I own a CM Quickfire Storm with Cherry MX Greens and I love it, but it's not designed to replicate buckling springs. And the switches aren't new. They were just hard to come by in full keyboards.
The switches are identical to Cherry MX Blues, but with a stiffer spring. If you want buckling spring pick up a Unicomp, or a used IBM or Lexmark Model M. If you like Cherry MX Blues but wish they were a little stiffer, get Greens. I personally like the way they return as you release them the best, but I also like the MX Browns and Blues I own. Not so big on the linear Reds and Blacks, however.
Actually, yes. Your "less knowledge" is pretty much exactly what drives society forward. If you had to worry about breeding, raising, and slaughtering livestock, growing vegetables and grain, weaving fabric, etc. you wouldn't have time to play with maintaining your vehicle. You pay for the "luxury" of pre-packaged and prepared foods in order to free yourself for other tasks. You pay for pre-milled lumber, pre-fabricated tools, etc. to free yourself to do the particular task at hand that you get to choose. Sure it's fun to learn about how these things work, but not having to know is what frees you to learn about what you are interested in: like car maintenance, quilting, electrical engineering, or whatever whets your whistle.
I really don't care that much about cars. Their history is interesting to me. But, working on them: not so much. I do love philosophy, basic electronics, esoteric computer hardware, OS innards, college football, and pets. I'm really grateful for this for myself and, for example, my surgeon. I hope he's freed to only have to worry about his craft and whatever interests him.
Mac's aren't evil, they're just a product with a market of folks who want to use a computer without thinking about it. Heck, I'm typing on one. I have a collection of oddball hardware, but when I just want to browse the internet and watch TV I pretty much exclusively use this little laptop. There isn't an evil Apple horde looking for new ways to make a Mac dumb, just a bunch of guys and gals trying to come up with new ways to make a computer fun and easy to use. I mean really, you use a PC. There's a community of folks out there who look down on you for using a dumbed down collection of cheap commodity parts.
Chevy Malibu's aren't evil, they're just marketed to folks who want a reasonably low-cost car that they don't have to spend a lot of effort maintaining. 2x4's aren't evil, they're just made for folks who want to use a piece of wood without having to cut it down and mill it themselves. Ground beef isn't evil, it's just marketed to folks who don't want to breed, raise, slaughter, and uh, grind their own cows.
TLDR; Don't get pissed at folks for liking an easy to use product, so they can enjoy something else. We all do it and benefit for it, 'cause foraging pretty much sucks.
My issue with Windows has nothing to do with hardware. I run x86 machines. I'm sitting next to a PIII 800 and an AMD Athlon64 3000+. If I could run OSX, I'd consider it. I like the idea of being able to use Quicken and still feel Unixy.The price tag would probably be too high for me to even want to bother paying for something I can use to pay for more things to use.
But I'll be perfectly honest. The real, non-philisophical, honest-to-god reason I run Linux these days is because I'm used to it. When I'm using Windows and have to get down and do some real work, I have to spend so much time getting Cygwin and stuff like libpcap working, that it'd be faster to install Gentoo. I feel naked without bash, emacs, python, perl, etc. and I hate having to look around for freaking check boxes here and there. I know where everything is, how I want it to be and I can get my stuff done quickly.
Then I also like keeping up with my favorite projects. The closest thing to playing games on my PC is compiling bleeding edge software and submitting bug reports when things crash;). Screw Doom XXIV, I like free software roulette!
I like reading Mojo and occasionally Wire. The old standards Rolling Stone, Spin, etc. have gone to complete crap and are now 90% ads and 10% garbage. The only problem is that they're so expensive I feel like I'm buying one of those really nice photography, design, or architecture mags printed on fancy paper.
I accidently bought my subscription to Mojo about a year ago, not paying attention to the whole currency issue and ended up paying almost $100 for a year. Ugh. Don't drink and make financial decisions at 2:00am. It's worth the read 8/12 months, but I'd rather just pick up 5 or 6 of those than pay a mint to have it delivered to me.
On the computer side, I like DDJ alot and Sys Admin occasionally.
Mostly I just buy a few magazines at Borders or Barnes and Noble now and then and stick them in my bag. When I'm stuck in a waiting room or something, I have a decent magazine to pull out and read. I'm not very interested in Golf, People, or most of the other stuff they keep around Dr's offices and other waiting rooms.
See real money gets changed for fake money. I think it's like US$10=FUnHi$30. Plus some of the gifts give the recipient even more fake money. All in all, most "gifts" cost just a few cents.
The thing is that they're tapping an already existing culture- racing and souping up import cars. It serves as a fan-club kind of thing for these import models, and then expands from there.
I really have to hand it to the guys who started it. They tapped a culture well, provided a means for them to play on the internet together and found a way to make a tidy profit off of it. Besides, you don't even need to pay to use it. You don't have to buy "gifts" for people. It's just a nice way to say "I like you" or whatever that backed up by a little bit more.
