A Wikileaks that just makes available the documents they have without the need to try all tell people what they should think about those documents might have some value. Of course, it might also be impossible since somebody has to make the decision whether or not to release a document (for example, if they believe release might endanger lives) and that can be seen as a form of editorial control.
And what would make people stumble upon and wade through the thousands of documents? Not everyone has the time or interest to read everything that comes across their path. While I hate editorializing, it is necessary to get most people interested enough to read about it.
I don't know if it was anything to do with Asimov, but there's a study that alleges that Agatha Christie's writing quality got much worse both statistically and critically as she grew older.
And college textbooks are another thing altogether. The incentive for publishers is to keep them fat, because that means: A) they can justify the outrageous prices they charge. B) their books look more complete.
There definitely has been textbook bloat. My calculus teacher in HS had unearthed a 1940s calculus textbook. It was less than 100 pages-- probably closer to 50-- and still covered the whole year's material. Without the look-up tables, of course.
I can understand how there may be some Mexican Senators who have their fingers in the Piracy pie. *Any* Mexican street market is guaranteed to have at least one "clon" stand, with the larger markets having 20-25% of their stalls selling warez of all kinds: CD/MP3/DVD/PS2/XBOX, as well as counterfeit clothing and handbags.
A widely believed rumor is that the stands are tied to organized crime. Another rumor is that the Senators are corrupt. It doesn't take a Latin conspiracy theorist to connect the dots.
I do occasional work for a Worker's Comp doc who has been working with Dragon for over 10 years. He swears by it. The work is an hour-long interview, and hours of paperwork. He dictates the report into a MiniDisc recorder while reviewing his notes and then plays the recording back into the computer, watching for errors (few) and reviewing. I've also set up several other docs in the same field with Dragon, and they're quite pleased with it as well.
At first, he had to buy the latest HW and audio cards to get the best accuracy, but now runs Dragon virtualized on a 1st-gen MacBook without a problem. Dragon FTW!
I think the question is not that certain words are evil, but that profanity can be valuable. This value is lost from overuse.
One of my HS English teachers (roughly) described it this way:
If you call everyone a motherfucker, then everyone is a motherfucker and it doesn't have value. But if you rarely or never use the word and walk into the principal's office and say "LISTEN HERE, MOTHERFUCKER!" then you're making a point."
Umm... yeah... Most version control is going to go crazy with the type of large binary files used in design-- images, and video in particular. You have to realize that not everyone is working on code, or even in EPS (which would work in CVS/SVN/Git/Mercurial, etc quite well).
Or do it in software, force it to 10baseT-- 1.25MB/sec-- via ifconfig or system preferences -> networking -> advanced. Nothing to unplug, and the average boss' son won't be able to figure it out.
Of course! Let's not patch security holes!... And then Grandma's email/bank acct/etc is hacked. Sorry, Grandma, you should have spent that extra $600 after all.
It's exactly this issue that pisses me off about Apple. While your typical/.er might be on a 1-3 year upgrade cycle, a lot of people (ie older parents/grandparents) buy a Mac because it's "easier" and are more inclined to be on a 5-10 year cycle. Their machines serve them well and do what they need--WP, email and web. Speed is NOT an issue when you're reading the news online or writing your Xmas letter. As far as my mom is concerned, there is no difference between the versions of OS X-- and why new versions of Firefox won't run anymore will baffle her.
Yes, Apple is trying to be revolutionary and keep themselves at the forefront of technology, as well as maintain a manageable codebase. But this has been coming at the expense of (prematurely) obsoleting still-good hardware in the hands of a market that Apple has decided to ignore.
Not quite, they didn't include markup (ie store profits and overhead) in their analysis. That could run anywhere between 20-50%.
From TFA:
iSuppli’s teardown analysis accounts only for hardware and manufacturing costs and does not take into consideration other expenses such as software, box contents and royalties. Thus, the difference between the cost of the product and the U.S. price is even greater than $31.27.
The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without Windows.
Given TFA's reference to Businesspeople and the current climate of data security breaches and cross-boarder laptop seizures, it is probably NOT advisable for businesspeople to carry around more than 10GB of data with them. Rather, they should access it by VPN or via encrypted flash storage.
