True... but I've heard some of the others speak (on MTV and VH1, when I still watched TV), and they're no slouches either. Hettfield seems fairly at ease with public speaking. Ja, if one wants to spin the "it's about the music" angle a band member is perfect---but allowing them to speak introduces an uncertain element. (i.e., pr spin people would be a lot happier speaking for them, avoiding deviations from the script and, "He said, what?!?!" crisis.)
Totally off topic, but does anyone know how Lars Ulrich got designated as Metallica's Piracy Meister? I mean, logic would say that they'd have a PR rep or let their manager handle it.
iMacs are upgradable... on the latest revision, I think the RAM can be pushed as high as 512 MB.You can drop in a new hard drive, and the processor is a standard moto zif if I'm not mistaken. about the only thing that can't be easily upgraded is the video card which, admittedly, sucks.
If you want upgradability, buy a G4. Basic G4 towers start at $1599 and are quite expandable.
A few mom and pop video stores might have an old copy in their inventory. I rented Bladerunner sometime last year, expecting the directors cut---instead I got the theatrical cut with the happy ending. (Bleh. Studio suits.)
In one of its catalogs, font haus T.26 set its type samples using spam instead of the standard "Lorem ipsum dolorem..." It was really quite amusing, as one got some great visual dichotomy by pairing, say, a nice enlightment style handwriting font with pron spam.
Anyone else have good uses for spam? It's not tangible, so lining the bird cage, wrapping fish, making hats for monkeys, etc. won't work.
Actually, I've seen something similar done but only for a different purpose. Near where I'm originally from, there's a large anhydrous amonia dump. They used to have a problem with birds crappings all over the tanks and facilities, so they installed a motion activated propane noise gun to scare the bejesus out of any bird that ventures by. The system is actually quite effective, and quite loud: you can hear a soft thud from several miles away. Still, that's just one little piece of drill stem... I'd love to hear/feel/see one of these babies played.
Truly impressive when one realises that the compressed files alone weigh-in at just a bit over 1500 MBs. Has anyone actually downloaded and unzipped the files? I'm not looking for laughs or a troll here, but I'm honestly curious just how much data is in a genome... a viable storage medium, perhaps? I'm serious.
Ummm... select all the files to be unzipped, drop them on Stuffit Expander. Oh wait, I use a Mac.Silly me, Mac user and all making life way too easy so I can concentrate on Photoshop and Quark;-) Don't mind me. It's late, and I've been tweaking postscript by hand.
That's nothing... my university, the University of North Dakota, was bought out by a wealthy alum who wants us to continue the use of a racist mascot. The guy once threw a party honoring Hitler's birthday, complete with Nazi regalia, etc. Ethically, he's a despicable man, yet he just gave us $100 million so, by god, we're keeping the name. Where's the $100 million going? New hockey arena, complete with upholstered seats, laser light show, and 88 skyboxes---yup, fucking skyboxes for college hockey.
Ummm... where does the UN get its jurisdiction? I'm not familiar with how international law works in this type of situation, but what/who gives the UN jurisdiction here?
Why? First and foremost, you must understand that I'm a Mac user so the stereotypical knee-jerk reaction should be, "Kill Windows!". But it's not.
Think: deploying MacOS X on Intel is going to add a helluva-lot-a bloat to the OS. If it's just run on Apple hardware, you have, maybe 10-20 different configurations to support on release with only a few more added each year for legacy support. With former Windows machines... you've got a cocktail of hardware that is accustomed to run under a kludged-up OS: Win-32.
Now, I am not a programmer--graphic designer and web designer, instead--, but I know the majority of Slashdotters are. So, I ask you: Is this a legitimate problem? How much cleaner/faster/stabler would Linux be if it's machine support was purposely limited to a specific series of hardware from a single vendor?
----
Re:Call MS and complain.. you do have the licences
on
Copyrant
·
· Score: 1
So just take the CD, snap it over your knee all bad-ass style, put it in cardboard mailer and send it back to MS? And what makes you think they won't just send another of the same?;-)
PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. are all priced at points which are completely fair within their target markets -- I can easily recoup the cost of a Photoshop license by working for six hours for a client. No biggie, really. (Okay, PageMaker is overpriced as its fsckin' awful compared to Quark. And that's just sad because Quark is neurotic in its own right.) You are a student -- use student licensing. It's far cheaper. Also, many universities purchase site licenses which may include students for education site licenses.
And nobody better start claiming that the Adobe font folio -- US$8200 -- is priced fairly. $8200 isn't a fair price for that many fonts. Too high? No. Too low. Typefaces have almost no legal protection whatsoever, though they could technically be considered industrial design. That's sad.
Ach... inelegant way of hiding the cursor. Just hide it after n-seconds of inactivity like the Mac does. Very nice. It pops right back up if you barely even touch the mouse.
Does Windows do this? I'm forced to work on a Windows machine at work (Quark on Windows is like an acid trip), but usually I'm too distracted by the cursor which moves in 10px leaps and bounds;-)
Below, someone mentioned that the press likes political controversy. If we start kicking-up enough dust, the *local* press (i.e. in the town where this is happening) will have no choice but to cover it. They won't want to look like bumpkins under the national spotlight, and as such will likely be on their best behavior.
