I'm not sure that the average Salon reader (not myself, of course!) will get this reference. After all, "5" seems pretty low in the expected 1-to-10 or 1-to-100 rating system, even for "funny" ratings.
And I wonder if Slashdot picks up more readers after such a reference?
I suspect that Lewis will be an option that wedding mills (which all medium-to-large cities have, you know the catering halls with huge parking lots that we all wind up going to when our various friends are married) will add for the bride to choose from: cocktail hour? check! three-layer white cake? check! special event photographer? check! robot photographer at reception? check! clean-up after reception? check!
For my sixth grade graduation present, I asked my parents to take me to 2001, which we saw in Colorado Springs in, what I now know to be, "Super Panavision," the only time I've ever seen such a "vision." Some time later, the theater was broken into four separate theaters and was later torn down.
I think that economics would predict regular waves of spam:
1. People will discover that spam is a waste of time and money, spam filters will block more and more of the useless stuff, and spam will start to decline.
2. Newbies who don't recognize that spam is a waste of time and money appear (as well as standard-issue fools who've forgotten their lesson), developers will reduce budgets and work on spam filters (and fewer people will install them), and spam will start a resurgence.
I guess that any time you're running with a network connection (as you will be if the "Center for Internet Security" is involved) there's some risk involved and all they're doing is making you aware of this risk, so yes, you're right: the only way to get a 10.0 is not to connect to the outside world. You obviously know what you're doing, so a 6.79 is a perfectly good score in your case. I think that 7.0 would be a good score for lots of companies to shoot for.
And, based on the digital back prices quoted above, this is still mucho cheaper than any digital option. I figure I can shoot a couple of thousand rolls of film and still be ahead.
Two years ago, my boyfriend bought me a very nice digital camera for xmas. I used it a lot for year (sometimes driving him crazy, I'm afraid, with my "just hold on a minute because I want to get a picture of this" shenanigans) but eventually I discovered that I wanted more control than I was able to get with the digital camera. So this year for xmas, I bought myself a very nice rather high-end 35mm camera, and I'm really getting better at "photography." While the digital camera was really good for learning about framing and composition and such, I'm really not sure that I could have made this next step without a 35mm camera (and the experience with different kinds of film and lenses). I also discovered that scanning and photoshopping prints was an amazing process that really taught me about the "digital darkroom." Now I want a great digital camera very badly but I'm discovering that none of them match the film speeds and lenses available with the 35mm (except at the >$2000 level, which is a little out of my range right now, but considering how much I spent on the 35mm camera...). At any rate, I'd love a digital back for my "better" 35mm so I can use my lenses, but only if it also simulates ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600 film. I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to pay, but I think it'd be a lot if it really did simulate the "analog experience."
because I could join the chorus and perhaps suggest to webmasters that it's not just one person who's having this problem. I'd really appreciate some help to get Citibank to get their online banking site to work with Netscape (or Mozilla) since it only seems to work with IE and while I've complained to them, I get the automated "we'll look into it problem" and I don't think they're going to change until dozens of users (who they recognize as representing thousands of users who don't complain) respond.
For example, my 4-year old Palm
on
Version Fatigue
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· Score: 1
I love my 4-year old Palm and there just isn't anything that's so new or improved in the new versions that I absolutely must have.
But that's not to say that I wouldn't take a new M515 color Palm or Sharp Zaurus (this is a test to see my my boyfriend really does look for and read my comments).
But software is not a traditional gift. "Here, Honey, I bought you the new release of Mandrake for your birthday." What a happy thought.
Many, many years ago I worked with a developer who had a cartoon taped to his file cabinet. In it, a mid-level-suit-looking guy was standing in front of a bunch of developer-types. The caption said, "Start writing code. I'll go find out what they want." This summarizes the vast majority of projects I've worked on. And it despite all the talk about why software sucks, it seems to be getting worse lately.
I'm a technical writer who spends a lot of time creating specs for software applications and, while I'd like to make the application so easy to use that I don't need to write instructions, it's just impossible. And the trade-off between easy-to-use and powerful applications means that there's always some function that you have to know how to use to get the full power from the application.
I saw the show in NYC a couple of weeks ago
on
Amazon.Heartbreak
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· Score: 1
It's well written (unlike so many of the one-person shows we get--take that Bea Arthur) and he's a very entertaining presenter. He's a big guy and sweats up a storm, which is funny and and not off-putting, since he's so involved in his story. I thought the weakest part was the imaginary e-mails to Mr. Bezos. But some of it was lost on my boyfriend who is not a dot-com guy. And he does NOT come off like a whiner: he's just a guy who got sucked into something bigger than he was (and don't forget, he's a big guy!) and is passing on his experiences. Three-and-a-half stars (out of four).
