Get over it. Go find some cheapass case. Almost all of them have nice rolled edges these days. SAve the money for more RAM, a good power supply, better motherboard, etc. It's a case. All of those little addons are typically pointless masturbation. Do you really need that many fans? Does it matter how easy it is to swap a motherboard? How often is that going to happen? Again, if you spend some money on motherboard, far less often than with your gee-whiz case.
No doubt about that. Text to speach is some amazing stuff, and phenomenally helpful. The only trick is that the brain processes speach and reading differently. The blind community has identified a loss of reading comprehension due to the reliance on text to speach in lieu of learning Braille.
And I thank you, sir. My wife is blind. Frequently, books are not available, or are prohibitively expensive. There are electronic aids to display text via 'refreshable braille', but none of the major book publishers see fit to distribute their works in a format compatible with them. Thanks to 'bookwarez', my wife can read almost anything she wants. Download the html or whatever, convert to text, and load it into a reader. Usually, she reads the same books I read, so we already have a hardcopy. You and your brethern have helped me excercise what I view as my fair use rights to format shift my books.
Not a Winnick fan, or not a fan of the guy writing now? FWIW, the Winnick stuff seemed okay (but Ion was farfetched) but the current writer... I hope it's just that he hasn't hit his stride yet.
I never had anything against Kyle, per se. He got tossed out with the Parallax bathwater. Could have been the greatest comic of all time, but I wasn't supporting the bastardization of one of the greatest DC heroes of all time.
Don't even get me started on Green Lantern. I was so disheartened by what those bastards did to Hal Jordan that I dropped out of comics for about 5-6 years. Was reading about 20 titles per month. I didn't drop right away, but that was the beginning of the end for me. I started again ca. 2000, but it wasn't until last year that I could even bring myself to read the book featuring that usurper, Kyle Raynor.
Damn, I miss Hal. (And the Spectre was just... Not the same)
I've spoken a fair bit with the dude who co-owns the better of two local shops. In short, unless you dearly, dearly love comics, don't plan on doing much better than breaking even. I think all successful shops are highly into various gaming activities as well. Hope you like 'em. Shrinkage is a major issue. And it seems to be a fairly cutthroat business.
But, I wish you well. If I were a bit more into anything other than DC, it might make for a bit of fun.
It happened because the USPS is a firm believer in 'time motion' studies. They stated exactly where employees were to stand, exactly how to move their bodies, etc. They used to have yellow boxes and such painted around. Except for breaks, you stay in that spot for 8 hours. To call it maddening is insufficient.
The only problem I see with a revived RIAA effort is that I see the packaging design, etc. being done by committee, instead of artists, much the same as the music they put out.
Sgt. Pepper had the really cool disguise kit. Sticky Fingers, by the Stones, had a zipper on the cover (got a CD version, myself, father has the vinyl). All sorts of neat packaging tricks. The 'double cover' for 'Wish You Were Here'.
Yeah, and why do they call it a Pink Floyd album? I always thought it was a Roger Waters album with instruments and vocals by Pink Floyd.
God, what an overblown ego trip that album was/is. (And don't bitch, I've got two copies on CD, had one on tape, and have multiple copies of the movies as well. Doesn't mean it's not a paen to Waters' ego.)
If you like these (particularly Sgt. Pepper) get the down to the record store and get a copy of 'Pet Sounds' by the Beach Boys. Had it been released just a few months earlier (and by the Beatles:) nobody would have ever heard of Sgt. Pepper.
Just wanted to say that you aren't alone with regards to 'So'. I would probably listen to it much more if I didn't have to skip 'Sledgehammer' each time. (But it was a nifty video. Just not much acoustically).
I think both Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are damned fine albums. Better than 99% of the albums out there. But I agree with you that 'Joshua Tree' is a far more cohesive work. The cohesiveness of Achtung Baby lies more in the 'in your face' aspect than anything else.
Personally, I prefer Physical Graffitti Disc one to IV. But I think almost every Zep fan likes something more than IV:) As for which is the best album? I've been listening to Houses of the Holy a LOT lately, but is it a better album? Dunno.
And WRT Floyd, Wish You Were Here, most underrated Floyd album of all time. Don't get me wrong, Dark Side is a masterpiece, but Wish You Were Here comes across as a single unit.
I have about two-thirds of those albums (nice list, BTW) and didn't pay US$20 for any of them. More like $13 or so. CDs are released cheap, go up in price, then seem to go down in price. YMMV, depends on the outlet, etc.
Close, but not quite. The 'album' was just that: an album of singles, like a photo album. I have a couple of 78 albums. About four or five discs. Each disc has one single on each side. The method of multiple songs on one disc is, I believe, a record. Not sure about the latter, but 100% on the former.
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Yeah. Sure the other hand is on the mouse.
Get over it. Go find some cheapass case. Almost all of them have nice rolled edges these days. SAve the money for more RAM, a good power supply, better motherboard, etc. It's a case. All of those little addons are typically pointless masturbation. Do you really need that many fans? Does it matter how easy it is to swap a motherboard? How often is that going to happen? Again, if you spend some money on motherboard, far less often than with your gee-whiz case.
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No doubt about that. Text to speach is some amazing stuff, and phenomenally helpful. The only trick is that the brain processes speach and reading differently. The blind community has identified a loss of reading comprehension due to the reliance on text to speach in lieu of learning Braille.
