Actually my experience has been rather different. Since moving to OSX and Linux, I've noticed that many Windows-centric techs seem to have serious amounts of hatred towards anything non-Windows. I'm not talking about snobbery, I'm talking about people actually getting red in the face, and freaking out.
I got much the same in a #perl room regarding a particularly troublesome perl based network monitoring package installation. CPAN was generating errors out the wazoo, and after lurking for a couple of hours I asked about them.
Response: You should use PHP instead, it's good for stupid people like yourself...
I was rather incensed. My server OS of choice is Slackware Linux run via the CLI. It's not like I'm new to computers (1980), or linux (1997). It's not like I didn't read the documentation that was available.
It turned out that the author of the package had not posted the newest version to CPAN, and this was the source of much of the problem.
At this point I've decided to stick with sed, awk, and the familiar *nix power tools (the O'Reilley book is a must buy). At the point that Perl is less associated with s**theaded children with social problems in my mind, then I might bother learning it.
I have ADHD. I've mostly overcome my problems with dysgraphia. However to write in any fashion that is legible, I must print. I print so slowly that I cannot take handwritten notes fast enough to keep up with even the slowest of lecturers. Furthermore, when I'm writing things by hand, it requires enough concentration that I cannot keep track of what someone is saying while I am writing.
Hence, I've found that if I take notes, I tend to do very poorly in a class because I'm not listening to the lecture at all.
I generally don't take any notes during class time.
In those classes where notes have been written on the board, I've generally copied them as best as I could and lost them later.
I have a Powerbook now, and have considered trying to go back to school, because I now have a tool that I can use to keep track of my papers (I generally lose them). Further I can listen and type at the same time.
To rebut:
i) I touch type at 40wpm, which is adequate. I print at about 8wpm which is not.
ii) I have a webcam and a digital camera. I also have software which I can either a)sketch a drawing, or b) enter equations. Supplementary notes can be entered as comments, which supplant notes placed in the margin. Select some text, and choose "Comment" from the "Insert" menu.
iii) The powerbook is not loud. When I'm shuffling through the mass of papers in my bag, it's very loud and disruptive.
Highlighting is simple enough in Microsoft Word that retarded people should be able to do it. It's in the "Formatting Toolbar" and it's called "Highlighting" of all things. You can pick from multiple colors even.
Annotation is also simple in even old versions of M$ Word. In the sense of labeling for an image. From the "Insert menu" choose "Text Box" and place that on your image.
iv) I don't. I am a man, not a mass-produced object that works the same way every other object in it's class works.
Thanks to the ADA, I can get a note from my doctor attesting to these things, keeping professors like the one in the article from taking away the tools I need to do well. This will allow me to go back to school with the hope of actually getting a degree this time.
Note: I only mentioned Microsoft Word, other programs have features that can be used to accomplish the objectives you advocate above with far better results than pen and paper (at least for me).
Note: I agree that students that are sitting in class using their laptops to play games, browse the net, chat with friends or other non-class related activity should be able to be banned from continuing with that activity. Banning the use of laptops by everyone is like banning wheelchairs. Most people who use one do so only to play around (I used to do wheelies in them when younger), however for some people they are neccesary tools.
Due to ADHD, I cannot keep track of papers. This has caused me to nearly fail more than one class. I did fairly well at DeVry, because my now-wife helped me keep track of all of the peices of paper. I'd not be able to find my homework in my bag, and somehow she'd always seem to find it.
The only drug that has worked very well controlling my ADHD is strictly controlled and my doctor doesn't want to prescribe it. However I'm quite certain that I could get a doctor's note to bring my laptop to class with me.
Tough cookies for you...
Perhaps you'll be more effective at keeping the cripples out of class. Those metal crutches clatter so loudly.
Also you might try to keep all "teh hottiez" out of the class, as they can be immensely distracting. Or perhaps you can make them wear a chador (The traditional concealing garment worn by Moslem Women in public), because that would help.
Of course you're also familiar with all learning disabilities which might suggest the use of a laptop and not paper?
Silly me, I seem to have forgotten that professors are all knowing... Must have happened when I was sitting in a DeVry class in which the professor didn't seem to understand the concept of "turing equivalent" (at least in the more commonly used sense).
