...God damned f***ing Ticketbastard...This situation has gotten completely disgusting now. I live concerts, I love live music. However its alreay gotten to the point that I can barely afford to see some of the bands I like. I suppose its over now, I'll probably never be able to see another concert again. Its bad enough that the last one I went to I got tickets 3 minutes after they went on sale, and I was sitting in nowhere land...mind you these were pre-sale tickets through the band's web site!
Can't we just go back to the days where you had to stand in line, and if you were first in line you got the best tickets! F***ing greedy a**monkeys!
I can't wait to get fitted with my backpack and start taking on the the streets of the city. I'll get that Masked web slinger if its the last thing it do.
Better Yet, tape the Business reply envelope to a Brick (wrapped in shipping paper), the Post Office has to deliver it, and it will cost the receiving company a fortune in shipping costs.
...as an individual you have no rights what so ever. Our government has been taken over by the Corporate Lobby. He who has the deepest pockets gets the laws passed that they want passed. The average individual gets screwed, because he has no voice, and no way to influence ($$$$$$$) his elected officals. We the people get to vote to put him there, but after that the Corporations get to decide what that elected person actually decides on our behalf.
The dishonorable Sentator John "I am a Jackass" Kerry proved all this to me once. Thank God that Son of Satan didn't become President. I wrote him a carefully worded letter expressing my opinions as someone whom he represents (BULLSHIT, he represents Disney, et al). I got a very nicely worded form letter in return which basically told me I could go to hell, and that the rights of the Corporations were far more important than mine to free speech and fair use.
...I am sure it will be said in this thread many times, but I bears saying for reinforcement, just incase some corporate type actually sees the thread.
Its damn simple why go into CS when most CS jobs are getting outsourced/offshored for cheaper rates. This is causing a Glut of talent in the market and cuasing the rates that a company will pay for CS talent to go down. It sucks as a job course in life.
If US companies cut the crap and word gets out that they are willing to pay for talented CS people at decent rates and the workers don't have to be concerned with having the job cut out from underthem, then the enrolements will go up.
First of all, you need to build a standard base that contains the drivers for all of your known equipment variations such that all that equipment can be detected and installed on firt boot by plug and play. Basically your going to and of of these drivers to the known driver set that comes with XP. Microsoft has Qarticles/white papers on doing this.
Next install all the apps.
Next your going to need a utility from Microsoft called sys-prep. Once you have this standard image, you will use sysprep. This will strip all the PC specific info away and leave you with an install that is ready to go. After you image a machine it will go through a mini-setup. (Ever bought a DEll/HP/Gateway machine, and booted for the first time thats the mini-setup)...this is basically the hardware detect and setup, and network setup part of the XP install minus all the other stuff you have already done creating the base. Just the PC specific stuff that the sysprep process stripped away.
Humm....I am not sure that I would call the Label that carries one of the most successful and well known Canadian Rock groups of all time Class B.
Anthem records I wouldn't exactly say is a class B Label.
UHHH...RUSH!http://www.rush.com/
...back then there was no company policy, we sold anything to to anyone who handed us money. Thats what we were in business to do sell things and make money. Telling someone they can't by "abc" product because of a letter on the box is counter to the mission. There was and still is I believe no law that says the retailer need respect the letter on the box. My assumption was always that if random person walks in and picks put product "abc" and hands it and $60 to me Mom and Dad know he's there and what he is buying. Why becuase when I was that age barring Christmas and Birthdays I never saw that much money at once unless my parents gave it to me! Christmas and Birthday money seemed to have a way of dissappearing for safe keeping and came back to me for approved purposes.
Moral of above rant...Parents listen up!...Its not the video game retailer's job to control what games your kid buys. Its YOURS! Pay attention to your kid!
I got one of these controllers. I have played with it a little its definately only for those that can seriously learn to touch type. Since many of the buttons are not at all in sight you really have to learn the keyboard. Over all its comfortable, but I feel that more than one size would have been better. The shipping model is more suitable for the average hand. A smaller hand could problay learn to work with it. My medium-large hands are pretty much at the limit of comfortable use. If you have large hands the buttons are not going to be anyplace near your finger tips.
The keyboard makes extensive use of shift buttons to accomplish things. Get used to some finger acrobatics. I still have not quite got the hang of Control-Alt-Delete on this thing.
