Here's a clue: Low Tech Bob is often the manager because they would be toast if they tried to work a tech job. The whole Harvard MBA/Bastard school of upper management leads directly to the "Middle Manager Ennui robot puppet" school of employees below the higher-ups and it seems to work fine for those in charge.
But yet, there are people willing to pay for quality. Personally, it seems that many of the problems experienced by end users are their own damn fault: running an unpatched IE browser, visiting "adult content sites" (the big two: porn, gambling) that seem to be the biggest purveyors of malware, kid sites that cater to gamers (but push malware when you're not looking) or running Kazaa or Limewire over a long weekend with the firewall down and no one watching the machine (again, malware of various kinds). Or simply running a very old commercial antivirus application that hasn't had a definitions update since sometime in 2001.
It's sad, but it's true. Very few have any idea of the consequences of their behavior. When they are a customer you can't exactly call them on the carpet for this because they are entrusting you to fix their problem, and paying you for that. So everything is couched in a soft pedaled delivery "you should avoid that or this site".
However, the social engineering aspects of "getting something for nothing" are heavily at play. And no matter how much they should know better people really want to believe it. It is this attitude that often leads to machines getting infected to the point where a reimage is necessary.
An end user at my company brought a machine in (their own that was authorized to be on the network, hence they had admin rights) to be looked at due to what appeared to be a big virus outbreak: her 12 year old daughter had installed Limewire (without her mothers' knowledge or consent) on the machine.
The daughter found what she believed was a module for her favorite game which she then downloaded and decompressed which promptly owned the machine since it wasn't what it said it was. She then did nothing about it for a week or so while the machine slowed down and acted erratically.
Since it was the parents machine and not a corporate asset, it was the mothers responsibility to get it cleared (we make "best effort" but just don't have resources and hours to spend on this kind of thing, it's not really what I'm there for). That meant spending $ to rectify a daughters mistake.
The parent was upset and asked how this could have happened despite having a commercial corporate antivirus solution: facts are facts, decompressing a trojan and willfully installing it nuked the antivirus install and then started inviting its malware friends in which invited more in and thus the machine would have taken hours of dejunking in safe mode to undo the damage.
I personally feel our company has picked a mediocre corporate antivirus solution but I am not in a position to change things.
The daughter promptly blamed the Limewire install on a neighbor girl and I could feel the girls' curdling "MUTH-ERRR, you can't call her mother, I'll just die.." when the parent was going to contact the parent of the neighbor girl.
The mother was irate since people who nuke their machines in this manner are their responsibility to have it corrected meaning paying someone to do it.
Anyway, the situation with Best Buy is no different than what I see sometimes at work - there are people who use corporate assets to surf unsafe sites - when they are at home on their own high speed network connections they can pull up anything they want. We have privacy restrictions so we can't examine what it is they have surfed, but the malware scanners are pretty good about pinpointing the nature of the site surfed or malware on the machine from a given source.
There have been a few times, however, when customer machines explode in a plethora of self-launching porn pop-ups. All you can do is laugh, shut the thing down and reimage it and hope they learned their lesson.
Sigh. This has nothing to do with Woz but Michael Jackson is a victim of the fact that he had too much money after "Thriller" (he was rolling in it).
The fact that he had a weird not-normal upbringing and too many yes-men around him telling him that everything he did was wonderful and not enough supervision by people who might have been able to stop him from doing questionable things.
What do I know? If I got a huge payday from the record companies I'd probably do something really boring like invest it rather than blowing it all on exciting nights out or whatever.
No, no....don't underestimate the beautifully fading intensity of the horrible actress types sucking the life out of you. Slowly like vampires. In the twilight.
At first I didn't recall installing it but it came bundled with an application I bought called Audio Hijack Pro that uses APE as part of its functional matrix.
After booting in single user Unix mode and removing the bits it was fine.
I feel your pain. I had a bit of a "math block" until I encountered computers in high school due to an abusive teacher at the elementary school level.
I avoided math for many years due to that. But I later realized that when I got into computers I was using it all of the time but it was just not couched as "you're working on math problems!"