I'll admit, I accidently ran into this early on in its development and started playing along for mostly 2 reasons: 1) I was newly single so having cute asian girls give me compliments boosted my ego 2) I'm horrible with internet culture (IMing and other sorts of things where you speak with abbreviations and smileys) so I thought it would be funny to see how well I do (and how well "they" do) with my paragraphs and thinking.
It was fun for a while, but now it's getting really dull. Next!
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Ummm. I do it the same way in Photoshop and the Gimp. I make a nice square path, set the fill and the stroke. I'm not seeing your particular issue here. And for professional graphics (I don't mean drawing horns on pictures of your sister) it's quite flexible. It can be scripted in umpteen languages that are a lot more straightforward than actions and such. It's pretty great at photo editing and I might even say better for certain drawing tasks. Font support in Gimp 2 is finally up to my standards (ie I can now use all those True Type fonts I made and payed all kinds of money for, and they look nice).
And Fireworks a professional image package??? Please. What profession are you speaking of? It's horrible for print design, terrible for image editing and photo manipulation, and only seems to excel at making animated GIFs. I mean I switch between Illustrator and Photoshop regularly, but Fireworks performs the jobs of both very poorly. Honestly I think I'd be better with Photoshop or the GIMP alone than Fireworks.
And I won't claim that I'm fully a GIMP convert. Really Photoshop and Illustrator are the reasons I still have a Windows box handy. Really when it comes down to it, I use Photoshop because I use Illustrator and when Sodipodi or whatever has a decent path tool and fills out featurewise a little more, I'll probably go ahead and free myself of paying a crapload of money every couple years for a prettier version of the same thing. (I'm still holding out on the Adobe CS package or whatever its called).
>I made a patch for this myself but the RhythmBox developers rejected it claiming they don't want any more dependencies (libxml).
Ummm... no. First, Rhythmbox already uses libxml and has for a long time if not since its inception. The library data, etc. is stored in an XML format. Second, I've been on the rhythmbox-devel list since well back before the net-rhythmbox fork/remerger and I can personally say that I have never seen mention of said patch or proposition (and I would have noticed this). I really can't imagine this being rejected like this, for this reason.
I'm left wondering exactly why this comment was written. This discussion would be more appropriate (not to mention effective) on the rhythmbox-devel list, and if you have a patch, share it there so folks can test it out.
Ok, I'm not going to claim to be a photography guru or anything. I leave that to my girlfriend.
But I've had my Nikon N70 for 6 years now, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. It's like a trusty weapon. I know it inside and out. I can handle shooting bands playing live in bars and couples playing in a park with it.
Now the body cost more than $200 at the time and it has some fancy feautres, which I never use. I'm mostly spening my time in Apeture or Shutter Speed priority mode when shooting moving objects or in Manual mode when I have the time to compose a shot. I've used a few SLRs in my day. Older model Pentax, Nikons and newer Canons. Not to slag the older models, I took some beautiful shots with them, but the built in light meters were worse than guessing in my experience.
The Canon EOSes I've used felt very... well... plastic. The physical interface, placement of buttons and knobs, was unnatural, and I was less than impressed with the quality of the lenses that were available to me for use with them. I assume there are better out there, but they weren't sturdy and a little flakey when zooming too far in or out.
My Nikon I love and take pretty good care of. I've used lenses from a few manufacturers, but I've only been happy with the Nikon lenses I've actually purchased. Be careful, though. Some of the newer models are pretty poorly manufactured, ie. mostly plasic. But, the older AF Nikkor lenses are still built the same way and are a pleasure to shoot with. They've just introduced a lower end line intermixed with with the mid-level line they had. You'll know because they will encompass a much greater X mm. range and be cheaper.
As for the digital vs. film debate, there's a lot more to it than just price, etc. My girlfriend just got to borrow the Cannon digital Rebel, and although it was the nicest digital I'd ever used, it still was an overpriced piece of crap. F-Stop, shutter speed, etc. are located all on the back of the camera, which is unnatural and causes the phtographer to have to pull the camera away from their face to get their fingers in there entirely too often. The quality was good, but it still had that digital effect that I can't stand.
Ok, I'll go more into this. For certain things I'll pick a nicer Fujii film. It picks up those greens and blues so well, and for others I'll go with a Kodak, to get skintones, etc. Sometimes I like shooting black and white (like a nice 1600 or 3200 for shooting bands or photojournalism style work). I like being able to choose whether I want clear/grainy, black+white/color, slide/negative, etc. I just don't have that flexibility with a digital camera. And my scanned negatives work (usually) better than any digital photo, for when I want to play in photoshop. I often get my girlfiend to just develop the nagitives (she works in a camera shop if you haven't picked up on that) and scan them to a CD for me. Then I may print one or two off a roll. Overall it would cost me about $7-$10 per roll.
But anyway, it almost doesn't matter so much about what is a "good" SLR. Run around to camera shops, talk to your friends. Borrow a few and shoot a roll with them. See which one feels good to you. You'll get to know and love the camera over time. You'll know all of its quirks and then you'll get to know how to handle different films. Technical shit only matters so much in the field. 2D cameras are, by nature, limited. It's what you do with those limitations that makes a snapshot a photograph. I've taken great (and horrible) pictures with a Kodak I have circa 1930something.
