Look, just tell yourself that you are buying garage band and that you are getting the "once free" applications as a bonus. -good- music creation/editing software with a very slim learning curve is a rare find and here Apple is offering it bundled with other application for $50. Stop complaining and just buy it. If you have no interest in garage band then just continue to use the free versions.
The fact of the matter is that many things are not totally secure right out of the box (even OpenBSD experienced this once or twice). If you buy any machine where security is an issue you really need to take an actice role in securing that machine and keeping up with security patches and the like.
Mac, Linux, Windows, whatever... you need to activly make sure your machine is secure if that's important to you. The default settings on a new machine are usually pretty permissive so that most generic 'end users' will be able to do all the things they need to do without having to understand any "internals" of the OS.
The point is, if you get a computer of any kind it is -your- responsibility to keep it secure if need be.
get a canon AE-1. You should be able to find the body on ebay or through used camera retailers. This camera is fully manual and takes great pictures (well, it's all in the lens really but the body is nice). I have the AE-1, Rebel DSLR and the elph S100 and the AE-1 by far gets the most use (although the Rebel is rapidly taking over... I just got it).
"People can put tacks in the road. Are we worried about electronic tacks in the air?"
ummm.... a well placed 'tack' yes... It's this kind of attitude that helps make weapons development more scary than it already is. The mindset of "well, we did this but nobody else can" is ridiculous. Look at how many things started out in someones garage/basement/etc that turned into major things...
yea... but they really mean drug dealers, terrorists, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think personal privacy is very important (for individuals as well as 'executives'), however I think this technology is just begging to be abused.
I had the same problem a couple of years ago and after searching and trying out a lot of products my department ended up writing one ourselves. It's web based, each person (requestor and assignee) have their own accounts, each project gets its own unique ID and we can attached files (documentation, diagrams, etc) and comments to the report. We just couldn't find anything appropriate 'out of the box' and it actually took longer to figure that out than it took to develop. When you have your own special requirements, do it yourself.
Am I the only person who has no desire to speak to a computer? Until a computer can read my mind and figure out what I want to search for, I'll stick to the keyboard.
I mean, what's the point? Would you want a microwave the you had to talk to? "Microwave! Heat up my food on high for 5 minutes!" It's nonsense. Is it cool? Sort of. Is it useful? No...
LaTeX is professional typesetting software. People don't use LaTeX and then "move to Word", they are entirely seperate things. It's like comparing apples and volkswagons.
Also, what makes everyone so sure that this is LaTeX? TeX (which is -NOT- the same as LaTeX) can also produce DVI output and is much more robust than LaTeX. I know I may be splitting hairs, however we (American Mathematical Society) use TeX heavily (actually we contribute quite a bit to the development of TeX) and I wanted a distinction to be made clear.
For many companies it -is- their credibility that brings money to their company. When the credibility of a company goes into question, the cash flow slows (or even stops on some occasions) and effectively does put their wallets on the line.
"but does anyone really need the power of a G5 in a notebook?"
ummm... yes. Some people use their laptops as their primary machine and some people actually use them for more than just web browsing, pr0n and mp3s. I know plenty of people who need quite a bit of processing power (mostly animators and musicians/producers) and the portability of a laptop. The g4 powerbook has been the choice of many, and I'm sure they would welcome the g5.
Asking if anyone 'really needs' X is -NOT- a good argument against X.
Revised Patriot Act Will Make It Illegal To Read Patriot Act WASHINGTON, DC--President Bush spoke out Monday in support of a revised version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that would make it illegal to read the USA Patriot Act. "Under current federal law, there are unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism, including the public's access to information about how the federal police will investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism," Bush said at a press conference Monday. "For the sake of the American people, I call on Congress to pass this important law prohibiting access to itself." Bush also proposed extending the rights of states to impose the death penalty "in the wake of Sept. 11 and stuff."
1) get a mac and get a.mac account 2) take whatever pictures you want 3) import them into iPhoto 4) create an album of photos to share 5) export the album to your.mac account 6) profit ?!?! (optional)
Seriously, if sharing your pictures is all you want to do, then this (or something like it) is the way to go.
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"Most people will just grab a beverage or something during the minute (or less) it takes most PCs to startup."
