Thanks for the link, but unfortunately the minimum quantity of 1000 Tyvek sleeves is far more than I've used in my entire history of using CD/DVD media, plus more than enough to last for many years to come, probably I'd still have piles of them sitting around when DVDs become obsolete. I guess what I should have said was, nobody sells Tyvek sleeves in anything less than bulk lots, like quantities of 50 or 100 like the paper sleeves you can buy at office supply stores.
You are right to be amazed, because he's lying. Nobody ever taught themselves to a fluency level where they can read 90% of a Japanese newspaper without a dictionary after only 3 years. Even with full-time studies assisted by college-level instruction, it just can't be done. I majored in Japanese at one of the best university programs in the US, studying the language pretty much full time, including study in Japan, it was only in 5th year that our teachers finally taught us specific lessons on how to read newspapers without a dictionary, and even then, we were only expected to get about 40%. Some of the articles even stumped the instructors, you'd be surprised to find that sometimes even native Japanese speakers can only read about 50% of an article, particularly specialized subjects like economics reports. But I guess our genius who can read 90% of the articles after 3 years of self-study can outperform people who lived in Japan all their lives.
I use paper CD sleeves and boxes specifically designed to the dimensions of CDs. I bought some metal boxes at Staples that are designed for this purpose, but the soldering of the edges is a little rough, so I just put a jewel case at each end of the box, to cover up the rough edges. The boxes are about 8 inches long, I figure I get about 250 DVDs in a box, I haven't counted. I wish I could find Tyvek sleeves, but nobody seems to sell em anymore, they might take fractionally less space than paper, they're thinner. Sleeves are about the most storage per linear inch you can get except storing naked media on spindles, I prefer to have a little more protection, so when I go through the stack looking for a disc, they don't get scratched up. Binders take up too much room, and tend to scratch up the CDs sliding in and out of the binder pages.
I saw it when it was active, my reaction was about the same as when I saw the Magnification feature in the real MacOS X dock, "cool, now let me turn that off and never use it again."
The bigger question is, do you want your insurance company to know early if you have Alzheimer's? Because they WILL know if you get tested. Forget about ever getting health insurance again if you switch jobs.
...take time (sic) to your local waste transfer station, and they will dispose of it for you in a way that the lead/mercury/other heavy metals dosnt leak into the environment.
Permit me to sermonize on my environmentalism pet peeve.
These heavy metals have already leaked into the environment, they just happened to be encapsulated into a little plastic cel phone instead of being buried deep in the earth. When you throw them away, there IS no "away," there is only "somewhere else." I compare this to people who incinerate trash to dispose of burnable trash, since the smoke is invisible they think they've gotten rid of the trash, but all they've done is put the garbage into the air rather than the landfill, and it becomes an air pollution problem somewhere else, rather than their local dump. When you "recycle" your cel phone, it's going to get sent to a recycling dump in China where it becomes China's ecological disaster. Tons of cel phones sit in piles outdoors waiting to be recycled, while the metals leach out into the ground water. But nobody gives a damn because the phones are now someone elses problem. The obvious solution is to stop buying crap cel phones that go obsolete so quickly, demand that manufacturers improve features through software and not by planned obsolescence in hardware. Do you REALLY need that 1.2 megapixel camera phone to replace your 1 megapixel camera phone?
You say that most of the time your dual CPU is sitting there half unused. Of all of your CPU time, how much time is spent on audio-video manipulation, scientific calculation, or 3D rendering? Because that's the domain of uber CPUs, not gaming, word-processing, or the internet
Sure, even a power user's CPU spends the vast majority of its time in an idle loop waiting for the next keypress or mouse movement. But when you finally execute that Final Cut Pro render, and see the "estimated time: 4 hours" you will be dying to buy a quad G5.
I used to explain this with an automotive analogy. You may burn a lot less gas with that tiny V4 engine, but someday you'll wish you had a powerful V8 when you try passing an 18 wheeler on a two lane road and there's an oncoming car you didn't see and there's nowhere to go except to try to power past the truck before the oncoming car hits you.
I was thinking of "Snavely's," the first US adaption, and you were thinking of "Amanda's," the second one.
