it's easier to obtain from iTunes rather than hunting down files on news or torrent.
but does iTunes actually have anything in their library worth buying? every time i look stuff up it's not found, or just a compilation. even artists like rolling stones, the pogues, radiohead, etc. have pretty much zero presence there. a parody, some live albums, is all.
i wonder if the same will happen with the video content. it seems like the artists who sell their soul^H^H^H^Hstuff on iTunes need the extra outlet, in general. i'm expecting the same crappy quality of video content via these channels. the good content stills sells itself through normal channels quite well.
whenever microsoft makes an announcement that something is not a threat to their business, you know that it is, otherwise why bother making such an announcement?
reminds me of what they were saying about the web in 1995. and linux for the last 6 years.
in fact, a friend of mine just took a job at MS to work in their "why MS OS'es are better than linux" group.
here's what i posted to a closed list on may 8th, 1999:
"I was in the Potrero Safeway last night getting shit for the house and I saw the big spaghettios Star Wars display near the bread. Impressive and menacing. Very menacing. I walked around the corner and saw Star Wars ice cream from Dreyer's. In the candy isle they have all sorts of Star Wars candy. I was walking by the Pepsi machine and someone just bought a pepsi with some face on it. I asked if I could look closer, it was Liam, and the can was a Star Wars "Collector's Edition" Pepsi can.
Everywhere I fucking turn, I see this Star Wars shit. Star Wars Lego sets, Star Wars shoes, Star Wars kitchen items, Star Wars fucking toothpaste (I haven't made anything up yet!!!). But that can of Pepsi, the "Collector's Edition", that put me over the edge. I know I know, you're rolling your eyes and saying "get used to it" but don't you understand??? STAR WARS KITCHEN ITEMS???
I am hereby boycotting The Phantom Menace. I will not see it. I refuse to see it. Who's with me!?!?! CHARGE!!!!!!
For some reason I feel like Opus, standing in the middle of "the meadow" pointing my finger into the sky and screaming at the insanity of the world in one frame, and then sitting dejected and alone, sniffing a dandelion in another. 'Cause no one is listening. No one could POSSIBLY be listening. The world has been hypnotized. The Phantom Menace isn't just a title, it is that evil which has made us all believe that there are no excuses, THIS MOVIE MUST BE SEEN!!! Everyone MUST see this movie or society will shun them, nay, excommunicate them! I believe now that I have been blessed with a tremendous vision! I just realized that fuck, I DON'T have to see it afterall!!!! What a relief! My god, I really thought that it was my DUTY to see it, but no longer!!! Hahahahahaa!!!! I'm free! I'm going to watch the Bicycle Thief! I'm going to watch Citizen Kane! I'm going to fucking watch 2001! Over and over and over, until this trilogy, oh and a very evil and diabolical trilogy it is, is over. See you in a few years.
Okay, I know all you drone heads will see it anyway, but at least do me one huge favour:
Don't tell me about it. Don't rave to me about it. I know it's probably going to be good, but I'm NOT. GOING. TO SEE IT. Don't be surprised if I clock you the moment you start telling me about the wonderful special effects or the amazing soap like plot twists or how angry you are that the fucking Ewoks made a cameo appearance. I REFUSE TO CARE!
My fucking god, what time is it? The sun is rising! I gotta go play some Team Fortress Classic before the wife wakes up.
IANAL but I believe public places with surveilance cameras need to post signs that warn people of the fact that they may be on video. "This are is being monitored by surveilance equipment" etc.
I tend to stick to online stuff lately, and with laptops and wifi and i can sit on the can (the customery place to read magazines) and read slashdot/wired/crash.net/alwayson etc. via my RSS aggregator.
The only printed magazine I currently subscribe to is Aperture.
My wife subscribes to New Yorker and I read that sometimes too. Mostly for the comics.
But really, printed material is usually 1 or more months out of date and i've already read about all that stuff in some online version by the time it gets in my hands. Not to mention online is almost invariably free.
"1. On Win (which I must still use sometimes), ffox is the slowest of the 3 (especially re-draw), even though I'm always on the latest release.
Well, not having used Firefox, I don't know. But I find it hard to believe anything could be slower than IE in my experiance. 40+ seconds(on dial up true) to load a page that takes 11 seconds in Opera. Pathetic."
With FFox, it's not the redraw of the page. it's the entire interface that's slow on Windows. navigating FFox menus is slower than navigating ILayer based web page menus in IE. i'm serious. i tried REALLY hard to like Mozilla/Firefox but they just plain suck on Windows. Opera is amazing, but there's way too much stuff that doesn't work in it that i need every day (like NTLM authentication).
i was quite stunned at the EPA variance on my ducati 916. the literature says 45mpg, but i'm lucky to get 30mpg on a typical commute day. but then when i go on longer, less aggressive trips i've seen my mileage go up to 50mpg. that's a massive difference just based on the type of riding i do.