I have a powerbook that takes about 5 minutes to boot from the time I hit the power button until it actually becomes useful. Using your logic of going to grab a beverage, I'd be wasted by the time I could use the damn thing:)
granted this is coming from FOX so there is already reason to doubt the accuracy of this story, but does anyone else think that some of this could have been fabricated? I mean, what twelve year old comes out with something like this: "I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
Is it just me or does this -not- sound like language a normal twelve year old would use (honor student or not).
Anyway, I hate the manner in which the RIAA conducts its business however I don't share music or download it off the net (unless the band has agreed to release their music free of charge - see archive.org for tons of good music for free) because it is against the law. 12 or not, the law was broken and some osrt of punishment should be administered.
Look at the state of the world today and ask anyone what their outlook on the future is. People already have their ideas about what is going to happen down the road, and many of them are dismal, isolationist and dominated by technology. Many also have been disappointed by the lack of whizz-bang sci-fi ideas/inventions that were thought to have come about by now. IMHO I think that people would rather read about some fantasy world not parallel to ours or some story about a kinder, gentler (or really, more interesting, human and engaging) past then some bleak oratory of the future. I know that I would rather read a Tolkein type book rather than yet another 'The year is 3156...' type.
The OCLC already has a solution for organizing large amounts of information. Remember the Dewey Decimal System/Classification(http://www.oclc.org/dewey/)? I use it all the time and have a convenient card catalogue of all my records taking up most of my desk:) And people were saying the DDC was dead...
"There are so many flame wars started just because people mistake the intent behind text messages."
Not only that, but don't you think that at least some human interaction is important even if it's over the phone(you know, actually speaking to someone)? Geeks always complain about how they don't have a lot of friends at school/college/work and the lack of girlfriends, but how in the hell do you expect to get anywhere/ when your main/prefered method of communication is with a keyboard/cellphone/whatever typing out messages that need to be interpreted(if they are of any length) and not practicing actually talking to real people in real time. Let's not forget the importance of the human element.
If you're in high school, go and do high school things. I'm not saying to go out and get some shitty job flipping burgers, but if you are planning on doing this stuff for the rest of your life (until retirement anyway), keep it as a hobby for now, do open source development, etc, enjoy your life. Then after college worry about getting a job in the industry. Believe me, rushing to sit at a desk all day under artificial light isn't a good idea...
First off, realize that you can either A) buy another HDD and use that for linux OR B) set up a seperate partition on your existing disk and install linux there OR C) download a distribution like KNOPPIX and run the whole damn thing off of a CD.
I agree with your statement and this is why I don't run linux at home... I use MacOS X. I realize that we may be talking about apples and oranges, however I find that after working on a linux platform all day (and Solaris...) when I get home I don't want to have to be an admin there as well. I know there are people that will tell you otherwise, but OS X just works. It has all the functionality of a linux box (ie. stable, secure, command shell, blah blah blah), actually has a *BSD variant running underneath and a nice user interface and applications to boot. To me, OS X gives me the freedom to tinker and the ability to get things done (at home). However there is -no- way that I would run anything else on my desktop at work. They would have to fire me before I went to windows.
I can't agree with this more. Those of us who want Linux on our desktop have it on our desktop, those who don't... well... don't. I do not understand this mission to have linux as a "valid" desktop operating system. People who use it know it works (quite well in fact) and find that it suits their needs. To Joe Blow user, Windows might very well suit their needs and they find no need to go to some other system just because it isn't a microsoft product. There are people out there who have used Linux/UNIX variants and say "hey, that's great... I'll stick with windows" and I am having trouble finding anything wrong with that.
They're called macs and they work great. With MacOS X everything 'just works', for me at least. It has a sharp, intuitive interface with *BSD underneath. It makes it easy for a novice to get all the functionality they want and the more advanced user to get everything they need to get whatever they are doing done. And lets not forget Hypercard....
"whereas probably less than 25% of folks even qualify as "occasional" illegal drug users"
ermm... don't you mean probably less than 25% of folks will actually admit to using illegal drugs and therefore qualify as an occasional drug user. There is quite the tabboo surrounding illicit drug use (even marijuana which is less harmful than beer or ciggarettes) which would cause many people to lie about their habits.
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Look, just tell yourself that you are buying garage band and that you are getting the "once free" applications as a bonus. -good- music creation/editing software with a very slim learning curve is a rare find and here Apple is offering it bundled with other application for $50. Stop complaining and just buy it. If you have no interest in garage band then just continue to use the free versions.