I argue that this is the best use of the control character ^H I have seen on Slashdot in at least 3-4 years (since well after the joke got old). Bonus points for makinging a cliche not such.
Yup, I saw one the other night where they did this with a skull found in a bog in Florida. The images they were using made it look like the software wasn't exactly new. I also want to say I read about this stuff as early as 1998.
Mr. Reiser, first off I have no complaints about ReiserFS (which is a high compliment), I use it on almost all my machines, except a couple are running EXT3 because they're not heavily used and I'm lazy at times. But thats neither here nor there.
You fall into an interesting subcategory of project managers or whatever you want to call them. I'll call it the "outspoken genius" category (even though the first word might be understated and the last is probably hyperbole). Basicly your work is technically interesting, applicable, etc. That's a give in. But there are quite a few people who have personal issues with you and your manner and usually cite some exchange or another. Sometimes this is the basis of an argument to reject the use of your work, which I think is somewhat silly. You're not the only one, and certainly not the first to be interviewed here.
So what do you think about this? ie. Do you think you made interpersonal mistakes that landed you here or do you think you've been misunderstood? Does it bother you? Why do you think people enjoy egging on folks such as yourself and then citing the moment you get annoyed with them? Do you think this question ever has a prayer of being moderated higher than someone following the method of the previous question?
Jeeze, I realize I just wrote an essay question in the style of one of my old Philosophy professors. You know the kind, here's a statement now write some stuff (I guess I'll give you a few ideas of where to go).
The remote administrators rarely know your true intentions, and do sometimes get suspicious. The best approach is to get permission first.
Honestly, I'd say the safest thing to do is not perform the scan at all. Yes you "should be able to" and no you're "not doing anything wrong", but such is life. If it's not your machine don't scan it. And sometimes, even if it is your machine and its not your network don't scan it across the network, get off your ass and go to the other building/room/whatever. This comes from one of those "character building" experiences I had in college.
Here's the long precursor story. There was a kid in the school who thought it was real funny sending around a trojanned "Whack-a-mole" game to hapless (and clueless) students looking for the next great little game to use for procrastination purposes. He shared the file on the network and soon tons of kids had netbus or backorrifice or whatever the point-and-click trojan du jour was for winders.
I found out that he was using it against (mostly female) students because I kept getting phone calls from friends and the students I supported (I worked for the college I attended doing support in the dorms). I was having to clean these up one by one when people noticed odd error messages, type being inserted, etc. One day after I had become very tired of having to clean up after the little fsck, I got a call from a girl who was currently being messed with. Before she hung up, he shut down her machine remotely. So I threw netcat on a floppy, brought her machine up off the network, removed the trojan, set netcat to listen on the port, brought the machine on to the net, and bang, caught the little punk. Sidenote: also with a quick nmap scan found he had installed the trojan on himself passwordless, so I took the liberty to replace the client he was using with a little.exe that popped up a message that said "quit screwing with other people's machines" in not so few words. Then had the trojan remove itself from his box.
Anywho, after he was caught, I was still carrying the burden of having to look at machines every time I had to turn on someone's printer or find a lost word file. I thought, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just scan the school's subnet for the trojan and find the machines that were listening on whatever port the thing ran on and then either visit them or email them with directions. My boss in the IT department also thought this was a good idea. I asked permission and got it. But then the next morning I got an angry call from the IT department. They threatened to kick me off campus because they said I didn't ask the right IT person (I think my boss should have been in trouble for telling me it was ok, then). But luckily I also told one of the network guys who they put on the "right IT people list" and had an email from him (which he denied sending me) still hanging around. Remeber when it comes to security related activities or hell, business in general, document everything!
So yeah. Now, rather than taking a "save the world", "help hapless users" approach I've grown jaded and take more of the apathetic approach. This was also the moment in time I stopped doing unpaid overtime out of the kindness of my heart;-).
I'm sorry, I enjoy The Matrix as much as the next geek, but please. Philisophical content??? The basic idea of the mind/reality seperation has been around longer than Descartes' subjectivist turn in his Meditations. Let's not put too much value in these films. They throw a mild technology element into an idea thats existed for a long time. I think the production and mythological element should be much more valued. Maybe I've just spent too much of my life buried in books (yes the ones with paper pages and ink type) but I didn't find the "world isn't real" aspect of the film(s) to be that shocking or original. It was mildly interesting at best. But the way it was presented in combination with the way that their (semi)religion was presented in the context played out in a very interesting manner.
The X-Men saga is about as interesting philisophically with the alagory (that whole civil rights thing). Then again, I'm excited about these flicks as well.
Both, I think fall in the good movies as opposed to good films category (call me snobby! please!). Apocalypse Now was a great film. Fritz Lang's catalogue were great films. The Matrix and The Matrix:Reloaded, must see? YES! Great film? eeehhhhh.... Derivative, but well presented? Probably. Only time will tell what people really think of these.
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The Geforce1 requirement seems a little off. I've been running it for a little while on my Win2k box that has a PIII 500MHz, 576MB of RAM, and a TNT2 card. I don't play games, espcially not on this machine. It's my apache on winders test box and I use Samurize to tail my access.log and error.log on the screen.
