Holy cow, I didn't know you were still in Pittsburgh, Jason -- I wondered when I saw your domain name. Cool.
Yup, I'm still working for a small software company in the Burgh. You know me, but I don't recognize your nickname. Who are you? You can reply by e-mail (use the address on my home page) to avoid more off-topic posting.:)
"Blogs," "moblogs," and "plogs" are not words. They are ill-conceived marketing creations, no better than "information superhighway" and "top-speed technology." They exist to perpetuate the myth that personal publishing is going to reinvent the web as a means of communication.
Weblogs are personal web pages or journals. Plogs are project logs. Photologs are photo journals. Sure, the terms are longer, but they actually sound reasonable compared to "blog."
Salesforce.com is a business-to-business application. Most businesses lock down their computers too tightly for spyware to get in -- and if spyware does get in, the IT staff gets sent in to fix the problem.
Companies that sell Windows software don't really care if you get a Windows worm that nukes your hard drive. In the same way, web-based app companies can't be held responsible if you download a program that kills your web browser.
Now for all of you who like the idea of migrating away from Windows, web-based applications pose virtually no threat. Mozilla and IE handle most web applications just fine.
Having a Mac does not help this - in fact, it gives them even less incentive to actually learn how their computer works beyond "double-click the cute little icon to open IE/AIM/Photoshop/etc.".
What else is there to know besides that? Do artists really need to know about processes and threads and priorities?
Getting people to patch their system is merely a matter of running Software Update or Windows Update periodically. Both Mac OS X and Windows have this facility, and it should almost always be turned on.
Copyright law defines something as a work for hire if it was produced by an individual at the request of a company. All rights to a work for hire are retained by the company who paid for the work to be created.
Most of the employee contracts are supplemental to this definition. Many companies claim all rights to works created by employees without the explicit request of the company, as well.
How are they supposed to know that gamer X hasn't filled his Xbox hard drive with soundtracks? It isn't imposible, you know.
It takes an hour to rip a CD (not a CD-R, not a CD-RW, but only a CD) using the Xbox. You have to name the files individually using the keypad, or shell out $30 for Xbox Music Mixer to try and title them automatically.
If someone had ripped 8 GB of music using only the Xbox's internal functionality, I would be very surprised.
My neighbor paid over $80 for "Bart Vs. the Space Mutants" for the original NES. It was an awful game. Its only major feature -- real speech synthesis -- required that the NES stop all animation and devote its entire CPU to sound.
Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis also debuted at $80, but it sold for $50 a few months later.
Clearly you've never been to a Marketpro computer show. When I went, most vendors listed their prices for cash sales only. Credit card users like me pay a 3% premium. Most respectable businesses absorb the merchant fees, but some of the bargain-basement shops pass them directly on to the consumer.
You need to have an "active" Blogger account. When I logged in last week, I saw this invitation message. I hadn't used my account in a week or so, but Blogger considered me "active" enough to deserve an invite.
Use dig. When I run 'dig www.google.com', I see this:
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 3600 IN CNAME www.google.akadns.net. www.google.akadns.net.&nb sp; 300 IN A 64.233.167.99 www.google.akadns.net. 300 IN A 64.233.167.104
Slashdot won't let me post the whole output due to their filters, but try it yourself.
Disney ride-to-movie also had a very poor track record until "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Sorry to go off topic, but were there any other Disney rides that became movies? I shudder to think what "It's a Small World After All: The Movie" would have been like...
It's the same reason why William Hung has a record album. People are attracted to stupid stuff. The Internet makes distribution of stupid stuff possible.
I'm glad to see that Apple finally got on the ball and developed a portable media device with WiFi. The original iPod has sold very poorly because it had no wireless and less space than a Nomad.
However, I'm only buying it if it has Bluetooth and can support Linux. Otherwise, it's lame.
Controversy continued on Monday as surgeons successfully transplanted little Django's brain into a robot monkey body. Scientists now say human-to-robot brain transplants will be possible within ten years. On a sad note, however, Django died late Tuesday, after drinking his own urine. (Sealab 2021, I, Robot)
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That couch gag was a parody of the old film The Powers of Ten, which starts in or near Chicago and zooms out through the universe.
When I worked for Computer Associates, everyone there pronounced it as "ing-gress."
Holy cow, I didn't know you were still in Pittsburgh, Jason -- I wondered when I saw your domain name. Cool.
:)
Yup, I'm still working for a small software company in the Burgh. You know me, but I don't recognize your nickname. Who are you? You can reply by e-mail (use the address on my home page) to avoid more off-topic posting.
