This typeashit goes on in College Radio too.
Except you don't actually have to play the music, just put it in your playlist that you report to CMJ and Gavin. They know that college radio's reach is small.. but the charts still matter to them so they still pay for promotions.
And they don't give you such great shit. They grant you interviews and give you 10-20 tickets to the big festival and give you 6 tickets to every show and tons of extra free CDs.. but.. no cash and definitely no cocaine.
What I really want is a case for an ATX MB that is audio-component size. I have TV out, I have a Wireless K/M, all I need is a case that isn't puke beige or as deep (and proprietary) as a Network Engines/Penguin Comp. "pizza box" 1RU server.
Know of one? Reply with the link. My minitower looks _weak_ in my entertainment center and right now I'm leaning towards an old Indigo painted black..
As a former radio programmer and engineer I have to wonder why the stations don't just block the microphone output on their webcasts. That way the union's precious "talent" isn't streaming, the pre-programmed music selections are. Many commercial stations have all the content coming out of one server anyway - why not just stream the output of the server, instead of the console?
We don't tune in to hear those windbags talk fast and deep, we tune in for the music. If the union's not careful - they'll make themselves obsolete.
I also have trouble beleiving that broadcasters weren't charging advertisers already. Free advertising?!?! Sorry I missed that boat!
If WWOZ isn't streaming anymore I will definitely begin to cry.
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no.. the IBM motto of the times was "I've Been Moved". Think was just on the notepads because they had to constantly remind their engineers to do just that.
I thought so! I bought my 3030 a few months ago and was SURE it freeze-framed on pause.
Like your second point. If you are pausing the TV, why are you paying attention to it?? IF you had the ability to pay attention, you wouldn't need to pause it!!
Also I think we failed to realize that Big Brother (read AOL) has been doing this forever. I bailed on AOL in 1994 simplly because it would stay connected after I closed the window. The only way to not have AOL upgrade itself is to kill the process.
After all, a TV ad for a widget isn't going to make you get up and use the phone RIGHT NOW
I beg to differ. Have you ever tried to call one of those 1-800 numbers while the commercial is still playing? It's impossible. Thousands of pavlovian simpletons call RIGHT NOW! Just like the ad commands them to.
"BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! If you CALL NOW we'll throw in these FREE steak knives."
This is also a case where targeted banner advertising comes into play. I've often clicked on banners that were more topical than the rest of the information on the page, particularly with search engine results -- A properly placed banner WILL get people to drop what they're doing and click because it IS what they're looking for in the first place.
The funny thing about interstitials is the Internet ad companies treat them like some special privelege. 24/7 won't sell you interstitials until you have a certain number of ad impressions per month - it's a service reserved for their "premium" members.
Until their mainboards support SMP, they will be second class.
While we're on the topic, what's up with the lack of x86 mainboards with FireWire (IEEE 1394) support? I read a while back that the boardmakers aren't supporting 1394 because Microsoft doesn't want them too - because M$ doesn't control the standard.. but you'd think that would scare the Intel guys more than the AMD guys..
How about it, VIA, can I get a MB with Firewire for my new camcorder? Or do I have to go Mac?
You are still making assumptions about the browsing experience.
My screen resolution is 1600x1200 but I never, ever, ever maximixe my browser window. My browser window never gets wider than about 1024 pixels -- Unless a lame site (like heavy.com) decides to maximize it for me.
I have an intellimouse. If only HTTP headers could tell us who has wheel-mice. See, I don't mind scrolling. I'd rather scroll than have to read a column of text that's 1000 pixels wide.
Any day.
I still run 56K dialup. So given the option of 1024 or 800, I'll choose 800 every time because the overall load time is bound to be shorter.
I hate to make sweeping generalizations, but it seems to me web designers whose roots in web design come from programming understand the concept of user preference. It also seems to me that the designers with their roots in print, or interactive, want to control every little aspect of the user experience. They want to maximize your window (or worse - use 6 frames) and force you to watch the flash intro and absolutely position every pixel on the page.
Sending screen resolution isn't anything new when it comes to HTTP headers. IE for windows has been doing it since 4.0. Netscape does it too, they just subtract the area that windows' taskbar eats up. I find it interesting that Sandbox is sending the viewable browser size too, which is a much more usable statistic. See this link for more info on that..