I wonder how they're going to take care of bridge breakdowns or worse... accidents. It not only looks tall, but long. one breakdown/accident and not only are you stuck, you're stuck and you can't get off. ambulances are gonna have a tough time getting through. etc.
but hey, you know what? this goes pretty well with a recent story.
oh, i totally agree with this and the rest of your post.
i should have said the perceived cost of ownership of windows machines... after all, everyone thinks they know enough to admin one so why pay some smart guy a big salary when you can hire an MSCE instead...
Go to your network connection properties, click the advanced tab, and check the box for internet connection firewall.
Bam. How's that for firewall configuration?
considering that most viruses come in onboard emails or via exploits in IIS (port 80 is likely to be open on your firewall) i don't see how the firewall helps.
ppl seem to think that having a firewall up means you can't get owned. that's simply nonsense. in fact it's scary to think that there are sysadmins out there who install a firewall and think they're done securing their system...
A smile crept across my face after reading this story and then noticing a microsoft ad underneath informing the reader that Windows Server cost of ownership is lower than Linux cost of ownership!
i realize you were mostly joking, but the fact is windows server cost of ownership IS lower because you don't need a smart person to run it. and since current viruses are not true malware, the fact that the machine is infected doesn't even matter to the cheap contractor admin "running" the box. as someone mentioned in another story's comment, it's time to make some REAL malware and wake these ijits up.
i've played a ton of games that basically have the following story line:
you're a [tough dude|hot chick] taking on thousands of enemies with innovative AI. along the way you get help from a [hot chick|tough dude]. high school [dialogue|relationship] follows. at one point you're stripped of all your weapons, thrown into a [pit|prison] and have to fight your way out with just your [fists|crowbar|good looks]. you get better weapons. your press buttons that open doors. finally you meet the boss and kill him. you win!
throw in a bunch of eye candy and you've got yourself a winner!
Yes, it can. I have never heard this criticism before and I can think of nothing that would explain it.
Interesting. i hear it all the time. CCDs in consumer cameras are not that good with shadow. you start seeing noise where the software starts to guess at the actual tones.
People often have preferences for film based specifically on the nature of their color "infidelity" and perhaps this explains your issue.
very true. i still woe the day Agfa discontinued Ultra 50, a ridiculously saturated film.
Regarding ADC resolution, most are 10-12 bits
i think we're getting there, was just making a point that a lot of those bits are not being used.
Unlike film, DSLR's have no grain and many believe their images are superior for that very reason.
right. which is very nice for product shots and family photos, the 98% of the market. some of us, however, LIKE grain... i mean, we can do much smoother "paintings" using digital drawing programs but people still prefer to paint using the old fashioned method.
the only superiority of the images is in their technical specifications, in my opinion. visually is means nothing.
ya, i'm aware of grain aliasing. i didn't say it picks up individual grains. but the grain does start to appear and a purely digital images don't get that effect.
my scanner is a nikon ls-2000 so it has ICE but no GEM, which is a shame. i heard GEM is very cool technology. and it's supposedly software only (ICE uses infrared to detect scratches and dust) so someone should just hack the ls-4000 software to work with the ls-2000... oops, did i think that out loud?
just to be clear. i'm talking about equipment that a non-pro can actually afford. there's certainly equipment out there that can out-perform film already, but it's still out there in the tens of thousands of dollars dept.
and to me it's still more than just performance. there's a very simple thing that i love about film. the wonder and surprise you get from playing with the chemical recipes, printing, etc. call me a ludite but i prefer that to working with photoshop. it feels more real.
i'm sure my children will call me a freak.
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The hottest selling point and click was the Olypus Stylus - a 35mm Camera.
and rightly so. it is by far the best value in small film cameras. the is no other pocket size camera (aside from $1000+ rollei or leicas) that has a 2.8f lens and that can focus in COMPLETE darkness. not to mention having pro/amateur features like half shutter to pre-focus, reframe, release.
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it's easier to obtain from iTunes rather than hunting down files on news or torrent.
but does iTunes actually have anything in their library worth buying? every time i look stuff up it's not found, or just a compilation. even artists like rolling stones, the pogues, radiohead, etc. have pretty much zero presence there. a parody, some live albums, is all.
i wonder if the same will happen with the video content. it seems like the artists who sell their soul^H^H^H^Hstuff on iTunes need the extra outlet, in general. i'm expecting the same crappy quality of video content via these channels. the good content stills sells itself through normal channels quite well.
