I know you might have more faith in the system, but I live right across the river from where the infamous "West Memphis Three" incident happened. Hell, all they had were some dark poems, a couple Metallica albums, and they sent 3 kids up the river, one is still on death row.
It might be "circumstantial" evidence, but never put it past the power of a jury to do the most fucked up stupid things imaginable.
What's a swordtail got to do with Ogg Vorbis? God help us if killifish freaks (uh, me) start naming software after stuff like Fundulopanchax sjoestedtji.
I was pretty torn when EQ2 came out, wondering if I should wait for WoW or go ahead with EQ2. I have an x86 Wintel PC as my desktop, and a G4 800 iBook that I take with me during the week. After having researched Sony's pitiful "support' for EQ with no mac port in sight for EQ2, I decided to go and and try WoW, even though both of my computers are "below" the minimum specs. The installer is cute enough to tell you this, btw, and still allows you to install.
And the game still runs GREAT on both of my computers.
Blizzard certainly did the right thing with this and I wish other companies would do the same.
Um.. maybe not. If they want to compete at all in this space, they should at least use 1ghz G4 parts, which do run a bit warm. My 800mhz iBook's fan comes on occasionally (usually when rendering in Mojoworld or playing something like World of Warcraft), I'd at least hope to see a SFF style computer for that.
But yeah, for $500, I'd buy one. Hell, I think I have enough in the change bucket and a Coinstar is right around the corner...
Easy workaround for "gummed" flaps: gently steam... After removing CD, you could iron the Paper CD Container if you want it looking pristine, then use rubber cement or some other adhesive to reseal if needed...
On the other hand, the content owners might be kind enough to tell Slashdot that they already posted the story.. once... twice.. sometimes three times thus relieving themselves of multiple/.ings within a short timespan and the readers from having to post "dupe!" constantly...
What is it, the m6809/10 series stuff? Nifty little laptops, wouldn't mind getting one just for gaming..:)
I think my biggest issue is that I"m using the tray table because I just don't like putting my laptop in my lap in-flight.. I swear they put knock-out gas in the air because I fall asleep quite a bit in-flight. Of course, it could be because I'm taking the 6AM flight out and was at the airport at 4AM, meaning I got up at 3AM after going to bed at 1AM, but that's a different story...:)
You know.. I'm not exactly a small dude, but I'm not fucking huge either...
And I've found using my 12" iBook to be almost all but impossible in the standard "coach" compartments of most aircraft, with my screen at an angle that is almost unreadable.. And forget about trying to type comfortably. Then, if the asshole in front of me jacks the seat completely back, I might as well pull out a book. If Apple made something along the lines of the Fujitsu P2000 series, or the Sony TRV series, it might be doable...
1. Then why don't they do it? The GIMP still does not have all these "trivial" features that Photoshop has, and likely will never, either. If it's so "trivial", then why aren't we seeing feature and ease-of-use parity between Open Source products and their closed source counterparts? In some software segments, yes (Apache, Tomcat, etc). In others, you don't. Maybe it's simply a matter of time and money vs. the ability or desire of a particular person to give away their work for free, but obviously, it's by no means a trivial problem. Programmatically speaking, maybe, but in practicality, getting someone to do all that hard work for basically "nothing" (except pride?), well, you've got a long row to hoe.
2. It completely depends upon the software, as well. But being Open Source does not guarantee that software will be well-supported or abandoned by the developers, either. See sourceforge. Yes, by having the source code, you might can take over and make your changes, if you have the technical know-how or even the desire to do it. Or you have to pay someone to do it. If you're paying for someone else to do it, really, why does a company care if the solution is open source or closed source? $600 for photoshop, one time license (depends upon how many artists you have) vs 65k/year for house programmer/contractor to produce work that you cannot really profit from (sell it once, but give away the source, that's the last sale you'll probably make).
3. Again, who's paying for that programming team? You seem to think there's an infinite supply of interested people working on these type of problems. There's not. I've found that even WITH the incentive of a great salary that I still couldn't bear to write software that I wasn't interested in. But the point it, to get that team of programmers, you have to assemble of group of interested, technically proficient programmers, and for many problems, that's going to cost you money because only money makes them interested.:P
/* Unless you live your entire life underground in a room with little windows, never venturing forth into the world, something's going to get you. */
I don't understand what you're saying. There's an actual WORLD outside my parent's basement?
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Good vodka, $35? Good god, man, what are you drinking??