I dunno, I've consistently been about 3-5 years behind in terms of graphics cards, but my machines tend to run faster and more stable than gamer friends I know with their suped up (and super expensive) PCs. I still love my Matrox Millenia II's. No driver problems on any platform, great fast 2d, and no 3d support to speak of (I think they sold expansion cards or something). But like I said, I don't really play games, they get addictive and I have stuff I have to get done.
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The U2 was not fast at all. In fact, back in the day the U2 didn't run with engines on over Soviet airspace at all. It glided making as little noise and creating as little heat as possible. It was designed to avoid detection at all. And did so beautifully for many years.
The Soviets knew that the U2 was flying over because of occasional sightings from fighters, etc. but they didn't know when and where for a long time. And when the fighters could spot the thing, they couldn't even approach its altitude and any AA had nothing to lock onto nor the ability to accurately fire at something that high up.
Someone below said the U2 got shot down due to missle advancements, but AFAIK this is not really the case, although later missle advancements threatened the U2. The Soviets didn't even know the U2 was up there until problems occured. I don't remember the specifics, but technical problems created a situation where the pilot had to drop to a much lower altitude. In doing so he popped up on Soviet radar and was fired upon. Although the U2 is a graceful aircraft, it is lacking in the agility and speed department. It was designed to avoid detection, not fire.
This is one of my favorite aircraft, partly because I'd love to know what it's like to float on the edge of space and partly because it has to be the most passive military aircraft ever designed. No weapons and no "power" so to speak of, just the ability to glide with its tremendous wings on the edge of space.
The SR-71 was designed with the backup plan of if it was detected, it could outrun any missle or plane, and out-altitude anything at the time. But primarily, both of these recon aircraft were built to avoid detection at all and did so quite well. Suprisingly the U2 is still in service, while the SR-71 is not.
Just because a patent is issued doesn't necessarily mean it will be held up in court. It helps to have the FSF standing behind you in these situations. See, it's amazing who you can get pro bono these days. Look at the folks who have been doing work for the EFF lately.
Besides, MS has little to no history of suing for patent infringement. Just because they're filing for patents, doesn't mean they're automaticly going after mono. In this day and age tech companies are using patents as a way to keep score. "See, we're making major technological breakthroughs. We recieved X thousand patents last year." This would be an example of good publicity. Suing the Mono project when they're submitting.Net to the EMCA, etc. would be bad publicity. It would definitely make people reconsider developing for.Net.
I'm interested in seeing the code in the three languages that you were using. I'd like to see where the bottlenecks are and see what specificly causes these results. I would think that C would be faster than Java, which would be faster than Python (but none by 100 x). I'm not saying that you're wrong, but now I'm interested in why.
Yeah "another IMPORT ALBUM from JCM records." Still got the sticker on it. After doing a bit of research it looks like the album has never been released with liner notes other than the ones linked to in my previous post. Also I have found absolutely no mention to the 16rpms issue in conjunction with Eno. Now there is a story involving Jerry Garcia along these lines that may somehow been confused by someone.
Unfortunately this is only being offered in Real Audio format. It would be very nice to have this in at least mp3 or ogg format so one could listen to them on something other than a PC.
Maybe I'm one of the few that would burn the 19 or so CDs required and throw them in may changer + repeat for a few days. Of course I'd probably have to end up opening up soundforge and fixing the files so there would be 1 per CD, but I'd even do that.
Unfortunatly I don't have real player, nor the software to work with these files and I am not willing to install it. This has to do with my unwillingness to support Real and their practices and is an issue that will not be changed by whether or not music is available only in that format. Call me principled.
If the creator happens to read this please allow your audience to actually appreciate your work, and if someone else has somehow done the conversion already and managed to maintain a somewhat clear copy of the audio please either post here or let me know.
Sorry, don't mean to be a smartass, but your original comment inspired me to pull out my copy of Discreet Music and throw it on the turntable. I'm listening to it now.
As I look on the back cover it says nothing regarding the 16/33 issue or even anything to do with the speed the record was played at. It was however played at a very low level, with only one of the stereo channels functioning. The end of the paragraph that describes the experience is more than worth the cost of the record in my opinion.
This is the original release (that I was very excited to find in my local record shop, Last Chance Records). A copy of the text can be found on probably the best Eno site on the web here.
One interesting thing about this album is that it is well documented. He explains the purpose and the method involved in creating the album and provides a operational diagram for the setup he used to create (or more accurately direct) it. I guess this appeals to the Computer Scientist in me as well as the music appreciator.
If you check out the Gnome summary released today, you will also see that Evolution tops the CVS commits list partly due to the activity on the GTK2 port. mmmmm. gtk2 evolution. Next thing you know Mozilla will be all GTK2ed and AAed.
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You could use Phidgets and a OTG cable.
I own a CM Quickfire Storm with Cherry MX Greens and I love it, but it's not designed to replicate buckling springs. And the switches aren't new. They were just hard to come by in full keyboards.
