And according to www.rockstarnorth.com under their About Us section, they mention Rockstar Games as being a NYC company, with Rockstar North being from Edinburgh (UK).
So yeah, UK for Rockstar North (the people who make GTA).
Depends on how important it is... if it's for my servers that thousands of users at work need to access, you can be sure as hell I read the release notes.
If I'm just playing around... that's it, I play around and look at the manual if there's a problem.
Actually, I'm enrolled in Japanese at the college level right now. I find the software quite helpful if utilized. I can't speak to someone 24 hours a day at my level of knowledge, so having software designed to help me practice is great to have around.
Computers are great, if used properly, and I think that's where the problem lies.
A long time ago, when I was more confused about Linux and kernels and other big words that involve penguins and popcorn, I set up a completely minimal Mandrake base system and then built everything else from the LFS instructions. I think that intermediate level gave me a better grasp of what I was doing.
I don't know if I'd recommend everyone try it, but it sure was an experience I found valuable when later having to mess with even binary package-based distros like Debian.
One thing I find incredibly basic, but incredibly useful, is an online calendar, preloaded with my current quarter's classes. I haven't the faintest idea what software my school ( http://www.uci.edu ) uses, but it seems to be in-house. They also have the ability to go back and forward years in time (though I wasn't here, it shows 1995 as the first year) and all my past quarters classes are listed as well.
It's really handy to plan your day right on that calendar, around your existing classes. The UCI one is rather fully featured (though I feel sometimes not perfectly intuitive), but I still find it ends up being a nice time-saver.
When I go to the umbrella.name site ( http://umbrella.name/originalvuln/msie/DieSlowlyTh isTime/DieSlowlyThisTime.html ), my copy of Firefox (I don't remember if it's an extension or part of the base system, but it) warns me about the actual site I'm going to. I figure, for me, that's good enough (no comments about other browsers and whatnot).
Besides, wouldn't SpoofStick and always showing the location bar be the same thing in the case of double address bars? Except that with SpoofStick, you *always* have 2 bars, and with the "always show" way, you only have to see it "additionally" when a website tries to turn it off.
Not saying the "always on" method is better, and for some, having a giant "YOU'RE ON SLASHDOT.ORG" is a good thing, but for me, it just seems like a waste of good browser space.
My fix is a little easier (in my opinion, only because I hate having another toolbar taking up desktop real estate)...
under about:config, I have dom.disable_window_open_feature.location set to true. So every window must show the location (and because of it, I immediately could see the webpage I was at was not citibank.com).
Disclaimer: I'm a current UCI student (philosophy, of all things).
I think perhaps you are too quick to judge schools you might not know so much about (or perhaps you do, but then I don't know where your information comes from). I have friends at both UCs and Calstates and I'd have to say it doesn't matter which school you go to, you will find PhD's teaching the courses just about everywhere, and only things like discussion sections that are led by a grad student (I believe most if not all are those on their way to a PhD).
So far at UCI, the only bad TA I had was in the one CS class I took, and that was only because I was pages ahead of the rest of the class and I could tell that, while he knew his focus area, his general CS knowledge (how to compile Java on anything besides Windows, etc) wasn't as good as mine. In the rest of the classes, TAs are an exceptional resource, are very intelligent, and their accessibility can often make them better than the professor for various reasons.
Friends of mine at CSUN (all CS) are having trouble because their professors aren't very clear sometimes and it seems to be harder to get in touch with them (in comparison to my personal experience). I also know their education dept lacks quite a bit, since I work for LAUSD and I can compare those who got their degree at a Pepperdine vs CSUN.
What does this mean? Probably nothing. I figure everyone makes their own experience. If you're smart, you'll go far anywhere. If you make the effort, you can have a lot of contact with professors. The research you do at any university depends on your advisor professor and what he's interested in. I think going to an MIT vs a Calstate all depends on the school that most appealed to you. I know people who could have gone to MIT and went to other schools (less known) and the reverse.. people who managed to fake their way into the better schools only to do horribly because they were never good students.
