Compgeeks says they'll arrange to re-ship any packages delivered by UPS and subsequently stolen. This implies to me that UPS must factor in the theft potential when deciding whether it's worth their drivers' time to spend 3.5 extra seconds knocking on your door and seeing that the package actually gets into your hands. Certainly there's some amount of insurance involved, and I'm sure UPS eats the loss when a vendor makes this sort of promise.
As another poster pointed out, however, the question remains -- why do they casually leave $1000+ computer deliveries unattended but still make you chase down a $50 book delivery?
When I worked in radio we regularly shipped audio equipment for remotes via UPS and FedEx. Everything was always insured and marked "FRAGILE" but we also had these little "BB-in-a-paint-capsule" things we'd tape inside the crates... these were rated such that the BB would break the glass at a given G-force, so you'd know just what trauma the package had suffered in transit. Regardless, I never saw one arrive with an unbroken capsule.
I use it for video capture and the write speeds are fantastic.
Are you using Firewire/DV? I bought into the FastTrak nonsense when I started doing DV work three years ago, but recently discovered that one of those 5400rpm Maxtor 80-gig drives on an ATA-66 interface (on a P2 400Mhz machine) will easily keep up with the 3.6mb/s requirement. I'm not certain about analog vidcap with other cards, but there seems to be no need for RAID-0 whatsoever with MiniDV.
he could have bought a $5 skin. MadCatz (and maybe a few others) make em in all kinds of colors and textures. Ive seen them at Best Buy.
I bought one of these a few weeks ago. Best five bucks I ever spent on the GBA. It overlays a joystick on the rocker button and big fat knobby extensions over the A/B buttons, so somebody with fingers bigger than a ten-year-old's can actually play the damn thing.
A book is in the local shops here called "Kansas City - Then & Now" which exemplifies the type you are describing. Facing pages show the before & after views of the city over the last 150 years. The investigative work and attention to technical detail is pretty amazing.
The greatest achievement of this sort I have ever seen, however, is without a doubt Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood through the films of Buster Keaton by John Bengtson. Bengtson has analyzed Keaton's films frame-by-frame and found the locations of hundreds of scenes Buster shot for his 1920s shorts & features. It's amazing to see how much of that era still exists in recognizable form, and more amazing to think that someone could actually locate and photograph them all. (He describes the process in a parallel narrative that is as interesting as the photos themselves.)
If you are a fan of old Hollywood, silent films, the history of Los Angeles, and/or Buster Keaton, you'd do well to get a copy of this book.
On display at the Jesse James museum in Kearney, MO is a spoon/knife/fork utensil that Jesse and his brother Frank crafted for their mother. She lost an arm to a bomb lobbed into the family home by an agent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, so the darling sons put this together so that she could eat unassisted with one hand.
Yes, it's true... In addition to perfecting the art of the daytime bank robbery, Jesse James invented the spork well over 100 years ago.
It's just that simple. I can't understand why anybody would even waste their time with a 64mb solid state player. I'll take a 20 gig player I can stick in my pocket any day.
If you use a film camera and throw the negatives and prints in a shoe box they will last almost forever
This is true of the hundred-year-old Bradyesque B&W's you mention, but the chemistry of color snapshots taken over the last fifty years makes them substantially less stable -- something to do with the organic dyes they use. Ever wonder why that old Kodachrome snappy of Grandpa from 1965 has that awful pink tinge? It'll only get worse, until eventually it's an unrecognizeable blob.
However, the older B&W stuff will just get a little yellowish. Or "sepia" if you prefer.
This brings up an interesting point. TiVo seems to have a real image problem. Everybody thinks it's just a digital VCR, or a way to buffer live TV so people can control their own "instant replays".
TiVo is much more than this... it's like a VCR on steroids. TiVo the company provides a service by which TiVo the device dials in nightly to obtain program listings. You are able to tell the box you want to record, say, The Simpsons, and it takes care of all the programming, scheduling, etc. It will catch repeats, syndicated broadcasts, delayed broadcasts, etc. without your intervention.
It monitors your preferences and, based on what you watch, attempts to suggest other programs you might like as well. By giving different programs Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down ratings, you're able to teach the unit what sorts of programming you want to watch. It's very cool to turn it on Saturday morning and see that it's grabbed a week's worth of shows that I actually might want to see. In other words, it guarantees that there's always something on that's worth watching. It works really well, and in theory, could eliminate the need to ever program a VCR or watch live television ever again.
A lot of people have a problem with the other side of this coin -- those preferences are also sent back to TiVo (the company) during the nightly call, so they can build an aggregated database of viewing habits. As mentioned elsewhere, they don't know any personal demographic info about me, so my geographic location is the only criterion by which they can aggregate this data. Big deal.
More importantly, however, they can cross-tab viewing habits, so they (and, eventually, the broadcasters) will know that 95% of the people who watch Battlebots might also enjoy Junkyard Wars or possibly Robotica. They can also tell what episodes of a given show you might watch more than once -- or even archive for keeps using the "Save to VCR" feature -- information that none of the current ratings systems can possibly provide. This information can be used by the networks to produce better programming.
