Not only that...but let's not forget the most recent Rojakpot article that was submitted. It's good to see Slashdot continuing to post such high quality, informative articles -- especially ones featuring such high quality page layout and useful advertising.
I actually debated that point for a few seconds as I was typing that. Rhode Island? Delaware? A small European country? They all had their validity in relation to button size. Delaware seemed like a nice, middle-of-the-road size.
I also hope to visit Rhode Island someday without the thought of comparing it to an XP button -- a big ol' red button with a white "X" through it.
Tiger may lack some of the niceties that make Windows more appealing to new users, but it does reward those with existing computer skills with a minimalist user interface that, as advertised, "gets out of the way" and lets you get your job done.
Well bust my buttons. I didn't know there were "niceties" in the XP UI that make it more "appealing" to new users. Colors? Whiz-bang? Buttons the size of Delaware? Conversely, is he purporting that OS X is better for the power user -- to "get your job done?"
I always thought it was the other way around. My bad, dude.
It's not about a manual for "type word here then press return." That's the part everybody knows about.
It's the different things that Google can do from the very same line that the general populous doesn't know about. Sure, Google is great for searches. But it can also convert currency, forward & reverse phone number lookups, unit conversion, mapping, spell checking, and (now that I've read some of the prior comments) defining words.
There's probably even more functionality that I don't even know about yet deep within that Mostly Harmless Google frontpage.
No, not really. Bill does bring up a decent point here. Too many boxes --> too much power consumption --> more energy production --> more pollution (with current fossil fuel technologies) --> higher power bills at the end of the month.
Not to mention the space that another box would take up.
The all-in-one option (PVR/streamer/burner) would be okay. I, however, am waiting for the day when instead of relying on settop boxes for *everything*, HDTV makers use built-in converters and decoders, just like analog "cable ready" TVs have been for 20+ years now.
Even with congressional mandate, HDTV won't garner wide public support until it's as easy as plugging in one cable to your HDTV and turn the power on. Simple interfaces for simple minds.
Apple has quietly pushed ahead the release date of iTunes for Windows machines:
from http://www.msnbc.com/news/966392.asp
In another hopeful sign for the industry last week, downloading sites Rhapsody and Apple's iTunes bragged that paying customers were flocking their way. And Apple, NEWSWEEK learned, quietly informed some music insiders that it's moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October. Apple couldn't be reached for comment. As weeks go, it was a good one for the record industry.
That seems like more of an announcement suiting the frontpages of this hallowed bytespace.
Finale is great. Sibelius is great. Their price point, however, leaves much to be desired. Finale does have watered-down versions of their software. Allegro has most of the features of Finale, but is still pricey at ~$200. Finale also offers NotePad as a free download from their website, but as I have personally found out, it is very crippled, not intuitive, and generally uncustomizable.
I would recommend over all these other apps Finale's PrintMusic. PrintMusic offers many of the features of Finale and Allegro, has professional quality output just like Finale, but at a much lower price of $70. Four-part chorale notation and lyrics are a snap, and easily accomodates three-stave-per-system organ notation. All the functionality for what you need, without leaving you with that freshly cornholed feeling after shelling out the dough for Finale or Sibelius.
No offense to the wonderful people creating the Scribus software. It's great to see options other than pay-your-left-nut-for-software.
However, this is mostly pie-in-the-sky. With the new release of Quark for OS X (http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/mac_osx.html), I bet many, many more OS X boxen will be sold, averting any "Great Migration" to Linux anytime soon by the DTP folk.
We call it "REALLY HUGE FUCKING OVERGENERALIZATION ABOUT A COUNTRY'S PEOPLE WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT EXCEPT FOR WHAT SOMEBODY'S MOTHER'S UNCLE'S FATHER'S BROTHER'S SON'S NIECE SAW ON TV ONCE."
Want proof? Good, I know you did!
Like most Nigerians, you're probably finding that it's increasingly difficult to earn a decent living from email.
Hey! I didn't know all Nigerians were e-mail spammers and scammers! At least they're not like all those terrorist Arabs in the Middle East.
