Admiral freebee & Sara Bettens (K's Choice) are belgian groups (i'm belgian). Anouk is from the netherlands. that said, I consider Admiral Freebee to be far supierior to the two other groups. I really can't wait for their (his, since this is largely a one man project) next album !
Have you ever heard of the groups deus or novastar ? They are pretty damd good too.
duh.. replying to self, since I forgot one important issue : I'm a freelancer, teleworking at home most of the time. When kids are young (
However : take 16:00 - 20:00 as qualitity time with the kids.
I have 3 kids, and I'm 32. They take a lot of your time, but if you have basic planning skills, that is no problem at all. Just consider 16:00 - 20:00 to be a no-work zone. As long as you don't PLAN to do any work then, you'll be fine. However, if you plan to work all the time, then prepare to get frustrated. After 20:00, they sleep, and you can code since going out every evening is a big nono with kids at home (babysitters are damd expensive !)
If you can manage a wife for 5 years, you sure as hell can manage a kid : if you can not plan free time from work with your SO, then forget about kids.
They're removing all those layers and doing it all in hardware through.NET and Avalon presentation libraries.
lol... talking about a contradictio in terminis... DirectX is as close to HW as you can get dude. Anything on top of that is just a step away from the hardware.
I got your point, and agree 100%. The whole discussion of wearing a tie or not basically boils down to "do what suits your needs and your taste".
which, coincidentally, applies to all things in life:-)
The problems begin only when you bump into someone who considers HIS needs and taste to be universal or superior. Foruntately, your post proved you not to be one of those.
this is pretty difficult to explain in an online forum, but my guess is that a significant percentage of the population (and expecially of the slashdot public) would choose the other house.
I don't like clean, vacuumed, neat, disinfected, chilling houses. I prefer to go to places where there's still doritos left in the bowl from a previous occasion, where the hall has a bunch of coats and shoes thrown on top of eachother, where the host wears 2 different socks and pants with holes in the pockets. Where the kids scream around me and make a mess of the place.
Honestly. The house you're talking about would raise expectations and create an atmosphere of sterility that would definitely influence the conversation & the mood. I could never be myself in such an environment (except perhaps after consuming enough alocohol) and would never be able to show my personality in both its agreable and annoying qualities.
What you call "showing respect" can equally be called "forcing vistitors to show respect". Unless ofcourse you've been raised in such environment, and consider it to be the standard. Which I really don't think is the case among geeks, and not even among the general population. To counter it : when you have diner with your fishing buddies, do you clean up the house after a long day of fishing ? Offcourse not. Respect is somehting that has not to be worked for. It is there, or it is not.
I think the technology is OK, but overbuffed beyond recognition. Comon : they have a screenshot of a 3D bar graph behind some semi-transparent buttons. Cool maybe, but then they boast having done it in 2-3 days.
duh ? I don't know how many whistles are behind it, but putting a rotating 3D object in an app can be done right now with a few clicks and a few lines code adding an ActiveX control to an ordinary MFC app. Putting transparent shit on it is supposed to be OS-level, so that should take 2 minutes once the OS supports it. What were they doing 3 days ? It can be done TODAY in less time. On Windows. On a P3 with 64MB ram.
that's what I hate the most about these presentations. They fart in a bottle and present it as the new coming of Christ. And everyone buys it.
Note : I'm NOT saying that avalon isn't cool and so, but the stuff they demonstrate is nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Yet it makes the headlines. Bah
OSX and OS9 don't need to dual boot : you can run OS9 inside OSX. At practically no preformance loss (there's no emulator running, only an API stub for some carbon calls).
In those rare cases where this setup doesn't work (some old scanners really dislike OSX), you can boot into pure OS9 by sleecting it as startup system in the 'startup' control panel.
for heaven's sake, stop being so paranoid. Noone spoke about the road "tracking you everyhere you go" !
This is merely an efficient mechanism to stop speeders that cause millions of damage and loss of life every year. How in name of the big puking banana can you possible oppose that ?