All in all, it's a good thing. I'm happy to have my data included.
It's only been 73 years, actually, since Steamboat Willie was copyrighted (1928), and thanks to Sonny Bono, it won't expire under current law until 2023 (95 years). That gives Disney, Inc. 22 years to lobby Congress for another law to extend it yet again.
The character of Mickey Mouse is covered separately as a trademark, I'm sure, so regardless of whether Steamboat Willie ever drops into the public domain, I doubt you'll ever be able to capitalize on the image of the mouse in and of itself.
But of course, IANALNAIAABIAFKCWWSIA.
(I am not a lawyer, nor am I an animator, but I am from Kansas City where Walt started it all.)
Maxtor used to be pretty horrible in the days of 120 meg drives, but the big ones I've been using for the last couple years (two 17 gigs and two 36 gigs) have been running 24/7 with no problems. I'm looking to pick up one of those 80 giggers soon.
I think Maxtor has improved the quality of their drives a lot, but their reputation still suffers from the old days. FWIW, I also had a 3 gig WD Caviar that died within a year of purchase and an IBM Deskstar 6.4 gig that lasted a little over two years.
If the 100 km asteroid was to collide with the Earth then it would wipe out all life on our planet. "This danger cannot be overemphasised," the researchers stress.
Ha, funny one. I guess you're just being too obvious if you wait until April 1 to propagate this sort of nonsense.
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There is still nothing from April 1995-December 1995
I found plenty from that timeframe. Here's one that was interesting in light of your comments though.
Q: Who posted this question back in May 1995?
A: The same guy who posted this request a few days earlier.
And look where we are now.
What that's you say? Dean KAMEN?
When I first heard this name associated with "IT", I thought the whole thing was a practical joke perpetrated by this guy.
particularly POS systems and some industrial controllers use DOS.
Yeah, I've got a piece of s--- 286 system at home that still runs DOS.
Oh, wait, did you mean Point Of Sale?
but I'm in Oz so we just get the stupid local version...
Hmmm... strange. That's what we get in the U.S. too.
Compgeeks says they'll arrange to re-ship any packages delivered by UPS and subsequently stolen. This implies to me that UPS must factor in the theft potential when deciding whether it's worth their drivers' time to spend 3.5 extra seconds knocking on your door and seeing that the package actually gets into your hands. Certainly there's some amount of insurance involved, and I'm sure UPS eats the loss when a vendor makes this sort of promise.
As another poster pointed out, however, the question remains -- why do they casually leave $1000+ computer deliveries unattended but still make you chase down a $50 book delivery?
When I worked in radio we regularly shipped audio equipment for remotes via UPS and FedEx. Everything was always insured and marked "FRAGILE" but we also had these little "BB-in-a-paint-capsule" things we'd tape inside the crates... these were rated such that the BB would break the glass at a given G-force, so you'd know just what trauma the package had suffered in transit. Regardless, I never saw one arrive with an unbroken capsule.
a fragile sign is as good as a big red flashing bullseye with the words "kick me" right smack in the middle of it.
And "Adult Signature Required" seems to mean "toss it on the porch and assume the recipient will find it when he gets home from work."
I use it for video capture and the write speeds are fantastic.
Are you using Firewire/DV? I bought into the FastTrak nonsense when I started doing DV work three years ago, but recently discovered that one of those 5400rpm Maxtor 80-gig drives on an ATA-66 interface (on a P2 400Mhz machine) will easily keep up with the 3.6mb/s requirement. I'm not certain about analog vidcap with other cards, but there seems to be no need for RAID-0 whatsoever with MiniDV.
Put one end of the circuit at your business. Put one end at your school. Put one end in the machine room at a local ISP.
But the connection only has two ends...? Where's the one for my house?
This was something never before seen on slashdot- Myriad used correctly in a sentance and milquetoast spelled correctly!
Yeah, but he misspelled "butter" where he said you should stand up and demand it for the toast.
Something you may want to know is that AudioGalaxy installs SpyWare onto your computer.
As does BearShare. Any others?
he could have bought a $5 skin. MadCatz (and maybe a few others) make em in all kinds of colors and textures. Ive seen them at Best Buy.
I bought one of these a few weeks ago. Best five bucks I ever spent on the GBA. It overlays a joystick on the rocker button and big fat knobby extensions over the A/B buttons, so somebody with fingers bigger than a ten-year-old's can actually play the damn thing.
My preferred ripper Audiograbber has also dropped CDDB in favor of freeDB.
This can only be a good thing.
The only difference is that Gracenote has actually paid people to enter this data.
I think you're mistaken. I used to enter a lot of data when it was still CDDB and relatively empty. Where's my check?
A book is in the local shops here called "Kansas City - Then & Now" which exemplifies the type you are describing. Facing pages show the before & after views of the city over the last 150 years. The investigative work and attention to technical detail is pretty amazing.
