"and supports itself without any need for in-line ads."
I'm a big fan of HBO, but just for their TV shows. Band of Brothers, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City et al kick the collective ass of anything from the broadcast networks.
However, I was very disturbed by one particular scene in Six Feet Under a couple weeks ago...which is saying something if you've ever watched it. There is one scene where Nate (the straight brother) whips out his cell phone to answer a call.
The camera gives us a nice, big closeup of his shiny Motorola cell phone in his hand and the shot stays there for a little longer than the conventional rules of cinematography call for. I was pretty darn sure that I had just witnessed a product placement ad on a channel that I pay $18/mo for.
I picked up the soundtrack to the movie a year ago...the whole album is filled with above exceptional 80's hard rock music, plus Weird Al Yankovic at the end. It's been playing in my truck's stereo for 4 days now. Maybe if the RIAA put out more albums like that sales wouldn't be in the shitter.
*drool* There was an Autobot that kind of looks like my black Chevy Blazer...I think his name was Tracker or something. It would be cool to have an Autobot logo on anything. I'd put a Decepticon logo on my 9mm if I had one.
For the context of the show, transforming into animals made perfect sense. Beast Wars and Beast Machines which followed, were incredibly well made and the writing was superb...true continuations of the original series I enjoyed as a kid.
The writers of Beast Wars/Machines definitely had the original fans in mind; the shows were filled with tons of obscure references to the original series that only make sense if you're over 20.
Hey, now you can look like Vivian from The Young Ones!
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This gives me a great idea. I don't know how implementable it is from a technical standpoint, but it's a good idea. My idea is a way for people to buy software, take it home and test its compatability before opening the shrinkwrap.
Even though most software lists the OS and hardware requirements on the box, most people don't necessarily know what's in their system (especially average Best Buy shoppers). I propose including a floppy disk attached to the outside of the box in a plastic envelope. The floppy disk could run a systems check to say with some certainty whether or not the software will work in a given system.
As proof of record, the floppy could generate some sort of compatability certificate or a statement saying the software is incompatible with a given computer. If the software is incompatible, the consumer can return the *unopened* software package. Of course, if he opens the package despite failing the compatability test, then that's tea & sugar.
How is the quality of the system overall? Does the thing feel like its built well?
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(and got the t-shirt)
BeOS (god rest its soul) uses the Be Filesystem, or BFS. It is a 64-bit journalling and indexing filesystem. It is essentially a filesystem that works much like a database. You can attach any number of arbitrary attributes to any file. Filetyping is handled by MIME filetypes, which are also stored as attributes. The default BeOS installation includes all of the usual attributes for music files and it is very easy to add many more. The BeOS "find file" tool is not unlike a database query tool.
In terms of speed, file searches are done almost instantaneously, even when searching through several gigs of data.
I've begun selling off all my old PC hardware lying around to save up for exactly the same model that you have. I'm seriously wanting to make a TiBook my primary computer; it's portable, durable and appears as if it will do everything I currently do and want to do, but in a smaller package. Do you know if Apple is planning on doing an upgrade cycle to make the Superdrive standard or rev up the video chipset? That could only sweeten the deal for me.
I've never agreed with OSS and Free Software being communist in nature. OSS and Free Software, imo, are about as free market capitalist as you can get. Think about it...so many groups and companies competing against one another charging different levels of prices (free to $$$$$) for software products that are essentially based upon industry standards and are interchangeable with one another.
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I am issuing a goatsex warning on the parent post. The "Brown Eye Journal" link takes you to a very unsavory image of a "brown eye."
Before I became hell-bent on buying a TiBook, I was thinking of building my own case for my X86 system...worked up some preliminary sketches and everything. For the case skeleton, I was thinking of buying a kit from <a href="http://www.xbeams.com">Xbeams</a>. I discovered them as a Google text ad. </p> <p> They sell these extruded aluminum beams with connectors. All of the parts are interchangeable and you can build different things like shelves, guitar stands, bookcases and CD shelves. If you've ever played with those plastic Construx beams as a kid, you'd fall in love with Xbeams, since they're the sturdy, metal adult version of Construx, imo. From what a sales rep told me, you can even insert panels of wood, glass and metal between two beams. Now, drool at *those* posibilities! </p> <p> If I was going to go ahead with my case project, I'd definitely get an Xbeams kit...but like I said, I'm TiBook destined.
