At least Imax 3D is bright. Our only local theater has crappy projectors that are so dim that you can't see anything. I boycott 3D pretty much all the time for this reason. Sharpness? Can't say that I've noticed a big diff. I've yet to see anything that made 3D truly compelling for me, including The Hobbit. I'll wait for the 2D version or the DVD.
Full sets of Org and Stormwind, a romance between a human and blood elf and the story of their doomed relationship. Sort of an adult Romeo & Juliet. Lots of singing shop keepers and AH workers. They meet during an Alliance raid on Undercity where the Belf happens to be visiting the apothecary and the human is smitten.
I would actually like to see MS OS decline and force them to offer their server tools for other platforms. I love SQL Server and have been an administrator for every version since the old 4.21a on OS/2, I hate the fact that it's Windows Server-only. It probably would lose I/O performance in benchmarks on other platforms, but I think it would actually improve their competition against Oracle, where they clearly win on licensing.
I've thought a lot about this exact point. I, too, would like to see Apple come out with less expensive and expandable systems. I think the main reason they maintain their tight lock is they don't want the plague of problems that Windows users experience due to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Anyone can make hardware that works, to varying degree, with MS OS, and MS will try to support it. And sometimes fail. And most frustratingly, fail intermittently. Apple maintains extremely tight control to try to minimize the IDIC problem and improve the user experience through higher reliability and fewer crashes.
There's no way Microsoft can fully test their products against the infinite combinations of hardware, old and new and forthcoming, that are possible in the world outside of their labs. Users are going to pay for this in the form of crashes and problems, it's unavoidable.
Apple, OS-X, iOS, etc., is not perfect. It has problems, but in my experience much fewer than Windows. I've used MS operating systems professionally since Dos 1.0 through Win 7 and currently use it, but I'm infinitely happier with my Mac equipment like the Air that I'm typing this on. OS-X has its limitations and problems, and though Win 7 is a very good product, I'm still a lot more frustrated with it than I think I should be. We pay a higher price for hardware, and it's fairly high-end hardware and lasts a long time. I would really like less expensive and expandable hardware, I'm just not sure that fits Apple's culture.
My wife found me online December 2003, we married June 2005, today is our 8th anniversary. We accelerated our wedding plans when we found out her father was terminal with cancer that spread to his brain, he was in good shape for the wedding and was dead 11 days later.
I've come to believe that everyone is damaged goods to one degree or another. She has her problems, some of which can be kind of crippling. I certainly have my problems, which aren't quite as crippling.
I don't think we filtered too much prior to meeting, obviously we weren't dumping all of our emotional background that early. We met FtF two or three months after we started conversing online and on the phone and it basically confirmed the chemistry. We were semi-long distance, 500 miles between us. I was telecommuting, she's an astronomer which gives her long blocks of time off, so traveling to see each other wasn't a big deal. It worked pretty well to get to know each other, and it's continued to work well.
Oh, man! I unwillingly went and saw After Earth on Friday night and was as thoroughly unimpressed as I had expected to be. MNS on CK2 would be awesome. Awesomely bad, that is. Might make a great MST3K, though.
Green Lantern was not exactly a great movie, Blade Runner was. Ignoring how faithful the original was to the source material, the sequel has to be very faithful to the original movie to ensure good story continuity. Someone that would impress me would be Peter Jackson or Del Toro. For that matter, Kevin Smith would impress me if he were attached to the project. Or William Goldman, a master at re-writes.
Though it's entirely possible that I'm turning in to a curmudgeon and should stick to my video collection and watch 20+ year old movies only, I thought Star Trek Into Darkness was kinda sucky and hold little hope in my heart for JJ's Star Wars movies.
Personally, I want to see it deploy, then malfunction and toast some of the computers of the execs and their kids and their parents. THEN you might see a change of opinion. Not unlike that music exec who found out that his kids regularly swapped MP3s with their friends.
Myself, I'm not too concerned. First, pretty much all of the music that I buy was made years ago, Zia's and Bookman's in Phoenix and Tucson are great places for such acquisitions. Second, I use a Mac. While not immune to malware, it's highly unlikely they'd target OS-X.
