Yup it worked off the bat for me too. It was running 98 on an ABIT BP6 motherboard or whatever. It was wacky that a $15 card came with a three foot whip.
I hung out with Iggy once (and some freaky broad)
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and i thought "Holy shit, Someone is going to fuck up one of the great songs of the 70s." I was pissed off, man. Is nothing sacred? Perhaps some song by Kraftwerk or Eno was next. (Shit Eno is in the same quickie. The end of civilization as I knew it?)
I clicked on and read it.
I liked it! Wow. It wasn't super cornball and stupid.
IMHO/. might need more of a cultural/arts page. No one friggen does coding 24/7 and if they do they are dull as fungi.
In h.s. and college there were many people I hung out with and we had definite common view of the world that included film/tech/music and how they all seemed to be coming together. And that was 20 years ago. Program in Assembler, listened to Bowie or Eno and went to see the movie ERASERHEAD.
I see that trying to come out here. A high tech view of LIFE.
Some thoughts on Bowie from a fan since the mid 70s.
1) I thought I read that Bowie Bonds were for his back catalog only and not his new stuff. Which explains why "heroes" theme was sold for a commercial. Gotta please the stock owners - which I think is something like 10. I read in Smart Money that some big time investor bought most of the shares. He was a Bowie fan.
2) Bowie always wanted to make it "big". With the ziggy persona he did. As he drifted into the the thin white duke (white soul) he wanted greater artistic expression. He also started to team up with the likes of Eno/Iggy Pop/Sales Brothers/Adrian Belew. There came the "Berlin" period where he pushed the experimental into the pop world. This is Low. Heroes. Lodger. These are alternative and have come to grasp some of the modern developments in music in the manner of Eno and Fripp, Can and Kraftwerk. Oddly enough after a number of years pushing the limits he decided he wanted a "hit album". Only Bowie could say that and produce it at will. It was the "Lets Dance" album. With Nile Rogers he does it with great success. After that seems to be when most of the posters on this system seem to have discovered him. So Bowie has done a lot both in terms of huge market share/Pop and great creative and intellectual output.
3) Bowie has always embraced new and exciting things. People keep shrugging him off until five years later when they keep saying "Oh, he was right." The dude is uncanny. Thats why he makes the bucks.
4) I saw this show on TV and Bowie was listed as one of the top money makers from last year. I don't remember the number - something like 14. I could be wrong on that number so don't quote me. Its +-4. Not bad for a 50 year old guy.
5) I also read that Bowie was the richest "British" rock star. at 800-900 Million. More than Paul McCarney. (I thought Paul was a legend at investing and the like. He owns a lot of music catalogs. Kinda like what M.Jackson did to him. Which is why it burned him up I guess. Do unto others....) I think Paul was at 400 and then it quickly dropped below 100 for a few then you got to something like 10 with Phil Collins at like 20M.
I find it sad to see people discard the opinion just because its Bowie - someone in the business who's opinion has a bit of weight. Suits will listen to what he says.
My area is UNIX app and system admin but I keep getting dragged into statistical support roles and that has meant in the last few years "data warehouses".
Let me tell you something. It DOESN'T matter that they have an incomplete picture of you. When they are looking at 100K people like you it is not rocket science to fill in the blanks. Its a statistical thingy.:)
I was always amazed at how uniform people are. Even if you think you are radical or a loner - there are thousands just like you buying the same shit.
You're best bets: move a lot (ooh that makes 'em mad - humans have to verify that the new you is the old you. hehehe) On some bills use a middle name and others drop it. Certain orgs want only exact matches so when they order up 25 Million names (no kidding) you'll fall off as noise. (Lucky you.) To verify its you they'll call and ask for you and when you say "Yes. Speaking" they will hangup since all they wanted to do is verify you. If you don't know who is on the other line then reveal anything yourself.
Its not all that bad since this has been going on for a while and you've been doing just fine.
It came to mind when I saw that Pi was for sale. it was another interesting movie of 98.
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After reading all these posts I have a question. Several of the posts refer to the fact/idea that there is a definite visual improvement with more expensive DVD players. So if I buy a 300.00 set I'm going to have a worse experience than my nice VHS machine? I don't want to have to buy a 1000.00 machine. I'll just wait.
Any advice or a good URL link would be wonderful. Thanks for you help.
I love the post and agree with it. I especially love the sentence that I quoted in the subject.
I think the free everything frenzy is based on people without the means to get anything any other way.
I think the second someone discovers they can make some money off some program they wrote or a song they penned or even a story they were about to post they lose their evangelism. They have a stake in things.
You are being critical of an artist because of the medium? Are you a fruitcake? Would it be better if the music was on a LP? The artist is offering you something: his performance captured using some form of technology.
You can either buy it or spend your money elsewhere.
This line made me think that people couldn't win that silly clock game on the "Price Is Right" or they'd have to pay a royalty like five boxes of Rice A Roni.