#1 it causes my hand to cramp to the point that it becomes unusable.
#2 due to ADHD, I'm currently incapable of keeping track of bunches of papers.
This kind of bullshit one of the things that drove me away from going to school.
This is the kind of class to take a tape deck/camera or camcorder to.
Re:Explain the fricken 12,000 bucks for this...
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That's what I was referring to...
It's what network administrators tell the boss they are doing when they fire up a LAN game on the company network. Network Load Testing. Mostly started with Marathon/Quake games to ensure low network latency... (at least on my part).
I could have purchased one used for about $1500. I didn't, instead I drive a Saturn Luxury Edition. Likewise I don't buy that rockgut whiskey they sell at Safeway for $10 a fifth, I drink GlenFiddich.
Oh, and the PowerBooks cost more because they're the "Portable Workstation" models. The consumer models are called iBooks and they cost about $1k.
BTW, What's the horseshit with the special software?
ALL OSes need "special" software... that is... software that's compiled to run on the OS/hardware combo in question.
Or is it the "special" proprietary software like M$ Office, Adobe Photoshop, or Print Shop?
Or maybe the "special" software that comes with the system, like the iLife suite?
Or maybe it's the "special" software that I like so much like iTerm, VideoLan Client, Fire (multi-protocol IM), Firefox, Sed/Awk (regex rules), or some other piece of software infected with that viral GPL license....
Namely because you cannot imbed album art into Ogg files...
They also have poor industry support. ---
There's more to a format being "good" than simply harping on a single aspect.
I won't compromise on the album art issue. And more importantly, if they won't play using my preferred hardware (in-dash car stereo, MP3 player, DVD player, etc), or software (whatever that may be)...
So as far as actually using it, Ogg is a "poor" format for what I want.
Sure, and why not have onboard video and sound as well....
Dude, have fun on your iMac...
Of course we could take it one step further and remove any discrete video memory.... ---
One of the best things about Apple's move to Intel is that even they are abandoning that line of thinking. The new Macbooks and iMacs use sockets...
I can understand WRT laptop designs. Things need to be very compact. Modularity takes a back seat to weight, size, and form factor. Which is good. In a tower there's no excuse.
Simply because the deck is stacked against you (and it often is), that fact is not justification to give up. It simply means that you have to try harder. No, it's not fair, but in the real world, what is?
What truly disgusts me is that after all of the work done by Dr. King and his colleages, many of the current generations of black youth revel in "ghetto chic" and thuggery. Sadly what this does is to reaffirm the arguements of racists.
I grew up around many of those who knew Dr. King, walked with him, and worked with those around him. The "ghetto chic" mentality is something that greatly distresses all of the people that I know who fought so hard for an end to racial opression. I am likewise saddened by this, and even though I'm only 33 I can see the progression.
I wish you well in breaking these retarded stereotypes that many people have.
It's called pdf and links and displayed header information.
It's damned simple. Use a unix time stamp plus subject and sender for the name of the file. Then create directories for mailboxes and drop links into the directories that correlate to the sender and reciever. You name the link with the standard crap you see in a email client. You name it Date/Time|Subject|Sender.
Now what you have is a list of emails (links to the actual PDFs) recieved by date and time in a time ordered fashion. Any coder worth a crap can use "|" or whatever character they wish to separate fields for alternate ordering of lists. Then all you need is a front-end to display this...
You place links in the PDFs covering the to: and sender: fields that will take you to the apprpriate mailboxes. I'd probably also divide the mailboxes into a User/Year/Month/Day directory format with the links to the emails residing in the appropriate directory in order to keep things in some kind of workable size.
There'd be a bit more to it, but that's what I've come up with in about 2 minutes. I'm pretty sure the rest of the logistical angle would likewise be readily doable.
The point is: PDF is a fairly open format that will be readable in the future. PDF supports linking. Directory structure will exist as a metaphore into the forseeable future (and if not then a database layout of fields matching this layout will do the same thing.) Once again, writing some scripts to take a directory structure of links and import it into a database would take a bit of work, however I know of multiple perl coders who'd be able to do this. This layout would be damned simple to web enable.
