My second computer ever had one of those CPUs. I got it in 1988 second-hand. It kept running until I donated the computer to a battered women's shelter in Venice, CA around 1996.
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Cypher, The Matrix (The only movie in the series...the other two are dead to me.) --
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Cypher, "The Matrix" (The only movie in the series...the other two are dead to me.)
Anyway, the suitor has been announced: Gulf Capital Partners. Which raises the question: is there a Microsoft connection to these guys? The only company with any discernible reason to keep Sweet Zombie SCO alive is Microsoft.
I have answered my question: yes there is a definite MS connection. "The issue is not if you're paranoid, it's if you are paranoid enough." -- Max, "Strange Days"
...I think a cogent argument can be made for taking governance of the Internet OUT of the US' hands, and for the establishment of a UN body to maintain DNS and everything else about the Internet. TFA was some of the worst jingoistic garbage this side of RedState.Com. Oh yeah, the Weekly Standard is run by NewsCorp. I understand everything now.
The big difference will be that the word of mouth from those who have seen the Trek reboot will keep Trek afloat, whereas the negative word of mouth about the Wolverine origins movie will continue to drag it down.
JJ Abrams is a frakkin genius. He cut the gordian knot of keeping track of 40 years of canon with a masterstroke. He assembled a dynamite ensemble cast. Rather than do Young Kirk as "The One," he built a crew for the Enterprise full of "Ones." And isn't that what the TOS cast was in the first place?
He's set Trek up for several really good movies. And maybe a series.
Oh yeah, real cool they shot the Enterprise engine room in my neighborhood. I live about a mile and a half from the North Hills Bud brewery. Awesome.
Point is, they never DO include a trackpoint in any of their netbooks. Yet the trackpoint is perhaps the ideal netbook pointing device. Way better than the postage stamp-sized trackpads you more commonly see.
Lenovo has a model for a way forward, at least where human factors are concerned. IBM released a mini-notebook in 2000 designated the ThinkPad 240. It was a diminutive version of their other ultra-light laptop of the time, the 570 series, but did not have the Ultrabase media dock. It was sold with a special CD-ROM drive which currently is made of unobtainium, but which is apparently the only extant CD-ROM drive that will boot the beast. It also sported a PII-style Mobile Celeron, and requires a pretty lean version of Linux to make useful.
However, what makes the ThinkPad 240 so awesome is that it has a ThinkPad keyboard. It is 95% of normal scale, and has the same click-feedback that makes the touch-typist ecstatic and those sensitive to noise cringe a little. And yes, right there, just under the "home row" is that wonderful little pointing stick, eraserhead, whatever you want to call it. The signature ThinkPad trackpoint. A great many of the ports on the ThinkPad 240 are "legacy" ports like serial, parallel, a proprietary floppy drive port and a PCMCIA slot. There is plenty of room for modern ports like more USB, ExpressCard, and maybe even an eSATA port. Update the design with a higher-res screen, maybe even make the design wider to accommodate a 16:9 LCD, replace the old-school mobo with something modern, add onboard GigE, WiFi and space for a 3G daughtercard, and you would have something awesome.
The crucial features that would elevate such an IdeaPad above its brethren would be the keyboard and the pointer. People forget just how important they are to the user experience, and how frustrating a netbook can be because of a bad one. If Lenovo would think to look backward to the rich history of the ThinkPad to fully understand why they are so beloved and why people bother to keep old ThinkPads alive over the newest, latest and greatest, they might be able to make new designs worthy of the name they bought off IBM.
His use of Macs go back to "Pretty Hate Machine" and an old Mac Plus.
"I made Pretty Hate Machine using a Mac Plus, an Emax keyboard and a Mini Moog," says Reznor. "That set up was cool because it was so limiting that it forced you to get the most out of what you had to work with. It was just basic MIDI, with no digital audio. But I knew the three pieces of gear I had inside and out."
And now they've pissed him off. Bad idea. Steve, get well soon so you can bitchslap whoever made this boneheaded decision.
Not super high resolution...2K, just a little better than Blu-Ray.
Sony CineAlta is capable of twice this: 4K. However, the point I'm making is that it's not just resolution that counts. Audio counts too...much more than you might think.
I would say that one of the few improvements of today's experience over "back in the day" is digital sound and picture. It is nice to see prints that are perennially clean and unscratched, and sound that doesn't snap, crackle, pop and warp. I'm sure the technician who sets up the projectors (the projectionist in the booth is an archaism that was gone by the late '70s) is pleased by the fact s/he gets movies on hard drives now instead of reels that must be spliced together, and film that has to be babied and tended and mended. Bits can succumb to bit rot and movie files can even get corrupted, but film at a movie theatre takes a beating.