I think that everything should be installed. But the first time I use my brand-spanking new computer or click on a new file type, I have to select one: IE, Navigator, Opera, or Mozilla. But if this application screws me around, I should be able to right-click or cmd-click and select a new default application that's already installed. This even means when a page doesn't display right in IE (or Netscape or Opera for HTML --or Photoshop or Paint.jpgs or.gifs), I can quickly select another application.
Lots of people graduate with MBAs and other management degrees and believe that they can run a development project, a shoe store, or a nuclear power plant because they've been given the skills (which they're told are exactly the same for all businesses). But I've learned over the years that the best managers are those who know what is expected of their workers because they've done it themselves. I'm not a middle-level manager now (than damn dot-com blow-out) but I honestly believe that my workers liked me and appreciated how I handed-out projects and tracked their progress because I'd done it myself, both under great management (which I try to emulate) and disasterous management (which still makes me weep).
Rather than "found art," I think that fractal art is a kind of aleotoric art: you plug in the parameters and see what you get. The "diddling sliders" are always amazed, and the "real artists
are never satisfied and try it again and again and again (with minor variations) until they get something unique and interesting and worth talking about. But in most cases, fractal art is so limited, it really isn't art. (And I don't buy the "subtlety" argument, either.)
I have a fair number, too. They give me the basic info that I need to get started, and sometimes they have useful tables and summary info that's not easily gleaned from on-line help (which I, being a tech writer, use rather extensively).
I consider myself only moderately technical but work with some very technical guys. I think that I'd be a better contributor at work if I could read a well written, interesting, and authoritative book for non-computer scientists on the weekend and use it during the week. Everybody gains.
Lately, I'm more aware of the highly fake score
on
Review: Pearl Harbor
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· Score: 1
Recently, I saw "The King is Alive" which is a Dogme-95 film (http://www.tvropa.com/tvropa1.2/film/dogme95/menu/menuset.htm) which prohibits an artifical overly emotional soundtrack. I'm really becoming aware of how Hollywood has to use the fake score to tell you what you're supposed to be thinking.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure that the average Salon reader (not myself, of course!) will get this reference. After all, "5" seems pretty low in the expected 1-to-10 or 1-to-100 rating system, even for "funny" ratings.
And I wonder if Slashdot picks up more readers after such a reference?
I suspect that Lewis will be an option that wedding mills (which all medium-to-large cities have, you know the catering halls with huge parking lots that we all wind up going to when our various friends are married) will add for the bride to choose from: cocktail hour? check! three-layer white cake? check! special event photographer? check! robot photographer at reception? check! clean-up after reception? check!
For my sixth grade graduation present, I asked my parents to take me to 2001, which we saw in Colorado Springs in, what I now know to be, "Super Panavision," the only time I've ever seen such a "vision." Some time later, the theater was broken into four separate theaters and was later torn down.
I think that economics would predict regular waves of spam:
1. People will discover that spam is a waste of time and money, spam filters will block more and more of the useless stuff, and spam will start to decline.
2. Newbies who don't recognize that spam is a waste of time and money appear (as well as standard-issue fools who've forgotten their lesson), developers will reduce budgets and work on spam filters (and fewer people will install them), and spam will start a resurgence.
3. See 1. above.
I guess that any time you're running with a network connection (as you will be if the "Center for Internet Security" is involved) there's some risk involved and all they're doing is making you aware of this risk, so yes, you're right: the only way to get a 10.0 is not to connect to the outside world. You obviously know what you're doing, so a 6.79 is a perfectly good score in your case. I think that 7.0 would be a good score for lots of companies to shoot for.
And, based on the digital back prices quoted above, this is still mucho cheaper than any digital option. I figure I can shoot a couple of thousand rolls of film and still be ahead.
Two years ago, my boyfriend bought me a very nice digital camera for xmas. I used it a lot for year (sometimes driving him crazy, I'm afraid, with my "just hold on a minute because I want to get a picture of this" shenanigans) but eventually I discovered that I wanted more control than I was able to get with the digital camera. So this year for xmas, I bought myself a very nice rather high-end 35mm camera, and I'm really getting better at "photography." While the digital camera was really good for learning about framing and composition and such, I'm really not sure that I could have made this next step without a 35mm camera (and the experience with different kinds of film and lenses). I also discovered that scanning and photoshopping prints was an amazing process that really taught me about the "digital darkroom." Now I want a great digital camera very badly but I'm discovering that none of them match the film speeds and lenses available with the 35mm (except at the >$2000 level, which is a little out of my range right now, but considering how much I spent on the 35mm camera...). At any rate, I'd love a digital back for my "better" 35mm so I can use my lenses, but only if it also simulates ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600 film. I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to pay, but I think it'd be a lot if it really did simulate the "analog experience."