The Built in Mouse....
Personally this is the one true downfall in my opinion. The roller ball is WAY to small, and its far far far to slow it takes me far far to many rolls over the ball to get the mouse around even a 1024/768 acreen, never mind the 1280/1024 I typically run at. The performance in games (The reason I originally thought this might be a useful product) is basically worthless at this point. I went so far as to hack the registry to increase the mouse responsiveness to the maximum allowable, a setting you can't even do in the crontrol panel applet. The mouse still isn't acceptably responsive. In fact it seemed barley changed on the AG-5 despite the fact that another mouse on the same machine now zips the cursor accross the machine so fast you have to take a second after the movement to find it again.
"What he haven't had is the will to discard the dead end path that boosters and spacecraft have taken and replace it the same standard methods that have worked time and again in virtually every other field of human economic behavior."
Care to flesh that comment out...?
I see potential in the space elevator concept...A.C. Clarke Proposed it years before anyone took it seriously, and lets just say thus far his hard science fiction tends to be rather prophetic...but since that doesn't yet exist...how do we get to space with out Boosters?
I remember when i was younger the excitement of thinking that with the shuttles the potential of space flight would only grow from point on. The pure simple idea that pretty much in my life time there would come a time when space flight would become routine. When there would be a spacecraft lifting off once or even twice in the same week.
Unfortunately the shuttles never got there. The reasons are many and varied, and ultimately stupid. The ramp up the potential never happened. I can remember a time when NASA was considering the possibility of many many more shuttles.
Its sad really.
We (humanity as a whole) should by now have a much greater presense in space. The technology should have advanced to a far greater state than it has at time time. We are pretty much still stuck in the same place as we were in the late 1970's. The shuttles tech has seen little change from the 1970's tech that was in place when they were first drawn up.
The really comical part is at this point we are planning to more forward, by going backwards to tech that predates the shuttle program. Admittedly the shuttles didn't work out, they were probably to for4ward thinking when they were first developed. We are now in a place where we do not have the time, or perhaps even the desire to back to the drawing board and bring to bear the full weight of out current technology.
The End result we will continue in space, however it will continue as a lackluster effort.
Re:Photoshopped!....since you asked...
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WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Take a look at the over all picture.
Follow the line at the botton of the monitor and the line along the right hand side.
Now notice how the bottom left corner looks pulled away from the monitor also notice how the line at the bottom of the screen actually disappears under the blue windows screen (along with it attendant shadow) The same happens to the right hand side. the edge of the monitor and the shadow being cast over it also dissappears under the blue windows loading screen.
If you look at the blue windows screen itself it has a ever so slight shadow on it (a darkening of the blue color) on the right hand side. However the shadow's shape is not continuous with the showdow being cast over the monitor's edge.
As for my skills never claimed to have any documented ones, I just have a good eye. My eye tells me there is a wrongness to the image and further exploration as documented above explains the wrongness.
...and let me start by saying I purchase (at least for fiction) almost exclusively Hardcover books at $19-29 a pop generally. I love to read and to collect books. Ebooks don't offer me the same expirence. In a tangable sense or in a cost sense. I am willing to spend that kind of money for something that I can put on a shelf and loan to a friend.
Ebooks and the readers would need to become more available. I mean this in three ways.
1. Price for the reder in the books needs to be cheaper. I would be willing to pay paperback prices for Ebooks, and pay perhaps as much as $99.99 for the reader.
2. I see very few books in the generes that I read, and I see extremely few readers or books at the local B&N or Borders.
3. DRM has got to go. Ebooks need a universal format that works in any reader I choose to use (dedicated, PDA, Notebook, PC, etc)
Ideally I'd prefer that there be a disc (or some sort of media) in the back of an actual book so I can read the paperbook if I wish or take the book with me on whatever device I have.
3DMark06, now breaks its scores out to give you a little more of an idea how the overall score was built. That might help you to figure out what limiting components you have.
...my only real complaint is that the standard config of the cube is angled into the corner effect that allows people is creep up behind you. Not so bad if your listening, its when the headphones are on nad they have been stnading there and you had no idea. The whole thing creeps me out. I hate having my back to the flow of traffic. I tend to sit a little sideways as I can catch the door in my side-vision (which of course leads to neck and back stress.
