at everything2, the jargon file has been stuck into the mishmash... where you are free to add on to nodes. and free to add nodes generally. I'm not saying this is a replacement, but as a resource, e2... has more stuff.
From the interview and her website, she seems wicked shallow. Please excuse my geek-girl preconceptions, but I doubt she is all that geeky... offering kisses and posing in bikinis? Her opinions are not well-developed, either, or at least she doesn't take the opportunity of the interview to express them: "They're only like the greatest, coolest civil liberties group on the whole planet." (on the EFF) Also: would a geek willingly make themselves look stupid? She did't seem to listen to Mikael Pawlo's questions at all.
Personally, I don't think I could find common ground with her.
plus the "artist unbound" shit... that's just tacky. the repetition, that is.
heh, my 'zilla has no email, no IM, no composer. it's called custom install (+ it's also lighter than a full install, ~ 6.8 mb dl (think dialup), and none of the junk I don't use.
(I ran 10.2 with 160mb, it wasn't bad. A hell of a lot faster then 10.1 &c. Though surely also handicapped by the processor, a G3 at 400mhz. It's definitely usable though, I'd still be using it had it not wiped itself off the face of my hd... +)
sunday river reuses its waste water in the snow. I'm assuming they purify it, of bacteria at least. they are a huge mountain, almost all covered by snowmaking, and they draw their water from a smallish river. one of the things that helps them meet their water needs is recycling it.
also -- dirty water makes better snow. not dirty as in bacteria-y, but with some (very small) particle stuff in it. it gives the water something to crystallize around when it freezes.
pdfs at aren't searchable from within acrobat reader. you can't even select and copy text from them, and it'd suprise me if you can copy text from ebooks.
command-tab to the finder command-n command-g, "/Ap[tab]Ut[tab]", press return (completes to "/Applications/Utitlities/") type "te" type command-o (or command-right arrow) *terminal opens*
osx (jag) is almost completely navigable by keyboard. and command-g (or maybe it's command-shift-g?) in a finder window works just like cd in a shell.
probably a time issue. do free daily comics come out of nowhere, no cost to anyone? -- nope. most take a couple hours, perhaps? adding shaded color to a sketched comic is almost like redrawing it completely. even just adding solid colors can be a pain, keeping them consistant, making sense with them, not making comics look super-saturated. (+
actually, vi was what made me more curious about unix. the guy who was setting up my first account put me at the keyboard. "type this" he said. "j. j. j. w. l, l, d, w, i, less, shift-zz" etc. it intrigued me; I couldn't figure out what was going on. so I went and did some quick reading, and next time I logged in (from school via ssh) I just started playing. but then I like cryptic things.
jaguar runs decently on 400 mhz g3s (~2.5 year old). much more quickly than expected, incl. finder graphics. which is more than I can say about windows XP on a 2 year old computer.
a fair ammount of teachers depend on os 8-9 based grading, educational, or word processing software. this would make it hard for them to switch up to osX, especially if they don't already run os 9.2 (9.1 runs under classic, but looses menus and things... buggy. <9.1 has not been supported under osX since the alpha, I think)
(I'm looking at colleges this fall, have nearly no idea where to start. heard about Olin last fall, an aquaintance is going there, they seem like they'll listen well to their students.)
is anyone, at 18-19 yrs., ready to plan for retirement? plan for kids? decide their life as college or no college? (I'm certainly not.) flexibility can teach as much//more! as//than stability, if you don't get stuck in the same place by snap decisions.
it's pretty sad that we have to tie ourselves to The System as soon as we get out of highschool. I guess calling it "The System" is a little over-the-top, but when there's that little flexibility ("Look, you have to build your nest egg as soon as possible, that is")...