That being said, the recommendations to do math problems that fit into your real life situation is not a bad idea - for instance I do a lot of bike riding/ cycling.
And if I know my destination is 20 miles away and I'm going 17 miles an hour I can mentally calculate how long it will approximately take me to get to the destination I have in mind or if I adjust my speed to modify it.
Or if you're doing the laundry and you can calculate the approximate washing/ drying time for given pieces of clothing or mentally adding your grocery purchases before heading to the cash register etc.
Books also help. My mom had a book in her old bookshelf called "the last math book you'll ever need" that's worth a look see - she had some of the same problems with math in general and that helped her out.
Kind of old news. A friend of mine built one of these using the 1.6 ghz chips and is using it for doing all kinds of things but is currently using it to run Seti @ Home.
It really depends largely on what CPU you're using, what graphics card you're using and what VERSION of OS X you're running too.
So, if you're running a G4/400 with a Radeon 8500 graphics card and Tiger, your bottleneck is in the slow bus of that machine.
A G5 or Intel Mac is going to have a faster buses (front side and video) and simply is more geared for doing more "stuff".
The last generation of G5 Macs with PCI Express video and the latest generation of Intel Macs with the same should be fastest but the 8x AGP G5s are pretty darn respectable too.
But if you want "speed in browsing" look at Opera, Camino or some of the development builds of Safari. Even the optimized builds of Firefox aren't as fast as those it seems.
Maybe not "bug" but "unexpected software interaction".
I was playing my electric guitar into Garageband using my external preamp and effects and just listening to it.
I installed an app called "Jack" which is an internal audio routing app and started it up while doing the GB listening session and it added a weird, intense ring modulation effect to every audio signal going thru the computer...
My guitar sounded like the rings of Saturn falling apart, it was incredibly weird.....just great!
It's an interesting topic because with todays work environment potentially being in many different locations (I'm literally in a different office every day of the work week) and people being allowed to have their own equipment on the network with only Symantec corporate edition between them and the network it's a strange experiment. The vast majority of infections I see coming onto our network is from people surfing....unsavory sites....from home in their off hours.
But I wonder if this particular revelation will lead to interesting lawsuits against the large corporations from those who dislike spam leading to increased vigilance of the IT groups of those companies (firewalled subnet for guest contractors or others who bring their own equipment onto the network).
This is exactly what it is in many cases. Where I work as a Sysadmin we have independent contractors who come and go and utilize our network. The problem is frequently the children of these users who use the parents work machines to do homework, surf game sites or even the adults who use it to surf gambling and adult entertainment sites. It is their equipment but we allow it on our network. We lock some things down, but it is still the persons personal property. An unusual situation I admit.
Well, besides my own "Passage from the Vault of Hours" which has both mellotron flute as well as mellotron strings in spot, here are albums that have a number of Mellotron bits and are classic recordings:
-King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Starless and Bible Black,
Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Thrak, etcetera.
-Synergy: Electronic realizations for rock orchestra - the first two tracks
utilize quite a bit of Mellotron, especially the cover of "Slaughter on Tenth
Avenue".
-Tangerine Dream - virtually everything from Phaedra and Rubycon all the way past
Stratosfear and Encore (the live disc) and use slows around the time of Cyclone
around 1978 although sporadic use continues into 1979's "Force Majeure".
-Spring - the entire record is a virual mellotron demonstration record. Kind of
unknown but has Dire Straits Pick Withers on drums.
The AOR contigent tracks: -Lynyrd Skynyrd: Tuesdays Gone - 'Tron strings throughout. -Bob Seger: Turn the Page - the live version has 'tron strings. -Rush: Tears - 'tron strings. -Aerosmith: Dream on - strings again.
The Swedish Contigent: -Anglagard: Epilog, Hybris - also big 'tron users. Both are excellent. -Landberk: One Man Tells Another (includes the first recorded instance of mellotron feedback!) -Anekdoten: Their entire recorded catalog is riddled with tron.