Breakfast Kickoff Session: Your choice: A hard boiled egg, or two slices of white bread and a cricket.
Oh, and I suppose all blacks in the USA eat only fried chicken, chitterlings, pigs feet, collard greens, and watermelon.
Amenities (restrooms are available in the hotel. Please use them.) include a bar, a barber shop, running water (hot AND cold), free parking, and a free newspaper (except for weekends).
Right. Because I'm sure all Nigerians don't know what running water is or how to use a bathroom like us God-fearing, flag-waving Uhmerikins do.
I could go on. Sure, the entire thrust of the webpage is a satire on the Nigerian e-mail scam. However, many points exist in the page that continue to propagate racist notions about Nigerians. Sure, it may be unintentional, but most racist remarks are unintentional. I'm not saying it should be taken down and destroyed forever because it's racist. I'm emploring everybody to carefully think about what they are reading and what racist stereotypes they are perpetrating.
The "Sonic Gene" mentioned in the Economist article is not the only one. I attended university where one of the piano professors has been working on a project like this for many years now.
His name is Brent D. Hugh, and he has downloadable.mp3s here. This has been a pet project of his, and it's definitely worth checking out. His personal site is available here as well.
But are the inventors of these technologies to blame? Should they be held responsible for inventing Technology X?
By saying these scientists should be held responsible would akin to your atomic bomb argument. Is Einstein more responsible than Truman who ordered the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians?
I would hope that the answer would be no. Then we'd have civil proceedings where Victim Y would sue the inventor of Technology X because said technology brought bodily harm, even though Perpetrator Z is the actual cause of the incident.
Oh, but wait. We already have people seeking injunctions agains gun manufacturers because they produce a lethal weapon.
Slashdot needs to get over this whole idea of the newness of community networking and "How WiFi Will Save the World." Get over your DSL/cable-fed selves and wake up. Communities all across the United States are already doing this, and have been doing so for years.
I live in a small north-central Missouri town of about 10,000 residents. What do I do for internet access? Not dialup, that's for sure.
The local utility company is a co-op run under mandate from the city council. Its services include electric, water, sewer, trash, curbside recycling, and internet access. While they do offer dialup access, they also offer WiFi access all across town.
The CO downtown has three T1 lines to their servers, which are then fed wirelessly to the three antennae in town, sitting atop the water towers. From the towers, end-users can access the network, usually using higher gain external antennae for better reception.
When I moved to town, I asked the netadmin all about the network, and wondered if they were going to upgrade to 802.11g anytime soon. She said they hadn't thought about it recently, but with my limited input, they are considering the upgrade now.
Data throughput depends on network usage and other factors like a normal network, but I average between 700-800Kbps. Not blazing speed by any stretch of the imagination, but very workable and usable.
I realize this is probably going on in other areas of the country as well. But we on./ are so damn concerned about the forbidden "last mile" that we tend to forget what's right under our nose for solutions. Of course it's not fiber, but the the cost-to-access ratio is much better in the long run.
Well, I'm probably one of the "rest of us," for starters.
I've read./ daily for many years now, and have never used an actual Linux system. I've wanted to in the past -- back in the day when Slackware was cool and Red Hat was a free distro included in the price of a thousand-page tome at Waldenbooks. I just never have mustered the nerve to acutally dive in and try it.
In college, I became familiar with the campus' HP/UX machine, and started learning the ropes of an OS other than ProDOS, DOS, Win, or MacOS (which is what I was used to previously). Linux still intrigued me, but I never got around to trying a distro on any of my available machines. Aside: Yeah, I could have installed FreeBSD on my SE/30, but....
Even as I type this from my OS X desktop G4, I finally broke down last week and bought a clone box on eBay and some extra hardware. I fully intend on diving into the world of Linux with this machine, and this book seems like it would be a great help to me.
Making the longer story a bit shorter, I'm one of the rest of us.
As far as computing is concerned, the iMac was just a blip on the screen of desktop computing. But realize the impact the iMac had on industrial design for absolutely everything.
