I did this myself - although after a while, my Applications folder got so huge that ctrl-clicking on it took too long (I'm really impatient).
So I created a new folder and populated it with aliases of the apps I care about (but don't care about enough to let them live permanently in the Dock). I put this folder in the Dock, and voila!
before by the big guys (IBM and Compaq/HP I think had/have something similar), why not come up with something as cool as the iPod? (it's a shame they say on the website "from the creators of iPod" - if I was one of the iPod designers I'd be shamed...
Except that it *is* accurate - Jonathon Ives (the designer of the iPod) also designed the new iMac.
Do you remember back on July 12, 1979 at Chicago's Comiskey Park when radio jock Steve Dahl rode the rising setiment of anti-disco and held a promotional where if you brought a disco record to the game to be destroyed at half-time you would get an admission for only $0.98?
Comiskey is where the White Sox play baseball. There is no halftime in baseball.
Additionally, there is no crying in baseball, but that's not important right now.
...anyone who has a modern computer and a few cooperating friends has the ability to get into this hobby
Plus, the great thing about doing animation is your cast can have "faces made for radio". That's the downside of live-action filmmaking as a hobby...no matter how indie you are, people still like to look at pretty faces. Or even if they don't...your actors are going to want to make sure they look good on the screen. Especially if you are NOT paying them.
I guess it's like anything else. You can remove the barriers to entry, but you still have to know how to tell a story.
It's great that things like DV and Machima have made it easier for movies to be made without millions of dollars in budget...but as we should all already know - having a lot of gear and money to throw at a bad story doesn't make for a good movie. And you can have the crappiest production values in the world (Clerks), but if the story is compelling, that doesn't matter. If you've got a good story and know how to tell it, you can shoot your film on one of those old Fisher Price camcorders that recorded on audio cassettes.
That being said, I have always found the work of ill clan to be pretty entertaining and well done. Perhaps it's because the creators are all skilled improvisors and know how to tell stories. Or maybe just because I think lumberjacks are inherently funny.
I remember a few years ago, we had a problem wherein a church's website was being blocked due to "sexual content".
The problem was, the church's website was being hosted on our dedicated server, which had one IP shared amongst several websites, which used host-headers to differentiate. One of the sites on the same IP was "lindyporn.com", which was a joke site we put up that allegedly contained pornography related to the Lindy Hop.
Content filters had snagged "lindyporn.com" as a bad site, and then blocked it by IP.
Fortunately, right around the same time as this happened, we changed co-loc providers, and got new IP addresses. And took "lindyporn.com" off of the same IP address as the church's site.
(That being said, you wouldn't believe how many swing dancing websites are blocked by filters due to the fact that they contain the word "swingers".)
No, you've got it all wrong. There would be no problems if the iPod supported OGG.
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The problem is, the "big" festivals will disqualify you if your flick is not a premiere.
They haven't really figured out what to do with self-distribution yet; my movie is distributed via CustomFlix (which is like CafePress for DVD's), and most of the festivals we've submitted to are cool with that, but some aren't. Also, if you're looking for a distribution deal, it's almost for certain a no-go if you have copies of your film floating around for general viewing already.
Hear, hear! I have had nothing but good service and performance from Comcast...
...with the exception of their TechTV bias. Bastards! The only cable provider in my area that seems to have it is RCN, and since they're the devil, I can't be bothered to give them money.
All Cocoa apps on OS X have spell-check built in. Which means when I'm cruising around on Safari, I can spell-check any forms. It's a handy feature. Hell, even iChat has built-in spell checking!
So as you can see, the value of upgrading to the 20 gig iPod isn't in line with the rest of levels.
I agree with you, but here's my prediction:
A month or two from now, we see the 20GB and 40GB iPods upgraded as well. Now, why didn't they do this at the same time? Here's a clue - try to find a 10 GB iPod in the stores right now. Tough to do. But there are plenty of 20 and 40 GB models still. Once the inventory of those has diminished (at least the Apple Store's inventory), suddenly, as if by magic, Apple will figure out how to make a 30 GB iPod for only $399.
That's why I'm holding on to my first gen 5 GB model for now.
Granted, we're somewhat geographically distanced now (one of my sisters lives with the folks in the burbs, and the other is in college, while I am in the city), but we talk a lot more now.
I don't call my sister on the phone to chat, we do it on IM. It's a lot easier, and I don't think anything is "lost"; as other posters have pointed out, the communication is async. I can chat with my college sister while watching TV, or doing work. And she does likewise.
The one that always amuses me is when I talk to my mother through my sister - the sister at home will be on IM, and my mom is in the same room watching TV. So little sister becomes the conduit. Yes, I could call my mom to ask these questions, but it is much easier to tell my sister to just ask her. What becomes funny is when the quick "ask mom what time I should come over on Saturday" becomes a long conversation all done via the third party. Especially when little sister editorializes the messages.
Once I learned the shortcuts, the Windows key became my best friend.
Windows-D: Minimize all windows and show desktop.
Windows-L: Fast User Switching in XP.
Windows-R: Opens the "Run" dialog.
Windows-E: Launches Explorer
people who were up to date with their Windows Update or had Windows Auto-Update on still got hit
I keep reading these claims...but all I did with my home machine was keep updated with WU...when we first started dealing with this at work, I ran the eEye scanner against my machine, and it came up "patched".
Now granted, I'm firewalled, but I haven't seen anything with this worm yet on my home machine.