(http://evolt.org/article/Real_World_Browser_Siz e_ Stats_Part_II/20/2297/) for the timid.
I am one of the people interested in seeing these photos.
I think I remember a similar story from SF's Critical Mass, but IIRC they just uploaded all the pics after it was over.
There are 2 Sony sub-notebooks with built-in cameras, the Picturebook and the new GT1. The GT1, in particular, seems like it could work if you figured out a good mounting solution. It has a nice cam, 17 hours battery life, full motion video, a type II PCMCIA slot, etc. It's really a camcorder with a PC built in - not the other way around.
More info, and US purchase, is available here : http://www.dynamism.com/gt1/index.shtml for the timid.
Also the newest Libretto and another of the japan-market subnotes (a fujitsu I think) have built in cameras. I would have more info, but it seems like Japan Palmtop Direct, www.jpd.com, has gone down/out of business. They used to be the best source for JPN market notebooks.
Dynamism has the Libretto, and its' built-in "lipstick camera" is removable, which the sonys are not. But it only has a 3.2 GB Hd.
Dynamism might actually ship you one of these units for free, if you get your colleagues at the Register's tech department to request it...
There is a visor cam available, and a palm pilot camera, but the problem is there's not an easy way to hook both a camera and a cellular modem up to a PDA. That, to me, is the biggest prob with the Visor and its Springboard slot - you cannot daisy-chain springboard modules. No way to use wireless, camera and flash memory in one system concurrently.
Now if there is a camera available for the Palm VII, and there is Mobitex service in the area, that might work. (FYI any device that says it'll work with a III should work with a VII)
Otherwise, you might be stuck trying to build a single-purpose PC, or you might have to upload pics at intervals when you stop.
That's a quote.. Dave Barry maybe? Jay Leno?
I dunno.. my name ain't Bartlett. I've heard the hot-rodder analogy before.
Non-geeks that have been around longer than Electronic Fuel Injection equate tech obsession with hot-rodding. When the non-geeks hear us talking about MHz and RAM and USB and SCSI and Linux - they feel like they're back at the garage, hearing their mechanic talk about pistons and valves and cams and headers.
It's all greek to them, it's "technical", we're "opening up the machine and replacing parts", and they wouldn't know where to begin doing it on their own.
As a VW fan, I can tell you there are two types of "hot-rodders" - those who restore old cars and those who "supe-up" old cars.
The overclockers - theyre the ones that aren't afraid to cut a hole in the case (hood scoop) - add liquid cooling (supercharger) or fans (turbos) - swap out the CPU (engine swap) - or overclock it (bore it over).
In short, they're not afraid to fuck up their PC for a little speed. Which to me sounds *exactly* like a hot-rodder.
IANAL either, but I do know that if you live in a state like.. say.. Maryland, and you sign a NC, and then the company whom you go to work for next, which violates your NC, is in California, then you can also counter-sue for legal, lost revenue, and even punitive I think. This happened to someone I know and it was a big case. She finally won, and the Global 2000 company she went to work for countersued the little consulting company, and got legal expenses (Which were in the millions) and damages.
Not only are NCs unenforceable in CA, they're straight illegal.
Free speech is free speech. You most certainly ARE for political correctness, and my guess is you don't really understand the US Constitution whatsoever.
This is exactly they type of person that drives 40 in the left lane of the Interstate, writes a check in the express lane of the grocery store, and fumbles for 10 minutes in their purse looking for their bankcard at the drive-thru.
The same type of person that stops and shrugs in the rear view mirror when you honk at them for not going when the light turns green.
The problem is not that you people like to take things slow, it's that you are employed. As such, your employers and coworkers must now bear the brunt of your laziness.
It's a vicious circle. I wouldn't be so stressed all the time if i didn't have to pick up other people's slack constantly.
I ONLY hurry because you people do not.
Oh, and by the way, I have a 386 I'd be willing to trade for your athlon. It'll run Slack 3.x!
We were discussing this very thing a few days ago. Even after years of smoking pot, I was one of those people who always remembered phone numbers. People used to call me to get other people's phone numbers. I never, ever forgot a number.
Then came caller ID, cellphones, PDAs, Cordless phones with 99 number memory, and email.
Now I can't remember a phone number to save my life.