I'd really like a way to move the "door" off center and then twist the whole thing 90 degrees so my seated position would face me at the door. I know this would make my chair and the wall close buddies but I could live with that.
Standard Config:
--------
|/-----|
|| |
|| |
--- ---
What would be better:
---------
| ------|
|| |
| \ ---|
------ Yeah its a little tighter but I'd actually have more deskspace and could see people approach...I'd also prefer that the wall in between the cubes be increased to 7' whcih would also serve again to get ride of that someones behind me feeling.
Here is a game that made it to market, and had alot of promise. Playing the game during the beta stages was amazing, and great fun. I didn't even mind starting over every so often. Unfortunately when it actually went live the game turned to crap. It was no longer the same game and all the "patch", "fixes", "enhancements", and "rebalancing" that took place after awards never made the game any better.
Seriously this company has runined some the greatest game companies that have ever existed. The fact that they have not managed to destroy Blizzard is some sort of miracle fluke. Of course Blizzard of late seems to have devolved into the house of Warcraft. They have not cranked out something new in serveral years. WoW is great and all, but it is just an inflated retread of Warcraft concepts.
How about Starcraft 2. Or Diablo3 or something completely NEW! Has all the inovative talent filtered away?
At this point they are not allowed to become a record label themselves because of the deal that they had to cut with "Apple" records (aka the publishing company front of that wildly popular band from to UK)...at some point I see Apple Computer cutting some reasonable deal with "Apple" records...apple going to the artist directly to get the music out there.
...hey I got an insightful...well thats not quite what I was going for...it was intended as satire, HUMOR. I sppose that many might think I hit the nail on the head though and if so thats fine too.
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...God damned f***ing Ticketbastard...This situation has gotten completely disgusting now. I live concerts, I love live music. However its alreay gotten to the point that I can barely afford to see some of the bands I like. I suppose its over now, I'll probably never be able to see another concert again. Its bad enough that the last one I went to I got tickets 3 minutes after they went on sale, and I was sitting in nowhere land...mind you these were pre-sale tickets through the band's web site!
Can't we just go back to the days where you had to stand in line, and if you were first in line you got the best tickets!
F***ing greedy a**monkeys!
I can't wait to get fitted with my backpack and start taking on the the streets of the city. I'll get that Masked web slinger if its the last thing it do.
Better Yet, tape the Business reply envelope to a Brick (wrapped in shipping paper), the Post Office has to deliver it, and it will cost the receiving company a fortune in shipping costs.
...as an individual you have no rights what so ever. Our government has been taken over by the Corporate Lobby. He who has the deepest pockets gets the laws passed that they want passed. The average individual gets screwed, because he has no voice, and no way to influence ($$$$$$$) his elected officals. We the people get to vote to put him there, but after that the Corporations get to decide what that elected person actually decides on our behalf.
The dishonorable Sentator John "I am a Jackass" Kerry proved all this to me once. Thank God that Son of Satan didn't become President.
I wrote him a carefully worded letter expressing my opinions as someone whom he represents (BULLSHIT, he represents Disney, et al). I got a very nicely worded form letter in return which basically told me I could go to hell, and that the rights of the Corporations were far more important than mine to free speech and fair use.
...I am sure it will be said in this thread many times, but I bears saying for reinforcement, just incase some corporate type actually sees the thread.
Its damn simple why go into CS when most CS jobs are getting outsourced/offshored for cheaper rates. This is causing a Glut of talent in the market and cuasing the rates that a company will pay for CS talent to go down. It sucks as a job course in life.
If US companies cut the crap and word gets out that they are willing to pay for talented CS people at decent rates and the workers don't have to be concerned with having the job cut out from underthem, then the enrolements will go up.
First of all, you need to build a standard base that contains the drivers for all of your known equipment variations such that all that equipment can be detected and installed on firt boot by plug and play. Basically your going to and of of these drivers to the known driver set that comes with XP. Microsoft has Qarticles/white papers on doing this.
Next install all the apps.
