Okay, so,.net is designed better. Now, unfortunately the thing only runs under MS Windows. Windows is a rather poorly designed Operating system . So, your.net is better, but it only runs on a OS with major security issues.
How far does that get you?
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Hmmm, you know, MapQuest and Google are both really primitive. THIS is what a decent mapping system is all about.
Oh, I see... its okay that the US uses its own GPS system for military purposes, and lets the countries it wants to also use it for military purposes, but if Europe decides to allow other countries to use Galileo for military purposes than the US is ofcourse right to shoot it down?
Would the logical conclusion of this be that the EU has the right to shoot down the US GPS system if the EU felt the GPS system was being used by countries against the best interests of the EU?
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You people are unbelievable.
You ask "Where is all of that mythic influence you briefly mention? What do the characters bring to the story? What does any of it mean to you? What is this story's context within the rest of the world?"
READ THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK! For God's sake, you just answerd your own criticism. Don't you get it? The details, the mysticism, the world ending theories, THAT is the important part. Thats why you read the book. And that is precisely why this review is perfectly acceptable. You read the review and now you're pumping for more info.
Well go get it and read it.
See, in the Middle Ages, a typical tale was told by describing what happens briefly before actually going about telling it. "Chapter Ten, in which Parzifal meets Anfortas and doesn't ask him the all important question." It didn't stop anyone from reading chapter ten back then even though they knew, roughly, what was going to happen.
You need to change how you view literature a bit. If you think you can appreciate a book simply by knowing "the ending", or even that just knowing the structure of a work is knowing the whole work, then you missed out on the whole process, and you certainly are not partaking of the book at all.
Well, yes, in one strict sense you can say that light is a quantum, and hence is discreet. But really, its also a wave (is a wave discreet? nah...) as well. And, for example, the image in the emulsion of the film is indeed made of discrete silver halide crystals, but those cystals however aren't created in exact sizes to zero tolerance in variation. So strictly its non-conclusive.
I think that non-analog can be defined as a logic-based state, and in that sense then projecting images from film created by the traditional chemical processes would be defined analog.
I don't think anyone is understanding what the problem is here: Flash has a menu interface (as do tons of other products) that has movable little menus that float about the screen that you can place anywhere. Lets just set asside how crazy it is to be able to patent that: what does the court case say about Flash?
Nothing about its technology. This is a user interface issue, not an issue on how Flash works. Nobody will have to stop using their Flash movies on their pages--the workings of those are not being disputed, nor how the Flash program generates them.
So big deal. Macromedia will make a "non-tabbed-window" version of Flash (and of all its other products I guess because Director and Dream Weaver have the same style menus) with one big solid window and non-movable menus. I doubt it'll be hard for them to do that. Heck, fix a few things, add a few features, and its Flash 6.0. Time to upgrade anyway.
Big problems with 3c905B and 3c905C here as well, in both Win 2000 and Linux (2.4 kernels). Have not been able to link this to my mobos (Abit KT7 and KG7) chipset (Via 686A and 686B) nor networking equipment (Netgear switches and hubs) nor cables (tried various CAT5).
Searching for any info this on the Net is like trying to get IBM to admit they screwed the pooch with their DTLA drives: you can find no info, yet everyone's have problems.
Are you joking? Lets see, on my keyboard I have keys labeled F1 through F12. Do you see those on your keyboard? Know what those are? Go ahead... make F5 do whatever the hell you want it to. Feel the power. Rejoice that you are using a Model M IBM AT/PS2 keyboard.
Well, thats it then: city size. Madison being only 200K people, of which the UW contributes atleast 60K people, does make Madison severely wage depressed. I didn't think it was that bad though.
What? In the midwest starting sysadmins make $40K? I wish.
Here's a handy little perspective for you: I work for a univeristy (UW Madison to be precise - the biggest in the state and one of the Big 10 in the US) and I have 9 years of experience (1st job was to setup a bunch of SPARC1 and 2 boxes in 1990.) Since then I've worked for various university departments, small businesses, and large businesses (including fortune 500.)
Let me tell you: the universities don't compensate well at all. I get about $40K. Sad huh? For 9 years of experience?
Why in god's name would I work for anybody for that low rate? Well, money-wise, what you do is ofcourse, contract directly on the side. There I charge $63/hour. That works fine, but it takes the effort of having to find customers and manage your own business. The university though is the most chill work environment you could possibly have - access to equipment and knowledge like you wouldn't believe, and comes with an amazing benefits package that is topped by few private companies.