I've found that Monopolowa ($15/liter, sometimes cheaper) is a SUPERB potato vodka. Great, clean taste, and I've never had a hangover drinking a fifth or even a liter of it at a time. Ever. Sometimes price is NOT a determining factor in quality, and I think this is one of those times. Grey Goose and the others are "okay", but none of them come even close to the price/quality of that fine Austrian Monopolowa. Too bad they changed the label from the generic looking one to one with more...class?
2. Get shut down by the Parks and Game Commission, but that doesn't matter because you can't find anyone willing to pick up your dead animals for minimum wage.
3. Realize that an "internet" hunting site can actually be based anywhere in the world.
Most archaeologists don't bother digging below the Clovis strata in the earth, so they don't actually get to the layers that would contain Pre-Clovis artifacts (from the article). While I won't comment on the specifics of this particular "find", I did some recon/survey of several potential sites for an archaeology class. On one side of a creek was a typical "modern" settle, from around the mid-1600s based upon the various items we found (chucky stones, various points, pestle, etc). On the other side of the creek was another site, much much much older. It's extremely interesting how various peoples pick the same spots over and over for habitation, eh? Even sites such as that one, which didn't seem particularly close to any major body of water, didn't offer any real discernible advantages. Neither settlement was very big...
Maybe the key is, we should start digging deeper and see what we come up with.
What attitude are you referring to? You basically confirmed the poster's attitude, if anything./* Most people in programming -- and yes, in art especially -- start out as amateur enthusiasts, and through a combination of self-teaching, mentoring, and lots of practice, they become experts */
contrast with:/* People with training in anything are going to produce better product than people without training. */
There are plenty of starving artists out there who would love to model for food, a place to crash, or even money. There are plenty of aspiring artists who will continue to practice until they can garner some sort of attention by becoming good at what they do. There's no contradiction there, except that you seem to miss the idea that people who LOVE what they do will tend to go get some training in that field, whereas people with a passing interest will fuck around with it in their spare time. As a coder, I'm sure you've met the programming equivalents. Who would you rather want working on your project, a guy who refuses to get a "real" job because he wants to work on stuff he wants to work on and live minimally (whether its art, an open source project, or whatever), because he LOVES what he's doing, or some guy in a forum somewhere who just downloaded Maya and might have time to actually learn something about the software in the next 6 months?
Well, I seem to recall that the British actually created the first "drug cartel" with their Opium Wars back in the day, eh?
And in some parts of the country, "moonshining" is still alive and well, Maye you should move to the Appalachians or the Ozarks and you'll see what I mean..
When you start regulating and start artificially increasing the price of a commodity, people will start looking for ways to get around it, no matter what...
1) It's their game. if they want to charge me $50, plus $30 for expansion packs, plus $10/month and I still want to play, it sounds like they're making money to me. And frankly, when I'm playing a game, such as Everquest, that I enjoy, it's a *small* price to pay.
2) It's their game. If you want to play, you have to pay.
Big ditto here. My desktop is a dual PIII 750 and it's miles and miles more responsive than my work's P4 2.4ghz machines. I'm only working with 512 megs of RAM (PC100 even), but it's still great.
And, I feel your pain regarding current dual setups: Dual Opterons (out of my price range), dual Xeons (out of my price range) or Athlon MP's (more reasonable). It seems Apple is the only company doing dual anything for the desktop these days, which is just fine by me (based upon my iBook usage).:)
Seriously, you actually go through all of that just to use your computer? And people wonder why "joe average" is completely flustered by computers.
"Okay, you need to do this and this and this and download this, and read through this, and this and this". If I didn't have some sort of interest in computers, I'd probably just turn it off and go outside.
Are there any options for "private sector" medical care specialists in Canada? I mean, if you are a doctor in Canada, are you required to work in the government-subsidized system or are there any private practices that could, say, provide higher quality healthcare for those willing to pay for it? If so, then I don't see the big difference, because those that don't want to wait and have the cash can go to the private sector. I'm thinking that this is not the case, however, as I seem to recall many wealthy Canadians come to the US for stuff like that...
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I know you might have more faith in the system, but I live right across the river from where the infamous "West Memphis Three" incident happened. Hell, all they had were some dark poems, a couple Metallica albums, and they sent 3 kids up the river, one is still on death row.
It might be "circumstantial" evidence, but never put it past the power of a jury to do the most fucked up stupid things imaginable.
What's a swordtail got to do with Ogg Vorbis? God help us if killifish freaks (uh, me) start naming software after stuff like Fundulopanchax sjoestedtji.