I have one, and I like it. I haven't rooted it yet, hope to do that later this summer. Bought it for my wife for Xmas a couple of years ago, she didn't care for it. I started using it a month ago and quite like it for reading books off Project Gutenberg. Just finished the first volume of letters from Ludwig Von Beethoven and The Great Gatsby. 1984 and the second collection of B's letters are up next.
I didn't want a Kindle because of the Mobi requirement and the conversion that you had to do to read epub. I also prefer to avoid giving money to monocultures if I can avoid it, which isn't often.
Check out Age of Conan. I like the quest system there, it makes you feel like your decisions make a difference. Unfortunately the free-to-play download is 20 gig to check it out, so be prepared to eat some bandwidth.
Apparently Everquest set up a classic server where the population had to vote as to what expansions and patches are applied. A friend of mine is having a great time on it. I don't know if that would work for WoW.
I don't have a ink, but I recall reading recently that Microsoft was recently awarded a patent for using geolocation to force cell phones in to silent mode at movie theaters. I think that would be awesome, assuming, of course, that they remembered your previous state and restored it when you left the theater.
Forbes was recently on the NPR debate program, Intelligence Squared, arguing for the gold standard. I'm not in the least surprised by him saying that Bitcoin is not money, but I don't agree with him. There is value behind Bitcoin, it takes your computer's resources to generate it. The problem that I have with the gold standard is that a lot of countries have very little gold, what are we to think of them?
Thanks for the info. The only VMs that I've worked with were XP and Win 7 and Scientific Linux, haven't worked with any of the older MS OS's as VMs. Makes sense. I'm sure I can find some older hardware tucked away some place if I can't get the VM working, but I'd prefer the VM for travel with my laptop. My experience with clock problems was more with the older, early Dos days, I don't recall experiencing that with Win 95/98 era games, but it was a very long time ago and a lot of OS and hardware water under the bridge.
Definite +1. I was working for a police department in the 90's, coincidentally when I started reading Slashdot, we had LAN slag-fests almost every lunch hour. We even bought our own hub and ran our own ethernet in the drop ceiling so we could disconnect from the LAN and form our own game LAN for our death matches.
LOTS of fun! Dos 6's multi-config was definitely awesome.
We do it because they were great games. In the 90's we played Outlaws, usually in the Kill The Fool With The Chicken mode (which I'd love to see implemented in WoW), I think it was the first game that had a telescopic sight, a knife, and dynamite. Before that it was just BFG's and grenades. And you actually had to reload your weapons! Very revolutionary. The games that we played were great games, and there were a few stinkers, but right now I'm looking for my copy of Win 98 so I can make a VM to play Outlaws and Dungeon Keeper.
I turned my back on Palm because they turned their back on their users and started making crap products. I started back in the 90's with a III then went to a Vx. I actually wore them out. The breaking point was going to a Tx, absolute piece of garbage that couldn't maintain screen/pen registration and crashed far too often. Replaced that with whatever their $99 cheapo color Zire was, and that was adequate until it, too, lost screen registration. After a misadventure with a Dell/WinCE handheld, I heard the iPod Touch had apps and I became a happy man again. I now use a iPhone 4S, my first and only smart phone and it's been an excellent PDA, I might go to a 5 in November.
There are things that I don't like about Apple's core apps that Palm did infinitely better, and I've given up trying to find suitable replacements. Specifically, the calendar is not as easy to use, especially in the limitations on scheduling recurring appointments and not having a snooze for alerts, and the notes app doesn't allow me to easily organize by category. Yes, you can do as good of recurrence customization in the OS-X calendar app, but I shouldn't have to use two apps and let them sync. And Calendar's interface for entering appointments is pretty hideous.
Maybe I'll look in to writing my own iOS apps, I've got some time right now.
My favorite example of this was Foxbase. It was such a faithful copy of dBase III that they copied the bugs, because the bugs in dBase had well-known workarounds, and to fix the bug would be to break production code.
Sometimes I miss dBase/Foxbase, then I wake up and go back to SQL Server.
