I found that while, yes, other people's blogs are mostly useless, it's really good for communication between friends (especially friends who don't use IM). Right now a buddy of mine set up a blog for our close friends and we use that to keep in touch as we slowly disperse across the world. Plus, it's got the ability for "hey, guys. Listen to this phone message I just got" or "Check this shit out." without having to sink to installing MSN (or any other IM for that matter). And later on, the link is still there, rather than having to dig through histories of chats and what-have-you.
You have my vote with one exception. How about move over to the right lane ALL THE TIME?
Atitudes like this are why I like beefed up rear bumpers and "I brake for tailgaters" stickers. I'm more of the school of "moving right should be obvious". If you're not the fastest thing in your lane, move one lane right. Repeat. If you're faster than the next guy, move one lane left. Then move back right. Is that so hard? Just because I need to turn off in 8 blocks doesn't mean I drive in the left lane all the way there!
This show was cancelled for a reason, it just wasn't good. In fact many people think its terrible.
Not from what I've seen. I have a friend who thinks it's terrible, and we just accept that we have differing opinions of the show. Almost everybody else I know either likes or loves it.
this show really puts the 'Wheadon is a goldenboy' meme to rest.
Am I the only one out here who couldn't give a rat's ass whether or not it was Joss Whedon? I thought it was a good show, plain and simple. It may have been done by the same guy who did Buffy, but that's not why I watched it. Now, granted he did a fantastic job, but for the most part it doesn't matter what he did before. I just liked Firefly for itself.
And as far as another comment goes: be honest with the fact it was a cliche ridden show that blatantly stole from both star trek and cowboy bebop, except it stole badly.
Sure. I can see both references (less Star Trek, though). But compared to most of the shows on TV (how many medical dramas do we need that are mostly just an ER ripoff, or formulaic sitcoms?) I thought Firefly was still decently original. It just did something for me, and I'm hoping the movie does, too. However, if it isn't your bag, then it isn't. That's why we have x-hundred channels these days.
I'll still be getting my tickets early for an opening-night show.
Why the NFL? I mean, I can see networks being paranoid; you can watch a show later on with no commercials and it's all fine. There's where you're "losing" ad revenue. However, don't most sports fans want to watch the game as it happens? And if they do, don't they see the commercials anyway? And what about the massive product placement during the game? I'm wondering what sort of a sports fan population out there is willing to wait a day or two (avoiding all talk about said game) just so they can download a copy of it without commercials.
And secondly, I haven't got it working yet myself, but with certain digital cable / DSL Cable subscribers, there's really only the matter of plugging your computer into the line and streaming the data from the IP that matches the channel into a file and then editing it later (if you so desire). I've seen it done firsthand and it's rediculously easy, which leads me to wonder why the fuss about TiVo?
Truth be told, if I had the cash I'd be snapping one of these up in no time. The biggest use that I've found for a tablet is during meetings with co-workers. As an engineer, I find myself drawing diagrams to explain things all the time. Being able to just draw on the screen to do this or to explain a drawing would be great! Plus, once you're finished drawing said explanation, if you need it you can save a screenshot or just erase the drawing and move on. Plus it saves a whole mess of paper that I'd just lose anyway.
The important reason for the pen isn't so much as a replacement for a keyboard, rather as a way to enhance what's already on the scren, or to make quick additions to already-existing files to be changed at a later date. Of course, that this one has a keyboard is another bonus. Type when it's faster, then take the stylus and touch the document up to be fixed later. It's sort of like a Smart Board but portable, and a lot cheaper.
Believe me, I'm tempted to spend the extra money to get one of these when I next get a new computer. (Potentially in addition to a desktop). With so many employers giving out company notebooks, it would be the next logical step, as I see it.
Although, I can see this may not be for everybody, just like PDA's aren't for everybody.
Well, if you have a system with a good cooling unit, you could potentially freeze the drive. Then all you have to worry about is freezer burn.
OTOH there's suddenly a really simple, and possibly delicious, method of disposing of incriminating files.....
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Sounds like the guy who runs a coffee shop on the campus here. I heard some experimental techno followed up by Johnny Cash not too long ago. Rap, R&B, Techno, Rock, and Oldies are quite familiar if you listen for any length of time.
