That doesn't look like a 60 foot squid to me, unless those marine biologists are 20 feet tall. The body of the squid looks to be about person length -- are some of the tentacles 50 feet long?
...they also shut down the tube connecting the island city of Alameda, California, to Oakland several times for filming on weekend nights last year. I lived in Oakland and a friend of mine in Alameda at the time -- it meant driving 20-30 minutes out of our way both directions.
Ma and Pa small business owners in Nebraska might not be affected, but in major cities there are still single-screen theaters that aren't owned by big chains (though these are declining in number). Often these theaters alternate between showing art-house films and blockbusters; I imagine the latter subsidize the former. It would sadden me if these went under due to the costs involved in the switch to digital.
jf
chinese govt. thinks apollo was faked!
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One thing of interest in all this that isn't mentioned in the BBC story: as of the mid 1990s, anyway, the official position of the People's Republic of China was that the Apollo program was faked (or at least that it "hadn't been proved true"). My junior year of college (1994-95), I had a roommate who was a grad student in Astronomy. There was a big conference on planetary science at our school, with several scientists from the PRC in attendence. Apparently everything had to be carefully orchestrated so that these scientists wouldn't have to attend any talks in which the US moon landings were a given, since they'd be politically required to stand up and dispute it or they'd be in trouble back home! She (my roommate) says that they (the scientists) didn't actually belive this hokum, but that the conference organizers didn't want to endanger their careers/lives.
I'm not sure how this idea got intot he PRC leadership -- senile Chairman Mao watching Capricorn One too many times? Unless the PRC has changed its tune, we may be witness to the odd and embarassing spectacle of the Chinese claiming to be the first on the moon...
For anyone out there who has previewed 10.2 on a computer w/out adequate video hardware to support Quartz Extreme: have you noticed any slowdown compared to 10.1.x? I have a 450 MHz DP w/ 384 MB of RAM and an older video card; once I upgraded from 128 MB of RAM, OS X's UI became fast enough for my taste (tho I know others are grumpy about it). I'm drooling over all the 10.2 features but I don't want my experience to get any slower -- but keeping steady is OK!
Argh! Here I am, living in Europe forced to use this accursed Windows laptop, and looking forward to getting back to my not-even-two-years-old 450 MHz dual processor G4 at the end of the year. But a look at apple-history.com tells me that my model has a Rage 128 Pro graphics card and 16 MB of DRAM.
I am not exactly flush with cash right now and was planning on using my G4 for at least another year, but I'd hate to not be able to get bast 10.1.x. The most complex computer operation I've ever attempted is a RAM upgrade. How difficult/expensive would it be to upgrade my video card and VRAM? To show how dumb I am, I don't even know if that constitutes two separate operations.
This slip of the tongue might just be a result of the general public's sloppy use of the word "web". When the Internet first took off in the mid 1990s, you saw all sorts of long-term Internet users fly into pedantic rages when people used the words "web" and "internet" interchangeably (i.e., "sending email through the Web," not referring to an HTML mail client like Hotmail.)
To non-Internet savvy folks, everything online is "the web" and anything you may encounter there is "a website".
That said, programmers ARE very educated people and THEY make the product YOU are cold-calling people to trying to sell.
Let's pretend now that they didn't exist at your company - oops, now you have no job. I'm not saying that other people at the company aren't important, but let's not forget who is actually CREATING PRODUCT here.
Turn that statement around: if those sales people weren't doing cold calls, all your work would amount to nothing more than bits and bytes on a server. No one would pay for it and, oops, now you have no job.
Being a salesperson requires both skills and a certain temperment. I have neither, and in fact, said temperment is such that most salespeople I know I've disliked on a personal level. But I recognized that they were in a very direct way responsible for the money that paid my salary.