Billy Joel has trademarked his name, too.
http://www.turnstiles.org/News/arc0-1998.html
because I could join the chorus and perhaps suggest to webmasters that it's not just one person who's having this problem. I'd really appreciate some help to get Citibank to get their online banking site to work with Netscape (or Mozilla) since it only seems to work with IE and while I've complained to them, I get the automated "we'll look into it problem" and I don't think they're going to change until dozens of users (who they recognize as representing thousands of users who don't complain) respond.
I love my 4-year old Palm and there just isn't anything that's so new or improved in the new versions that I absolutely must have.
But that's not to say that I wouldn't take a new M515 color Palm or Sharp Zaurus (this is a test to see my my boyfriend really does look for and read my comments).
But software is not a traditional gift. "Here, Honey, I bought you the new release of Mandrake for your birthday." What a happy thought.
Many, many years ago I worked with a developer who had a cartoon taped to his file cabinet. In it, a mid-level-suit-looking guy was standing in front of a bunch of developer-types. The caption said, "Start writing code. I'll go find out what they want." This summarizes the vast majority of projects I've worked on. And it despite all the talk about why software sucks, it seems to be getting worse lately.
Why we need user guides:
I'm a technical writer who spends a lot of time creating specs for software applications and, while I'd like to make the application so easy to use that I don't need to write instructions, it's just impossible. And the trade-off between easy-to-use and powerful applications means that there's always some function that you have to know how to use to get the full power from the application.
It's well written (unlike so many of the one-person shows we get--take that Bea Arthur) and he's a very entertaining presenter. He's a big guy and sweats up a storm, which is funny and and not off-putting, since he's so involved in his story. I thought the weakest part was the imaginary e-mails to Mr. Bezos. But some of it was lost on my boyfriend who is not a dot-com guy. And he does NOT come off like a whiner: he's just a guy who got sucked into something bigger than he was (and don't forget, he's a big guy!) and is passing on his experiences. Three-and-a-half stars (out of four).
I'm a technical writer. I write fricking manuals for a living and I never, never knew this. I really feel stupid stupid stupid. Thanks.
(And I'll look up the Rosenberg article, too.) Thanks.
Not that I'm so smart (obviously), but clearly Joe User isn't able to find or use this stuff either.
I think that everything should be installed. But the first time I use my brand-spanking new computer or click on a new file type, I have to select one: IE, Navigator, Opera, or Mozilla. But if this application screws me around, I should be able to right-click or cmd-click and select a new default application that's already installed. This even means when a page doesn't display right in IE (or Netscape or Opera for HTML --or Photoshop or Paint .jpgs or .gifs), I can quickly select another application.
Lots of people graduate with MBAs and other management degrees and believe that they can run a development project, a shoe store, or a nuclear power plant because they've been given the skills (which they're told are exactly the same for all businesses). But I've learned over the years that the best managers are those who know what is expected of their workers because they've done it themselves. I'm not a middle-level manager now (than damn dot-com blow-out) but I honestly believe that my workers liked me and appreciated how I handed-out projects and tracked their progress because I'd done it myself, both under great management (which I try to emulate) and disasterous management (which still makes me weep).
I'm not sure that "technology is at the service of other aims...." Sometimes it has its own agenda.
But on another track, I think that it was Corbusier (I can't find the quote) who said that "Architecture is the history of technology."
Rather than "found art," I think that fractal art is a kind of aleotoric art: you plug in the parameters and see what you get. The "diddling sliders" are always amazed, and the "real artists
are never satisfied and try it again and again and again (with minor variations) until they get something unique and interesting and worth talking about. But in most cases, fractal art is so limited, it really isn't art. (And I don't buy the "subtlety" argument, either.)
I have a fair number, too. They give me the basic info that I need to get started, and sometimes they have useful tables and summary info that's not easily gleaned from on-line help (which I, being a tech writer, use rather extensively).
I consider myself only moderately technical but work with some very technical guys. I think that I'd be a better contributor at work if I could read a well written, interesting, and authoritative book for non-computer scientists on the weekend and use it during the week. Everybody gains.
Recently, I saw "The King is Alive" which is a Dogme-95 film (http://www.tvropa.com/tvropa1.2/film/dogme95/menu /menuset.htm) which prohibits an artifical overly emotional soundtrack. I'm really becoming aware of how Hollywood has to use the fake score to tell you what you're supposed to be thinking.