"Hardly Workin'" is a great little short. Additionally impressive (to me) is that a good portion of Ill Clan's stuff is either improvised, or developed through improvisation. I had the good fortune to meet these guys, and they are some damn talented improvisors.
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And where can we find some of these gorgeous developers?
So I created a new folder and populated it with aliases of the apps I care about (but don't care about enough to let them live permanently in the Dock). I put this folder in the Dock, and voila!
Except that it *is* accurate - Jonathon Ives (the designer of the iPod) also designed the new iMac.
Comiskey is where the White Sox play baseball. There is no halftime in baseball.
Additionally, there is no crying in baseball, but that's not important right now.
I can assure you, Alanis Morisette has never written any song *about* irony.
In the books, it was "US Robots and Mechanical Men" I think.
Also, is it possible that USR got *their* name from Asimov, and might even enjoy having their name used?
And finally...is USR even relevent these days?
The iTMS has a free song to download every week. So I suppose if you downloaded that and it was the winner...you'd win.
(For the record, I'd happily use the "official" YIM client if the Mac version didn't suck so hard. Instead I use Adium.)
Plus, the great thing about doing animation is your cast can have "faces made for radio". That's the downside of live-action filmmaking as a hobby...no matter how indie you are, people still like to look at pretty faces. Or even if they don't...your actors are going to want to make sure they look good on the screen. Especially if you are NOT paying them.
It's great that things like DV and Machima have made it easier for movies to be made without millions of dollars in budget...but as we should all already know - having a lot of gear and money to throw at a bad story doesn't make for a good movie. And you can have the crappiest production values in the world (Clerks), but if the story is compelling, that doesn't matter. If you've got a good story and know how to tell it, you can shoot your film on one of those old Fisher Price camcorders that recorded on audio cassettes.
That being said, I have always found the work of ill clan to be pretty entertaining and well done. Perhaps it's because the creators are all skilled improvisors and know how to tell stories. Or maybe just because I think lumberjacks are inherently funny.
The problem was, the church's website was being hosted on our dedicated server, which had one IP shared amongst several websites, which used host-headers to differentiate. One of the sites on the same IP was "lindyporn.com", which was a joke site we put up that allegedly contained pornography related to the Lindy Hop.
Content filters had snagged "lindyporn.com" as a bad site, and then blocked it by IP.
Fortunately, right around the same time as this happened, we changed co-loc providers, and got new IP addresses. And took "lindyporn.com" off of the same IP address as the church's site.
(That being said, you wouldn't believe how many swing dancing websites are blocked by filters due to the fact that they contain the word "swingers".)
No, you've got it all wrong. There would be no problems if the iPod supported OGG.
They haven't really figured out what to do with self-distribution yet; my movie is distributed via CustomFlix (which is like CafePress for DVD's), and most of the festivals we've submitted to are cool with that, but some aren't. Also, if you're looking for a distribution deal, it's almost for certain a no-go if you have copies of your film floating around for general viewing already.
All Cocoa apps on OS X have spell-check built in. Which means when I'm cruising around on Safari, I can spell-check any forms. It's a handy feature. Hell, even iChat has built-in spell checking!
You're going to block all incoming mail from them?
I agree with you, but here's my prediction:
A month or two from now, we see the 20GB and 40GB iPods upgraded as well. Now, why didn't they do this at the same time? Here's a clue - try to find a 10 GB iPod in the stores right now. Tough to do. But there are plenty of 20 and 40 GB models still. Once the inventory of those has diminished (at least the Apple Store's inventory), suddenly, as if by magic, Apple will figure out how to make a 30 GB iPod for only $399.
That's why I'm holding on to my first gen 5 GB model for now.
But see, they did, on the Rev B of that same Powerbook.
Granted, we're somewhat geographically distanced now (one of my sisters lives with the folks in the burbs, and the other is in college, while I am in the city), but we talk a lot more now.
I don't call my sister on the phone to chat, we do it on IM. It's a lot easier, and I don't think anything is "lost"; as other posters have pointed out, the communication is async. I can chat with my college sister while watching TV, or doing work. And she does likewise.
The one that always amuses me is when I talk to my mother through my sister - the sister at home will be on IM, and my mom is in the same room watching TV. So little sister becomes the conduit. Yes, I could call my mom to ask these questions, but it is much easier to tell my sister to just ask her. What becomes funny is when the quick "ask mom what time I should come over on Saturday" becomes a long conversation all done via the third party. Especially when little sister editorializes the messages.
Of course, it would be been more apropros if the Cubs had won last night.
Disclaimer: I have a Mac, I love Macs, etc, etc.
Once I learned the shortcuts, the Windows key became my best friend.
Windows-D: Minimize all windows and show desktop.
Windows-L: Fast User Switching in XP.
Windows-R: Opens the "Run" dialog.
Windows-E: Launches Explorer
I keep reading these claims...but all I did with my home machine was keep updated with WU...when we first started dealing with this at work, I ran the eEye scanner against my machine, and it came up "patched".
Now granted, I'm firewalled, but I haven't seen anything with this worm yet on my home machine.
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It's a shame. That means that anything submitted to Triggerstreet is ineligible.
Quite frankly, I can't imagine how many films that truly qualify that they will receive.
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They are professional video editing tools. Premiere is for hobbyists at home who have a couple extra bucks.
Seriously. I don't know anyone who uses Premiere professionally besides wedding videographers.
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