I never really liked Jacksonville very much. While there's no high speed access AFAIK, the panhandle's Gulf coast is a much nicer place to live.
If there are two places to avoid in FL though, they'd be Miami (LA's long lost twin) and Orlando. Be prepared to have high electric bills, due to using AC a lot.
I share a very small 3 bedroom apartment with two other people, right around Cleveland Circle. We pay $1650 all together, and next year it's going up to $1800. I'm moving out, because the place is too damn tiny to deal with for this sort of money. Good location, crappy apartment. I wish they hadn't gotten rid of rent control in Boston & Cambridge.
Well the best solution to that would be to have them move from Manhattan to someplace that the US would be happy to give to Canada. New Jersey is convenient. Let's have a show of hands: who would want to keep NJ if we could foist it off on Canada?
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If you look out of the right windows you'll see Boston, I mean Rhode Island, I mean Long Island, I mean New York, no, Atlantic City, oh screw it.
Evidently Amazon is moving into this business. I was thinking about getting a few yottatons of topsoil, but the UPS service around here is lousy. Also I'd need a bigger shovel.
And by user, I mean *all* users. I bet even Linus rm's the wrong files sometimes.
I wondered why we hadn't gone up to v3 already...
Re:Religious bigotry: alive and well in the USA.
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No, an atheist takes it on faith that there are no gods. An agnostic is undecided, generally due to the lack of evidence. And I wonder how many agnostics are familiar with Pascal's wager?
Don't take this as a knock against religions or the lack therof. I bounce all over that landscape like a pinball.
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I think that you may have missed the point. If your only contact with the South Park movie was the CAP site, then I feel pretty sure of this; they also seem to have missed the point.
South Park was designed, in part, to point out that while a movie may have a corrupting influence on some people, it's far better to work to create an environment in which people can resist this corruption than to attempt to eliminate anything that may corrupt.
In the movie, the reactions of the kids who see it sparks a war with Canada, because it's felt to be better to go to war than to raise one's children.
In a genius stroke of execution, the South Park movie itself seems to have been intended to act as the movie within the movie, to either impart that moral to us, or perhaps engender a war with Canada. I'm a bit partial to the war myself (those lousy Quebecois...) but I'm digressing.
South Park makes fun of religions for two reasons, really. The first is legitimate comedic effect. After all there are some very bizzare things done in the name of religions everywhere. Unless you're actually involved in a particular religion, these sorts of things are probably pretty evident. However, there is not a lot of this in the South Park movie. A better example would be from the TV show. There, Jesus has a public access cable call-in show. This is funny, I think, because if Jesus actually were to do this, he would get a lot of stupid questions on the one hand, and be denounced as not really being Jesus on the other (although this doesn't happen, AFAIK; everyone knows he really is Jesus). In one episode, during a football game, one character prays to Jesus for the home team to win. Jesus, sitting nearby in the bleachers, says 'Stop bothering me.'
The second reason is again related to deliberately offending people to drive the point home. Christianity is made fun of a bit, but organized religion is a better target. After all, few people have any problem with *Jesus*, they have a problem with people who claim to be acting in Jesus' name. The CAP people fill this role quite well. Judaism is mostly made fun of from the standpoint of a bigot, which really serves to make fun of the bigot.
Cartman: Kyle, you know when I called you a dirty Jew? I'm sorry, I didn't mean it - you're not a Jew.
Kyle: What? Yes, I am a Jew!
Not so much. Typesetting is not the same as layout. Typesetters would create blocks of text, while compositors shuffle that text around in paste-up, before everything goes to film.
Of course, computers have changed all that.
Now they've both sort of merged into a bigger and better version of layout. Text is actually editable while you're compositing, so we have the freedom to change things ourselves. Typesetting has not done too well though, because with so many documents created on computers from day one now, there's not a whole lot for them to do. Mostly typesetting now means making sure that styles are all properly in place.
TeX however, from all that I've seen of it, is not a layout program. It's a typesetting program, and very good at it. They're not the same thing, even though we're heading towards that.
Typesetting deals with the appearance of TEXT, while layout deals with the appearance and arrangement of all of the elements on a page. Text comes in big blocks like everything else and is not really treated as special.
If you think that the typsetters have had a rough time of it with the whole DTP revolution, just wait and see what's happening now. New techniques are being developed for going from computers directly to plates, and even from computers to the actual presses. This does not bode well for the strippers or plate-makers.