I want to know how well the drive reads a scratched up disk...
These sites always test how fast these drives are in a controlled environment.
With hard drives, it's understandable since most users use the drive in a controlled environment during normal usage. What I mean by this is; the platters are safely enclosed, and the worst that generally happens is heat build-up or ribbon damage.
Optical drives, on the other hand, do not operate in anything resembling "ideal use" during normal operation. It would be nice to see how well these drives read damaged media. I'm certain that I'm in the majority when I say that I have more than a few disks that are in poor condition.
I own a SCSI Plextor drive that has been nothing short of amazing with regards to reading damaged CDs. It's old and somewhat slow but it has read disks that my Sony, Pioneer, and Aopen drives wouldn't. What's actually more important to me than a minute or two of burn time is that the drive will actually read my disks, scratched or not (within reason). What I'd truly like to know is how these drives would read when subjected to various levels of scratched up media (accuracy, speed, etc).
I'm very curious if the Plextor is still king of the heap in this regard. The problem is that no one tests this.
Multiple pass wiping is included in the OSX Disk Utility program. 10.3 supports an 8 pass random wipe.
This is the diskutil man page from 10.4 NAME
diskutil -- Modify, verify and repair local disks.
SYNOPSIS
diskutil verb [options]
DESCRIPTION
diskutil uses the Disk Management framework to manipulate local disks.
secureErase [freespace] level device
Securely erase a disk or freespace on a mounted volume. Level should be one of the following
1 - Single pass randomly erase the disk.
2 - US DoD 7 pass secure erase.
3 - Gutmann algorithm 35 pass secure erase. Ownership of the affected disk is required.
There is of course a easy to use GUI version of this.
The solution is to call them and tell them that they've gone too far this time and you're not going to buy their music anymore.
Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. 10585 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, Ca 90025-4950
phone: 310-441-8600 fax: 310-470-1587
email: webmaster@warnerchappell.com
I called them. I told them I had lots of CDs already, and can simply just use to non-RIAA (local/unsigned) bands to suppliment my collection from now on. I told them that I've simply been pushed too far, and that I was telling everyone I knew.
Let them know how you feel.
Mention PearLyrics and any other tool they've shut down, and tell them you're mad as hell that it is gone now. Mention that you used these lyrics sites to find the song name/artist of stuff you wanted to buy. Mention that you used these sites to check the lyrics of music your children want to listen to. Mention that you will not pay for something as inane as finding lyrics, and you don't give a rats ass WHO the publisher is. Tell them that while some people went on download sprees, you paid for new albums, and that you are disgusted that this is the way they want to thank you. Tell them that you have a large CD collection already, and can suppliment it with local/unsigned/non-RIAA artists... and that if an RIAA-produced album comes along that is so awesome you have to have it, you'll buy it used.
How many calls, mails, emails do you think it will take til they get the message?
It's GPL'd It supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, and IRC It supports the basics like file transfers and buddy icons. It supports Zero-conf/Rendezvous/Bonjour/Some-other-french-wor d-Apple-decides-to-use It supports text to speech It supports Aliases... (in other words I never see nicks, I see my buddies actual names) It supports inline spell check (questionably wrong words underlined in red) It supports customizable triggers (notifications) for different buddies. It supports 6 languages, perhaps 7 in the near future, depending on how well I do in Japanese class It supports the basic drag and drop support of OSX.
What it does not support Video and Audio chats... Anything other than OSX (Linux or FreeBSD support would be very nice) Probably something I've not needed/wanted
If I'm on a Windows machine I use Trillian. If I have a choice I wouldn't use another IM client without inline spell check and multiple network support.
At the time Apple WAS the market leader in schools by leaps and bounds. At the time the school started using the Apple IIs for business, IBM didn't make PCs yet. It was widely understood at the time that you HAD to use for k12 labs.
Give me a fscking break. I've MUDed since the early 90's, and played tons of modern online games since.
Fantasy setting in the game... here's a clue dumbass, noone fscking cares about the spirit of the damned Fantasy RPG. And the very few who do should have a special server reserved for the anally retentive.