For the rest of us nerds though, who like to have hundreds of gigs of por^H^H^H relevant facts and figures with us at all times, will be able to do as you say, self-install.
This might have been the case before 2002, but... Have you seriously looked at the printing interface for OS X? It's garbage. Splitting everything onto small screens with non-intuitive descriptions in that drop-down box might look pretty and uncluttered, but it really isn't productive.
Case in point: A couple months ago, I was helping someone with FileMaker over the phone and we couldn't find the option to print only the current record. The answer: it was in the specific FileMaker print dialog, which was so far down the drop-down list that you had to scroll to it.
While I'm not a fan of application-specific open/save/print dialogs, I'd wish Apple could have come up with something better. For people who keep saying "graphic design, graphic design, graphic design" they must do web-only or have gotten used to how ghastly this is.
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Yeah, that iMac is running. But not running the newest OS X. In a year or two the only somewhat-current browser it'll run is iCab. Apple has really dropped the ball on this, and it's the reason I bought a ThinkPad instead of a MacBook Pro.
Case in point: In 1998, a (high-end) Mac from 1990 would run most current s/w just fine. There were plenty of IIfxes and upgraded SE/30s that had been passed along to grandmas and schools and still running Netscape/IE 3, albeit sluggishly at times. This was a major selling point for recommending Macs to those who weren't techies: less need to upgrade. If you had a 1990 Intel box... well imagine a 286 running Win95.
Since the introduction of OS X, Apple has gotten into the habit of obsoleting machines much more quickly. I've worked on plenty of iMacs that are still adequate machines for poking around the web, but running OS 9. New advances in web technology have rendered browsers that run on OS 9 obsolete, iCab is the only one that runs somewhat well. It's possible to put 10.1 on them, but there are two problems with that: 1) Where do I find a copy, legal or otherwise? Most install CDs you find are keyed to a specific model, so that rules them out. 2) 10.1 is a dog. I beleive OS X didn't come into it's own until 10.3, but 10.3 also has higher requirements than the machines in question. 3) Bonus! Linux??? I haven't found a good distro that supports NewWorld macs without hours of fussing.
With 10.5, Apple raised the requirements further. The low-end of the last generation of PPCs is now unsupported. Mac zealots might claim it's about improving the experience, but I believe it's all about selling more hardware. The inevitable consequence is that Apple is essentially forcing users to dump perfectly good machines for the newest boxen.
Returning to my earlier 1998 reference. My sister has a Vaio from 1999, running Win2K and using the latest version of Firefox, which it runs just fine (even with the overhead of the software firewall). The machine still is useful for web browsing and email.
It's sad to say that a 1999 model iMac is nothing more than a doorstop.
You can just use any obsolete archiver if you don't want Google scanning your data. Sure, they could write a module to unzip your files, but are they going to bother with LHarc and.ZOO files?
I came into UCSC 3 years ago, and I "pledged" CalPIRG voluntarily. Apparently it's been like that for years. The UC Regents got pissed about having students pay involuntarily for activities that questioned official policy.
EMI (Experiments in Musical Intellegence) is Cope's idea for software to create music in the style of a composer. The variety of music you feed it results in different compositions. About EMI: I actually played in David Cope's Mahler two years ago (I'm at UCSC, and it was the premier performance). Mahler is an Opera composed by EMI in the style of Mahler, with (laughable) a libretto influenced by Mahler's letters. This seems troll, but EMI still has some problems. In Mahler, it didn't seem to know how to write for the weaknesses of an instrument. Writing horn parts pianissimo above the staff is a big no no.
is anyone else worried about how IBM, makers of some not-so-reliable drives of late, is making this? I sure don't want real evidence being destroyed because of a hard drive crash.
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Don't even think of clicking.. goatse alert. Way to get me fired, bro
A Wikileaks that just makes available the documents they have without the need to try all tell people what they should think about those documents might have some value. Of course, it might also be impossible since somebody has to make the decision whether or not to release a document (for example, if they believe release might endanger lives) and that can be seen as a form of editorial control.
And what would make people stumble upon and wade through the thousands of documents? Not everyone has the time or interest to read everything that comes across their path. While I hate editorializing, it is necessary to get most people interested enough to read about it.