I had to look up John Larroquette in imdb.com to find out about the third one, "Payne." Actually, I kinda like John Larroquette and he could have done a good job, IF he was allowed to.
Oh yeah, the US TV networks are insanely stupid when it comes to remaking British TV. Let me give you an example, the US remake of Faulty Towers starred BETTY WHITE playing the role of Basil.
This has been a generally accepted idea for many years. For example, Neil Postman's book "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" advanced the idea back in 1969. He declared that since schools were run by school boards that were responsible to the parents of the schooled kids, and not the kids, schools would always be designed to teach the same things the parents learned, which would by definition already be obsolete. It's sort of like the old maxims about the military always preparing for the LAST war, and always being unprepared to fight using the methods the NEXT war will require. I don't see any real solution to the problem. You really can only teach using the methods that presumably worked on the past generation, there's no proven track record for experimental techniques in teaching. I've taken courses in college by teachers developing new methods and the classes were just as likely to be a disaster as a success.
I haven't seen any popups in Safari. I'm on MacOS X 10.3.8 but I suspect this is not due to OS or app upgrades, it's some new technology. There is, however, a better solution to popups for Safari users, the plugin PithHelmet. Stops popups and almost all ads dead. Other OS users may find successful solutions with gadets like Privoxy.
Now if only I could figure out a way to get rid of "pop-IN" ads, like those annoying popup-style ads that appear inside the browser window, it's some sort of DHTML trick to make a closable window inside a frame. It's used on sites like wunderground.com and I hate it. Nothing can kill those yet.
Scientists already know there are more than the traditional "5 senses." People always forget about two well-known senses, the Vestibular sense (balance) and proprioception.
Jeez, back in my day, we had to learn IBM 360 Assembler, CPU time was so scarce, and punching cards was so tedious, we wrote it all on paper and stepped through all the code manually, writing down the contents of each register as it changed each time an instruction was executed. This is known as a "paper computer" and is not really so difficult, although it requires you to really KNOW the structure of the registers, and have detailed knowledge of what each operation does. And isn't that the POINT of studying assembler?
Technicians deal with workflow, artists deal with creative flow. The technical aspects of computer systems require the establishment of workflow patterns. The aesthetic requirements of artists demands that nothing interrupt artistic flow. When an artist is thinking of his work, he is not thinking which.IFF file falls next in the sequence of 5000 frames, he is thinking of which changes he wants to make to his image, and what tool he will use to make them.
Don't even try telling me that you as a programmer have the slightest idea of how artists think. There is an old truism, it is easier to make an artist into a computer tech than it is to make a computer tech into a talented artist. Artistic thinking cannot be developed by taking a few art courses. What would you say if someone came up to you and said, "I have been an artist for 20 years but I took a couple of programming courses, so now I know how programmers think"?
The real problem with OSS apps for graphic artists is that programmers do not understand how artists work. This has always been the dichotomy between programs with good GUIs and programs that don't. This is really part of the old Macintosh GUI guidelines, since all the really good graphic apps originated on the Mac and have the Mac's heritage of proper GUI development. Apple and Mac developers have long relied upon what they call "Real-world metaphors." Early apps had to appeal to graphic artists with extensive experience in conventional methods, so the computer apps used tools that were metaphors for the real tools the artists alread used, tools like pencils, erasers, T-squares, dodging and burning photos, etc. Even more abstract tools like Photoshop layer modes are explained in the manuals by describing how layers of film would be sandwiched together, something every print designer would be intimately familiar with. However, there has always been a legenary difference between Mac and Windows GUIs (and other GUIs that devolved from programmer's interfaces like X11), Mac interfaces work the way people really work with their jobs, Win/PC interfaces force the user to work the way the computer prefers you to interact with the job. This computer-centric approach will always fail when there is a user-centric approach available. This is why the GIMP sucks and Photoshop doesn't. This is why Maya rules and Blender doesn't. There are almost no artists with sufficient skills to contribute code or GUI design, and almost no programmers with suffiicent knowledge of artistic methods to develop an interface that appeals to artists. If there were any crossover artist/programmers, they're probably already working with proprietary products and contributing to their development. Furthermore, many of the really good GUI ideas (i.e. the Maya Hotbox) are patented and not available to OSS. Until OSS projects can focus on user-centric interfaces, and completely drop the programmer-centric geekery, they will continue to fail in the graphic arts market.
