The big question is, however, if it isn't time for the extension of the definition of print. does Usenet count as print? some would say yes, some no, but the point remains is that it's an archived form of communication, in text form. the OED needs to figure out, soon, what they're going to do about electronic text- and about how they're going to reference it, and potentially cache those referencing pages. the conservatism of british academics is almost cliched; good or bad, it at least ensures continuity.
as i said above, i don't really have a problem with them not using electronic references. the OED is such a marvelously fun book- those of you who have online access to it, through schools, will surely be amused at browsing through it.
without much work, i found an *ancient* use of the word morph, as a verb. google groups of course, these may very well not match OED definitions of a good citation, but i would think you could then compare to other sources, like news papers and magazines. it is exciting (being both a computer and language/words geek) to see such a project, though. it will surely keep the pressure on the OED to modernize and improve, as well as to accept other kinds of citations.
first off, blaze (with accent.)? it's blase. (with accent.)
here's the idea i am sure could make somebody a ton of money.
instead of refilling and rehabbing toner cartridges, do it for lcd projector bulb cartridges. almost all the time, you have to buy a new one- for a good chunk of change. a little googling found me a place or two where you can buy solely the bulb. clean the cartridge, and replace the bulb (being careful of course not to get oil on anything) and charge 1/2 to 2/3 of what a new projector bulb costs. if i were mechanically inclined, i would do this. it's a growth industry. here at work, thanks to doofuses who can't remember how to turn off a projector, we can chew through a unit, at $330 per, in 6 months. and i know college professors aren't the only group of clueless projector users out there.
the thing that he doesn't mention in the article is that those microsoft and compaq products he mentions are increasingly being produced by foreign workers. microsoft is outsourcing. i would be flabbergasted if those compaqs are made in america. i realize that things are changing. it is inevitable. perhaps, if customer service improves due to actual customer support being economically feasible, that is a good thing. however, what is the end game here? first, the manufacturing jobs left- but don't worry, there are going to be plenty of high-tech and knowledge worker jobs available. now, those jobs are disappearing- both tech and knowledge. there are only going to be a limited number of those creative positions that he mentions that are available. if you don't believe that, try getting a director's job in hollywood. i thought that maybe certain things would be immune- like washing machines, etc., that are too large to be shipped from asia- but mexico just got another manufacturing plant from maytag the other day. and now that manufacturing barriers for media (tv, films) are declining, i don't see america maintaining its dominance there indefinitely. what is the end game, again? what are we going to do to survive? what will pay enough to enable a family to own a house and a car? competition is good. trade is good. but the next twenty years in america are going to be rough if we don't start thinking about these things, to avoid having a nation of burger flippers or anointed creative types and ceo's. and if the numbers get more skewed, we may yet wind up with a democracy instead of a republic.
screen brightness: lcd displays. they're great, especially on my laptops, where they can be turned down quite a bit- to where they don't cause that halo effect. plus, your battery life goes up! keyboards: go visit your local compusa/ fry's/ best buy and start clicking, but look for a laptop kb in a usb package. (this dell i'm on right now would wake the dead, i realize upon listening to it for a moment.) i just bought my dad (when i was in singapore last month, so i have no idea where to start looking here) such a kb. so aside from being almost unbearably cute, it's also pretty darn quiet. i think brand name was benq. mouse, i have no earthly idea. everybody seems to use the exact same clicker style inside. (i would suggest getting a mouse, like logitech, that can be disassembled for cleaning without removing the teflon strip.) i would suggest optical, but every damn optical mouse seems to glow like las vegas.
having in my earlier days done dbase programming (and then foxpro, before it became part of the Behemoth) i can say that i haven't seen one yet. i think about the closest i've seen, as stated above, is using Access as a front end. Access is still too complicated for most untrained users, but it's the best solution in terms of maintaining database quality. you can use excel, but kiss the data quality goodbye... i'll run through dselect tonight, and see if i see something that's similar.
in some ways, i miss dbase. it was nice and simple, yet could do most all i needed to do relationally. would i go back? not on your life.
