I went through some of two particular author's works, and I laughed my ass off a lot of the time.
Robert Lynn Asprin- The M.Y.T.H. Inc. series of books never let me stop, I was bawling at points, which is kind of embarrasing in study hall. Can't find the last book in the series....Sweet M.Y.T.H.teries of Life.
Piers Anthony- The Xanth series of books has lots of humor mixed in a very entertaining large series (about 30-40 books right now). I really enjoyed his Tyrant series. And last but not least, the weird ass book of short stories called the Anthology or Anthanology or somesuch. Also, the Photon and Phase series was awesome, still want to read the last book.
I remember reading a book about a Darksword. May be the Darksword series...but I don't recall. Loved that too.
Also, surprisingly enough, is the Left Behind series. I was shocked to learn that I liked that series, but I loved it. I was forced to read the first in school, and finished the first 7 in the series in 2 months. Just polished off the 8th that just came out in a weekend.
I learned MacOS X by first having a general knowledge of OS 9. Now, OS X is very different from OS 9, but i had some idea of how things should work.
I went on to learn some Unix/Linux commands in late highschool when my teacher/LAN Administrator told the school he was switching the whole school to Linux to help the budget, and because M$ was bothing him. So I began learning the basic commands there.
I furthered my study of the command line and the kernel (That sounded like the title to a book, or should be.) by tinkering around with my Dad's gift to me, a NeXT Turbo Color station. It had been fried by a lightning storm, and so was useless. My Dad, however, just told me that he couldn't get it to run, and I could try if I like. I had been tinkering with rebuilding PCs as early as 11 years old, and so had a vague idea of how to open it. I decided, that as it IS kinda rare, I'd let it rest in peace for a few years.
When I turned 15 I moved in with my mom, who lives in Iowa (BORING). I found motivation in my lack of ability to be entertained by those mundane corn fields, so I began tinkering with the NeXT for the first time. I completely dissasembled it and reassembled it. It worked...for some reason. So it booted into a very strange command line (for someone who had only seen command lines in the movies) and i had to figure it out.
Make a long ass story a little bit shorter, I some how figured out how to get it to boot off its SCSI drive and i got some action. A lesson in FTP and PING and TELNET were just around the corner (I told my computer teacher that I had a NeXT, and he didn't believe me. He dared me to bring it to school, and we got it on the net.) and I learned there that the internet was more than just www.blahblahblah.com.
Sorry to make this post so long...but those two factors (Former knowledge of OS 9 and Unix commands and NeXT interface design)...ok...3 factors helped me to weed my way through OS X.
Hopefully they will be as forward-thinking and ahead of their time as they are with the playstation line. I believe they can come up with something that is as good as the Sega Gamegear was back in its day. This could be way cool.
I am taking so long getting my CCNA because I am taking it as a college course through the local High School, so I can only take one 45 Minute class a day, 5 days a week. And I don't know where you guys get off saying CCNA is easy. It's not easy by any means. The curriculum has changed significatly since even just last year, and next year is getting a massive change as well (For instance, I'm having to memorize friggin IPX SPX Novell Protocols and routing update information, whereas next year's crop of CCNAs will not have to even know what IPX SPX stands for.
I already knew the edge is coming off technology growth. I wasn't getting paid by my previous employer, and he still owes me about $100 and the title to a moped he gave me in place of $100 pay. This sucks, since it's true and getting worse. I'm only half a year from getting my CCNA and now it seems that's the ONLY way i'm even going to get an entry job, whereas just last year, CCNA was a much desired certification. Sucky.
So we're looking at a booK that is capable of both hacking an Xbox and flying. I knew those dudes from Toshiba were up to something more important than 3D Displays!
You realize that if you have a DVD player, for instance, you can put a CD of AAC audio in it and it'd work fine. AAC is the audio part of Dolby Digital Surround sound.
Gates: Hey lapdog...get over here! Ballmer: Sir, I don't like it when you call me... Gates: Shut up lapdog. Ballmer: Yes, sir. Gates: Buy Korea. Ballmer: What's by Korea? Gates: No, purchase it. Ballmer: Which one? Gates: There's more than one? Ballmer: North and South. Gates: Oh...does it matter? No. Buy both. Ballmer: I don't have that kind of money sir. Gates: Charge it to the company. Ballmer: Yes sir.
You can just pop the burnt CD into any machine with a CD-ROM and a CD-RW drive and copy as many as you want...DIRECTLY.
Toast Titanium is good for that. But so is OS X's built in burning.