I could go on and on with this but (1) Mellotrons aren't very rare. (2) their use in modern alternative rock is increasing due to certain people like Roger Manning (Jellyfish, Moog Cookbook, etc.) using them among others and (3) you can buy a plug-in from Gmedia to use with your sequencer which samples the original mellotron tapes and have a virtual mellotron on your PC or Mac.
My experience with ths sort of thing dates back about half a decade to a former employee who was governed by the SEC.
Workstations were locked down so only "authorized apps" could be used.
All web traffic was run thru a proxy to create a pervasive running history.
All IM traffic was run with one vendors client thru a special app (I won't say the name lest it point out my former employer) and captured and stored for a certain period of time.
All E-mails, no matter how inconsequential, were stored for a certain period of time.
The "certain period of time" was more than five but less than ten years.
The storage system in place for this data was quite impressive and no doubt cost quite a lot of money.
The guys responsible for architecting and running that particular system got gray hair well before their time.
The reason it's not showing in task manager is because it's using the name of a legitimate item you would normally see there - it's likely hiding in plain sight. Her machine is hosed and it's likely going to remain so unless you perform drastic measures.
Several suggestions: -Hijackthis -Crapcleaner (sometimes referred to as ccleaner) -Spybot S&D
Run these items in safe mode if possible and do what you can. However, this is going to be a huge, time- consuming pain.
Some of these apps look for things that SHOULD be there and verifies the correct size of that item, if it sees a big discrepancy it will flag it for you.
You COULD repair this system but being that it is now compromised you can't just clean it and presume that it is okay - these people are clever and will do things like save multiple copies of itself on the machine and will also invite its friends in.
Your wife probably visited a site that foisted its fun bits to her PC. She might not like having her machine taken away and forced to run a new OS but she really wouldn't like your high speed internet taken away since she sent out 86,000 pieces of spam e-mail courtesy of some criminal types.
Look at the thread in the number crunching forum at the setiathome.berkeley.edu website - there's a number of clients already in existence for Mac / PC / Linux, some are optimized for SSE / SSE2 / SSE3 and some not. The notable one was produced by a guy named Crunch3r who has left working on the project, the new Windows and Linux SSE / SSE2 etc clients are produced by a guy dubbed "The Chicken of Angmar" (no, I'm not kidding).
Is that really a concern? I've ran Seti @ home 100% of the time for over six years on a PowerMac G4 and it's still going strong - in fact, the only item that needed replacing was a fan whose bearings were shot from all of that runtime.
I think the only concern about "shortening processor life" is people who overclock far beyond a reasonable amount.
I've been on the Port Aransas ferries many, many times over the last seven or eight years (we go there every February) and have found that if you want to get someplace in a hurry, you might as well stay on Mustang Island.
Otherwise you'll just wait. No mechanicals, no collisions, a bit slow but generally reliable. But the exodus of people heading to the mainland on Monday mornings can make that wait pretty egregious.
One thing I could rely on like clockwork from that magazine is the record reviews as done by a particular reviewer named Joel Vance.
Everything Joel Vance hated, despised and denigrated I would absolutely love. Everything Joel Vance loved with a passion would make me puke and cringe.
None of the other divisions really panned out. In fact:
"When the Beatles' partnership was dissolved in 1975, dissolution of Apple Corps was also considered, but it was decided to keep it going, while effectively retiring all its divisions. The company exists today, mostly performing as the licensing agent for Beatles-related products, and supervising reissues of Apple Records, plus new issues of Beatles recordings and related media. The company is apparently now owned by Apple Corps SA (a Swiss company) and its company secretary is listed as Standby Films Ltd., believed to be a vehicle of managing director Neil Aspinall. The company is currently headquartered at 27 Ovington Square, in London's prestigious Knightsbridge district."
Taking good notes isn't something that's just good for school. It's a skill you will likely need in the work world.
I live and die by four or five small spiral bound notebooks that are about as thick as a paperback book.
I take notes at meetings, when doing projects, among other things.