i wonder who owns all that old dbase code? strikes me as it wouldn't be outrageously difficult to get it to use mysql, as long as it wasn't coded in assembly.
but there's a good bit happening in the background. first, the campaign to get rid of eisner. this, combined with the recent pooh suit setback, means a potential loss of millions of dollars. maybe even a billion or two. shareholders don't like that sort of thing. second, there's persistent rumors that pixar is going to start up a 2d animation department. disney just closed theirs. nothing like losing talent to the enemy.
in any case, i think disney has done a fantastic job of marketing the films. i don't see a warner bros. doing a similarly nice job.
that's the only thing they've done right. disney lost track, about 10 years ago, with the concept that money is not the reason to make art. the art is the reason. sure, if it's done right, you can make a lot of money- and early eisner benefitted from that. pixar hasn't gotten even remotely close to losing that important knowledge.
I almost submitted this the other day, when the preview trailer showed up at Pixar.
Obviously, it's showed up on screen sometime in LA before the end of last year- but does anybody have any information on where/when it's going to be used next?
Hopefully, we don't have to wait until the Incredibles to see it.
if i recall, songs nominated for best song have to be created specifically for a film.
'triplets of belleville' is stretching that. i love the song, but it's a really heavy rip of an old Django Reinhardt song. it's plainly obvious.
so in other words, if you're making a song for a film, we'll reward you if you 'borrow' a tune cleverly. (and i would think his song was still under copyright, too.) but if you want to paint disney figures on a nursery wall, forget it.
i realize i'm comparing apples and oranges, but hopefully, you see the point. hypocrisy lives, here as elsewhere...
That is indeed the problem- the content was NEVER free- it just appeared to be so. Broadening the reach of the internet required additional funding- and beyond loss-leader activities, that means advertising, mostly. Just because the end-user sees it as free, doesn't make it so.
before this rhetoric of 'it USED to be free' goes too much further, i would hasten to remind you that the internet was NEVER free. it costs money to run phone lines, buy routers, hire geeks, maintain hubs, etc. the fact that these costs were subsidized by the public and/or private universities, such that you never saw them, or were directly affected by them, does not remove this fact. now, i'm not going to argue that it wasn't nice before.com happened, and before the web happened, and especially before spam, popups, and even tasteful ads, but it was never free.
as long as they aren't, like, on the right side of the page where my slashboxes are. Then, they deserve to be blocked.
Seriously, they're fine with me, as long as they don't go nutso with the gifs and the flash. Bandwidth appears to be getting steadily cheaper, and the new google ad-targeting system appears to be working and generating revenue (at least based on the growing adoption of it.)
As noted above, there are tons of ways to block ads, if you're so inclined. This is neither new nor unique.
since i'm not taking off the case, scrubbing the asbestos into flaky little lung choking bits, and putting the case back on, i sleep well at night.;)
seriously, there's no movement against any bits of asbestos- it's lined with steel internally too. the amount of money wasted on asbestos removal... sigh. yet another example of the economy-sapping powers of mathematical stupidity.
i didn't make myself clear enough. it's old, and insulated with about 1000 lbs. of asbestos. (eeek!) this sucker IS capable of surviving whatever. i didn't really buy it for the fireproofness, but it's a nice bonus. the cd's fitting in perfect was the bigger selling point. that, and the really butter-smooth rolling actions of the drawers.
and since the stuff isn't being disturbed, i'm not worried about abestosis.
first off, i could swear we've discussed this before, but i'm too tired/lazy to dig up the url.
anyway, go to used office furniture stores. you'd be surprised what you can find. i found a used fireproof case, meant for 8.5" x 5.5" inch cards, like deeds, that works PERFECT for cd cases. it fits 4 across, about 75 deep, and has 5 drawers. of course, it weighs about 1200 lbs., being insulated beeyond helief, and it's not fine for the living room, but for $200 it was a bargain.
on the other side of things, i found a nice elm mail sorting unit that does work excellently as shelving, and fits in a living room for about $100.