Did you know that your calls to the 911 are monitored ? Does that stop you from calling an ambulance when you've just stabbed a knife and a potato casserole in your left ear ?
Note to paranoid dorks : EVERYTHING you do CAN be monitored. If you really really want to live below radar at every possible instance, strap yourself to the exhaust of burt rutans next flight.
They did not "reverse engineer" FairPlay. They just added some hooks into quicktime to catch the audiostream after its was decrypted but before it is send to your audio card.
tech is not the major factor IMHO that lets us work form home. It's just providing the means. The key here is that we do less and less handwork, and more and more brainwork as manual labour gets offshored & outsourced.
In 250 years or so, the entire population of the earth will work in callcenters & administration, with robots doing all labour...
Check the news : the marines just withdrew from Fallujah. So will microsoft. Beating down your enemy is only a working strategy if you can identify & isolate him. The open source movement isn't identifiable and even less easy to isolate. They'll spend a kabillion bucks on ammo to scare away the press. That'll be it.
Just as much as the US will one day bail out of the iraq conflict alltogether, so will MS retreat from the war with linux. The only question that remains is wether the US awaits an equally big fiasco at the homefront as MS. I certainly hope not !
what I find a bigger issue is that iTunes can STILL not create playlists over the network. I have my G5 upstairs with all my music, but I would like to have the party shuffle (or an ordinary playlist) hold some tracks on my tiBook in the living room. Especially since the kids now also store their music on the G5 (since that machine is always turned on), but want to create lists locally without having to disturb me when I'm working.
I've submitted this feature request to apple each time they release a new iTunes version, but still nothing:-(
Hey slashdotters : help me convince apple of this feature ! click here and ask apple to provide networkable playlists (so NOT copying the tracks over the network, only their URL) Let's see if this can work !
It is allready happening on the bus, on the train, in the subway and (god forbid) in the movie theatre. Expect planes to be infected soon.
I recall a few months back, going to a movie (don't remember which one. It was supposed to be funny but apparently it didn't stick as such) and there was a couple in front of us with a 4 month old baby. Although I don't consider movie theartres an appropriate place for babies (mainly becasue of audio volume), the kid was adorable and slept the whole show through. When the movie was over, the couple got up, waking the kid in the process, who promptly cried for food. Then some dork in a seat 2 rows up behind us started yelling"'can't you shut that shit, I'm trying to make a phonecall here !"
eh ? and how would the old type & creator resources have prevented any file from pretending to be an mp3 ? They would just have to add the needed resources and the ffect would be the same as the.MP3 extension
I'm gonna blow the 5 mod points I allready spent in this thread.
Dude, you're totally off. Metrowerks DID drop Mac Codewarrior. sure, they still have the product, but it took'em ages to upgrade it to decent OSX compatibility. Powerplant is nowhere. There's no decent resource editor. The docs are completely outdated as are the header files.
No, they didn't drop it, they just left it hanging where it was. Remember that Metrowerks is now owned by Motorola, who have a rather tacky relationship with Cupertino after the G4 debacle.
they did not choose Windows as new platform, but rather went for the embedded PowerPC market.
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Admiral freebee & Sara Bettens (K's Choice) are belgian groups (i'm belgian). Anouk is from the netherlands. that said, I consider Admiral Freebee to be far supierior to the two other groups. I really can't wait for their (his, since this is largely a one man project) next album !
Have you ever heard of the groups deus or novastar ? They are pretty damd good too.
duh.. replying to self, since I forgot one important issue : I'm a freelancer, teleworking at home most of the time. When kids are young (
However : take 16:00 - 20:00 as qualitity time with the kids.
and work instead of watching TV
I have 3 kids, and I'm 32. They take a lot of your time, but if you have basic planning skills, that is no problem at all. Just consider 16:00 - 20:00 to be a no-work zone. As long as you don't PLAN to do any work then, you'll be fine. However, if you plan to work all the time, then prepare to get frustrated. After 20:00, they sleep, and you can code since going out every evening is a big nono with kids at home (babysitters are damd expensive !)
