Shameless plug for a great piece of software for Mac OS X called Peanut Gallery from RONIN NO SAKURA KAI SOFTRONICS.
Basically, it makes inventive use of some Mac OS X video technologies to allow people to do running MST3K-style commentary in real time over a LAN or the internet, complete w/ shadow avatars and a theatre-like presentation. It even comes with a bunch of public domain movies like Night of the Living Dead and Refer Madness so you can start heckling right away. Unfortunately, my Mac isn't powerful enough to use this software (my old ass 1999 vintage B&W is finally starting to get long in the tooth) but I've seen it demoed and it is KILLER. Tons of fun.
From the site: "You and up to 7 guests can enjoy video or audio from local files, your.Mac iDisk, or the World Wide web, complete with pre-rolls, intermission and Core Video-Powered theater-like visual effects. Interact with each other via Maya-rendered 30fps* animated characters, inline real-time text chat, and voice. Peanut Gallery isn't just a video player - it's a Shared Media Experience!"
Is that even possible? Just like when you enlarge an image in Photoshop, all you're doing to approximating what pixels WOULD be there... you're not adding any real new information to the image. How could this possibly improve a DVD image?
This is an honest question. I'd really like to know if they have some special fancy way to truly fill in the gaps of resolution.
So does that mean if I work twice as fast and efficient as other people in the same position, I can work part time but be considered "full time equivalent," with all the pay and perks and half the hours? That would frickin' rock.
This has everything to do with Intel, and absolutely NOTHING to do with Apple. Apple is not the only company using the Core Duo. There's no reason to imply that Apple is at fault or this problem relates to them in any way that it doesn't also relate to any other manufacturer using the Core Duo.
I just spec'd out a Dell laptop with similar specs to the high-end MacBook Pro, and it came in nowhere near as inexpensive as the MacBook Pro.
My Dell is configured as follows: Precision M70 Pentium M single core 2.26GHz w/ 15.4" WUXGA LCD (This is going to be slower than a dual core 1.83, period.) WinXP Pro 1GB RAM, 1 DIMM 100GB HD 8x DL DVD-RW 802.11g (This is a miniPCI card, not internally integrated like the Mac) 256MB Quadro FX Go1400 graphics Bluetooth 1394a (FireWire) CardBus (again, this is an add-on, not internally integrated like the Mac)
Price for this Dell? $3,747. Compare that to the MacBook Pro at $2499. And the Dell doesn't include an IR sensor and remote, built-in 30fps VGA video camera, iLife, motion sensor, aluminum casing, etc.
That Gateway you mentioned? It uses Centrio chips, this is HARDLY the same as the brand-spankin' new Yonah based chips that the MacBook Pro is using. Also, the display isn't as high of a resolution. And the HD is 20GB smaller.
Basically, you didn't bother to do any real comparison or research, and I doubt you're all that knowledgable about computers if you missed those very simple details.
I used a PowerBook 140 for about... oh, I dunno, 12 years. The screen went out in 2003, but other than that the machine runs. Unfortunately, I have no SCSI computers/devices available to pull off the ONE THING I WANT MOST from that PowerBook.
A small little Japanese puzzle game called Katayuri. Does anyone know where to download a copy of this great little game?
Still though, 12 years without a problem is pretty freaking solid. Kudos!
Let's say you're an indie band distributed via CD Baby and iTunes. If you don't have a huge following, you'll be making less per song sale, even though it is usually a lot harder for indie bands to raise money and get studio time while working day jobs.
And if you're a huge name-brand act, who has all recording costs fronted by the label, you don't necessary NEED to make more per track because you're selling exponentially MORE tracks, so it all evens out.
Tiered pricing would just unfairly punish new artists and reinforce pop garbage by giving more money to people that already have it, and limiting the amount of money someone can make if they're just starting out.
Actually, now that I type that out, it seems to be par for the course for capitalism. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
And in no way shape or form do I feel that 99 cents a track is too much for any song. I'd rather pay more to bands like Milk Cult and Steel Pole Bath Tub, who have released their latest albums on their own label with their money, to help them continue to put out music that is infinitely more interesting than anything the majors are pushing this week. If anything more popular songs could be priced lower due to economics of scale.