Is it really the technology? One of my freinds hypothesized that i simply don't "allocate memory" for phone numbers anymore. He argued that since I have to remember URLs, IPs, Ports, Hex Color Codes, Passwords galore, email addresses and the like that I don't have "room" for Phone #s anymore.
Another freind's hypothesis is that since I don't have to dial those numbers by hand anymore, because I use the "Display Dial" in my cordless or the address book in my cellphone, that I don't memorize numbers because I don't have to go through the process of dialing them. This seems less applicable to me than some others because I always remebered 9 numbers, not a pattern of buttons, like some people. Another take on that is that when I was younger, people's numbers didn't change nearly as much as they do now. There were only 3 exchanges in my hometown then, now there are 2 overlapping area codes with a ton of exchanges.
My hypothesis is a combination of the two, plus the issue of not giving a damn. Back when I remembered phone numbers, I was in my teens and twenties. I CARED what this person's number was. I wanted to call people in my spare time. I was a social butterfly intent on being liked by all.
Now I groan when it rings and almost never pick it up to dial. And if I DID want to talk to you, I would definitely email you first. I hate baseball almost as much as the telephone, and I don't still have all the Orioles' batting averages memorized.. so why would I remember phone numbers?
This is where the pot smoking theory comes into play. Sure I used to remeber numbers after a few years of casual use, but it's been every day for ten more years! I don't feel *burnt* but I'm not ignorant enough to think I wasn't affected.
So the real question is...
Does technology make us forget or does technology simply Enable us to stop remembering?
Absolutely. I bought VMWare specifically for 2 things, to run games for 98 in either NT or RedHat 6.2, and to run Photoshop.
Too bad VMWare uses its' own display driver, and cannot access display hardware like 3d chips, Mpeg decoders, etc. Gaming is not very doable.
The problem with Photoshop is VMWare's lack of support for ICC profiles, so you can end up modifying an image with the colors that look fine in VMWare mode, but crappy in Windows-native mode.
Hopefully, WINE will be the answer. I know there are serious advantages to running VMWare over WINE, but they're not advantages *TO ME*.
The funny thing is, I almost always end up playing MAME or Quake when I'm in Windows. So I guess I really don't need to play Win games in Linux after all... except maybe GTA2.....
No kidding. I remember trying to return my Palm VII when I learned its' wireless networking wouldn't work inside the corporate mensroom. Now I'm stuck avantgo-ing all my content while i sit cross-legged at my desk, waiting for it to sync.
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Pike's Law Of Digital Media:
Whichever format Sony supports will eventually lose.
All your Memory Stick are belong to us.
AirPhone paid for this study?
FLAAC is not a codec. it is an application that converts FLAC (not supported on the iPod) to AAC (the iPod's proprietary format)
This typeashit goes on in College Radio too. Except you don't actually have to play the music, just put it in your playlist that you report to CMJ and Gavin. They know that college radio's reach is small.. but the charts still matter to them so they still pay for promotions. And they don't give you such great shit. They grant you interviews and give you 10-20 tickets to the big festival and give you 6 tickets to every show and tons of extra free CDs.. but.. no cash and definitely no cocaine.
What I really want is a case for an ATX MB that is audio-component size. I have TV out, I have a Wireless K/M, all I need is a case that isn't puke beige or as deep (and proprietary) as a Network Engines/Penguin Comp. "pizza box" 1RU server. Know of one? Reply with the link. My minitower looks _weak_ in my entertainment center and right now I'm leaning towards an old Indigo painted black..
As a former radio programmer and engineer I have to wonder why the stations don't just block the microphone output on their webcasts. That way the union's precious "talent" isn't streaming, the pre-programmed music selections are. Many commercial stations have all the content coming out of one server anyway - why not just stream the output of the server, instead of the console?
We don't tune in to hear those windbags talk fast and deep, we tune in for the music. If the union's not careful - they'll make themselves obsolete.
I also have trouble beleiving that broadcasters weren't charging advertisers already. Free advertising?!?! Sorry I missed that boat!
If WWOZ isn't streaming anymore I will definitely begin to cry.
no.. the IBM motto of the times was "I've Been Moved". Think was just on the notepads because they had to constantly remind their engineers to do just that.
Really?? Are you in the market for a new computer?? I'd be more than happy to assemble one for you somewhere above the $1K price point.
Like your second point. If you are pausing the TV, why are you paying attention to it?? IF you had the ability to pay attention, you wouldn't need to pause it!!