You're obviously not a high end photoshop user. I am, I used to work in a top prepress bureau doing color retouching. About 95% of what I do in Photoshop is with the mouse, I only use my Wacom tablet when I'm actually drawing. Sometimes I go days on end without ever touching my tablet. The regular PS interface is that good, I only need a tablet for things that MUST be done with a tablet.
Your remarks are a bit misleading. I worked at an HP dealership back in the days of the 5P, I own a 5MP. The 5P did not come with a standard network port. If your model has one, it was equipped with an accessory JetDirect card. HP used to sell the JetDirect cards out of their catalog, but the base 5 models didn't come with them standard. I put an external JetDirect box on my 5MP and it works like a champ, supports Appletalk, Ethernet, and LPR printing. The JetDirect manuals had extensive notes for installation on Windows, Mac, and several different Linux distributions, a CD with installers, sample LPR and PRINTCAP configs, I've never seen as comprehensive a set of installers as the old JetDirects.
The old HPs are built like a tank, they don't build em like they used to. I had a buddy who started a business buying used HP LaserJets, cleaning them up and putting in minor maintenance kits (new fusers, retension the rollers, etc) and reselling them. Boy did he make a bundle of money.
That is a very good question. I could have sued him for copyright infringement, but that would have required laywers, lengthy court procedures, and tons of money. And the venue would probably have been in England because the host company was sold to an English company, I don't have the money for an international copyright lawsuit from the USA. All I wanted was to regain control of my site content by the most expedient means possible. The DMCA requires a site to remove infringing material immediately upon request by the legitimate copyrightholder. The host ignored my request, so I moved up the chain to their upstream, under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions, they are required to pull the plug on their customer's site in order to avoid becoming equally liable for copyright infringement damages. Only upon threat of losing all connectivity for their server did the host finally remove my site. I win. Cost: $0.
You don't need a lawyer to file DMCA complaints, and I didn't use one. Content may be automatically copyrighted merely by publication (although this isn't necessarily true), but the explicit copyright notice sure made things easier, especially since the hosting company got sold to a British company right in the middle of negotiations.
I own my content, which is not a problem since I'm self-employed, and I copyright my content, which turned out to be incredibly important. I learned a tough lesson in my early blogging days. I used a hosted blog, and I got into a business dispute with the asshole owner, resulting in him terminating my services but leaving my dead blog active. My old blog was highly rated, so they were deliberately leaving my old blog up to divert Google searches away from my new self-hosted blog. So I filed a DMCA complaint to force him to remove my old website, and I won. This was only possible because I had put a copyright notice on my old website. Now I know better than to to let anyone else have control over my content.
Nah, go look at the pics via the mirrored site. The tube tester shows a meter that's half red on the left (bad), green on the right (good) and a little band of yellow in the middle which presumably means it's marginal. I haven't seen that sort of tube tester for decades, but that brought back memories, it's just like I remembered on the Woolworth's tester. Anyway, as I vaguely recall it, you could pretty much tell which tubes were fried because they were obviously ruined, with black burned smoky glass on the inside, or fused components. Or maybe that was just my family's TV, we lived in an area with lots of lightning strikes hitting the power grid.
Does anyone else recall the olden days when the local dimestores had tube testers, you could bring in your tubes and test, and then get replacements from the rack under the tester? I remember going down to the local Woolworth's all the time, our TV was always on the fritz and I seemed to be able to repair it most of the time. The Woolworth's machine always had a stack of little stickers with pairs of numbers, so you could put a numbered sticker on each tube and the same number on the socket, so you could put them all back in the right spots.
I remember an old "how-to article" in Mad Magazine about how to repair your tube TV. It went something like this:
1. Open the TV and remove all the tubes. 2. Take them down to the store and test them one by one in the test machine. 3. Identify the defective tube(s) and buy replacements. 4. Put all the tubes back in position according to the little numbered stickers you used when you removed the tubes. Oops, did we forget to mention that in step 1? Uh-oh, now you're in trouble!