The fact of the matter is that many things are not totally secure right out of the box (even OpenBSD experienced this once or twice). If you buy any machine where security is an issue you really need to take an actice role in securing that machine and keeping up with security patches and the like.
Mac, Linux, Windows, whatever... you need to activly make sure your machine is secure if that's important to you. The default settings on a new machine are usually pretty permissive so that most generic 'end users' will be able to do all the things they need to do without having to understand any "internals" of the OS.
The point is, if you get a computer of any kind it is -your- responsibility to keep it secure if need be.
get a canon AE-1. You should be able to find the body on ebay or through used camera retailers. This camera is fully manual and takes great pictures (well, it's all in the lens really but the body is nice). I have the AE-1, Rebel DSLR and the elph S100 and the AE-1 by far gets the most use (although the Rebel is rapidly taking over... I just got it).
right... this is why we are really a one party state masquerading as a two party state. It's the lobbyists that have the real power in government.
From the article:
"People can put tacks in the road. Are we worried about electronic tacks in the air?"
ummm.... a well placed 'tack' yes... It's this kind of attitude that helps make weapons development more scary than it already is. The mindset of "well, we did this but nobody else can" is ridiculous. Look at how many things started out in someones garage/basement/etc that turned into major things...
yea... but they really mean drug dealers, terrorists, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I think personal privacy is very
important (for individuals as well as 'executives'), however
I think this technology is just begging to be abused.
just my 2 cents...
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I had the same problem a couple of years ago and after searching and trying out a lot of products my department ended up writing one ourselves. It's web based, each person (requestor and assignee) have their own accounts, each project gets its own unique ID and we can attached files (documentation, diagrams, etc) and comments to the report. We just couldn't find anything appropriate 'out of the box' and it actually took longer to figure that out than it took to develop. When you have your own special requirements, do it yourself.
Am I the only person who has no desire to speak
to a computer? Until a computer can read my mind
and figure out what I want to search for, I'll
stick to the keyboard.
I mean, what's the point? Would you want a microwave
the you had to talk to? "Microwave! Heat up my
food on high for 5 minutes!" It's nonsense.
Is it cool? Sort of. Is it useful? No...
LaTeX is professional typesetting software. People don't use LaTeX and then "move to Word", they are entirely seperate things. It's like comparing apples and volkswagons.
Also, what makes everyone so sure that this is LaTeX? TeX (which is -NOT- the same as LaTeX) can also produce DVI output and is much more robust than LaTeX. I know I may be splitting hairs, however we (American Mathematical Society) use TeX heavily (actually we contribute quite a bit to the development of TeX) and I wanted a distinction to be made clear.
For many companies it -is- their credibility that brings money to their company. When the credibility of a company goes into question, the cash flow slows (or even stops on some occasions) and effectively does put their wallets on the line.
"but does anyone really need the power of a G5 in a notebook?"
ummm... yes. Some people use their laptops as their primary machine and some people actually use them for more than just web browsing, pr0n and mp3s. I know plenty of people who need quite a bit of processing power (mostly animators and musicians/producers) and the portability of a laptop. The g4 powerbook has been the choice of many, and I'm sure they would welcome the g5.
Asking if anyone 'really needs' X is -NOT- a good argument against X.
Stolen from 'The Onion':
Revised Patriot Act Will Make It Illegal To Read Patriot Act
WASHINGTON, DC--President Bush spoke out Monday in support of a revised version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that would make it illegal to read the USA Patriot Act. "Under current federal law, there are unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism, including the public's access to information about how the federal police will investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism," Bush said at a press conference Monday. "For the sake of the American people, I call on Congress to pass this important law prohibiting access to itself." Bush also proposed extending the rights of states to impose the death penalty "in the wake of Sept. 11 and stuff."
1) get a mac and get a .mac account .mac account
2) take whatever pictures you want
3) import them into iPhoto
4) create an album of photos to share
5) export the album to your
6) profit ?!?! (optional)
Seriously, if sharing your pictures is all you want to do, then this (or something like it) is the way to go.
"Most people will just grab a beverage or something during the minute (or less) it takes most PCs to startup."
