You kids with your cheap Chinese labor... GET OFF MY LAWN!
I thought that was the case with advanced circuits before I started working with them, but... nope. All work done in the USA. I know you're generally stating a good point about the world, but... I thought it would be good to point this out. There are some PCB houses out there that do in fact have the work done in China, but not Advanced Circuits. I was really impressed with how cheap 60 square inches of PCB was. And one more point of clarification... if you're designing boards with a package like Eagle CAD or whatever (basically anything that isn't the software they give you for free to design boards) you can get some basic outline routing done without running outside their inexpensive $33 each product. It's pretty awesome. I don't do a lot of boards, and i have no formal training, but I have run half a dozen orders through them and have been really happy with the quality every time. Even moreso now that I can get my boards routed to the outline I need to fit my project cases.
Apple will do your education hardware recycling for free... register by june 30th, 2008 here:
a href="http://www.apple.com/education/shop/recycle/promo/
"Look, if you want to get all big-dick-swinging about this, send me your client list, a link to your portfolio (including samples from all of the international ad campaigns you've worked on and the awards you've won) and your fee list and we can see who's the biggest, baddest, most calibratingest knowingest motherfucker of them all. If you don't want to do that, just try to be less of a dick when you post."
Winner! Best slashdot response I've seen all month.
I know you're smart enough to know this, but it's not about them intentionally leaving out stuff that would be awesome for this franchise, it's about what they're able to license. Notice the conspicuous use of the term "As made famous by" in the description? That means that they're not allowed to use the actual songs, they painstakingly recreate the songs from scratch. Most times the rights holders are not the musicians, and most times the rights holders are idiotic morons who are worried about a game like Guitar Hero "damaging the brand" of the songs they hold the rights to. So, don't be too surprised to see a big hole where the super-famous tracks should have been. They probably weren't able to license the rights to recreate the tracks.
Just take a look at this wiki on education uses of second life. Lots of institutions are investigating Second Life, and you can probably learn a lot from what the New Media Consortium is doing with Higher Education institutions like Ohio University.
Get an island with your educational discount. People who don't do this are subject to all the said griefers from the other posts. Plan on asking for a modest budget, and get your own island. You can completely control access very easily, and you won't have problems with problematic visitors for very long.
Shoutcast/streaming audio and streaming quicktime media is functional today. I don't think I need to go into too much detail here, the benefits are well documented. The added benefit to viewing videos on a webpage versus SL is that you can view the same video at the same time with multiple people. So you can go and watch some educational videos with people and chat with them about the materials.
http://sparkfun.com/ is the USA distributor. I also highly recommend this platform because it connects via USB and has native IDEs for window, linux, and Mac OS X.
Wordpress is an excellent open source blogging tool. Couple that with Bad behavior and Spam Karma 2 and you've got yourself a near impenetrable blog to spam in your comments. The new version of Wordpress has tools to migrate from some popular blogging systems, so.. go check it out.
Amen. This is by far the best way to keep up in the wash of data that's out there. On the mac, you can use NetNewsWire to aggregate open job listing RSS feeds, and then keeping up with what's going on out there is much easier than having to visit 5-10 sites, figure out what you're seen and what you haven't seen yet.
I don't know if anyone's brought this up, but I wanted to comment on your line "Give me the power to resell the stuff I bought and I will reconsider. In this case I want to sell the licence."
I think you'd have to go back to Vinyl if you want this kind of capability. As an artist, there's no freakin' way I'd give you the power to resell my work unless you could completely guarantee me that you're only reselling what you've actually paid for. Hence the piracy problems of media that's easy to copy. I'm an artist, not a record company. My art is my time, energy, creativity, and usually money as well.
With uncontrolled digital files, there's no way to guarantee that you're not going to start up a nice reselling service by paying me once, and reselling it unlimitedly. It's just not equitable for me, the artist. Fuck record labels, I'm the one putting sounds together, not them. I want to get paid for my work.
