Really, it's disgusting. TinyXP does everything that about 95% of Windows users need Windows to do. It's insanely fast and it runs well on hardware that would otherwise only be good enough for Windows 98, and it fully supports modern hardware and applications.
I'm going to install it on machines that were preloaded with Windows 98 and had been upgraded to Windows 2000 and in a couple of very pathetic cases, all the way to XP. These are literally machines that had 2000 or XP on them and no room on their hard disk drives to even store files, once Windows was loaded. The people using them were literally quite impressed that the mouse could keep up with movement.
I'm helping the people using these systems out of kindness, but I've run in to dozens of situations where I wish I could recommend or install TinyXP or the like for someone with a commercial need for such a thing. I really am frustrated that I'm not legally allowed to set up this incredibly fast, usable system.
DVI connectors take up a bunch of real estate on the back of a notebook for presumably very little benefit above and beyond what standard VGA offers, given that every computer monitor and projector under the sun has a VGA connector on it, while maybe 1/2 the monitors made in the last five years or so have DVI.
My completely serious answer to almost all of your complaints is that you should look at Lenovo's Thinkpad offerings. Matte screens, awesome keyboards, standard VGA output, full size expresscard slots (depending on the model). Plus they're built like tanks and they don't get red-hot on the bottom like Macbook Pros seem to.
Of course, they're made in China as well, so the environmental factor is still an issue, but they do run OSX tolerably well if you absolutely have to have it.
Onstad knew about the interview long before it took place, it would have been a trivial task to set up a small arc to invite and welcome new guests to the world he created.
Or, just as when NPR has interviewed other Webcomic creators (the example that stands out to me is Sluggy Freelance), Onstead decided to continue the story he had planned long before he was contacted by NPR and asked for an interview. Since NPR almost always directs listeners to its web site first, I'd say the burden of introducing the strip should rest with the person responsible for the write-up on the Morning Edition web page.
You're one of those people who think comic books can only be about Super Heroes and comic strips should only have bickering spouses or funny animals, aren't you?
I think the odd dialogue is coming from some particular Californian mid to late-80s subculture. Beef and Ray grew up together and they're the guys with the generally odd sentence structure.
I know there was a particular way that kids in the neighborhood I moved to when I was about 14 spoke, that I never really grasped. It's just how they grew up speaking to each other.
I'd say that you're very wrong. You're dismissing Achewood as a funny animal comic that features the odd bit of drinking and obscenity. That's only what it looks like if you're reading a few of the daily strips.
If you start reading from the beginning, what you find is a very rewarding set of story arcs where the characters become more and more fully realized, particularly Roast Beef, who might very well be the comic strip archetype for a Slashdot reader.
The humor in Achewood is found in small turns of phrase, in facial expressions and in knowing the backstory for the characters. If you just pick up and read one or two strips, you pretty much aren't going to be able to understand why it is so highly acclaimed by critics and beloved by its fans.
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Here's the thing about Achewood: it has a very large cast of characters with very distinct voices. COMPLETELY distinct. These characters have been developed in ways that comic strips running for decades have not managed.
It's not uncommon for me to read a whole archive of webcomics in a single sitting. I read all of "MacHall" on Saturday. By the time I went through all four years of strips, there were only two characters I could identify as having distinct personalities. Everyone else spoke with the same voice.
That's how most comics are. Someone says something stupid or controversial. Drinking or violence ensues.
Achewood is the opposite; the characters are so fully realized that they BLOG in their distinct voices. The interview touches on this with the two main characters, but it extends to literally all the characters in the strip.
Achewood's humor is wry and absurdist. It's not the humor of a newspaper comic strip and it's not the humor of a typical webcomic. It's off in a space of its own. It's a bit like watching the best bits of Seinfeld after a 24 hour marathon of Golden Girls. Some people say that Achewood isn't funny, but all I can say to them is that there's a 1982 Subaru Brat waiting for them when they get to hell.
Honestly, this is a fortunate turn of events. This gentleman is at least capable of defending himself against whatever accusations RIAA is making against him, while at the same time consuming time and legal resources that the fuckwits at RIAA could be using to put another party in legal jeopardy.