If you can manage a wife for 5 years, you sure as hell can manage a kid : if you can not plan free time from work with your SO, then forget about kids.
why not use an iPod ?? It's Firewire+USB2, also has upto 40GB capacity and features a handy display for built-in calendar/notes/game/...
The article is slashdotted, so I don't know te price difference.
They're removing all those layers and doing it all in hardware through .NET and Avalon presentation libraries.
lol... talking about a contradictio in terminis...
DirectX is as close to HW as you can get dude. Anything on top of that is just a step away from the hardware.
I got your point, and agree 100%. The whole discussion of wearing a tie or not basically boils down to "do what suits your needs and your taste".
:-)
which, coincidentally, applies to all things in life
The problems begin only when you bump into someone who considers HIS needs and taste to be universal or superior. Foruntately, your post proved you not to be one of those.
Cheers !
blahblahblah ... swapping music ... blah blah blah
I'll take 2 !
this is pretty difficult to explain in an online forum, but my guess is that a significant percentage of the population (and expecially of the slashdot public) would choose the other house.
I don't like clean, vacuumed, neat, disinfected, chilling houses. I prefer to go to places where there's still doritos left in the bowl from a previous occasion, where the hall has a bunch of coats and shoes thrown on top of eachother, where the host wears 2 different socks and pants with holes in the pockets. Where the kids scream around me and make a mess of the place.
Honestly. The house you're talking about would raise expectations and create an atmosphere of sterility that would definitely influence the conversation & the mood. I could never be myself in such an environment (except perhaps after consuming enough alocohol) and would never be able to show my personality in both its agreable and annoying qualities.
What you call "showing respect" can equally be called "forcing vistitors to show respect". Unless ofcourse you've been raised in such environment, and consider it to be the standard. Which I really don't think is the case among geeks, and not even among the general population. To counter it : when you have diner with your fishing buddies, do you clean up the house after a long day of fishing ? Offcourse not. Respect is somehting that has not to be worked for. It is there, or it is not.
I think the technology is OK, but overbuffed beyond recognition. Comon : they have a screenshot of a 3D bar graph behind some semi-transparent buttons. Cool maybe, but then they boast having done it in 2-3 days.
duh ? I don't know how many whistles are behind it, but putting a rotating 3D object in an app can be done right now with a few clicks and a few lines code adding an ActiveX control to an ordinary MFC app. Putting transparent shit on it is supposed to be OS-level, so that should take 2 minutes once the OS supports it. What were they doing 3 days ? It can be done TODAY in less time. On Windows. On a P3 with 64MB ram.
that's what I hate the most about these presentations. They fart in a bottle and present it as the new coming of Christ. And everyone buys it.
Note : I'm NOT saying that avalon isn't cool and so, but the stuff they demonstrate is nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Yet it makes the headlines. Bah
from the 2nd presentation (in huge capitals, orange text on blue background to make your eyes bleed. So far for userfriendlyness)
"64-bit is the future !!"
Doh. MS is missing the ball by a few 100 miles again : Billy, 64-bit is THE PRESENT. 128bit or nanocomputing is the future.
at the risk of feeding the troll...
OSX and OS9 don't need to dual boot : you can run OS9 inside OSX. At practically no preformance loss (there's no emulator running, only an API stub for some carbon calls).
In those rare cases where this setup doesn't work (some old scanners really dislike OSX), you can boot into pure OS9 by sleecting it as startup system in the 'startup' control panel.
3 clicks. Really !
I think this post, while very informative, sums up quite nicely why linux isn't ready for the desktop yet. On OSX, those instructions would simply go :
1- boot from CD by holding down the C key
2- launch disk utility, enter partition sizes and reboot
3- there is no step 3 !
'nuff said
for heaven's sake, stop being so paranoid. Noone spoke about the road "tracking you everyhere you go" !