The switches are identical to Cherry MX Blues, but with a stiffer spring. If you want buckling spring pick up a Unicomp, or a used IBM or Lexmark Model M. If you like Cherry MX Blues but wish they were a little stiffer, get Greens. I personally like the way they return as you release them the best, but I also like the MX Browns and Blues I own. Not so big on the linear Reds and Blacks, however.
Actually, yes. Your "less knowledge" is pretty much exactly what drives society forward. If you had to worry about breeding, raising, and slaughtering livestock, growing vegetables and grain, weaving fabric, etc. you wouldn't have time to play with maintaining your vehicle. You pay for the "luxury" of pre-packaged and prepared foods in order to free yourself for other tasks. You pay for pre-milled lumber, pre-fabricated tools, etc. to free yourself to do the particular task at hand that you get to choose. Sure it's fun to learn about how these things work, but not having to know is what frees you to learn about what you are interested in: like car maintenance, quilting, electrical engineering, or whatever whets your whistle.
I really don't care that much about cars. Their history is interesting to me. But, working on them: not so much. I do love philosophy, basic electronics, esoteric computer hardware, OS innards, college football, and pets. I'm really grateful for this for myself and, for example, my surgeon. I hope he's freed to only have to worry about his craft and whatever interests him.
Mac's aren't evil, they're just a product with a market of folks who want to use a computer without thinking about it. Heck, I'm typing on one. I have a collection of oddball hardware, but when I just want to browse the internet and watch TV I pretty much exclusively use this little laptop. There isn't an evil Apple horde looking for new ways to make a Mac dumb, just a bunch of guys and gals trying to come up with new ways to make a computer fun and easy to use. I mean really, you use a PC. There's a community of folks out there who look down on you for using a dumbed down collection of cheap commodity parts.
Chevy Malibu's aren't evil, they're just marketed to folks who want a reasonably low-cost car that they don't have to spend a lot of effort maintaining. 2x4's aren't evil, they're just made for folks who want to use a piece of wood without having to cut it down and mill it themselves. Ground beef isn't evil, it's just marketed to folks who don't want to breed, raise, slaughter, and uh, grind their own cows.
TLDR; Don't get pissed at folks for liking an easy to use product, so they can enjoy something else. We all do it and benefit for it, 'cause foraging pretty much sucks.
would anybody care?
;). Screw Doom XXIV, I like free software roulette!
My issue with Windows has nothing to do with hardware. I run x86 machines. I'm sitting next to a PIII 800 and an AMD Athlon64 3000+. If I could run OSX, I'd consider it. I like the idea of being able to use Quicken and still feel Unixy.The price tag would probably be too high for me to even want to bother paying for something I can use to pay for more things to use.
But I'll be perfectly honest. The real, non-philisophical, honest-to-god reason I run Linux these days is because I'm used to it. When I'm using Windows and have to get down and do some real work, I have to spend so much time getting Cygwin and stuff like libpcap working, that it'd be faster to install Gentoo. I feel naked without bash, emacs, python, perl, etc. and I hate having to look around for freaking check boxes here and there. I know where everything is, how I want it to be and I can get my stuff done quickly.
Then I also like keeping up with my favorite projects. The closest thing to playing games on my PC is compiling bleeding edge software and submitting bug reports when things crash
I like reading Mojo and occasionally Wire. The old standards Rolling Stone, Spin, etc. have gone to complete crap and are now 90% ads and 10% garbage. The only problem is that they're so expensive I feel like I'm buying one of those really nice photography, design, or architecture mags printed on fancy paper.
I accidently bought my subscription to Mojo about a year ago, not paying attention to the whole currency issue and ended up paying almost $100 for a year. Ugh. Don't drink and make financial decisions at 2:00am. It's worth the read 8/12 months, but I'd rather just pick up 5 or 6 of those than pay a mint to have it delivered to me.
On the computer side, I like DDJ alot and Sys Admin occasionally.
Mostly I just buy a few magazines at Borders or Barnes and Noble now and then and stick them in my bag. When I'm stuck in a waiting room or something, I have a decent magazine to pull out and read. I'm not very interested in Golf, People, or most of the other stuff they keep around Dr's offices and other waiting rooms.
See real money gets changed for fake money. I think it's like US$10=FUnHi$30. Plus some of the gifts give the recipient even more fake money. All in all, most "gifts" cost just a few cents.
The thing is that they're tapping an already existing culture- racing and souping up import cars. It serves as a fan-club kind of thing for these import models, and then expands from there.
I really have to hand it to the guys who started it. They tapped a culture well, provided a means for them to play on the internet together and found a way to make a tidy profit off of it. Besides, you don't even need to pay to use it. You don't have to buy "gifts" for people. It's just a nice way to say "I like you" or whatever that backed up by a little bit more.
I'll admit, I accidently ran into this early on in its development and started playing along for mostly 2 reasons: 1) I was newly single so having cute asian girls give me compliments boosted my ego 2) I'm horrible with internet culture (IMing and other sorts of things where you speak with abbreviations and smileys) so I thought it would be funny to see how well I do (and how well "they" do) with my paragraphs and thinking.