You couldn't swing a deat cat and not hit a differently colored George Foreman grill, a phone, a printer, a kitchen gizmo, some transparently housed electronic gizmo, another technologically-all-in-one-packaged device, or any combination of the two.
Lest we forget the bold step Apple gave us in dropping the floppy, and changing the way peripheral removeable storage designers view the desktop.
That's exactly why I was addicted to it. Granted, my first Bebop viewings were the Cartoon Network dubs (sorry, anime purists -- I don't mind the dubs that much); but I wasn't being spoonfed every last detail and plot point. I actually had to use my own brain!
All the more general plot points came together as I watched the series vigilantly. Not many people lived on Earth anymore due to constant meteor showers and impacts from Moon debris thanks to a major jumpgate accident. Spike belonged to the Syndicate--a mafia-style organized crime family at war with another gang. Jet was duped by his then partner in the ISSP in a Syndicate ambush, thus losing his arm. It's already been posted, but Faye was unfrozen, accrued a multi-billion wulan debt, and holds a personal desire to find our her past.
This list could go on and on depicting what I learned about the Cowboy Bebop universe without -- like I said before -- somebody spoonfeeding me with all the details. I really jived with leaving the unanswered questions unanswered, even past the next episode. The series to me basically was a process, a non-linear thought-provoking character sketch that unraveled like an artichoke, and I think I'm still not to the heart of the matter.
Sure, on the surface it is a guide for the Tennessee constituency to write to their senators. However, the section titled "Points to include in your letter and Phone call," lists 11 items of contention that are the crux of the matter, and go farther than just saying, "UPS will stop shipping solid rocket motors."
What the eleven points say in a nutshell:
1.] Homeland Security Act places undue restrictions on model rocketry
2.] The ATF has listed the main chemical ingredient in most model solid rocket motors on its explosives list.
3.] Even though solid rocket motors are flammable and thrustworthy, they are not explosives.
4.] A hobbyist would have to obtain an ATF permit to buy the motors, and would not allow transport of homemade motors, even from home to field. This allows the ATF inspection access to those permits, which are ususally kept at home.
5.] All this is bad, Mmmkay?
I can envision ATF midnight raids on rocket geeks' houses already....
I actually had the fortitude in my younger days to save up enough cash to send it Authorized Nintendo Repair Service. While it didn't amount to a great deal (replaced the connector...sound familiar yet?), it still put me out US$50.
Of better note, however, was the tech who serviced my console, and brought up an interesting point I haven't seen posted yet. The very "fix" we used to use (blowing...air, that is) as youts is the major cause of corrosion. Yes, I know copper oxidizes on its own, but when introduced to a moist environment, the process is accelerated.
"Moist environment? But this is my Nintendo?" you may be asking yourself. Consider this: besides CO2, we also exhale H2O. Condensation of that water vapor on the cartridge contacts is the main culprit. "But the velocity of a blow on the cartridge would negate any condensation," I can hear some saying. Nay, if your warm breath, no matter how fast, comes in contact with a colder object, condensation will form.
But we're all slashdotters. We all knew this already, correct?:-)
Software Burning Difficult? (or, YA Mac reference)
on
Mount Rainier for Linux
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· Score: 4, Informative
The Mount Rainier standard sounds nifty, even if the technology is still a couple of years out of wide consumer usage. But my only beef is this: does current CD-R(W) burning software for any platform have to be more complicated than the average computer user can handle?
Enter Apple's little-known Disc Burner software, and the Authoring Support software located under the hood in the system folder. The basic premise? Put a blank CD in and Disc Burner asks for a format (either hybrid ISO/HFS, Audio, or just plain vanilla ISO), and voila, on your desktop, is an icon of your CD. Drag-n-Drop to your heart's content, and then select "Burn CD" from the Special menu (or drag the CD to the trash, then asking you to burn the CD. Even I never have understood the user interface issues with dragging a disk to the trash to eject it). Done. Simple. My cat can even burn CDs now.
