FCC Unregulated does not mean anyone can at will do anything they want under any conditions in any location. The students enter into a contract to use the campus. This college bans student WiFi APs. My college banned frisbee playing on the quad. My elem school bans cell phones for students. Your school could ban left handed wall stretchers for all it wants. It's a private contract. Sign or don't sign or work for change.
I'm old enough to have seen them all in their original theatrical releases. I think this was a great series of movies, and even enjoy the 'prequels' so far. I enjoy these films. I put Phantom Menace in the DVD player last month to torture test my reassembled home theater system, and we all couldn't resist - just had to plunk down on the couch and watch the whole thing. I own a select library of DVDs - but I have everything Star Wars (and everything Coen Bros - when you're good, you're good.).
I think his only terrible mistake so far is Hayden Christensen - he's so amateur he must be rubbing off on Natalie Portman (given her otherwise amazing performances in Professional, Anywhere, etc.) because she's way under her game for too long in these films.
Having said that, it's an artist's right to modify his work. Some famously - Michaleangelo later chiseled his name across the Pieta (pissed because viewers atrributed it to other artists), Van Gogh reworked the moon in Starry Night (it was nearly full, he made it a crescent) and Sargent must have ticked off Isabella Gardner - either she just finished eating or he reworked her smile... Alan Bean re-highlights aspects of his paintings when they are shot for prints...
This is not a big deal - and remember, Lucas was trying to pull off one of the biggest leapfrogs in cinema history, given that he didn't have the technology to do it all at the time. I don't begrudge him making these changes. Can he fix everything? Not in time to get this thing out the door realistically, and plain old goofs can stand. They are hardly noticed if you're watching the film as a film. Which is what this is all about - rousing stories of amazing things we don't see every day. This is escapism, not documentary, and what really counts is the action and drama.
I don't mind sounds in space, and I'm a scientist. If I heard them on NASA TV I'd take notice. Things that can be done to knit the series together are fine. Dramatic enhancements - great. Better effects - bring them on.
It'd be nice if the originals were around too, and sooner or later I'd bet they do release them, but you have to pick the low hanging fruit first, and today's audiences (and technology) demand great quality of great films.
Imagine a DVD of the remaining print of Lawrence of Arabia before they jumped thru hoops to make it work with current technology and look on the cinema as it did at its release.
glad steve put aside the purist comments about placing components with the last iMac and let them get the machine down to what was necessary.
add an airport extreme card, airport express bto bluetooth and bto the bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you have a 1-wire computer - mains power only needed to do just about anything including well amp'd external audio...
only thing i'd add would be a trackpadded keyboard option like the spartacus - one less set of batteries to worry about bluetoothing and hey it works for the laptops...
"yeah, i stole that bike but it was only a huffy and i know for a fact that mr. huffman will see about 1% percent of that sale - those bicycle producers are crooks! now let me go."
finally a sensible measurement system - "VBR"
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· Score: 4, Funny
we now have a third metric to add to the existing system of measuring everything in pop news stories in "volkswagens" and "rhodeislands" (1), we can now hit that middle mark, "boulders", though it's not so middle...
the conversions for the VBR go something like this (2):
beetle ('classic' at 160" x 60" = 9,600 sq in = 66.67 sq ft footprint boulder = 25 sq mi = 696,960,000 sq ft rhode island = 1,214 sq mi = 33,844,377,600 sq ft
which means
10,453,877 beetles in a boulder 48.56 boulders in a rhodeisland 507,640,282 beetles in a rhodeisland
which would make a hellova traffic jam (3)
(1) also haven't read the journals of irrepreoducible results / AIR for a while so this could all seem cribbed - sorry if so
(2) (check my math, it's early still)
(3) virtually no change to downtown newport in the summer however
have a decent job, buy stuff like a computer, lose that job, sidenote: call the benefits line that handles food stamps and get india on the line (as they did in Wisconsin) get a lousy job and need food stamps make $24K with 2 kids and still need food stamps (as in Santa Clara county) take any advantage they'll give you, even, yes, instructional video games
"Hell, imagine the only online store that has that obscure album you want is Real, and you have an iPod. Sucks to be you!"