I can take fast legible notes so there's no misunderstandings and I can refer to things if I need to. These have come in handy again and again. I just make sure I date everything so I know when I wrote something.
At many of my meetings at work people will have laptops out and one particular manager will ask for the employees to close their laptop because it's a little too easy to space out into your own cyber-world.
Makes sense.
So I don't blame the Prof. in this at all, her class, she makes the rules. Take some notes and type them all up legibly later.
Or bring a cassette tape recorder and record it or iPod with recording attachment if your notes look like scratchy scrawls.
It also depends on if you get a good chripractor. Like most professions, there are good and bad of everything.
After I was in a horrific car accident in 2004 I was in really bad shape, could hardly move - the car was totaled and both me and my wife were shell shocked.
I'd never considered chiropractic before but these friends of ours insisted theirs helped them so I thought to give it a try.
It really did help despite my skeptical nature wondering what I was getting into.
All I know is that for two days after the accident I was in really rough shape and after I saw this guy I was able to work and function.
After a year I was pretty much back to normal and did not need to see the chiropractor again although I have now and again when I felt like I needed it.
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Prediction: material the owner of the PC probably wouldn't want the GS tech to have.
Use your imagination!
Here's a clue: Low Tech Bob is often the manager because they would be toast
if they tried to work a tech job. The whole Harvard MBA/Bastard school of
upper management leads directly to the "Middle Manager Ennui robot puppet"
school of employees below the higher-ups and it seems to work fine for
those in charge.
But yet, there are people willing to pay for quality. Personally, it seems
that many of the problems experienced by end users are their own damn fault:
running an unpatched IE browser, visiting "adult content sites" (the big two:
porn, gambling) that seem to be the biggest purveyors of malware, kid sites
that cater to gamers (but push malware when you're not looking) or running
Kazaa or Limewire over a long weekend with the firewall down and no one
watching the machine (again, malware of various kinds). Or simply running a
very old commercial antivirus application that hasn't had a definitions
update since sometime in 2001.
It's sad, but it's true. Very few have any idea of the consequences of their
behavior. When they are a customer you can't exactly call them on the carpet
for this because they are entrusting you to fix their problem, and paying you
for that. So everything is couched in a soft pedaled delivery "you should
avoid that or this site".
However, the social engineering aspects of "getting something for nothing"
are heavily at play. And no matter how much they should know better people
really want to believe it. It is this attitude that often leads to machines
getting infected to the point where a reimage is necessary.
An end user at my company brought a machine in (their own that was authorized
to be on the network, hence they had admin rights) to be looked at due to what
appeared to be a big virus outbreak: her 12 year old daughter had installed
Limewire (without her mothers' knowledge or consent) on the machine.
The daughter found what she believed was a module for her favorite game which
she then downloaded and decompressed which promptly owned the machine since it
wasn't what it said it was. She then did nothing about it for a week or so
while the machine slowed down and acted erratically.
Since it was the parents machine and not a corporate asset, it was the
mothers responsibility to get it cleared (we make "best effort" but just
don't have resources and hours to spend on this kind of thing, it's not
really what I'm there for). That meant spending $ to rectify a daughters
mistake.
The parent was upset and asked how this could have happened despite having
a commercial corporate antivirus solution: facts are facts, decompressing a
trojan and willfully installing it nuked the antivirus install and then
started inviting its malware friends in which invited more in and thus the
machine would have taken hours of dejunking in safe mode to undo the damage.
I personally feel our company has picked a mediocre corporate antivirus
solution but I am not in a position to change things.
The daughter promptly blamed the Limewire install on a neighbor girl and I
could feel the girls' curdling "MUTH-ERRR, you can't call her mother, I'll
just die.." when the parent was going to contact the parent of the neighbor
girl.
The mother was irate since people who nuke their machines in this manner are
their responsibility to have it corrected meaning paying someone to do it.
Anyway, the situation with Best Buy is no different than what I see sometimes
at work - there are people who use corporate assets to surf unsafe sites - when
they are at home on their own high speed network connections they can pull up
anything they want. We have privacy restrictions so we can't examine what it
is they have surfed, but the malware scanners are pretty good about pinpointing
the nature of the site surfed or malware on the machine from a given source.