I apologize for the long rant, however I don't believe saying your education was "FAR better" had as much to do with the school as it did with your personal studies.
And maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge students by the name of their university.
I figure disk space/power usage is what's stopping it. When we have 1TB drives that use a few watts of power, then people will be more interested in having some 3000 albums in FLAC. Then the app just says "hey, give me audio for streaming over the web" and the filesystem transcodes it to a level adequate for that task.
I'm curious what kind of computer it is. On my laptop I can get mp3s to rip and encode at about 1/2 realtime (so a 4 minute song takes 2 minutes to rip from CD and convert to mp3, cpu seems to stay at ~800mhz during the process).
And a cache would make sense... something that could eventually be built in if enough people poke around with the code, seeing as how it hasn't been updated since 2002.
I always thought this was a cool idea: http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/
Though not updated in a long while, I think you could use this to automatically convert your flac files to an "mp3 share" and the files would be automatically transcoded to mp3 on the fly as you viewed the Samba share. Just make additional shares for additional file types.
No need to batch process, whatever you want is done on the fly.
I guess I'm of the opinion that as long as it doesn't affect other people, then it's ok. If you could smoke and not produce smoke into the air, but only cause harm to your lungs, then I would be 100% behind it. Even now I'm not "against" smoking, I just prefer not to be around it.
When the porn-addict breaks into a home and rapes a girl because he needs real sex after watching it in a movie, that's a problem.
For me, I watch porn, and a lot of it, and it keeps my sanity in check. I think I choose partners more logically, not having to worry about making sure my semen gets out before it dies in my testes.
That always amazes me, things like... SUVs with bumper stickers for Kerry. It just goes to prove (in my opinion) that the parties don't mean much except "more power to the rich." The moral issues drive the elections because rich hippies (oxymoron? not in LA) have issues with the war and whether gay people should be allowed to do something or other, but not about ruining the environment.
The grandparent is referring to the fact that there are no state taxes in Nevada. I don't mean you don't pay tax on say...items you buy in a store, but you don't pay any on wages, etc. So corporations set themselves up in NV to avoid a lot of the taxes they'd normally have to pay in their home state (like MS, which is a NV company). I suppose my reference is living in Nevada for 7 years (before moving back to California, yayyyyy...)
There's a slight difference in our thinking, I think.
When I say businesses don't have to assume their internal users are enemies... the users can unknowingly ruin systems (works, viruses, etc), but most of them are there just to do their work (the employees). My students specifically take the time to try to break my workstations, servers, and everything in between.
Everything has to be physically protected far more than your standard company (at least in my experiences with both sides). At the lowest level, we find missing mouse balls routinely. It's not as sophisticated as the 20% of employees who are stealing the extra memory out of their machine, but it's much more of a pain in the ass. I wonder if it has to do with the "it's my workstation in my cubicle" mentality vs "this is just a computer in the computer lab."
Businesses don't (and shouldn't have to) assume that every single one of their clients is an enemy, but with a school... you tend to have some exponential number of users that are deliberately out there trying to push the system to see how far they can get. That and the computer systems tend to be much more widely varied.
I've learned a lot of interesting things trying to stop the students from screwing around while still allowing everyone to get their work done whether you're on Windows 95, Mac OS X, or everything in between.
I used it in Japan, it's abso-fucking-lutely amazing. Plus, the best part.. the battery lasts for "10,000 pages" -- the only power is used when altering content.
They run about $400 at the moment, but I'm sure prices will drop.
Can they really deploy cells to individual buildings that easily? Wouldn't it be cost-prohibitive to outfit just about every building or are these mini-cells really that cheap and easy (ie. repeaters of some sort)?