trick i've found in general is that anything that's *designed* for a purpose usually costs twice as much as something else that is.
yes, compared to harry potter, MMOG is small. but comparing a one-shot gaming purchase (ala the sims offline) to harry potter sales is a different story.
for MMOG usage, it would be more useful to compare it to cable pay channel subscriptions, or something similar. they even use the same word, churn, to describe the turnover of subscribers.
at least with cable tv, (and i can't speak authoritatively for the current market with dish tv etc.) there used to a certain point at which the growth curve would basically almost flatten for pay services, and then you would just watch *who* was subscribed change- churn.
there is always going to be that psychological barrier to monthly service cost, i think. it somehow seems more of a fact than paying a once yearly fee, ala the xbox live setup.
furthering the difficulty of comparison is the fact that new MMOGs do come out further diluting the percentages. and you're also competing with the market for the largest MMOG setup there is, live chat in myriad guises. (and for some people it's even a RPG. heh)
all in all, especially when you take into account the top level of subscribership that exists in places like Korea, i would think the market is pretty healthy, and even if it doesn't double, it's still pretty substantial for interactive entertainment.
You will probably find that there are more/.'rs that claim to have programed 6502's by typing in hex codes.
hellzapoppin! does this mean i'm officially old now, since I did this?
however, to answer the question, i think the correlation (and i've seen that) is because both sets of people care passionately about something that the vast majority of people find utterly boring and useless.
mine works great. sure, you can't wear it into an airport, but that's okay. i carry a flashlight, a pager, a palmpilot, a leatherman, a phone, and on a carabiner i carry a usb memory plug, a pill case, and a cross compacting pen. and, i don't have to do anything but slip it on in the mornings.
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The big question is, however, if it isn't time for the extension of the definition of print.
does Usenet count as print? some would say yes, some no, but the point remains is that it's an archived form of communication, in text form. the OED needs to figure out, soon, what they're going to do about electronic text- and about how they're going to reference it, and potentially cache those referencing pages. the conservatism of british academics is almost cliched; good or bad, it at least ensures continuity.
as i said above, i don't really have a problem with them not using electronic references. the OED is such a marvelously fun book- those of you who have online access to it, through schools, will surely be amused at browsing through it.
It's in the main article on the OED site. Plain as day.
without much work, i found an *ancient* use of the word morph, as a verb.
google groups
of course, these may very well not match OED definitions of a good citation, but i would think you could then compare to other sources, like news papers and magazines.
it is exciting (being both a computer and language/words geek) to see such a project, though. it will surely keep the pressure on the OED to modernize and improve, as well as to accept other kinds of citations.
first off, blaze (with accent.)?
it's blase. (with accent.)
here's the idea i am sure could make somebody a ton of money.
instead of refilling and rehabbing toner cartridges, do it for lcd projector bulb cartridges. almost all the time, you have to buy a new one- for a good chunk of change. a little googling found me a place or two where you can buy solely the bulb. clean the cartridge, and replace the bulb (being careful of course not to get oil on anything) and charge 1/2 to 2/3 of what a new projector bulb costs.
if i were mechanically inclined, i would do this. it's a growth industry. here at work, thanks to doofuses who can't remember how to turn off a projector, we can chew through a unit, at $330 per, in 6 months. and i know college professors aren't the only group of clueless projector users out there.
that's where the heechee are. duh!
the thing that he doesn't mention in the article is that those microsoft and compaq products he mentions are increasingly being produced by foreign workers.
microsoft is outsourcing.
i would be flabbergasted if those compaqs are made in america.
i realize that things are changing. it is inevitable. perhaps, if customer service improves due to actual customer support being economically feasible, that is a good thing.
however, what is the end game here? first, the manufacturing jobs left- but don't worry, there are going to be plenty of high-tech and knowledge worker jobs available.
now, those jobs are disappearing- both tech and knowledge. there are only going to be a limited number of those creative positions that he mentions that are available. if you don't believe that, try getting a director's job in hollywood.