Normally, I'd relegate this sort of post to that of a humorous troll. But, this is wonderfully applicable here. A few people, in jest, have pointed out that in a civil trial Ian could exonerate himself by proving that his statements were completely true.
Check this shit out:
Milford, Utah, high-school teacher Cherry Florence was fired in February for an indiscretion. According to the local board of education, after the school, for health reasons, interviewed students individually as to their level of sexual activity, Florence released to her classes a list of which of the school's 170 teenagers were virgins.
(I'm going to presume the above is true, as 170 people in high school is about right for a town of 1100 or so. I graduated with 20 and I came from a town of 300, so it seems right.)
Now, pressuming this goes to trial, couldn't Ian just hold up the list and say, "See! She really is a slut!" Actually, that's another problem in and of itself--define slut. Drunk. Incompetent. Very relative terms, giving him a lot of wiggle room. Here in North Dakota, I know quite a few people (old country Lutherans actually; listen to Garisson Keilor) who consider any woman who has sex for reasons other than procreation, or--[sarcasm]dear god forbid[/sarcasm]--marriage is a slut. This is a rather nice chink in the plaintiff's armor I'd suppose.
Thoughts?
And please check out my previous post, just a few below, with Milford High School's snail mail address. I want to see that school office innundated with mail on this one. It's the least we could do, helping out a kid so he doesn't have to go through the shit a lot of us did/do.
Milford High School 62 No. 300 W. / PO Box 159 Milford, Utah 84751
You all know what to do. If even 10% of Slashdot writes a physical letter, that's about 10,000 pieces of mail. Even send a post card with "Good luck Ian!" scrawled on the back. Show these asses that, yes, the outside world knows what they've been up to and are not happy.
Slashdot Mirror
True... but I've heard some of the others speak (on MTV and VH1, when I still watched TV), and they're no slouches either. Hettfield seems fairly at ease with public speaking. Ja, if one wants to spin the "it's about the music" angle a band member is perfect---but allowing them to speak introduces an uncertain element. (i.e., pr spin people would be a lot happier speaking for them, avoiding deviations from the script and, "He said, what?!?!" crisis.)
----
Totally off topic, but does anyone know how Lars Ulrich got designated as Metallica's Piracy Meister? I mean, logic would say that they'd have a PR rep or let their manager handle it.
----
iMacs are upgradable... on the latest revision, I think the RAM can be pushed as high as 512 MB.You can drop in a new hard drive, and the processor is a standard moto zif if I'm not mistaken. about the only thing that can't be easily upgraded is the video card which, admittedly, sucks.
If you want upgradability, buy a G4. Basic G4 towers start at $1599 and are quite expandable.
----
A few mom and pop video stores might have an old copy in their inventory. I rented Bladerunner sometime last year, expecting the directors cut---instead I got the theatrical cut with the happy ending. (Bleh. Studio suits.)
----
Yeah, offtopic. *pthb*
In one of its catalogs, font haus T.26 set its type samples using spam instead of the standard "Lorem ipsum dolorem..." It was really quite amusing, as one got some great visual dichotomy by pairing, say, a nice enlightment style handwriting font with pron spam.
Anyone else have good uses for spam? It's not tangible, so lining the bird cage, wrapping fish, making hats for monkeys, etc. won't work.
----
Actually, I've seen something similar done but only for a different purpose. Near where I'm originally from, there's a large anhydrous amonia dump. They used to have a problem with birds crappings all over the tanks and facilities, so they installed a motion activated propane noise gun to scare the bejesus out of any bird that ventures by. The system is actually quite effective, and quite loud: you can hear a soft thud from several miles away. Still, that's just one little piece of drill stem... I'd love to hear/feel/see one of these babies played.
----
God is horrid about commenting code, apparently ;-)
(So spaketh the agnostic.)
----
Truly impressive when one realises that the compressed files alone weigh-in at just a bit over 1500 MBs. Has anyone actually downloaded and unzipped the files? I'm not looking for laughs or a troll here, but I'm honestly curious just how much data is in a genome... a viable storage medium, perhaps? I'm serious.
----
Finally someone that gets it!
----
Hmmm. Just in time for summer. Now, Dell, Gateway, etc. can advertise their boxes are dual use.
Window air conditioner ;-)
----
Okay... they're violating equal representation in congress. Nice try.
----
Ummm... select all the files to be unzipped, drop them on Stuffit Expander. Oh wait, I use a Mac.Silly me, Mac user and all making life way too easy so I can concentrate on Photoshop and Quark ;-) Don't mind me. It's late, and I've been tweaking postscript by hand.
----
That's nothing... my university, the University of North Dakota, was bought out by a wealthy alum who wants us to continue the use of a racist mascot. The guy once threw a party honoring Hitler's birthday, complete with Nazi regalia, etc. Ethically, he's a despicable man, yet he just gave us $100 million so, by god, we're keeping the name. Where's the $100 million going? New hockey arena, complete with upholstered seats, laser light show, and 88 skyboxes---yup, fucking skyboxes for college hockey.
