Do you think Google will make a Gmail app just like they did with their search engine? That would be pretty neat. Maybe combine it with their search appliance. You plug this device into the corporate network, configure, and then all your users can enjoy Google seaching the intranet and have a nice webmail client with the same excellent searching.
Who knows, just a thought.
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I posted my address offering invites to people on slashdot yesterday. It was a third level comment (a reply to a reply of a comment or 'grandchild' post). Even without being modded up, I got a page full of requests. Not nearly as bad as you, though. I took a screenshot after I got back to my computer.
There is more to Gmail than just the space, though. There is also the amazing, sleak interface (that runs almost like a client app) and wonderful Google searching of your messages. Plus, it is so damn fast.
That said, I just got five more invitiations today and all my friends already have Gmail. If anyone wants an invite (preferably Hotmail users), then shoot me an e-mail at adpowers@gmail.com. I'll save a spot for Arlen, other than that, it is first come first serve.
Ummm...? Every other week it is my job to haul our recycling out to the curb, including a black bin full of glass bottles. Hell, we recycle so much in Washington that we don't need to be paid to recycle.
I went to the grand opening sneak peak thing last night. I'll add a few comments.
First of all, like the Experience Music Project next door, there was a ton of memorabilia. It had everything from one of Darth Vader's mask (one used by a stunt man), to the Cricket from Men in Black, to a gun from Galaxy Quest, to original Star Trek stories (written on by Nichelle Nichols), to a poster about the Babel fish.
The museum was linear and seemed to flow well from one section to the other. However, that means there doesn't seem like much room for expansion, as the musuem is sort of small. At EMP next door, they have lots of different sections where they can have permanent exhibits (like Northwest passage which has never changed), semi-permanent exhibits (ones that last for years at a time), and traveling exhibits (ones that last for a few months, like the recent Disco exhibit). At the SciFi museum, there didn't appear to be any room for traveling exhibits, which is unfortunate. Upstairs they had had a stage area with refreshments. I guess this will be used for guest speakers and presentations later on.
The tech was really neat, however. In the first section, as the poster mentioned, there is a large globe with video on it. It goes through a rotation of clips from movies, to quotes over a starry background, to a projection of planets. It was impressive how seemless it was, considering the video came from four projectors surrounding it.
The space dock was interesting. In front of you is a huge screen with the different ships flying around (like the Planet Express from Futurama). There are touch screens for individuals to use where you can look up ships stats and watch a video clip about it. If I remember correctly, the screen was sort of 3D. It had a background video screen layer and then another clear layer in front of that. It wasn't quite 3D, because it only had two layers. I didn't flip through all the ships, so I can't comment on the size of the catalog.
The next cool tech thing was a small globe with touch screen in front of it. You click on one of the six planets you want to see (Hoth, the one from Dune, Solaris, and some others). It plays videos on the screen, then turns the globe in front of you into that planet using projectors. It was pretty neat, but the voice talking about the planet was a little hard to hear.
Finally was the cityscape thing, which was disappointing. Like the poster mentioned, it only contained three cityscapes. It has a lot of potential if they add more, but it is just isn't there yet. The ones they did do turned out pretty well, though. There a lot of little details to look at and it gives you an idea of the city.
Overall it was pretty neat, but didn't seem to have that much of a 'replay' value. I wish they had room for temporary exhibits, because those would increase the value of a membership. However, this provides a good place for guest speakers. I believe this friday there is going to be a talk on the physics of Star Trek.
Oh, something I forgot to mention, in the first section they had a history of fandom, which was interesting. They showed a lot of original fanzines and letters exchanged between fans. A lot of the original fans later turned into writers themselves.
Overall, I think it had a good range of SciFi from the beginning (Frankenstein) to the present. It was a little small, though. The tech parts of the show were impressive, but could probably use some more content.
Well, that is my review. I didn't proofread, so don't be a grammar Nazi.