I never really understand this argument. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here... every cell phone provider has dead zones everywhere. I have Sprint, and between all of my friends, we cover every major provider... yet no matter where we go, we always find our signal being dropped everywhere. Step inside a building? Lose signal. Elevator? If you haven't already lost your signal, you're about to lose it.
When I was in Japan last month, I found that none of these problems existed. On train rides in between cities, people were still using their cell phones as if they were standing next to a tower. I had many chances to interact with people who had the latest and greatest phones and they were watching TV on the phone, underground.. where my cell phone wouldn't even get signal.
If it's a population density thing, why do I still have this problem in a city like Los Angeles, yet they're fine travelling in between cities where often we get 0 coverage.
The only downside to their wireless system that I found was that whereas we get tons of cell phone minutes to talk, they get about 30 minutes... but their messaging system is really cheap. So where we spend most of our time with our cell phones to our ears, they're busy typing.
Not to be incredibly pro-MS, but the reason it's so easy to write all these viruses is because MS tried to make it easy to do all sorts of things with your system. VBScript can be and is used for automating administration tasks all the time, yet someone can use it to write some pretty complex worm in very few lines. Not elegant, but easy.
I see the problem being Windows, by default, letting you run as an administrator, instead of a normal-level user, so that when a virus hits, the damage is far less if it can't change certain files, and run with a certain level of power.
It's still not as easy to run as an everyday user, switching to Administrator whenever you need to perform an admin task, as it is on *nix to switch back and forth, at least in my experience. And I admin a primarily Windows network everyday, but use *nix only on a personal level.
So I like the idea that MS gives you all this ability to create and play using technologies that aren't as hard to master as assembly (in the practical sense.. it's harder to write a simple Windows app in assembly than it is in VB), but they're still working on (in my opinion) getting users away from running as admin/root the whole time.
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Hm, I just checked with a friend who has a 4G as well, guess it's new for the iPod photo.
Which version of the iPod do you have? My iPod Photo does exactly what you're saying doesn't happen to yours.
From www.rockstargames.com under their Jobs section:
Jobs: ROCKSTAR NYC, ROCKSTAR SAN DIEGO, ROCKSTAR VIENNA, ROCKSTAR VANCOUVER, ROCKSTAR LONDON:
And according to www.rockstarnorth.com under their About Us section, they mention Rockstar Games as being a NYC company, with Rockstar North being from Edinburgh (UK).
So yeah, UK for Rockstar North (the people who make GTA).
Depends on how important it is... if it's for my servers that thousands of users at work need to access, you can be sure as hell I read the release notes.
If I'm just playing around... that's it, I play around and look at the manual if there's a problem.
Actually, I'm enrolled in Japanese at the college level right now. I find the software quite helpful if utilized. I can't speak to someone 24 hours a day at my level of knowledge, so having software designed to help me practice is great to have around.
Computers are great, if used properly, and I think that's where the problem lies.
A long time ago, when I was more confused about Linux and kernels and other big words that involve penguins and popcorn, I set up a completely minimal Mandrake base system and then built everything else from the LFS instructions. I think that intermediate level gave me a better grasp of what I was doing.
I don't know if I'd recommend everyone try it, but it sure was an experience I found valuable when later having to mess with even binary package-based distros like Debian.
One thing I find incredibly basic, but incredibly useful, is an online calendar, preloaded with my current quarter's classes. I haven't the faintest idea what software my school ( http://www.uci.edu ) uses, but it seems to be in-house. They also have the ability to go back and forward years in time (though I wasn't here, it shows 1995 as the first year) and all my past quarters classes are listed as well.
It's really handy to plan your day right on that calendar, around your existing classes. The UCI one is rather fully featured (though I feel sometimes not perfectly intuitive), but I still find it ends up being a nice time-saver.
When I go to the umbrella.name site ( http://umbrella.name/originalvuln/msie/DieSlowlyTh isTime/DieSlowlyThisTime.html ), my copy of Firefox (I don't remember if it's an extension or part of the base system, but it) warns me about the actual site I'm going to. I figure, for me, that's good enough (no comments about other browsers and whatnot).