In fact, since this is not the same as the boilerplate legal case that RIAA makes against thousands of consumers annually, it probably also consumed more resources. We should all be thankful that RIAA has chosen this course of action.
The Secret Service is not really the same thing as the CIA or NSA. I'm sure there's plenty of die hard Republican dickwads in those organization who would be happy to kidnap and torture some Danish kid for the horrible crime of finding out that Sarah Palin subscribes to the hairyalaskandudes.com picture of the day service, but fortunately those guys are busy kidnapping and torturing brown people who have annoyed someone enough that they get ratted out as terrorists.
Do you *really*, in a billion years, think that stupid, womb-with-legs bitch is in any way smart enough to use any kind of public key encryption software? And I mean under any circumstances, including full instructions downloaded from Google or with Phil Zimmerman standing right behind her telling her what to do.
Really? And on E-mails that are being delivered to a Yahoo account?
I'm fairly certain that this is legit. I'm also fairly certain that members of Anonymous are not all based in the USA and may or may not have anything to fear from the Secret Service.
However, one of the features of a Yahoo Mail account is the ability to download a backup copy of your mailbox as a single file. I believe the file format is the one used by Outlook Express, rather than the more universal.mbox format, but still, if the "hackers" didn't think to grab everything, I would be shocked.
I'd be willing to bet that someone out in internet land has a copy of Sarah Palin's whole mail spool right now.
Properly speaking I'm using the native FTP client in Acronis TrueImage to deliver incremental backups from a few remote boxes to a file server in my apartment. I'm already getting changes only.
It's a matter of priorities. I don't think cable TV, landlines, daily newspapers or fancy cellphone packages are worth money. Hell, given the choice, I'd skip meals to keep my internet service fast if I had to.
Yes, and I obviously do not live where you do. The cost isn't actually an issue for me, just the availability (which is sub-optimal on Comcast to begin with) and speed of service.
Much as I hate it, I'd rather spend the money on a Comcast Business connection than worry about whether or not I'm getting close to some artificial cap.
I FTP things in and out of my apartment all the damned time, including backup image files and the like, let alone dealing with torrents or streaming video. I'm sure I transfer more than 10GB a day.
Disgusting as it is, I don't have any other high speed alternative.
Satellite isn't necessarily always available. Tree lines, ridges and valleys can determine whether or not an acceptable signal can even be delivered to any particular location.
Furthermore, satellite service is horribly expensive compared to DSL and often to cable as well. $70/month isn't exactly a bargain for service that doesn't even meet the FCC definition of broadband (don't be a pendant and talk about signaling, here; I'm using their terminology: 768k downstream is a "fast" connection) internet service.
So... not always available + not fast enough to be considered fast = Only a possibility for the slimmest margin of users. Which generally explains the adoption rate for satellite internet service.
There are small towns all over the US for which there is nothing but dialup available, sir. Hell, there are small towns where cable TV isn't even available. I realize this may be news to you, but not everybody lives in urban or suburban areas.
My uncle is director of Public Health for a county in Illinois. The *only reason* which the BFE Small Town near where he lives has even partial DSL access is that his status as a Homeland Security First-Responder was enough to get Verizon off its ass and build a LEC just for him (he is legally required to have "fast" internet service at his home, and telcos are obliged to provide it, apparently).
The hilarious outcome of this is that there is a tiny (outhouse-size) brick building with a Verizon sign right off the edge of his property, surrounded on all sides by a corn field. My uncle has 3Mbit DSL service and the folks who live just on the edge of the closest town (population 1200) can get 384k or whatever it is. Everyone else there is screwed.
See subject. Between allergies to pollens and dust, having zero interest in being around other people (particularly in a setting like a gym), and having never found even the least joy in any kind of physical activity, I have to say that there are many kinds of invasive surgeries that I would rather undergo without benefit of anesthesia rather than undertake an exercise plan.
I suspect I'm not the only person on Slashdot with that attitude.
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Really, it's disgusting. TinyXP does everything that about 95% of Windows users need Windows to do. It's insanely fast and it runs well on hardware that would otherwise only be good enough for Windows 98, and it fully supports modern hardware and applications.
