I'm a hobbyist musician, maybe semi-pro is a better term. Day job is as server/network admin for the past 20 years or so. What's wrong with using racks at home? I've got 3 racks for my music gear (2 with synths & samplers, 1 with effects), and it wouldn't make sense/work as well if the gear were unracked on a shelf. While some of my friends tell me to dump the instruments on ebay and move to virtual instruments, I kind of prefer working with knobs and buttons and other tactile elements lacking in software.
Certainly a rack for the home is overkill, where you're unlikely to have more than 1 server, a switch, and a wifi router. But no reason to knock a guy who's got a dream. I'm not sure I'd go for a $400 rack like they have in the data center, but with all the businesses that have gone under, you can certainly find some cheap pre-used racks on the market.
The same goes for Fender Stratocaster electric guitars: You want the American made one, failing that, a Japanese. The Mexican (and I'm assuming Chinese) built Strats have poorer quality control, cheaper parts.
since these weren't studio dvd releases, no sales were lost. soldiers were in foreign countries where they couldn't have attended the movies in person. it's the right choice not to sue the old fart.
Bjork is a beautiful ice faerie, and I would woo her away from her snowy fortress if only I had the opportunity. Check out Pagan Poetry. The Perfecto remix of this is pretty good too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFSqOWSbNg
sure, many Macs I serviced in the 1990's held Microsoft Office macro viruses, but as the users on those computers were mostly graphic designers, they weren't bothered by what the business people did on the other side of the advertising/communications firm. We ran antivirus regularly back then (MacOS 7,8, 8.5, 9, etc) but since moving to OSX, I have yet to run into one Mac that's been brought down by a virus. Not bad for my last decade of computer support. Compare that to the corporate shenanigans that went on with Windows 98 & Windows XP... on machines that HAD installed antivirus, being infected by new strains that Symantec/Norton was dragging their feet to fix.
Another thing that Sophos and the MacBreak Weekly podcast seem to overlook is the fact that there are now millions more Macs than ever before. Apple's iDevices have spurred an upswing in Apple computer purchases, and discounting the iDevices themselves, Apple is still earning decent revenue on their computers (which mostly sell with a 30% markup).
I'm sure Sophos' sample size is too small to be of any use. Hardly anyone knows who Sophos is or uses their antivirus. I like it, but I haven't run AV on my Mac since moving to OSX 10.3 when Norton failed to make the jump in a timely manner. And I've never seen Macs on OSX brought down as hard as PC's on XP.
Don't forget, Malware & Trojans are a different beast than viruses. A lot of viruses can spread just by the fact that your Windows PC is connected to the same network as an infected PC. This does not happen to Macs with OSX, no matter how loudly Leo Laporte whines about it. Or Sophos.
read: "It could negatively impact the bottom line for telcos who have entire divisions set up to get income from the police to sell your private information without a warrant."
Zip wasn't the only way. There were Syquest cartridges, Bernoulli cartridges, and a number of other magnetic and optical media available when Zip was on the market. However Iomega's Zip was successful due to marketing and licensing the technology to others, including Apple. Things all fell apart with the unreliability of Zip carts - a bad cart with "sticktion" could kill your Zip drive. People got sick of replacing their drives and carts and moved to USB flash memory when that was available.
"After doing a bit of googling, I believe what we have here is a set of borderline personalities that are unfortunately drawn together. They have plenty of outlets for their antics; we shouldn't be indulging them here."
After digging up information that purports the woman in question took Kickstarter funding then didn't send people the CD's she promised, it's quite possible the Kickstarter banned her for an entirely different purpose: FRAUD. So whether or not she is being stalked, Kickstarter aren't necessarily being assholes.
Middle Eastern men still rule the household, which means their women have no rights. So being a businesswoman is not incongruous with other aspects of their lives, such as not being able to drive, or vote, or attend school. I'm sure many women from the Middle East are excited about expressing their limited freedom through entrepreneurship.
However, not enough people call Islamists on their bluff - it was never God's will to subjugate women, no matter what their ridiculous heretical Mohammed said or wrote. Slavery is in the mind, and until women around the globe are free to do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and however the way they please, they'll still be slaves to men.
