about 50/50 engineering & science, and other divisions are more like 20/80.
Actually I posted about this on the last Ken Jennings article.
Remember the Final Jeopardy question was "H & R Block". That's kind of a mini-advertisement.
Also, the next episode, a category was called "My doctor recommends". The "answers" for this category were always just the PR releases for a medication, something like "This pill relieves indegestion for up to 24 hours".
I haven't watched Jeopardy in years, but I don't remember their being some many questions where the answer was a brand name or product name or company.
I hadn't thought of this before, but I read a recent articlen in NewsWeek about how embedded advertising is all the rage in TV now. (It's the fault of all them damn high-tech geeks with there TiVo's and home-brewed PVRs and what not.).
Anyway, the whole thing makes me wonder if Jeopardy is getting advertising money for questions like this FedEx one.
I remember seeing this on the chocodog website, but I didn't really understand the impetus. Why would you use this p2p app? Wouldn't it be easier for ween to just say, "we don't care if you guys share our live music", and just let people use some already existing p2p app?
no. In american government, only one branch of government (the legislative) passes laws. Both houses of congress (the legislative branch) have to pass a simple majority vote for a bill. Then the president has to sign the bill for it to become a law.
This becomes more complicated in that it takes 60 members of the senate to call for an end to discussion and a vote on a bill. If you have more than 40 people in the senate that don't want a bill to pass, they can prevent it from ever coming up for a vote.
Also the president has the option of not signing a bill when it is presented to him. This is called a veto, and when that occurs the bill goes back to the legislative branch, and a high enough vote will get it turned into a law even without a presidential signature (I think it requires a 2/3 vote).
We got married only a few months ago, and we had the exact same concerns as you. We were able to find a photographer who shot only digital, and was willing to give us a CD of the original hi-res images.
We found most of our vendors for the wedding, by asking around. We'd ask florists who they had worked with as photographers, and then ask our photographers what florists they had seen do good work. This was a very helpful strategy for us, and we were extremely happy with every single one of our vendors.
Our photographer worked for the local newspaper, and so had a background in photo-journalism. But she had also been doing weddings for the last 3-4 years, and had done a couple dozen weddings in that time. We were most concerned with getting unscripted shots that captured the moment. Our formal pictures were a secondary consideration. Because our photographers experience was limited she was about half the cost of similar photographers.
Most papers have switched to completely digital photography, so if you find someone who works or worked at a newspaper they are likely to be digital. If you can find someone who is still starting off, you likely get a better deal, and have more bargaining power to get the negatives or hi-res originals.
Keep looking around, we talked to atleast 3 other photographers before deciding, and most of those wanted to keep their own negatives.
You might get decent pictures if your guests bring their own cameras, and they are half way decent picture takers, but please don't rely on those disposable cameras.
We got married only a few months ago and we hired a professional photographer as well as placing a disposable camera on each table. Honestly we might as well have saved the $100 or so we spent on disposable cameras. About 90% of the pictures from disposable cameras were utter crap. Mostly because they were under-exposed or blurry. My guess is that most people didn't notice there was a switch to turn the flash on. We really only got about 4-5 decent pictures from all the disposable cameras.
Our photograper however was great and we got tons of good pictures. I'll post again as a reply to the main topic discussing how we found our photographer and her cost, etc.
TiVo actually has research to prove that people will actually rewatch a Pepsi comercial if Britney Spears is performing a dance routine while singing the soda company's jingle.
I think it's the jiggle, not the jingle, that gets people rewinding.
The same exact thing happens in music. When Eric Clapton sings "I shot the sheriff", everyone realizes he doesnt actually want to shoot cops, but is singing about a character. But when Ice-T puts out "Cop Killer", it's taken differently.
not to add just another "me too" post, but me too!
My fiance also got started playing video games with TRIBES.
I always figured that was a very unique game for someones introduction to video games, because TRIBES has such a steep learning curve, but I guess I was wrong.
I just bought the Sony DCR TRV-38 over christmas, and so far I'm pretty satisfied. It had the best collection of good optics and features for around $700. Some features I thought were important:
records to MiniDV - this is the highest quality recording medium. miniDVD may be more convenient, but you pay for it with more compression.
manual focus ring - Ever tried focusing with a menu, or two buttons. The ring focus is the way to go.
Spot focus - nifty feature. You can touch an object on it's lcd screen, and it focuses on where you touch.
records in wide-screen format. 16x9
Optical image stabilization - much better than digital image stabilization.
quality optics.
nice large LCD
The only negative thing I've found so far, is that in low-light settings, the image looks kind of noisy. I've heard this is a problem on all/most digital camcorders with price $1000.
Well, I can't remember who it was, but one victim of the slashdot effect, redirected all visitors who came from slashot to the goatsx guy. That's pretty good leverage!