You may as well ban people from chatting about TV, Sports, anything RL, on that game... As a matter of fact Blizzard should add a scanf to the chats to search for TV show names, RL places, Band Names, and things not fitting in with the Almighty Fantasy Spirit. By banning those that transgessed, they could then maintain the Almighty Fantasy Setting with certainty....
They'd have about 100 customers left, but the game's integrity would be upheld.
My father was a Principal at a K-7 school. He wanted to buy some Apple computers for the school. To do this he was required to: 1)Buy from a specific vendor who was not currently school board approved that Apple had deemed "The Education Market Supplier" in their infinite wisdom. 2)Fill out lots and lots of obnoxious forms. 3)Undergo a buying proceedure that was outside of the board-approved puchasing methods. (They refused to give him a bid/cost sheet before he ordered, among other things) 4)Put up with rude arrogant asshole salespeople.
The school bought commodores......
Cheaper, no fscking hassles, nice salespeople, and all within Board-approved purchasing proceedures.
Being shitty to the people who keep you in business is a good way to trash your company. Ask Apple, they know all about it. They had 10% marketshare at one point, there's a valid reason it dropped to under 3% before Job's return.
Fuck the rules, if they annoy customers and don't help your business, then they're probably hurting you. And sooner or later it'll cost you money/marketshare.
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Biodiesel does have the tendency to make the seals on some engines expand. However on newer cars (except for Fords) this has been fixed.
This is why I'm not going to be using a Powerstroke engine on a project vehicle I have. They are not suited to biodiesel or SVO.
For some reason Chevy's Duramax, Dodge's Cummins, and the Volkwagon TDI engines do not have this problem.
Actually my experience has been rather different. Since moving to OSX and Linux, I've noticed that many Windows-centric techs seem to have serious amounts of hatred towards anything non-Windows. I'm not talking about snobbery, I'm talking about people actually getting red in the face, and freaking out.
I got much the same in a #perl room regarding a particularly troublesome perl based network monitoring package installation. CPAN was generating errors out the wazoo, and after lurking for a couple of hours I asked about them.
Response: You should use PHP instead, it's good for stupid people like yourself...
I was rather incensed. My server OS of choice is Slackware Linux run via the CLI. It's not like I'm new to computers (1980), or linux (1997). It's not like I didn't read the documentation that was available.
It turned out that the author of the package had not posted the newest version to CPAN, and this was the source of much of the problem.
At this point I've decided to stick with sed, awk, and the familiar *nix power tools (the O'Reilley book is a must buy). At the point that Perl is less associated with s**theaded children with social problems in my mind, then I might bother learning it.
Once again:
I have ADHD. I've mostly overcome my problems with dysgraphia. However to write in any fashion that is legible, I must print. I print so slowly that I cannot take handwritten notes fast enough to keep up with even the slowest of lecturers. Furthermore, when I'm writing things by hand, it requires enough concentration that I cannot keep track of what someone is saying while I am writing.
Hence, I've found that if I take notes, I tend to do very poorly in a class because I'm not listening to the lecture at all.
I generally don't take any notes during class time.
In those classes where notes have been written on the board, I've generally copied them as best as I could and lost them later.
I have a Powerbook now, and have considered trying to go back to school, because I now have a tool that I can use to keep track of my papers (I generally lose them). Further I can listen and type at the same time.
To rebut:
i) I touch type at 40wpm, which is adequate. I print at about 8wpm which is not.
ii) I have a webcam and a digital camera. I also have software which I can either a)sketch a drawing, or b) enter equations. Supplementary notes can be entered as comments, which supplant notes placed in the margin. Select some text, and choose "Comment" from the "Insert" menu.
iii) The powerbook is not loud. When I'm shuffling through the mass of papers in my bag, it's very loud and disruptive.
Highlighting is simple enough in Microsoft Word that retarded people should be able to do it. It's in the "Formatting Toolbar" and it's called "Highlighting" of all things. You can pick from multiple colors even.
Annotation is also simple in even old versions of M$ Word. In the sense of labeling for an image. From the "Insert menu" choose "Text Box" and place that on your image.
iv) I don't. I am a man, not a mass-produced object that works the same way every other object in it's class works.