My daughter lives with her mom and for the first 6 years after our divorce, she was the only caucasian student in an all-black school, and an all-mexican/american Catholic school. the only place where she was bullied was the Hispanic school. While I'm glad she had the opportunity to hang out with non-white children, I'm more pleased that she's now attending a public school with a wider diversity of students who hail from many national and socio-economic backgrounds. She's no longer the only white kid, and is no longer being bullied.
The police are not your friends. They've fucked me over several times in several states for minor infractions. Think of the bully assholes you knew in high school. That's who become cops - small-brained, adrenaline junkies with penis envy.
"Hey, you mean I can drive as fast as I want and I get to shoot people? Cool."
Nobody ever blames Clear Channel's tight control over US airwaves, and their limited playlists, as being a major factor in restricting new music to the buying public, but it is. And what about concert tickets rising from $10 in the 1980's to $100-$200 in the 2010's? We have LESS disposable income now than ever before. Music is mostly listened to incidentally.
we should not help them to assist their population growth. we should assist them to enrich their soil so it becomes arable land. at some tipping point, perhaps already reached, they have too many people to support based on their natural resources. famine and pestilence, disease and death are part of the circle of life. we cannot have balance if the population grows unimpeded.
the same can be said for china and india. at some point in the future, either a natural event (bird flu) or manmade event (biological warfare) will trim the world population down to a sustainable size.
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screwing with your insulin pump could also kill you.
At first I was excited that the future would bring us gadgets from Star Trek; now I'm waiting or drugs that give us Flowers for Algernon
I'm a hobbyist musician, maybe semi-pro is a better term. Day job is as server/network admin for the past 20 years or so. What's wrong with using racks at home? I've got 3 racks for my music gear (2 with synths & samplers, 1 with effects), and it wouldn't make sense/work as well if the gear were unracked on a shelf. While some of my friends tell me to dump the instruments on ebay and move to virtual instruments, I kind of prefer working with knobs and buttons and other tactile elements lacking in software.
Certainly a rack for the home is overkill, where you're unlikely to have more than 1 server, a switch, and a wifi router. But no reason to knock a guy who's got a dream. I'm not sure I'd go for a $400 rack like they have in the data center, but with all the businesses that have gone under, you can certainly find some cheap pre-used racks on the market.
The same goes for Fender Stratocaster electric guitars: You want the American made one, failing that, a Japanese. The Mexican (and I'm assuming Chinese) built Strats have poorer quality control, cheaper parts.
if only I had a job where I got paid to crash airplanes, and eject from the cockpit.
since these weren't studio dvd releases, no sales were lost. soldiers were in foreign countries where they couldn't have attended the movies in person. it's the right choice not to sue the old fart.
or, Siri could redirect you to Bing if Apple felt the need to keep their customers off Google.
Bjork is a beautiful ice faerie, and I would woo her away from her snowy fortress if only I had the opportunity. Check out Pagan Poetry. The Perfecto remix of this is pretty good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFSqOWSbNg
If magnets can be used to reset or interfere with a pacemaker, should ownership of magnets be considered a terrorist offense?
My refrigerator can take more lives on an airplane than your bottle of shampoo.
sure, many Macs I serviced in the 1990's held Microsoft Office macro viruses, but as the users on those computers were mostly graphic designers, they weren't bothered by what the business people did on the other side of the advertising/communications firm. We ran antivirus regularly back then (MacOS 7,8, 8.5, 9, etc) but since moving to OSX, I have yet to run into one Mac that's been brought down by a virus. Not bad for my last decade of computer support. Compare that to the corporate shenanigans that went on with Windows 98 & Windows XP... on machines that HAD installed antivirus, being infected by new strains that Symantec/Norton was dragging their feet to fix.
Another thing that Sophos and the MacBreak Weekly podcast seem to overlook is the fact that there are now millions more Macs than ever before. Apple's iDevices have spurred an upswing in Apple computer purchases, and discounting the iDevices themselves, Apple is still earning decent revenue on their computers (which mostly sell with a 30% markup).