Next your going to need a utility from Microsoft called sys-prep. Once you have this standard image, you will use sysprep. This will strip all the PC specific info away and leave you with an install that is ready to go. After you image a machine it will go through a mini-setup. (Ever bought a DEll/HP/Gateway machine, and booted for the first time thats the mini-setup)...this is basically the hardware detect and setup, and network setup part of the XP install minus all the other stuff you have already done creating the base. Just the PC specific stuff that the sysprep process stripped away.
Humm....I am not sure that I would call the Label that carries one of the most successful and well known Canadian Rock groups of all time Class B.
Anthem records I wouldn't exactly say is a class B Label.
UHHH...RUSH! http://www.rush.com/
...back then there was no company policy, we sold anything to to anyone who handed us money. Thats what we were in business to do sell things and make money. Telling someone they can't by "abc" product because of a letter on the box is counter to the mission. There was and still is I believe no law that says the retailer need respect the letter on the box. My assumption was always that if random person walks in and picks put product "abc" and hands it and $60 to me Mom and Dad know he's there and what he is buying. Why becuase when I was that age barring Christmas and Birthdays I never saw that much money at once unless my parents gave it to me! Christmas and Birthday money seemed to have a way of dissappearing for safe keeping and came back to me for approved purposes.
Moral of above rant...Parents listen up!...Its not the video game retailer's job to control what games your kid buys. Its YOURS! Pay attention to your kid!
I'm not sure what their policy is these days.
I got one of these controllers. I have played with it a little its definately only for those that can seriously learn to touch type. Since many of the buttons are not at all in sight you really have to learn the keyboard. Over all its comfortable, but I feel that more than one size would have been better. The shipping model is more suitable for the average hand. A smaller hand could problay learn to work with it. My medium-large hands are pretty much at the limit of comfortable use. If you have large hands the buttons are not going to be anyplace near your finger tips.
The keyboard makes extensive use of shift buttons to accomplish things. Get used to some finger acrobatics. I still have not quite got the hang of Control-Alt-Delete on this thing.
The Built in Mouse....
Personally this is the one true downfall in my opinion. The roller ball is WAY to small, and its far far far to slow it takes me far far to many rolls over the ball to get the mouse around even a 1024/768 acreen, never mind the 1280/1024 I typically run at. The performance in games (The reason I originally thought this might be a useful product) is basically worthless at this point. I went so far as to hack the registry to increase the mouse responsiveness to the maximum allowable, a setting you can't even do in the crontrol panel applet. The mouse still isn't acceptably responsive. In fact it seemed barley changed on the AG-5 despite the fact that another mouse on the same machine now zips the cursor accross the machine so fast you have to take a second after the movement to find it again.
"What he haven't had is the will to discard the dead end path that boosters and spacecraft have taken and replace it the same standard methods that have worked time and again in virtually every other field of human economic behavior."
Care to flesh that comment out...?
I see potential in the space elevator concept...A.C. Clarke Proposed it years before anyone took it seriously, and lets just say thus far his hard science fiction tends to be rather prophetic...but since that doesn't yet exist...how do we get to space with out Boosters?
I remember when i was younger the excitement of thinking that with the shuttles the potential of space flight would only grow from point on. The pure simple idea that pretty much in my life time there would come a time when space flight would become routine. When there would be a spacecraft lifting off once or even twice in the same week.
Unfortunately the shuttles never got there. The reasons are many and varied, and ultimately stupid. The ramp up the potential never happened. I can remember a time when NASA was considering the possibility of many many more shuttles.
Its sad really.
We (humanity as a whole) should by now have a much greater presense in space. The technology should have advanced to a far greater state than it has at time time. We are pretty much still stuck in the same place as we were in the late 1970's. The shuttles tech has seen little change from the 1970's tech that was in place when they were first drawn up.
The really comical part is at this point we are planning to more forward, by going backwards to tech that predates the shuttle program. Admittedly the shuttles didn't work out, they were probably to for4ward thinking when they were first developed. We are now in a place where we do not have the time, or perhaps even the desire to back to the drawing board and bring to bear the full weight of out current technology.
The End result we will continue in space, however it will continue as a lackluster effort.
Take a look at the over all picture.
Follow the line at the botton of the monitor and the line along the right hand side.
Now notice how the bottom left corner looks pulled away from the monitor also notice how the line at the bottom of the screen actually disappears under the blue windows screen (along with it attendant shadow) The same happens to the right hand side. the edge of the monitor and the shadow being cast over it also dissappears under the blue windows loading screen.