Medical debts also cannot be discharged via bankruptcy, this was added during the Dubya years. And medical debts is the cause of something like 70% of bankruptcy filings, as of several years ago when I last read about it.
I had a procedure performed at the Mayo Institute in Phoenix. Went in for a consult before, and the doctors wore very nice suits and all of them, three IIRC, washed their hands when they came in to my room and washed them before they left. A month or two later I got a phone call: follow-up satisfaction survey and they asked if I had noticed the hand washing. I was very happy with both the washing and the survey.
That aside, as a person whose body does not produce immuneglobin, I am a great admirer of herd immunity. I am considering surveying local hospitals to find out the compliance rate of staff for immunizations as a preemptive move in case I need hospitalization.
... There are plenty of advanced and technical users. I know plenty of engineers and techies who prefer Macs....
Just to support your point, I am an advanced user and switched to Mac 5 years ago while still earning my living on Windows. I have a VM running Win 7 for three programs: SQL Server, Access, and Steam. My wife is an astronomer and the entire observatory is based around Macs and Unix/Linux.
NM Mining is also a home away from home for Mythbusters. They used their rocket rail at least twice, and used their explosives range for trying to make diamonds with explosives and also to test the RPG vs revolver from the movie Red. Mythbusters also used Apache Point Observatory as part of their lunar landing myth episode, my wife operates APO's Apollo lunar laser ranging system.
Being a New Mexican (Cloudcroft is very nice if you can live without good bookstores and movie theaters within 75 miles), the thing that I find most weird is talking to people in other states who think New Mexico is part of the country just south of us. My wife and I have spoken with people that, when given our shipping address, say "we don't ship to foreign countries."
Martinez? She seems a decent governor. Definitely less loony than Jan Brewer.
I was just thinking that it would be interesting to see them install a key logger on my MacBook Air. Malware would still be a possibility. The problem with Mac's is that they found a flaw with their included disk encryption in that the boot volume has a master password that is recoverable, additional volumes do not have this recoverable key. And if the person must have Windows, give them Parallels on the encrypted volume.
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At least Imax 3D is bright. Our only local theater has crappy projectors that are so dim that you can't see anything. I boycott 3D pretty much all the time for this reason. Sharpness? Can't say that I've noticed a big diff. I've yet to see anything that made 3D truly compelling for me, including The Hobbit. I'll wait for the 2D version or the DVD.
Full sets of Org and Stormwind, a romance between a human and blood elf and the story of their doomed relationship. Sort of an adult Romeo & Juliet. Lots of singing shop keepers and AH workers. They meet during an Alliance raid on Undercity where the Belf happens to be visiting the apothecary and the human is smitten.
I would actually like to see MS OS decline and force them to offer their server tools for other platforms. I love SQL Server and have been an administrator for every version since the old 4.21a on OS/2, I hate the fact that it's Windows Server-only. It probably would lose I/O performance in benchmarks on other platforms, but I think it would actually improve their competition against Oracle, where they clearly win on licensing.
I've thought a lot about this exact point. I, too, would like to see Apple come out with less expensive and expandable systems. I think the main reason they maintain their tight lock is they don't want the plague of problems that Windows users experience due to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Anyone can make hardware that works, to varying degree, with MS OS, and MS will try to support it. And sometimes fail. And most frustratingly, fail intermittently. Apple maintains extremely tight control to try to minimize the IDIC problem and improve the user experience through higher reliability and fewer crashes.
There's no way Microsoft can fully test their products against the infinite combinations of hardware, old and new and forthcoming, that are possible in the world outside of their labs. Users are going to pay for this in the form of crashes and problems, it's unavoidable.
Apple, OS-X, iOS, etc., is not perfect. It has problems, but in my experience much fewer than Windows. I've used MS operating systems professionally since Dos 1.0 through Win 7 and currently use it, but I'm infinitely happier with my Mac equipment like the Air that I'm typing this on. OS-X has its limitations and problems, and though Win 7 is a very good product, I'm still a lot more frustrated with it than I think I should be. We pay a higher price for hardware, and it's fairly high-end hardware and lasts a long time. I would really like less expensive and expandable hardware, I'm just not sure that fits Apple's culture.