Sony can kiss my ass, too. But I'll probably be in the fucking line to buy it when it comes out. See you there?
Hell, man. Who needs the actual *girl*?
"What's the useless fleshy skin around a vagina called?"
"A Woman"
Where's the -100, Sexist bastard option?
Wrong comparison. How many volkswagons? would be much more appropriate.
I was pretty torn when EQ2 came out, wondering if I should wait for WoW or go ahead with EQ2. I have an x86 Wintel PC as my desktop, and a G4 800 iBook that I take with me during the week. After having researched Sony's pitiful "support' for EQ with no mac port in sight for EQ2, I decided to go and and try WoW, even though both of my computers are "below" the minimum specs. The installer is cute enough to tell you this, btw, and still allows you to install.
And the game still runs GREAT on both of my computers.
Blizzard certainly did the right thing with this and I wish other companies would do the same.
Thanks for the spoiler alert, dude. I guess I don't need to read the book or see the movie now. :(
LOL
And I just RTFA.. 1.25ghz G4 is "planned". Fucking sweet. If they release it, I'll buy it.
Um.. maybe not. If they want to compete at all in this space, they should at least use 1ghz G4 parts, which do run a bit warm. My 800mhz iBook's fan comes on occasionally (usually when rendering in Mojoworld or playing something like World of Warcraft), I'd at least hope to see a SFF style computer for that.
But yeah, for $500, I'd buy one. Hell, I think I have enough in the change bucket and a Coinstar is right around the corner...
Easy workaround for "gummed" flaps: gently steam... After removing CD, you could iron the Paper CD Container if you want it looking pristine, then use rubber cement or some other adhesive to reseal if needed...
On the other hand, the content owners might be kind enough to tell Slashdot that they already posted the story.. once... twice.. sometimes three times thus relieving themselves of multiple /.ings within a short timespan and the readers from having to post "dupe!" constantly...
What is it, the m6809/10 series stuff? Nifty little laptops, wouldn't mind getting one just for gaming.. :)
:)
I think my biggest issue is that I"m using the tray table because I just don't like putting my laptop in my lap in-flight.. I swear they put knock-out gas in the air because I fall asleep quite a bit in-flight. Of course, it could be because I'm taking the 6AM flight out and was at the airport at 4AM, meaning I got up at 3AM after going to bed at 1AM, but that's a different story...
You know.. I'm not exactly a small dude, but I'm not fucking huge either...
And I've found using my 12" iBook to be almost all but impossible in the standard "coach" compartments of most aircraft, with my screen at an angle that is almost unreadable.. And forget about trying to type comfortably. Then, if the asshole in front of me jacks the seat completely back, I might as well pull out a book. If Apple made something along the lines of the Fujitsu P2000 series, or the Sony TRV series, it might be doable...
1. Then why don't they do it? The GIMP still does not have all these "trivial" features that Photoshop has, and likely will never, either. If it's so "trivial", then why aren't we seeing feature and ease-of-use parity between Open Source products and their closed source counterparts? In some software segments, yes (Apache, Tomcat, etc). In others, you don't. Maybe it's simply a matter of time and money vs. the ability or desire of a particular person to give away their work for free, but obviously, it's by no means a trivial problem. Programmatically speaking, maybe, but in practicality, getting someone to do all that hard work for basically "nothing" (except pride?), well, you've got a long row to hoe.
:P
2. It completely depends upon the software, as well. But being Open Source does not guarantee that software will be well-supported or abandoned by the developers, either. See sourceforge. Yes, by having the source code, you might can take over and make your changes, if you have the technical know-how or even the desire to do it. Or you have to pay someone to do it. If you're paying for someone else to do it, really, why does a company care if the solution is open source or closed source? $600 for photoshop, one time license (depends upon how many artists you have) vs 65k/year for house programmer/contractor to produce work that you cannot really profit from (sell it once, but give away the source, that's the last sale you'll probably make).
3. Again, who's paying for that programming team? You seem to think there's an infinite supply of interested people working on these type of problems. There's not. I've found that even WITH the incentive of a great salary that I still couldn't bear to write software that I wasn't interested in. But the point it, to get that team of programmers, you have to assemble of group of interested, technically proficient programmers, and for many problems, that's going to cost you money because only money makes them interested.
/* Unless you live your entire life underground in a room with little windows, never venturing forth into the world, something's going to get you. */
I don't understand what you're saying. There's an actual WORLD outside my parent's basement?