Besides, wouldn't SpoofStick and always showing the location bar be the same thing in the case of double address bars? Except that with SpoofStick, you *always* have 2 bars, and with the "always show" way, you only have to see it "additionally" when a website tries to turn it off.
Not saying the "always on" method is better, and for some, having a giant "YOU'RE ON SLASHDOT.ORG" is a good thing, but for me, it just seems like a waste of good browser space.
My fix is a little easier (in my opinion, only because I hate having another toolbar taking up desktop real estate)...
under about:config, I have dom.disable_window_open_feature.location set to true. So every window must show the location (and because of it, I immediately could see the webpage I was at was not citibank.com).
Disclaimer: I'm a current UCI student (philosophy, of all things).
I think perhaps you are too quick to judge schools you might not know so much about (or perhaps you do, but then I don't know where your information comes from). I have friends at both UCs and Calstates and I'd have to say it doesn't matter which school you go to, you will find PhD's teaching the courses just about everywhere, and only things like discussion sections that are led by a grad student (I believe most if not all are those on their way to a PhD).
So far at UCI, the only bad TA I had was in the one CS class I took, and that was only because I was pages ahead of the rest of the class and I could tell that, while he knew his focus area, his general CS knowledge (how to compile Java on anything besides Windows, etc) wasn't as good as mine. In the rest of the classes, TAs are an exceptional resource, are very intelligent, and their accessibility can often make them better than the professor for various reasons.
Friends of mine at CSUN (all CS) are having trouble because their professors aren't very clear sometimes and it seems to be harder to get in touch with them (in comparison to my personal experience). I also know their education dept lacks quite a bit, since I work for LAUSD and I can compare those who got their degree at a Pepperdine vs CSUN.
What does this mean? Probably nothing. I figure everyone makes their own experience. If you're smart, you'll go far anywhere. If you make the effort, you can have a lot of contact with professors. The research you do at any university depends on your advisor professor and what he's interested in. I think going to an MIT vs a Calstate all depends on the school that most appealed to you. I know people who could have gone to MIT and went to other schools (less known) and the reverse.. people who managed to fake their way into the better schools only to do horribly because they were never good students.
I apologize for the long rant, however I don't believe saying your education was "FAR better" had as much to do with the school as it did with your personal studies.
And maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge students by the name of their university.
I figure disk space/power usage is what's stopping it. When we have 1TB drives that use a few watts of power, then people will be more interested in having some 3000 albums in FLAC. Then the app just says "hey, give me audio for streaming over the web" and the filesystem transcodes it to a level adequate for that task.
;)
ext4 maybe?
I'm curious what kind of computer it is. On my laptop I can get mp3s to rip and encode at about 1/2 realtime (so a 4 minute song takes 2 minutes to rip from CD and convert to mp3, cpu seems to stay at ~800mhz during the process).
And a cache would make sense... something that could eventually be built in if enough people poke around with the code, seeing as how it hasn't been updated since 2002.
I always thought this was a cool idea: http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/
Though not updated in a long while, I think you could use this to automatically convert your flac files to an "mp3 share" and the files would be automatically transcoded to mp3 on the fly as you viewed the Samba share. Just make additional shares for additional file types.
No need to batch process, whatever you want is done on the fly.
I guess I'm of the opinion that as long as it doesn't affect other people, then it's ok. If you could smoke and not produce smoke into the air, but only cause harm to your lungs, then I would be 100% behind it. Even now I'm not "against" smoking, I just prefer not to be around it.
When the porn-addict breaks into a home and rapes a girl because he needs real sex after watching it in a movie, that's a problem.
For me, I watch porn, and a lot of it, and it keeps my sanity in check. I think I choose partners more logically, not having to worry about making sure my semen gets out before it dies in my testes.