My wife found me online December 2003, we married June 2005, today is our 8th anniversary. We accelerated our wedding plans when we found out her father was terminal with cancer that spread to his brain, he was in good shape for the wedding and was dead 11 days later.
I've come to believe that everyone is damaged goods to one degree or another. She has her problems, some of which can be kind of crippling. I certainly have my problems, which aren't quite as crippling.
I don't think we filtered too much prior to meeting, obviously we weren't dumping all of our emotional background that early. We met FtF two or three months after we started conversing online and on the phone and it basically confirmed the chemistry. We were semi-long distance, 500 miles between us. I was telecommuting, she's an astronomer which gives her long blocks of time off, so traveling to see each other wasn't a big deal. It worked pretty well to get to know each other, and it's continued to work well.
But definitely Your Mileage WILL Vary.
Oh, man! I unwillingly went and saw After Earth on Friday night and was as thoroughly unimpressed as I had expected to be. MNS on CK2 would be awesome. Awesomely bad, that is. Might make a great MST3K, though.
Green Lantern was not exactly a great movie, Blade Runner was. Ignoring how faithful the original was to the source material, the sequel has to be very faithful to the original movie to ensure good story continuity. Someone that would impress me would be Peter Jackson or Del Toro. For that matter, Kevin Smith would impress me if he were attached to the project. Or William Goldman, a master at re-writes.
Though it's entirely possible that I'm turning in to a curmudgeon and should stick to my video collection and watch 20+ year old movies only, I thought Star Trek Into Darkness was kinda sucky and hold little hope in my heart for JJ's Star Wars movies.
Personally, I want to see it deploy, then malfunction and toast some of the computers of the execs and their kids and their parents. THEN you might see a change of opinion. Not unlike that music exec who found out that his kids regularly swapped MP3s with their friends.
Myself, I'm not too concerned. First, pretty much all of the music that I buy was made years ago, Zia's and Bookman's in Phoenix and Tucson are great places for such acquisitions. Second, I use a Mac. While not immune to malware, it's highly unlikely they'd target OS-X.
I have one, and I like it. I haven't rooted it yet, hope to do that later this summer. Bought it for my wife for Xmas a couple of years ago, she didn't care for it. I started using it a month ago and quite like it for reading books off Project Gutenberg. Just finished the first volume of letters from Ludwig Von Beethoven and The Great Gatsby. 1984 and the second collection of B's letters are up next.
I didn't want a Kindle because of the Mobi requirement and the conversion that you had to do to read epub. I also prefer to avoid giving money to monocultures if I can avoid it, which isn't often.
Check out Age of Conan. I like the quest system there, it makes you feel like your decisions make a difference. Unfortunately the free-to-play download is 20 gig to check it out, so be prepared to eat some bandwidth.
Apparently Everquest set up a classic server where the population had to vote as to what expansions and patches are applied. A friend of mine is having a great time on it. I don't know if that would work for WoW.
I don't have a ink, but I recall reading recently that Microsoft was recently awarded a patent for using geolocation to force cell phones in to silent mode at movie theaters. I think that would be awesome, assuming, of course, that they remembered your previous state and restored it when you left the theater.
Forbes was recently on the NPR debate program, Intelligence Squared, arguing for the gold standard. I'm not in the least surprised by him saying that Bitcoin is not money, but I don't agree with him. There is value behind Bitcoin, it takes your computer's resources to generate it. The problem that I have with the gold standard is that a lot of countries have very little gold, what are we to think of them?
IIRC, he lost the debate.
Thanks for the info. The only VMs that I've worked with were XP and Win 7 and Scientific Linux, haven't worked with any of the older MS OS's as VMs. Makes sense. I'm sure I can find some older hardware tucked away some place if I can't get the VM working, but I'd prefer the VM for travel with my laptop. My experience with clock problems was more with the older, early Dos days, I don't recall experiencing that with Win 95/98 era games, but it was a very long time ago and a lot of OS and hardware water under the bridge.