This little technology has huge loopholes...on purpose. You can still do what you want with any of those songs as soon as you download them. Just drag and drop to a seperate area on the desktop or a folder or CD burning application, and suddenly, iTunes is out of the loop!
Maybe i'm out of the loop, but what the HELL is going to replace the x86 architecture? I don't forsee the Pentium and Athalon XP processors being dumped. Is there another compatible chip out there to replace em other than the 64 bit bastards like Itanium? Doesn't seem like those particular chips are workin so great. Inform me please mister wizzard.
You really think, that as great a manager and CEO Jobs is, that he'd let them waste all that R&D and $$ on a project they won't ever use? Nonetheless actually seeding machines to testers?
You gotta admit, there's a reason Jobs is at least THINKING about using it.
Now, i know MS does this type of thing all the time (Wasting money and time on a crap project), but that doesn't mean somebody with common sense would.
You guys obviously didn't hear about the seeded developer testing of a "White box" from Apple. The case was welded shut to avoid intrusion, and reportedly contained an Athalon chipset. OS X IS ported to i386 and IS working. I don't see why Apple holds back, but it sure is cool to know that they have an ace up their sleeve...
"...these observers report that Apple has been serious enough about its ace in the hole to seed a few lucky civilians with prototype boxes - delivered heavily swaddled in layers of cloak-and-dagger security, natch. Specifically, recent testers report taking delivery of Athlon-powered boxes that Apple had assiduously welded shut to prevent prying eyes from ogling whatever other gremlins might be lurking inside these nondescript beige chassis." -MacEdition
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Just toss the poor bastards at the credit card machine....
I went through some of two particular author's works, and I laughed my ass off a lot of the time.
Robert Lynn Asprin- The M.Y.T.H. Inc. series of books never let me stop, I was bawling at points, which is kind of embarrasing in study hall. Can't find the last book in the series....Sweet M.Y.T.H.teries of Life.
Piers Anthony- The Xanth series of books has lots of humor mixed in a very entertaining large series (about 30-40 books right now). I really enjoyed his Tyrant series. And last but not least, the weird ass book of short stories called the Anthology or Anthanology or somesuch.
Also, the Photon and Phase series was awesome, still want to read the last book.
I remember reading a book about a Darksword. May be the Darksword series...but I don't recall. Loved that too.
Also, surprisingly enough, is the Left Behind series. I was shocked to learn that I liked that series, but I loved it. I was forced to read the first in school, and finished the first 7 in the series in 2 months. Just polished off the 8th that just came out in a weekend.
No, not really. If you don't like it, don't read it.
I learned MacOS X by first having a general knowledge of OS 9. Now, OS X is very different from OS 9, but i had some idea of how things should work.
I went on to learn some Unix/Linux commands in late highschool when my teacher/LAN Administrator told the school he was switching the whole school to Linux to help the budget, and because M$ was bothing him. So I began learning the basic commands there.
I furthered my study of the command line and the kernel (That sounded like the title to a book, or should be.) by tinkering around with my Dad's gift to me, a NeXT Turbo Color station. It had been fried by a lightning storm, and so was useless. My Dad, however, just told me that he couldn't get it to run, and I could try if I like. I had been tinkering with rebuilding PCs as early as 11 years old, and so had a vague idea of how to open it. I decided, that as it IS kinda rare, I'd let it rest in peace for a few years.
When I turned 15 I moved in with my mom, who lives in Iowa (BORING). I found motivation in my lack of ability to be entertained by those mundane corn fields, so I began tinkering with the NeXT for the first time. I completely dissasembled it and reassembled it. It worked...for some reason. So it booted into a very strange command line (for someone who had only seen command lines in the movies) and i had to figure it out.
Make a long ass story a little bit shorter, I some how figured out how to get it to boot off its SCSI drive and i got some action. A lesson in FTP and PING and TELNET were just around the corner (I told my computer teacher that I had a NeXT, and he didn't believe me. He dared me to bring it to school, and we got it on the net.) and I learned there that the internet was more than just www.blahblahblah.com.
Sorry to make this post so long...but those two factors (Former knowledge of OS 9 and Unix commands and NeXT interface design)...ok...3 factors helped me to weed my way through OS X.
Done
Hopefully they will be as forward-thinking and ahead of their time as they are with the playstation line. I believe they can come up with something that is as good as the Sega Gamegear was back in its day. This could be way cool.
This would have been the first time Microsoft embraced their ability to turn out shit products like crazy.