What are you talking about? Microgravity would allow you to bounce around on all the walls. You could jump up, rotate, and then bounce off the 'ceiling.' Try doing that in an earth based bounce pit.
Actually, not quiet right. If it is over 8 minutes, the label or artist or whoever has the option of making it album only, but it isn't a requirement. Look at the electronic section and you can see a lot of songs over 8 minutes that can be bought as a single song.
The funny thing is we have a really big drug 'problem' (problem is in quotes only because I don't necessarily believe drugs are a problem). I think the biggest 'problem' is pot. Most of the kids here have too much money and live in an unstimulating suburbia, so they resort to drugs. Three years ago a junior at the high school died because she was driving while high, went up a hill, flipped her car, and went out the windshield (no seat belt).
Kev6 is right (hey, who are you Kev6?). We don't have Bill Gates, but we do have Paul Allen and a bunch of other rich Microsofties (unfortunately, it means everyone is a Microsoft whore, but I guess that is normal). We also have a lot of Boeing higher-ups. Oh, and like half of every major sports team in Seattle lives here.
Umm, I'm sorry, but x104 is good? I go to MI and am forced to listen to that station all the time in weight training. It drives me crazy. They replay the same playlist all the time (how many times do I need to hear Quarterbackin'? (zero)) and the announcers don't even know what time of day it is (saying good evening in the middle of school).
That said, as much as I hate the radio station, it shouldn't be shut down in favor of another station moving in. Being a nerd, I have a number of colleagues who are really into the radio station. The music may suck, but it provides students with some intersting opportunities and we shouldn't be hit down by the big guy.
Personally, I've had better experience with USPS than UPS or FedEx.
When I was ordering my BTTF replacement DVDs, they put letters in my house number. For example, if my house was 8519, then it would have been AD519. USPS delivered this just like a normal letter, despite the screwed up format.
On the other hand, FedEx sometimes can't even get it to the right house when the address is exactly correct!
Personally, when I was reading it, I thought it was a precursor to Google releasing their own software for home users. The already have the Google toolbar, but this might be a sign of things to come. Wasn't there an article about using Google to search your hard drive a few days back? If you give Google access to something as personal as your entire hard drive, you want to be guarenteed they are the Good GuysTM
A little off topic, but: My Gmail account got its first spam the other day, a Nigerian 419 scam. I posted the address on my website and it took four days to get a spam, ouch. Anyway, it was funny because, while looking at the e-mail, Gmail gave me an Expedia advertisement about traveling to Nigeria. I guess it really does work well:)
I bicycle a lot (4 days a week to school + other places) as well as play Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate is really popular among science teachers at my school, almost all of them play. We even had problems involving frisbees in physics, when discussing rotation.
Yeah. Also remember that Steve-o said we would have 3 GHz G5s by this time next year. That was said at WWDC and the next one is coming up in a month and a half (end of June). The second revision should also fix any design problems that have been discovered. With the G5 at 3 GHz and Intel dropping the P4 for the Pentium M, Apple will soon have some of the fastest clocked chips around.
What is it with having the first name Fritz and being evil? Fritz Attaway of the MPAA. Fritz Hollings introduces SSSCA to Senate. Remind me to never name my son Fritz.
Exactly. I go to Oregon somewhat frequently and I am always amused seeing the Intel codenames all over the place. I have some pictures from my most recent trip to Portland.
Where I live, Seattle (which is fairly green), they have collection days for hazardous/oversize things. You bring them your batteries, TVs/monitors, refrigerators, etc. and they will dispose of them appropriately. It costs a little bit of money, though. They only do this occasionally so they can get a critical mass. If they had the collections open all the time, they would probably lose money (since the people working there would be idle most of the time).
I don't believe the garbage/recycling workers here will take these kinds of things.
Actually, I have the Alexa toolbar installed on a Windows machine. Since I very rarely use IE for browsing, I have no problem with it. Whenever I want to get my site crawled for the archive, I just go to my website with IE a few times so Alexa knows about it. The rest of my browsing (my real browsing) is does with Moz.