If I may ask, why don't you use a DTP program? Quark is a good choice, and lots of people like PageMaker (although it's being replaced by the new InDesign program) and they're both a jillion times better at this than Netscape, a spreadsheet or WordPerfect.
Better yet, hire someone to do your typesetting and compositing for you! Since that's my field, you'd be promoting jobs for people like me. And in the end, isn't it important to give me work?
Well I tell ya, it's a good thing that all of the important parts of the Universe are located with about 20-30 miles of Boston. Imagine the inconvenience if they weren't!
Well to be quite accurate, the Center of the Universe is located in Boston. Right at Downtown Crossing. There's a little plaque set into the ground, marking the point around which all else revolves.
No! Americans developed a weird, nonstandard system of weights and measurements with little internal consistency. It's only natural that it would be named after someone else. You expect it to make sense?
I've got to say two things here. First, it's awful that there is a fairly effective loophole to the First Amendment, re: funding. The Federal Govt. has been behaving like a drug dealer in recent years, giving out an addictive substance (lots of money) without strings attached, and is now causing people to fall into line if they want their hits. This sort of thing happens a lot. Second, ur, I know 50 states, but I'm a little hazy on what #51 and #52 would be.
For $70CND a month, I get 2.2mb/1.1mb ADSL, with a real static IP, because I signed up before the Nortel 1meg came on the scene. If I lived just on the other side the canal, I could get in on the VDSL trial and get 8.8mb(or something insane like that) for the same price.. If all that in unavilable, Nortel 1 Meg is available everywhere for $50, or @home for $40.
My, that is cheap. Cause $70CDN won't buy you a coke these days.;)
I recently read Infinite Loop, which is a great book on Apple's history, although there are a couple of factual errors. It also makes Jobs look like a total jerk, but that's no error.
Anyhow, in sections 3.4 and 3.5 the story of Breakout is related. According to the author, Jobs was a technical moron; he could learn things rapidly if he needed to, but had only gotten the job with Atari by using the Woz's resume, more or less. The only reason he didn't lose his job was probably due to force of personality. And in designing Breakout, he puttered around during the day, then had the Woz come in at night (note that the Woz had a day job as well at this time!), fix Jobs' mistakes and then work on getting the board made.
Eventually the Woz finished, and Jobs (who was thought by his bosses at Atari to have done the work single-handed) got a $7000 bonus. He told the Woz that it was only a $700 bonus, which they then split 50-50. The Woz ultimately got on $350 out of his rightful $3500 (or more).
Where the book shines though, is in connecting this event to the creation of the Apple I. He says that the Intel 8080 was the microprocessor of choice at that time, especially after having been used in the Altair. Well, they were fairly pricey, and the Woz was somewhat familiar with the Motorola 6800, which was a little cheaper and perhaps easier to work with. But the 6502 was a knock-off version of the 6800 that sold for $20. The Woz went straight for it.
So, one can imagine that if the Woz had had a few extra grand, he might have splurged on the Intel chip. And while I don't want to get into a debate over the relative merits of different chip families, it probably would have helped out Apple to have worked extensively with the Intel cpus, given that IBM started using them not too far down the line with their first desktop. Sure, no one could have forseen it, but still, it would probably have helped out Apple quite a bit.
Anyway, it's a good book, and I heartily suggest it to people. But maybe get Where Wizards Stay Up Late to counter the depressing effect of Infinite Loop
Yeah, not counting MS Office macro virii which are pretty much cross platform (although they can rarely cope with the Mac as there are different files located in different places....) there are somewhere between 30 - 50 Mac virii since 1984, IIRC.
Most of those don't work anymore either, as they exploited holes in System 6, and most of that code was rewritten when they made System 7. Thank god for the Blue Meanies, eh? heh
We *have* been getting a pretty nasty one called AutoStart recently. Apple foolishly set up an option in QuickTime 3 by which a program on a CD will automatically run when the disc mounts. The option is on by default, and you're in little danger of picking up this worm with it off, but that's really the nastiest thing in the past year or two. We've gone for several years at a time with no new virii at all.
I hate the keyboard, but I love the mouse. I have big hands too (proving that the size of a man's hands do not determine the size of his mouse;) but the round mouse fits very nicely when I make a sort of arch with my hand.
