I know quite a few people who download classical music, and although fewer download jazz I know some who do just to find out if they like it. And if the good stuff isn't available on p2p networks, they'll shrug and say "geez that's crappy music" and delete it off the hard disk.
Of course, I'm far more of the opinion that what isn't distrubited by p2p networks will die. There are several albums I simply can't find in stores or on p2p networks (old school ska, mostly) and I don't have the time, energy, or money to look through record stores (or ebay for that matter).
I have to contrast this to techno, where DJ's put out limited amounts of albums (and some of them do go for far more money than I'm willing to pay), but the music can be found on almost any p2p network--I guess that's just how the fashions in music change.
There are a lot of brains on this planet. We might need quite a few, considering how people in my locale drive. Many of them might need fine-tuning just for the sake of it, as well.
You forgot the line "We don't want to hire someone who is going back to the IT world the second it recovers". I haven't heard that one in a while only because I've left the IT field a while back, but back then I heard it all the time.
I hope what this really means is that someone will fix fink enough so that when I try `fink install gnome` (or anything requiring gnome) I don't get errors compiling pango.
I think part of the strategy of restricting save points is to up the difficulty and the addictiveness of the game. Once you hit a save point, if you keep going, then you find yourself in another point where you have to keep going to get to the next save point. Hence you only have small windows of time in which to put the game down, which for anyone mildly addicted, causes more all night long addictions.
And people will try games if they see thier friends playing them all night long.
I've been subscribed to MUD-Dev ever since I can remember. Now they mostly talk about MMPORG's and little about text MUDs, and it's definately swayed from the technical to the marketing, but it's still very interesting (and very wordy! I can't keep up).
The only serious mistake they made was not in using 2 digit years, but in failing to create sufficient abstraction around the concept of a date that it was not possible to change the underlying implementation of a date without being forced to rewrite the software which was dependant on it.
I think if they included an abstraction layer around the concept of a date, they'd use up more than the two bytes they were trying to save.
All the best games come out for mac first. I'm not so sure it's true anymore, but for a while it definately seemed so.
Shufflepuck Cafe Dark Castle Crystal Quest (it was a sad day when this stopped working when I upgraded to "MultiFinder") BattleGirl (anyone tell me how to make this work on OS X and I'll be your friend forever) Snood Escape Velocity series
I haven't seen a non-LED traffic light in quite a while. Maybe it's living on the east coast, but even cars are using them for brake lights around here, and people are using them in flashlights (okay, so only the fancy cars use LED brake lights, and only the uber-geeks use LED flashlights).
I got an LED flashlight for my roomate, because they were giving them away if you signed up for a credit card.
I don't know, I've turned some fancy features off (especially the minimize effects) and it seems to make my mac that much snappier. Or maybe it's the length of the animations that takes so long...
Nobody has mentioned Pythoñol yet. It's not Japanese, but I figure the people trying to learn Spanish probably ask the same questions. Pythoñol is open source, runs happy on Linux (and runs not quite so happy on other platforms), and talks to you if you can figure out how to install festival.
This happens because gravity is a field (according to Einstein). Newton treated gravity like a force.
This is old and I saw it in the meta moderation queue, and rather than metamoderating I wanted to respond to this one line along (ignoring the rest).
Any force can be treated as a field. At the moon the force caused by the mass of the earth is so much. Slightly closer to the earth (where the moon isn't) the force would be slightly greater. Further away the force would be less (ignoring the sun and other objects in this thought). By drawing lines pointing where the force would be pushing things on all these places, you have a gravitational field!:-)
You do this with electricity and magnetism. It lets you do all sorts of fancy math and makes homework problems easier (such as: what is the gravitational effects that people would feel in the inside of a hollow earth?).
Even if Einstein wasn't around, we would be looking at fields for gravity and such. I personally blame Gauss, but maybe I should have taken calculus before looking at Gauss's law.
then use xmms, gimp, mplayer, avidemux, evolution, and openoffice. there's not much stopping you with fink/darwinports and x11.