I wouldn't give much salt to that salary survey. Those numbers are too damn low unless they are for fresh graduates with a masters going for their first unix job.
If you have five to ten years experience and are willing to take that kind of money lets talk!
Don't be fooled by this. I think its there to depress salary requests that are more in line. "Look at this web site! You're asking for 20K more than it lists. You are out of line!" Yeah right. {-P
I've been a unix programmer/admin for over 12 years and its very tough to find good people. I'm not talking about Knuth quality. I'm talking about writing C code that doesn't have one bug for every hour a programmer worked on it. When I interview people I ask them some of the most basic questions and they flub them. I had a guy come in saying that he wanted to get into networking. I thought that was dandy. I asked him what he knew about TCP/IP and his reply was "Huh?". I asked some dude who claimed he had five years unix admin experience (Solaris, Unixware) where the printer configuration information was kept. He didn't have a clue. One joker, when told some of our programs use shared memory to pass information, asked if it was EDO or the SDRAM. He was not joking. These stories all happened in the last year. That is a sample of bad US talent.
Bad Imported Talent. Yes we hire people from half way around the world. You would think if we were hiring people who have traveled thousands o miles then we would be getting the best the world has to offer instead of the best locally. WRONG! I cannot believe that people would come all the way here and be so very terrible. Awful. I try to get them fired or at least off my team. I had a guy who came in as a UNIX kernel expert to help us with our device driver issues. He didn't know a UNIX editor, he didn't understand permissions and he didn't know C very well. (And no he didn't know kernel work either.) He stayed for three months! Upper management would not get rid of him. When he was finally out of there he was going to a job were he was a "MS C/C++" expert. To "practice" he tried to install Turbo C on his PC. I kid you not. And this goof traveled thousands of miles w/o a clue?
It is my theory ("Ron's Programmer Bound") that here is a finite number of good people for any task be it programming or physics or acting. No matter what the demand or how much a social fad it is there is going to be a finite number of good people in it based on the size of the population. Computers are invading every aspect of our society and yet there is going to be only a few good people to do all the work. No matter where you look.
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Yup it worked off the bat for me too. It was running 98 on an ABIT BP6 motherboard or whatever. It was wacky that a $15 card came with a three foot whip.
and i thought "Holy shit, Someone is going to fuck up one of the great songs of the 70s." I was pissed off, man. Is nothing sacred? Perhaps some song by Kraftwerk or Eno was next. (Shit Eno is in the same quickie. The end of civilization as I knew it?)
I clicked on and read it.
I liked it! Wow. It wasn't super cornball and stupid.
Ron
PS: Please don't put "Turn Blue" to risk.
... I'm also rooting for BSD. I use that all the time at work. Oh well.
Thanks AC ....
Ron
You know it bud. Crazy movie is right. Seeing it as a 16 yr old was a big wake up call to what might lie out there if you look for it - in any field.
Can't say I loved it but it provided a different view than anything I'd seen up til then. Phreakin wild, man.
Saw that in the local "art cinema" - remember we didn't have no Stinkin VCRs! It was showing along with "Night of the Living Dead". hehehe
All the best,
Ron
IMHO
In h.s. and college there were many people I hung out with and we had definite common view of the world that included film/tech/music and how they all seemed to be coming together. And that was 20 years ago. Program in Assembler, listened to Bowie or Eno and went to see the movie ERASERHEAD.
I see that trying to come out here. A high tech view of LIFE.
Ron
Some thoughts on Bowie from a fan since the mid 70s.
1) I thought I read that Bowie Bonds were for his back catalog only and not his new stuff. Which explains why "heroes" theme was sold for a commercial. Gotta please the stock owners - which I think is something like 10. I read in Smart Money that some big time investor bought most of the shares. He was a Bowie fan.
2) Bowie always wanted to make it "big". With the ziggy persona he did. As he drifted into the the thin white duke (white soul) he wanted greater artistic expression. He also started to team up with the likes of Eno/Iggy Pop/Sales Brothers/Adrian Belew. There came the "Berlin" period where he pushed the experimental into the pop world. This is Low. Heroes. Lodger. These are alternative and have come to grasp some of the modern developments in music in the manner of Eno and Fripp, Can and Kraftwerk. Oddly enough after a number of years pushing the limits he decided he wanted a "hit album". Only Bowie could say that and produce it at will. It was the "Lets Dance" album. With Nile Rogers he does it with great success. After that seems to be when most of the posters on this system seem to have discovered him. So Bowie has done a lot both in terms of huge market share/Pop and great creative and intellectual output.
3) Bowie has always embraced new and exciting things. People keep shrugging him off until five years later when they keep saying "Oh, he was right." The dude is uncanny. Thats why he makes the bucks.