----
Ummm... where does the UN get its jurisdiction? I'm not familiar with how international law works in this type of situation, but what/who gives the UN jurisdiction here?
----
http://w ww.medialab.lostboys.nl/projects/madewith/pinball/ pinballgame.html
Just saw that this morning. Mac, Be, Win-32, and Linux!
----
Why? First and foremost, you must understand that I'm a Mac user so the stereotypical knee-jerk reaction should be, "Kill Windows!". But it's not.
Think: deploying MacOS X on Intel is going to add a helluva-lot-a bloat to the OS. If it's just run on Apple hardware, you have, maybe 10-20 different configurations to support on release with only a few more added each year for legacy support. With former Windows machines... you've got a cocktail of hardware that is accustomed to run under a kludged-up OS: Win-32.
Now, I am not a programmer--graphic designer and web designer, instead--, but I know the majority of Slashdotters are. So, I ask you: Is this a legitimate problem? How much cleaner/faster/stabler would Linux be if it's machine support was purposely limited to a specific series of hardware from a single vendor?
----
So just take the CD, snap it over your knee all bad-ass style, put it in cardboard mailer and send it back to MS? And what makes you think they won't just send another of the same? ;-)
----
PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. are all priced at points which are completely fair within their target markets -- I can easily recoup the cost of a Photoshop license by working for six hours for a client. No biggie, really. (Okay, PageMaker is overpriced as its fsckin' awful compared to Quark. And that's just sad because Quark is neurotic in its own right.) You are a student -- use student licensing. It's far cheaper. Also, many universities purchase site licenses which may include students for education site licenses.
And nobody better start claiming that the Adobe font folio -- US$8200 -- is priced fairly. $8200 isn't a fair price for that many fonts. Too high? No. Too low. Typefaces have almost no legal protection whatsoever, though they could technically be considered industrial design. That's sad.
----
If I'm not mistaken also the name of a cheap Sea World knock-off located just outside of Rapid City, South Dakota. (Sorry -- no web site)
----
Ach... inelegant way of hiding the cursor. Just hide it after n-seconds of inactivity like the Mac does. Very nice. It pops right back up if you barely even touch the mouse.
;-)
Does Windows do this? I'm forced to work on a Windows machine at work (Quark on Windows is like an acid trip), but usually I'm too distracted by the cursor which moves in 10px leaps and bounds
(Yea, off-topic. I've got karma to burn.)
----
Take a look at the picture---it's a FreeBSD cluster with a sound card. Kick ass! ;-)
----
This is getting to easy. Direct phone numbers.
Beaver High School
195 E Center - PO Box 71
Beaver, Utah 84713
435-438-2301
Principal - Richard Albrecht
Milford High School
62 N 300 W - PO Box 159
Milford, Utah 84751
435-387-2751
Principal - Walter Schofield
----
For Beaver country, the applicable county. Note that the direct office addresses of the judges are available as well.
http://courtlink.utcourts.gov/dir/5th dist.htm
Below, someone mentioned that the press likes political controversy. If we start kicking-up enough dust, the *local* press (i.e. in the town where this is happening) will have no choice but to cover it. They won't want to look like bumpkins under the national spotlight, and as such will likely be on their best behavior.
----
Normally, I'd relegate this sort of post to that of a humorous troll. But, this is wonderfully applicable here. A few people, in jest, have pointed out that in a civil trial Ian could exonerate himself by proving that his statements were completely true.
Check this shit out:
Source: http://www.42.dropbear.id.au/wrd_news3. html (annoying javascript keeps the window on top. bastards.)
(I'm going to presume the above is true, as 170 people in high school is about right for a town of 1100 or so. I graduated with 20 and I came from a town of 300, so it seems right.)
Now, pressuming this goes to trial, couldn't Ian just hold up the list and say, "See! She really is a slut!" Actually, that's another problem in and of itself--define slut. Drunk. Incompetent. Very relative terms, giving him a lot of wiggle room. Here in North Dakota, I know quite a few people (old country Lutherans actually; listen to Garisson Keilor) who consider any woman who has sex for reasons other than procreation, or--[sarcasm]dear god forbid[/sarcasm]--marriage is a slut. This is a rather nice chink in the plaintiff's armor I'd suppose.
Thoughts?
And please check out my previous post, just a few below, with Milford High School's snail mail address. I want to see that school office innundated with mail on this one. It's the least we could do, helping out a kid so he doesn't have to go through the shit a lot of us did/do.
----
Found on some Utah state government page:
Milford High School
62 No. 300 W. / PO Box 159
Milford, Utah 84751
You all know what to do. If even 10% of Slashdot writes a physical letter, that's about 10,000 pieces of mail. Even send a post card with "Good luck Ian!" scrawled on the back. Show these asses that, yes, the outside world knows what they've been up to and are not happy.
----