They would have already seized all his property, and even if he was found not guilty, he wouldn't get any of it back.
This guy may very well turn out to be a scumbag, but until a court of law determines him to be a scumbag, I don't think we should be so smug as to cheer for the fed's inalienable right to take whatever it wants from whomever it wants.
Ever since the food stamps ran out, I've been getting inventive in my chow time fare. Next up was my pillow, but this absolutely kills it. Unless of course I could cultivate those spores and sautee 'em...
But what the hell is with the recurring references to killing one's own father? To be honest, I wouldn't mind offing mine, but I'm sure that sentiment is in the minority of people. I just find it weird that this scientist keeps going on and on about killing one's own father. Methinks he may have issues there.
And as a side note, what a great f'ing job. Sitting around hypothesizing about things that will never be able to be proven one way or another in your natural lifetime. Awesome way to earn a paycheck. Good on ya, man.
Look, people are forgetting one fact about running OS X on run-of-the-mill PC hardware. And it actually has to do with PPC MLBs...
There are plenty of cheaper, more standardized PPC MLBs available from various vendors like TerraSoft and Pegasos. They are G3s or G4s, some with standard PC-style serial ports, etc. OS X does not run on these boards. That is because the Mac needs a custom boot ROM. If people were able to slap together a cheaper PPC box (which they can) and then put OS X on it (which they cannot) there wouldn't have been such a clamor for x86 Mac OS X.
Also, Apple does not use the typical northbridge/southbridge approach to MLB design. They have custom designed ICs, and we have heard nothing as to whether they will try to modify HyperTransport to work with x86 or use something else entirely. Apple makes a whole widget - and while I have no advance knowledge whatsoever, you can be damn sure that the Apple x86 MLBs are going to bear little resemblance to an off-the-shelf VIA board.
Put the issue to bed. Beyond these two facts is the simple fact that if you WERE able to just build a box and throw OS X on it, it wouldn't necessarily work correctly or be supported at all. And most people DON'T BUILD THEIR OWN BOXES ANYWAY. It would have minimal effect on sales because most people buy computers as appliances and tools, NOT as a HOBBY KIT. There will always be some that choose that path, but they are the grand, sweeping minority.
That all being said, i REALLY hope this switch offers us the ability to use a wider range of video cards and upgradable CPUs.
My shadow's Shedding skin and I've been picking Scabs again. I'm down Digging through My old muscles Looking for a clue.
I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions For a piece to cross me over Or a word to guide me in. I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in
My shadow. Change is coming through my shadow. My shadow's shedding skin I've been picking My scabs again.
I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own chaotic And insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me, Feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and Cleansing I've endured within
My shadow Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me.
I choose to live and to Grow, take and give and to Move, learn and love and to Cry, kill and die and to Be paranoid and to Lie, hate and fear and to Do what it takes to move through. I choose to live and to Lie, kill and give and to Die, learn and love and to Do what it takes to step through.
See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way By stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.
Sure, the numbers look good going in: your choice of tons of guys with hardly any competition from other chicks.
Then you get there and see that although the choices are many, none of them are that appealing. Sort of like the menu at McDonald's.
For those of you that couldn't tell, this post has been a joke. With just a little bit of truth buried deep in the mix.
Which Show Was Your Favorite So Far?
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I got the unbelievable opportunity to see you in Baltimore, and the show was phenomenal. You were also just a really nice guy and treated your fans as equals and peers after the show, which was very refreshing and really cool.
So which show was your favorite so far? Any hilarious foul-ups or unmitigated disasters so far:)? Or was everything as smooth as the show @ the Ottobar in B-more?
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the version of VPC that is freely available only runs on Windows.
Blarg!
How do you justify taking money to continue doing Ren & Stimpy after the show was taken away from John K.?
Shameless plug for a great piece of software for Mac OS X called Peanut Gallery from RONIN NO SAKURA KAI SOFTRONICS.
.Mac iDisk, or the World Wide web, complete with pre-rolls, intermission and Core Video-Powered theater-like visual effects.