What I would love to see, would be for microsoft to come out with "Patches" for all/most of their xbox games when xbox 2 comes out. Since the xbox2 will obviously be much more powerful, these patches would simply consist of minor mods to take advantage of the new processor power.
Imagine if you could go out and purchase xbox2 with xbox2 live, and not only can you play all your old xbox games, but they've got new textures, and models so they look like current generation games. Hell, huge sellers like HALO or GTA might even deserve a whole new super-large level that you can only play if you've got xbox2, and xbox2 live.
People will probably make fun of this device, but I'd consider buying one.
Hopefully a second generation model would address some of it's limitations. As far as I can tell this machine must only work one or two muscle groups in the arm (maybe some in the shoulder). That may be neat, but it's never going to be able to replace a real workout. Also the price was a bit steep.
If this machine worked out most of your body, and cost less than $300, I'd definitely purchase one, between $300-$500 I'd consider it.
Sorry, I assumed the original poster was doing the RAID for reliablility, and so I was thinking RAID 1 instead of RAID 0 (RAID 0 offers no data backup). RAID 0 is of course 4*200=800, RAID 1 would be 4*200/2 = 400.
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Or maybe an example people on slashdot could relate to better. I'd guess most of us have called ourselves or our friends geeks, nerds, or dorks at some time. On the other hand if someone who didn't like you called you one of these things, you'd probably be pretty offended.
It's because the meaning of a word changes based on it's context.
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I've been thinking of replacing the iBook that I got last year with something a bit speedier. I'm not sure I want to pay the premium for a mac, but I love being able to drop into a console. I'd like to get a laptop that runs linux, but I'm not looking forward to paying a MS tax for a laptop with XP installed, just to install linux over it.
What are some good places to get a laptop with linux-preinstalled? (or a dual-boot linux/XP laptop?)
This isn't really comparable to MS's OS business, but it is directly comparable to their X-Box business.
General consensus on slashdot when MS wanted to keep people from using mod chips on their x-boxes was that MS was evil for keeping people from their god given right to use hardware they bought for anything they want. Funny how when Apple does something very similar, the general consensus is that they are justified.
I know, I think they should have called it wikidici.org . That's a much better name.
I also work at a government lab. I can say that within my division ~150 engineers & scientists, we do have a central cvs repository. We don't have a very good system for diseminating information about the contents of that cvs repository. It's fairly well organized, so you can search through it, but mostly it's best to just ask around. Code is often shared between projects.
Unfortunately our division is only about 25% of the entire organizations, and their is no sharing between divisions and I think little sharing within the other divisions. I've heard that most of them don't even have cvs repositories. In their defense, our division is about 50/50 engineering & science, and other divisions are more like 20/80.
Actually I posted about this on the last Ken Jennings article.
Remember the Final Jeopardy question was "H & R Block". That's kind of a mini-advertisement.
Also, the next episode, a category was called "My doctor recommends". The "answers" for this category were always just the PR releases for a medication, something like "This pill relieves indegestion for up to 24 hours".
I haven't watched Jeopardy in years, but I don't remember their being some many questions where the answer was a brand name or product name or company.
I hadn't thought of this before, but I read a recent articlen in NewsWeek about how embedded advertising is all the rage in TV now. (It's the fault of all them damn high-tech geeks with there TiVo's and home-brewed PVRs and what not.).
Anyway, the whole thing makes me wonder if Jeopardy is getting advertising money for questions like this FedEx one.
woah, they've got ultra-fark now! Is that on computers?
I remember seeing this on the chocodog website, but I didn't really understand the impetus. Why would you use this p2p app? Wouldn't it be easier for ween to just say, "we don't care if you guys share our live music", and just let people use some already existing p2p app?
That seems to be the typical attitude:
1) All lawyers suck.
2) Oh wait, I need a lawyer.
3) Thank god for my lawyer.
no. In american government, only one branch of government (the legislative) passes laws. Both houses of congress (the legislative branch) have to pass a simple majority vote for a bill. Then the president has to sign the bill for it to become a law.
This becomes more complicated in that it takes 60 members of the senate to call for an end to discussion and a vote on a bill. If you have more than 40 people in the senate that don't want a bill to pass, they can prevent it from ever coming up for a vote.
Also the president has the option of not signing a bill when it is presented to him. This is called a veto, and when that occurs the bill goes back to the legislative branch, and a high enough vote will get it turned into a law even without a presidential signature (I think it requires a 2/3 vote).
dammit. I've put all of the photos from our photographer online, and I meant to put a link in that comment before I posted it.
In any case, if you're interested to see, you can check out the photos at prestopnik.com/wedding/photos.php
We also got a free engagment portrait shoot with our wedding package, and you can see those pictures online also.