As someone who doesn't want to use iTunes, xmms just doesn't fucking work on the mac. Okay I'm exaggerating a little, after I've just turned on the mac it will work and play songs until some random point (and I think it has something to do with other programs asking for sound) at which point it freezes up and refuses to play songs until reboot. Not usable.
mpg123 works but occasionally plays one of the songs in a chipmonk style. But I'd much rather have xmms, or some other kind of mp3 player that looked/felt xmms than iTunes interface. Not having any song control other than ^C to go to the next song is pretty limiting.
Oh yeah, and where's a CD burner that isn't iTunes? I can't find one.
Nobody has suggested the General Public License as a game. It'd be a great game! Going around thwacking SCO and other bad guys who attempt to subvert the good innocent little license for thier evil ways. It would be much better than any EULA that MS could put out as a video game!
That's not what's meant by a license that should be made into a game? That's unclear wording....
I needed a textbook, Introduction to Electrodynamics, a book that costs $100. My entire family was making big noises about the high costs of textbooks and my roomate offered to buy it online for me. She's not the most technically literate but she has a credit card which gets her more ebay acess than me. She told me about half.com (an affiliate of ebay) and I gave her $50 and borrowed textbooks in the meantime.
At some point, she said that she suspected an ex-friend of hers had sent her a CD-R that she was suspecting of less than honest intentions and she was afraid it would cover her computer with computer viruses. I popped it in my linux box, poked around... and was surprised to find that it contained the solutions manual to my textbook!
I went back and looked at what she had bought. It was listed as "Introduction to Electrodynamics (Hardcover, 1998)" but under the notes it said "Notes: Solutions manual in CD format. Returns not accepted due to possibility of copying."
We've emailed half.com but haven't found any response. We've left bad feedback but that doesn't seem to do anything. All our requests for returning are unheeded.
I understand that he probably thinks (s)he's providing a valuable service offering bootleg copies of the solutions manual, but I found the damn offer misleading, and I don't even want the solutions manual! I want the book! And when no one responds to inquiries... Grr..
--Stanza, who has been burned internet shopping everytime I've ever tried to buy anything online.
After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC.
I've gotten a shiny new iMac with OS X.3 on it, and I'm still learning the ropes. I'm slightly amazed at all the wierdnesses I can do with it, you can script almost anything with Applescript, and there's a million little details that do wierd shit, or behave as I'm not used to. So where is the Learning Mac OS X for the unix geek? The unix and mac world is so divided on the machine, yet works together seemlessly.
I haven't had my coffee yet, I'll ramble on about my experiences with Mac OS X elsewhere. But my question remains: what are good books/resources for the person who is already a unix geek?
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This hack works almost the same if you kill the dock while doing expose thingies. See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story= 20040 114175611171&query=expose
I normally wouldn't have read the article (out of non-interest) but my inner "the web isn't the internet!"-nazi is screaming.
75% of web connections do not use a browser.
The article does not say that. It says that
...76 percent of active Web surfers, access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application.
So this offers hope to those who were afraid that the web would become synonymous with the internet. On the other hand, seeing a slashdot editor get the web and the internet confused, I'm not sure if I should keep my hopes up.
Why does everyone assume he's talking about India? He doesn't even mention India.
That said, there's a bunch of the usual advice posted that I don't want to repeat, except maybe I'd say pay attention to the "networking" mantra when looking for jobs, and I find it harder to find a job when you have education but no experience. And make sure you're doing stuff: get out of the house, join the local LUG, and keep a log of every job that you apply for, whether doing here or abroad.
Oh yeah, if you do show up on random shores and try to find a job, you'll find it much harder than in the states. If you're serious about it, make sure you have a job lined up before you land. Otherwise you'll be washing dishes in a land where you may not speak the language while you're trying to sort out something better or a return ticket.
I personally was thinking of trying to outsource myself from the US to Ireland and work in some shmoe tech support position there. If I wasn't in the middle of my own university degree I'd seriously look into it.