The best recent theatrical movie experience for me was seeing Blade Runner at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. Not super high resolution...2K, just a little better than Blu-Ray. But the total package, including the sound, was just awesome. I saw it once earlier at The Landmark in West LA, and even though they were showing it at 4K on a brand new Sony CineAlta system, the end result was not so great because their sound system was not up to the task. It was a brand new theatre and perhaps they were just going through teething problems with the sound. But you'd be amazed at how much sound contributes to the experience.
Oh yeah...the theatre was very sparsely populated. That helped too. Matinees rule, unless you are talking about an animated movie. Then you want to go for one of the late showings.
OK, I'm one of those "cranks" who remembers how moviegoing USED to be, and considers the current "experience" extremely inferior.
It used to be, you'd go to a big, beautiful PALACE with thousands of seats and a gorgeous environment. Even if you lived in a small town, the local movie theatre was a glamorous, special place.
This was before mobile phones. And there would be a special room for mothers to take squalling babies or toddlers having a tantrum, called the "women's lounge."
In the 1960s, theatre owners, in an industry maybe didn't DIE because of TV but took a big, big hit, came up with the concept of the "cinemaplex." More choice! More people can go see movies suiting THEIR taste, not the programmer at the local movie palace. I live near where one of the first American multiplex theatres, The Americana 5 in Panorama City, CA, was built in 1964. It had one "big room" for what was then known as "road show" releases, the big movie expected to be the blockbuster of the moment. It also had four smaller rooms...and I really mean smaller. 200 seat shoeboxes as opposed to the 1,000 seat "big room." People went anyway, and the theatre chains realized they could make more money because they'd go to the movies regardless of the amenities or lack of them. They didn't really have a choice in the pre-home video and pre-HBO/Showtime days. You either saw the movie in the theatre or you waited for it to come on TV, and that wait would be literally years.
Eventually the "big room" was subdivided in two in the mid '70s, and the Americana 5 became, for a time, the Americana 6. It was only due to the decline of the neighborhood and the competition of cable and home video that the Pacific Theatres knocked down the thin subdivision barrier and turned the two theatres back into "the big room" again. Amazingly enough, the Pacific Americana underwent a bit of a renaissance for a while. They would have events, geared towards the local predominantly Latino populace, where Spanish-language movies, free concerts after the movie and appearances by local Spanish-language radio personalities would be part of the fun. Selena did one event and the immediate area surrounding the Americana was mobbed. The LAPD had to be called in to do crowd control.
Eventually the Mann Theatres chain put in the Mann's Plant 16 a couple of miles down the road at the big-box mall that replaced the long shuttered GM assembly plant. This was what killed the Americana. The Pacific Theatre Group unloaded it on a couple of locals who went indie. It got more and more run down, started playing second-run movies in both English and Spanish for bargain prices, and when things broke, they stayed broke. The last movie I saw in the "big room" there was Prince of Egypt. The movie theatre that every year around Easter would play "The Ten Commandments" had its swan-song with another retelling of the Moses myth. It was sad to see the place go. The area where the four small theatres stood is now a school of cosmetology. The old "big room" was once an indoor futbol arena where people would play pickup soccer games, and is now a banquet hall which, ironically, boasts a nice big movie screen. It is also more ornate than the "big room" at the Americana ever was.
Anyway, huge digression. The multiplex movie theatre encouraged a degradation of movie theatre etiquette. Going to a little shoebox theatre was less special than going to the community movie palace. People didn't have the same sense of "occasion" going to the movies. In a lot of respects, the experience of going to one of these theatres was like the drive-in experience. Often a theatre chain would knock down a drive-in and replace it with a mega multiplex. They could show more movies to more people and it was a more intelligent use of land. And with the competition of cable, home video, "sell-through" home video, and finally the DVD, there were now real choices about how to see a movie.
I lost my dad to ALS when I was 12. He was diagnosed when I was 8. 46 years with ALS is literally unprecedented. Most people don't make it to the 5th year after diagnosis. I hope he's willed his body to science because his final act of discovery might be to help medical science figure out how to slow the progression of the disease.
Oh yeah: if you want to do something in Dr. Hawking's honor, drop a few coins ALSA's way. The DNA of the foundation my mom started after my dad was diagnosed is a part of the current charity.
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Actually it makes me think of Office Space.
My second computer ever had one of those CPUs. I got it in 1988 second-hand. It kept running until I donated the computer to a battered women's shelter in Venice, CA around 1996.
The Japanese seem to have no trouble delivering on this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroge
But there are enough "hits" in this to raise your eyebrows a little.