I believe they get a lot of money/support from Alexa. They have some dedicated lines to Alexa which Alexa uses to send their internet crawls to Archive.org (which are shown on Archive.org after a six month or so delay). They also team up with the Library of Congress (at least for all the September 11th crawls).
Archive.org is a very worthy project. I am going to make my donation once I get my finances in order (aka, decide how much money I have to give and how exactly it will be divided up).
As a proud owner of FCP edu version, I'd like to take this on:).
First of all, FCP is very powerful while still managing to be fairly easy to use (easy is relative, harder than iMovie, but easier and more intuitive than lots of other software). FCP should probably be more compared to an Avid machine than a Premiere workstation. The Apple literature, while being a bit biased;), compares the features of FCP to that of a $100,000 editing system.
Another way to look at it would be seeing what you get now versus what you would have gotten a year or two ago. Cinema Tools used to cost $999 by itself, now it comes bundled with FCP. Soundtrack didn't exist a year ago, but if you want to buy it seperately, that would cost you another $299. FCP gets more value injected every year.
Also, if Premiere was such that steal you claim it to be, why would Adobe drop support for the Mac (if it was that great and cheap, it should be vastly outselling FCP or FCE).
While I haven't used Premiere myself, my brother and friend both have. From what I have seen, it is much more of a hassle than FCP. To put simply, I believe Final Cut Pro is a steal (which I said when they released version 4).
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Do you think Google will make a Gmail app just like they did with their search engine? That would be pretty neat. Maybe combine it with their search appliance. You plug this device into the corporate network, configure, and then all your users can enjoy Google seaching the intranet and have a nice webmail client with the same excellent searching.
Who knows, just a thought.
Andrew
I posted my address offering invites to people on slashdot yesterday. It was a third level comment (a reply to a reply of a comment or 'grandchild' post). Even without being modded up, I got a page full of requests. Not nearly as bad as you, though. I took a screenshot after I got back to my computer.
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Hey guys. Sorry, but I'm out now. If you e-mail me, I can add you to the queue, but there are already 40 people in line.
Just to see what a slashdotted e-mail address looks like, click to see a screenshot of my gmail inbox. Hehe, ouch.
Andrew
There is more to Gmail than just the space, though. There is also the amazing, sleak interface (that runs almost like a client app) and wonderful Google searching of your messages. Plus, it is so damn fast.
That said, I just got five more invitiations today and all my friends already have Gmail. If anyone wants an invite (preferably Hotmail users), then shoot me an e-mail at adpowers@gmail.com. I'll save a spot for Arlen, other than that, it is first come first serve.
Eyesore? Whatever, you're on crack.
Ummm...? Every other week it is my job to haul our recycling out to the curb, including a black bin full of glass bottles. Hell, we recycle so much in Washington that we don't need to be paid to recycle.
Andrew
I went to the grand opening sneak peak thing last night. I'll add a few comments.
First of all, like the Experience Music Project next door, there was a ton of memorabilia. It had everything from one of Darth Vader's mask (one used by a stunt man), to the Cricket from Men in Black, to a gun from Galaxy Quest, to original Star Trek stories (written on by Nichelle Nichols), to a poster about the Babel fish.
The museum was linear and seemed to flow well from one section to the other. However, that means there doesn't seem like much room for expansion, as the musuem is sort of small. At EMP next door, they have lots of different sections where they can have permanent exhibits (like Northwest passage which has never changed), semi-permanent exhibits (ones that last for years at a time), and traveling exhibits (ones that last for a few months, like the recent Disco exhibit). At the SciFi museum, there didn't appear to be any room for traveling exhibits, which is unfortunate. Upstairs they had had a stage area with refreshments. I guess this will be used for guest speakers and presentations later on.