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Well, that's still part of it. I got my hands on some Saian Supa Crew, which was good for it's new factor. That and Alphonse Brown (if you can find the track, it's "Le Frnkup"), which is good because it's SO BAD. The video is even "better". Think "blatantly white skinny French guy with a bushy moustache rapping".
However, it may be better because my French is terrible.
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What I've learned:
People will complain about your music. It's a given. You will likely complain about others' music. It's also a given. Deal. The only time that you can complain about music and be completely justified is when you're complaining about Nickelback.
Oh, and I discovered I like French rap. And no, I don't think this has anything to do with other people complaining about my music.....maybe.
Funny thing about that day (that relates to mac ass-pirates), that used to be my anniversary with an ex- before she cheated on me with a specific Mac-using ass-pirate.
But seriously. Yeah, it's a slow news day, so let's just call it a day and go outside. 1. There are PC users who are morons. Everywhere. Not surprisingly, there are also Mac users who are morons.
2. I know both PC and Mac users who are very intelligent, very great people. However, I also know some on both sides of the camp who are total arrogant, untrustworthy ass-pirates. (Carl, I mean you.)
And to finish with a question, what about people who use both? Are they then smarter still?
I can see your point about football, mostly on the QB's part, IMHO. You need to figure out your own strategy and anticipate the other team's and there's the opportunity to revise on every play. It's a continuously-changing strategy in a way. However, this is more on the QB's part. For the rest of the players, I'd think it's more about taking your part of the chosen strategy and improvising on it. For them, it's somewhat the same as futbol (however the spelling, fuessball, etc.) in terms of intellectualism.
Baseball, however, I'd be more inclined to disagree on. It's more of a game of chance (where will the ball go) and responding to that chance in the best possible way. It has strategy involved, but it's not strategy in the same way as american football. It's more stretegy like cricket, which I might be inclined to suggest is slightly more strategic in that you can get players batting for an hour or more just to keep the game running in order to give the opposing team less of a chance at bat. That and figuring out the score of a cricket game can be an intellectual process in itself (unless you're really familiar with the sport).
No, I don't think I can pick a "most intellectual" sport, just because they all require strategies of a different kind and different goals. In some ways, it's like comparing apples to oranges. I agree, though, that american football is more intellectual than it's given credit for.
However, a friend of mine was once refused service at Starbucks because apparently she had had "more than the legal limit of caffeine" that day. Seems they are at least concerned about our health!
After my summer job last year (working as a sysadmin at a webhosting company (hint, starts with a B and pays for google linkage under "canadian webhosting")) I'd rather have worked as a meat packer. I made much MUCH less than the ad in the story, due to them paying virtually nothing for salary, then expecting me to work all hours of the day and night. Of course, it started good, but by the time it started to suck it was far too late to get another job where I was doing something interesting. That and the management kept screwing even the permanent staff over, promising raises, paying one check, then revoking the raise based on "poor performance" and retroactively lowering their salaries (i.e. no check at the end of the month). Then one day, "We're putting you on 'contract'." Translation: "We want you to work for no money." The only incentive they gave to stay was permanent employees got leased cars. Yay.
To all those people that want THAT job, I say take it. I'll stick with getting an Engineering degree and hopefully not having to suffer through that again.
At the University of Saskatchewan, somebody managed to sign up some strange contract with Microsoft that created a "software library" of sorts. You sign out the CD online, then wander down to the lab to pick it up. In about a day or so, you bring it back. If you want to make copies (as they suggest you do), then go right ahead. Cost to student: $Blank CD
Fiendish, yes. Evil, yes. Free software, yes. Will I be buying MS software in the future? Likely not. Are most students just enjoying free software and learning Linux anyway? Yes.
I actually considered the Pioneers, but found them to be much pricier than my Stanton Str8-50 (i'm cheap) and my CD collection wasn't that impressive to begin with. Very good choice for the person with a lot of CD's though. . .
If I had the money, I'd be in the process of replacing my CD collection with Vinyl. Actually, I could do entirely without CD's in the first place. The only major convenience is the ability to rip a CD to MiniDisc faster than an album, but that's just a convenience thing.