It was fun for a while, but now it's getting really dull. Next!
Ummm. I do it the same way in Photoshop and the Gimp. I make a nice square path, set the fill and the stroke. I'm not seeing your particular issue here. And for professional graphics (I don't mean drawing horns on pictures of your sister) it's quite flexible. It can be scripted in umpteen languages that are a lot more straightforward than actions and such. It's pretty great at photo editing and I might even say better for certain drawing tasks. Font support in Gimp 2 is finally up to my standards (ie I can now use all those True Type fonts I made and payed all kinds of money for, and they look nice).
And Fireworks a professional image package??? Please. What profession are you speaking of? It's horrible for print design, terrible for image editing and photo manipulation, and only seems to excel at making animated GIFs. I mean I switch between Illustrator and Photoshop regularly, but Fireworks performs the jobs of both very poorly. Honestly I think I'd be better with Photoshop or the GIMP alone than Fireworks.
And I won't claim that I'm fully a GIMP convert. Really Photoshop and Illustrator are the reasons I still have a Windows box handy. Really when it comes down to it, I use Photoshop because I use Illustrator and when Sodipodi or whatever has a decent path tool and fills out featurewise a little more, I'll probably go ahead and free myself of paying a crapload of money every couple years for a prettier version of the same thing. (I'm still holding out on the Adobe CS package or whatever its called).
>I made a patch for this myself but the RhythmBox developers rejected it claiming they don't want any more dependencies (libxml).
Ummm... no. First, Rhythmbox already uses libxml and has for a long time if not since its inception. The library data, etc. is stored in an XML format. Second, I've been on the rhythmbox-devel list since well back before the net-rhythmbox fork/remerger and I can personally say that I have never seen mention of said patch or proposition (and I would have noticed this). I really can't imagine this being rejected like this, for this reason.
I'm left wondering exactly why this comment was written. This discussion would be more appropriate (not to mention effective) on the rhythmbox-devel list, and if you have a patch, share it there so folks can test it out.
Ok, I'm not going to claim to be a photography guru or anything. I leave that to my girlfriend.
But I've had my Nikon N70 for 6 years now, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. It's like a trusty weapon. I know it inside and out. I can handle shooting bands playing live in bars and couples playing in a park with it.
Now the body cost more than $200 at the time and it has some fancy feautres, which I never use. I'm mostly spening my time in Apeture or Shutter Speed priority mode when shooting moving objects or in Manual mode when I have the time to compose a shot. I've used a few SLRs in my day. Older model Pentax, Nikons and newer Canons. Not to slag the older models, I took some beautiful shots with them, but the built in light meters were worse than guessing in my experience.
The Canon EOSes I've used felt very... well... plastic. The physical interface, placement of buttons and knobs, was unnatural, and I was less than impressed with the quality of the lenses that were available to me for use with them. I assume there are better out there, but they weren't sturdy and a little flakey when zooming too far in or out.
My Nikon I love and take pretty good care of. I've used lenses from a few manufacturers, but I've only been happy with the Nikon lenses I've actually purchased. Be careful, though. Some of the newer models are pretty poorly manufactured, ie. mostly plasic. But, the older AF Nikkor lenses are still built the same way and are a pleasure to shoot with. They've just introduced a lower end line intermixed with with the mid-level line they had. You'll know because they will encompass a much greater X mm. range and be cheaper.
As for the digital vs. film debate, there's a lot more to it than just price, etc. My girlfriend just got to borrow the Cannon digital Rebel, and although it was the nicest digital I'd ever used, it still was an overpriced piece of crap. F-Stop, shutter speed, etc. are located all on the back of the camera, which is unnatural and causes the phtographer to have to pull the camera away from their face to get their fingers in there entirely too often. The quality was good, but it still had that digital effect that I can't stand.
Ok, I'll go more into this. For certain things I'll pick a nicer Fujii film. It picks up those greens and blues so well, and for others I'll go with a Kodak, to get skintones, etc. Sometimes I like shooting black and white (like a nice 1600 or 3200 for shooting bands or photojournalism style work). I like being able to choose whether I want clear/grainy, black+white/color, slide/negative, etc. I just don't have that flexibility with a digital camera. And my scanned negatives work (usually) better than any digital photo, for when I want to play in photoshop. I often get my girlfiend to just develop the nagitives (she works in a camera shop if you haven't picked up on that) and scan them to a CD for me. Then I may print one or two off a roll. Overall it would cost me about $7-$10 per roll.
But anyway, it almost doesn't matter so much about what is a "good" SLR. Run around to camera shops, talk to your friends. Borrow a few and shoot a roll with them. See which one feels good to you. You'll get to know and love the camera over time. You'll know all of its quirks and then you'll get to know how to handle different films. Technical shit only matters so much in the field. 2D cameras are, by nature, limited. It's what you do with those limitations that makes a snapshot a photograph. I've taken great (and horrible) pictures with a Kodak I have circa 1930something.