So, if you want to resell the works I create, I have to go back to pressing records... real vinyl records, which have an extremely higher barrier to entry to copy than any other media format. And we all moved away from vinyl, by and large, because of the inadequacies of the medium (melt, shatter, scratch, wear and tear)...
It's just a new era.
You can pirate and hope to not get caught and have bad karma, or, you can pay an equitable fee to RIAA free artists. Seriously, no need to pay those bastards any more. Find new artists who don't participate in the RIAA, and when the RIAA dies from atrophy, all your favorite artists will come join the artist-equitable revolution of an RIAA-free world.
I'd think the slashdot crowd would be pounding on the table at the exclusion of the laser beam that can execute people from a satellite as seen in Real Genius.
Strange mutant students suddendly appearing at Dartmouth College.... Experts struggling to find cause of mutations, also discover you can fry eggs anywhere on campus.
Maybe they should stop showing it off then? Otherwise, they deserve all the criticism they get from the public at large. They put that big M$ eyeball out there, I'm going to poke it.
I dunno about you, but my thumb is killing me from using my 650. If the device were more balanced with the keyboard more centrally located, it would be better, ergonomically... I realize this creates problems with the location of the display, and overall you've got to be concerned with the size of the device... but, for my money, the Sidekick beat the snot out of the 650 for comfort, which the inverse is true for the software development political landscape of the each platform. The 650 is a ridiculously better experience overall. Too bad... there's no one perfect device out there yet. If you could load palm OS onto the sidekick, then you'd be approaching something very compelling. In the meantime, I'll make do with my "really compelling" 650. The sidekick deserves the success it gets by keeping its platform so hard to get into, and impossible for normal humans to modify or load their own apps without paying for them.
Aaron also teaches at Big Nerd Ranch if you can swing the fee. I took the PHP bootcamp there, and Aaron was there every day even though he was not teaching. Just by talking with him all week, I got a strong feeling he would be an excellent teacher. Aaron goes way back to NeXT days, so ObjC is something he's very familiar with.
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You kids with your cheap Chinese labor... GET OFF MY LAWN!
I thought that was the case with advanced circuits before I started working with them, but... nope. All work done in the USA. I know you're generally stating a good point about the world, but... I thought it would be good to point this out. There are some PCB houses out there that do in fact have the work done in China, but not Advanced Circuits. I was really impressed with how cheap 60 square inches of PCB was. And one more point of clarification... if you're designing boards with a package like Eagle CAD or whatever (basically anything that isn't the software they give you for free to design boards) you can get some basic outline routing done without running outside their inexpensive $33 each product. It's pretty awesome. I don't do a lot of boards, and i have no formal training, but I have run half a dozen orders through them and have been really happy with the quality every time. Even moreso now that I can get my boards routed to the outline I need to fit my project cases.
sigh.. ajax form.. http://www.apple.com/education/shop/recycle/promo/
Apple will do your education hardware recycling for free... register by june 30th, 2008 here: a href="http://www.apple.com/education/shop/recycle/promo/
how the hell do you license a hack? That's like selling someone the way to snap their fingers.
No matter how you slice it, a gigabeat ain't an iPod.
I know you're smart enough to know this, but it's not about them intentionally leaving out stuff that would be awesome for this franchise, it's about what they're able to license. Notice the conspicuous use of the term "As made famous by" in the description? That means that they're not allowed to use the actual songs, they painstakingly recreate the songs from scratch. Most times the rights holders are not the musicians, and most times the rights holders are idiotic morons who are worried about a game like Guitar Hero "damaging the brand" of the songs they hold the rights to. So, don't be too surprised to see a big hole where the super-famous tracks should have been. They probably weren't able to license the rights to recreate the tracks.
http://sparkfun.com/ is the USA distributor. I also highly recommend this platform... it's awesome.
http://sparkfun.com/ is the USA distributor. I also highly recommend this platform because it connects via USB and has native IDEs for window, linux, and Mac OS X.