That is, the tips of my fingers are all on the mousepad, my thumb is on the mousepad, and the 'heel' of my hand is on the mousepad. I just slide the mouse on its edges to move it. Surprisingly comfortable. The old mice feel really big and awkward now.
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I never really liked Jacksonville very much. While there's no high speed access AFAIK, the panhandle's Gulf coast is a much nicer place to live.
If there are two places to avoid in FL though, they'd be Miami (LA's long lost twin) and Orlando. Be prepared to have high electric bills, due to using AC a lot.
I share a very small 3 bedroom apartment with two other people, right around Cleveland Circle. We pay $1650 all together, and next year it's going up to $1800. I'm moving out, because the place is too damn tiny to deal with for this sort of money. Good location, crappy apartment. I wish they hadn't gotten rid of rent control in Boston & Cambridge.
Does this mean that the metric unit for marketdroids is the Hemo?
Well the best solution to that would be to have them move from Manhattan to someplace that the US would be happy to give to Canada. New Jersey is convenient. Let's have a show of hands: who would want to keep NJ if we could foist it off on Canada?
If you look out of the right windows you'll see Boston, I mean Rhode Island, I mean Long Island, I mean New York, no, Atlantic City, oh screw it.
Boy would commercial spaceflight be fun.
Evidently Amazon is moving into this business. I was thinking about getting a few yottatons of topsoil, but the UPS service around here is lousy. Also I'd need a bigger shovel.
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I wondered why we hadn't gone up to v3 already...
No, an atheist takes it on faith that there are no gods. An agnostic is undecided, generally due to the lack of evidence. And I wonder how many agnostics are familiar with Pascal's wager?
Don't take this as a knock against religions or the lack therof. I bounce all over that landscape like a pinball.
South Park was designed, in part, to point out that while a movie may have a corrupting influence on some people, it's far better to work to create an environment in which people can resist this corruption than to attempt to eliminate anything that may corrupt.
In the movie, the reactions of the kids who see it sparks a war with Canada, because it's felt to be better to go to war than to raise one's children.
In a genius stroke of execution, the South Park movie itself seems to have been intended to act as the movie within the movie, to either impart that moral to us, or perhaps engender a war with Canada. I'm a bit partial to the war myself (those lousy Quebecois...) but I'm digressing.
South Park makes fun of religions for two reasons, really. The first is legitimate comedic effect. After all there are some very bizzare things done in the name of religions everywhere. Unless you're actually involved in a particular religion, these sorts of things are probably pretty evident. However, there is not a lot of this in the South Park movie. A better example would be from the TV show. There, Jesus has a public access cable call-in show. This is funny, I think, because if Jesus actually were to do this, he would get a lot of stupid questions on the one hand, and be denounced as not really being Jesus on the other (although this doesn't happen, AFAIK; everyone knows he really is Jesus). In one episode, during a football game, one character prays to Jesus for the home team to win. Jesus, sitting nearby in the bleachers, says 'Stop bothering me.'
The second reason is again related to deliberately offending people to drive the point home. Christianity is made fun of a bit, but organized religion is a better target. After all, few people have any problem with *Jesus*, they have a problem with people who claim to be acting in Jesus' name. The CAP people fill this role quite well. Judaism is mostly made fun of from the standpoint of a bigot, which really serves to make fun of the bigot.
Not so much. Typesetting is not the same as layout. Typesetters would create blocks of text, while compositors shuffle that text around in paste-up, before everything goes to film.
Of course, computers have changed all that.
Now they've both sort of merged into a bigger and better version of layout. Text is actually editable while you're compositing, so we have the freedom to change things ourselves. Typesetting has not done too well though, because with so many documents created on computers from day one now, there's not a whole lot for them to do. Mostly typesetting now means making sure that styles are all properly in place.
TeX however, from all that I've seen of it, is not a layout program. It's a typesetting program, and very good at it. They're not the same thing, even though we're heading towards that.
Typesetting deals with the appearance of TEXT, while layout deals with the appearance and arrangement of all of the elements on a page. Text comes in big blocks like everything else and is not really treated as special.
If you think that the typsetters have had a rough time of it with the whole DTP revolution, just wait and see what's happening now. New techniques are being developed for going from computers directly to plates, and even from computers to the actual presses. This does not bode well for the strippers or plate-makers.