Good idea, but she's deaf as well:)
And I thank you, sir. My wife is blind. Frequently, books are not available, or are prohibitively expensive. There are electronic aids to display text via 'refreshable braille', but none of the major book publishers see fit to distribute their works in a format compatible with them. Thanks to 'bookwarez', my wife can read almost anything she wants. Download the html or whatever, convert to text, and load it into a reader. Usually, she reads the same books I read, so we already have a hardcopy. You and your brethern have helped me excercise what I view as my fair use rights to format shift my books.
Read the support boards: I believe some people have added wireless. Perhaps through the linksys access point?
It's Cliff. Repeat after me: Cliff is an editor who isn't an asshole.
Many of the 'Ask Slashdot' entries (which Cliff is in charge of) mention when it has been asked earlier or similarly.
Unfortunately they'll be able to deduce that you were jerking off when you rewound and replayed that Doritos girl commercial about forty times.
Hehe, not me. I can finish things up while the commercial is playing in fastforward on the VCR. No need to sit through it 40 times just to bust a nut.
Yeah, I'm reallly popular with the ladies.
CPA=Certified Public Accountant.
Now, if only we could breed, we would rule the world! Muh ha ha ha!
I don't know about that. This is the result of a slashdotter's breeding attempt.
(Why am I placing a link to my cable modem hosted machine on slashdot?)
Not a Winnick fan, or not a fan of the guy writing now? FWIW, the Winnick stuff seemed okay (but Ion was farfetched) but the current writer... I hope it's just that he hasn't hit his stride yet.
I never had anything against Kyle, per se. He got tossed out with the Parallax bathwater. Could have been the greatest comic of all time, but I wasn't supporting the bastardization of one of the greatest DC heroes of all time.
Don't even get me started on Green Lantern. I was so disheartened by what those bastards did to Hal Jordan that I dropped out of comics for about 5-6 years. Was reading about 20 titles per month. I didn't drop right away, but that was the beginning of the end for me. I started again ca. 2000, but it wasn't until last year that I could even bring myself to read the book featuring that usurper, Kyle Raynor.
Damn, I miss Hal. (And the Spectre was just... Not the same)
I've spoken a fair bit with the dude who co-owns the better of two local shops. In short, unless you dearly, dearly love comics, don't plan on doing much better than breaking even. I think all successful shops are highly into various gaming activities as well. Hope you like 'em. Shrinkage is a major issue. And it seems to be a fairly cutthroat business.
But, I wish you well. If I were a bit more into anything other than DC, it might make for a bit of fun.
It happened because the USPS is a firm believer in 'time motion' studies. They stated exactly where employees were to stand, exactly how to move their bodies, etc. They used to have yellow boxes and such painted around. Except for breaks, you stay in that spot for 8 hours. To call it maddening is insufficient.
The only problem I see with a revived RIAA effort is that I see the packaging design, etc. being done by committee, instead of artists, much the same as the music they put out.
Sgt. Pepper had the really cool disguise kit. Sticky Fingers, by the Stones, had a zipper on the cover (got a CD version, myself, father has the vinyl). All sorts of neat packaging tricks. The 'double cover' for 'Wish You Were Here'.
Packaging design is dead:(
Yeah, and why do they call it a Pink Floyd album? I always thought it was a Roger Waters album with instruments and vocals by Pink Floyd.
God, what an overblown ego trip that album was/is. (And don't bitch, I've got two copies on CD, had one on tape, and have multiple copies of the movies as well. Doesn't mean it's not a paen to Waters' ego.)
If you like these (particularly Sgt. Pepper) get the down to the record store and get a copy of 'Pet Sounds' by the Beach Boys. Had it been released just a few months earlier (and by the Beatles:) nobody would have ever heard of Sgt. Pepper.
Just wanted to say that you aren't alone with regards to 'So'. I would probably listen to it much more if I didn't have to skip 'Sledgehammer' each time. (But it was a nifty video. Just not much acoustically).
I think both Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are damned fine albums. Better than 99% of the albums out there. But I agree with you that 'Joshua Tree' is a far more cohesive work. The cohesiveness of Achtung Baby lies more in the 'in your face' aspect than anything else.
Personally, I prefer Physical Graffitti Disc one to IV. But I think almost every Zep fan likes something more than IV:) As for which is the best album? I've been listening to Houses of the Holy a LOT lately, but is it a better album? Dunno.
And WRT Floyd, Wish You Were Here, most underrated Floyd album of all time. Don't get me wrong, Dark Side is a masterpiece, but Wish You Were Here comes across as a single unit.
I have about two-thirds of those albums (nice list, BTW) and didn't pay US$20 for any of them. More like $13 or so. CDs are released cheap, go up in price, then seem to go down in price. YMMV, depends on the outlet, etc.
Close, but not quite. The 'album' was just that: an album of singles, like a photo album. I have a couple of 78 albums. About four or five discs. Each disc has one single on each side. The method of multiple songs on one disc is, I believe, a record. Not sure about the latter, but 100% on the former.
My latest JE begins a discussion on the topic. Feel free to jump in.
Now if only the average /. editor would begin to use just that 10%, we'd be in business. IOW:
The average person uses just 10% of their mental power. I am now one of them.
More to the point, I wonder if people will use their new brain power for good, or for awesome.