Wake me up when they announce nano-scale HDMI.
Wordpress is an excellent open source blogging tool. Couple that with Bad behavior and Spam Karma 2 and you've got yourself a near impenetrable blog to spam in your comments. The new version of Wordpress has tools to migrate from some popular blogging systems, so.. go check it out.
Amen. This is by far the best way to keep up in the wash of data that's out there. On the mac, you can use NetNewsWire to aggregate open job listing RSS feeds, and then keeping up with what's going on out there is much easier than having to visit 5-10 sites, figure out what you're seen and what you haven't seen yet.
use firefox instead
If they adopted OSX, there would be massive vendor lock-in all over the world.
Riiiight, thank GOD we don't like in a world where there's massive vendor lock in!
I don't know if anyone's brought this up, but I wanted to comment on your line
"Give me the power to resell the stuff I bought and I will reconsider. In this case I want to sell the licence."
I think you'd have to go back to Vinyl if you want this kind of capability. As an artist, there's no freakin' way I'd give you the power to resell my work unless you could completely guarantee me that you're only reselling what you've actually paid for. Hence the piracy problems of media that's easy to copy. I'm an artist, not a record company. My art is my time, energy, creativity, and usually money as well.
With uncontrolled digital files, there's no way to guarantee that you're not going to start up a nice reselling service by paying me once, and reselling it unlimitedly. It's just not equitable for me, the artist. Fuck record labels, I'm the one putting sounds together, not them. I want to get paid for my work.
So, if you want to resell the works I create, I have to go back to pressing records... real vinyl records, which have an extremely higher barrier to entry to copy than any other media format. And we all moved away from vinyl, by and large, because of the inadequacies of the medium (melt, shatter, scratch, wear and tear)...
It's just a new era.
You can pirate and hope to not get caught and have bad karma, or, you can pay an equitable fee to RIAA free artists. Seriously, no need to pay those bastards any more. Find new artists who don't participate in the RIAA, and when the RIAA dies from atrophy, all your favorite artists will come join the artist-equitable revolution of an RIAA-free world.
I guess we'll finally find out what the color blue sounds like.
If you live in the san jose area, and you'd like to meet about PHP/Mysql, check out my post, and left a message. http://www.somejunkwelike.com/wordpress/2005/03/07 /south-bay-php-user-group-meeting/
I'd think the slashdot crowd would be pounding on the table at the exclusion of the laser beam that can execute people from a satellite as seen in Real Genius.
Strange mutant students suddendly appearing at Dartmouth College.... Experts struggling to find cause of mutations, also discover you can fry eggs anywhere on campus.
Give me a break, it's not even considered beta 1.
Maybe they should stop showing it off then? Otherwise, they deserve all the criticism they get from the public at large. They put that big M$ eyeball out there, I'm going to poke it.
Microsoft says "when longhorn is released... blah blah blah"
Apple says "Tiger in 10 days!"
I dunno about you, but my thumb is killing me from using my 650. If the device were more balanced with the keyboard more centrally located, it would be better, ergonomically... I realize this creates problems with the location of the display, and overall you've got to be concerned with the size of the device... but, for my money, the Sidekick beat the snot out of the 650 for comfort, which the inverse is true for the software development political landscape of the each platform. The 650 is a ridiculously better experience overall. Too bad... there's no one perfect device out there yet. If you could load palm OS onto the sidekick, then you'd be approaching something very compelling. In the meantime, I'll make do with my "really compelling" 650. The sidekick deserves the success it gets by keeping its platform so hard to get into, and impossible for normal humans to modify or load their own apps without paying for them.
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Aaron also teaches at Big Nerd Ranch if you can swing the fee. I took the PHP bootcamp there, and Aaron was there every day even though he was not teaching. Just by talking with him all week, I got a strong feeling he would be an excellent teacher. Aaron goes way back to NeXT days, so ObjC is something he's very familiar with.