If I may ask, why don't you use a DTP program? Quark is a good choice, and lots of people like PageMaker (although it's being replaced by the new InDesign program) and they're both a jillion times better at this than Netscape, a spreadsheet or WordPerfect.
Better yet, hire someone to do your typesetting and compositing for you! Since that's my field, you'd be promoting jobs for people like me. And in the end, isn't it important to give me work?
Me, I'll stick with good ol' fashioned Destroy Humanity 3.2 [click click]
You mean that there's a feature that's not in emacs? Holy crap! Alert the media!
No really! Many men could use some kind of online help with getting bras off. How great would that be.
Well I tell ya, it's a good thing that all of the important parts of the Universe are located with about 20-30 miles of Boston. Imagine the inconvenience if they weren't!
Well to be quite accurate, the Center of the Universe is located in Boston. Right at Downtown Crossing. There's a little plaque set into the ground, marking the point around which all else revolves.
No! Americans developed a weird, nonstandard system of weights and measurements with little internal consistency. It's only natural that it would be named after someone else. You expect it to make sense?
I've got to say two things here. First, it's awful that there is a fairly effective loophole to the First Amendment, re: funding. The Federal Govt. has been behaving like a drug dealer in recent years, giving out an addictive substance (lots of money) without strings attached, and is now causing people to fall into line if they want their hits. This sort of thing happens a lot.
Second, ur, I know 50 states, but I'm a little hazy on what #51 and #52 would be.
My, that is cheap. Cause $70CDN won't buy you a coke these days. ;)
Anyhow, in sections 3.4 and 3.5 the story of Breakout is related. According to the author, Jobs was a technical moron; he could learn things rapidly if he needed to, but had only gotten the job with Atari by using the Woz's resume, more or less. The only reason he didn't lose his job was probably due to force of personality. And in designing Breakout, he puttered around during the day, then had the Woz come in at night (note that the Woz had a day job as well at this time!), fix Jobs' mistakes and then work on getting the board made.
Eventually the Woz finished, and Jobs (who was thought by his bosses at Atari to have done the work single-handed) got a $7000 bonus. He told the Woz that it was only a $700 bonus, which they then split 50-50. The Woz ultimately got on $350 out of his rightful $3500 (or more).
Where the book shines though, is in connecting this event to the creation of the Apple I. He says that the Intel 8080 was the microprocessor of choice at that time, especially after having been used in the Altair. Well, they were fairly pricey, and the Woz was somewhat familiar with the Motorola 6800, which was a little cheaper and perhaps easier to work with. But the 6502 was a knock-off version of the 6800 that sold for $20. The Woz went straight for it.
So, one can imagine that if the Woz had had a few extra grand, he might have splurged on the Intel chip. And while I don't want to get into a debate over the relative merits of different chip families, it probably would have helped out Apple to have worked extensively with the Intel cpus, given that IBM started using them not too far down the line with their first desktop. Sure, no one could have forseen it, but still, it would probably have helped out Apple quite a bit.
Anyway, it's a good book, and I heartily suggest it to people. But maybe get Where Wizards Stay Up Late to counter the depressing effect of Infinite Loop
Yeah, not counting MS Office macro virii which are pretty much cross platform (although they can rarely cope with the Mac as there are different files located in different places....) there are somewhere between 30 - 50 Mac virii since 1984, IIRC.
Most of those don't work anymore either, as they exploited holes in System 6, and most of that code was rewritten when they made System 7. Thank god for the Blue Meanies, eh? heh
We *have* been getting a pretty nasty one called AutoStart recently. Apple foolishly set up an option in QuickTime 3 by which a program on a CD will automatically run when the disc mounts. The option is on by default, and you're in little danger of picking up this worm with it off, but that's really the nastiest thing in the past year or two. We've gone for several years at a time with no new virii at all.
Boy is that true. He can't even play _himself_ without getting made fun of. And that's just about the only role he can get, too.
I'd like to see Adam West in some other stuff.
Did you get to go on Mr. Turing's Wild Ride?
I hate the keyboard, but I love the mouse. I have big hands too (proving that the size of a man's hands do not determine the size of his mouse ;) but the round mouse fits very nicely when I make a sort of arch with my hand.
That is, the tips of my fingers are all on the mousepad, my thumb is on the mousepad, and the 'heel' of my hand is on the mousepad. I just slide the mouse on its edges to move it. Surprisingly comfortable. The old mice feel really big and awkward now.