EPIC 2015
About EPIC 2014 and EPIC 2015, from Wikipedia
Frakkin' SLASHDOT 2.0...I meant this to be a reply to someone else's post. [headdesk]
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Cypher, The Matrix (The only movie in the series...the other two are dead to me.)
--
"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Cypher, "The Matrix" (The only movie in the series...the other two are dead to me.)
Anyway, the suitor has been announced: Gulf Capital Partners. Which raises the question: is there a Microsoft connection to these guys? The only company with any discernible reason to keep Sweet Zombie SCO alive is Microsoft.
I have answered my question: yes there is a definite MS connection. "The issue is not if you're paranoid, it's if you are paranoid enough." -- Max, "Strange Days"
...would that suitor be based in Redmond, WA?
The Incredibles was the only Fantastic Four movie to do the Fantastic Four justice. Funny old world, isn't it?
"Windows 7 isn't done until Firefox won't run."
...I think a cogent argument can be made for taking governance of the Internet OUT of the US' hands, and for the establishment of a UN body to maintain DNS and everything else about the Internet. TFA was some of the worst jingoistic garbage this side of RedState.Com. Oh yeah, the Weekly Standard is run by NewsCorp. I understand everything now.
...would do better at running the State of California than Arnold Schwarzenegger has.
Wrong netbook OS. Try one of these next time: http://www.target.com/ASUS-8-9-Netbook-Computer-Linux/dp/B001E1PVU8/qid=1243113200/ref=br_1_7/190-1275134-0351843?ie=UTF8&node=1243621011&frombrowse=1&rh=&page=1 Thankyoudrivethrough!
The big difference will be that the word of mouth from those who have seen the Trek reboot will keep Trek afloat, whereas the negative word of mouth about the Wolverine origins movie will continue to drag it down.
JJ Abrams is a frakkin genius. He cut the gordian knot of keeping track of 40 years of canon with a masterstroke. He assembled a dynamite ensemble cast. Rather than do Young Kirk as "The One," he built a crew for the Enterprise full of "Ones." And isn't that what the TOS cast was in the first place?
He's set Trek up for several really good movies. And maybe a series.
Oh yeah, real cool they shot the Enterprise engine room in my neighborhood. I live about a mile and a half from the North Hills Bud brewery. Awesome.
Point is, they never DO include a trackpoint in any of their netbooks. Yet the trackpoint is perhaps the ideal netbook pointing device. Way better than the postage stamp-sized trackpads you more commonly see.
Lenovo has a model for a way forward, at least where human factors are concerned. IBM released a mini-notebook in 2000 designated the ThinkPad 240. It was a diminutive version of their other ultra-light laptop of the time, the 570 series, but did not have the Ultrabase media dock. It was sold with a special CD-ROM drive which currently is made of unobtainium, but which is apparently the only extant CD-ROM drive that will boot the beast. It also sported a PII-style Mobile Celeron, and requires a pretty lean version of Linux to make useful.
However, what makes the ThinkPad 240 so awesome is that it has a ThinkPad keyboard. It is 95% of normal scale, and has the same click-feedback that makes the touch-typist ecstatic and those sensitive to noise cringe a little. And yes, right there, just under the "home row" is that wonderful little pointing stick, eraserhead, whatever you want to call it. The signature ThinkPad trackpoint. A great many of the ports on the ThinkPad 240 are "legacy" ports like serial, parallel, a proprietary floppy drive port and a PCMCIA slot. There is plenty of room for modern ports like more USB, ExpressCard, and maybe even an eSATA port. Update the design with a higher-res screen, maybe even make the design wider to accommodate a 16:9 LCD, replace the old-school mobo with something modern, add onboard GigE, WiFi and space for a 3G daughtercard, and you would have something awesome.
The crucial features that would elevate such an IdeaPad above its brethren would be the keyboard and the pointer. People forget just how important they are to the user experience, and how frustrating a netbook can be because of a bad one. If Lenovo would think to look backward to the rich history of the ThinkPad to fully understand why they are so beloved and why people bother to keep old ThinkPads alive over the newest, latest and greatest, they might be able to make new designs worthy of the name they bought off IBM.
Trent Reznor has been a Mac user and evangelist for the better part of two decades.
His use of Macs go back to "Pretty Hate Machine" and an old Mac Plus.
And now they've pissed him off. Bad idea. Steve, get well soon so you can bitchslap whoever made this boneheaded decision.
This is newer (and GNU-er): http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
It's not pigfluenza, it's La gripe carnitas.
Hi Drinkypoo...
Note that I understand what 2K resolution means.