Thats not to say university enviroments don't have pressure. Let me assure you, when dealing with the technical details of moving a decent-sized mainframe database to a unix-based client-server environment, there's plenty of pressure. But thats the stuff we sysadmins and project managers love, eh?
I suppose you could find that type of work environment in smaller cutting-edge geek-shops where they know how to take care of us types... but those are in short supply here in the mid-west.
Agreed. There used to be two really big reasons why I have to invest in two machines instead of just having one super-kick-ass one: I needed Windows for Graphics and Games (the 2 Gs) and I needed Linux for everything else.
These days I only need Windows for 1.5 really big reasons: Graphics and Games. I can now adays run Unreal Tournament and Quake 3A under Linux, so my FPS needs are taken care of (but see, we still need games like HomeWorld for Linux. FPS isn't everything) and I think in the next year it'll get to the point where I'll only have one really big reason I have to keep a Windows box around: Graphics.
Quite simply I need either the following tools or tools on their level to available on Linux before I can stop using MS Windows: Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Ilustrator, the Kai's Tools, 3D Studio Max, Poser, Bryce, and any of the random neato new entries in the drawing/design/photo/3D fields that get pumped out for Windows every month.
Looking at that list I see Adobe is weighing in heavily. They used to have PageMaker and PhotoShop for SunOS and other Unices. Maybe its time we let them know there would be paying customers that would rather use Linux than Windows or MacOS. (But that would mean we'd actually be willing to pay instead piss and moan about being charged for the best software in the industry.) Hmmmmm.
It seems to me a movie cannot make hacking or cracking look interesting to non hackers and non crackers until our computing enviroments really do start to work and interface with us like something ouf of a Gibson novel (I'm sure thats coming, but will it make anything easier?)
The crux of the matter is that to get real work done, you need a command line. And command lines are boring. Watching some guy edit/etc/X11/XF86Config in vi is not really neato. Watching some guy write some perl to automate something isn't glamorous. Heck, even watching some 31337 haxx0r packet-sniffing really will only solicit yawns from anyone not into 'that stuff'.
So no, until the Gibsonian future arrives (and even then, you'll still want a command line. Your wrists would fall off if you had to gesticulate wildly and point at objects of URLs all day long) actually doing work on a computer is not interesting enough to film, unless you're making a Mitnik documentary. The results of all that boring typing, however, can be spectacular.
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Okay, so, .net is designed better. Now, unfortunately the thing only runs under MS Windows. Windows is a rather poorly designed Operating system . So, your .net is better, but it only runs on a OS with major security issues.
How far does that get you?
Hmmm, you know, MapQuest and Google are both really primitive. THIS is what a decent mapping system is all about.
Oh, I see... its okay that the US uses its own GPS system for military purposes, and lets the countries it wants to also use it for military purposes, but if Europe decides to allow other countries to use Galileo for military purposes than the US is ofcourse right to shoot it down?
Would the logical conclusion of this be that the EU has the right to shoot down the US GPS system if the EU felt the GPS system was being used by countries against the best interests of the EU?
You people are unbelievable.
You ask "Where is all of that mythic influence you briefly mention? What do the characters bring to the story? What does any of it mean to you? What is this story's context within the rest of the world?"
READ THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK! For God's sake, you just answerd your own criticism. Don't you get it? The details, the mysticism, the world ending theories, THAT is the important part. Thats why you read the book. And that is precisely why this review is perfectly acceptable. You read the review and now you're pumping for more info.
Well go get it and read it.
See, in the Middle Ages, a typical tale was told by describing what happens briefly before actually going about telling it. "Chapter Ten, in which Parzifal meets Anfortas and doesn't ask him the all important question." It didn't stop anyone from reading chapter ten back then even though they knew, roughly, what was going to happen.
You need to change how you view literature a bit. If you think you can appreciate a book simply by knowing "the ending", or even that just knowing the structure of a work is knowing the whole work, then you missed out on the whole process, and you certainly are not partaking of the book at all.
Well, yes, in one strict sense you can say that light is a quantum, and hence is discreet. But really, its also a wave (is a wave discreet? nah...) as well. And, for example, the image in the emulsion of the film is indeed made of discrete silver halide crystals, but those cystals however aren't created in exact sizes to zero tolerance in variation. So strictly its non-conclusive.
I think that non-analog can be defined as a logic-based state, and in that sense then projecting images from film created by the traditional chemical processes would be defined analog.
