Music videos back in the day were freebies to promote tapes and CDs. Someone belatedly figured we'd pay for compilations and started going retail.
YouTube will argue for 80s pricing and RIAA will argue for 2000s pricing.
As great as videos were in their heyday (the 80s) today's kids will think they're about as exciting as watching bank surveillance videos compared to the bombast that's on now.
"The belief system that explains observations initially is used to filter observations later. "
Hoo-ray for empiricism! Which as Hume pointed out is circular reasoning. It does keep one from getting hit by buses, and is the driving force behind the alarm clock industry. So it's not a total waste, nevermind the nasty philosophical bit.
I was under that recall - it went fine. I'm on my 5th Apple notebook (Duo, 1400, 1400, iBookG3, iBookG4, 9 adapters total) and have had exactly one problem - a recall on the spare black brick adapter for a 1400 that got me a yo-yo style that works to this day with the Madsonline gap adapter. Even my Duo duck-head adapter still powers my iBook in the same fashion.
Dell has a $485 laptop. With a 1.6 Celeron. And a 4-cell battery. And XP Home. Will ship ten days from now. Please. No one here would tolerate this machine for more than three days. No one here would recommend it for anyone they don't want to hear from a week later and every week after that.
H. P. Hood is a beloved ages old dairy company that started outside Boston. They had giant milk bottle ice cream stands, one stood outside the old Computer Museum on Congress St. No slight intended concerning ethnic neighborhoods.
I'll shortcut it for you and let you know that like I did, you should shortly be getting a barrage of messages from/.-ers letting you, silly boy, know that Firefly / Serenity wasn't science fiction, it was a really just a western with rockets. (And don't bother suggesting TOS was a cruise night with phasers - you'll get nowhere.)
So these guys take a third party USB wireless card, on a MacBook of unknown status, connecting to a specially scripted AP, and get owner privileges.
Cuz this happens any time you use a Mac.
Oh, and thanks guys for the admonition about proper testing. We'll have to write that one down. And for pointing out that wireless means there are no wires and you can sit in other chairs.
There's an argument for some sort of flagging system in wikipedia that would differentiate between fact, fiction, speculation, opinion, etc. For instance, look up something like "Jedi".
First, there's no disambiguation - since JEDI is also an acronym for the Joint Expeditionary Digital Information system and for the Joint Enterprise DoDIIS Infrastructure you would think that there's be mention of something besides the fiction. According to Wikipedia, the only Jedi is the fake one.
Second, sometime after the first reference to fictional characters, the article goes into full authoritative mode with passages like "The Force is an incorporeal energy field that is generated by all living organisms and permeates the universe and all things within." If you skimmed over that whole fictional reference, you're in trouble. That section ends with "This life-force is known in China as qi or chi; in India, prana and in Japan as Ki. A belief in a life-force is most commonly seen in the East, practised by Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists, and Hindus." Terrific. A billion or so people just got told that their beliefs are equated with George Lucas' fantasies.
This is also part of a larger problem with the inability of a (larger than you'd hope) portion of the general public to distinguish between fact and fiction. I teach science. For nearly a school year, back in 1986, nearly every lesson on biology that mentioned the brain brought up a question about this brain transplant that they saw on TV and it was so cool - how did they do that? This all came from one fictional made-for-tv movie about a brain transplant called "Who Is Julia?" I got more questions about that than I did about the real events that same year at Chernobyl.
Third, as a reflection of our culture, it's way out of whack with what we hold important. The Jedi entry prints out at 17 pages. Stephen Hawking's is 6.
I took two years of French, then two of Spanish, then two of Latin, one of Italian and another year of Spanish. I can say "window" four ways, but I can't remember which is which language.
Steve's company already does motion capture (MOVA) this gets closer to getting faces right - as good as the body mocap was in Polar, convincingly accurate expression on the faces were sorely missing - this gets you closer to capturing faces and getting a more complete model accurate to motion. If you watch the most recent Robota trailer, they even went to video on the female character to keep it as realistic as possible for the trailer. It can be seen as an attempt at a leap across the uncanny valley.
um, i meant switch as in network switch (which would be a lot of valves), and the men covered in blue refers to the Blue Man Group - performance artists who make amazing things from simple PVC pipe.
Ever since he gave away our state secret about using big tubes to move information, the PVC market has gone nuts. Do you have any idea how much schedule 40 pipe it takes to get those calls to India and back? Never mind how much the techs charge for setting up tube switches - three guys covered in blue paint don't come cheap, you know.
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My 1-acre plot on the moon will then be planetary property - worth MUCH more!
Now all I have to do is get four little green houses up there...
Someone at the FTC, FCC and BSA has to check for alt.2600 postings and such...?
Music videos back in the day were freebies to promote tapes and CDs.
Someone belatedly figured we'd pay for compilations and started going retail.
YouTube will argue for 80s pricing and RIAA will argue for 2000s pricing.
As great as videos were in their heyday (the 80s) today's kids will think they're about as exciting as watching bank surveillance videos compared to the bombast that's on now.
A. and I thought my rants were trivialities foisted on an unsuspecting public, and
2. so go spec one, have a mess made in Taiwan, see how they sell.
