Look, I'm all for automation, but I have the same problem with this that I had with the city's plan to automate all metrocard purchases with an eye to getting rid of overnight booth workers.
If you need help late at night in the city, the one thing you can count on is having a human in a booth in the subway. They might be surly, but if you NEED help those people can be your best friends. A conductor focusing on the platform and keeping an eye out for trouble serves a purpose a computer can't possibly compete with. You wouldn't need 'em 99.99% of the time, but that one time you're getting your ass kicked and need help is no time to go looking for a police call box.
I mean, I know it's heretical to say this here, but computers can't do everything.
Electronic music has been around since 1900 and really picked up steam after the German invention of magnetic tape during World War II. 1979's three decades too late.
I don't have a blog because my penis is small. Send me small penis email at pinteresque@mac.com . Linux sucks. Macs Rule. PPS. I can't figure out how to make my Mac work so I am using my grandmother's PC.
Oh damn. I like macs. You linux people are stupid. I hope you all get hacked when your market-share increases. Macs will forever remain 5% and thus be impervious to all hack attacks. Ha. Did I mention that I am a douche bag? Well I am. Send me email at pinteresque@mac.com . PS: I am sending this from a Dell PC because I can't figure out how to make my Mac work, but I think I am cool because I own one at least. Something has to keep my paper held down in this extreme wind.
I am a douche bag. Please send me lots of sick, stupid things at pinteresque@mac.com... Thank you I am the biggest idiot you have ever known. Cleartext email on the intarweb. Hate me!!!
"Bring in a laptop with a high resolution scanner and start scanning images into your computer"...
If you honestly think that the document techs at the NYPL are going to let you get within fifty feet of a 17th century illuminated manuscript, laptop or no, you're out of your mind. It's not like they just pull them off the stacks and hand 'em over. Most books, yes, but not those. There's a pressurized vault underneath the HumLit building on 42nd and fifth that houses most of these volumes and it's only opened four times a day - 9am, noon, 1pm and 5pm, and that's only to let the digitization staff in and out for their shifts and lunch. You get permission to access these books by special request only, and then only with strict supervision.
The purpose of digitizing these volumes was to get them out into the open for people to see, and for that the library should be applauded, not fucked with.
(and before the flames start rollin', I worked in the vault, for preservation and collection care.)
I know you're kidding, (ok, half-kidding) but the NYPL is notoriously cute when it comes to naming their software, systems, etc. There's generally a cat theme to EVERYTHING.
Their online catalogue? Library Entrance Online. LEO. Their access system for the blind and handicapped? Public Access Web System. PAWS. Their in-house cataloguing system (this one make me cringe)? CATalogue of the New York Public. CATNYP.
The nice thing about JMS's work is how he weaves complex themes into the story arc, rather then exploring and discarding them in single episode blips
It seems to me that people here stop thinking about Trek after Next Gen stopped airing and ignored the changes that come through with DS9 and, to a lesser extent, Enterprise. (Voyager can be ignored, I think, but what do I know?) Ds9's last four seasons managed to combine one off episodes with an overreaching plot line (the dominion war) extremely well, framing the plots against a much larger background than we as viewer were used to in a Trek universe. Enterprise did the same thing, focusing the third season on the Xindi threat and all that, and season four is working mostly as three episode arcs
I'm not ssaying that Enterprise is the greatest trek out there or anything or even that it should be continued, but this belief that every series suffers from reset button syndrome like Next Gen is horribly untrue.
Picard wasn't captured on the cube - the borg stole him off of his own bridge. Like Riker'd let Picard beam over to a Borg cube anyway. I mean, what universe do YOU live in? Whichever it is, it sure ain't canon.
(oh, and he was captured in ep. 127, not 128. Not that you SAID that, just clarifying).
True story: my roommate and I were talking about the whole 'don't sleep with your friends' exes rule and agreed that, while on principle this was a good idea for the balance of all relationships concerned, there were also a few stereotypical professions that just HAD to be nailed if the opportunity arose, just...well, because it's the kind of thing that only comes around once. Please note that we both go after women here; can't speak on the other side of the fence.
One of those stereotypes (apart from the 'stern librarian/kindergarten teacher one) was a spy. The roomie had a friend who TURNED DOWN SEX WITH AN UNDERCOVER CIA AGENT because she had dated his friend. Upon our relatively sober reflection the roomie and I decided that the man needed a testosterone injection, a bond marathon and was banned from all pornography for two weeks as punishment. I mean, really - who wouldn't sleep with a spy if they offered?