The moral of the story? Mount Rainier will be an easily applied standard across all platforms. But who said the current technology's software had to be difficult? Granted, Disc Burner is not Mount Rainier, but it definitely is a current and usable facsimile of the technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that...but let's not forget the most recent Rojakpot article that was submitted. It's good to see Slashdot continuing to post such high quality, informative articles -- especially ones featuring such high quality page layout and useful advertising.
Can anybody say *cough*shameless plug*cough cough*?
Good lord. It's almost as bad as a pr0n site with a "Click here for h0tt EEPROM action!" link.
I actually debated that point for a few seconds as I was typing that. Rhode Island? Delaware? A small European country? They all had their validity in relation to button size. Delaware seemed like a nice, middle-of-the-road size.
I also hope to visit Rhode Island someday without the thought of comparing it to an XP button -- a big ol' red button with a white "X" through it.
Well bust my buttons. I didn't know there were "niceties" in the XP UI that make it more "appealing" to new users. Colors? Whiz-bang? Buttons the size of Delaware? Conversely, is he purporting that OS X is better for the power user -- to "get your job done?"
I always thought it was the other way around. My bad, dude.
Seems like this post also comes from the kan't-spel-to-gud-dept.
Juliennes fries. Sheesh.
The good ol' Pervy Hobbit Fancier's Diary.
If you want to read the originals, direct from the original author, pleased to be visiting http://www.livejournal.com/users/cassieclaire/.
Thanking you.
Folks, you're missing the point here.
It's not about a manual for "type word here then press return." That's the part everybody knows about.
It's the different things that Google can do from the very same line that the general populous doesn't know about. Sure, Google is great for searches. But it can also convert currency, forward & reverse phone number lookups, unit conversion, mapping, spell checking, and (now that I've read some of the prior comments) defining words.
There's probably even more functionality that I don't even know about yet deep within that Mostly Harmless Google frontpage.
No, not really. Bill does bring up a decent point here. Too many boxes --> too much power consumption --> more energy production --> more pollution (with current fossil fuel technologies) --> higher power bills at the end of the month.
Not to mention the space that another box would take up.
The all-in-one option (PVR/streamer/burner) would be okay. I, however, am waiting for the day when instead of relying on settop boxes for *everything*, HDTV makers use built-in converters and decoders, just like analog "cable ready" TVs have been for 20+ years now.
Even with congressional mandate, HDTV won't garner wide public support until it's as easy as plugging in one cable to your HDTV and turn the power on. Simple interfaces for simple minds.
I seem to be seeing a new X logo as well from the slashdot page:
slashdot.jpg
It's so simple and plain. It just might work!
from http://www.msnbc.com/news/966392.asp
That seems like more of an announcement suiting the frontpages of this hallowed bytespace.
Finale is great. Sibelius is great. Their price point, however, leaves much to be desired. Finale does have watered-down versions of their software. Allegro has most of the features of Finale, but is still pricey at ~$200. Finale also offers NotePad as a free download from their website, but as I have personally found out, it is very crippled, not intuitive, and generally uncustomizable.
I would recommend over all these other apps Finale's PrintMusic. PrintMusic offers many of the features of Finale and Allegro, has professional quality output just like Finale, but at a much lower price of $70. Four-part chorale notation and lyrics are a snap, and easily accomodates three-stave-per-system organ notation. All the functionality for what you need, without leaving you with that freshly cornholed feeling after shelling out the dough for Finale or Sibelius.
No offense to the wonderful people creating the Scribus software. It's great to see options other than pay-your-left-nut-for-software.
l ), I bet many, many more OS X boxen will be sold, averting any "Great Migration" to Linux anytime soon by the DTP folk.
However, this is mostly pie-in-the-sky. With the new release of Quark for OS X (http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/mac_osx.htm
We don't call it "racism" anymore.
We call it "REALLY HUGE FUCKING OVERGENERALIZATION ABOUT A COUNTRY'S PEOPLE WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT EXCEPT FOR WHAT SOMEBODY'S MOTHER'S UNCLE'S FATHER'S BROTHER'S SON'S NIECE SAW ON TV ONCE."
Want proof? Good, I know you did!