This is merely an efficient mechanism to stop speeders that cause millions of damage and loss of life every year. How in name of the big puking banana can you possible oppose that ?
Did you know that your calls to the 911 are monitored ? Does that stop you from calling an ambulance when you've just stabbed a knife and a potato casserole in your left ear ?
Note to paranoid dorks : EVERYTHING you do CAN be monitored. If you really really want to live below radar at every possible instance, strap yourself to the exhaust of burt rutans next flight.
They did not "reverse engineer" FairPlay. They just added some hooks into quicktime to catch the audiostream after its was decrypted but before it is send to your audio card.
Nothing totally insane going on here.
comment summary : skin tight spandex outfits ... Kate Mulgrew
The first one of this result is the one you need
tech is not the major factor IMHO that lets us work form home. It's just providing the means. The key here is that we do less and less handwork, and more and more brainwork as manual labour gets offshored & outsourced.
In 250 years or so, the entire population of the earth will work in callcenters & administration, with robots doing all labour...
Check the news : the marines just withdrew from Fallujah. So will microsoft. Beating down your enemy is only a working strategy if you can identify & isolate him. The open source movement isn't identifiable and even less easy to isolate. They'll spend a kabillion bucks on ammo to scare away the press. That'll be it.
Just as much as the US will one day bail out of the iraq conflict alltogether, so will MS retreat from the war with linux. The only question that remains is wether the US awaits an equally big fiasco at the homefront as MS. I certainly hope not !
what's the point of using 'shared music' then ??? Except for the rendez-vous portion...
what I find a bigger issue is that iTunes can STILL not create playlists over the network. I have my G5 upstairs with all my music, but I would like to have the party shuffle (or an ordinary playlist) hold some tracks on my tiBook in the living room. Especially since the kids now also store their music on the G5 (since that machine is always turned on), but want to create lists locally without having to disturb me when I'm working.
:-(
I've submitted this feature request to apple each time they release a new iTunes version, but still nothing
Hey slashdotters : help me convince apple of this feature ! click here and ask apple to provide networkable playlists (so NOT copying the tracks over the network, only their URL) Let's see if this can work !
It is allready happening on the bus, on the train, in the subway and (god forbid) in the movie theatre. Expect planes to be infected soon.
I recall a few months back, going to a movie (don't remember which one. It was supposed to be funny but apparently it didn't stick as such) and there was a couple in front of us with a 4 month old baby. Although I don't consider movie theartres an appropriate place for babies (mainly becasue of audio volume), the kid was adorable and slept the whole show through. When the movie was over, the couple got up, waking the kid in the process, who promptly cried for food. Then some dork in a seat 2 rows up behind us started yelling"'can't you shut that shit, I'm trying to make a phonecall here !"
Never been so embarassed in my whole life !
you mean, to all 5 users ?
seriously, isn't a hardcopy a bit ridic here ? They barely sell a copy, so better not waste cash on duplication and offer a download instead.
eh ? and how would the old type & creator resources have prevented any file from pretending to be an mp3 ? They would just have to add the needed resources and the ffect would be the same as the .MP3 extension
I'm gonna blow the 5 mod points I allready spent in this thread.
Dude, you're totally off. Metrowerks DID drop Mac Codewarrior. sure, they still have the product, but it took'em ages to upgrade it to decent OSX compatibility. Powerplant is nowhere. There's no decent resource editor. The docs are completely outdated as are the header files.
No, they didn't drop it, they just left it hanging where it was. Remember that Metrowerks is now owned by Motorola, who have a rather tacky relationship with Cupertino after the G4 debacle.
they did not choose Windows as new platform, but rather went for the embedded PowerPC market.
lookup your facts before spewing nonsense
easy answer :
1) price : windows is payware
2) stability : windows is crapware
3) security : windows is spyware
4) speed : windows is bloatware
The only thing that stops them from switching is fear of the new GUI.