It's fun for geeks to mock nongeeks as being useless. But the fact is in a profitable company, probably every position contributes to that profit in some way (though certainly some individuals don't fulfill the duties of their positions). My adivce to the original poster is to steer your team away from the attitude that they are kings of the company and that everyone else is window-dressing. It's not a productive way to think, particularly if your coders are not building a product for sale, but rather building in-house apps for other employees to use (which is what most programmers do these days).
the other respondents to this thread have pointed out various nefarious accounting and manipulatory schemes that AOL pre-TW merger has been guilty of. I'd just like to add my two cents that the post-merger company is scary because it represents a vertical trust -- in essence, it's a company that produces content, delivers content, and reports on content, and those facets are hard to separate. Witness the fawning coverage received by Warners' Harry Potter film on CNN, or the Time Magazine story a few years ago entitled "The Sexiest Movie Ever" that helped build buzz for "Eyes Wide Shut" (which, just for the record, was not the sexiest movie ever). How unbiased do you think CNN's coverage of this incredibly high-profile trial will be? How unbiased *can* it be?
Traditionally, music sales and movie theatres do good business during hard economic times. During the Great Depression, the movie industry made enough money to finance the construction of whole chains of movie palaces the likes of which we'll never see again! Right now, the movie industry is in an enormous boom -- movies right now are making hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
Reminds me of what my cousin, who works for Anheuser-Busch, said when I asked him if he was worried about his job during the downturn: "Nope! When the economy's down, drinking's up! And when the economy's up, drinking's up!"
jf
Re:Serious question about connectivity
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OS X works well for me. There is a built-in Samba client in OS X 10.1 and later that mounts Samba volumes as native volumes -- there's no built in browser (you have to use a clunky syntax like smb://user@computer;share) but once you mount it you can create a alias for it and not worry about it again.
There are both free and pay options for X-Servers that can run both as an Aqua (the standard OS X GUI) app and in full-screen mode. Several command-line compilers are included. Not sure about the printer share, but there is built-in networked printing so I imagine you can.
Sorry if this has been answered, but I haven't seen... since the iPod has a little GUI, I'm assuming there has to be some embedded OS or another -- is it an adaption of one already on the market or something Apple cooked up? And what processor is inside, for that matter? The Apple "tech specs" are mum on both these points.
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That doesn't look like a 60 foot squid to me, unless those marine biologists are 20 feet tall. The body of the squid looks to be about person length -- are some of the tentacles 50 feet long?
jf
The thing that really got me was this line in their statement:
"Many of you offered thoughtful insights that have prompted us to reevaluate this policy."
Thoughtful insights? From the flood of Slashdot readers? Wow!
jf
...they also shut down the tube connecting the island city of Alameda, California, to Oakland several times for filming on weekend nights last year. I lived in Oakland and a friend of mine in Alameda at the time -- it meant driving 20-30 minutes out of our way both directions.
jf
Ma and Pa small business owners in Nebraska might not be affected, but in major cities there are still single-screen theaters that aren't owned by big chains (though these are declining in number). Often these theaters alternate between showing art-house films and blockbusters; I imagine the latter subsidize the former. It would sadden me if these went under due to the costs involved in the switch to digital.
jf
One thing of interest in all this that isn't mentioned in the BBC story: as of the mid 1990s, anyway, the official position of the People's Republic of China was that the Apollo program was faked (or at least that it "hadn't been proved true"). My junior year of college (1994-95), I had a roommate who was a grad student in Astronomy. There was a big conference on planetary science at our school, with several scientists from the PRC in attendence. Apparently everything had to be carefully orchestrated so that these scientists wouldn't have to attend any talks in which the US moon landings were a given, since they'd be politically required to stand up and dispute it or they'd be in trouble back home! She (my roommate) says that they (the scientists) didn't actually belive this hokum, but that the conference organizers didn't want to endanger their careers/lives.
I'm not sure how this idea got intot he PRC leadership -- senile Chairman Mao watching Capricorn One too many times? Unless the PRC has changed its tune, we may be witness to the odd and embarassing spectacle of the Chinese claiming to be the first on the moon...
jf
For anyone out there who has previewed 10.2 on a computer w/out adequate video hardware to support Quartz Extreme: have you noticed any slowdown compared to 10.1.x? I have a 450 MHz DP w/ 384 MB of RAM and an older video card; once I upgraded from 128 MB of RAM, OS X's UI became fast enough for my taste (tho I know others are grumpy about it). I'm drooling over all the 10.2 features but I don't want my experience to get any slower -- but keeping steady is OK!
jf
Argh! Here I am, living in Europe forced to use this accursed Windows laptop, and looking forward to getting back to my not-even-two-years-old 450 MHz dual processor G4 at the end of the year. But a look at apple-history.com tells me that my model has a Rage 128 Pro graphics card and 16 MB of DRAM.