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"i'd like a #4 with coke, a happy meal, and 2 Googlishes. Overclock please"
and then of course weight watchers & atkins for computers.
make sure you don't doodle on the walls of your cave now...
whenever microsoft makes an announcement that something is not a threat to their business, you know that it is, otherwise why bother making such an announcement?
reminds me of what they were saying about the web in 1995. and linux for the last 6 years.
in fact, a friend of mine just took a job at MS to work in their "why MS OS'es are better than linux" group.
COUNTER-TERRORISTS WIN!
and now a word from our sponsor...
i still haven't seen any of the prequels.
... different. "
here's what i posted to a closed list on may 8th, 1999:
"I was in the Potrero Safeway last night getting shit for the house and I saw the big spaghettios Star Wars display near the bread. Impressive and menacing. Very menacing. I walked around the corner and saw Star Wars ice cream from Dreyer's. In the candy isle they have all sorts of Star Wars candy. I was walking by the Pepsi machine and someone just bought a pepsi with some face on it. I asked if I could look closer, it was Liam, and the can was a Star Wars "Collector's Edition" Pepsi can.
Everywhere I fucking turn, I see this Star Wars shit. Star Wars Lego sets, Star Wars shoes, Star Wars kitchen items, Star Wars fucking toothpaste (I haven't made anything up yet!!!). But that can of Pepsi, the "Collector's Edition", that put me over the edge. I know I know, you're rolling your eyes and saying "get used to it" but don't you understand??? STAR WARS KITCHEN ITEMS???
I am hereby boycotting The Phantom Menace. I will not see it. I refuse to see it. Who's with me!?!?! CHARGE!!!!!!
For some reason I feel like Opus, standing in the middle of "the meadow" pointing my finger into the sky and screaming at the insanity of the
world in one frame, and then sitting dejected and alone, sniffing a dandelion in another. 'Cause no one is listening. No one could
POSSIBLY be listening. The world has been hypnotized. The Phantom Menace isn't just a title, it is that evil which has made us all believe that there are no excuses, THIS MOVIE MUST BE SEEN!!! Everyone MUST see this movie or society will shun them, nay, excommunicate them! I believe now that I have been blessed with a tremendous vision! I just realized that fuck, I DON'T have to see it afterall!!!! What a relief!
My god, I really thought that it was my DUTY to see it, but no longer!!! Hahahahahaa!!!! I'm free! I'm going to watch the Bicycle Thief! I'm going to watch Citizen Kane! I'm going to fucking watch 2001! Over and over and over, until this trilogy, oh and a very evil
and diabolical trilogy it is, is over. See you in a few years.
Okay, I know all you drone heads will see it anyway, but at least do me
one huge favour:
Don't tell me about it. Don't rave to me about it. I know it's probably going to be good, but I'm NOT. GOING. TO SEE IT. Don't be
surprised if I clock you the moment you start telling me about the wonderful special effects or the amazing soap like plot twists or how
angry you are that the fucking Ewoks made a cameo appearance. I REFUSE TO CARE!
My fucking god, what time is it? The sun is rising! I gotta go play some Team Fortress Classic before the wife wakes up.
~J
P.S. I feel
i've only been saying this for around a decade (proof of at least three years :/)
so did Stalin.
yeah, i've posted requesting NTLM on the forums at least a year ago.
IANAL but I believe public places with surveilance cameras need to post signs that warn people of the fact that they may be on video. "This are is being monitored by surveilance equipment" etc.
wonder how long before theatres get those...
I tend to stick to online stuff lately, and with laptops and wifi and i can sit on the can (the customery place to read magazines) and read slashdot/wired/crash.net/alwayson etc. via my RSS aggregator.
The only printed magazine I currently subscribe to is Aperture.
My wife subscribes to New Yorker and I read that sometimes too. Mostly for the comics.
But really, printed material is usually 1 or more months out of date and i've already read about all that stuff in some online version by the time it gets in my hands. Not to mention online is almost invariably free.
"1. On Win (which I must still use sometimes), ffox is the slowest of the 3 (especially re-draw), even though I'm always on the latest release.
Well, not having used Firefox, I don't know. But I find it hard to believe anything could be slower than IE in my experiance. 40+ seconds(on dial up true) to load a page that takes 11 seconds in Opera. Pathetic."