I'm sure Sophos' sample size is too small to be of any use. Hardly anyone knows who Sophos is or uses their antivirus. I like it, but I haven't run AV on my Mac since moving to OSX 10.3 when Norton failed to make the jump in a timely manner. And I've never seen Macs on OSX brought down as hard as PC's on XP.
Don't forget, Malware & Trojans are a different beast than viruses. A lot of viruses can spread just by the fact that your Windows PC is connected to the same network as an infected PC. This does not happen to Macs with OSX, no matter how loudly Leo Laporte whines about it. Or Sophos.
read: "It could negatively impact the bottom line for telcos who have entire divisions set up to get income from the police to sell your private information without a warrant."
MO earthquakes
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MO tornadoes
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if the economy didn't suck so hard, maybe we'd be hard at work and not logging so many hours into facebook and twitter
If he's ever used a library, or photocopied a newspaper article for a school report, he's also full of shit.
Could have happened to anyone.
and this story is a big joke.
Zip wasn't the only way. There were Syquest cartridges, Bernoulli cartridges, and a number of other magnetic and optical media available when Zip was on the market. However Iomega's Zip was successful due to marketing and licensing the technology to others, including Apple. Things all fell apart with the unreliability of Zip carts - a bad cart with "sticktion" could kill your Zip drive. People got sick of replacing their drives and carts and moved to USB flash memory when that was available.
I concur. So much drama, and possibly for personal gain.
Someone said it best here:
http://hackerstream.com/?item=3842355
"After doing a bit of googling, I believe what we have here is a set of borderline personalities that are unfortunately drawn together. They have plenty of outlets for their antics; we shouldn't be indulging them here."
After digging up information that purports the woman in question took Kickstarter funding then didn't send people the CD's she promised, it's quite possible the Kickstarter banned her for an entirely different purpose: FRAUD. So whether or not she is being stalked, Kickstarter aren't necessarily being assholes.
my last job was astro turfing for VOIP companies that wanted to push the cloud. you do what you gotta do, to do what you wanna do. poverty sucks.
Middle Eastern men still rule the household, which means their women have no rights. So being a businesswoman is not incongruous with other aspects of their lives, such as not being able to drive, or vote, or attend school. I'm sure many women from the Middle East are excited about expressing their limited freedom through entrepreneurship.
However, not enough people call Islamists on their bluff - it was never God's will to subjugate women, no matter what their ridiculous heretical Mohammed said or wrote. Slavery is in the mind, and until women around the globe are free to do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and however the way they please, they'll still be slaves to men.
My daughter lives with her mom and for the first 6 years after our divorce, she was the only caucasian student in an all-black school, and an all-mexican/american Catholic school. the only place where she was bullied was the Hispanic school. While I'm glad she had the opportunity to hang out with non-white children, I'm more pleased that she's now attending a public school with a wider diversity of students who hail from many national and socio-economic backgrounds. She's no longer the only white kid, and is no longer being bullied.
The police are not your friends. They've fucked me over several times in several states for minor infractions. Think of the bully assholes you knew in high school. That's who become cops - small-brained, adrenaline junkies with penis envy.
"Hey, you mean I can drive as fast as I want and I get to shoot people? Cool."
Fuck the police.
Economists at Stanford demonstrated that other variables were responsible for 80% of the music sales downturn at the height of Napster.
http://siepr.stanford.edu/publicationsprofile/379
And it was found that Napster users bought more music, because they were exposed to more music.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-243463.html
Nobody ever blames Clear Channel's tight control over US airwaves, and their limited playlists, as being a major factor in restricting new music to the buying public, but it is. And what about concert tickets rising from $10 in the 1980's to $100-$200 in the 2010's? We have LESS disposable income now than ever before. Music is mostly listened to incidentally.
we should not help them to assist their population growth. we should assist them to enrich their soil so it becomes arable land. at some tipping point, perhaps already reached, they have too many people to support based on their natural resources. famine and pestilence, disease and death are part of the circle of life. we cannot have balance if the population grows unimpeded.
the same can be said for china and india. at some point in the future, either a natural event (bird flu) or manmade event (biological warfare) will trim the world population down to a sustainable size.