I don't know if it was anything to do with Asimov, but there's a study that alleges that Agatha Christie's writing quality got much worse both statistically and critically as she grew older.
And college textbooks are another thing altogether. The incentive for publishers is to keep them fat, because that means:
A) they can justify the outrageous prices they charge.
B) their books look more complete.
There definitely has been textbook bloat. My calculus teacher in HS had unearthed a 1940s calculus textbook. It was less than 100 pages-- probably closer to 50-- and still covered the whole year's material. Without the look-up tables, of course.
I can understand how there may be some Mexican Senators who have their fingers in the Piracy pie. *Any* Mexican street market is guaranteed to have at least one "clon" stand, with the larger markets having 20-25% of their stalls selling warez of all kinds: CD/MP3/DVD/PS2/XBOX, as well as counterfeit clothing and handbags.
A widely believed rumor is that the stands are tied to organized crime. Another rumor is that the Senators are corrupt. It doesn't take a Latin conspiracy theorist to connect the dots.
I call bullshit on your bullshit.
I do occasional work for a Worker's Comp doc who has been working with Dragon for over 10 years. He swears by it.
The work is an hour-long interview, and hours of paperwork. He dictates the report into a MiniDisc recorder while reviewing his notes and then plays the recording back into the computer, watching for errors (few) and reviewing. I've also set up several other docs in the same field with Dragon, and they're quite pleased with it as well.
At first, he had to buy the latest HW and audio cards to get the best accuracy, but now runs Dragon virtualized on a 1st-gen MacBook without a problem. Dragon FTW!
I think the question is not that certain words are evil, but that profanity can be valuable. This value is lost from overuse.
One of my HS English teachers (roughly) described it this way:
If you call everyone a motherfucker, then everyone is a motherfucker and it doesn't have value.
But if you rarely or never use the word and walk into the principal's office and say "LISTEN HERE, MOTHERFUCKER!" then you're making a point."
"In New York, Miami beach
Heavy metal fell in Cuba
Angola, Saudi Arabia
On Christmas eve", said Norad
A soviet sputnik hit Africa
India, Venezuela, in Texas, Kansas
It's falling fast Peru too
It keeps coming, it keeps coming, it keeps coming!
huh-oh
(or however you would transliterate the sound of receiving a message)
"the OS does a good job updating itself with few problems, and the hardware holds up quite nicely."
Tell that to someone with a less than 4 year old G5 that can't run 10.6 or find a legit copy or 10.5 easily.
Umm... yeah...
Most version control is going to go crazy with the type of large binary files used in design-- images, and video in particular.
You have to realize that not everyone is working on code, or even in EPS (which would work in CVS/SVN/Git/Mercurial, etc quite well).
Or do it in software, force it to 10baseT-- 1.25MB/sec-- via ifconfig or system preferences -> networking -> advanced.
Nothing to unplug, and the average boss' son won't be able to figure it out.
Of course! Let's not patch security holes! ...
And then Grandma's email/bank acct/etc is hacked. Sorry, Grandma, you should have spent that extra $600 after all.
It's exactly this issue that pisses me off about Apple. While your typical /.er might be on a 1-3 year upgrade cycle, a lot of people (ie older parents/grandparents) buy a Mac because it's "easier" and are more inclined to be on a 5-10 year cycle. Their machines serve them well and do what they need--WP, email and web. Speed is NOT an issue when you're reading the news online or writing your Xmas letter. As far as my mom is concerned, there is no difference between the versions of OS X-- and why new versions of Firefox won't run anymore will baffle her.
Yes, Apple is trying to be revolutionary and keep themselves at the forefront of technology, as well as maintain a manageable codebase. But this has been coming at the expense of (prematurely) obsoleting still-good hardware in the hands of a market that Apple has decided to ignore.
Not quite, they didn't include markup (ie store profits and overhead) in their analysis. That could run anywhere between 20-50%.
From TFA:
iSuppli’s teardown analysis accounts only for hardware and manufacturing costs and does not take into consideration other expenses such as software, box contents and royalties. Thus, the difference between the cost of the product and the U.S. price is even greater than $31.27.
The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy
a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without
Windows.