No, for me the nice thing is to be able to go home and just screw around with my decks for an hour or so to kill some time. Much more fun and interactive than putting a CD in the player and staring at the wall.
of all the higher-end server machines that have been out there, sun has outlived most.
Maybe that could be because of Sun's wonderful 'Buy it now, run it into the ground and pretend it never happened' philosophy. Look at Cobalt. Sun buys a great company, puts out a couple of products, then grinds support and production to a halt and EOL's the entire brand. By the end, support was almost nonexistant.
I'm not saying that Sun is going out trying to alienate their customers, but maybe they should think what this strategy is doing to their corporate image. They've irritated a few customers already and don't need to keep doing it.
I had to do that on Campus here, as well, however I just installed Phoenix (originally Moz) on my network shared drive since the Engineering computer labs are still using only NS4.7x. Since they are rather lax about executable programs on students' home drives, it's all good and I can have a good web browser.
But to stay on topic, yeah, the University of Saskatchewan is mostly Moz right down to the mail client. It depends on which department is doing the support (e.g. Engineering is sill not running it, but then again their computers are all much more stable than any others so it's a compromise (and no, it's not because of the mozilla thing))
Amen. I haven't bought a CD in at least a year, nor do I listen to most radio anymore. Pirated music? Not really. Every now and then I'll download a RadioOne mix by Judge Jules, etc. but other than that, I'm a straight vinyl guy. It works out well, since I like techno and that's probably the best distribution format for it. Who cares if I can't get the latest Nickelback CD? (Actually, they were one of the reasons I stopped listening to the Radio.)
Maybe in a couple years I'll rethink this, maybe not.
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> We used PCjr's with the woreless keyboards...Made going to school each day worth it. ^_^
;) /.ers.
Explains what you were doing instead of learning to type
But with only one typo, you're still in the 99th percentile of
I found that while, yes, other people's blogs are mostly useless, it's really good for communication between friends (especially friends who don't use IM). Right now a buddy of mine set up a blog for our close friends and we use that to keep in touch as we slowly disperse across the world. Plus, it's got the ability for "hey, guys. Listen to this phone message I just got" or "Check this shit out." without having to sink to installing MSN (or any other IM for that matter). And later on, the link is still there, rather than having to dig through histories of chats and what-have-you.
But yeah, people's blogs in general....LAME.
You have my vote with one exception. How about move over to the right lane ALL THE TIME?
Atitudes like this are why I like beefed up rear bumpers and "I brake for tailgaters" stickers.
I'm more of the school of "moving right should be obvious". If you're not the fastest thing in your lane, move one lane right. Repeat. If you're faster than the next guy, move one lane left. Then move back right. Is that so hard? Just because I need to turn off in 8 blocks doesn't mean I drive in the left lane all the way there!
...used to work with a guy who had his front washer nozzles angled outward, so as to spray the people next to him at a traffic light.
Still not a bad idea, though....
So does this include a speech distorter so it sounds like the car is screaming obscenities at the rest of the idiots out there?
I'd set mine to "Bender"
This show was cancelled for a reason, it just wasn't good. In fact many people think its terrible.
Not from what I've seen. I have a friend who thinks it's terrible, and we just accept that we have differing opinions of the show. Almost everybody else I know either likes or loves it.
this show really puts the 'Wheadon is a goldenboy' meme to rest.
Am I the only one out here who couldn't give a rat's ass whether or not it was Joss Whedon? I thought it was a good show, plain and simple. It may have been done by the same guy who did Buffy, but that's not why I watched it. Now, granted he did a fantastic job, but for the most part it doesn't matter what he did before. I just liked Firefly for itself.
And as far as another comment goes:
be honest with the fact it was a cliche ridden show that blatantly stole from both star trek and cowboy bebop, except it stole badly.
Sure. I can see both references (less Star Trek, though). But compared to most of the shows on TV (how many medical dramas do we need that are mostly just an ER ripoff, or formulaic sitcoms?) I thought Firefly was still decently original. It just did something for me, and I'm hoping the movie does, too. However, if it isn't your bag, then it isn't. That's why we have x-hundred channels these days.