Thanks to the ADA, I can get a note from my doctor attesting to these things, keeping professors like the one in the article from taking away the tools I need to do well. This will allow me to go back to school with the hope of actually getting a degree this time.
Note: check out http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/dysgraphia.html . It may be somewhat enlightening.
Note: I only mentioned Microsoft Word, other programs have features that can be used to accomplish the objectives you advocate above with far better results than pen and paper (at least for me).
Note: I agree that students that are sitting in class using their laptops to play games, browse the net, chat with friends or other non-class related activity should be able to be banned from continuing with that activity. Banning the use of laptops by everyone is like banning wheelchairs. Most people who use one do so only to play around (I used to do wheelies in them when younger), however for some people they are neccesary tools.
Unfortunately for you, the ADA is on my side.
Due to ADHD, I cannot keep track of papers. This has caused me to nearly fail more than one class. I did fairly well at DeVry, because my now-wife helped me keep track of all of the peices of paper. I'd not be able to find my homework in my bag, and somehow she'd always seem to find it.
The only drug that has worked very well controlling my ADHD is strictly controlled and my doctor doesn't want to prescribe it. However I'm quite certain that I could get a doctor's note to bring my laptop to class with me.
Tough cookies for you...
Perhaps you'll be more effective at keeping the cripples out of class. Those metal crutches clatter so loudly.
Also you might try to keep all "teh hottiez" out of the class, as they can be immensely distracting. Or perhaps you can make them wear a chador (The traditional concealing garment worn by Moslem Women in public), because that would help.
Of course you're also familiar with all learning disabilities which might suggest the use of a laptop and not paper?
Silly me, I seem to have forgotten that professors are all knowing... Must have happened when I was sitting in a DeVry class in which the professor didn't seem to understand the concept of "turing equivalent" (at least in the more commonly used sense).
I don't write notes down with pen and paper.
#1 it causes my hand to cramp to the point that it becomes unusable.
#2 due to ADHD, I'm currently incapable of keeping track of bunches of papers.
This kind of bullshit one of the things that drove me away from going to school.
This is the kind of class to take a tape deck/camera or camcorder to.
That's what I was referring to...
It's what network administrators tell the boss they are doing when they fire up a LAN game on the company network. Network Load Testing. Mostly started with Marathon/Quake games to ensure low network latency... (at least on my part).
Do you even know what a bot is?
It's a collection of triggers that respond to game input.
What he was using was a macro.
Yeah, and here I am wasting all this time tinkering with my network, I should buckle down and get some real work done.
I need to get XP running on the Mac so I can do some *cough* network load testing *cough*.
So I take it that you drive a Geo Metro?
I could have purchased one used for about $1500. I didn't, instead I drive a Saturn Luxury Edition. Likewise I don't buy that rockgut whiskey they sell at Safeway for $10 a fifth, I drink GlenFiddich.
Oh, and the PowerBooks cost more because they're the "Portable Workstation" models. The consumer models are called iBooks and they cost about $1k.
BTW, What's the horseshit with the special software?
ALL OSes need "special" software... that is... software that's compiled to run on the OS/hardware combo in question.
Or is it the "special" proprietary software like M$ Office, Adobe Photoshop, or Print Shop?
Or maybe the "special" software that comes with the system, like the iLife suite?
Or maybe it's the "special" software that I like so much like iTerm, VideoLan Client, Fire (multi-protocol IM), Firefox, Sed/Awk (regex rules), or some other piece of software infected with that viral GPL license....
They'd have to be blind tests...
Namely because you cannot imbed album art into Ogg files...
They also have poor industry support.
---
There's more to a format being "good" than simply harping on a single aspect.
I won't compromise on the album art issue. And more importantly, if they won't play using my preferred hardware (in-dash car stereo, MP3 player, DVD player, etc), or software (whatever that may be)...
So as far as actually using it, Ogg is a "poor" format for what I want.
Sure, and why not have onboard video and sound as well....
Dude, have fun on your iMac...
Of course we could take it one step further and remove any discrete video memory....
---
One of the best things about Apple's move to Intel is that even they are abandoning that line of thinking. The new Macbooks and iMacs use sockets...
