...if they could do the same thing without the whole "killing" part?
I read something about how wonderful the advancements in prosthetics the past few years have been. I even saw a kid of 20 or 22 at the airport carrying a big green duffle bag unassisted, though he had artificial legs and a prosthetic arm and the unmistakable look of a soldier.
Just spend the money. Declare it to be a National Technological Development Something-or-other and so and spend the money on research that doesn't come at such a high cost.
Fortunately, with Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and the forthcoming VMWare Fusion, new Mac users are feeling increasingly comfortable with Mac purchases, because they know that they can run Windows if they really need to, but often find they don't need it as much as they thought they did.
Yep, Windows is the new Classic.
After a week, you'll figure out a way not to need it.
Shhh... What happened in Canada is exactly what could happen here. They started charging a pirate tax on media, so some clever people figured out that as long as they were paying the tax and being branded a pirate, that gave them a legal right to download. The courts apparently agreed. Amazing that the idiot proposing this doesn't know it.
If they are insecure, sandbox them or cut them off completely.
If they need some kind of network access, use a whole shitload of proxies and firewalls and a carefully-monitored snort install and babysit the hell out of it until they can be secured.
I've been spending the last year photographing Kabukicho at night and I must say I am very impressed with the street shots. I could tell exactly where the second and third were shot from. The detail is very good and most importantly, the scale is right.
That means I've been using Mac as my workstations for more than five years.
Glad to see that some people are having success with XP, but it's the same way I'd be glad to hear that an insane crack-whore ex-girlfriend is doing well these days. Not exactly ready to re-ignite the relationship just yet...
About fifteen years ago I bought a wonderful little tube radio. Not a McIntosh amp or anything, it was a little and toaster-shaped Fada tabletop radio that I found for $10 at a junk shop and set out to get working again. I spent a bit of time cleaning it, scrounging for working tubes and replacing the old sparky power plug.
Late one night, around two in the morning, it came to life. I heard first a crackle of static, then the sound of Billie Holiday, singing "The Blues are Brewin'."
My first thought was that somehow the song had gotten stuck inside the old radio some time in the 1950's.:-) Of course an old radio would only play old music...
The sound quality of the little four-inch paper speaker is nothing, compared to, well, just about anything you could buy now. Any "warm sound" offered by the tubes in the radio or the record spinning at the radio station that night was no doubt obliterated by being broadcast over AM radio, but I will tell you this: Billie Holiday never sounded better than she did that night.
What I miss about vinyl is the ritual surrounding it.
There's this whole process of "playing a record" that simply doesn't happen when playing a digital file. There's the special way of opening the cover and sliding the platter out into trained fingers that touch only the edges of the disk, the optional puff of air to dislodge any dust from the surface and the trained flip or two to choose a side before carefully placing a tiny diamond in the first groove to release the sound.
A record, too, has a limited number of plays, I'd guess--a couple hundred at best? very time you play an album for friends, you're sharing one of those limited plays. When I used to have a collection of Jazz records, there were a few very pristine original pressings I had that each play was like opening a good bottle of old wine.
There is a very real, very human need for ritual in life, be it religious sacraments, a tea ceremony, playing a record or even the way some people barbecue or fill a bong. It's a way of making a situation more significant and feeling some continuity with the past.
You might want to point out to management that HR is opening up a security risk to the company by requiring that you use software that opens up numerous security holes.
In effect, it's not much different than if they required you to rent a spare room in your house to a crack-addicted violent sex offender. Sure, IE gets "patched" now and then, but crack-addicted violent sex offenders do stints in rehab, too. Doesn't mean I want them around in between...
I live in Japan and when we bought our apartment, they installed a new toilet and Toto washlet. I thought it a bit over the top at first, but now would miss it if I had to go back to a featureless seat.
When they were first introduced I think in the mid 1970's, the first commercial showed a pretty girl squirting a big blob of blue paint across her hand and then trying to wipe it clean with tissue. For maximum shock value, they ran the commercials at dinner time and though there were plenty of complaints from viewers, the mental image stuck and sales took off. There was a really good program here in Japan called "Project X" on NHK that told the whole story of the development and engineering of the things, including how the engineers had to find "shameless" women willing to be measured for adjusting the spray and such...