i thought that maybe certain things would be immune- like washing machines, etc., that are too large to be shipped from asia- but mexico just got another manufacturing plant from maytag the other day.
and now that manufacturing barriers for media (tv, films) are declining, i don't see america maintaining its dominance there indefinitely.
what is the end game, again? what are we going to do to survive? what will pay enough to enable a family to own a house and a car?
competition is good. trade is good. but the next twenty years in america are going to be rough if we don't start thinking about these things, to avoid having a nation of burger flippers or anointed creative types and ceo's. and if the numbers get more skewed, we may yet wind up with a democracy instead of a republic.
screen brightness: lcd displays. they're great, especially on my laptops, where they can be turned down quite a bit- to where they don't cause that halo effect. plus, your battery life goes up!
keyboards: go visit your local compusa/ fry's/ best buy and start clicking, but look for a laptop kb in a usb package. (this dell i'm on right now would wake the dead, i realize upon listening to it for a moment.) i just bought my dad (when i was in singapore last month, so i have no idea where to start looking here) such a kb. so aside from being almost unbearably cute, it's also pretty darn quiet. i think brand name was benq.
mouse, i have no earthly idea. everybody seems to use the exact same clicker style inside. (i would suggest getting a mouse, like logitech, that can be disassembled for cleaning without removing the teflon strip.) i would suggest optical, but every damn optical mouse seems to glow like las vegas.
having in my earlier days done dbase programming (and then foxpro, before it became part of the Behemoth) i can say that i haven't seen one yet.
i think about the closest i've seen, as stated above, is using Access as a front end.
Access is still too complicated for most untrained users, but it's the best solution in terms of maintaining database quality. you can use excel, but kiss the data quality goodbye...
i'll run through dselect tonight, and see if i see something that's similar.
in some ways, i miss dbase. it was nice and simple, yet could do most all i needed to do relationally. would i go back? not on your life.
i wonder who owns all that old dbase code? strikes me as it wouldn't be outrageously difficult to get it to use mysql, as long as it wasn't coded in assembly.
but there's a good bit happening in the background.
first, the campaign to get rid of eisner. this, combined with the recent pooh suit setback, means a potential loss of millions of dollars. maybe even a billion or two. shareholders don't like that sort of thing.
second, there's persistent rumors that pixar is going to start up a 2d animation department. disney just closed theirs. nothing like losing talent to the enemy.
in any case, i think disney has done a fantastic job of marketing the films. i don't see a warner bros. doing a similarly nice job.
that's the only thing they've done right. disney lost track, about 10 years ago, with the concept that money is not the reason to make art. the art is the reason. sure, if it's done right, you can make a lot of money- and early eisner benefitted from that. pixar hasn't gotten even remotely close to losing that important knowledge.
it lost out to 'bowling for columbine'
I almost submitted this the other day, when the preview trailer showed up at Pixar.
Obviously, it's showed up on screen sometime in LA before the end of last year- but does anybody have any information on where/when it's going to be used next?
Hopefully, we don't have to wait until the Incredibles to see it.
if i recall, songs nominated for best song have to be created specifically for a film.
'triplets of belleville' is stretching that. i love the song, but it's a really heavy rip of an old Django Reinhardt song. it's plainly obvious.
so in other words, if you're making a song for a film, we'll reward you if you 'borrow' a tune cleverly. (and i would think his song was still under copyright, too.) but if you want to paint disney figures on a nursery wall, forget it.
i realize i'm comparing apples and oranges, but hopefully, you see the point. hypocrisy lives, here as elsewhere...
it's running on a console do help to increase the possibility.
however, it's still a microsoft system, so anything's possible. i wouldn't have been waving a red flag like that were i them...
That is indeed the problem- the content was NEVER free- it just appeared to be so. Broadening the reach of the internet required additional funding- and beyond loss-leader activities, that means advertising, mostly.
Just because the end-user sees it as free, doesn't make it so.