Basically, it makes inventive use of some Mac OS X video technologies to allow people to do running MST3K-style commentary in real time over a LAN or the internet, complete w/ shadow avatars and a theatre-like presentation. It even comes with a bunch of public domain movies like Night of the Living Dead and Refer Madness so you can start heckling right away. Unfortunately, my Mac isn't powerful enough to use this software (my old ass 1999 vintage B&W is finally starting to get long in the tooth) but I've seen it demoed and it is KILLER. Tons of fun.
From the site:
"You and up to 7 guests can enjoy video or audio from local files, your
Interact with each other via Maya-rendered 30fps* animated characters, inline real-time text chat, and voice.
Peanut Gallery isn't just a video player - it's a Shared Media Experience!"
Check it out! Its quite a lot of fun.
although point 1 and 3 have some good ideas behind them, point 2 is totally off base and factually incorrect.
Is that even possible? Just like when you enlarge an image in Photoshop, all you're doing to approximating what pixels WOULD be there ... you're not adding any real new information to the image. How could this possibly improve a DVD image?
This is an honest question. I'd really like to know if they have some special fancy way to truly fill in the gaps of resolution.
1. That big box under the desk or next to the monitor? That's not the 'hard drive' -or- the "CPU'
2. That's not a cup holder either
3. Don't pick the mouse up when you're moving it around
4. Stop touching the LCD
When 90% of the world gets these items, then we can move on to bigger and better.
Ugh. Poorly researched, overhyped, unimaginative, and basically just a rehashing of things that have been said a million times.
Move along, there's nothing to see here.
So does that mean if I work twice as fast and efficient as other people in the same position, I can work part time but be considered "full time equivalent," with all the pay and perks and half the hours? That would frickin' rock.
America, what a country!
Some may pin me as an Apple fan boy, but this question is ridiculous.
I'd have to put my money on either Buddha or Ghandi.
This has everything to do with Intel, and absolutely NOTHING to do with Apple. Apple is not the only company using the Core Duo. There's no reason to imply that Apple is at fault or this problem relates to them in any way that it doesn't also relate to any other manufacturer using the Core Duo.
Just my 2
I just spec'd out a Dell laptop with similar specs to the high-end MacBook Pro, and it came in nowhere near as inexpensive as the MacBook Pro.
My Dell is configured as follows:
Precision M70
Pentium M single core 2.26GHz w/ 15.4" WUXGA LCD (This is going to be slower than a dual core 1.83, period.)
WinXP Pro
1GB RAM, 1 DIMM
100GB HD
8x DL DVD-RW
802.11g (This is a miniPCI card, not internally integrated like the Mac)
256MB Quadro FX Go1400 graphics
Bluetooth
1394a (FireWire) CardBus (again, this is an add-on, not internally integrated like the Mac)
Price for this Dell? $3,747. Compare that to the MacBook Pro at $2499. And the Dell doesn't include an IR sensor and remote, built-in 30fps VGA video camera, iLife, motion sensor, aluminum casing, etc.
That Gateway you mentioned? It uses Centrio chips, this is HARDLY the same as the brand-spankin' new Yonah based chips that the MacBook Pro is using. Also, the display isn't as high of a resolution. And the HD is 20GB smaller.
Basically, you didn't bother to do any real comparison or research, and I doubt you're all that knowledgable about computers if you missed those very simple details.
Yep, it was a matching-type puzzle game, but it featured girls' undergarments as the objects :)
I used a PowerBook 140 for about ... oh, I dunno, 12 years. The screen went out in 2003, but other than that the machine runs. Unfortunately, I have no SCSI computers/devices available to pull off the ONE THING I WANT MOST from that PowerBook.
A small little Japanese puzzle game called Katayuri. Does anyone know where to download a copy of this great little game?
Still though, 12 years without a problem is pretty freaking solid. Kudos!
Let's say you're an indie band distributed via CD Baby and iTunes. If you don't have a huge following, you'll be making less per song sale, even though it is usually a lot harder for indie bands to raise money and get studio time while working day jobs.
And if you're a huge name-brand act, who has all recording costs fronted by the label, you don't necessary NEED to make more per track because you're selling exponentially MORE tracks, so it all evens out.