Another time, I saw an interview with "Kin-san" and "Gin-san" a pair of 100-plus-year-old twin sisters--they asked them what they thought was the most amazing technological advancement made during their lifetimes and they answered "heated toilet seats."
The thing is, these things are a lot cleaner. As far as bathroom hygiene goes, the more clean people are decreases the chances of things like Escherichia coli infections, Cryptosporidium infections, Giardiasis, Shigellosis and Viral gastroenteritis. Not just you, but also the people who prepare your food, take care of you in the hospital, care for your children, anywhere there is human contact. Ever get a "24 hour stomach virus" or food poisoning? It's likely because someone who handled something that you ate didn't wash their hands after going "number two." In other words, you got sick because you ate their poo.
So, where you can't imagine that anyone but an unhealthy, lazy slob might want one of these, perhaps it's just a matter of different priorities?
What is a PDA? What is a UMPC? Do we measure their capabilities, or their size, or what? And if you build a PDA in terms of size and capability, but it also is a phone, what do you call it? "Smartphone" seems catchy... so what if you take a UMPC form-factor and add videoconferencing or VOIP or something that makes it an oversized smartphone? Call it gigaphone or something?
I started with film and abandoned it almost 20 years ago because I never got a good working feel for all of the settings. I "went digital" with the first Quickcam when it came out in what, 1993? After that, I've had at least a dozen digital cameras ending up with my last, a D100, several years ago. I still love it and use it every couple of days. The D100 allowed me to learn photography without going broke on film.
Eventually, I had a bag full of good lenses and got myself a cheap Nikon FE film body that they fit. Now, after having learned on the D100, I waste a lot less film and I'm far happier with my shots. I do mostly B&W now and develop it all myself. After that I scan it and I then have massive digital images to work with.
Nikon can kill off their film camera business and it won't really affect me. I have seven Nikon film bodies and lenses that will last a lifetime, including a couple of Nikon F bodies that I doubt I could ever wear out.
The thing is, once you figure out how light works and learn how to really operate your camera manually, not only will your pictures be better, you'll be far less dependent upon the "features" they add to cameras.
Here's a shameless plug for the "Full Manual" group I created on Flickr. (Applies to both digital and film.) http://www.flickr.com/groups/manual/
You obviously have not spent much time in China. Not only are pirated movies everywhere but so is pirated music and software. Maybe where you were "encouraged" to go in Beijing you didn't see it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
About 2 weeks, so, yeah, not a lot. Nobody "encouraged" me to go anywhere, except to buy overpriced tea. I rented a bicycle and went wherever I felt like going. I did see lots of bootleg stuff (watches, bags, sunglasses, etc) being sold, just not much digital media of any kind, though I did poke through a very legitimate media store on Wanfujing - nothing seemed to be pirated there.
In most Chinese cities, it is very difficult to find legitimate software, music or movies.
Again, I can only speak for what I saw of Beijing, but I don't think you'd really have much trouble, unless you're commenting on the lack of localized software and subtitled movies, but I don't think that's got anything to do with piracy, as Tokyo has the same availability problems for legitimate media, though there is virtually no "retail piracy" where you can go to an area and buy bootleg discs.
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Just ban the goddamn kids from the Internet and be done with it.
Why is it that legislators think the Internet is some sort of kid-safe version of television?
Whenever some congressperson starts talking this way, read it as "I neither use, nor understand, The Internet."
Either that, or ban Americans from the internet and Nationalize AOL...
Bit Torrent still works. It's completely cross-platform, too.
(When I said "Don't worry," I was saying that to the customers. WalMart should worry.)
Actually, I am quite intrigued by these fake files! How fascinating--I want to see some!
Let me say here and now that at some point in the next few months, I may just go and look for one of them!
...if they could do the same thing without the whole "killing" part?
I read something about how wonderful the advancements in prosthetics the past few years have been. I even saw a kid of 20 or 22 at the airport carrying a big green duffle bag unassisted, though he had artificial legs and a prosthetic arm and the unmistakable look of a soldier.