I'm not missing the point. The content may be free, but it can't be found if there isn't a sysadmin, a server, and a hub.
before this rhetoric of 'it USED to be free' goes too much further, i would hasten to remind you that the internet was NEVER free. .com happened, and before the web happened, and especially before spam, popups, and even tasteful ads, but it was never free.
it costs money to run phone lines, buy routers, hire geeks, maintain hubs, etc.
the fact that these costs were subsidized by the public and/or private universities, such that you never saw them, or were directly affected by them, does not remove this fact.
now, i'm not going to argue that it wasn't nice before
as long as they aren't, like, on the right side of the page where my slashboxes are. Then, they deserve to be blocked.
Seriously, they're fine with me, as long as they don't go nutso with the gifs and the flash. Bandwidth appears to be getting steadily cheaper, and the new google ad-targeting system appears to be working and generating revenue (at least based on the growing adoption of it.)
As noted above, there are tons of ways to block ads, if you're so inclined. This is neither new nor unique.
well, pine is definitely not elm, that's for sure.
since i'm not taking off the case, scrubbing the asbestos into flaky little lung choking bits, and putting the case back on, i sleep well at night.
seriously, there's no movement against any bits of asbestos- it's lined with steel internally too.
the amount of money wasted on asbestos removal... sigh. yet another example of the economy-sapping powers of mathematical stupidity.
i didn't make myself clear enough. it's old, and insulated with about 1000 lbs. of asbestos. (eeek!)
this sucker IS capable of surviving whatever. i didn't really buy it for the fireproofness, but it's a nice bonus. the cd's fitting in perfect was the bigger selling point. that, and the really butter-smooth rolling actions of the drawers.
and since the stuff isn't being disturbed, i'm not worried about abestosis.
first off, i could swear we've discussed this before, but i'm too tired/lazy to dig up the url.
anyway, go to used office furniture stores. you'd be surprised what you can find. i found a used fireproof case, meant for 8.5" x 5.5" inch cards, like deeds, that works PERFECT for cd cases. it fits 4 across, about 75 deep, and has 5 drawers. of course, it weighs about 1200 lbs., being insulated beeyond helief, and it's not fine for the living room, but for $200 it was a bargain.
on the other side of things, i found a nice elm mail sorting unit that does work excellently as shelving, and fits in a living room for about $100.
trick i've found in general is that anything that's *designed* for a purpose usually costs twice as much as something else that is.
yes, compared to harry potter, MMOG is small. but comparing a one-shot gaming purchase (ala the sims offline) to harry potter sales is a different story.
for MMOG usage, it would be more useful to compare it to cable pay channel subscriptions, or something similar. they even use the same word, churn, to describe the turnover of subscribers.
at least with cable tv, (and i can't speak authoritatively for the current market with dish tv etc.) there used to a certain point at which the growth curve would basically almost flatten for pay services, and then you would just watch *who* was subscribed change- churn.
there is always going to be that psychological barrier to monthly service cost, i think. it somehow seems more of a fact than paying a once yearly fee, ala the xbox live setup.
furthering the difficulty of comparison is the fact that new MMOGs do come out further diluting the percentages. and you're also competing with the market for the largest MMOG setup there is, live chat in myriad guises. (and for some people it's even a RPG. heh)
all in all, especially when you take into account the top level of subscribership that exists in places like Korea, i would think the market is pretty healthy, and even if it doesn't double, it's still pretty substantial for interactive entertainment.
You will probably find that there are more /.'rs that claim to have programed 6502's by typing in hex codes.
hellzapoppin! does this mean i'm officially old now, since I did this?
however, to answer the question, i think the correlation (and i've seen that) is because both sets of people care passionately about something that the vast majority of people find utterly boring and useless.
okay, they said they're turning it off. how long does it take to bounce the daemons?
i say throw the book at them. i have no choice about using their system, if i don't agree to their terms.
mine works great.
sure, you can't wear it into an airport, but that's okay. i carry a flashlight, a pager, a palmpilot, a leatherman, a phone, and on a carabiner i carry a usb memory plug, a pill case, and a cross compacting pen. and, i don't have to do anything but slip it on in the mornings.
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