I've been happy with both Blue Host for ISP and NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration. NFS has a "buy credits" model then charges you tiny amounts daily. They also have an anonymizer DNS service for additional amounts. They handle auto-renewal of domains smoothly if you so select it. NFS also has inexpensive hosting, but that depends on your needs.
My web site is Spare Brains Games, I'll be posting links whenever I get it going and will hopefully have it available on iTunes, RSS, and I'm going to try to seed it through torrents. It'll probably be called High Altitude Game Design (I live at 8600'). But I don't know when I'm going to start production, I've been noodling ideas around for a few months now and working more with Audacity. I've been doing card game design for over 6 years now and sell a game called Zombie Cafe through The Game Depot in Tempe, AZ, and I can sell it through my web site but I don't have PayPal links up at the moment.
I've been considering doing a podcast on board/card game design and music is an issue. I know there's lots of Creative Commons music out there, but who has time to go through it? With this, I can find selections of music that I already have and like, download their version, and Robert's your mother's brother.
I'm also impressed by Kickstarter. I didn't know about it until last week and I ?think it's also pretty cool.
I saw the update was available for my Mac and didn't download it. I've disabled Genius and the other cruft, all I use it for is ripping and playing music and dealing with my iPod Touch.
I definitely don't need a musical social networking site. I haven't bought a single music track from iTunes and don't plan on ever doing such. I have bought one album from Amazon, that's about it. I much prefer to own the physical CD and rip it myself, but my music is firmly rooted mostly in 70's/80's rock, and there's lots of good used music stores in Phoenix (Zia's, Bookmans) to shop at.
NeoOffice on my Mac does a nice job of maintaining state if the program should crash. Just yesterday I ran in to one of the few ill-behaved Mac apps that demanded a reboot after installation. I expected a prompt to reboot, didn't get it, and suddenly my machine was shutting down and rebooting. NeoOffice recovered effortlessly.
We went from Windows For Workgroups to NT 3 in the IT dept where I was at and I never went back to consumer-grade MS OS. Three years ago I switched to Mac, and am quite happy. Sadly I keep an XP Pro VM around, will probably have to upgrade it to 7 so I can remote support my dad.
Speaking of mementos, there's a book carried by Amazon called Memento: My Life In Stories, that could provide a guided structure for capturing some of what you're looking for. I've been thinking about buying copies for my surviving relatives.
http://www.amazon.com/Memento-Life-Stories-Michael-McQueen/dp/0811873757/
Last week I listened to a Things You Missed In History Class podcast re: Alcatraz. They said that there was an infamously strict warden that did not allow any prisoners to talk, in their cells or in open areas such as the mess hall. While this rule was in place, prisoner violence was at an all-time low, essentially you can't as easily piss someone off and get shanked if you can't talk to them. Eventually the prisoners all started talking: they couldn't throw them all in solitary.
I'm not saying all prisons should be silent, just pointing out an interesting factoid.
I think one of the biggest problems is that prison has become an industry and guards are underpaid. I'm not saying they should be paid six figures, but they should be more bribe-resistant to smuggling in contraband.
I HATE Google doing this! In fact, I ripped out Picassa and Chrome on my Mac because of these silent updates. I don't have a problem if this was a configuration option set on during install that I could turn off, but it isn't. Since Firefox will allow it to update in the traditional manner, I'm fine with that, but I HATE it being done silently in the background!
I have found that there is a way to block Google's silent update on a Mac, it basically requires creating an empty file in a certain directory with the name of their update process and then locking the permissions to that. I assume the technique would easily work for *nix, dunno about Win. However, I really don't care for Chrome or Picassa, I mainly had them for checking web site updates across multiple browsers.
I've never had an update FUBAR my system, but I've seen it happen and I will not apply an update until it has sat around for a few days. Perhaps that's not the soundest strategy as I maintain good backups and it's really easy to reinstall a Mac from an OS CD and Time Machine backup, still... I almost got pwned four years ago when an exploit was found in VNC, but that's another story.