Just spend the money. Declare it to be a National Technological Development Something-or-other and so and spend the money on research that doesn't come at such a high cost.
Honestly, that shit is heartbreaking.
Fortunately, with Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and the forthcoming VMWare Fusion, new Mac users are feeling increasingly comfortable with Mac purchases, because they know that they can run Windows if they really need to, but often find they don't need it as much as they thought they did.
Yep, Windows is the new Classic.
After a week, you'll figure out a way not to need it.
Shhh...
What happened in Canada is exactly what could happen here.
They started charging a pirate tax on media, so some clever people figured out that as long as they were paying the tax and being branded a pirate, that gave them a legal right to download. The courts apparently agreed.
Amazing that the idiot proposing this doesn't know it.
Why are these machines connected to the Internet?
If they are insecure, sandbox them or cut them off completely.
If they need some kind of network access, use a whole shitload of proxies and firewalls and a carefully-monitored snort install and babysit the hell out of it until they can be secured.
No, forget that. Get them off the net completely.
Where is this place of which you speak?
Thanks!
I've been spending the last year photographing Kabukicho at night and I must say I am very impressed with the street shots.
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I could tell exactly where the second and third were shot from. The detail is very good and most importantly, the scale is right.
Take a look at this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimoconnell/17363985
or the whole set, if you're interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimoconnell/sets/721
I may have to buy my first console and game to check this out.
That means I've been using Mac as my workstations for more than five years.
Glad to see that some people are having success with XP, but it's the same way I'd be glad to hear that an insane crack-whore ex-girlfriend is doing well these days. Not exactly ready to re-ignite the relationship just yet...
About fifteen years ago I bought a wonderful little tube radio. Not a McIntosh amp or anything, it was a little and toaster-shaped Fada tabletop radio that I found for $10 at a junk shop and set out to get working again. I spent a bit of time cleaning it, scrounging for working tubes and replacing the old sparky power plug.
:-) Of course an old radio would only play old music...
Late one night, around two in the morning, it came to life.
I heard first a crackle of static, then the sound of Billie Holiday, singing "The Blues are Brewin'."
My first thought was that somehow the song had gotten stuck inside the old radio some time in the 1950's.
The sound quality of the little four-inch paper speaker is nothing, compared to, well, just about anything you could buy now. Any "warm sound" offered by the tubes in the radio or the record spinning at the radio station that night was no doubt obliterated by being broadcast over AM radio, but I will tell you this: Billie Holiday never sounded better than she did that night.
What I miss about vinyl is the ritual surrounding it.
There's this whole process of "playing a record" that simply doesn't happen when playing a digital file. There's the special way of opening the cover and sliding the platter out into trained fingers that touch only the edges of the disk, the optional puff of air to dislodge any dust from the surface and the trained flip or two to choose a side before carefully placing a tiny diamond in the first groove to release the sound.
A record, too, has a limited number of plays, I'd guess--a couple hundred at best? very time you play an album for friends, you're sharing one of those limited plays. When I used to have a collection of Jazz records, there were a few very pristine original pressings I had that each play was like opening a good bottle of old wine.
There is a very real, very human need for ritual in life, be it religious sacraments, a tea ceremony, playing a record or even the way some people barbecue or fill a bong. It's a way of making a situation more significant and feeling some continuity with the past.
iTunes just can't compete with that experience.
You might want to point out to management that HR is opening up a security risk to the company by requiring that you use software that opens up numerous security holes.
In effect, it's not much different than if they required you to rent a spare room in your house to a crack-addicted violent sex offender.
Sure, IE gets "patched" now and then, but crack-addicted violent sex offenders do stints in rehab, too. Doesn't mean I want them around in between...
Yes, you may quote me on that.
That's when the low-paid lunar coders will sleep...
What you really want to worry about are the Solar Eclipses of the Moon, when the Sun passes between the Earth and the Moon...
I live in Japan and when we bought our apartment, they installed a new toilet and Toto washlet. I thought it a bit over the top at first, but now would miss it if I had to go back to a featureless seat.