That always amazes me, things like... SUVs with bumper stickers for Kerry. It just goes to prove (in my opinion) that the parties don't mean much except "more power to the rich." The moral issues drive the elections because rich hippies (oxymoron? not in LA) have issues with the war and whether gay people should be allowed to do something or other, but not about ruining the environment.
The grandparent is referring to the fact that there are no state taxes in Nevada. I don't mean you don't pay tax on say...items you buy in a store, but you don't pay any on wages, etc. So corporations set themselves up in NV to avoid a lot of the taxes they'd normally have to pay in their home state (like MS, which is a NV company). I suppose my reference is living in Nevada for 7 years (before moving back to California, yayyyyy...)
There's a slight difference in our thinking, I think.
When I say businesses don't have to assume their internal users are enemies... the users can unknowingly ruin systems (works, viruses, etc), but most of them are there just to do their work (the employees). My students specifically take the time to try to break my workstations, servers, and everything in between.
Everything has to be physically protected far more than your standard company (at least in my experiences with both sides). At the lowest level, we find missing mouse balls routinely. It's not as sophisticated as the 20% of employees who are stealing the extra memory out of their machine, but it's much more of a pain in the ass. I wonder if it has to do with the "it's my workstation in my cubicle" mentality vs "this is just a computer in the computer lab."
Businesses don't (and shouldn't have to) assume that every single one of their clients is an enemy, but with a school... you tend to have some exponential number of users that are deliberately out there trying to push the system to see how far they can get. That and the computer systems tend to be much more widely varied.
I've learned a lot of interesting things trying to stop the students from screwing around while still allowing everyone to get their work done whether you're on Windows 95, Mac OS X, or everything in between.
Something like this maybe?
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/LIBRIE/
I used it in Japan, it's abso-fucking-lutely amazing. Plus, the best part.. the battery lasts for "10,000 pages" -- the only power is used when altering content.
They run about $400 at the moment, but I'm sure prices will drop.
Can they really deploy cells to individual buildings that easily? Wouldn't it be cost-prohibitive to outfit just about every building or are these mini-cells really that cheap and easy (ie. repeaters of some sort)?
I never really understand this argument. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here... every cell phone provider has dead zones everywhere. I have Sprint, and between all of my friends, we cover every major provider... yet no matter where we go, we always find our signal being dropped everywhere. Step inside a building? Lose signal. Elevator? If you haven't already lost your signal, you're about to lose it.
When I was in Japan last month, I found that none of these problems existed. On train rides in between cities, people were still using their cell phones as if they were standing next to a tower. I had many chances to interact with people who had the latest and greatest phones and they were watching TV on the phone, underground.. where my cell phone wouldn't even get signal.
If it's a population density thing, why do I still have this problem in a city like Los Angeles, yet they're fine travelling in between cities where often we get 0 coverage.
The only downside to their wireless system that I found was that whereas we get tons of cell phone minutes to talk, they get about 30 minutes... but their messaging system is really cheap. So where we spend most of our time with our cell phones to our ears, they're busy typing.
Not to be incredibly pro-MS, but the reason it's so easy to write all these viruses is because MS tried to make it easy to do all sorts of things with your system. VBScript can be and is used for automating administration tasks all the time, yet someone can use it to write some pretty complex worm in very few lines. Not elegant, but easy.
I see the problem being Windows, by default, letting you run as an administrator, instead of a normal-level user, so that when a virus hits, the damage is far less if it can't change certain files, and run with a certain level of power.
It's still not as easy to run as an everyday user, switching to Administrator whenever you need to perform an admin task, as it is on *nix to switch back and forth, at least in my experience. And I admin a primarily Windows network everyday, but use *nix only on a personal level.
So I like the idea that MS gives you all this ability to create and play using technologies that aren't as hard to master as assembly (in the practical sense.. it's harder to write a simple Windows app in assembly than it is in VB), but they're still working on (in my opinion) getting users away from running as admin/root the whole time.
I think he meant this SMS: http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/