:)
I have a powerbook that takes about 5 minutes to boot from the time I hit the power button until it actually becomes useful. Using your logic of going to grab a beverage, I'd be wasted by the time I could use the damn thing
granted this is coming from FOX so there is already reason to doubt the accuracy of this story, but does anyone else think that some of this could have been fabricated? I mean, what twelve year old comes out with something like this: "I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"
Is it just me or does this -not- sound like language a normal twelve year old would use (honor student or not).
Anyway, I hate the manner in which the RIAA conducts its business however I don't share music or download it off the net (unless the band has agreed to release their music free of charge - see archive.org for tons of good music for free) because it is against the law. 12 or not, the law was broken and some osrt of punishment should be administered.
Look at the state of the world today and ask anyone what their outlook on the future is. People already have their ideas about what is going to happen down the road, and many of them are dismal, isolationist and dominated by technology. Many also have been disappointed by the lack of whizz-bang sci-fi ideas/inventions that were thought to have come about by now. IMHO I think that people would rather read about some fantasy world not parallel to ours or some story about a kinder, gentler (or really, more interesting, human and engaging) past then some bleak oratory of the future. I know that I would rather read a Tolkein type book rather than yet another 'The year is 3156...' type.
" Just wait until they pass along your ID to the MPAA and BSA."
:)
Yea, you've gotta watch out for the Boy Scouts of America. They can be a nasty bunch
The OCLC already has a solution for organizing large amounts of information. Remember the Dewey Decimal System/Classification(http://www.oclc.org/dewey/)? I use it all the time and have a convenient card catalogue of all my records taking up most of my desk :) And people were saying the DDC was dead...
"There are so many flame wars started just because people mistake the intent behind text messages."
Not only that, but don't you think that at least some human interaction is important even if it's over the phone(you know, actually speaking to someone)? Geeks always complain about how they don't have a lot of friends at school/college/work and the lack of girlfriends, but how in the hell do you expect to get anywhere/ when your main/prefered method of communication is with a keyboard/cellphone/whatever typing out messages that need to be interpreted(if they are of any length) and not practicing actually talking to real people in real time. Let's not forget the importance of the human element.
Forget It.
If you're in high school, go and do high school things. I'm not saying to go out and get some shitty job flipping burgers, but if you are planning on doing this stuff for the rest of your life (until retirement anyway), keep it as a hobby for now, do open source development, etc, enjoy your life. Then after college worry about getting a job in the industry. Believe me, rushing to sit at a desk all day under artificial light isn't a good idea...
First off, realize that you can either A) buy another HDD and use that for linux OR B) set up a seperate partition on your existing disk and install linux there OR C) download a distribution like KNOPPIX and run the whole damn thing off of a CD.
I agree with your statement and this is why I don't run linux at home... I use MacOS X. I realize that we may be talking about apples and oranges, however I find that after working on a linux platform all day (and Solaris...) when I get home I don't want to have to be an admin there as well. I know there are people that will tell you otherwise, but OS X just works. It has all the functionality of a linux box (ie. stable, secure, command shell, blah blah blah), actually has a *BSD variant running underneath and a nice user interface and applications to boot. To me, OS X gives me the freedom to tinker and the ability to get things done (at home). However there is -no- way that I would run anything else on my desktop at work. They would have to fire me before I went to windows.
I can't agree with this more. Those of us who want Linux on our desktop have it on our desktop, those who don't... well... don't. I do not understand this mission to have linux as a "valid" desktop operating system. People who use it know it works (quite well in fact) and find that it suits their needs. To Joe Blow user, Windows might very well suit their needs and they find no need to go to some other system just because it isn't a microsoft product. There are people out there who have used Linux/UNIX variants and say "hey, that's great... I'll stick with windows" and I am having trouble finding anything wrong with that.
They're called macs and they work great. With MacOS X everything 'just works', for me at least. It has a sharp, intuitive interface with *BSD underneath. It makes it easy for a novice to get all the functionality they want and the more advanced user to get everything they need to get whatever they are doing done. And lets not forget Hypercard....
a little off topic but...
"whereas probably less than 25% of folks even qualify as "occasional" illegal drug users"
ermm... don't you mean probably less than 25% of folks will actually admit to using illegal drugs and therefore qualify as an occasional drug user. There is quite the tabboo surrounding illicit drug use (even marijuana which is less harmful than beer or ciggarettes) which would cause many people to lie about their habits.