Good vodka, $35? Good god, man, what are you drinking??
I've found that Monopolowa ($15/liter, sometimes cheaper) is a SUPERB potato vodka. Great, clean taste, and I've never had a hangover drinking a fifth or even a liter of it at a time. Ever. Sometimes price is NOT a determining factor in quality, and I think this is one of those times. Grey Goose and the others are "okay", but none of them come even close to the price/quality of that fine Austrian Monopolowa. Too bad they changed the label from the generic looking one to one with more...class?
OMG.. I just found the ??? step!
1. Open an internet hunting site.
2. Get shut down by the Parks and Game Commission, but that doesn't matter because you can't find anyone willing to pick up your dead animals for minimum wage.
3. Realize that an "internet" hunting site can actually be based anywhere in the world.
4. OUTSOURCE TO INDIA (the ???? step!)
5. Profit!
Most archaeologists don't bother digging below the Clovis strata in the earth, so they don't actually get to the layers that would contain Pre-Clovis artifacts (from the article). While I won't comment on the specifics of this particular "find", I did some recon/survey of several potential sites for an archaeology class. On one side of a creek was a typical "modern" settle, from around the mid-1600s based upon the various items we found (chucky stones, various points, pestle, etc). On the other side of the creek was another site, much much much older. It's extremely interesting how various peoples pick the same spots over and over for habitation, eh? Even sites such as that one, which didn't seem particularly close to any major body of water, didn't offer any real discernible advantages. Neither settlement was very big...
Maybe the key is, we should start digging deeper and see what we come up with.
What attitude are you referring to? You basically confirmed the poster's attitude, if anything. /* Most people in programming -- and yes, in art especially -- start out as amateur enthusiasts, and through a combination of self-teaching, mentoring, and lots of practice, they become experts */
/* People with training in anything are going to produce better product than people without training. */
contrast with:
There are plenty of starving artists out there who would love to model for food, a place to crash, or even money. There are plenty of aspiring artists who will continue to practice until they can garner some sort of attention by becoming good at what they do. There's no contradiction there, except that you seem to miss the idea that people who LOVE what they do will tend to go get some training in that field, whereas people with a passing interest will fuck around with it in their spare time. As a coder, I'm sure you've met the programming equivalents. Who would you rather want working on your project, a guy who refuses to get a "real" job because he wants to work on stuff he wants to work on and live minimally (whether its art, an open source project, or whatever), because he LOVES what he's doing, or some guy in a forum somewhere who just downloaded Maya and might have time to actually learn something about the software in the next 6 months?
Well, I seem to recall that the British actually created the first "drug cartel" with their Opium Wars back in the day, eh?
And in some parts of the country, "moonshining" is still alive and well, Maye you should move to the Appalachians or the Ozarks and you'll see what I mean..
When you start regulating and start artificially increasing the price of a commodity, people will start looking for ways to get around it, no matter what...
1) It's their game. if they want to charge me $50, plus $30 for expansion packs, plus $10/month and I still want to play, it sounds like they're making money to me. And frankly, when I'm playing a game, such as Everquest, that I enjoy, it's a *small* price to pay.
2) It's their game. If you want to play, you have to pay.
3) It's their game.
Big ditto here. My desktop is a dual PIII 750 and it's miles and miles more responsive than my work's P4 2.4ghz machines. I'm only working with 512 megs of RAM (PC100 even), but it's still great.
:)
And, I feel your pain regarding current dual setups: Dual Opterons (out of my price range), dual Xeons (out of my price range) or Athlon MP's (more reasonable). It seems Apple is the only company doing dual anything for the desktop these days, which is just fine by me (based upon my iBook usage).
Seriously, you actually go through all of that just to use your computer? And people wonder why "joe average" is completely flustered by computers.
"Okay, you need to do this and this and this and download this, and read through this, and this and this". If I didn't have some sort of interest in computers, I'd probably just turn it off and go outside.
Simple, silly. Think in terms of "volkswagons" and I think you'll have it.
Are there any options for "private sector" medical care specialists in Canada? I mean, if you are a doctor in Canada, are you required to work in the government-subsidized system or are there any private practices that could, say, provide higher quality healthcare for those willing to pay for it? If so, then I don't see the big difference, because those that don't want to wait and have the cash can go to the private sector. I'm thinking that this is not the case, however, as I seem to recall many wealthy Canadians come to the US for stuff like that...