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Thanks for the link, but unfortunately the minimum quantity of 1000 Tyvek sleeves is far more than I've used in my entire history of using CD/DVD media, plus more than enough to last for many years to come, probably I'd still have piles of them sitting around when DVDs become obsolete.
I guess what I should have said was, nobody sells Tyvek sleeves in anything less than bulk lots, like quantities of 50 or 100 like the paper sleeves you can buy at office supply stores.
You are right to be amazed, because he's lying. Nobody ever taught themselves to a fluency level where they can read 90% of a Japanese newspaper without a dictionary after only 3 years. Even with full-time studies assisted by college-level instruction, it just can't be done.
I majored in Japanese at one of the best university programs in the US, studying the language pretty much full time, including study in Japan, it was only in 5th year that our teachers finally taught us specific lessons on how to read newspapers without a dictionary, and even then, we were only expected to get about 40%. Some of the articles even stumped the instructors, you'd be surprised to find that sometimes even native Japanese speakers can only read about 50% of an article, particularly specialized subjects like economics reports.
But I guess our genius who can read 90% of the articles after 3 years of self-study can outperform people who lived in Japan all their lives.
I use paper CD sleeves and boxes specifically designed to the dimensions of CDs. I bought some metal boxes at Staples that are designed for this purpose, but the soldering of the edges is a little rough, so I just put a jewel case at each end of the box, to cover up the rough edges. The boxes are about 8 inches long, I figure I get about 250 DVDs in a box, I haven't counted.
I wish I could find Tyvek sleeves, but nobody seems to sell em anymore, they might take fractionally less space than paper, they're thinner. Sleeves are about the most storage per linear inch you can get except storing naked media on spindles, I prefer to have a little more protection, so when I go through the stack looking for a disc, they don't get scratched up. Binders take up too much room, and tend to scratch up the CDs sliding in and out of the binder pages.
I saw it when it was active, my reaction was about the same as when I saw the Magnification feature in the real MacOS X dock, "cool, now let me turn that off and never use it again."
The bigger question is, do you want your insurance company to know early if you have Alzheimer's? Because they WILL know if you get tested. Forget about ever getting health insurance again if you switch jobs.
Permit me to sermonize on my environmentalism pet peeve.
These heavy metals have already leaked into the environment, they just happened to be encapsulated into a little plastic cel phone instead of being buried deep in the earth. When you throw them away, there IS no "away," there is only "somewhere else." I compare this to people who incinerate trash to dispose of burnable trash, since the smoke is invisible they think they've gotten rid of the trash, but all they've done is put the garbage into the air rather than the landfill, and it becomes an air pollution problem somewhere else, rather than their local dump.
When you "recycle" your cel phone, it's going to get sent to a recycling dump in China where it becomes China's ecological disaster. Tons of cel phones sit in piles outdoors waiting to be recycled, while the metals leach out into the ground water. But nobody gives a damn because the phones are now someone elses problem.
The obvious solution is to stop buying crap cel phones that go obsolete so quickly, demand that manufacturers improve features through software and not by planned obsolescence in hardware. Do you REALLY need that 1.2 megapixel camera phone to replace your 1 megapixel camera phone?
Sure, even a power user's CPU spends the vast majority of its time in an idle loop waiting for the next keypress or mouse movement. But when you finally execute that Final Cut Pro render, and see the "estimated time: 4 hours" you will be dying to buy a quad G5.
I used to explain this with an automotive analogy. You may burn a lot less gas with that tiny V4 engine, but someday you'll wish you had a powerful V8 when you try passing an 18 wheeler on a two lane road and there's an oncoming car you didn't see and there's nowhere to go except to try to power past the truck before the oncoming car hits you.
She obviously gained a lot of weight since those pictures were taken.
Ah, we're both right and both wrong.
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I was thinking of "Snavely's," the first US adaption, and you were thinking of "Amanda's," the second one.
I had to look up John Larroquette in imdb.com to find out about the third one, "Payne." Actually, I kinda like John Larroquette and he could have done a good job, IF he was allowed to.
Oh yeah, the US TV networks are insanely stupid when it comes to remaking British TV. Let me give you an example, the US remake of Faulty Towers starred BETTY WHITE playing the role of Basil.