There have been a few times, however, when customer machines explode in a plethora
of self-launching porn pop-ups. All you can do is laugh, shut the thing down and
reimage it and hope they learned their lesson.
Sigh. This has nothing to do with Woz but Michael Jackson is a victim of the fact
that he had too much money after "Thriller" (he was rolling in it).
The fact that he had a weird not-normal upbringing and too many yes-men around him
telling him that everything he did was wonderful and not enough supervision by
people who might have been able to stop him from doing questionable things.
What do I know? If I got a huge payday from the record companies I'd probably
do something really boring like invest it rather than blowing it all on exciting
nights out or whatever.
No, no....don't underestimate the beautifully fading intensity of the horrible actress types
sucking the life out of you. Slowly like vampires. In the twilight.
For me it was indeed the Unsanity APE module.
At first I didn't recall installing it but it came bundled with an application
I bought called Audio Hijack Pro that uses APE as part of its functional matrix.
After booting in single user Unix mode and removing the bits it was fine.
I feel your pain. I had a bit of a "math block" until I encountered computers
in high school due to an abusive teacher at the elementary school level.
I avoided math for many years due to that. But I later realized that when I
got into computers I was using it all of the time but it was just not couched
as "you're working on math problems!"
That being said, the recommendations to do math problems that fit into your
real life situation is not a bad idea - for instance I do a lot of bike riding/
cycling.
And if I know my destination is 20 miles away and I'm going 17 miles an hour
I can mentally calculate how long it will approximately take me to get to the
destination I have in mind or if I adjust my speed to modify it.
Or if you're doing the laundry and you can calculate the approximate washing/
drying time for given pieces of clothing or mentally adding your grocery
purchases before heading to the cash register etc.
Books also help. My mom had a book in her old bookshelf called "the last
math book you'll ever need" that's worth a look see - she had some of the
same problems with math in general and that helped her out.
Kind of old news. A friend of mine built one of these using the 1.6 ghz
h p?hostid=3131492
chips and is using it for doing all kinds of things but is currently using
it to run Seti @ Home.
Here's his url:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.p
It really depends largely on what CPU you're using, what graphics card
you're using and what VERSION of OS X you're running too.
So, if you're running a G4/400 with a Radeon 8500 graphics card and
Tiger, your bottleneck is in the slow bus of that machine.
A G5 or Intel Mac is going to have a faster buses (front side
and video) and simply is more geared for doing more "stuff".
The last generation of G5 Macs with PCI Express video and the
latest generation of Intel Macs with the same should be fastest
but the 8x AGP G5s are pretty darn respectable too.
But if you want "speed in browsing" look at Opera, Camino or
some of the development builds of Safari. Even the optimized
builds of Firefox aren't as fast as those it seems.
Maybe not "bug" but "unexpected software interaction".
I was playing my electric guitar into Garageband using my external
preamp and effects and just listening to it.
I installed an app called "Jack" which is an internal audio routing
app and started it up while doing the GB listening session and it
added a weird, intense ring modulation effect to every audio signal
going thru the computer...
My guitar sounded like the rings of Saturn falling apart, it was
incredibly weird.....just great!
It's an interesting topic because with todays work environment potentially being
in many different locations (I'm literally in a different office every day of the
work week) and people being allowed to have their own equipment on the network
with only Symantec corporate edition between them and the network it's a strange
experiment. The vast majority of infections I see coming onto our network is
from people surfing....unsavory sites....from home in their off hours.
But I wonder if this particular revelation will lead to interesting lawsuits
against the large corporations from those who dislike spam leading to increased
vigilance of the IT groups of those companies (firewalled subnet for guest
contractors or others who bring their own equipment onto the network).
Food for thought.
This is exactly what it is in many cases. Where I work as a Sysadmin we have
independent contractors who come and go and utilize our network. The problem
is frequently the children of these users who use the parents work machines to
do homework, surf game sites or even the adults who use it to surf gambling
and adult entertainment sites. It is their equipment but we allow it on our
network. We lock some things down, but it is still the persons personal
property. An unusual situation I admit.