You are not out of luck. Modicum of tedium involved. Burn & re-rip.
(Note to Real - make a better player/store and deal from a position of strength.)
"I hate their obsolete closed view of computers. I hate that the same business model killed Commodore, yet Apple survives. Obviously, there's no justice in the world."
Would that be: - the towards-legacy-free, drag-pc-vendors-kicking-and-screaming-into-post-19 80-peripherals view, - the creating-standards-with-quicktime-that-plays-all-m peg-formats view - the creating-standards-with-1394-that-is-universal-for -digital-video view - the there's-already-itunes-resources-for-ogg-if-anyone -offers-the-files view - the only-implementation-of-zeroconf-anyone-can-name view - or the jeez-my-computer-works view
(cue crickets)
Oh, you mean their stuff isn't really 1337^H^H^H^H linux and it's not free part?
Well, that's different.
Real, MS and Apple all have branded media players. Real could barely code a workable Mac client that took less than your installed RAM for most of their existence. All of a sudden their proprietary format is a distant third AND they cry 'foul' AND they do something expressly prohibited in every major EULA including their own?
I'll get back to you when I can work up some tears.
Last year, Lance won by a very small margin - 61 seconds out of almost 84 hours. That's 0.02% difference between him and 2nd place. Someone calculated that that was a difference in mass of 54 pennies carried over the entire course.
"...the typical Mac user bought his machine because he was scared of DOS..."
I don't think it was fright that was at play the first day in 1984 when I first used a Mac at the computer store in White Plains NY - I can remember exactly when and where - and saw the Finder, MacWrite and MacPaint all playing nicely with wach other and doing incredibly useful stuff and all that useful stuff coming out of an Imagewriter just like it looked on the screen.
I daydreamed, goggle-eyed about what might have been in the preceding 6 years of undergrad/grad work with this on my own desk rather than the terminals connected to PDP-11s or whatever...
No, I definitely wasn't 'scared' of the DOS machine that sat next to it. The DOS machine was text-based and non-intuitive and did nothing to *EN*courage me to use a computer more (i.e. ADD to my computer-using courage) and since then my dealings with DOS, Win 3.1, 95, 98, NT, ME, XP have *DIS*couraged me and I expect others as well. Most people with Wintel stay with it for the same reason people stay with Ford Escorts. They move and it seems there are lots of them. Of course as you drive down the street you see everyone's porch lights flashing because they think you're the pizza guy... but you put up with it because it's not as bad as it used to be - XP sucks less than 98, Escorts suck less than Pintos.
It hasn't changed much - people bought/buy Macs because they do more things right out of the box, the box is better looking (you can make a dining room table out of sawhorses and 1x6 lumber - but do you? No.) and it's more stable (I know that's the UNIX heritage coming thru - that's nice - it could be its Magic Bunny heritage 'now with more spiffnoodle' for all I care - my iBook has had three kernel panics since the OSX preview thru 10.3.whatever, I can grab a new still camera like I did just last night, plug it in and it just plain works. Plugging that same camera into my wife's 3-year-old Presario laptop was just a sad, long series of installs, mutually exclusive dialog boxes, vaguely referenced suggestions and tentative downloads and some really hair-pulling eventual software...
it's not fear unless you count fear of inevitable frustration and wasted time.
And I'll have another iBook soon - three years is my cycle - lowest end, cheap but damned powerful... and pass this one on and it will still do a lot like my PBDuo and PB1400 are still doing...
Jonathon Keats seems to be a published author with a book on Amazon and everything... who knows if he's also Jon Katz.
He's being facetious - it's mock-seriousness in the bulk of the article.
The article wasn't simply pointing out that this letter was a hoax, but got to the bottom of it and found the origin of something the rest of us were sure was lost in the mists of email forwarding.