This has been a generally accepted idea for many years. For example, Neil Postman's book "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" advanced the idea back in 1969. He declared that since schools were run by school boards that were responsible to the parents of the schooled kids, and not the kids, schools would always be designed to teach the same things the parents learned, which would by definition already be obsolete.
It's sort of like the old maxims about the military always preparing for the LAST war, and always being unprepared to fight using the methods the NEXT war will require.
I don't see any real solution to the problem. You really can only teach using the methods that presumably worked on the past generation, there's no proven track record for experimental techniques in teaching. I've taken courses in college by teachers developing new methods and the classes were just as likely to be a disaster as a success.
I haven't seen any popups in Safari. I'm on MacOS X 10.3.8 but I suspect this is not due to OS or app upgrades, it's some new technology. There is, however, a better solution to popups for Safari users, the plugin PithHelmet. Stops popups and almost all ads dead. Other OS users may find successful solutions with gadets like Privoxy.
Now if only I could figure out a way to get rid of "pop-IN" ads, like those annoying popup-style ads that appear inside the browser window, it's some sort of DHTML trick to make a closable window inside a frame. It's used on sites like wunderground.com and I hate it. Nothing can kill those yet.
Scientists already know there are more than the traditional "5 senses." People always forget about two well-known senses, the Vestibular sense (balance) and proprioception.
Jeez, back in my day, we had to learn IBM 360 Assembler, CPU time was so scarce, and punching cards was so tedious, we wrote it all on paper and stepped through all the code manually, writing down the contents of each register as it changed each time an instruction was executed. This is known as a "paper computer" and is not really so difficult, although it requires you to really KNOW the structure of the registers, and have detailed knowledge of what each operation does. And isn't that the POINT of studying assembler?
Porn producers aren't members of the MPAA, so most people should be safe from prosecution.
You have accidentally proven my point.
.IFF file falls next in the sequence of 5000 frames, he is thinking of which changes he wants to make to his image, and what tool he will use to make them.
Technicians deal with workflow, artists deal with creative flow. The technical aspects of computer systems require the establishment of workflow patterns. The aesthetic requirements of artists demands that nothing interrupt artistic flow. When an artist is thinking of his work, he is not thinking which
Don't even try telling me that you as a programmer have the slightest idea of how artists think. There is an old truism, it is easier to make an artist into a computer tech than it is to make a computer tech into a talented artist. Artistic thinking cannot be developed by taking a few art courses. What would you say if someone came up to you and said, "I have been an artist for 20 years but I took a couple of programming courses, so now I know how programmers think"?
The real problem with OSS apps for graphic artists is that programmers do not understand how artists work. This has always been the dichotomy between programs with good GUIs and programs that don't. This is really part of the old Macintosh GUI guidelines, since all the really good graphic apps originated on the Mac and have the Mac's heritage of proper GUI development.
Apple and Mac developers have long relied upon what they call "Real-world metaphors." Early apps had to appeal to graphic artists with extensive experience in conventional methods, so the computer apps used tools that were metaphors for the real tools the artists alread used, tools like pencils, erasers, T-squares, dodging and burning photos, etc. Even more abstract tools like Photoshop layer modes are explained in the manuals by describing how layers of film would be sandwiched together, something every print designer would be intimately familiar with.
However, there has always been a legenary difference between Mac and Windows GUIs (and other GUIs that devolved from programmer's interfaces like X11), Mac interfaces work the way people really work with their jobs, Win/PC interfaces force the user to work the way the computer prefers you to interact with the job. This computer-centric approach will always fail when there is a user-centric approach available.
This is why the GIMP sucks and Photoshop doesn't. This is why Maya rules and Blender doesn't. There are almost no artists with sufficient skills to contribute code or GUI design, and almost no programmers with suffiicent knowledge of artistic methods to develop an interface that appeals to artists. If there were any crossover artist/programmers, they're probably already working with proprietary products and contributing to their development. Furthermore, many of the really good GUI ideas (i.e. the Maya Hotbox) are patented and not available to OSS.
Until OSS projects can focus on user-centric interfaces, and completely drop the programmer-centric geekery, they will continue to fail in the graphic arts market.