I argue that this is the best use of the control character ^H I have seen on Slashdot in at least 3-4 years (since well after the joke got old). Bonus points for makinging a cliche not such.
or even more pythonish
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import sys
if (sys.platform.find("nix") != -1) or (sys.platform[0:4] == "linux")
for penny in me.account:
sco.account += penny
Yup, I saw one the other night where they did this with a skull found in a bog in Florida. The images they were using made it look like the software wasn't exactly new. I also want to say I read about this stuff as early as 1998.
Mr. Reiser, first off I have no complaints about ReiserFS (which is a high compliment), I use it on almost all my machines, except a couple are running EXT3 because they're not heavily used and I'm lazy at times. But thats neither here nor there.
You fall into an interesting subcategory of project managers or whatever you want to call them. I'll call it the "outspoken genius" category (even though the first word might be understated and the last is probably hyperbole). Basicly your work is technically interesting, applicable, etc. That's a give in. But there are quite a few people who have personal issues with you and your manner and usually cite some exchange or another. Sometimes this is the basis of an argument to reject the use of your work, which I think is somewhat silly. You're not the only one, and certainly not the first to be interviewed here.
So what do you think about this? ie. Do you think you made interpersonal mistakes that landed you here or do you think you've been misunderstood? Does it bother you? Why do you think people enjoy egging on folks such as yourself and then citing the moment you get annoyed with them? Do you think this question ever has a prayer of being moderated higher than someone following the method of the previous question?
Jeeze, I realize I just wrote an essay question in the style of one of my old Philosophy professors. You know the kind, here's a statement now write some stuff (I guess I'll give you a few ideas of where to go).
The remote administrators rarely know your true intentions, and do sometimes get suspicious. The best approach is to get permission first.
.exe that popped up a message that said "quit screwing with other people's machines" in not so few words. Then had the trojan remove itself from his box.
;-).
Honestly, I'd say the safest thing to do is not perform the scan at all. Yes you "should be able to" and no you're "not doing anything wrong", but such is life. If it's not your machine don't scan it. And sometimes, even if it is your machine and its not your network don't scan it across the network, get off your ass and go to the other building/room/whatever. This comes from one of those "character building" experiences I had in college.
Here's the long precursor story. There was a kid in the school who thought it was real funny sending around a trojanned "Whack-a-mole" game to hapless (and clueless) students looking for the next great little game to use for procrastination purposes. He shared the file on the network and soon tons of kids had netbus or backorrifice or whatever the point-and-click trojan du jour was for winders.
I found out that he was using it against (mostly female) students because I kept getting phone calls from friends and the students I supported (I worked for the college I attended doing support in the dorms). I was having to clean these up one by one when people noticed odd error messages, type being inserted, etc. One day after I had become very tired of having to clean up after the little fsck, I got a call from a girl who was currently being messed with. Before she hung up, he shut down her machine remotely. So I threw netcat on a floppy, brought her machine up off the network, removed the trojan, set netcat to listen on the port, brought the machine on to the net, and bang, caught the little punk. Sidenote: also with a quick nmap scan found he had installed the trojan on himself passwordless, so I took the liberty to replace the client he was using with a little
Anywho, after he was caught, I was still carrying the burden of having to look at machines every time I had to turn on someone's printer or find a lost word file. I thought, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just scan the school's subnet for the trojan and find the machines that were listening on whatever port the thing ran on and then either visit them or email them with directions. My boss in the IT department also thought this was a good idea. I asked permission and got it. But then the next morning I got an angry call from the IT department. They threatened to kick me off campus because they said I didn't ask the right IT person (I think my boss should have been in trouble for telling me it was ok, then). But luckily I also told one of the network guys who they put on the "right IT people list" and had an email from him (which he denied sending me) still hanging around. Remeber when it comes to security related activities or hell, business in general, document everything!
So yeah. Now, rather than taking a "save the world", "help hapless users" approach I've grown jaded and take more of the apathetic approach. This was also the moment in time I stopped doing unpaid overtime out of the kindness of my heart
I'm sorry, I enjoy The Matrix as much as the next geek, but please. Philisophical content??? The basic idea of the mind/reality seperation has been around longer than Descartes' subjectivist turn in his Meditations. Let's not put too much value in these films. They throw a mild technology element into an idea thats existed for a long time. I think the production and mythological element should be much more valued. Maybe I've just spent too much of my life buried in books (yes the ones with paper pages and ink type) but I didn't find the "world isn't real" aspect of the film(s) to be that shocking or original. It was mildly interesting at best. But the way it was presented in combination with the way that their (semi)religion was presented in the context played out in a very interesting manner.
The X-Men saga is about as interesting philisophically with the alagory (that whole civil rights thing). Then again, I'm excited about these flicks as well.
Both, I think fall in the good movies as opposed to good films category (call me snobby! please!). Apocalypse Now was a great film. Fritz Lang's catalogue were great films. The Matrix and The Matrix:Reloaded, must see? YES! Great film? eeehhhhh.... Derivative, but well presented? Probably. Only time will tell what people really think of these.
The Geforce1 requirement seems a little off. I've been running it for a little while on my Win2k box that has a PIII 500MHz, 576MB of RAM, and a TNT2 card. I don't play games, espcially not on this machine. It's my apache on winders test box and I use Samurize to tail my access.log and error.log on the screen.