Given TFA's reference to Businesspeople and the current climate of data security breaches and cross-boarder laptop seizures, it is probably NOT advisable for businesspeople to carry around more than 10GB of data with them. Rather, they should access it by VPN or via encrypted flash storage.
For the rest of us nerds though, who like to have hundreds of gigs of por^H^H^H relevant facts and figures with us at all times, will be able to do as you say, self-install.
This might have been the case before 2002, but...
Have you seriously looked at the printing interface for OS X? It's garbage. Splitting everything onto small screens with non-intuitive descriptions in that drop-down box might look pretty and uncluttered, but it really isn't productive.
Case in point: A couple months ago, I was helping someone with FileMaker over the phone and we couldn't find the option to print only the current record. The answer: it was in the specific FileMaker print dialog, which was so far down the drop-down list that you had to scroll to it.
While I'm not a fan of application-specific open/save/print dialogs, I'd wish Apple could have come up with something better. For people who keep saying "graphic design, graphic design, graphic design" they must do web-only or have gotten used to how ghastly this is.
Yeah, that iMac is running. But not running the newest OS X. In a year or two the only somewhat-current browser it'll run is iCab. Apple has really dropped the ball on this, and it's the reason I bought a ThinkPad instead of a MacBook Pro.
Case in point: In 1998, a (high-end) Mac from 1990 would run most current s/w just fine. There were plenty of IIfxes and upgraded SE/30s that had been passed along to grandmas and schools and still running Netscape/IE 3, albeit sluggishly at times. This was a major selling point for recommending Macs to those who weren't techies: less need to upgrade. If you had a 1990 Intel box... well imagine a 286 running Win95.
Since the introduction of OS X, Apple has gotten into the habit of obsoleting machines much more quickly. I've worked on plenty of iMacs that are still adequate machines for poking around the web, but running OS 9. New advances in web technology have rendered browsers that run on OS 9 obsolete, iCab is the only one that runs somewhat well. It's possible to put 10.1 on them, but there are two problems with that:
1) Where do I find a copy, legal or otherwise? Most install CDs you find are keyed to a specific model, so that rules them out.
2) 10.1 is a dog. I beleive OS X didn't come into it's own until 10.3, but 10.3 also has higher requirements than the machines in question.
3) Bonus! Linux??? I haven't found a good distro that supports NewWorld macs without hours of fussing.
With 10.5, Apple raised the requirements further. The low-end of the last generation of PPCs is now unsupported. Mac zealots might claim it's about improving the experience, but I believe it's all about selling more hardware. The inevitable consequence is that Apple is essentially forcing users to dump perfectly good machines for the newest boxen.
Returning to my earlier 1998 reference. My sister has a Vaio from 1999, running Win2K and using the latest version of Firefox, which it runs just fine (even with the overhead of the software firewall). The machine still is useful for web browsing and email.
It's sad to say that a 1999 model iMac is nothing more than a doorstop.
You can just use any obsolete archiver if you don't want Google scanning your data. Sure, they could write a module to unzip your files, but are they going to bother with LHarc and .ZOO files?
Posts like this make me feel like I'm not a nerd. Just like going to a political rally in Berkeley makes me feel like a centrist.
I came into UCSC 3 years ago, and I "pledged" CalPIRG voluntarily. Apparently it's been like that for years. The UC Regents got pissed about having students pay involuntarily for activities that questioned official policy.
EMI (Experiments in Musical Intellegence) is Cope's idea for software to create music in the style of a composer. The variety of music you feed it results in different compositions.
About EMI: I actually played in David Cope's Mahler two years ago (I'm at UCSC, and it was the premier performance).
Mahler is an Opera composed by EMI in the style of Mahler, with (laughable) a libretto influenced by Mahler's letters.
This seems troll, but EMI still has some problems. In Mahler, it didn't seem to know how to write for the weaknesses of an instrument. Writing horn parts pianissimo above the staff is a big no no.
From everything I know, this is COMPLETELY WRONG. Verizon makes a big point out of this in this release and this page from their store.
is anyone else worried about how IBM, makers of some not-so-reliable drives of late, is making this? I sure don't want real evidence being destroyed because of a hard drive crash.
I was expecting a rendition of "It's Not Unusual" or Delilah. pfh!
no mention that this is a reg required site (at least for me)