Albums with Mellotron besides the Beatles?
Well, besides my own "Passage from the Vault of Hours" which has both mellotron flute
as well as mellotron strings in spot, here are albums that have a number of Mellotron
bits and are classic recordings:
-King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Starless and Bible Black,
Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Thrak, etcetera.
-Synergy: Electronic realizations for rock orchestra - the first two tracks
utilize quite a bit of Mellotron, especially the cover of "Slaughter on Tenth
Avenue".
-Tangerine Dream - virtually everything from Phaedra and Rubycon all the way past
Stratosfear and Encore (the live disc) and use slows around the time of Cyclone
around 1978 although sporadic use continues into 1979's "Force Majeure".
-Spring - the entire record is a virual mellotron demonstration record. Kind of
unknown but has Dire Straits Pick Withers on drums.
The AOR contigent tracks:
-Lynyrd Skynyrd: Tuesdays Gone - 'Tron strings throughout.
-Bob Seger: Turn the Page - the live version has 'tron strings.
-Rush: Tears - 'tron strings.
-Aerosmith: Dream on - strings again.
The Swedish Contigent:
-Anglagard: Epilog, Hybris - also big 'tron users. Both are excellent.
-Landberk: One Man Tells Another (includes the first recorded instance of mellotron feedback!)
-Anekdoten: Their entire recorded catalog is riddled with tron.
I could go on and on with this but (1) Mellotrons aren't very rare.
(2) their use in modern alternative rock is increasing due to certain
people like Roger Manning (Jellyfish, Moog Cookbook, etc.) using them
among others and (3) you can buy a plug-in from Gmedia to use with your
sequencer which samples the original mellotron tapes and have a virtual
mellotron on your PC or Mac.
My experience with ths sort of thing dates back about half
a decade to a former employee who was governed by the SEC.
Workstations were locked down so only "authorized apps" could
be used.
All web traffic was run thru a proxy to create a pervasive
running history.
All IM traffic was run with one vendors client thru a special
app (I won't say the name lest it point out my former employer)
and captured and stored for a certain period of time.
All E-mails, no matter how inconsequential, were stored for a
certain period of time.
The "certain period of time" was more than five but less than
ten years.
The storage system in place for this data was quite impressive
and no doubt cost quite a lot of money.
The guys responsible for architecting and running that particular
system got gray hair well before their time.
Don't do it. I wondered what the fuss was about anime and now I've
got gigabytes of the stuff. It's kind of addicted.
Some of the stories have surprising depth and inventiveness.
I'd say many of the american movie studios could learn a thing
or two about depth of story and character development from the
anime writers.
Oh yeah, and there's tentacles if you want them but it's not true
to say that every anime production has tentacles.
Although, it would be rather amusing if some sweet innocent love
story all of a sudden turned into a tentacle battle.
The reason it's not showing in task manager is because it's
using the name of a legitimate item you would normally see
there - it's likely hiding in plain sight. Her machine is
hosed and it's likely going to remain so unless you perform
drastic measures.
Several suggestions:
-Hijackthis
-Crapcleaner (sometimes referred to as ccleaner)
-Spybot S&D
Run these items in safe mode if possible and do what
you can. However, this is going to be a huge, time-
consuming pain.
Some of these apps look for things that SHOULD be there
and verifies the correct size of that item, if it sees
a big discrepancy it will flag it for you.
You COULD repair this system but being that it is now
compromised you can't just clean it and presume that it
is okay - these people are clever and will do things
like save multiple copies of itself on the machine and
will also invite its friends in.
Your wife probably visited a site that foisted its fun
bits to her PC. She might not like having her machine
taken away and forced to run a new OS but she really
wouldn't like your high speed internet taken away since
she sent out 86,000 pieces of spam e-mail courtesy of
some criminal types.