Accidental pr0n is when you're at work checking your Yahoo! email and a banner ad for Playboy or Maxxim is at the top of the screen. Only a tad awkward when there are females around. I bitched out Yahoo's customer service and I no longer get pr0n ads.
Yeah, now you can join the club all by yourself. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are at our cruising altitude of 35,000 feet and the captain has just turned the pr0n filter off."
Well, when I go to look at the system settings, I see my name under "This system is registered to:" I have no idea if that name got sent out when I activated the software.
Oh, did I mention I'm selling everything to afford a TiBook and avoid this mess?
This might be a bit offtopic, but while we're talking about Windows "licenses":
If I were to sell or donate my PC to someone else and that PC has XP installed (which I activated using my name), what must I do to dissociate my name from that activated copy/serial number?
I want to get a G4 Titanium Powerbook. Plays DVDs, burns CDs, hooks up to the TV for bigger screen DVD watching, lets me do my work in the home or office (if you find writing financial reports entertaining), plays games.
It could be all the warm weather we're having, but I seem to be on a "slim down and simplify" kick and the TiBook suits my purpose just wonderfully. I'm trying to liquidate all my old PC hardware lying around (including my BeBox) to get the funds together for one. The only old hardware I'm going to keep are my Phillips speaker system w/sub and my extra 40 gig IDE drive, which is going into a FireWire enclosure.
If you owe taxes, an extension won't help you too much. You only get an extension on filing the paperwork. If you owe anything, it must still be postmarked by the 15th of April.
He does go on to state that raw sockets are only a problem in administrator mode. The real cause for panic is that under WinXP, every user is administrator by default. Yes, we know that is bad, but the average user has no idea what's going on. To make matters worse, most programs won't run properly under XP if you aren't logged in under an administrative account, especially games.
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"and supports itself without any need for in-line ads."
I'm a big fan of HBO, but just for their TV shows. Band of Brothers, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City et al kick the collective ass of anything from the broadcast networks.
However, I was very disturbed by one particular scene in Six Feet Under a couple weeks ago...which is saying something if you've ever watched it. There is one scene where Nate (the straight brother) whips out his cell phone to answer a call.
The camera gives us a nice, big closeup of his shiny Motorola cell phone in his hand and the shot stays there for a little longer than the conventional rules of cinematography call for. I was pretty darn sure that I had just witnessed a product placement ad on a channel that I pay $18/mo for.
Explorer is the Windows file manager. It's very evident on any NT 4.0 or pre-Win98 version of Windows. Internet Explorer is the web browser.
Ah, yes...too bad I have the Blazer instead of the new TrailBlazer; that would have been too poetic.
I picked up the soundtrack to the movie a year ago...the whole album is filled with above exceptional 80's hard rock music, plus Weird Al Yankovic at the end. It's been playing in my truck's stereo for 4 days now. Maybe if the RIAA put out more albums like that sales wouldn't be in the shitter.
*drool* There was an Autobot that kind of looks like my black Chevy Blazer...I think his name was Tracker or something. It would be cool to have an Autobot logo on anything. I'd put a Decepticon logo on my 9mm if I had one.
For the context of the show, transforming into animals made perfect sense. Beast Wars and Beast Machines which followed, were incredibly well made and the writing was superb...true continuations of the original series I enjoyed as a kid.
The writers of Beast Wars/Machines definitely had the original fans in mind; the shows were filled with tons of obscure references to the original series that only make sense if you're over 20.
Hey, now you can look like Vivian from The Young Ones!
This gives me a great idea. I don't know how implementable it is from a technical standpoint, but it's a good idea. My idea is a way for people to buy software, take it home and test its compatability before opening the shrinkwrap.
Even though most software lists the OS and hardware requirements on the box, most people don't necessarily know what's in their system (especially average Best Buy shoppers). I propose including a floppy disk attached to the outside of the box in a plastic envelope. The floppy disk could run a systems check to say with some certainty whether or not the software will work in a given system.
As proof of record, the floppy could generate some sort of compatability certificate or a statement saying the software is incompatible with a given computer. If the software is incompatible, the consumer can return the *unopened* software package. Of course, if he opens the package despite failing the compatability test, then that's tea & sugar.