I aggree with the fact that a college diploma is a good thing to have, because it is an achievement that people will be looking at. also the experience of *learning* -- not just what you learn -- is pretty important to your education later/your ability to adapt to the times.
but when a path is set for us the first day we participate in a fifth grade science fair, are we really invested in what we do? if we've expected to finish highschool... go to college... follow "career path," does that say anything about a person's own initiative? Going to college is great, but if it isn't where you want to be, college can screw up your attitude *and* your resume.
so if you want to be a sys admin right now, go ahead and do it. just don't expect it to last forever... make plans, maybe, to save for college and go in one or two years. or to do something that will broaden your perspective, because no job will last forever (even if you do like it, and especially if you don't).
they'll never get around the fact that the sound becomes analog at some point
actually, there are high end all-digital systems, where signals are not converted to analog until they hit the speaker. which is something that will, most likely, be more widespread very soon, because more than one digital to analog conversion will start to lose quality pretty quick (depending on your standards).
and, celine sucks, but if sony is using her cd as a testing ground, they most likely won't find as much resistance as they would on, say, moby. not that moby is on sony or anything.
dude: 1) no moderator will dare to mark your post down: it's about moderating. anything one does against this will prove your point.
2) A lot of moderators are open-minded: there are plenty of diverse, modded-up discussions on slashdot. if yours aren't there today, perhaps they will be tomorrow. it's not like there is much logic behind it: what people happen to read, what happens to strike them. with enough people, this should bring up all kinds of diverse points.
3) it is off topic. My first thought, as I read it, "If I was a moderator, I actually would mark this down." Then I realized, there really isn't any other forum for this type of complaint. I don't think there should be, because it would get repetitive quickly, and not reach much of an audience (headline: "moderators biased!"... next week... "unfair moderation!" etc.) But, it is good to have a reminder every once and a while -- "absolute power corrupts absolutely" though that's a little extreme to say about moderation (=
anyways, this post is a lot more offtopic than the first one. ah, well.
yeah, it's great for everyone who's responsible. obviously, though, NOT everyone is. Some one could send someone a couple of pages of full-page pr0n, and what do you know, your ink cartridge is gone. it costs 12 to 20 cents, sometimes more, to print a full-color page. and 4 to 12 cents for a text-y one. Printing is expensive. Or, write a little loop, send War and Peace to somebody a couple times... there'd really have to be some security around this, some kind of encryption / sender validation, around this. just hope m$soft doesn't get into this (=
on the other hand, m$soft could really facilitate the spread of this tech. (hehe, would it still be a good thing after they got done with it?)
I was reading The Fountains of Paradise today, by Arthur C. Clarke (published 1978). It's about a guy building a space elevator. A couple things were required, in his scheme: an equator location, so that the tower will go up perpendicular to the earth, a geosynchronus satellite, even gravity at the base site (several places were rejected, in the book, for being un-even gravity-wise), and the base was supposed to be on a mountain (to rise above some of the forces of weather, and to start higher (um, duh)). one thing that was pretty key was the "monofilament" that the elevators ran up on: carbon crystal filaments which were 'grown' in zero-g. anyways, fiction. though it does seem to match up somewhat with this discussion. and scifi writers often check their facts somewhat (along with making them up...).
I suppose, since old hardware is dirt-cheap, everyone is using old hardware? And since warez is free and available, no-one is buying software? I am not a prime source of software revenue: I'm a student, I make < $3000 per year, I've got my ssh, opera, icq, eudora, tetris max, and codewarrior. notice: all shareware xcept codewarrior. like m$ giving away its' OSes to inner city schools, old software would be distributed to people who were already not a ready market. Even most schools attempt to keep pace with the the upgrade push, and leave their old 'puters stacked in closets and thrown in basements.
Charity is not a bad thing, anyways. The companies themselves wouldn't even need to be a source of the software, if they would just allow another org to distribute or what. think http://oldversion.com, but authorized.
OS upgrades? -- not just that. If some company keeps requiring software updates, it eventually outpaces your hardware. If anyone wants to keep using their same computer for more than 4 years (... computer lifespan? 5 years for macs, 3 years for win machines, more for linux?) it is virtually impossible to get more apps/diversify what you do on your computer. We have a mac ppc 166mHz tower at school, with pagemaker 6.5(?), photoshop 3.0, etc; if we ever wanted to, say, do some elementary rendering or CAD on the machine, for kicks, where could we get the 1997 age software? yeah, freeing of older softwares is a good thing. it extends the "life" of computers, to a certain extent at least.