NWS is under NOAA which is under Commerce - it has always provided, like NASA a set of data that are public , then can have value added and resold. Some part of it has to be free to the public as with *most* government public interest data.
Then it gets sticky - e.g., LANDSAT is managed by EROS, who gives thumbnails for free but 30m thematics for big bucks - but gives each GLOBE school a 15km2 scene for 'free'
It is however a very twisty maze of who gets the data. Everyone commercial gets their data from NWS then does god-knows-what to it as a VAR essentially and sells it to you on some other channel / service / site...
The closest thing to open source weather may be weather underground which was started by Perry Samson's group at UM Ann Arbor - it too went commercial and is ad-heavy, but it can be done.
Barry's model has been since the original PC/Apple/Mac app days to get you to pay for his version of the presentation of the data. This was back when writing a GUI to weather data was realtively heavy duty stuff - you had to write an app around it - it was pre-web.
The NWS pages (and the forecast discussion) is a very rich and friendly set of digested data now - the Watson OSX interface is darn good, uses NWS data barely digested and good radar, but then the added value services are still valuable - for instance I want the intellicast radr summary graphic (cloud height, cell direction and ground speed) on my phone - so i can get a bike ride in and not get blasted...
Teh caveat here is that NWS is NOAA is Commerce because the first priority is keep commercial travel safe - so this is all worth keping an eye on - the commercial intersts WILL pay for the data if it ends up with a toll on it...
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FCC Unregulated does not mean anyone can at will do anything they want under any conditions in any location.
The students enter into a contract to use the campus.
This college bans student WiFi APs.
My college banned frisbee playing on the quad.
My elem school bans cell phones for students.
Your school could ban left handed wall stretchers for all it wants.
It's a private contract.
Sign or don't sign or work for change.
I'm old enough to have seen them all in their original theatrical releases. I think this was a great series of movies, and even enjoy the 'prequels' so far. I enjoy these films. I put Phantom Menace in the DVD player last month to torture test my reassembled home theater system, and we all couldn't resist - just had to plunk down on the couch and watch the whole thing. I own a select library of DVDs - but I have everything Star Wars (and everything Coen Bros - when you're good, you're good.).
I think his only terrible mistake so far is Hayden Christensen - he's so amateur he must be rubbing off on Natalie Portman (given her otherwise amazing performances in Professional, Anywhere, etc.) because she's way under her game for too long in these films.
Having said that, it's an artist's right to modify his work. Some famously - Michaleangelo later chiseled his name across the Pieta (pissed because viewers atrributed it to other artists), Van Gogh reworked the moon in Starry Night (it was nearly full, he made it a crescent) and Sargent must have ticked off Isabella Gardner - either she just finished eating or he reworked her smile... Alan Bean re-highlights aspects of his paintings when they are shot for prints...
This is not a big deal - and remember, Lucas was trying to pull off one of the biggest leapfrogs in cinema history, given that he didn't have the technology to do it all at the time. I don't begrudge him making these changes. Can he fix everything? Not in time to get this thing out the door realistically, and plain old goofs can stand. They are hardly noticed if you're watching the film as a film. Which is what this is all about - rousing stories of amazing things we don't see every day. This is escapism, not documentary, and what really counts is the action and drama.
I don't mind sounds in space, and I'm a scientist. If I heard them on NASA TV I'd take notice.
Things that can be done to knit the series together are fine.
Dramatic enhancements - great.
Better effects - bring them on.
It'd be nice if the originals were around too, and sooner or later I'd bet they do release them, but you have to pick the low hanging fruit first, and today's audiences (and technology) demand great quality of great films.
Imagine a DVD of the remaining print of Lawrence of Arabia before they jumped thru hoops to make it work with current technology and look on the cinema as it did at its release.