Tempe Town Lake (AZ) recently blew up. I have photos from before the accident, and I happened to be in town just after they drained the lake, and shot a lot of pix at twilight. I plan on going back late this year and maybe trying to go back the same day next year and try to re-shoot the same pix with the lake full. I think it could be interesting, I believe it won't be easy.
Skilled Photoshop use is just that: a skill. It takes a lot of work to make good photographs, as opposed to just snapping pictures.
I mostly use their iPhone app, and it really frustrates me when a new game comes out and everyone jumps on the band wagon. I have to sign on on my laptop then disable every freakin' game. I'm personally not too concerned about the privacy aspect though I certainly respect those with that concern, but if they'd just let me block all game apps, I'd be blissfully happy.
I installed a copy of Windows 2000 Pro RTM, the machine was online directly through a cable modem - not a router, and it was compromised before I could install SP 4. It was on a friend's machine which had crashed in a very interesting fashion. We went and bought a copy of XP Pro with SP2 and it's been smooth ever since.
And contrary to popular belief, flying can be fairly affordable. The average non-commercial, private pilot makes less than $40K a year. The average plane owner makes less than $80K a year. And even with a headwind, a typical small, SE plane is still faster than ground transportation - and a hell of a lot more fun!
I can understand the costs are more affordable than they initially appear for people of more moderate means. My problem is that if I fly to Phoenix to visit friends and family (500 miles), regardless of commercial or private aviation, I would have to rent a car once I got there. That rental is going to cost more than my fuel cost to drive there myself ($100-150 round trip). If I were visiting one family, they could drive out and pick up my wife and I, but we're then restricted to doing things as a group and my wife and I can't run amuck ourselves.
I use a Mac. If my USB stick gets infected, my computer is safe. But if I then go in to work and use my USB stick on a Windows box....
You can't totally ignore this.
I went and visited one of my original CS teachers from 25+ years ago. The college she's at no longer teaches programming theory sans a language, so now every programming language 101 class she teaches she has to teach theory. Guaranteed lots of things are lost. People want to learn C# (or whatever), not theory, not realizing that if they know theory well, they can pick up most any language much easier.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Two of the three women in my guild (it's a very small guild, a dozen players) have bought in to the Real ID stuff. One will not because there's no granularity, she doesn't want people to know when she's signed on to a different server running an alt.
I think this, and Real ID, is a half-baked idea. In order to post on the official forums, you must have an account. You are identified through that account to Bliz. Your posts are through which ever character toon you like, so you have the same level of anonymity as you do when you're in-game: i.e., you can reveal as much or as little as you want. But Real ID puts your Real Name out there for the world.
This isn't as bad as the recent Facebook fracas, but that doesn't mean it's good.
Last week I went through Carlsbad Caverns with my 6MP Rebel and a Bogen tripod. Shots were wonderful (and heavily bracketed!). I want a higher MP camera, but I want to go to a full-frame sensor when I upgrade -- I don't like not being able to have a true wide angle lens.
Yeah, it's funny when people argue about MP vs imaging sensor size. Just like when 110 Instamatics were big and people wondered why their enlargements sucked. Bad glass, small negative -- you ain't gonna get quality out of something like that.
This is FUNNY, not insightful. The song Shaving Cream was one of the songs that was a mainstay when I listened as a kid in the 70's, though personally I preferred the original and not the version that The Doctor re-recorded. Speaking of which, Barry's the original Doctor as far as I'm concerned, I was listening to him long before some Timelord came over from England.
My big problem with the show was finding stations that broadcast it. I don't know if it was ever listed, but even his web site didn't list the stations that carried it! How the heck are you supposed to find a program to listen to if you can't find a list of stations that carry it?!
So in this way I hope his audience expands. Now that I know I can stream it, I'll definitely try to catch it occasionally.
If you look closely at some of the ballot initiatives decriminalizing marijuana, it's not just pot: they're wanting to legalize all drugs. And sorry, though I think pot is less harmful to society than alcohol, I can't go for decriminalizing all drugs.
Hubble has been up for 20 and a month, though it took 3+ years to fix the aberrant lens so it could produce good science. It's currently planned to maintain operations for at least another 3 years. Personally I hope it's kept in service until the last gyro dies, THEN they attach the booster to de-orbit it. It would be a beautiful thing if they could actually capture it and return it to Earth to be placed in the Smithsonian when it hits end of life, but that's not going to happen.
