Re:Libraries don't need to be "elite"
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There are circumstances where a bit of 1337ness wouldn't hurt. My wife works at the Faculty of Music library at a major Canadian university. She convinced a friend of ours to donate a large collection of ancient 78's left to him by his father to the school. When the archivist was asked if he could convert these old recordings to MP3's so that students could listen to them for research purposes without damaging the original recordings, he replied - and this is true - that he didn't want to convert the recordings to MP3 because he couldn't listen to them in a blackout. So now they gather dust in a locked room, and no one ever listens to them whether the power is on or not.
-aiabx
Except it isn't a rainbow apple any more - it's a white one that lights up. The old rainbow logo was an emblem of the touchy-feely-UI-is-everything old Apple. Now that they are trying to win on technical merits, they want a cooler, high-tech looking logo.
-aiabx
No, it's different. If Texans feel they are being unfairly treated, they can move to New Mexico. Negroes didn't have the choice of crossing the train tracks and becoming white. Secondly, it's funny, because Texans are (inexplicably) proud of being Texans. The laws of comedy tell us that when someone is puffed up with pride and strutting around, it is funny to deflate them, either with a pie in the face or a joke at their expense. What you should have said was that seventy years ago, someone whould have substituted the word "Jews" for "Texans", and we could invoke Godwin's Law and get back to our doughnuts and coffee.
-aiabx
Re:I'll support anything that gets rid of Billy Ba
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They aren't being banned, they're just going to have copy protection technology built in. Which means they will be more expensive. Which means instead of getting some socks, a drill, some books and a Billy Bass for Christmas, you're just going to get a Billy Bass.
-aiabx
Voice recognition is not sufficiently stable right now to make it easier to use than the old fashioned keyboard. It makes a novel toy, or a useful workaround for people who can't use a keyboard, but it really isn't ready for prime time.
-aiabx
They have shot themselves in the metaphorical foot, but only because they are spraying bullets around like monkeys with machine guns - you still want to stay as far away as possible.
-aiabx
Well, if the sun revolves around the earth, then so does the rest of the universe. Checking the parallax of nearby stars will provide the evidence necessary to show that the celestial sphere also revolves around us. We can extrapolate from there. So what is the mechanism? What forces distant quasars to revolve around us at a speed of 2*pi*10^^10ly per year? Maybe the earth does move.
-aiabx
The problem with depending on tools to do your work for you is that it is easy to make a mistake using the tool, (did you put the close bracket in the right spot in the equation?), and without a sound knowledge of the subject in question, you won't be able to spot the error. It'll just be a response out of a black box.
-aiabx
I don't know about that. I read the book, and it was quite the steaming coil of bumloaf. There's lots of blame to spread around. But just in case David Brin is reading this, I quite liked Startide Rising, so it's nothing personal.
-aiabx
After a couple of years of use, the cooling fan on my PowerMac 6100 started flaking out. The machine would get too hot, and frequently the fan wouldn't go unless i poked the blades with a q-tip, which would unstick the fan, and the computer would cool off again. This was clearly not a suitable long-term solution, so I took it to my local computer shop. I told the repair guy that the cooling fan was intermittently refusing to run. He gave me the ID10T look, and patiently explained to me that cooling fans didn't run all the time, only when the computer got hot. I took my problem elsewhere. They are out of business now.
-aiabx
I have to say I was pleased to see Jar-Jar's idiocy taken advantage of by smarter people. Too many times we see the dumb sidekick do the stupid thing that turns out to save the day! That's so cute. But bullshit. In real life, when stupid people do stupid things, disaster follows.
That having been said, I won't be lining up at the IMAX theatre, since I've already seen the digital projection, and I'm sure the IMAX print will be a step down. And life is too short to sit through the crappy-acted romance *again*.
-aiabx
Actually, Haagen-Dasz (sp? who cares?) is a branch of Pillsbury, and was just given a euro-style name to appeal to snobs. The beer argument is more convincing, though.
-aiabx
Yes and no. You can see the Sea of Tranquility with the naked eye, but no telescope can provide a sharp enough view to see any evidence of the moon landing from earth. You can, however, fire a sufficiently powerful laser at the reflectors left on the moon for that purpose.
-aiabx
I test software for a living, and last year when going through a family emergency, my employers (bless them) let me work from home for four months. It worked out well. I went into the office every couple of weeks so that people would remember who I was and not steal my cubicle stuff, but even that wasn't necessary to get my job done well.
-aiabx
Coke and Pepsi are too run of the mill? Do we have to prove our 1337ness by drinking cool drinks that ordinary-fucking-people only see in extreme sports commercials? What a sad way to claw for status. btw, I usually drink tea (Twinning's China Black), but I have been known to drink a mainstream (There! I said it!) cola or two.
-aiabx
When I use a computer, I tend to get immersed in whatever is on the screen. It doesn't matter to me if the cpu is in a shoebox or a golden articulated statue of Ganesh; I'm not paying attention to it. If anything, I think I'd find a cool case distracting, even annoying. I'd much rather see something functional, like serious liquid nitrogen cooled overclocking.
-aiabx
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There are circumstances where a bit of 1337ness wouldn't hurt. My wife works at the Faculty of Music library at a major Canadian university. She convinced a friend of ours to donate a large collection of ancient 78's left to him by his father to the school. When the archivist was asked if he could convert these old recordings to MP3's so that students could listen to them for research purposes without damaging the original recordings, he replied - and this is true - that he didn't want to convert the recordings to MP3 because he couldn't listen to them in a blackout. So now they gather dust in a locked room, and no one ever listens to them whether the power is on or not.