When they were first introduced I think in the mid 1970's, the first commercial showed a pretty girl squirting a big blob of blue paint across her hand and then trying to wipe it clean with tissue. For maximum shock value, they ran the commercials at dinner time and though there were plenty of complaints from viewers, the mental image stuck and sales took off. There was a really good program here in Japan called "Project X" on NHK that told the whole story of the development and engineering of the things, including how the engineers had to find "shameless" women willing to be measured for adjusting the spray and such...
Another time, I saw an interview with "Kin-san" and "Gin-san" a pair of 100-plus-year-old twin sisters--they asked them what they thought was the most amazing technological advancement made during their lifetimes and they answered "heated toilet seats."
The thing is, these things are a lot cleaner. As far as bathroom hygiene goes, the more clean people are decreases the chances of things like Escherichia coli infections, Cryptosporidium infections, Giardiasis, Shigellosis and Viral gastroenteritis. Not just you, but also the people who prepare your food, take care of you in the hospital, care for your children, anywhere there is human contact. Ever get a "24 hour stomach virus" or food poisoning? It's likely because someone who handled something that you ate didn't wash their hands after going "number two." In other words, you got sick because you ate their poo.
So, where you can't imagine that anyone but an unhealthy, lazy slob might want one of these, perhaps it's just a matter of different priorities?
Jesus. Do you have to give these sick bastards new ideas?
...as soon as someone writes it.
Probably in a couple of weeks.
"Microsoft is considering a massive extension of RSS. "
Let me guess, this will be a new Windows-only binary format that will have the ability to execute code.
Dear Microsoft,
Please keep in mind that that middle "S" stands for "simple".
What is a PDA? What is a UMPC? Do we measure their capabilities, or their size, or what? And if you build a PDA in terms of size and capability, but it also is a phone, what do you call it? "Smartphone" seems catchy... so what if you take a UMPC form-factor and add videoconferencing or VOIP or something that makes it an oversized smartphone? Call it gigaphone or something?
"Tricorder," perhaps?
In my Moller SkyCar...
Do they compile statistics for "best hitter convicted of a DUI"?
What about "Drug of choice for a Hall of Famer?"
Maybe the most interesting ones would be "Most hits and runs by a player convicted of hit-and-run..."
This stuff makes me despise sports even more than I do now.
I started with film and abandoned it almost 20 years ago because I never got a good working feel for all of the settings. I "went digital" with the first Quickcam when it came out in what, 1993? After that, I've had at least a dozen digital cameras ending up with my last, a D100, several years ago. I still love it and use it every couple of days. The D100 allowed me to learn photography without going broke on film.
Eventually, I had a bag full of good lenses and got myself a cheap Nikon FE film body that they fit. Now, after having learned on the D100, I waste a lot less film and I'm far happier with my shots. I do mostly B&W now and develop it all myself. After that I scan it and I then have massive digital images to work with.
Nikon can kill off their film camera business and it won't really affect me. I have seven Nikon film bodies and lenses that will last a lifetime, including a couple of Nikon F bodies that I doubt I could ever wear out.
The thing is, once you figure out how light works and learn how to really operate your camera manually, not only will your pictures be better, you'll be far less dependent upon the "features" they add to cameras.
Here's a shameless plug for the "Full Manual" group I created on Flickr. (Applies to both digital and film.)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/manual/
Jim
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You obviously have not spent much time in China. Not only are pirated movies everywhere but so is pirated music and software. Maybe where you were "encouraged" to go in Beijing you didn't see it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
About 2 weeks, so, yeah, not a lot.
Nobody "encouraged" me to go anywhere, except to buy overpriced tea.
I rented a bicycle and went wherever I felt like going. I did see lots of bootleg stuff (watches, bags, sunglasses, etc) being sold, just not much digital media of any kind, though I did poke through a very legitimate media store on Wanfujing - nothing seemed to be pirated there.
In most Chinese cities, it is very difficult to find legitimate software, music or movies.
Again, I can only speak for what I saw of Beijing, but I don't think you'd really have much trouble, unless you're commenting on the lack of localized software and subtitled movies, but I don't think that's got anything to do with piracy, as Tokyo has the same availability problems for legitimate media, though there is virtually no "retail piracy" where you can go to an area and buy bootleg discs.