The Hubble can operate, more or less, 24/7, while SOFIA is limited to the flight hours available on its 747. I would love to see a breakdown of the operating costs comparing Hubble and SOFIA: ignore construction and launch, just how much per hour (which would have to include the 747 maintenance) each costs. Hubble has more ground crew, but there is no cost currently for it to operate.
My wife operates a 3.5 meter telescopes with a variety of instruments available to it. Operating costs are estimated at about $1,000 an hour.
I installed Chrome two months ago on my Mac based on a friend's recommendation. It had a couple of quirks that I didn't like so I went back to Firefox. I saw this thread today and decided to re-open Chrome, update it, and see what was up with the changes.
It was already updated to 5.0.375.55.
I did not tell it to update. I do not see any option to tell it to automatically update anywhere in my system. I do not let anything update by itself, a hangover from my Windows days. And unless I find such an option and a way to turn it off, I'm ripping Chrome out by the roots.
My wife's an astronomer, the observatory that she's at has two science telescopes. Most of the data center back end is linux/Sun: her 3.5 meter telescope is mainly Mac in the control room, the 2.5 meter is mainly PC. The instruments are a total mish-mash: they can run whatever the instrument engineers want, as along as they talk to the *nix back end. They also have an old Alpha running VMS and Forth, IIRC.
That being said, this is not all of the analysis platforms. This is the data collection point, the actual analysis is performed by the scientists at the various member institutions, and there's no telling what they're running.
Having worked at two university computer labs, I like the idea of the terminal server and just having students RDP in. That sounds like a very nice solution. We ran Deep Freeze at one college, and every semester break you'd go to all of the computer labs applying updates or installing new images. Major PITB -- boot computer, enter Deep Freeze PW, reboot computer, apply updates (which probably entails more reboots), apply Deep Freeze PW, shut down.
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I've been happy with both Blue Host for ISP and NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration. NFS has a "buy credits" model then charges you tiny amounts daily. They also have an anonymizer DNS service for additional amounts. They handle auto-renewal of domains smoothly if you so select it. NFS also has inexpensive hosting, but that depends on your needs.
I recommend both.
My web site is Spare Brains Games, I'll be posting links whenever I get it going and will hopefully have it available on iTunes, RSS, and I'm going to try to seed it through torrents. It'll probably be called High Altitude Game Design (I live at 8600'). But I don't know when I'm going to start production, I've been noodling ideas around for a few months now and working more with Audacity. I've been doing card game design for over 6 years now and sell a game called Zombie Cafe through The Game Depot in Tempe, AZ, and I can sell it through my web site but I don't have PayPal links up at the moment.
I've been considering doing a podcast on board/card game design and music is an issue. I know there's lots of Creative Commons music out there, but who has time to go through it? With this, I can find selections of music that I already have and like, download their version, and Robert's your mother's brother.
I'm also impressed by Kickstarter. I didn't know about it until last week and I ?think it's also pretty cool.
I saw the update was available for my Mac and didn't download it. I've disabled Genius and the other cruft, all I use it for is ripping and playing music and dealing with my iPod Touch.
I definitely don't need a musical social networking site. I haven't bought a single music track from iTunes and don't plan on ever doing such. I have bought one album from Amazon, that's about it. I much prefer to own the physical CD and rip it myself, but my music is firmly rooted mostly in 70's/80's rock, and there's lots of good used music stores in Phoenix (Zia's, Bookmans) to shop at.
NeoOffice on my Mac does a nice job of maintaining state if the program should crash. Just yesterday I ran in to one of the few ill-behaved Mac apps that demanded a reboot after installation. I expected a prompt to reboot, didn't get it, and suddenly my machine was shutting down and rebooting. NeoOffice recovered effortlessly.
And Buddha makes incremental backups!
We went from Windows For Workgroups to NT 3 in the IT dept where I was at and I never went back to consumer-grade MS OS. Three years ago I switched to Mac, and am quite happy. Sadly I keep an XP Pro VM around, will probably have to upgrade it to 7 so I can remote support my dad.