We got married only a few months ago, and we had the exact same concerns as you. We were able to find a photographer who shot only digital, and was willing to give us a CD of the original hi-res images.
We found most of our vendors for the wedding, by asking around. We'd ask florists who they had worked with as photographers, and then ask our photographers what florists they had seen do good work. This was a very helpful strategy for us, and we were extremely happy with every single one of our vendors.
Our photographer worked for the local newspaper, and so had a background in photo-journalism. But she had also been doing weddings for the last 3-4 years, and had done a couple dozen weddings in that time. We were most concerned with getting unscripted shots that captured the moment. Our formal pictures were a secondary consideration. Because our photographers experience was limited she was about half the cost of similar photographers.
Most papers have switched to completely digital photography, so if you find someone who works or worked at a newspaper they are likely to be digital. If you can find someone who is still starting off, you likely get a better deal, and have more bargaining power to get the negatives or hi-res originals.
Keep looking around, we talked to atleast 3 other photographers before deciding, and most of those wanted to keep their own negatives.
You might get decent pictures if your guests bring their own cameras, and they are half way decent picture takers, but please don't rely on those disposable cameras.
We got married only a few months ago and we hired a professional photographer as well as placing a disposable camera on each table. Honestly we might as well have saved the $100 or so we spent on disposable cameras. About 90% of the pictures from disposable cameras were utter crap. Mostly because they were under-exposed or blurry. My guess is that most people didn't notice there was a switch to turn the flash on. We really only got about 4-5 decent pictures from all the disposable cameras.
Our photograper however was great and we got tons of good pictures. I'll post again as a reply to the main topic discussing how we found our photographer and her cost, etc.
Nina Hartley makes a series of informational videos.
And Andrew Blake's movies are not about enriching a relationship, but are considered generally female friendly porn.
try pimphats.com
TiVo actually has research to prove that people will actually rewatch a Pepsi comercial if Britney Spears is performing a dance routine while singing the soda company's jingle.
I think it's the jiggle, not the jingle, that gets people rewinding.
The same exact thing happens in music. When Eric Clapton sings "I shot the sheriff", everyone realizes he doesnt actually want to shoot cops, but is singing about a character. But when Ice-T puts out "Cop Killer", it's taken differently.
not to add just another "me too" post, but me too!
My fiance also got started playing video games with TRIBES.
I always figured that was a very unique game for someones introduction to video games, because TRIBES has such a steep learning curve, but I guess I was wrong.
There is also one in lyons, colorado. (just north of boulder, co)
http://www.lyonspinball.com/
I just bought the Sony DCR TRV-38 over christmas, and so far I'm pretty satisfied. It had the best collection of good optics and features for around $700. Some features I thought were important:
records to MiniDV - this is the highest quality recording medium. miniDVD may be more convenient, but you pay for it with more compression.
manual focus ring - Ever tried focusing with a menu, or two buttons. The ring focus is the way to go.
Spot focus - nifty feature. You can touch an object on it's lcd screen, and it focuses on where you touch.
records in wide-screen format. 16x9
Optical image stabilization - much better than digital image stabilization.
quality optics.
nice large LCD
The only negative thing I've found so far, is that in low-light settings, the image looks kind of noisy. I've heard this is a problem on all/most digital camcorders with price $1000.
Well, I can't remember who it was, but one victim of the slashdot effect, redirected all visitors who came from slashot to the goatsx guy. That's pretty good leverage!
What I would love to see, would be for microsoft to come out with "Patches" for all/most of their xbox games when xbox 2 comes out. Since the xbox2 will obviously be much more powerful, these patches would simply consist of minor mods to take advantage of the new processor power.
Imagine if you could go out and purchase xbox2 with xbox2 live, and not only can you play all your old xbox games, but they've got new textures, and models so they look like current generation games. Hell, huge sellers like HALO or GTA might even deserve a whole new super-large level that you can only play if you've got xbox2, and xbox2 live.
People will probably make fun of this device, but I'd consider buying one.
Hopefully a second generation model would address some of it's limitations. As far as I can tell this machine must only work one or two muscle groups in the arm (maybe some in the shoulder). That may be neat, but it's never going to be able to replace a real workout. Also the price was a bit steep.
If this machine worked out most of your body, and cost less than $300, I'd definitely purchase one, between $300-$500 I'd consider it.
Sorry, I assumed the original poster was doing the RAID for reliablility, and so I was thinking RAID 1 instead of RAID 0 (RAID 0 offers no data backup). RAID 0 is of course 4*200=800, RAID 1 would be 4*200/2 = 400.
Or maybe an example people on slashdot could relate to better. I'd guess most of us have called ourselves or our friends geeks, nerds, or dorks at some time. On the other hand if someone who didn't like you called you one of these things, you'd probably be pretty offended.
It's because the meaning of a word changes based on it's context.