The article says something about getting "... very high clock speeds (10GHz+ by 2006)..." Wasn't there a/. article last week (or so) about new transistor packaging (within the chip) that would be boosting intel speeds to 20GHz by around 2006? I'm sortof wondering which will emerge as an actual product. and how the heat issues and stability will be managed.
at one point, webcrawler was a good search engine. There was also Yahoo and excite and altavista and all of them together, dogpile (and more, of course). Popularity has skipped from one to the next (though yahoo has been more portal than search engine, with lists and reviewed sites and such, news and stocks and groups and maps...) And one search engine to rule them. that would be google, right? google seems to be a sort of ending place, which could say something about innovation on the web. Or it could just mean that what is popular is also a Very Good Thing.
I've a friend whose stepfather is Turkish. He has a beard and pony-tailed bushy long hair. Her mom went to work at the store today instead of him. Assumptions, stereotypes, and rumors are the part of war that most threatens a country's integrity.
I don't want war. War is one of the scariest things that happens. I'm scared of the killing, and the uncertainty that comes with war. I'm scared of a country unified against another. When so many people band together in a cause, things are distorted. Hate is based on appearances or nationalities or tiny circumstances. The U.S. hasn't acknowledged the extent of harm we've done to other countries. Because those people didn't make $50,000++ a year, or because we're bigger than they are, whatever. Not a fair statement, and everybody is using their emotions as guides already anyways.
Every time I try to step back and look at today's impact, the picture grows.
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my g3 400 mhz runs at about 93 degrees, no fans. which *is* cool compared to x86 processors. (it's also slow.)
at everything2, the jargon file has been stuck into the mishmash... where you are free to add on to nodes. and free to add nodes generally. I'm not saying this is a replacement, but as a resource, e2... has more stuff.
but red mohawks are sooo hotter than white bikinis...
a girl's reaction...
From the interview and her website, she seems wicked shallow. Please excuse my geek-girl preconceptions, but I doubt she is all that geeky... offering kisses and posing in bikinis? Her opinions are not well-developed, either, or at least she doesn't take the opportunity of the interview to express them: "They're only like the greatest, coolest civil liberties group on the whole planet." (on the EFF) Also: would a geek willingly make themselves look stupid? She did't seem to listen to Mikael Pawlo's questions at all.
Personally, I don't think I could find common ground with her.
plus the "artist unbound" shit... that's just tacky. the repetition, that is.
heh, my 'zilla has no email, no IM, no composer. it's called custom install (+ it's also lighter than a full install, ~ 6.8 mb dl (think dialup), and none of the junk I don't use.
urm, totally OT.
(I ran 10.2 with 160mb, it wasn't bad. A hell of a lot faster then 10.1 &c. Though surely also handicapped by the processor, a G3 at 400mhz. It's definitely usable though, I'd still be using it had it not wiped itself off the face of my hd... +)
well, slashdot has a little green "/.", sourceforge has an orange sphere, and apple is the one without an icon. at least here in mozilla-land.
funny how the discussion of an interview can be morphed into another holy war (that's what tabbed browsing seems to be these days, imho)
sunday river reuses its waste water in the snow. I'm assuming they purify it, of bacteria at least. they are a huge mountain, almost all covered by snowmaking, and they draw their water from a smallish river. one of the things that helps them meet their water needs is recycling it.
also -- dirty water makes better snow. not dirty as in bacteria-y, but with some (very small) particle stuff in it. it gives the water something to crystallize around when it freezes.
pdfs at aren't searchable from within acrobat reader. you can't even select and copy text from them, and it'd suprise me if you can copy text from ebooks.
or mouseless-ly...
command-tab to the finder
command-n
command-g, "/Ap[tab]Ut[tab]", press return (completes to "/Applications/Utitlities/")
type "te"
type command-o (or command-right arrow)
*terminal opens*
osx (jag) is almost completely navigable by keyboard. and command-g (or maybe it's command-shift-g?) in a finder window works just like cd in a shell.
probably a time issue. do free daily comics come out of nowhere, no cost to anyone? -- nope. most take a couple hours, perhaps? adding shaded color to a sketched comic is almost like redrawing it completely. even just adding solid colors can be a pain, keeping them consistant, making sense with them, not making comics look super-saturated.