I can understand WRT laptop designs. Things need to be very compact. Modularity takes a back seat to weight, size, and form factor. Which is good. In a tower there's no excuse.
Screw you,
The Guild of the Uber l33t 's/text editor/sed awk less/g' with decimate you and the Guild of Pico-using fairies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You rock...
Simply because the deck is stacked against you (and it often is), that fact is not justification to give up. It simply means that you have to try harder. No, it's not fair, but in the real world, what is?
What truly disgusts me is that after all of the work done by Dr. King and his colleages, many of the current generations of black youth revel in "ghetto chic" and thuggery. Sadly what this does is to reaffirm the arguements of racists.
I grew up around many of those who knew Dr. King, walked with him, and worked with those around him. The "ghetto chic" mentality is something that greatly distresses all of the people that I know who fought so hard for an end to racial opression. I am likewise saddened by this, and even though I'm only 33 I can see the progression.
I wish you well in breaking these retarded stereotypes that many people have.
It's called pdf and links and displayed header information.
It's damned simple. Use a unix time stamp plus subject and sender for the name of the file. Then create directories for mailboxes and drop links into the directories that correlate to the sender and reciever. You name the link with the standard crap you see in a email client. You name it Date/Time|Subject|Sender.
Now what you have is a list of emails (links to the actual PDFs) recieved by date and time in a time ordered fashion. Any coder worth a crap can use "|" or whatever character they wish to separate fields for alternate ordering of lists. Then all you need is a front-end to display this...
You place links in the PDFs covering the to: and sender: fields that will take you to the apprpriate mailboxes. I'd probably also divide the mailboxes into a User/Year/Month/Day directory format with the links to the emails residing in the appropriate directory in order to keep things in some kind of workable size.
There'd be a bit more to it, but that's what I've come up with in about 2 minutes. I'm pretty sure the rest of the logistical angle would likewise be readily doable.
The point is:
PDF is a fairly open format that will be readable in the future.
PDF supports linking.
Directory structure will exist as a metaphore into the forseeable future (and if not then a database layout of fields matching this layout will do the same thing.) Once again, writing some scripts to take a directory structure of links and import it into a database would take a bit of work, however I know of multiple perl coders who'd be able to do this.
This layout would be damned simple to web enable.
I want to know how well the drive reads a scratched up disk...
These sites always test how fast these drives are in a controlled environment.
With hard drives, it's understandable since most users use the drive in a controlled environment during normal usage. What I mean by this is; the platters are safely enclosed, and the worst that generally happens is heat build-up or ribbon damage.
Optical drives, on the other hand, do not operate in anything resembling "ideal use" during normal operation. It would be nice to see how well these drives read damaged media. I'm certain that I'm in the majority when I say that I have more than a few disks that are in poor condition.
I own a SCSI Plextor drive that has been nothing short of amazing with regards to reading damaged CDs. It's old and somewhat slow but it has read disks that my Sony, Pioneer, and Aopen drives wouldn't. What's actually more important to me than a minute or two of burn time is that the drive will actually read my disks, scratched or not (within reason). What I'd truly like to know is how these drives would read when subjected to various levels of scratched up media (accuracy, speed, etc).
I'm very curious if the Plextor is still king of the heap in this regard. The problem is that no one tests this.
No kidding....
I have a file server with a 1400GB array running on a 300W power supply. It maxxes out at about 200W or so at post.
Basic specs: K6-2 500, 1.6G Quantum PATA, (8) 250GB Maxtor 7200 RPM PATA, 3ware 7810 RAID card, Trident video card, Aopen CDROM.
At some point I'll upgrade some of this, but it does the job very well.
Multiple pass wiping is included in the OSX Disk Utility program. 10.3 supports an 8 pass random wipe.
This is the diskutil man page from 10.4
NAME
diskutil -- Modify, verify and repair local disks.
SYNOPSIS
diskutil verb [options]
DESCRIPTION
diskutil uses the Disk Management framework to manipulate local disks.
secureErase [freespace] level device
Securely erase a disk or freespace on a mounted volume. Level should be one of the following
1 - Single pass randomly erase the disk.