The greatest achievement of this sort I have ever seen, however, is without a doubt Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood through the films of Buster Keaton by John Bengtson. Bengtson has analyzed Keaton's films frame-by-frame and found the locations of hundreds of scenes Buster shot for his 1920s shorts & features. It's amazing to see how much of that era still exists in recognizable form, and more amazing to think that someone could actually locate and photograph them all. (He describes the process in a parallel narrative that is as interesting as the photos themselves.)
If you are a fan of old Hollywood, silent films, the history of Los Angeles, and/or Buster Keaton, you'd do well to get a copy of this book.
Furthermore, if tabs are outlawed, only the Outlaws will be able to play "Green Grass and High Tides Forever."
Which, come to think of it, is a pretty good argument in favor of doing so.
On display at the Jesse James museum in Kearney, MO is a spoon/knife/fork utensil that Jesse and his brother Frank crafted for their mother. She lost an arm to a bomb lobbed into the family home by an agent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, so the darling sons put this together so that she could eat unassisted with one hand.
Yes, it's true... In addition to perfecting the art of the daytime bank robbery, Jesse James invented the spork well over 100 years ago.
Buy a Palm or Visor for palm computing.
Buy a Neo 25 for portable mp3 listening.
It's just that simple. I can't understand why anybody would even waste their time with a 64mb solid state player. I'll take a 20 gig player I can stick in my pocket any day.
If you use a film camera and throw the negatives and prints in a shoe box they will last almost forever
This is true of the hundred-year-old Bradyesque B&W's you mention, but the chemistry of color snapshots taken over the last fifty years makes them substantially less stable -- something to do with the organic dyes they use. Ever wonder why that old Kodachrome snappy of Grandpa from 1965 has that awful pink tinge? It'll only get worse, until eventually it's an unrecognizeable blob.
However, the older B&W stuff will just get a little yellowish. Or "sepia" if you prefer.
This brings up an interesting point. TiVo seems to have a real image problem. Everybody thinks it's just a digital VCR, or a way to buffer live TV so people can control their own "instant replays".
TiVo is much more than this... it's like a VCR on steroids. TiVo the company provides a service by which TiVo the device dials in nightly to obtain program listings. You are able to tell the box you want to record, say, The Simpsons, and it takes care of all the programming, scheduling, etc. It will catch repeats, syndicated broadcasts, delayed broadcasts, etc. without your intervention.
It monitors your preferences and, based on what you watch, attempts to suggest other programs you might like as well. By giving different programs Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down ratings, you're able to teach the unit what sorts of programming you want to watch. It's very cool to turn it on Saturday morning and see that it's grabbed a week's worth of shows that I actually might want to see. In other words, it guarantees that there's always something on that's worth watching. It works really well, and in theory, could eliminate the need to ever program a VCR or watch live television ever again.
A lot of people have a problem with the other side of this coin -- those preferences are also sent back to TiVo (the company) during the nightly call, so they can build an aggregated database of viewing habits. As mentioned elsewhere, they don't know any personal demographic info about me, so my geographic location is the only criterion by which they can aggregate this data. Big deal.
More importantly, however, they can cross-tab viewing habits, so they (and, eventually, the broadcasters) will know that 95% of the people who watch Battlebots might also enjoy Junkyard Wars or possibly Robotica. They can also tell what episodes of a given show you might watch more than once -- or even archive for keeps using the "Save to VCR" feature -- information that none of the current ratings systems can possibly provide. This information can be used by the networks to produce better programming.
All in all, it's a good thing. I'm happy to have my data included.
Spelling counts... try mirreEntry
It's only been 73 years, actually, since Steamboat Willie was copyrighted (1928), and thanks to Sonny Bono, it won't expire under current law until 2023 (95 years). That gives Disney, Inc. 22 years to lobby Congress for another law to extend it yet again.
The character of Mickey Mouse is covered separately as a trademark, I'm sure, so regardless of whether Steamboat Willie ever drops into the public domain, I doubt you'll ever be able to capitalize on the image of the mouse in and of itself.
But of course, IANALNAIAABIAFKCWWSIA. (I am not a lawyer, nor am I an animator, but I am from Kansas City where Walt started it all.)
Maxtor used to be pretty horrible in the days of 120 meg drives, but the big ones I've been using for the last couple years (two 17 gigs and two 36 gigs) have been running 24/7 with no problems. I'm looking to pick up one of those 80 giggers soon.
I think Maxtor has improved the quality of their drives a lot, but their reputation still suffers from the old days. FWIW, I also had a 3 gig WD Caviar that died within a year of purchase and an IBM Deskstar 6.4 gig that lasted a little over two years.
If the 100 km asteroid was to collide with the Earth then it would wipe out all life on our planet. "This danger cannot be overemphasised," the researchers stress.
Ha, funny one. I guess you're just being too obvious if you wait until April 1 to propagate this sort of nonsense.