I'll still be getting my tickets early for an opening-night show.
Why the NFL? I mean, I can see networks being paranoid; you can watch a show later on with no commercials and it's all fine. There's where you're "losing" ad revenue. However, don't most sports fans want to watch the game as it happens? And if they do, don't they see the commercials anyway? And what about the massive product placement during the game? I'm wondering what sort of a sports fan population out there is willing to wait a day or two (avoiding all talk about said game) just so they can download a copy of it without commercials.
And secondly, I haven't got it working yet myself, but with certain digital cable / DSL Cable subscribers, there's really only the matter of plugging your computer into the line and streaming the data from the IP that matches the channel into a file and then editing it later (if you so desire). I've seen it done firsthand and it's rediculously easy, which leads me to wonder why the fuss about TiVo?
Truth be told, if I had the cash I'd be snapping one of these up in no time. The biggest use that I've found for a tablet is during meetings with co-workers. As an engineer, I find myself drawing diagrams to explain things all the time. Being able to just draw on the screen to do this or to explain a drawing would be great! Plus, once you're finished drawing said explanation, if you need it you can save a screenshot or just erase the drawing and move on. Plus it saves a whole mess of paper that I'd just lose anyway.
The important reason for the pen isn't so much as a replacement for a keyboard, rather as a way to enhance what's already on the scren, or to make quick additions to already-existing files to be changed at a later date. Of course, that this one has a keyboard is another bonus. Type when it's faster, then take the stylus and touch the document up to be fixed later. It's sort of like a Smart Board but portable, and a lot cheaper.
Believe me, I'm tempted to spend the extra money to get one of these when I next get a new computer. (Potentially in addition to a desktop). With so many employers giving out company notebooks, it would be the next logical step, as I see it.
Although, I can see this may not be for everybody, just like PDA's aren't for everybody.
Well, if you have a system with a good cooling unit, you could potentially freeze the drive. Then all you have to worry about is freezer burn.
OTOH there's suddenly a really simple, and possibly delicious, method of disposing of incriminating files.....
Sounds like the guy who runs a coffee shop on the campus here. I heard some experimental techno followed up by Johnny Cash not too long ago. Rap, R&B, Techno, Rock, and Oldies are quite familiar if you listen for any length of time.
Well, that's still part of it. I got my hands on some Saian Supa Crew, which was good for it's new factor. That and Alphonse Brown (if you can find the track, it's "Le Frnkup"), which is good because it's SO BAD. The video is even "better". Think "blatantly white skinny French guy with a bushy moustache rapping".
However, it may be better because my French is terrible.
What I've learned:
People will complain about your music. It's a given. You will likely complain about others' music. It's also a given. Deal. The only time that you can complain about music and be completely justified is when you're complaining about Nickelback.
Oh, and I discovered I like French rap. And no, I don't think this has anything to do with other people complaining about my music.....maybe.
As well as Digitally Imported for some nice streaming electronica.
Funny thing about that day (that relates to mac ass-pirates), that used to be my anniversary with an ex- before she cheated on me with a specific Mac-using ass-pirate.
Y'arr. The world, she be circular after all!
Arr. Ye be right! The evidence be undeniable!
Can't. Resist. Flame. War.
But seriously. Yeah, it's a slow news day, so let's just call it a day and go outside.
1. There are PC users who are morons. Everywhere. Not surprisingly, there are also Mac users who are morons.
2. I know both PC and Mac users who are very intelligent, very great people. However, I also know some on both sides of the camp who are total arrogant, untrustworthy ass-pirates. (Carl, I mean you.)
And to finish with a question, what about people who use both? Are they then smarter still?
I can see your point about football, mostly on the QB's part, IMHO. You need to figure out your own strategy and anticipate the other team's and there's the opportunity to revise on every play. It's a continuously-changing strategy in a way. However, this is more on the QB's part. For the rest of the players, I'd think it's more about taking your part of the chosen strategy and improvising on it. For them, it's somewhat the same as futbol (however the spelling, fuessball, etc.) in terms of intellectualism.