2 - US DoD 7 pass secure erase.
3 - Gutmann algorithm 35 pass secure erase. Ownership of the affected disk is required.
There is of course a easy to use GUI version of this.
The solution is to call them and tell them that they've gone too far this time and you're not going to buy their music anymore.
Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
10585 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, Ca 90025-4950
phone: 310-441-8600
fax: 310-470-1587
email: webmaster@warnerchappell.com
I called them. I told them I had lots of CDs already, and can simply just use to non-RIAA (local/unsigned) bands to suppliment my collection from now on. I told them that I've simply been pushed too far, and that I was telling everyone I knew.
Let them know how you feel.
Mention PearLyrics and any other tool they've shut down, and tell them you're mad as hell that it is gone now.
Mention that you used these lyrics sites to find the song name/artist of stuff you wanted to buy.
Mention that you used these sites to check the lyrics of music your children want to listen to.
Mention that you will not pay for something as inane as finding lyrics, and you don't give a rats ass WHO the publisher is.
Tell them that while some people went on download sprees, you paid for new albums, and that you are disgusted that this is the way they want to thank you.
Tell them that you have a large CD collection already, and can suppliment it with local/unsigned/non-RIAA artists... and that if an RIAA-produced album comes along that is so awesome you have to have it, you'll buy it used.
How many calls, mails, emails do you think it will take til they get the message?
Fire Rules!
r d-Apple-decides-to-use
http://fire.sourceforge.net/
It's GPL'd
It supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, and IRC
It supports the basics like file transfers and buddy icons.
It supports Zero-conf/Rendezvous/Bonjour/Some-other-french-wo
It supports text to speech
It supports Aliases... (in other words I never see nicks, I see my buddies actual names)
It supports inline spell check (questionably wrong words underlined in red)
It supports customizable triggers (notifications) for different buddies.
It supports 6 languages, perhaps 7 in the near future, depending on how well I do in Japanese class
It supports the basic drag and drop support of OSX.
What it does not support
Video and Audio chats...
Anything other than OSX (Linux or FreeBSD support would be very nice)
Probably something I've not needed/wanted
If I'm on a Windows machine I use Trillian. If I have a choice I wouldn't use another IM client without inline spell check and multiple network support.
shouldn't that be:
*NIX runs on over 95% of all supercomputers?
At the time Apple WAS the market leader in schools by leaps and bounds. At the time the school started using the Apple IIs for business, IBM didn't make PCs yet. It was widely understood at the time that you HAD to use for k12 labs.
This was all pre-Mac...
Give me a fscking break. I've MUDed since the early 90's, and played tons of modern online games since.
Fantasy setting in the game... here's a clue dumbass, noone fscking cares about the spirit of the damned Fantasy RPG. And the very few who do should have a special server reserved for the anally retentive.
You may as well ban people from chatting about TV, Sports, anything RL, on that game... As a matter of fact Blizzard should add a scanf to the chats to search for TV show names, RL places, Band Names, and things not fitting in with the Almighty Fantasy Spirit. By banning those that transgessed, they could then maintain the Almighty Fantasy Setting with certainty....
They'd have about 100 customers left, but the game's integrity would be upheld.
You sound like Apple on the late 80's....
My father was a Principal at a K-7 school. He wanted to buy some Apple computers for the school. To do this he was required to:
1)Buy from a specific vendor who was not currently school board approved that Apple had deemed "The Education Market Supplier" in their infinite wisdom.
2)Fill out lots and lots of obnoxious forms.
3)Undergo a buying proceedure that was outside of the board-approved puchasing methods. (They refused to give him a bid/cost sheet before he ordered, among other things)
4)Put up with rude arrogant asshole salespeople.
The school bought commodores......
Cheaper, no fscking hassles, nice salespeople, and all within Board-approved purchasing proceedures.
Being shitty to the people who keep you in business is a good way to trash your company. Ask Apple, they know all about it. They had 10% marketshare at one point, there's a valid reason it dropped to under 3% before Job's return.
Fuck the rules, if they annoy customers and don't help your business, then they're probably hurting you. And sooner or later it'll cost you money/marketshare.