Speaking of mementos, there's a book carried by Amazon called Memento: My Life In Stories, that could provide a guided structure for capturing some of what you're looking for. I've been thinking about buying copies for my surviving relatives. http://www.amazon.com/Memento-Life-Stories-Michael-McQueen/dp/0811873757/
Last week I listened to a Things You Missed In History Class podcast re: Alcatraz. They said that there was an infamously strict warden that did not allow any prisoners to talk, in their cells or in open areas such as the mess hall. While this rule was in place, prisoner violence was at an all-time low, essentially you can't as easily piss someone off and get shanked if you can't talk to them. Eventually the prisoners all started talking: they couldn't throw them all in solitary.
I'm not saying all prisons should be silent, just pointing out an interesting factoid.
I think one of the biggest problems is that prison has become an industry and guards are underpaid. I'm not saying they should be paid six figures, but they should be more bribe-resistant to smuggling in contraband.
I HATE Google doing this! In fact, I ripped out Picassa and Chrome on my Mac because of these silent updates. I don't have a problem if this was a configuration option set on during install that I could turn off, but it isn't. Since Firefox will allow it to update in the traditional manner, I'm fine with that, but I HATE it being done silently in the background!
I have found that there is a way to block Google's silent update on a Mac, it basically requires creating an empty file in a certain directory with the name of their update process and then locking the permissions to that. I assume the technique would easily work for *nix, dunno about Win. However, I really don't care for Chrome or Picassa, I mainly had them for checking web site updates across multiple browsers.
I've never had an update FUBAR my system, but I've seen it happen and I will not apply an update until it has sat around for a few days. Perhaps that's not the soundest strategy as I maintain good backups and it's really easy to reinstall a Mac from an OS CD and Time Machine backup, still... I almost got pwned four years ago when an exploit was found in VNC, but that's another story.
Agreed, this is not a simple Photoshop job.
Tempe Town Lake (AZ) recently blew up. I have photos from before the accident, and I happened to be in town just after they drained the lake, and shot a lot of pix at twilight. I plan on going back late this year and maybe trying to go back the same day next year and try to re-shoot the same pix with the lake full. I think it could be interesting, I believe it won't be easy.
Skilled Photoshop use is just that: a skill. It takes a lot of work to make good photographs, as opposed to just snapping pictures.
I mostly use their iPhone app, and it really frustrates me when a new game comes out and everyone jumps on the band wagon. I have to sign on on my laptop then disable every freakin' game. I'm personally not too concerned about the privacy aspect though I certainly respect those with that concern, but if they'd just let me block all game apps, I'd be blissfully happy.
I installed a copy of Windows 2000 Pro RTM, the machine was online directly through a cable modem - not a router, and it was compromised before I could install SP 4. It was on a friend's machine which had crashed in a very interesting fashion. We went and bought a copy of XP Pro with SP2 and it's been smooth ever since.
And contrary to popular belief, flying can be fairly affordable. The average non-commercial, private pilot makes less than $40K a year. The average plane owner makes less than $80K a year. And even with a headwind, a typical small, SE plane is still faster than ground transportation - and a hell of a lot more fun!
I can understand the costs are more affordable than they initially appear for people of more moderate means. My problem is that if I fly to Phoenix to visit friends and family (500 miles), regardless of commercial or private aviation, I would have to rent a car once I got there. That rental is going to cost more than my fuel cost to drive there myself ($100-150 round trip). If I were visiting one family, they could drive out and pick up my wife and I, but we're then restricted to doing things as a group and my wife and I can't run amuck ourselves.
I use a Mac. If my USB stick gets infected, my computer is safe. But if I then go in to work and use my USB stick on a Windows box.... You can't totally ignore this.
I went and visited one of my original CS teachers from 25+ years ago. The college she's at no longer teaches programming theory sans a language, so now every programming language 101 class she teaches she has to teach theory. Guaranteed lots of things are lost. People want to learn C# (or whatever), not theory, not realizing that if they know theory well, they can pick up most any language much easier.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Two of the three women in my guild (it's a very small guild, a dozen players) have bought in to the Real ID stuff. One will not because there's no granularity, she doesn't want people to know when she's signed on to a different server running an alt.