"Zooblefarb 6 needs women!"
glad steve put aside the purist comments about placing components with the last iMac and let them get the machine down to what was necessary.
add an airport extreme card, airport express bto bluetooth and bto the bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you have a 1-wire computer - mains power only needed to do just about anything including well amp'd external audio...
only thing i'd add would be a trackpadded keyboard option like the spartacus - one less set of batteries to worry about bluetoothing and hey it works for the laptops...
can growing your heart on your sleeve be far behind?
(sorry - couldn't resist)
"yeah, i stole that bike but it was only a huffy and i know for a fact that mr. huffman will see about 1% percent of that sale - those bicycle producers are crooks! now let me go."
we now have a third metric to add to the existing system of measuring everything in pop news stories in "volkswagens" and "rhodeislands" (1), we can now hit that middle mark, "boulders", though it's not so middle...
the conversions for the VBR go something like this (2):
beetle ('classic' at 160" x 60" = 9,600 sq in = 66.67 sq ft footprint
boulder = 25 sq mi = 696,960,000 sq ft
rhode island = 1,214 sq mi = 33,844,377,600 sq ft
which means
10,453,877 beetles in a boulder
48.56 boulders in a rhodeisland
507,640,282 beetles in a rhodeisland
which would make a hellova traffic jam (3)
(1) also haven't read the journals of irrepreoducible results / AIR for a while so this could all seem cribbed - sorry if so
(2) (check my math, it's early still)
(3) virtually no change to downtown newport in the summer however
have a decent job,
buy stuff like a computer,
lose that job,
sidenote: call the benefits line that handles food stamps and get india on the line (as they did in Wisconsin)
get a lousy job and need food stamps
make $24K with 2 kids and still need food stamps (as in Santa Clara county)
take any advantage they'll give you, even, yes, instructional video games
"Hell, imagine the only online store that has that obscure album you want is Real, and you have an iPod. Sucks to be you!"
9 80-peripherals view,m peg-formats viewr -digital-video viewe -offers-the-files view
You are not out of luck. Modicum of tedium involved. Burn & re-rip.
(Note to Real - make a better player/store and deal from a position of strength.)
"I hate their obsolete closed view of computers. I hate that the same business model killed Commodore, yet Apple survives. Obviously, there's no justice in the world."
Would that be:
- the towards-legacy-free, drag-pc-vendors-kicking-and-screaming-into-post-1
- the creating-standards-with-quicktime-that-plays-all-
- the creating-standards-with-1394-that-is-universal-fo
- the there's-already-itunes-resources-for-ogg-if-anyon
- the only-implementation-of-zeroconf-anyone-can-name view
- or the jeez-my-computer-works view
(cue crickets)
Oh, you mean their stuff isn't really 1337^H^H^H^H linux and it's not free part?
Well, that's different.
Real, MS and Apple all have branded media players. Real could barely code a workable Mac client that took less than your installed RAM for most of their existence. All of a sudden their proprietary format is a distant third AND they cry 'foul' AND they do something expressly prohibited in every major EULA including their own?
I'll get back to you when I can work up some tears.
He even actually spells out "yous" just like yous guys would say it.
Last year, Lance won by a very small margin - 61 seconds out of almost 84 hours.
That's 0.02% difference between him and 2nd place.
Someone calculated that that was a difference in mass of 54 pennies carried over the entire course.
Yikes.
Hope their hardware's tiny.
'The inventor of the gadget, Keiji Koga, said: "We are finally able to experience plants and flowers with all five of our natural senses."'
I'm guessing this guy's never slept in a tall pine forest. The sounds are amazing.
so you could use p2p with ftp and http and call it "pffft"!
When mohels go bad... film at 11...
"...the typical Mac user bought his machine because he was scared of DOS..."
I don't think it was fright that was at play the first day in 1984 when I first used a Mac at the computer store in White Plains NY - I can remember exactly when and where - and saw the Finder, MacWrite and MacPaint all playing nicely with wach other and doing incredibly useful stuff and all that useful stuff coming out of an Imagewriter just like it looked on the screen.