I am taking so long getting my CCNA because I am taking it as a college course through the local High School, so I can only take one 45 Minute class a day, 5 days a week. And I don't know where you guys get off saying CCNA is easy. It's not easy by any means. The curriculum has changed significatly since even just last year, and next year is getting a massive change as well (For instance, I'm having to memorize friggin IPX SPX Novell Protocols and routing update information, whereas next year's crop of CCNAs will not have to even know what IPX SPX stands for.
wow
I already knew the edge is coming off technology growth. I wasn't getting paid by my previous employer, and he still owes me about $100 and the title to a moped he gave me in place of $100 pay. This sucks, since it's true and getting worse. I'm only half a year from getting my CCNA and now it seems that's the ONLY way i'm even going to get an entry job, whereas just last year, CCNA was a much desired certification. Sucky.
So is there a similar type of thing going on with hackers as there is with general employment?
White Hat Hackers
Blue Hat Hackers
Labor Union Hat Hackers
Slave Labor Hat Hackers?
(Refering to the entire "white collar" idea...)
So we're looking at a booK that is capable of both hacking an Xbox and flying. I knew those dudes from Toshiba were up to something more important than 3D Displays!
My bad. Shoulda known better. I worked as projectionist in a movie theater for 3 years...dur.
You realize that if you have a DVD player, for instance, you can put a CD of AAC audio in it and it'd work fine. AAC is the audio part of Dolby Digital Surround sound.
Gates: Hey lapdog...get over here!
Ballmer: Sir, I don't like it when you call me...
Gates: Shut up lapdog.
Ballmer: Yes, sir.
Gates: Buy Korea.
Ballmer: What's by Korea?
Gates: No, purchase it.
Ballmer: Which one?
Gates: There's more than one?
Ballmer: North and South.
Gates: Oh...does it matter? No. Buy both.
Ballmer: I don't have that kind of money sir.
Gates: Charge it to the company.
Ballmer: Yes sir.
iPod sports AAC. That's the kicker. I'd rather have quality than quantity. Besides...you really gonna fill that 60Gigs with music? I don't think so.
You can just pop the burnt CD into any machine with a CD-ROM and a CD-RW drive and copy as many as you want...DIRECTLY.
Toast Titanium is good for that. But so is OS X's built in burning.
This little technology has huge loopholes...on purpose. You can still do what you want with any of those songs as soon as you download them. Just drag and drop to a seperate area on the desktop or a folder or CD burning application, and suddenly, iTunes is out of the loop!
Gee...I never thought of that...nur.
Anybody remember the episode of geeks in space that talked about "Nuking the moon".
Sounds like things are being predicted....
This must mean that Y2K has yet to happen...
Y2K+4?
Maybe i'm out of the loop, but what the HELL is going to replace the x86 architecture? I don't forsee the Pentium and Athalon XP processors being dumped. Is there another compatible chip out there to replace em other than the 64 bit bastards like Itanium? Doesn't seem like those particular chips are workin so great. Inform me please mister wizzard.
You really think, that as great a manager and CEO Jobs is, that he'd let them waste all that R&D and $$ on a project they won't ever use? Nonetheless actually seeding machines to testers?
You gotta admit, there's a reason Jobs is at least THINKING about using it.
Now, i know MS does this type of thing all the time (Wasting money and time on a crap project), but that doesn't mean somebody with common sense would.
Yes, thank you.
You guys obviously didn't hear about the seeded developer testing of a "White box" from Apple. The case was welded shut to avoid intrusion, and reportedly contained an Athalon chipset. OS X IS ported to i386 and IS working. I don't see why Apple holds back, but it sure is cool to know that they have an ace up their sleeve...
"...these observers report that Apple has been serious enough about its ace in the hole to seed a few lucky civilians with prototype boxes - delivered heavily swaddled in layers of cloak-and-dagger security, natch. Specifically, recent testers report taking delivery of Athlon-powered boxes that Apple had assiduously welded shut to prevent prying eyes from ogling whatever other gremlins might be lurking inside these nondescript beige chassis." -MacEdition
Great....
Now you've sucessfully wasted another 3-20 hours of my life...
And please my girlfriend (she loves simple games, being somewhat simple herself (don't tell her i said that)).
Double-sided blade i guess.
The aparent "Grandfather of Hacking" if you will... ...uses Macs?
Is this important to note?
I like him better already.
What a smart guy!
So I'm totally pumped to see what they do now.
After watching all the gay movies that copied the Matrix, i'm ready to see em innovate some more.
Hell, just maybe it will be so cool and complex it won't be on the next GAP commercials before December.
I'm sorry....
Which way in that picture, is up?
Looks like one of those painings with all those "Up" directions. Freaky.