I think this, and Real ID, is a half-baked idea. In order to post on the official forums, you must have an account. You are identified through that account to Bliz. Your posts are through which ever character toon you like, so you have the same level of anonymity as you do when you're in-game: i.e., you can reveal as much or as little as you want. But Real ID puts your Real Name out there for the world.
This isn't as bad as the recent Facebook fracas, but that doesn't mean it's good.
You really deserved being modded up for Funny for the Kanye and telethon lines.
Last week I went through Carlsbad Caverns with my 6MP Rebel and a Bogen tripod. Shots were wonderful (and heavily bracketed!). I want a higher MP camera, but I want to go to a full-frame sensor when I upgrade -- I don't like not being able to have a true wide angle lens.
Yeah, it's funny when people argue about MP vs imaging sensor size. Just like when 110 Instamatics were big and people wondered why their enlargements sucked. Bad glass, small negative -- you ain't gonna get quality out of something like that.
This is FUNNY, not insightful. The song Shaving Cream was one of the songs that was a mainstay when I listened as a kid in the 70's, though personally I preferred the original and not the version that The Doctor re-recorded. Speaking of which, Barry's the original Doctor as far as I'm concerned, I was listening to him long before some Timelord came over from England.
My big problem with the show was finding stations that broadcast it. I don't know if it was ever listed, but even his web site didn't list the stations that carried it! How the heck are you supposed to find a program to listen to if you can't find a list of stations that carry it?!
So in this way I hope his audience expands. Now that I know I can stream it, I'll definitely try to catch it occasionally.
One point re: legalizing pot.
If you look closely at some of the ballot initiatives decriminalizing marijuana, it's not just pot: they're wanting to legalize all drugs. And sorry, though I think pot is less harmful to society than alcohol, I can't go for decriminalizing all drugs.
No penguins answered. The only sound they heard was Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
If I had any mod points, you would definitely get ++Funny!
Hubble has been up for 20 and a month, though it took 3+ years to fix the aberrant lens so it could produce good science. It's currently planned to maintain operations for at least another 3 years. Personally I hope it's kept in service until the last gyro dies, THEN they attach the booster to de-orbit it. It would be a beautiful thing if they could actually capture it and return it to Earth to be placed in the Smithsonian when it hits end of life, but that's not going to happen.
The Hubble can operate, more or less, 24/7, while SOFIA is limited to the flight hours available on its 747. I would love to see a breakdown of the operating costs comparing Hubble and SOFIA: ignore construction and launch, just how much per hour (which would have to include the 747 maintenance) each costs. Hubble has more ground crew, but there is no cost currently for it to operate.
My wife operates a 3.5 meter telescopes with a variety of instruments available to it. Operating costs are estimated at about $1,000 an hour.
I installed Chrome two months ago on my Mac based on a friend's recommendation. It had a couple of quirks that I didn't like so I went back to Firefox. I saw this thread today and decided to re-open Chrome, update it, and see what was up with the changes.
It was already updated to 5.0.375.55.
I did not tell it to update. I do not see any option to tell it to automatically update anywhere in my system. I do not let anything update by itself, a hangover from my Windows days. And unless I find such an option and a way to turn it off, I'm ripping Chrome out by the roots.
My wife's an astronomer, the observatory that she's at has two science telescopes. Most of the data center back end is linux/Sun: her 3.5 meter telescope is mainly Mac in the control room, the 2.5 meter is mainly PC. The instruments are a total mish-mash: they can run whatever the instrument engineers want, as along as they talk to the *nix back end. They also have an old Alpha running VMS and Forth, IIRC.
That being said, this is not all of the analysis platforms. This is the data collection point, the actual analysis is performed by the scientists at the various member institutions, and there's no telling what they're running.
Having worked at two university computer labs, I like the idea of the terminal server and just having students RDP in. That sounds like a very nice solution. We ran Deep Freeze at one college, and every semester break you'd go to all of the computer labs applying updates or installing new images. Major PITB -- boot computer, enter Deep Freeze PW, reboot computer, apply updates (which probably entails more reboots), apply Deep Freeze PW, shut down.