4) I saw this show on TV and Bowie was listed as one of the top money makers from last year. I don't remember the number - something like 14. I could be wrong on that number so don't quote me. Its +-4. Not bad for a 50 year old guy.
5) I also read that Bowie was the richest "British" rock star. at 800-900 Million. More than Paul McCarney. (I thought Paul was a legend at investing and the like. He owns a lot of music catalogs. Kinda like what M.Jackson did to him. Which is why it burned him up I guess. Do unto others....) I think Paul was at 400 and then it quickly dropped below 100 for a few then you got to something like 10 with Phil Collins at like 20M.
I find it sad to see people discard the opinion just because its Bowie - someone in the business who's opinion has a bit of weight. Suits will listen to what he says.
All the best and Peace
Ron
PS: We need a music section on slashdot.
He sold his BACK CATALOG only as Bowie Bonds.
My area is UNIX app and system admin but I keep getting dragged into statistical support roles and that has meant in the last few years "data warehouses".
:)
Let me tell you something. It DOESN'T matter that they have an incomplete picture of you. When they are looking at 100K people like you it is not rocket science to fill in the blanks. Its a statistical thingy.
I was always amazed at how uniform people are. Even if you think you are radical or a loner - there are thousands just like you buying the same shit.
You're best bets: move a lot (ooh that makes 'em mad - humans have to verify that the new you is the old you. hehehe) On some bills use a middle name and others drop it. Certain orgs want only exact matches so when they order up 25 Million names (no kidding) you'll fall off as noise. (Lucky you.) To verify its you they'll call and ask for you and when you say "Yes. Speaking" they will hangup since all they wanted to do is verify you. If you don't know who is on the other line then reveal anything yourself.
Its not all that bad since this has been going on for a while and you've been doing just fine.
Hope this helped a bit.
Peace
Ron
It came to mind when I saw that Pi was for sale. it was another interesting movie of 98.
After reading all these posts I have a question. Several of the posts refer to the fact/idea that there is a definite visual improvement with more expensive DVD players. So if I buy a 300.00 set I'm going to have a worse experience than my nice VHS machine? I don't want to have to buy a 1000.00 machine. I'll just wait.
Any advice or a good URL link would be wonderful. Thanks for you help.
Ron
I love the post and agree with it. I especially love the sentence that I quoted in the subject.
I think the free everything frenzy is based on people without the means to get anything any other way.
I think the second someone discovers they can make some money off some program they wrote or a song they penned or even a story they were about to post they lose their evangelism. They have a stake in things.
You are being critical of an artist because of the medium? Are you a fruitcake? Would it be better if the music was on a LP? The artist is offering you something: his performance captured using some form of technology.
You can either buy it or spend your money elsewhere.
This line made me think that people couldn't win that silly clock game on the "Price Is Right" or they'd have to pay a royalty like five boxes of Rice A Roni.
8O)
I wouldn't give much salt to that salary survey. Those numbers are too damn low unless they are for fresh graduates with a masters going for their first unix job.
If you have five to ten years experience and are willing to take that kind of money lets talk!
Don't be fooled by this. I think its there to depress salary requests that are more in line. "Look at this web site! You're asking for 20K more than it lists. You are out of line!" Yeah right.
{-P
I've been a unix programmer/admin for over 12 years and its very tough to find good people. I'm not talking about Knuth quality. I'm talking about writing C code that doesn't have one bug for every hour a programmer worked on it. When I interview people I ask them some of the most basic questions and they flub them. I had a guy come in saying that he wanted to get into networking. I thought that was dandy. I asked him what he knew about TCP/IP and his reply was "Huh?". I asked some dude who claimed he had five years unix admin experience (Solaris, Unixware) where the printer configuration information was kept. He didn't have a clue. One joker, when told some of our programs use shared memory to pass information, asked if it was EDO or the SDRAM. He was not joking. These stories all happened in the last year. That is a sample of bad US talent.
Bad Imported Talent. Yes we hire people from half way around the world. You would think if we were hiring people who have traveled thousands o miles then we would be getting the best the world has to offer instead of the best locally. WRONG! I cannot believe that people would come all the way here and be so very terrible. Awful. I try to get them fired or at least off my team. I had a guy who came in as a UNIX kernel expert to help us with our device driver issues. He didn't know a UNIX editor, he didn't understand permissions and he didn't know C very well. (And no he didn't know kernel work either.) He stayed for three months! Upper management would not get rid of him. When he was finally out of there he was going to a job were he was a "MS C/C++" expert. To "practice" he tried to install Turbo C on his PC. I kid you not. And this goof traveled thousands of miles w/o a clue?
It is my theory ("Ron's Programmer Bound") that here is a finite number of good people for any task be it programming or physics or acting. No matter what the demand or how much a social fad it is there is going to be a finite number of good people in it based on the size of the population. Computers are invading every aspect of our society and yet there is going to be only a few good people to do all the work. No matter where you look.
Peace
Ron