Definite +1. I was working for a police department in the 90's, coincidentally when I started reading Slashdot, we had LAN slag-fests almost every lunch hour. We even bought our own hub and ran our own ethernet in the drop ceiling so we could disconnect from the LAN and form our own game LAN for our death matches.
LOTS of fun! Dos 6's multi-config was definitely awesome.
We do it because they were great games. In the 90's we played Outlaws, usually in the Kill The Fool With The Chicken mode (which I'd love to see implemented in WoW), I think it was the first game that had a telescopic sight, a knife, and dynamite. Before that it was just BFG's and grenades. And you actually had to reload your weapons! Very revolutionary. The games that we played were great games, and there were a few stinkers, but right now I'm looking for my copy of Win 98 so I can make a VM to play Outlaws and Dungeon Keeper.
I turned my back on Palm because they turned their back on their users and started making crap products. I started back in the 90's with a III then went to a Vx. I actually wore them out. The breaking point was going to a Tx, absolute piece of garbage that couldn't maintain screen/pen registration and crashed far too often. Replaced that with whatever their $99 cheapo color Zire was, and that was adequate until it, too, lost screen registration. After a misadventure with a Dell/WinCE handheld, I heard the iPod Touch had apps and I became a happy man again. I now use a iPhone 4S, my first and only smart phone and it's been an excellent PDA, I might go to a 5 in November.
There are things that I don't like about Apple's core apps that Palm did infinitely better, and I've given up trying to find suitable replacements. Specifically, the calendar is not as easy to use, especially in the limitations on scheduling recurring appointments and not having a snooze for alerts, and the notes app doesn't allow me to easily organize by category. Yes, you can do as good of recurrence customization in the OS-X calendar app, but I shouldn't have to use two apps and let them sync. And Calendar's interface for entering appointments is pretty hideous.
Maybe I'll look in to writing my own iOS apps, I've got some time right now.
I really liked Kangaroo.
My favorite example of this was Foxbase. It was such a faithful copy of dBase III that they copied the bugs, because the bugs in dBase had well-known workarounds, and to fix the bug would be to break production code.
Sometimes I miss dBase/Foxbase, then I wake up and go back to SQL Server.
Medical debts also cannot be discharged via bankruptcy, this was added during the Dubya years. And medical debts is the cause of something like 70% of bankruptcy filings, as of several years ago when I last read about it.
I had a procedure performed at the Mayo Institute in Phoenix. Went in for a consult before, and the doctors wore very nice suits and all of them, three IIRC, washed their hands when they came in to my room and washed them before they left. A month or two later I got a phone call: follow-up satisfaction survey and they asked if I had noticed the hand washing. I was very happy with both the washing and the survey.
That aside, as a person whose body does not produce immuneglobin, I am a great admirer of herd immunity. I am considering surveying local hospitals to find out the compliance rate of staff for immunizations as a preemptive move in case I need hospitalization.
... There are plenty of advanced and technical users. I know plenty of engineers and techies who prefer Macs. ...
Just to support your point, I am an advanced user and switched to Mac 5 years ago while still earning my living on Windows. I have a VM running Win 7 for three programs: SQL Server, Access, and Steam. My wife is an astronomer and the entire observatory is based around Macs and Unix/Linux.
NM Mining is also a home away from home for Mythbusters. They used their rocket rail at least twice, and used their explosives range for trying to make diamonds with explosives and also to test the RPG vs revolver from the movie Red. Mythbusters also used Apache Point Observatory as part of their lunar landing myth episode, my wife operates APO's Apollo lunar laser ranging system.
Being a New Mexican (Cloudcroft is very nice if you can live without good bookstores and movie theaters within 75 miles), the thing that I find most weird is talking to people in other states who think New Mexico is part of the country just south of us. My wife and I have spoken with people that, when given our shipping address, say "we don't ship to foreign countries."
Martinez? She seems a decent governor. Definitely less loony than Jan Brewer.
I was just thinking that it would be interesting to see them install a key logger on my MacBook Air. Malware would still be a possibility. The problem with Mac's is that they found a flaw with their included disk encryption in that the boot volume has a master password that is recoverable, additional volumes do not have this recoverable key. And if the person must have Windows, give them Parallels on the encrypted volume.