'Web' should be replaced with 'Internet-based hypertext-linked document system'.
It's still better than "blogosphere."
"Blogs," "moblogs," and "plogs" are not words. They are ill-conceived marketing creations, no better than "information superhighway" and "top-speed technology." They exist to perpetuate the myth that personal publishing is going to reinvent the web as a means of communication.
Weblogs are personal web pages or journals. Plogs are project logs. Photologs are photo journals. Sure, the terms are longer, but they actually sound reasonable compared to "blog."
Salesforce.com is a business-to-business application. Most businesses lock down their computers too tightly for spyware to get in -- and if spyware does get in, the IT staff gets sent in to fix the problem.
Companies that sell Windows software don't really care if you get a Windows worm that nukes your hard drive. In the same way, web-based app companies can't be held responsible if you download a program that kills your web browser.
Now for all of you who like the idea of migrating away from Windows, web-based applications pose virtually no threat. Mozilla and IE handle most web applications just fine.
Having a Mac does not help this - in fact, it gives them even less incentive to actually learn how their computer works beyond "double-click the cute little icon to open IE/AIM/Photoshop/etc.".
What else is there to know besides that? Do artists really need to know about processes and threads and priorities?
Getting people to patch their system is merely a matter of running Software Update or Windows Update periodically. Both Mac OS X and Windows have this facility, and it should almost always be turned on.
Copyright law defines something as a work for hire if it was produced by an individual at the request of a company. All rights to a work for hire are retained by the company who paid for the work to be created.
Most of the employee contracts are supplemental to this definition. Many companies claim all rights to works created by employees without the explicit request of the company, as well.
How are they supposed to know that gamer X hasn't filled his Xbox hard drive with soundtracks? It isn't imposible, you know.
It takes an hour to rip a CD (not a CD-R, not a CD-RW, but only a CD) using the Xbox. You have to name the files individually using the keypad, or shell out $30 for Xbox Music Mixer to try and title them automatically.
If someone had ripped 8 GB of music using only the Xbox's internal functionality, I would be very surprised.
My neighbor paid over $80 for "Bart Vs. the Space Mutants" for the original NES. It was an awful game. Its only major feature -- real speech synthesis -- required that the NES stop all animation and devote its entire CPU to sound.
Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis also debuted at $80, but it sold for $50 a few months later.
Clearly you've never been to a Marketpro computer show. When I went, most vendors listed their prices for cash sales only. Credit card users like me pay a 3% premium. Most respectable businesses absorb the merchant fees, but some of the bargain-basement shops pass them directly on to the consumer.
Thanks for the song credit!
You need to have an "active" Blogger account. When I logged in last week, I saw this invitation message. I hadn't used my account in a week or so, but Blogger considered me "active" enough to deserve an invite.
They make an Activision 10-in-1 version, but it lacks Kaboom!.
Use dig. When I run 'dig www.google.com', I see this:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 3600 IN CNAME www.google.akadns.net.
www.google.akadns.net.&nb sp; 300 IN A 64.233.167.99
www.google.akadns.net. 300 IN A 64.233.167.104
Slashdot won't let me post the whole output due to their filters, but try it yourself.
They already did that. It's called Netscape Internet Service.
Yes. ClearChannel already has a stake in XM Satellite Radio, so they're hedging their bets on the new technology.
Call me back when GNUcash can:
Oh, but GNUcash is free -- and it has a web browser built right in. Nice.
Disney ride-to-movie also had a very poor track record until "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Sorry to go off topic, but were there any other Disney rides that became movies? I shudder to think what "It's a Small World After All: The Movie" would have been like...
It's the same reason why William Hung has a record album. People are attracted to stupid stuff. The Internet makes distribution of stupid stuff possible.
I'm glad to see that Apple finally got on the ball and developed a portable media device with WiFi. The original iPod has sold very poorly because it had no wireless and less space than a Nomad.
However, I'm only buying it if it has Bluetooth and can support Linux. Otherwise, it's lame.
Excel as a retro gaming platform.
PDFCreator gives you "print to PDF" capability in Windows. It's free software.
With PDFCreator, Word makes PDF files that look just like those that Acrobat Distiller spits out. Just print to PDFCreator.
Controversy continued on Monday as surgeons successfully transplanted little Django's brain into a robot monkey body. Scientists now say human-to-robot brain transplants will be possible within ten years. On a sad note, however, Django died late Tuesday, after drinking his own urine. (Sealab 2021, I, Robot)