Saying these consoles might make an appearance at e3 doesn't help if I, a casual gamer, have any idea what e3 is, more importantly, when it is. A simple 'in May' would've sufficed.
unauthorized, undesirable, and unsafe intrusions...
This is anecdotal, but minorly noteworthy - My mom used to work for the company that owned and operated Three Mile Island - the (physical) security was intense: the perimeter was ringed by towers manned by security offers with rifles and a 'no warning shot' policy - you approached the perimeter from an undesignated direction and you got shot, period.
I still have one of the security force's hats, says "TMI Rapid Response Team" and has a crosshairs in the middle.
They already sell Sony cameras, for instance, so DVI displays and other hardware is the natural progression.
I don't think so - the reason Apple sells Sony cameras is that a. people want cameras and b. Apple doesn't make them. Apple DOES make displays, so the idea of them selling a competing product is rather foolish. On high ticket items (ie, not mice and whatnot) Apple would far prefer you buy within their product family - you don't see them selling alternative mp3 players, do you?
Didn't look very hard, didja? The controls CAN be remapped by editing a textfile (keys.ini? somethin' like that) found in the same folder as the application. And when I bought it two or three years ago, I got it in the bargain bin for 10 bucks. Seems to me you're shopping in the wrong software outlets if they're still charging 40 bucks.:)
...a chain of stores wholly owned by Barnes and Noble, I should add. Those guys have there fingers in quite a few pies. Funcoland and Software, Etc. are also B&N subsidiaries. gr.
Old-school sierra games were designed for comedy and problem solving. Well, some of them were, anyway. The Space Quest series was designed to be funny, and Leisure Suit Larry wouldn't've won any awards for its gameplay.
see, when apostrophes get outta control like that ("I really like mac's") I can't help but want to put a noun in to finish out the sentence. "I really like Mac's COCK" was the first one to come to mind.
(and I was willing to just let it go as a typo, but ya did it twice, and "Mac's COCK prices are just too high" was just too good.)
I find any discount Scottish pornography, I'll let you know.
how about putting kiosks in a mall? I mean, you're probably their to shop anyway, and it's a helluva lot more convenient that buying a cd, bringing it home, ripping it and uploading it to your 'pod.
I realize that apple doesn't make such a thing easy with the way the iPod's updating works, I'm just saying a booth like this isn't TOTALLY impractical.
I always saw it this way: iTMS is a facility to sell iPods. iTunes itself is a facility to sell iPods. OSX is a facility to sell Macs - any copies they sell as they sit are just gravy.
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So much for letting the kid grow up.
umm, far as I know it never went away.
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Look, I'm all for automation, but I have the same problem with this that I had with the city's plan to automate all metrocard purchases with an eye to getting rid of overnight booth workers.
If you need help late at night in the city, the one thing you can count on is having a human in a booth in the subway. They might be surly, but if you NEED help those people can be your best friends. A conductor focusing on the platform and keeping an eye out for trouble serves a purpose a computer can't possibly compete with. You wouldn't need 'em 99.99% of the time, but that one time you're getting your ass kicked and need help is no time to go looking for a police call box.
I mean, I know it's heretical to say this here, but computers can't do everything.
Electronic music has been around since 1900 and really picked up steam after the German invention of magnetic tape during World War II. 1979's three decades too late.
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Oh, sorry. What I meant to say was: I am a horrible waste of life and you should send disparaging emails to me at pinteresque@mac.com
I don't have a blog because my penis is small. Send me small penis email at pinteresque@mac.com .
Linux sucks. Macs Rule.
PPS. I can't figure out how to make my Mac work so I am using my grandmother's PC.
Oh damn. I like macs. You linux people are stupid. I hope you all get hacked when your market-share increases. Macs will forever remain 5% and thus be impervious to all hack attacks. Ha.
Did I mention that I am a douche bag? Well I am. Send me email at pinteresque@mac.com .
PS: I am sending this from a Dell PC because I can't figure out how to make my Mac work, but I think I am cool because I own one at least. Something has to keep my paper held down in this extreme wind.
I am a douche bag. Please send me lots of sick, stupid things at pinteresque@mac.com ... Thank you
I am the biggest idiot you have ever known. Cleartext email on the intarweb. Hate me!!!