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Eh....
I know quite a few people who download classical music, and although fewer download jazz I know some who do just to find out if they like it. And if the good stuff isn't available on p2p networks, they'll shrug and say "geez that's crappy music" and delete it off the hard disk.
Of course, I'm far more of the opinion that what isn't distrubited by p2p networks will die. There are several albums I simply can't find in stores or on p2p networks (old school ska, mostly) and I don't have the time, energy, or money to look through record stores (or ebay for that matter).
I have to contrast this to techno, where DJ's put out limited amounts of albums (and some of them do go for far more money than I'm willing to pay), but the music can be found on almost any p2p network--I guess that's just how the fashions in music change.
There are a lot of brains on this planet. We might need quite a few, considering how people in my locale drive. Many of them might need fine-tuning just for the sake of it, as well.
You forgot the line "We don't want to hire someone who is going back to the IT world the second it recovers". I haven't heard that one in a while only because I've left the IT field a while back, but back then I heard it all the time.
I hope what this really means is that someone will fix fink enough so that when I try `fink install gnome` (or anything requiring gnome) I don't get errors compiling pango.
I think part of the strategy of restricting save points is to up the difficulty and the addictiveness of the game. Once you hit a save point, if you keep going, then you find yourself in another point where you have to keep going to get to the next save point. Hence you only have small windows of time in which to put the game down, which for anyone mildly addicted, causes more all night long addictions.
And people will try games if they see thier friends playing them all night long.
I've been subscribed to MUD-Dev ever since I can remember. Now they mostly talk about MMPORG's and little about text MUDs, and it's definately swayed from the technical to the marketing, but it's still very interesting (and very wordy! I can't keep up).
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev/
I think if they included an abstraction layer around the concept of a date, they'd use up more than the two bytes they were trying to save.
You guys are evil.
I *am* British, but live in the states.
How could you? I have some nice places I want spared!
All the best games come out for mac first. I'm not so sure it's true anymore, but for a while it definately seemed so.
Shufflepuck Cafe
Dark Castle
Crystal Quest (it was a sad day when this stopped working when I upgraded to "MultiFinder")
BattleGirl (anyone tell me how to make this work on OS X and I'll be your friend forever)
Snood
Escape Velocity series
http://www.ultra-united.com/
This leaves me with one question that's plagued me for years.
How do you pronounce UART?
I haven't seen a non-LED traffic light in quite a while. Maybe it's living on the east coast, but even cars are using them for brake lights around here, and people are using them in flashlights (okay, so only the fancy cars use LED brake lights, and only the uber-geeks use LED flashlights).
I got an LED flashlight for my roomate, because they were giving them away if you signed up for a credit card.
I would say yes. Trying to understand what I'm doing with 3D graphics has led me to understand linear algebra more than I would otherwise have.
I don't know, I've turned some fancy features off (especially the minimize effects) and it seems to make my mac that much snappier. Or maybe it's the length of the animations that takes so long...
Nobody has mentioned Pythoñol yet. It's not Japanese, but I figure the people trying to learn Spanish probably ask the same questions. Pythoñol is open source, runs happy on Linux (and runs not quite so happy on other platforms), and talks to you if you can figure out how to install festival.
Hope this helps someone.
This is old and I saw it in the meta moderation queue, and rather than metamoderating I wanted to respond to this one line along (ignoring the rest).
Any force can be treated as a field. At the moon the force caused by the mass of the earth is so much. Slightly closer to the earth (where the moon isn't) the force would be slightly greater. Further away the force would be less (ignoring the sun and other objects in this thought). By drawing lines pointing where the force would be pushing things on all these places, you have a gravitational field! :-)
You do this with electricity and magnetism. It lets you do all sorts of fancy math and makes homework problems easier (such as: what is the gravitational effects that people would feel in the inside of a hollow earth?).
Even if Einstein wasn't around, we would be looking at fields for gravity and such. I personally blame Gauss, but maybe I should have taken calculus before looking at Gauss's law.