With FFox, it's not the redraw of the page. it's the entire interface that's slow on Windows. navigating FFox menus is slower than navigating ILayer based web page menus in IE. i'm serious. i tried REALLY hard to like Mozilla/Firefox but they just plain suck on Windows. Opera is amazing, but there's way too much stuff that doesn't work in it that i need every day (like NTLM authentication).
i was quite stunned at the EPA variance on my ducati 916. the literature says 45mpg, but i'm lucky to get 30mpg on a typical commute day. but then when i go on longer, less aggressive trips i've seen my mileage go up to 50mpg. that's a massive difference just based on the type of riding i do.
I wonder how they're going to take care of bridge breakdowns or worse... accidents. It not only looks tall, but long. one breakdown/accident and not only are you stuck, you're stuck and you can't get off. ambulances are gonna have a tough time getting through. etc.
but hey, you know what? this goes pretty well with a recent story.
SETI is bunk. do something useful with your free CPU cycles instead.
was it a white hat or a black hat?
Cost of ownership is quite a relative term IMO.
oh, i totally agree with this and the rest of your post.
i should have said the perceived cost of ownership of windows machines... after all, everyone thinks they know enough to admin one so why pay some smart guy a big salary when you can hire an MSCE instead...
Go to your network connection properties, click the advanced tab, and check the box for internet connection firewall.
Bam. How's that for firewall configuration?
considering that most viruses come in onboard emails or via exploits in IIS (port 80 is likely to be open on your firewall) i don't see how the firewall helps.
ppl seem to think that having a firewall up means you can't get owned. that's simply nonsense. in fact it's scary to think that there are sysadmins out there who install a firewall and think they're done securing their system...
A smile crept across my face after reading this story and then noticing a microsoft ad underneath informing the reader that Windows Server cost of ownership is lower than Linux cost of ownership!
i realize you were mostly joking, but the fact is windows server cost of ownership IS lower because you don't need a smart person to run it. and since current viruses are not true malware, the fact that the machine is infected doesn't even matter to the cheap contractor admin "running" the box. as someone mentioned in another story's comment, it's time to make some REAL malware and wake these ijits up.
i've played a ton of games that basically have the following story line:
you're a [tough dude|hot chick] taking on thousands of enemies with innovative AI. along the way you get help from a [hot chick|tough dude]. high school [dialogue|relationship] follows. at one point you're stripped of all your weapons, thrown into a [pit|prison] and have to fight your way out with just your [fists|crowbar|good looks]. you get better weapons. your press buttons that open doors. finally you meet the boss and kill him. you win!
throw in a bunch of eye candy and you've got yourself a winner!
Yes, it can. I have never heard this criticism before and I can think of nothing that would explain it.
Interesting. i hear it all the time. CCDs in consumer cameras are not that good with shadow. you start seeing noise where the software starts to guess at the actual tones.
People often have preferences for film based specifically on the nature of their color "infidelity" and perhaps this explains your issue.
very true. i still woe the day Agfa discontinued Ultra 50, a ridiculously saturated film.
Regarding ADC resolution, most are 10-12 bits
i think we're getting there, was just making a point that a lot of those bits are not being used.
Unlike film, DSLR's have no grain and many believe their images are superior for that very reason.
right. which is very nice for product shots and family photos, the 98% of the market. some of us, however, LIKE grain... i mean, we can do much smoother "paintings" using digital drawing programs but people still prefer to paint using the old fashioned method.
the only superiority of the images is in their technical specifications, in my opinion. visually is means nothing.
you've never used TMAX3200 then :)
ya, i'm aware of grain aliasing. i didn't say it picks up individual grains. but the grain does start to appear and a purely digital images don't get that effect.
my scanner is a nikon ls-2000 so it has ICE but no GEM, which is a shame. i heard GEM is very cool technology. and it's supposedly software only (ICE uses infrared to detect scratches and dust) so someone should just hack the ls-4000 software to work with the ls-2000... oops, did i think that out loud?
just to be clear. i'm talking about equipment that a non-pro can actually afford. there's certainly equipment out there that can out-perform film already, but it's still out there in the tens of thousands of dollars dept.
and to me it's still more than just performance. there's a very simple thing that i love about film. the wonder and surprise you get from playing with the chemical recipes, printing, etc. call me a ludite but i prefer that to working with photoshop. it feels more real.
i'm sure my children will call me a freak.
The hottest selling point and click was the Olypus Stylus - a 35mm Camera.
and rightly so. it is by far the best value in small film cameras. the is no other pocket size camera (aside from $1000+ rollei or leicas) that has a 2.8f lens and that can focus in COMPLETE darkness. not to mention having pro/amateur features like half shutter to pre-focus, reframe, release.
fantastic camera.