The tech was really neat, however. In the first section, as the poster mentioned, there is a large globe with video on it. It goes through a rotation of clips from movies, to quotes over a starry background, to a projection of planets. It was impressive how seemless it was, considering the video came from four projectors surrounding it.
The space dock was interesting. In front of you is a huge screen with the different ships flying around (like the Planet Express from Futurama). There are touch screens for individuals to use where you can look up ships stats and watch a video clip about it. If I remember correctly, the screen was sort of 3D. It had a background video screen layer and then another clear layer in front of that. It wasn't quite 3D, because it only had two layers. I didn't flip through all the ships, so I can't comment on the size of the catalog.
The next cool tech thing was a small globe with touch screen in front of it. You click on one of the six planets you want to see (Hoth, the one from Dune, Solaris, and some others). It plays videos on the screen, then turns the globe in front of you into that planet using projectors. It was pretty neat, but the voice talking about the planet was a little hard to hear.
Finally was the cityscape thing, which was disappointing. Like the poster mentioned, it only contained three cityscapes. It has a lot of potential if they add more, but it is just isn't there yet. The ones they did do turned out pretty well, though. There a lot of little details to look at and it gives you an idea of the city.
Overall it was pretty neat, but didn't seem to have that much of a 'replay' value. I wish they had room for temporary exhibits, because those would increase the value of a membership. However, this provides a good place for guest speakers. I believe this friday there is going to be a talk on the physics of Star Trek.
Oh, something I forgot to mention, in the first section they had a history of fandom, which was interesting. They showed a lot of original fanzines and letters exchanged between fans. A lot of the original fans later turned into writers themselves.
Overall, I think it had a good range of SciFi from the beginning (Frankenstein) to the present. It was a little small, though. The tech parts of the show were impressive, but could probably use some more content.
Well, that is my review. I didn't proofread, so don't be a grammar Nazi.
Andrew
What are you talking about? Microgravity would allow you to bounce around on all the walls. You could jump up, rotate, and then bounce off the 'ceiling.' Try doing that in an earth based bounce pit.
Actually, not quiet right. If it is over 8 minutes, the label or artist or whoever has the option of making it album only, but it isn't a requirement. Look at the electronic section and you can see a lot of songs over 8 minutes that can be bought as a single song.
That is, unfortunately, what I have to do because otherwise none of my e-mail would get to AOL (AOL blocks dynamic IPs). Those fuckers.
The funny thing is we have a really big drug 'problem' (problem is in quotes only because I don't necessarily believe drugs are a problem). I think the biggest 'problem' is pot. Most of the kids here have too much money and live in an unstimulating suburbia, so they resort to drugs. Three years ago a junior at the high school died because she was driving while high, went up a hill, flipped her car, and went out the windshield (no seat belt).
Kev6 is right (hey, who are you Kev6?). We don't have Bill Gates, but we do have Paul Allen and a bunch of other rich Microsofties (unfortunately, it means everyone is a Microsoft whore, but I guess that is normal). We also have a lot of Boeing higher-ups. Oh, and like half of every major sports team in Seattle lives here.
Umm, I'm sorry, but x104 is good? I go to MI and am forced to listen to that station all the time in weight training. It drives me crazy. They replay the same playlist all the time (how many times do I need to hear Quarterbackin'? (zero)) and the announcers don't even know what time of day it is (saying good evening in the middle of school).
That said, as much as I hate the radio station, it shouldn't be shut down in favor of another station moving in. Being a nerd, I have a number of colleagues who are really into the radio station. The music may suck, but it provides students with some intersting opportunities and we shouldn't be hit down by the big guy.
Personally, I've had better experience with USPS than UPS or FedEx.
:)
When I was ordering my BTTF replacement DVDs, they put letters in my house number. For example, if my house was 8519, then it would have been AD519. USPS delivered this just like a normal letter, despite the screwed up format.
On the other hand, FedEx sometimes can't even get it to the right house when the address is exactly correct!