Oh yeah IAAPS (I Am A Physics Student)
As someone who doesn't want to use iTunes, xmms just doesn't fucking work on the mac. Okay I'm exaggerating a little, after I've just turned on the mac it will work and play songs until some random point (and I think it has something to do with other programs asking for sound) at which point it freezes up and refuses to play songs until reboot. Not usable.
mpg123 works but occasionally plays one of the songs in a chipmonk style. But I'd much rather have xmms, or some other kind of mp3 player that looked/felt xmms than iTunes interface. Not having any song control other than ^C to go to the next song is pretty limiting.
Oh yeah, and where's a CD burner that isn't iTunes? I can't find one.
Nobody has suggested the General Public License as a game. It'd be a great game! Going around thwacking SCO and other bad guys who attempt to subvert the good innocent little license for thier evil ways. It would be much better than any EULA that MS could put out as a video game!
That's not what's meant by a license that should be made into a game? That's unclear wording....
I needed a textbook, Introduction to Electrodynamics, a book that costs $100. My entire family was making big noises about the high costs of textbooks and my roomate offered to buy it online for me. She's not the most technically literate but she has a credit card which gets her more ebay acess than me. She told me about half.com (an affiliate of ebay) and I gave her $50 and borrowed textbooks in the meantime.
At some point, she said that she suspected an ex-friend of hers had sent her a CD-R that she was suspecting of less than honest intentions and she was afraid it would cover her computer with computer viruses. I popped it in my linux box, poked around... and was surprised to find that it contained the solutions manual to my textbook!
I went back and looked at what she had bought. It was listed as "Introduction to Electrodynamics (Hardcover, 1998)" but under the notes it said "Notes: Solutions manual in CD format. Returns not accepted due to possibility of copying."
We've emailed half.com but haven't found any response. We've left bad feedback but that doesn't seem to do anything. All our requests for returning are unheeded.
I understand that he probably thinks (s)he's providing a valuable service offering bootleg copies of the solutions manual, but I found the damn offer misleading, and I don't even want the solutions manual! I want the book! And when no one responds to inquiries... Grr..
--Stanza, who has been burned internet shopping everytime I've ever tried to buy anything online.
Meanwhile, the Graphic Adventure Underground Awards Announced.
I'm posting a little late, but I'm surprised nobody has said this first.
I've gotten a shiny new iMac with OS X.3 on it, and I'm still learning the ropes. I'm slightly amazed at all the wierdnesses I can do with it, you can script almost anything with Applescript, and there's a million little details that do wierd shit, or behave as I'm not used to. So where is the Learning Mac OS X for the unix geek? The unix and mac world is so divided on the machine, yet works together seemlessly.
I haven't had my coffee yet, I'll ramble on about my experiences with Mac OS X elsewhere. But my question remains: what are good books/resources for the person who is already a unix geek?
This hack works almost the same if you kill the dock while doing expose thingies. See
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story
75% of web connections do not use a browser.
The article does not say that. It says that
So this offers hope to those who were afraid that the web would become synonymous with the internet. On the other hand, seeing a slashdot editor get the web and the internet confused, I'm not sure if I should keep my hopes up.
Why does everyone assume he's talking about India? He doesn't even mention India.
That said, there's a bunch of the usual advice posted that I don't want to repeat, except maybe I'd say pay attention to the "networking" mantra when looking for jobs, and I find it harder to find a job when you have education but no experience. And make sure you're doing stuff: get out of the house, join the local LUG, and keep a log of every job that you apply for, whether doing here or abroad.
Oh yeah, if you do show up on random shores and try to find a job, you'll find it much harder than in the states. If you're serious about it, make sure you have a job lined up before you land. Otherwise you'll be washing dishes in a land where you may not speak the language while you're trying to sort out something better or a return ticket.
I personally was thinking of trying to outsource myself from the US to Ireland and work in some shmoe tech support position there. If I wasn't in the middle of my own university degree I'd seriously look into it.
Try this instead.
http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=1298