Also I think we failed to realize that Big Brother (read AOL) has been doing this forever. I bailed on AOL in 1994 simplly because it would stay connected after I closed the window. The only way to not have AOL upgrade itself is to kill the process.
I beg to differ. Have you ever tried to call one of those 1-800 numbers while the commercial is still playing? It's impossible. Thousands of pavlovian simpletons call RIGHT NOW! Just like the ad commands them to.
"BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! If you CALL NOW we'll throw in these FREE steak knives."
This is also a case where targeted banner advertising comes into play. I've often clicked on banners that were more topical than the rest of the information on the page, particularly with search engine results -- A properly placed banner WILL get people to drop what they're doing and click because it IS what they're looking for in the first place.
The funny thing about interstitials is the Internet ad companies treat them like some special privelege. 24/7 won't sell you interstitials until you have a certain number of ad impressions per month - it's a service reserved for their "premium" members.
While we're on the topic, what's up with the lack of x86 mainboards with FireWire (IEEE 1394) support? I read a while back that the boardmakers aren't supporting 1394 because Microsoft doesn't want them too - because M$ doesn't control the standard.. but you'd think that would scare the Intel guys more than the AMD guys..
How about it, VIA, can I get a MB with Firewire for my new camcorder? Or do I have to go Mac?
You are still making assumptions about the browsing experience.
I hate to make sweeping generalizations, but it seems to me web designers whose roots in web design come from programming understand the concept of user preference. It also seems to me that the designers with their roots in print, or interactive, want to control every little aspect of the user experience. They want to maximize your window (or worse - use 6 frames) and force you to watch the flash intro and absolutely position every pixel on the page.
Sending screen resolution isn't anything new when it comes to HTTP headers. IE for windows has been doing it since 4.0. Netscape does it too, they just subtract the area that windows' taskbar eats up. I find it interesting that Sandbox is sending the viewable browser size too, which is a much more usable statistic. See this link for more info on that..z e_ Stats_Part_II/20/2297/) for the timid.
(http://evolt.org/article/Real_World_Browser_Si
I disagree. Nerds will try to hack the Tivo, non-nerds will just buy a bigger tivo, and cheap bastards will use their PCs to record video.
Or, if you are timid,? AMA=open &ama_hheld=open&radio=VC-H1&selection=Amateur&ID=5 1
http://www.kenwood.net/products/index.cfm
I think I remember a similar story from SF's Critical Mass, but IIRC they just uploaded all the pics after it was over.
There are 2 Sony sub-notebooks with built-in cameras, the Picturebook and the new GT1. The GT1, in particular, seems like it could work if you figured out a good mounting solution. It has a nice cam, 17 hours battery life, full motion video, a type II PCMCIA slot, etc. It's really a camcorder with a PC built in - not the other way around.
More info, and US purchase, is available here : http://www.dynamism.com/gt1/index.shtml for the timid.
Also the newest Libretto and another of the japan-market subnotes (a fujitsu I think) have built in cameras. I would have more info, but it seems like Japan Palmtop Direct, www.jpd.com, has gone down/out of business. They used to be the best source for JPN market notebooks.
Dynamism has the Libretto, and its' built-in "lipstick camera" is removable, which the sonys are not. But it only has a 3.2 GB Hd.
Dynamism might actually ship you one of these units for free, if you get your colleagues at the Register's tech department to request it...
There is a visor cam available, and a palm pilot camera, but the problem is there's not an easy way to hook both a camera and a cellular modem up to a PDA. That, to me, is the biggest prob with the Visor and its Springboard slot - you cannot daisy-chain springboard modules. No way to use wireless, camera and flash memory in one system concurrently.
Now if there is a camera available for the Palm VII, and there is Mobitex service in the area, that might work. (FYI any device that says it'll work with a III should work with a VII)
Otherwise, you might be stuck trying to build a single-purpose PC, or you might have to upload pics at intervals when you stop.