If you honestly think that the document techs at the NYPL are going to let you get within fifty feet of a 17th century illuminated manuscript, laptop or no, you're out of your mind. It's not like they just pull them off the stacks and hand 'em over. Most books, yes, but not those. There's a pressurized vault underneath the HumLit building on 42nd and fifth that houses most of these volumes and it's only opened four times a day - 9am, noon, 1pm and 5pm, and that's only to let the digitization staff in and out for their shifts and lunch. You get permission to access these books by special request only, and then only with strict supervision.
The purpose of digitizing these volumes was to get them out into the open for people to see, and for that the library should be applauded, not fucked with.
(and before the flames start rollin', I worked in the vault, for preservation and collection care.)
Triv
Their online catalogue? Library Entrance Online. LEO. Their access system for the blind and handicapped? Public Access Web System. PAWS. Their in-house cataloguing system (this one make me cringe)? CATalogue of the New York Public. CATNYP.
Nipples ain't the half of it, trust me.
Triv
The nice thing about JMS's work is how he weaves complex themes into the story arc, rather then exploring and discarding them in single episode blips
It seems to me that people here stop thinking about Trek after Next Gen stopped airing and ignored the changes that come through with DS9 and, to a lesser extent, Enterprise. (Voyager can be ignored, I think, but what do I know?) Ds9's last four seasons managed to combine one off episodes with an overreaching plot line (the dominion war) extremely well, framing the plots against a much larger background than we as viewer were used to in a Trek universe. Enterprise did the same thing, focusing the third season on the Xindi threat and all that, and season four is working mostly as three episode arcs
I'm not ssaying that Enterprise is the greatest trek out there or anything or even that it should be continued, but this belief that every series suffers from reset button syndrome like Next Gen is horribly untrue.
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Picard wasn't captured on the cube - the borg stole him off of his own bridge. Like Riker'd let Picard beam over to a Borg cube anyway. I mean, what universe do YOU live in? Whichever it is, it sure ain't canon.
(oh, and he was captured in ep. 127, not 128. Not that you SAID that, just clarifying).
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(twajs)
One of those stereotypes (apart from the 'stern librarian/kindergarten teacher one) was a spy. The roomie had a friend who TURNED DOWN SEX WITH AN UNDERCOVER CIA AGENT because she had dated his friend. Upon our relatively sober reflection the roomie and I decided that the man needed a testosterone injection, a bond marathon and was banned from all pornography for two weeks as punishment. I mean, really - who wouldn't sleep with a spy if they offered?
Saying these consoles might make an appearance at e3 doesn't help if I, a casual gamer, have any idea what e3 is, more importantly, when it is. A simple 'in May' would've sufficed.
*grumbles
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ahem.
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This is anecdotal, but minorly noteworthy - My mom used to work for the company that owned and operated Three Mile Island - the (physical) security was intense: the perimeter was ringed by towers manned by security offers with rifles and a 'no warning shot' policy - you approached the perimeter from an undesignated direction and you got shot, period.
I still have one of the security force's hats, says "TMI Rapid Response Team" and has a crosshairs in the middle.
Triv
I don't think so - the reason Apple sells Sony cameras is that a. people want cameras and b. Apple doesn't make them. Apple DOES make displays, so the idea of them selling a competing product is rather foolish. On high ticket items (ie, not mice and whatnot) Apple would far prefer you buy within their product family - you don't see them selling alternative mp3 players, do you?
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perhaps I didn't mention that it WAS the mac version I got from the 'bin. :P
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"The programs will fight for dominance in a STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL Cage Match!"
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(Grammar Nazi Alert)
see, when apostrophes get outta control like that ("I really like mac's") I can't help but want to put a noun in to finish out the sentence. "I really like Mac's COCK" was the first one to come to mind.
(and I was willing to just let it go as a typo, but ya did it twice, and "Mac's COCK prices are just too high" was just too good.)
I find any discount Scottish pornography, I'll let you know.
Triv
I realize that apple doesn't make such a thing easy with the way the iPod's updating works, I'm just saying a booth like this isn't TOTALLY impractical.
Triv
I always saw it this way: iTMS is a facility to sell iPods. iTunes itself is a facility to sell iPods. OSX is a facility to sell Macs - any copies they sell as they sit are just gravy.