You're obviously not a high end photoshop user. I am, I used to work in a top prepress bureau doing color retouching. About 95% of what I do in Photoshop is with the mouse, I only use my Wacom tablet when I'm actually drawing. Sometimes I go days on end without ever touching my tablet. The regular PS interface is that good, I only need a tablet for things that MUST be done with a tablet.
Your remarks are a bit misleading. I worked at an HP dealership back in the days of the 5P, I own a 5MP. The 5P did not come with a standard network port. If your model has one, it was equipped with an accessory JetDirect card. HP used to sell the JetDirect cards out of their catalog, but the base 5 models didn't come with them standard. I put an external JetDirect box on my 5MP and it works like a champ, supports Appletalk, Ethernet, and LPR printing. The JetDirect manuals had extensive notes for installation on Windows, Mac, and several different Linux distributions, a CD with installers, sample LPR and PRINTCAP configs, I've never seen as comprehensive a set of installers as the old JetDirects.
The old HPs are built like a tank, they don't build em like they used to. I had a buddy who started a business buying used HP LaserJets, cleaning them up and putting in minor maintenance kits (new fusers, retension the rollers, etc) and reselling them. Boy did he make a bundle of money.
That is a very good question. I could have sued him for copyright infringement, but that would have required laywers, lengthy court procedures, and tons of money. And the venue would probably have been in England because the host company was sold to an English company, I don't have the money for an international copyright lawsuit from the USA.
All I wanted was to regain control of my site content by the most expedient means possible. The DMCA requires a site to remove infringing material immediately upon request by the legitimate copyrightholder. The host ignored my request, so I moved up the chain to their upstream, under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions, they are required to pull the plug on their customer's site in order to avoid becoming equally liable for copyright infringement damages. Only upon threat of losing all connectivity for their server did the host finally remove my site. I win. Cost: $0.
You don't need a lawyer to file DMCA complaints, and I didn't use one. Content may be automatically copyrighted merely by publication (although this isn't necessarily true), but the explicit copyright notice sure made things easier, especially since the hosting company got sold to a British company right in the middle of negotiations.
I own my content, which is not a problem since I'm self-employed, and I copyright my content, which turned out to be incredibly important.
I learned a tough lesson in my early blogging days. I used a hosted blog, and I got into a business dispute with the asshole owner, resulting in him terminating my services but leaving my dead blog active. My old blog was highly rated, so they were deliberately leaving my old blog up to divert Google searches away from my new self-hosted blog. So I filed a DMCA complaint to force him to remove my old website, and I won. This was only possible because I had put a copyright notice on my old website.
Now I know better than to to let anyone else have control over my content.
Nah, go look at the pics via the mirrored site. The tube tester shows a meter that's half red on the left (bad), green on the right (good) and a little band of yellow in the middle which presumably means it's marginal. I haven't seen that sort of tube tester for decades, but that brought back memories, it's just like I remembered on the Woolworth's tester.
Anyway, as I vaguely recall it, you could pretty much tell which tubes were fried because they were obviously ruined, with black burned smoky glass on the inside, or fused components. Or maybe that was just my family's TV, we lived in an area with lots of lightning strikes hitting the power grid.
Does anyone else recall the olden days when the local dimestores had tube testers, you could bring in your tubes and test, and then get replacements from the rack under the tester? I remember going down to the local Woolworth's all the time, our TV was always on the fritz and I seemed to be able to repair it most of the time. The Woolworth's machine always had a stack of little stickers with pairs of numbers, so you could put a numbered sticker on each tube and the same number on the socket, so you could put them all back in the right spots.
I remember an old "how-to article" in Mad Magazine about how to repair your tube TV. It went something like this:
1. Open the TV and remove all the tubes.
2. Take them down to the store and test them one by one in the test machine.
3. Identify the defective tube(s) and buy replacements.
4. Put all the tubes back in position according to the little numbered stickers you used when you removed the tubes. Oops, did we forget to mention that in step 1? Uh-oh, now you're in trouble!
Did you look at the pictures? They're ALL NOS tubes in original boxes. Why the hell would anyone repair tube equipment with used tubes?