If you look at the blue windows screen itself it has a ever so slight shadow on it (a darkening of the blue color) on the right hand side. However the shadow's shape is not continuous with the showdow being cast over the monitor's edge.
As for my skills never claimed to have any documented ones, I just have a good eye. My eye tells me there is a wrongness to the image and further exploration as documented above explains the wrongness.
...and badly at that...take a look at the "Real VGA!" photo...thats pretty clearly a BAD! Bad! photoshoping...
...and let me start by saying I purchase (at least for fiction) almost exclusively Hardcover books at $19-29 a pop generally. I love to read and to collect books. Ebooks don't offer me the same expirence. In a tangable sense or in a cost sense. I am willing to spend that kind of money for something that I can put on a shelf and loan to a friend.
Ebooks and the readers would need to become more available. I mean this in three ways.
1. Price for the reder in the books needs to be cheaper. I would be willing to pay paperback prices for Ebooks, and pay perhaps as much as $99.99 for the reader.
2. I see very few books in the generes that I read, and I see extremely few readers or books at the local B&N or Borders.
3. DRM has got to go. Ebooks need a universal format that works in any reader I choose to use (dedicated, PDA, Notebook, PC, etc)
Ideally I'd prefer that there be a disc (or some sort of media) in the back of an actual book so I can read the paperbook if I wish or take the book with me on whatever device I have.
3DMark06, now breaks its scores out to give you a little more of an idea how the overall score was built. That might help you to figure out what limiting components you have.
Ok that didn't format at all like I planned...sorry about that...please ignore since I don't think I'll be able to format it right...
...my only real complaint is that the standard config of the cube is angled into the corner effect that allows people is creep up behind you. Not so bad if your listening, its when the headphones are on nad they have been stnading there and you had no idea. The whole thing creeps me out. I hate having my back to the flow of traffic. I tend to sit a little sideways as I can catch the door in my side-vision (which of course leads to neck and back stress.
I'd really like a way to move the "door" off center and then twist the whole thing 90 degrees so my seated position would face me at the door. I know this would make my chair and the wall close buddies but I could live with that.
Standard Config:
--------
|/-----|
|| |
|| |
--- ---
What would be better:
---------
| ------|
|| |
| \ ---|
------ Yeah its a little tighter but I'd actually have more deskspace and could see people approach...I'd also prefer that the wall in between the cubes be increased to 7' whcih would also serve again to get ride of that someones behind me feeling.
Here is a game that made it to market, and had alot of promise. Playing the game during the beta stages was amazing, and great fun. I didn't even mind starting over every so often. Unfortunately when it actually went live the game turned to crap. It was no longer the same game and all the "patch", "fixes", "enhancements", and "rebalancing" that took place after awards never made the game any better.
Seriously this company has runined some the greatest game companies that have ever existed. The fact that they have not managed to destroy Blizzard is some sort of miracle fluke. Of course Blizzard of late seems to have devolved into the house of Warcraft. They have not cranked out something new in serveral years. WoW is great and all, but it is just an inflated retread of Warcraft concepts.
How about Starcraft 2. Or Diablo3 or something completely NEW! Has all the inovative talent filtered away?
Yep thats quite annoying, but easily controlled.
...well at least at a reasonable price anyway.
My 5/512 (Ha! as if Charter Cable ever actually has it going that fast), is typically maxed out all the time.
...they just might eventually.
At this point they are not allowed to become a record label themselves because of the deal that they had to cut with "Apple" records (aka the publishing company front of that wildly popular band from to UK)...at some point I see Apple Computer cutting some reasonable deal with "Apple" records...apple going to the artist directly to get the music out there.
Could go more like.
.99 price point...
.99 your music isn't worth it...
Fine you want good sales of your music well then you want us to get the song out there at the
Why...2 reasons.
1. Lower than
2. Higher your full of yourself as an artist and a sell out.
Its all Free, your unemcumbered on the MP3 as long as you use LAME as the encoder.
...hey I got an insightful...well thats not quite what I was going for...it was intended as satire, HUMOR. I sppose that many might think I hit the nail on the head though and if so thats fine too.