Look at the thread in the number crunching forum at the
setiathome.berkeley.edu website - there's a number of
clients already in existence for Mac / PC / Linux, some
are optimized for SSE / SSE2 / SSE3 and some not. The
notable one was produced by a guy named Crunch3r who has
left working on the project, the new Windows and Linux
SSE / SSE2 etc clients are produced by a guy dubbed
"The Chicken of Angmar" (no, I'm not kidding).
Is that really a concern? I've ran Seti @ home 100% of the time for over
six years on a PowerMac G4 and it's still going strong - in fact, the only
item that needed replacing was a fan whose bearings were shot from all of
that runtime.
I think the only concern about "shortening processor life" is people who
overclock far beyond a reasonable amount.
I had to chime in:
I disagree that Donaldson subscribes to the idea that the reader
is an idiot, or at least gramatically challenged:
This is the man who used the words "unhermeneuticable", "chrysoprase",
"excrudescence", and "miscegenation" in his novels.
Or, if you must, bring up http://www.naples.net/~dsaddison/srdamd/
to see an entire webpage devoted to "the big scary words" of SRD.
I've been on the Port Aransas ferries many, many times over the last seven
or eight years (we go there every February) and have found that if you want
to get someplace in a hurry, you might as well stay on Mustang Island.
Otherwise you'll just wait. No mechanicals, no collisions, a bit slow
but generally reliable. But the exodus of people heading to the mainland
on Monday mornings can make that wait pretty egregious.
Ah, Stereo Review.
One thing I could rely on like clockwork from that magazine
is the record reviews as done by a particular reviewer named
Joel Vance.
Everything Joel Vance hated, despised and denigrated I would
absolutely love. Everything Joel Vance loved with a passion
would make me puke and cringe.
I miss those days.
If you want to read more about Apple Corps and just
what the heck they really were all about it's here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps
Really a tax dodge for the Beatles at the time.
None of the other divisions really panned out.
In fact:
"When the Beatles' partnership was dissolved in 1975, dissolution of Apple Corps was also considered, but it was decided to keep it going, while effectively retiring all its divisions. The company exists today, mostly performing as the licensing agent for Beatles-related products, and supervising reissues of Apple Records, plus new issues of Beatles recordings and related media. The company is apparently now owned by Apple Corps SA (a Swiss company) and its company secretary is listed as Standby Films Ltd., believed to be a vehicle of managing director Neil Aspinall. The company is currently headquartered at 27 Ovington Square, in London's prestigious Knightsbridge district."
Taking good notes isn't something that's just good
for school. It's a skill you will likely need in
the work world.
I live and die by four or five small spiral bound
notebooks that are about as thick as a paperback
book.
I take notes at meetings, when doing projects,
among other things.
I can take fast legible notes so there's no
misunderstandings and I can refer to things if
I need to. These have come in handy again and
again. I just make sure I date everything so
I know when I wrote something.
At many of my meetings at work people will
have laptops out and one particular manager
will ask for the employees to close their
laptop because it's a little too easy to
space out into your own cyber-world.
Makes sense.
So I don't blame the Prof. in this at all,
her class, she makes the rules. Take some
notes and type them all up legibly later.
Or bring a cassette tape recorder and record
it or iPod with recording attachment if your
notes look like scratchy scrawls.
Maybe they could use it for landing tests for Aurora,
Blackstar, Brilliant Buzzard, Fastmover and all kinds
of secret and non-existent airplanes.
No! Better yet, build the CASES for these servers out
of legos. Might as well have that if you're going the
distance.
It also depends on if you get a good chripractor. Like
most professions, there are good and bad of everything.
After I was in a horrific car accident in 2004 I was in
really bad shape, could hardly move - the car was totaled
and both me and my wife were shell shocked.
I'd never considered chiropractic before but these friends
of ours insisted theirs helped them so I thought to give it
a try.
It really did help despite my skeptical nature wondering
what I was getting into.
All I know is that for two days after the accident I was
in really rough shape and after I saw this guy I was able
to work and function.
After a year I was pretty much back to normal and did not
need to see the chiropractor again although I have now
and again when I felt like I needed it.