Hey! I didn't know all Nigerians were e-mail spammers and scammers! At least they're not like all those terrorist Arabs in the Middle East.
Oh, and I suppose all blacks in the USA eat only fried chicken, chitterlings, pigs feet, collard greens, and watermelon.
Right. Because I'm sure all Nigerians don't know what running water is or how to use a bathroom like us God-fearing, flag-waving Uhmerikins do.
I could go on. Sure, the entire thrust of the webpage is a satire on the Nigerian e-mail scam. However, many points exist in the page that continue to propagate racist notions about Nigerians. Sure, it may be unintentional, but most racist remarks are unintentional. I'm not saying it should be taken down and destroyed forever because it's racist. I'm emploring everybody to carefully think about what they are reading and what racist stereotypes they are perpetrating.
The "Sonic Gene" mentioned in the Economist article is not the only one. I attended university where one of the piano professors has been working on a project like this for many years now.
.mp3s here. This has been a pet project of his, and it's definitely worth checking out. His personal site is available here as well.
His name is Brent D. Hugh, and he has downloadable
Happy listening!
But are the inventors of these technologies to blame? Should they be held responsible for inventing Technology X?
By saying these scientists should be held responsible would akin to your atomic bomb argument. Is Einstein more responsible than Truman who ordered the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians?
I would hope that the answer would be no. Then we'd have civil proceedings where Victim Y would sue the inventor of Technology X because said technology brought bodily harm, even though Perpetrator Z is the actual cause of the incident.
Oh, but wait. We already have people seeking injunctions agains gun manufacturers because they produce a lethal weapon.
Slashdot needs to get over this whole idea of the newness of community networking and "How WiFi Will Save the World." Get over your DSL/cable-fed selves and wake up. Communities all across the United States are already doing this, and have been doing so for years.
./ are so damn concerned about the forbidden "last mile" that we tend to forget what's right under our nose for solutions. Of course it's not fiber, but the the cost-to-access ratio is much better in the long run.
I live in a small north-central Missouri town of about 10,000 residents. What do I do for internet access? Not dialup, that's for sure.
The local utility company is a co-op run under mandate from the city council. Its services include electric, water, sewer, trash, curbside recycling, and internet access. While they do offer dialup access, they also offer WiFi access all across town.
The CO downtown has three T1 lines to their servers, which are then fed wirelessly to the three antennae in town, sitting atop the water towers. From the towers, end-users can access the network, usually using higher gain external antennae for better reception.
When I moved to town, I asked the netadmin all about the network, and wondered if they were going to upgrade to 802.11g anytime soon. She said they hadn't thought about it recently, but with my limited input, they are considering the upgrade now.
Data throughput depends on network usage and other factors like a normal network, but I average between 700-800Kbps. Not blazing speed by any stretch of the imagination, but very workable and usable.
I realize this is probably going on in other areas of the country as well. But we on
*plink plink*
Well, I'm probably one of the "rest of us," for starters.
./ daily for many years now, and have never used an actual Linux system. I've wanted to in the past -- back in the day when Slackware was cool and Red Hat was a free distro included in the price of a thousand-page tome at Waldenbooks. I just never have mustered the nerve to acutally dive in and try it.
I've read
In college, I became familiar with the campus' HP/UX machine, and started learning the ropes of an OS other than ProDOS, DOS, Win, or MacOS (which is what I was used to previously). Linux still intrigued me, but I never got around to trying a distro on any of my available machines. Aside: Yeah, I could have installed FreeBSD on my SE/30, but....
Even as I type this from my OS X desktop G4, I finally broke down last week and bought a clone box on eBay and some extra hardware. I fully intend on diving into the world of Linux with this machine, and this book seems like it would be a great help to me.
Making the longer story a bit shorter, I'm one of the rest of us.
No! Not fishtanks! Think different!
Think antfarms!
As far as computing is concerned, the iMac was just a blip on the screen of desktop computing. But realize the impact the iMac had on industrial design for absolutely everything.
You couldn't swing a deat cat and not hit a differently colored George Foreman grill, a phone, a printer, a kitchen gizmo, some transparently housed electronic gizmo, another technologically-all-in-one-packaged device, or any combination of the two.