I would say that one of the few improvements of today's experience over "back in the day" is digital sound and picture. It is nice to see prints that are perennially clean and unscratched, and sound that doesn't snap, crackle, pop and warp. I'm sure the technician who sets up the projectors (the projectionist in the booth is an archaism that was gone by the late '70s) is pleased by the fact s/he gets movies on hard drives now instead of reels that must be spliced together, and film that has to be babied and tended and mended. Bits can succumb to bit rot and movie files can even get corrupted, but film at a movie theatre takes a beating.
The best recent theatrical movie experience for me was seeing Blade Runner at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. Not super high resolution...2K, just a little better than Blu-Ray. But the total package, including the sound, was just awesome. I saw it once earlier at The Landmark in West LA, and even though they were showing it at 4K on a brand new Sony CineAlta system, the end result was not so great because their sound system was not up to the task. It was a brand new theatre and perhaps they were just going through teething problems with the sound. But you'd be amazed at how much sound contributes to the experience.
Oh yeah...the theatre was very sparsely populated. That helped too. Matinees rule, unless you are talking about an animated movie. Then you want to go for one of the late showings.
OK, I'm one of those "cranks" who remembers how moviegoing USED to be, and considers the current "experience" extremely inferior.
It used to be, you'd go to a big, beautiful PALACE with thousands of seats and a gorgeous environment. Even if you lived in a small town, the local movie theatre was a glamorous, special place.
This was before mobile phones. And there would be a special room for mothers to take squalling babies or toddlers having a tantrum, called the "women's lounge."
In the 1960s, theatre owners, in an industry maybe didn't DIE because of TV but took a big, big hit, came up with the concept of the "cinemaplex." More choice! More people can go see movies suiting THEIR taste, not the programmer at the local movie palace. I live near where one of the first American multiplex theatres, The Americana 5 in Panorama City, CA, was built in 1964. It had one "big room" for what was then known as "road show" releases, the big movie expected to be the blockbuster of the moment. It also had four smaller rooms...and I really mean smaller. 200 seat shoeboxes as opposed to the 1,000 seat "big room." People went anyway, and the theatre chains realized they could make more money because they'd go to the movies regardless of the amenities or lack of them. They didn't really have a choice in the pre-home video and pre-HBO/Showtime days. You either saw the movie in the theatre or you waited for it to come on TV, and that wait would be literally years.
Eventually the "big room" was subdivided in two in the mid '70s, and the Americana 5 became, for a time, the Americana 6. It was only due to the decline of the neighborhood and the competition of cable and home video that the Pacific Theatres knocked down the thin subdivision barrier and turned the two theatres back into "the big room" again. Amazingly enough, the Pacific Americana underwent a bit of a renaissance for a while. They would have events, geared towards the local predominantly Latino populace, where Spanish-language movies, free concerts after the movie and appearances by local Spanish-language radio personalities would be part of the fun. Selena did one event and the immediate area surrounding the Americana was mobbed. The LAPD had to be called in to do crowd control.
Eventually the Mann Theatres chain put in the Mann's Plant 16 a couple of miles down the road at the big-box mall that replaced the long shuttered GM assembly plant. This was what killed the Americana. The Pacific Theatre Group unloaded it on a couple of locals who went indie. It got more and more run down, started playing second-run movies in both English and Spanish for bargain prices, and when things broke, they stayed broke. The last movie I saw in the "big room" there was Prince of Egypt. The movie theatre that every year around Easter would play "The Ten Commandments" had its swan-song with another retelling of the Moses myth. It was sad to see the place go. The area where the four small theatres stood is now a school of cosmetology. The old "big room" was once an indoor futbol arena where people would play pickup soccer games, and is now a banquet hall which, ironically, boasts a nice big movie screen. It is also more ornate than the "big room" at the Americana ever was.
Anyway, huge digression. The multiplex movie theatre encouraged a degradation of movie theatre etiquette. Going to a little shoebox theatre was less special than going to the community movie palace. People didn't have the same sense of "occasion" going to the movies. In a lot of respects, the experience of going to one of these theatres was like the drive-in experience. Often a theatre chain would knock down a drive-in and replace it with a mega multiplex. They could show more movies to more people and it was a more intelligent use of land. And with the competition of cable, home video, "sell-through" home video, and finally the DVD, there were now real choices about how to see a movie.
So yeah, theatres are not exactly
Kevin Bolk is drawing "Watchbabies" strips on his art site. They're actually quite funny.
I lost my dad to ALS when I was 12. He was diagnosed when I was 8. 46 years with ALS is literally unprecedented. Most people don't make it to the 5th year after diagnosis. I hope he's willed his body to science because his final act of discovery might be to help medical science figure out how to slow the progression of the disease.
Oh yeah: if you want to do something in Dr. Hawking's honor, drop a few coins ALSA's way. The DNA of the foundation my mom started after my dad was diagnosed is a part of the current charity.