I'm going to install it on machines that were preloaded with Windows 98 and had been upgraded to Windows 2000 and in a couple of very pathetic cases, all the way to XP. These are literally machines that had 2000 or XP on them and no room on their hard disk drives to even store files, once Windows was loaded. The people using them were literally quite impressed that the mouse could keep up with movement.
I'm helping the people using these systems out of kindness, but I've run in to dozens of situations where I wish I could recommend or install TinyXP or the like for someone with a commercial need for such a thing. I really am frustrated that I'm not legally allowed to set up this incredibly fast, usable system.
Ironically, I'm downloading the latest release of TinyXP even as I type this.
DVI connectors take up a bunch of real estate on the back of a notebook for presumably very little benefit above and beyond what standard VGA offers, given that every computer monitor and projector under the sun has a VGA connector on it, while maybe 1/2 the monitors made in the last five years or so have DVI.
VGA is still the default video connection.
Yes, you have to install a hacked version of OSX.
But I assure you that it does run.
Unlike DVI, it's present on every projector I've ever gotten to use,.
My completely serious answer to almost all of your complaints is that you should look at Lenovo's Thinkpad offerings. Matte screens, awesome keyboards, standard VGA output, full size expresscard slots (depending on the model). Plus they're built like tanks and they don't get red-hot on the bottom like Macbook Pros seem to.
Of course, they're made in China as well, so the environmental factor is still an issue, but they do run OSX tolerably well if you absolutely have to have it.
I'm fond of the cookbook, myself.
Onstad knew about the interview long before it took place, it would have been a trivial task to set up a small arc to invite and welcome new guests to the world he created.
Or, just as when NPR has interviewed other Webcomic creators (the example that stands out to me is Sluggy Freelance), Onstead decided to continue the story he had planned long before he was contacted by NPR and asked for an interview. Since NPR almost always directs listeners to its web site first, I'd say the burden of introducing the strip should rest with the person responsible for the write-up on the Morning Edition web page.
You're one of those people who think comic books can only be about Super Heroes and comic strips should only have bickering spouses or funny animals, aren't you?
In other words, you like Cyanide and Happiness and a bunch of comics where someone says something snide about video games every day.
I think the odd dialogue is coming from some particular Californian mid to late-80s subculture. Beef and Ray grew up together and they're the guys with the generally odd sentence structure.
I know there was a particular way that kids in the neighborhood I moved to when I was about 14 spoke, that I never really grasped. It's just how they grew up speaking to each other.
I'd say that you're very wrong. You're dismissing Achewood as a funny animal comic that features the odd bit of drinking and obscenity. That's only what it looks like if you're reading a few of the daily strips.
If you start reading from the beginning, what you find is a very rewarding set of story arcs where the characters become more and more fully realized, particularly Roast Beef, who might very well be the comic strip archetype for a Slashdot reader.
The humor in Achewood is found in small turns of phrase, in facial expressions and in knowing the backstory for the characters. If you just pick up and read one or two strips, you pretty much aren't going to be able to understand why it is so highly acclaimed by critics and beloved by its fans.
Here's the thing about Achewood: it has a very large cast of characters with very distinct voices. COMPLETELY distinct. These characters have been developed in ways that comic strips running for decades have not managed.
It's not uncommon for me to read a whole archive of webcomics in a single sitting. I read all of "MacHall" on Saturday. By the time I went through all four years of strips, there were only two characters I could identify as having distinct personalities. Everyone else spoke with the same voice.
That's how most comics are. Someone says something stupid or controversial. Drinking or violence ensues.
Achewood is the opposite; the characters are so fully realized that they BLOG in their distinct voices. The interview touches on this with the two main characters, but it extends to literally all the characters in the strip.
Achewood's humor is wry and absurdist. It's not the humor of a newspaper comic strip and it's not the humor of a typical webcomic. It's off in a space of its own. It's a bit like watching the best bits of Seinfeld after a 24 hour marathon of Golden Girls. Some people say that Achewood isn't funny, but all I can say to them is that there's a 1982 Subaru Brat waiting for them when they get to hell.
Honestly, this is a fortunate turn of events. This gentleman is at least capable of defending himself against whatever accusations RIAA is making against him, while at the same time consuming time and legal resources that the fuckwits at RIAA could be using to put another party in legal jeopardy.