(+
actually, vi was what made me more curious about unix. the guy who was setting up my first account put me at the keyboard. "type this" he said. "j. j. j. w. l, l, d, w, i, less, shift-zz" etc. it intrigued me; I couldn't figure out what was going on. so I went and did some quick reading, and next time I logged in (from school via ssh) I just started playing. but then I like cryptic things.
jaguar runs decently on 400 mhz g3s (~2.5 year old). much more quickly than expected, incl. finder graphics. which is more than I can say about windows XP on a 2 year old computer.
a fair ammount of teachers depend on os 8-9 based grading, educational, or word processing software. this would make it hard for them to switch up to osX, especially if they don't already run os 9.2 (9.1 runs under classic, but looses menus and things... buggy. <9.1 has not been supported under osX since the alpha, I think)
hey, it sounds like a pretty interesting college
what was it?
(I'm looking at colleges this fall, have nearly no idea where to start. heard about Olin last fall, an aquaintance is going there, they seem like they'll listen well to their students.)
is anyone, at 18-19 yrs., ready to plan for retirement? plan for kids? decide their life as college or no college? (I'm certainly not.) flexibility can teach as much //more! as//than stability, if you don't get stuck in the same place by snap decisions.
it's pretty sad that we have to tie ourselves to The System as soon as we get out of highschool. I guess calling it "The System" is a little over-the-top, but when there's that little flexibility ("Look, you have to build your nest egg as soon as possible, that is")...
I aggree with the fact that a college diploma is a good thing to have, because it is an achievement that people will be looking at. also the experience of *learning* -- not just what you learn -- is pretty important to your education later/your ability to adapt to the times.
but when a path is set for us the first day we participate in a fifth grade science fair, are we really invested in what we do? if we've expected to finish highschool... go to college... follow "career path," does that say anything about a person's own initiative? Going to college is great, but if it isn't where you want to be, college can screw up your attitude *and* your resume.
so if you want to be a sys admin right now, go ahead and do it. just don't expect it to last forever... make plans, maybe, to save for college and go in one or two years. or to do something that will broaden your perspective, because no job will last forever (even if you do like it, and especially if you don't).
actually, there are high end all-digital systems, where signals are not converted to analog until they hit the speaker. which is something that will, most likely, be more widespread very soon, because more than one digital to analog conversion will start to lose quality pretty quick (depending on your standards).
and, celine sucks, but if sony is using her cd as a testing ground, they most likely won't find as much resistance as they would on, say, moby. not that moby is on sony or anything.
dude: 1) no moderator will dare to mark your post down: it's about moderating. anything one does against this will prove your point.
2) A lot of moderators are open-minded: there are plenty of diverse, modded-up discussions on slashdot. if yours aren't there today, perhaps they will be tomorrow. it's not like there is much logic behind it: what people happen to read, what happens to strike them. with enough people, this should bring up all kinds of diverse points.
3) it is off topic. My first thought, as I read it, "If I was a moderator, I actually would mark this down." Then I realized, there really isn't any other forum for this type of complaint. I don't think there should be, because it would get repetitive quickly, and not reach much of an audience (headline: "moderators biased!" ... next week ... "unfair moderation!" etc.) But, it is good to have a reminder every once and a while -- "absolute power corrupts absolutely" though that's a little extreme to say about moderation (=
anyways, this post is a lot more offtopic than the first one. ah, well.
yeah, it's great for everyone who's responsible. obviously, though, NOT everyone is. Some one could send someone a couple of pages of full-page pr0n, and what do you know, your ink cartridge is gone. it costs 12 to 20 cents, sometimes more, to print a full-color page. and 4 to 12 cents for a text-y one. Printing is expensive. Or, write a little loop, send War and Peace to somebody a couple times... there'd really have to be some security around this, some kind of encryption / sender validation, around this. just hope m$soft doesn't get into this (=
on the other hand, m$soft could really facilitate the spread of this tech. (hehe, would it still be a good thing after they got done with it?)