-aiabx
yes, because no one else has seen the movie.
-aiabx
Except it isn't a rainbow apple any more - it's a white one that lights up. The old rainbow logo was an emblem of the touchy-feely-UI-is-everything old Apple. Now that they are trying to win on technical merits, they want a cooler, high-tech looking logo.
-aiabx
Ok, I'll bite. How come no one involved with SNO was recognized?
-aiabx
I would believe it if it didn't have a "u".
-aiabx
No, it's different. If Texans feel they are being unfairly treated, they can move to New Mexico. Negroes didn't have the choice of crossing the train tracks and becoming white. Secondly, it's funny, because Texans are (inexplicably) proud of being Texans. The laws of comedy tell us that when someone is puffed up with pride and strutting around, it is funny to deflate them, either with a pie in the face or a joke at their expense.
What you should have said was that seventy years ago, someone whould have substituted the word "Jews" for "Texans", and we could invoke Godwin's Law and get back to our doughnuts and coffee.
-aiabx
They aren't being banned, they're just going to have copy protection technology built in. Which means they will be more expensive. Which means instead of getting some socks, a drill, some books and a Billy Bass for Christmas, you're just going to get a Billy Bass.
-aiabx
Voice recognition is not sufficiently stable right now to make it easier to use than the old fashioned keyboard. It makes a novel toy, or a useful workaround for people who can't use a keyboard, but it really isn't ready for prime time.
-aiabx
They have shot themselves in the metaphorical foot, but only because they are spraying bullets around like monkeys with machine guns - you still want to stay as far away as possible.
-aiabx
Well, if the sun revolves around the earth, then so does the rest of the universe. Checking the parallax of nearby stars will provide the evidence necessary to show that the celestial sphere also revolves around us. We can extrapolate from there. So what is the mechanism? What forces distant quasars to revolve around us at a speed of 2*pi*10^^10ly per year?
Maybe the earth does move.
-aiabx
I think if you launch an RC plane from the deck of your RC carrier, you deserve to win.
-aiabx
The problem with depending on tools to do your work for you is that it is easy to make a mistake using the tool, (did you put the close bracket in the right spot in the equation?), and without a sound knowledge of the subject in question, you won't be able to spot the error. It'll just be a response out of a black box.
-aiabx
I don't know about that. I read the book, and it was quite the steaming coil of bumloaf. There's lots of blame to spread around.
But just in case David Brin is reading this, I quite liked Startide Rising, so it's nothing personal.
-aiabx
After a couple of years of use, the cooling fan on my PowerMac 6100 started flaking out. The machine would get too hot, and frequently the fan wouldn't go unless i poked the blades with a q-tip, which would unstick the fan, and the computer would cool off again. This was clearly not a suitable long-term solution, so I took it to my local computer shop. I told the repair guy that the cooling fan was intermittently refusing to run. He gave me the ID10T look, and patiently explained to me that cooling fans didn't run all the time, only when the computer got hot.
I took my problem elsewhere.
They are out of business now.
-aiabx
I have to say I was pleased to see Jar-Jar's idiocy taken advantage of by smarter people. Too many times we see the dumb sidekick do the stupid thing that turns out to save the day! That's so cute. But bullshit. In real life, when stupid people do stupid things, disaster follows.
That having been said, I won't be lining up at the IMAX theatre, since I've already seen the digital projection, and I'm sure the IMAX print will be a step down. And life is too short to sit through the crappy-acted romance *again*.
-aiabx
Actually, Haagen-Dasz (sp? who cares?) is a branch of Pillsbury, and was just given a euro-style name to appeal to snobs. The beer argument is more convincing, though.
-aiabx
Yes and no. You can see the Sea of Tranquility with the naked eye, but no telescope can provide a sharp enough view to see any evidence of the moon landing from earth.
You can, however, fire a sufficiently powerful laser at the reflectors left on the moon for that purpose.
-aiabx
We have some very runny Camembert...
-aiax
I test software for a living, and last year when going through a family emergency, my employers (bless them) let me work from home for four months. It worked out well. I went into the office every couple of weeks so that people would remember who I was and not steal my cubicle stuff, but even that wasn't necessary to get my job done well.
-aiabx
No, it means you are going to be getting socks errors reported.
-aiabx
Coke and Pepsi are too run of the mill? Do we have to prove our 1337ness by drinking cool drinks that ordinary-fucking-people only see in extreme sports commercials? What a sad way to claw for status.
btw, I usually drink tea (Twinning's China Black), but I have been known to drink a mainstream (There! I said it!) cola or two.
-aiabx
When I use a computer, I tend to get immersed in whatever is on the screen. It doesn't matter to me if the cpu is in a shoebox or a golden articulated statue of Ganesh; I'm not paying attention to it. If anything, I think I'd find a cool case distracting, even annoying. I'd much rather see something functional, like serious liquid nitrogen cooled overclocking.
-aiabx
I haven't heard that one before, but the death of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe of the same cause is well documented.
-aiabx
They're fine, as long as you use them in opposing pairs.
-aiabx
Me-163 - the apocryphal story is that leaks in the fuel system would dissolve the pilots. Don't know if it's true, but it makes a good story.
-aiabx