That's a quote.. Dave Barry maybe? Jay Leno? I dunno.. my name ain't Bartlett. I've heard the hot-rodder analogy before. Non-geeks that have been around longer than Electronic Fuel Injection equate tech obsession with hot-rodding. When the non-geeks hear us talking about MHz and RAM and USB and SCSI and Linux - they feel like they're back at the garage, hearing their mechanic talk about pistons and valves and cams and headers. It's all greek to them, it's "technical", we're "opening up the machine and replacing parts", and they wouldn't know where to begin doing it on their own. As a VW fan, I can tell you there are two types of "hot-rodders" - those who restore old cars and those who "supe-up" old cars. The overclockers - theyre the ones that aren't afraid to cut a hole in the case (hood scoop) - add liquid cooling (supercharger) or fans (turbos) - swap out the CPU (engine swap) - or overclock it (bore it over). In short, they're not afraid to fuck up their PC for a little speed. Which to me sounds *exactly* like a hot-rodder.
IANAL either, but I do know that if you live in a state like.. say.. Maryland, and you sign a NC, and then the company whom you go to work for next, which violates your NC, is in California, then you can also counter-sue for legal, lost revenue, and even punitive I think. This happened to someone I know and it was a big case. She finally won, and the Global 2000 company she went to work for countersued the little consulting company, and got legal expenses (Which were in the millions) and damages. Not only are NCs unenforceable in CA, they're straight illegal.
I bet you voted for McCarthy, dintcha??
Free speech is free speech. You most certainly ARE for political correctness, and my guess is you don't really understand the US Constitution whatsoever.
This is exactly they type of person that drives 40 in the left lane of the Interstate, writes a check in the express lane of the grocery store, and fumbles for 10 minutes in their purse looking for their bankcard at the drive-thru. The same type of person that stops and shrugs in the rear view mirror when you honk at them for not going when the light turns green. The problem is not that you people like to take things slow, it's that you are employed. As such, your employers and coworkers must now bear the brunt of your laziness. It's a vicious circle. I wouldn't be so stressed all the time if i didn't have to pick up other people's slack constantly. I ONLY hurry because you people do not. Oh, and by the way, I have a 386 I'd be willing to trade for your athlon. It'll run Slack 3.x!
Didn't they already do this? Isn't it called J++?
Now I can't remember a phone number to save my life.
Is it really the technology? One of my freinds hypothesized that i simply don't "allocate memory" for phone numbers anymore. He argued that since I have to remember URLs, IPs, Ports, Hex Color Codes, Passwords galore, email addresses and the like that I don't have "room" for Phone #s anymore.
Another freind's hypothesis is that since I don't have to dial those numbers by hand anymore, because I use the "Display Dial" in my cordless or the address book in my cellphone, that I don't memorize numbers because I don't have to go through the process of dialing them. This seems less applicable to me than some others because I always remebered 9 numbers, not a pattern of buttons, like some people. Another take on that is that when I was younger, people's numbers didn't change nearly as much as they do now. There were only 3 exchanges in my hometown then, now there are 2 overlapping area codes with a ton of exchanges.
My hypothesis is a combination of the two, plus the issue of not giving a damn. Back when I remembered phone numbers, I was in my teens and twenties. I CARED what this person's number was. I wanted to call people in my spare time. I was a social butterfly intent on being liked by all.
Now I groan when it rings and almost never pick it up to dial. And if I DID want to talk to you, I would definitely email you first. I hate baseball almost as much as the telephone, and I don't still have all the Orioles' batting averages memorized.. so why would I remember phone numbers?
This is where the pot smoking theory comes into play. Sure I used to remeber numbers after a few years of casual use, but it's been every day for ten more years! I don't feel *burnt* but I'm not ignorant enough to think I wasn't affected.
So the real question is...
Does technology make us forget or does technology simply Enable us to stop remembering?
Too bad VMWare uses its' own display driver, and cannot access display hardware like 3d chips, Mpeg decoders, etc. Gaming is not very doable.
The problem with Photoshop is VMWare's lack of support for ICC profiles, so you can end up modifying an image with the colors that look fine in VMWare mode, but crappy in Windows-native mode.
Hopefully, WINE will be the answer. I know there are serious advantages to running VMWare over WINE, but they're not advantages *TO ME*.
The funny thing is, I almost always end up playing MAME or Quake when I'm in Windows. So I guess I really don't need to play Win games in Linux after all... except maybe GTA2.....
No kidding. I remember trying to return my Palm VII when I learned its' wireless networking wouldn't work inside the corporate mensroom. Now I'm stuck avantgo-ing all my content while i sit cross-legged at my desk, waiting for it to sync.