USPS gets mad props from me
Personally, when I was reading it, I thought it was a precursor to Google releasing their own software for home users. The already have the Google toolbar, but this might be a sign of things to come. Wasn't there an article about using Google to search your hard drive a few days back? If you give Google access to something as personal as your entire hard drive, you want to be guarenteed they are the Good GuysTM
A little off topic, but: My Gmail account got its first spam the other day, a Nigerian 419 scam. I posted the address on my website and it took four days to get a spam, ouch. Anyway, it was funny because, while looking at the e-mail, Gmail gave me an Expedia advertisement about traveling to Nigeria. I guess it really does work well :)
I bicycle a lot (4 days a week to school + other places) as well as play Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate is really popular among science teachers at my school, almost all of them play. We even had problems involving frisbees in physics, when discussing rotation.
Yeah. Also remember that Steve-o said we would have 3 GHz G5s by this time next year. That was said at WWDC and the next one is coming up in a month and a half (end of June). The second revision should also fix any design problems that have been discovered. With the G5 at 3 GHz and Intel dropping the P4 for the Pentium M, Apple will soon have some of the fastest clocked chips around.
What is it with having the first name Fritz and being evil? Fritz Attaway of the MPAA. Fritz Hollings introduces SSSCA to Senate. Remind me to never name my son Fritz.
Exactly. I go to Oregon somewhat frequently and I am always amused seeing the Intel codenames all over the place. I have some pictures from my most recent trip to Portland.
Yamhill Street
Advertisement for rafting on the Willamette river
As for Cascades, give me a break. As others have said, that should have been obvious if you know the names of all those rivers.
I can't wait for Steve Jobs to announce the iPeta. "300 million songs in your closet."
Where I live, Seattle (which is fairly green), they have collection days for hazardous/oversize things. You bring them your batteries, TVs/monitors, refrigerators, etc. and they will dispose of them appropriately. It costs a little bit of money, though. They only do this occasionally so they can get a critical mass. If they had the collections open all the time, they would probably lose money (since the people working there would be idle most of the time).
I don't believe the garbage/recycling workers here will take these kinds of things.
Actually, I have the Alexa toolbar installed on a Windows machine. Since I very rarely use IE for browsing, I have no problem with it. Whenever I want to get my site crawled for the archive, I just go to my website with IE a few times so Alexa knows about it. The rest of my browsing (my real browsing) is does with Moz.
I believe they get a lot of money/support from Alexa. They have some dedicated lines to Alexa which Alexa uses to send their internet crawls to Archive.org (which are shown on Archive.org after a six month or so delay). They also team up with the Library of Congress (at least for all the September 11th crawls).
.5 gig/second line. All the Grateful Dead tapes are clogging their bandwidth.
I think they can handle the storage space. They already have over half a petabyte. They bandwidth, however, might be a problem since they are maxing out their
Archive.org is a very worthy project. I am going to make my donation once I get my finances in order (aka, decide how much money I have to give and how exactly it will be divided up).
As a proud owner of FCP edu version, I'd like to take this on :).
;), compares the features of FCP to that of a $100,000 editing system.
First of all, FCP is very powerful while still managing to be fairly easy to use (easy is relative, harder than iMovie, but easier and more intuitive than lots of other software). FCP should probably be more compared to an Avid machine than a Premiere workstation. The Apple literature, while being a bit biased
Another way to look at it would be seeing what you get now versus what you would have gotten a year or two ago. Cinema Tools used to cost $999 by itself, now it comes bundled with FCP. Soundtrack didn't exist a year ago, but if you want to buy it seperately, that would cost you another $299. FCP gets more value injected every year.
Also, if Premiere was such that steal you claim it to be, why would Adobe drop support for the Mac (if it was that great and cheap, it should be vastly outselling FCP or FCE).
While I haven't used Premiere myself, my brother and friend both have. From what I have seen, it is much more of a hassle than FCP. To put simply, I believe Final Cut Pro is a steal (which I said when they released version 4).