I dunno, I've consistently been about 3-5 years behind in terms of graphics cards, but my machines tend to run faster and more stable than gamer friends I know with their suped up (and super expensive) PCs. I still love my Matrox Millenia II's. No driver problems on any platform, great fast 2d, and no 3d support to speak of (I think they sold expansion cards or something). But like I said, I don't really play games, they get addictive and I have stuff I have to get done.
The U2 was not fast at all. In fact, back in the day the U2 didn't run with engines on over Soviet airspace at all. It glided making as little noise and creating as little heat as possible. It was designed to avoid detection at all. And did so beautifully for many years.
The Soviets knew that the U2 was flying over because of occasional sightings from fighters, etc. but they didn't know when and where for a long time. And when the fighters could spot the thing, they couldn't even approach its altitude and any AA had nothing to lock onto nor the ability to accurately fire at something that high up.
Someone below said the U2 got shot down due to missle advancements, but AFAIK this is not really the case, although later missle advancements threatened the U2. The Soviets didn't even know the U2 was up there until problems occured. I don't remember the specifics, but technical problems created a situation where the pilot had to drop to a much lower altitude. In doing so he popped up on Soviet radar and was fired upon. Although the U2 is a graceful aircraft, it is lacking in the agility and speed department. It was designed to avoid detection, not fire.
This is one of my favorite aircraft, partly because I'd love to know what it's like to float on the edge of space and partly because it has to be the most passive military aircraft ever designed. No weapons and no "power" so to speak of, just the ability to glide with its tremendous wings on the edge of space.
The SR-71 was designed with the backup plan of if it was detected, it could outrun any missle or plane, and out-altitude anything at the time. But primarily, both of these recon aircraft were built to avoid detection at all and did so quite well. Suprisingly the U2 is still in service, while the SR-71 is not.
I thought it was their neighbor, New Hampshire, that had "Live Free or Die" on their license plates (which I guess is kind of ironic in a way).
But, good for them. It's nice to see individuals making an intelligent stand for individual freedom.
Just because a patent is issued doesn't necessarily mean it will be held up in court. It helps to have the FSF standing behind you in these situations. See, it's amazing who you can get pro bono these days. Look at the folks who have been doing work for the EFF lately.
.Net to the EMCA, etc. would be bad publicity. It would definitely make people reconsider developing for .Net.
Besides, MS has little to no history of suing for patent infringement. Just because they're filing for patents, doesn't mean they're automaticly going after mono. In this day and age tech companies are using patents as a way to keep score. "See, we're making major technological breakthroughs. We recieved X thousand patents last year." This would be an example of good publicity. Suing the Mono project when they're submitting
I'm interested in seeing the code in the three languages that you were using. I'd like to see where the bottlenecks are and see what specificly causes these results. I would think that C would be faster than Java, which would be faster than Python (but none by 100 x). I'm not saying that you're wrong, but now I'm interested in why.
Yeah "another IMPORT ALBUM from JCM records." Still got the sticker on it. After doing a bit of research it looks like the album has never been released with liner notes other than the ones linked to in my previous post. Also I have found absolutely no mention to the 16rpms issue in conjunction with Eno. Now there is a story involving Jerry Garcia along these lines that may somehow been confused by someone.
I meant another device other than a PC. As in I download them on my PC and burn them to a CD or copy them to a MP3 player.
Unfortunately this is only being offered in Real Audio format. It would be very nice to have this in at least mp3 or ogg format so one could listen to them on something other than a PC.
Maybe I'm one of the few that would burn the 19 or so CDs required and throw them in may changer + repeat for a few days. Of course I'd probably have to end up opening up soundforge and fixing the files so there would be 1 per CD, but I'd even do that.
Unfortunatly I don't have real player, nor the software to work with these files and I am not willing to install it. This has to do with my unwillingness to support Real and their practices and is an issue that will not be changed by whether or not music is available only in that format. Call me principled.
If the creator happens to read this please allow your audience to actually appreciate your work, and if someone else has somehow done the conversion already and managed to maintain a somewhat clear copy of the audio please either post here or let me know.
Sorry, don't mean to be a smartass, but your original comment inspired me to pull out my copy of Discreet Music and throw it on the turntable. I'm listening to it now.
As I look on the back cover it says nothing regarding the 16/33 issue or even anything to do with the speed the record was played at. It was however played at a very low level, with only one of the stereo channels functioning. The end of the paragraph that describes the experience is more than worth the cost of the record in my opinion.
This is the original release (that I was very excited to find in my local record shop, Last Chance Records). A copy of the text can be found on probably the best Eno site on the web here.
One interesting thing about this album is that it is well documented. He explains the purpose and the method involved in creating the album and provides a operational diagram for the setup he used to create (or more accurately direct) it. I guess this appeals to the Computer Scientist in me as well as the music appreciator.
If you check out the Gnome summary released today, you will also see that Evolution tops the CVS commits list partly due to the activity on the GTK2 port. mmmmm. gtk2 evolution. Next thing you know Mozilla will be all GTK2ed and AAed.