I daydreamed, goggle-eyed about what might have been in the preceding 6 years of undergrad/grad work with this on my own desk rather than the terminals connected to PDP-11s or whatever...
No, I definitely wasn't 'scared' of the DOS machine that sat next to it. The DOS machine was text-based and non-intuitive and did nothing to *EN*courage me to use a computer more (i.e. ADD to my computer-using courage) and since then my dealings with DOS, Win 3.1, 95, 98, NT, ME, XP have *DIS*couraged me and I expect others as well. Most people with Wintel stay with it for the same reason people stay with Ford Escorts. They move and it seems there are lots of them. Of course as you drive down the street you see everyone's porch lights flashing because they think you're the pizza guy... but you put up with it because it's not as bad as it used to be - XP sucks less than 98, Escorts suck less than Pintos.
It hasn't changed much - people bought/buy Macs because they do more things right out of the box, the box is better looking (you can make a dining room table out of sawhorses and 1x6 lumber - but do you? No.) and it's more stable (I know that's the UNIX heritage coming thru - that's nice - it could be its Magic Bunny heritage 'now with more spiffnoodle' for all I care - my iBook has had three kernel panics since the OSX preview thru 10.3.whatever, I can grab a new still camera like I did just last night, plug it in and it just plain works. Plugging that same camera into my wife's 3-year-old Presario laptop was just a sad, long series of installs, mutually exclusive dialog boxes, vaguely referenced suggestions and tentative downloads and some really hair-pulling eventual software...
it's not fear unless you count fear of inevitable frustration and wasted time.
And I'll have another iBook soon - three years is my cycle - lowest end, cheap but damned powerful... and pass this one on and it will still do a lot like my PBDuo and PB1400 are still doing...
...to save an expensive falling thingie, then we'll have to wait for someone to invent a freaking parachute then, won't we?
"Rum, buggery and the lash, and a little bologna?"
So Fat Bastard should be getting the call any day now?
what woman throws a humongous wedding without putting nail polish on?
(see Dunst's hand against Maguire's face in the doorway)
1 hit for slashdot
15 hits for 'cheese'
Wired, Bicycling, Cooks Illustrated.
"...glabels is destined to become one of the most popular native apps for Linux..."
Jonathon Keats seems to be a published author with a book on Amazon and everything... who knows if he's also Jon Katz.
He's being facetious - it's mock-seriousness in the bulk of the article.
The article wasn't simply pointing out that this letter was a hoax, but got to the bottom of it and found the origin of something the rest of us were sure was lost in the mists of email forwarding.
This guy makes Darl look like Warren Buffett.
NWS is under NOAA which is under Commerce - it has always provided, like NASA a set of data that are public , then can have value added and resold. Some part of it has to be free to the public as with *most* government public interest data.
Then it gets sticky - e.g., LANDSAT is managed by EROS, who gives thumbnails for free but 30m thematics for big bucks - but gives each GLOBE school a 15km2 scene for 'free'
It is however a very twisty maze of who gets the data. Everyone commercial gets their data from NWS then does god-knows-what to it as a VAR essentially and sells it to you on some other channel / service / site...
The closest thing to open source weather may be weather underground which was started by Perry Samson's group at UM Ann Arbor - it too went commercial and is ad-heavy, but it can be done.
Barry's model has been since the original PC/Apple/Mac app days to get you to pay for his version of the presentation of the data. This was back when writing a GUI to weather data was realtively heavy duty stuff - you had to write an app around it - it was pre-web.
The NWS pages (and the forecast discussion) is a very rich and friendly set of digested data now - the Watson OSX interface is darn good, uses NWS data barely digested and good radar, but then the added value services are still valuable - for instance I want the intellicast radr summary graphic (cloud height, cell direction and ground speed) on my phone - so i can get a bike ride in and not get blasted...
Teh caveat here is that NWS is NOAA is Commerce because the first priority is keep commercial travel safe - so this is all worth keping an eye on - the commercial intersts WILL pay for the data if it ends up with a toll on it...