Rather than demand this, build the better mousetrap, market the hell out of it and see what happens!
Plus there's already something called a pluton made of rock - it's a 'floater' in that solidifies before the rest of the molten rock.
Somebody get these people a Disneyland and get this out of their system!
(guess they don't get to Hong Kong much...)
OK - but every model only approaches reality - who were the beta testers?
"The belief system that explains observations initially is used to filter observations later. "
Hoo-ray for empiricism! Which as Hume pointed out is circular reasoning.
It does keep one from getting hit by buses, and is the driving force behind the alarm clock industry.
So it's not a total waste, nevermind the nasty philosophical bit.
In our closet^H^H^H^H^H^H new museum.
I was under that recall - it went fine. I'm on my 5th Apple notebook (Duo, 1400, 1400, iBookG3, iBookG4, 9 adapters total) and have had exactly one problem - a recall on the spare black brick adapter for a 1400 that got me a yo-yo style that works to this day with the Madsonline gap adapter. Even my Duo duck-head adapter still powers my iBook in the same fashion.
Dell has a $485 laptop. With a 1.6 Celeron. And a 4-cell battery. And XP Home. Will ship ten days from now.
Please.
No one here would tolerate this machine for more than three days.
No one here would recommend it for anyone they don't want to hear from a week later and every week after that.
H. P. Hood is a beloved ages old dairy company that started outside Boston.
They had giant milk bottle ice cream stands, one stood outside the old Computer Museum on Congress St.
No slight intended concerning ethnic neighborhoods.
Steve's finally delegating.
Apple's showing the developers what matters to them.
Run for your lives!
OK - let's see the rush of support for Apple that's roughly equal to the bashing they took when Intel XNU source went dark.
I'll shortcut it for you and let you know that like I did, you should shortly be getting a barrage of messages from /.-ers letting you, silly boy, know that Firefly / Serenity wasn't science fiction, it was a really just a western with rockets. (And don't bother suggesting TOS was a cruise night with phasers - you'll get nowhere.)
So these guys take a third party USB wireless card,
on a MacBook of unknown status,
connecting to a specially scripted AP,
and get owner privileges.
Cuz this happens any time you use a Mac.
Oh, and thanks guys for the admonition about proper testing. We'll have to write that one down.
And for pointing out that wireless means there are no wires and you can sit in other chairs.
There's an argument for some sort of flagging system in wikipedia that would differentiate between fact, fiction, speculation, opinion, etc. For instance, look up something like "Jedi".
First, there's no disambiguation - since JEDI is also an acronym for the Joint Expeditionary Digital Information system and for the Joint Enterprise DoDIIS Infrastructure you would think that there's be mention of something besides the fiction. According to Wikipedia, the only Jedi is the fake one.
Second, sometime after the first reference to fictional characters, the article goes into full authoritative mode with passages like "The Force is an incorporeal energy field that is generated by all living organisms and permeates the universe and all things within." If you skimmed over that whole fictional reference, you're in trouble. That section ends with "This life-force is known in China as qi or chi; in India, prana and in Japan as Ki. A belief in a life-force is most commonly seen in the East, practised by Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists, and Hindus." Terrific. A billion or so people just got told that their beliefs are equated with George Lucas' fantasies.
This is also part of a larger problem with the inability of a (larger than you'd hope) portion of the general public to distinguish between fact and fiction. I teach science. For nearly a school year, back in 1986, nearly every lesson on biology that mentioned the brain brought up a question about this brain transplant that they saw on TV and it was so cool - how did they do that? This all came from one fictional made-for-tv movie about a brain transplant called "Who Is Julia?" I got more questions about that than I did about the real events that same year at Chernobyl.
Third, as a reflection of our culture, it's way out of whack with what we hold important.
The Jedi entry prints out at 17 pages.
Stephen Hawking's is 6.
I took two years of French, then two of Spanish, then two of Latin, one of Italian and another year of Spanish.
I can say "window" four ways, but I can't remember which is which language.
"je ne sais qua"
we would have known what you meant. Most of us are multilingual with *spoken* lanugages, too.
How much more elucidation is needed? Didn't we see all but a couple (and and the infants) slaughtered in about a long lunch break's time?
Steve's company already does motion capture (MOVA) this gets closer to getting faces right - as good as the body mocap was in Polar, convincingly accurate expression on the faces were sorely missing - this gets you closer to capturing faces and getting a more complete model accurate to motion. If you watch the most recent Robota trailer, they even went to video on the female character to keep it as realistic as possible for the trailer. It can be seen as an attempt at a leap across the uncanny valley.
the piano smasher is actually a midi device - the piano goes out of tune within minutes of hitting it...
um, i meant switch as in network switch (which would be a lot of valves), and the men covered in blue refers to the Blue Man Group - performance artists who make amazing things from simple PVC pipe.
Ever since he gave away our state secret about using big tubes to move information, the PVC market has gone nuts.
Do you have any idea how much schedule 40 pipe it takes to get those calls to India and back?
Never mind how much the techs charge for setting up tube switches - three guys covered in blue paint don't come cheap, you know.
... with the animated smoke pouring from the phillryu server mounted on the desktop.
Oh, that's *real*?
Oops.