-XUgh! 64Kb, 22KHz.
AM Radio all over again.
Nice toons though.
Nothing about its technology. This is a user interface issue, not an issue on how Flash works. Nobody will have to stop using their Flash movies on their pages--the workings of those are not being disputed, nor how the Flash program generates them.
So big deal. Macromedia will make a "non-tabbed-window" version of Flash (and of all its other products I guess because Director and Dream Weaver have the same style menus) with one big solid window and non-movable menus. I doubt it'll be hard for them to do that. Heck, fix a few things, add a few features, and its Flash 6.0. Time to upgrade anyway.
Flash fans need not fear. You web pages are safe.
Big problems with 3c905B and 3c905C here as well, in both Win 2000 and Linux (2.4 kernels). Have not been able to link this to my mobos (Abit KT7 and KG7) chipset (Via 686A and 686B) nor networking equipment (Netgear switches and hubs) nor cables (tried various CAT5).
Searching for any info this on the Net is like trying to get IBM to admit they screwed the pooch with their DTLA drives: you can find no info, yet everyone's have problems.
Mostly I want to see the 10 images. Somehow, that link, and the links on that page, don't show show me anything. Hmmm.
Are you joking? Lets see, on my keyboard I have keys labeled F1 through F12. Do you see those on your keyboard? Know what those are? Go ahead... make F5 do whatever the hell you want it to. Feel the power. Rejoice that you are using a Model M IBM AT/PS2 keyboard.
Time to move to Chicago. :)
Here's a handy little perspective for you: I work for a univeristy (UW Madison to be precise - the biggest in the state and one of the Big 10 in the US) and I have 9 years of experience (1st job was to setup a bunch of SPARC1 and 2 boxes in 1990.) Since then I've worked for various university departments, small businesses, and large businesses (including fortune 500.)
Let me tell you: the universities don't compensate well at all. I get about $40K. Sad huh? For 9 years of experience?
Why in god's name would I work for anybody for that low rate? Well, money-wise, what you do is ofcourse, contract directly on the side. There I charge $63/hour. That works fine, but it takes the effort of having to find customers and manage your own business. The university though is the most chill work environment you could possibly have - access to equipment and knowledge like you wouldn't believe, and comes with an amazing benefits package that is topped by few private companies.
Thats not to say university enviroments don't have pressure. Let me assure you, when dealing with the technical details of moving a decent-sized mainframe database to a unix-based client-server environment, there's plenty of pressure. But thats the stuff we sysadmins and project managers love, eh?
I suppose you could find that type of work environment in smaller cutting-edge geek-shops where they know how to take care of us types... but those are in short supply here in the mid-west.
These days I only need Windows for 1.5 really big reasons: Graphics and Games. I can now adays run Unreal Tournament and Quake 3A under Linux, so my FPS needs are taken care of (but see, we still need games like HomeWorld for Linux. FPS isn't everything) and I think in the next year it'll get to the point where I'll only have one really big reason I have to keep a Windows box around: Graphics.
Quite simply I need either the following tools or tools on their level to available on Linux before I can stop using MS Windows: Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Ilustrator, the Kai's Tools, 3D Studio Max, Poser, Bryce, and any of the random neato new entries in the drawing/design/photo/3D fields that get pumped out for Windows every month.
Looking at that list I see Adobe is weighing in heavily. They used to have PageMaker and PhotoShop for SunOS and other Unices. Maybe its time we let them know there would be paying customers that would rather use Linux than Windows or MacOS. (But that would mean we'd actually be willing to pay instead piss and moan about being charged for the best software in the industry.) Hmmmmm.
The crux of the matter is that to get real work done, you need a command line. And command lines are boring. Watching some guy edit /etc/X11/XF86Config in vi is not really neato. Watching some guy write some perl to automate something isn't glamorous. Heck, even watching some 31337 haxx0r packet-sniffing really will only solicit yawns from anyone not into 'that stuff'.
So no, until the Gibsonian future arrives (and even then, you'll still want a command line. Your wrists would fall off if you had to gesticulate wildly and point at objects of URLs all day long) actually doing work on a computer is not interesting enough to film, unless you're making a Mitnik documentary. The results of all that boring typing, however, can be spectacular.
[remove Ranxerox's favourite expression if ya wanna write me]
Yeah, Linux will do per-processor accounting. Try "man acct" and see what it says. The author of the WSJ article and even you can't seem to RTFM.