I was reading The Fountains of Paradise today, by Arthur C. Clarke (published 1978). It's about a guy building a space elevator. A couple things were required, in his scheme: an equator location, so that the tower will go up perpendicular to the earth, a geosynchronus satellite, even gravity at the base site (several places were rejected, in the book, for being un-even gravity-wise), and the base was supposed to be on a mountain (to rise above some of the forces of weather, and to start higher (um, duh)). one thing that was pretty key was the "monofilament" that the elevators ran up on: carbon crystal filaments which were 'grown' in zero-g. anyways, fiction. though it does seem to match up somewhat with this discussion. and scifi writers often check their facts somewhat (along with making them up...).
I suppose, since old hardware is dirt-cheap, everyone is using old hardware? And since warez is free and available, no-one is buying software? I am not a prime source of software revenue: I'm a student, I make < $3000 per year, I've got my ssh, opera, icq, eudora, tetris max, and codewarrior. notice: all shareware xcept codewarrior. like m$ giving away its' OSes to inner city schools, old software would be distributed to people who were already not a ready market. Even most schools attempt to keep pace with the the upgrade push, and leave their old 'puters stacked in closets and thrown in basements.
Charity is not a bad thing, anyways. The companies themselves wouldn't even need to be a source of the software, if they would just allow another org to distribute or what. think http://oldversion.com, but authorized.
posting as an AC wastes everyone's time.
OS upgrades? -- not just that. If some company keeps requiring software updates, it eventually outpaces your hardware. If anyone wants to keep using their same computer for more than 4 years (... computer lifespan? 5 years for macs, 3 years for win machines, more for linux?) it is virtually impossible to get more apps/diversify what you do on your computer. We have a mac ppc 166mHz tower at school, with pagemaker 6.5(?), photoshop 3.0, etc; if we ever wanted to, say, do some elementary rendering or CAD on the machine, for kicks, where could we get the 1997 age software? yeah, freeing of older softwares is a good thing. it extends the "life" of computers, to a certain extent at least.
The article says something about getting "... very high clock speeds (10GHz+ by 2006)..." Wasn't there a /. article last week (or so) about new transistor packaging (within the chip) that would be boosting intel speeds to 20GHz by around 2006? I'm sortof wondering which will emerge as an actual product. and how the heat issues and stability will be managed.
at one point, webcrawler was a good search engine. There was also Yahoo and excite and altavista and all of them together, dogpile (and more, of course). Popularity has skipped from one to the next (though yahoo has been more portal than search engine, with lists and reviewed sites and such, news and stocks and groups and maps...) And one search engine to rule them. that would be google, right? google seems to be a sort of ending place, which could say something about innovation on the web. Or it could just mean that what is popular is also a Very Good Thing.
I've a friend whose stepfather is Turkish. He has a beard and pony-tailed bushy long hair. Her mom went to work at the store today instead of him. Assumptions, stereotypes, and rumors are the part of war that most threatens a country's integrity.
I don't want war. War is one of the scariest things that happens. I'm scared of the killing, and the uncertainty that comes with war. I'm scared of a country unified against another. When so many people band together in a cause, things are distorted. Hate is based on appearances or nationalities or tiny circumstances. The U.S. hasn't acknowledged the extent of harm we've done to other countries. Because those people didn't make $50,000++ a year, or because we're bigger than they are, whatever. Not a fair statement, and everybody is using their emotions as guides already anyways.
Every time I try to step back and look at today's impact, the picture grows.