In fact, since this is not the same as the boilerplate legal case that RIAA makes against thousands of consumers annually, it probably also consumed more resources. We should all be thankful that RIAA has chosen this course of action.
The Secret Service is not really the same thing as the CIA or NSA. I'm sure there's plenty of die hard Republican dickwads in those organization who would be happy to kidnap and torture some Danish kid for the horrible crime of finding out that Sarah Palin subscribes to the hairyalaskandudes.com picture of the day service, but fortunately those guys are busy kidnapping and torturing brown people who have annoyed someone enough that they get ratted out as terrorists.
Do you *really*, in a billion years, think that stupid, womb-with-legs bitch is in any way smart enough to use any kind of public key encryption software? And I mean under any circumstances, including full instructions downloaded from Google or with Phil Zimmerman standing right behind her telling her what to do.
Really? And on E-mails that are being delivered to a Yahoo account?
I'm fairly certain that this is legit. I'm also fairly certain that members of Anonymous are not all based in the USA and may or may not have anything to fear from the Secret Service.
However, one of the features of a Yahoo Mail account is the ability to download a backup copy of your mailbox as a single file. I believe the file format is the one used by Outlook Express, rather than the more universal .mbox format, but still, if the "hackers" didn't think to grab everything, I would be shocked.
I'd be willing to bet that someone out in internet land has a copy of Sarah Palin's whole mail spool right now.
Properly speaking I'm using the native FTP client in Acronis TrueImage to deliver incremental backups from a few remote boxes to a file server in my apartment. I'm already getting changes only.
Yes, I am aware of rsync.
It's a matter of priorities. I don't think cable TV, landlines, daily newspapers or fancy cellphone packages are worth money. Hell, given the choice, I'd skip meals to keep my internet service fast if I had to.
And FIOS services are... where, again?
Can even 2% of the population of the USA get FIOS?
Yes, and I obviously do not live where you do.
The cost isn't actually an issue for me, just the availability (which is sub-optimal on Comcast to begin with) and speed of service.
Much as I hate it, I'd rather spend the money on a Comcast Business connection than worry about whether or not I'm getting close to some artificial cap.
I FTP things in and out of my apartment all the damned time, including backup image files and the like, let alone dealing with torrents or streaming video. I'm sure I transfer more than 10GB a day.
Disgusting as it is, I don't have any other high speed alternative.
Satellite isn't necessarily always available. Tree lines, ridges and valleys can determine whether or not an acceptable signal can even be delivered to any particular location.
Furthermore, satellite service is horribly expensive compared to DSL and often to cable as well. $70/month isn't exactly a bargain for service that doesn't even meet the FCC definition of broadband (don't be a pendant and talk about signaling, here; I'm using their terminology: 768k downstream is a "fast" connection) internet service.
So... not always available + not fast enough to be considered fast = Only a possibility for the slimmest margin of users. Which generally explains the adoption rate for satellite internet service.
There are small towns all over the US for which there is nothing but dialup available, sir. Hell, there are small towns where cable TV isn't even available. I realize this may be news to you, but not everybody lives in urban or suburban areas.
My uncle is director of Public Health for a county in Illinois. The *only reason* which the BFE Small Town near where he lives has even partial DSL access is that his status as a Homeland Security First-Responder was enough to get Verizon off its ass and build a LEC just for him (he is legally required to have "fast" internet service at his home, and telcos are obliged to provide it, apparently).
The hilarious outcome of this is that there is a tiny (outhouse-size) brick building with a Verizon sign right off the edge of his property, surrounded on all sides by a corn field. My uncle has 3Mbit DSL service and the folks who live just on the edge of the closest town (population 1200) can get 384k or whatever it is. Everyone else there is screwed.
See subject.
Between allergies to pollens and dust, having zero interest in being around other people (particularly in a setting like a gym), and having never found even the least joy in any kind of physical activity, I have to say that there are many kinds of invasive surgeries that I would rather undergo without benefit of anesthesia rather than undertake an exercise plan.
I suspect I'm not the only person on Slashdot with that attitude.