Lest we forget the bold step Apple gave us in dropping the floppy, and changing the way peripheral removeable storage designers view the desktop.
That's exactly why I was addicted to it. Granted, my first Bebop viewings were the Cartoon Network dubs (sorry, anime purists -- I don't mind the dubs that much); but I wasn't being spoonfed every last detail and plot point. I actually had to use my own brain!
All the more general plot points came together as I watched the series vigilantly. Not many people lived on Earth anymore due to constant meteor showers and impacts from Moon debris thanks to a major jumpgate accident. Spike belonged to the Syndicate--a mafia-style organized crime family at war with another gang. Jet was duped by his then partner in the ISSP in a Syndicate ambush, thus losing his arm. It's already been posted, but Faye was unfrozen, accrued a multi-billion wulan debt, and holds a personal desire to find our her past.
This list could go on and on depicting what I learned about the Cowboy Bebop universe without -- like I said before -- somebody spoonfeeding me with all the details. I really jived with leaving the unanswered questions unanswered, even past the next episode. The series to me basically was a process, a non-linear thought-provoking character sketch that unraveled like an artichoke, and I think I'm still not to the heart of the matter.
If a /.er were to read the rest of the webpage, including a few of the links, they would have eventually seen this page:
http://www.space-rockets.com/congress.html
Sure, on the surface it is a guide for the Tennessee constituency to write to their senators. However, the section titled "Points to include in your letter and Phone call," lists 11 items of contention that are the crux of the matter, and go farther than just saying, "UPS will stop shipping solid rocket motors."
What the eleven points say in a nutshell:
1.] Homeland Security Act places undue restrictions on model rocketry
2.] The ATF has listed the main chemical ingredient in most model solid rocket motors on its explosives list.
3.] Even though solid rocket motors are flammable and thrustworthy, they are not explosives.
4.] A hobbyist would have to obtain an ATF permit to buy the motors, and would not allow transport of homemade motors, even from home to field. This allows the ATF inspection access to those permits, which are ususally kept at home.
5.] All this is bad, Mmmkay?
I can envision ATF midnight raids on rocket geeks' houses already....
I actually had the fortitude in my younger days to save up enough cash to send it Authorized Nintendo Repair Service. While it didn't amount to a great deal (replaced the connector...sound familiar yet?), it still put me out US$50.
:-)
Of better note, however, was the tech who serviced my console, and brought up an interesting point I haven't seen posted yet. The very "fix" we used to use (blowing...air, that is) as youts is the major cause of corrosion. Yes, I know copper oxidizes on its own, but when introduced to a moist environment, the process is accelerated.
"Moist environment? But this is my Nintendo?" you may be asking yourself. Consider this: besides CO2, we also exhale H2O. Condensation of that water vapor on the cartridge contacts is the main culprit. "But the velocity of a blow on the cartridge would negate any condensation," I can hear some saying. Nay, if your warm breath, no matter how fast, comes in contact with a colder object, condensation will form.
But we're all slashdotters. We all knew this already, correct?
The Mount Rainier standard sounds nifty, even if the technology is still a couple of years out of wide consumer usage. But my only beef is this: does current CD-R(W) burning software for any platform have to be more complicated than the average computer user can handle?
Enter Apple's little-known Disc Burner software, and the Authoring Support software located under the hood in the system folder. The basic premise? Put a blank CD in and Disc Burner asks for a format (either hybrid ISO/HFS, Audio, or just plain vanilla ISO), and voila, on your desktop, is an icon of your CD. Drag-n-Drop to your heart's content, and then select "Burn CD" from the Special menu (or drag the CD to the trash, then asking you to burn the CD. Even I never have understood the user interface issues with dragging a disk to the trash to eject it). Done. Simple. My cat can even burn CDs now.
The moral of the story? Mount Rainier will be an easily applied standard across all platforms. But who said the current technology's software had to be difficult? Granted, Disc Burner is not Mount Rainier, but it definitely is a current and usable facsimile of the technology.