Tiered pricing would just unfairly punish new artists and reinforce pop garbage by giving more money to people that already have it, and limiting the amount of money someone can make if they're just starting out.
Actually, now that I type that out, it seems to be par for the course for capitalism. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
And in no way shape or form do I feel that 99 cents a track is too much for any song. I'd rather pay more to bands like Milk Cult and Steel Pole Bath Tub, who have released their latest albums on their own label with their money, to help them continue to put out music that is infinitely more interesting than anything the majors are pushing this week. If anything more popular songs could be priced lower due to economics of scale.
Well, there was Panther.
And Tiger.
And next up, Leopard.
But those are software products, so I suppose you could pick that nit if you chose to.
Finally! Years after Bandai bungled the project, Apple's Pippin is finally going to see the light of day!
They would have already seized all his property, and even if he was found not guilty, he wouldn't get any of it back.
This guy may very well turn out to be a scumbag, but until a court of law determines him to be a scumbag, I don't think we should be so smug as to cheer for the fed's inalienable right to take whatever it wants from whomever it wants.
"Maybe with this they'll finally find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
Sure, but we would have had to put our reservations in about 2 millenia ago...
Ever since the food stamps ran out, I've been getting inventive in my chow time fare. Next up was my pillow, but this absolutely kills it. Unless of course I could cultivate those spores and sautee 'em ...
But most importantly, it should be emblazoned with the words "Don't Panic."
Great theory, well thought out, etc. etc.
But what the hell is with the recurring references to killing one's own father? To be honest, I wouldn't mind offing mine, but I'm sure that sentiment is in the minority of people. I just find it weird that this scientist keeps going on and on about killing one's own father. Methinks he may have issues there.
And as a side note, what a great f'ing job. Sitting around hypothesizing about things that will never be able to be proven one way or another in your natural lifetime. Awesome way to earn a paycheck. Good on ya, man.
Look, people are forgetting one fact about running OS X on run-of-the-mill PC hardware. And it actually has to do with PPC MLBs...
There are plenty of cheaper, more standardized PPC MLBs available from various vendors like TerraSoft and Pegasos. They are G3s or G4s, some with standard PC-style serial ports, etc. OS X does not run on these boards. That is because the Mac needs a custom boot ROM. If people were able to slap together a cheaper PPC box (which they can) and then put OS X on it (which they cannot) there wouldn't have been such a clamor for x86 Mac OS X.
Also, Apple does not use the typical northbridge/southbridge approach to MLB design. They have custom designed ICs, and we have heard nothing as to whether they will try to modify HyperTransport to work with x86 or use something else entirely. Apple makes a whole widget - and while I have no advance knowledge whatsoever, you can be damn sure that the Apple x86 MLBs are going to bear little resemblance to an off-the-shelf VIA board.
Put the issue to bed. Beyond these two facts is the simple fact that if you WERE able to just build a box and throw OS X on it, it wouldn't necessarily work correctly or be supported at all. And most people DON'T BUILD THEIR OWN BOXES ANYWAY. It would have minimal effect on sales because most people buy computers as appliances and tools, NOT as a HOBBY KIT. There will always be some that choose that path, but they are the grand, sweeping minority.
That all being said, i REALLY hope this switch offers us the ability to use a wider range of video cards and upgradable CPUs.
My shadow's
Shedding skin and
I've been picking
Scabs again.
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue.
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in
My shadow.
Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again.
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within
My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.
I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.
I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.
See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.
- Tool, Forty-Six and Two
Sure, the numbers look good going in: your choice of tons of guys with hardly any competition from other chicks.
Then you get there and see that although the choices are many, none of them are that appealing. Sort of like the menu at McDonald's.
For those of you that couldn't tell, this post has been a joke. With just a little bit of truth buried deep in the mix.
I got the unbelievable opportunity to see you in Baltimore, and the show was phenomenal. You were also just a really nice guy and treated your fans as equals and peers after the show, which was very refreshing and really cool.
:)? Or was everything as smooth as the show @ the Ottobar in B-more?
So which show was your favorite so far? Any hilarious foul-ups or unmitigated disasters so far