How is the quality of the system overall? Does the thing feel like its built well?
(and got the t-shirt)
BeOS (god rest its soul) uses the Be Filesystem, or BFS. It is a 64-bit journalling and indexing filesystem. It is essentially a filesystem that works much like a database. You can attach any number of arbitrary attributes to any file. Filetyping is handled by MIME filetypes, which are also stored as attributes. The default BeOS installation includes all of the usual attributes for music files and it is very easy to add many more. The BeOS "find file" tool is not unlike a database query tool.
In terms of speed, file searches are done almost instantaneously, even when searching through several gigs of data.
I've begun selling off all my old PC hardware lying around to save up for exactly the same model that you have. I'm seriously wanting to make a TiBook my primary computer; it's portable, durable and appears as if it will do everything I currently do and want to do, but in a smaller package. Do you know if Apple is planning on doing an upgrade cycle to make the Superdrive standard or rev up the video chipset? That could only sweeten the deal for me.
I've never agreed with OSS and Free Software being communist in nature. OSS and Free Software, imo, are about as free market capitalist as you can get. Think about it...so many groups and companies competing against one another charging different levels of prices (free to $$$$$) for software products that are essentially based upon industry standards and are interchangeable with one another.
I am issuing a goatsex warning on the parent post. The "Brown Eye Journal" link takes you to a very unsavory image of a "brown eye."
Before I became hell-bent on buying a TiBook, I was thinking of building my own case for my X86 system...worked up some preliminary sketches and everything. For the case skeleton, I was thinking of buying a kit from <a href="http://www.xbeams.com">Xbeams</a>. I discovered them as a Google text ad.
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They sell these extruded aluminum beams with connectors. All of the parts are interchangeable and you can build different things like shelves, guitar stands, bookcases and CD shelves. If you've ever played with those plastic Construx beams as a kid, you'd fall in love with Xbeams, since they're the sturdy, metal adult version of Construx, imo. From what a sales rep told me, you can even insert panels of wood, glass and metal between two beams. Now, drool at *those* posibilities!
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If I was going to go ahead with my case project, I'd definitely get an Xbeams kit...but like I said, I'm TiBook destined.
Accidental pr0n is when you're at work checking your Yahoo! email and a banner ad for Playboy or Maxxim is at the top of the screen. Only a tad awkward when there are females around. I bitched out Yahoo's customer service and I no longer get pr0n ads.
If VI is visually impaired, then what does that make emacs?
Yeah, now you can join the club all by yourself. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are at our cruising altitude of 35,000 feet and the captain has just turned the pr0n filter off."
Did you previously activate the CD you gave your roommate, or was it just sitting around?
Well, when I go to look at the system settings, I see my name under "This system is registered to:" I have no idea if that name got sent out when I activated the software.
Oh, did I mention I'm selling everything to afford a TiBook and avoid this mess?
This might be a bit offtopic, but while we're talking about Windows "licenses":
If I were to sell or donate my PC to someone else and that PC has XP installed (which I activated using my name), what must I do to dissociate my name from that activated copy/serial number?
I want to get a G4 Titanium Powerbook. Plays DVDs, burns CDs, hooks up to the TV for bigger screen DVD watching, lets me do my work in the home or office (if you find writing financial reports entertaining), plays games.
It could be all the warm weather we're having, but I seem to be on a "slim down and simplify" kick and the TiBook suits my purpose just wonderfully. I'm trying to liquidate all my old PC hardware lying around (including my BeBox) to get the funds together for one. The only old hardware I'm going to keep are my Phillips speaker system w/sub and my extra 40 gig IDE drive, which is going into a FireWire enclosure.
If you owe taxes, an extension won't help you too much. You only get an extension on filing the paperwork. If you owe anything, it must still be postmarked by the 15th of April.
Grafiti/tagging...It's all vandalism to the guy whose building/delivery truck was painted on.
He does go on to state that raw sockets are only a problem in administrator mode. The real cause for panic is that under WinXP, every user is administrator by default. Yes, we know that is bad, but the average user has no idea what's going on. To make matters worse, most programs won't run properly under XP if you aren't logged in under an administrative account, especially games.
"FrenchPeopleStink.com and a phoney dispute by a foreigner was created to shut you up."
So it's really true..."in a time of universal lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."