I am not exactly flush with cash right now and was planning on using my G4 for at least another year, but I'd hate to not be able to get bast 10.1.x. The most complex computer operation I've ever attempted is a RAM upgrade. How difficult/expensive would it be to upgrade my video card and VRAM? To show how dumb I am, I don't even know if that constitutes two separate operations.
jf
This slip of the tongue might just be a result of the general public's sloppy use of the word "web". When the Internet first took off in the mid 1990s, you saw all sorts of long-term Internet users fly into pedantic rages when people used the words "web" and "internet" interchangeably (i.e., "sending email through the Web," not referring to an HTML mail client like Hotmail.)
To non-Internet savvy folks, everything online is "the web" and anything you may encounter there is "a website".
jf
That said, programmers ARE very educated people and THEY make the product YOU are cold-calling people to trying to sell.
Let's pretend now that they didn't exist at your company - oops, now you have no job. I'm not saying that other people at the company aren't important, but let's not forget who is actually CREATING PRODUCT here.
Turn that statement around: if those sales people weren't doing cold calls, all your work would amount to nothing more than bits and bytes on a server. No one would pay for it and, oops, now you have no job.
Being a salesperson requires both skills and a certain temperment. I have neither, and in fact, said temperment is such that most salespeople I know I've disliked on a personal level. But I recognized that they were in a very direct way responsible for the money that paid my salary.
It's fun for geeks to mock nongeeks as being useless. But the fact is in a profitable company, probably every position contributes to that profit in some way (though certainly some individuals don't fulfill the duties of their positions). My adivce to the original poster is to steer your team away from the attitude that they are kings of the company and that everyone else is window-dressing. It's not a productive way to think, particularly if your coders are not building a product for sale, but rather building in-house apps for other employees to use (which is what most programmers do these days).
jf
the other respondents to this thread have pointed out various nefarious accounting and manipulatory schemes that AOL pre-TW merger has been guilty of. I'd just like to add my two cents that the post-merger company is scary because it represents a vertical trust -- in essence, it's a company that produces content, delivers content, and reports on content, and those facets are hard to separate. Witness the fawning coverage received by Warners' Harry Potter film on CNN, or the Time Magazine story a few years ago entitled "The Sexiest Movie Ever" that helped build buzz for "Eyes Wide Shut" (which, just for the record, was not the sexiest movie ever). How unbiased do you think CNN's coverage of this incredibly high-profile trial will be? How unbiased *can* it be?
jf
Traditionally, music sales and movie theatres do good business during hard economic times. During the Great Depression, the movie industry made enough money to finance the construction of whole chains of movie palaces the likes of which we'll never see again! Right now, the movie industry is in an enormous boom -- movies right now are making hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
Reminds me of what my cousin, who works for Anheuser-Busch, said when I asked him if he was worried about his job during the downturn: "Nope! When the economy's down, drinking's up! And when the economy's up, drinking's up!"
jf
OS X works well for me. There is a built-in Samba client in OS X 10.1 and later that mounts Samba volumes as native volumes -- there's no built in browser (you have to use a clunky syntax like smb://user@computer;share) but once you mount it you can create a alias for it and not worry about it again.
There are both free and pay options for X-Servers that can run both as an Aqua (the standard OS X GUI) app and in full-screen mode. Several command-line compilers are included. Not sure about the printer share, but there is built-in networked printing so I imagine you can.
jf
Sorry if this has been answered, but I haven't seen ... since the iPod has a little GUI, I'm assuming there has to be some embedded OS or another -- is it an adaption of one already on the market or something Apple cooked up? And what processor is inside, for that matter? The Apple "tech specs" are mum on both these points.
jf