Baseball, however, I'd be more inclined to disagree on. It's more of a game of chance (where will the ball go) and responding to that chance in the best possible way. It has strategy involved, but it's not strategy in the same way as american football. It's more stretegy like cricket, which I might be inclined to suggest is slightly more strategic in that you can get players batting for an hour or more just to keep the game running in order to give the opposing team less of a chance at bat. That and figuring out the score of a cricket game can be an intellectual process in itself (unless you're really familiar with the sport).
No, I don't think I can pick a "most intellectual" sport, just because they all require strategies of a different kind and different goals. In some ways, it's like comparing apples to oranges. I agree, though, that american football is more intellectual than it's given credit for.
There are no adverse effects from coffee.
However, a friend of mine was once refused service at Starbucks because apparently she had had "more than the legal limit of caffeine" that day. Seems they are at least concerned about our health!
After my summer job last year (working as a sysadmin at a webhosting company (hint, starts with a B and pays for google linkage under "canadian webhosting")) I'd rather have worked as a meat packer. I made much MUCH less than the ad in the story, due to them paying virtually nothing for salary, then expecting me to work all hours of the day and night. Of course, it started good, but by the time it started to suck it was far too late to get another job where I was doing something interesting. That and the management kept screwing even the permanent staff over, promising raises, paying one check, then revoking the raise based on "poor performance" and retroactively lowering their salaries (i.e. no check at the end of the month). Then one day, "We're putting you on 'contract'." Translation: "We want you to work for no money." The only incentive they gave to stay was permanent employees got leased cars. Yay.
To all those people that want THAT job, I say take it. I'll stick with getting an Engineering degree and hopefully not having to suffer through that again.
At the University of Saskatchewan, somebody managed to sign up some strange contract with Microsoft that created a "software library" of sorts. You sign out the CD online, then wander down to the lab to pick it up. In about a day or so, you bring it back. If you want to make copies (as they suggest you do), then go right ahead. Cost to student: $Blank CD
Fiendish, yes. Evil, yes. Free software, yes. Will I be buying MS software in the future? Likely not. Are most students just enjoying free software and learning Linux anyway? Yes.
I, for one, will be enjoying my free software.
I actually considered the Pioneers, but found them to be much pricier than my Stanton Str8-50 (i'm cheap) and my CD collection wasn't that impressive to begin with. Very good choice for the person with a lot of CD's though. . .
If I had the money, I'd be in the process of replacing my CD collection with Vinyl. Actually, I could do entirely without CD's in the first place. The only major convenience is the ability to rip a CD to MiniDisc faster than an album, but that's just a convenience thing.
No, for me the nice thing is to be able to go home and just screw around with my decks for an hour or so to kill some time. Much more fun and interactive than putting a CD in the player and staring at the wall.
of all the higher-end server machines that have been out there, sun has outlived most.
Maybe that could be because of Sun's wonderful 'Buy it now, run it into the ground and pretend it never happened' philosophy. Look at Cobalt. Sun buys a great company, puts out a couple of products, then grinds support and production to a halt and EOL's the entire brand. By the end, support was almost nonexistant.
I'm not saying that Sun is going out trying to alienate their customers, but maybe they should think what this strategy is doing to their corporate image. They've irritated a few customers already and don't need to keep doing it.
I had to do that on Campus here, as well, however I just installed Phoenix (originally Moz) on my network shared drive since the Engineering computer labs are still using only NS4.7x. Since they are rather lax about executable programs on students' home drives, it's all good and I can have a good web browser.
But to stay on topic, yeah, the University of Saskatchewan is mostly Moz right down to the mail client. It depends on which department is doing the support (e.g. Engineering is sill not running it, but then again their computers are all much more stable than any others so it's a compromise (and no, it's not because of the mozilla thing))
Amen. I haven't bought a CD in at least a year, nor do I listen to most radio anymore. Pirated music? Not really. Every now and then I'll download a RadioOne mix by Judge Jules, etc. but other than that, I'm a straight vinyl guy. It works out well, since I like techno and that's probably the best distribution format for it. Who cares if I can't get the latest Nickelback CD? (Actually, they were one of the reasons I stopped listening to the Radio.)
Maybe in a couple years I'll rethink this, maybe not.