Sorry, but standardized building materials has had a lot more to do with destroying architecture than AC has. Most of the houses built in america today use standard sheets of plywood to form the 'skin', and sheet rock on interior walls, both have a standard size of 4' x 8' (hence the ceiling height). Standardized sizes have led to a reduction in the need for highly skilled labor in construction than is evidenced by the decline in truly skilled carpenters and masons, no real skill needed anymore, just a table saw to cut the excess. And the fact that groups like Habitat for Humanity (they do great work, not dissing what they do) can gather a group of everyday people together, most of whom have never built a house, and knock out a building in a couple months working mostly on the weekends.
So if your going to blame something for the decline of architecture, start with building materials being similar to legos, and not AC.
I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of the dark ages was ignorance, suppression, warfare, famine, strife
Have you seen what Bush and Ashcroft have been doing lately? They definitely have the ignorance, suppression and warfare down. I'm sure that you can find famine and strife around too. Does all that count as a 'digital dark age' I don't know, but I'd definatly say that we've entered a political dark age.
ya, ya, I know this is off topic, mod my ass down.
According to the large posters in the B&N entrance, Neil will be here in NY. I hope he's not in San Francisco. Or maybe he has access to some form of matter transport that he's not sharing?
Universal (supporter of this and the DMCA) is one of the largest music companies in the world and a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal. Vivendi announced this week that it's pretty damn close to total bankruptcy, in fact the news section of its own web site is all about restructuring and a need to raise cash fast due to its stock being lowered to junk bond status. So eventually what goes around comes around.
What options are there for those folks looking to make near-picture-quality hardcopies of their digital photos for inclusion in their albums?
A Dye-sub (or related technology) is the way to go. It looks damn good (much better that than the best inkjet) and it's as archival as a normal c-Print.
But getting a lot made is costly, around $15 (I think?) at one of those kodak stations at your local one-hour, or $30 for a Fujix print. The best way to go is to get one of those Olympus printers for $700, it will pay for it self quickly if you have a lot of prints to do.
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The premeditation wasn't on the part of Anderton, it was his boss
I did this for a while, the problem that you run into is that certain programs (always carbon apps) will not work if your system drive is UFS. They just can't read the drive to do any thing.
I didn't know about the currency, but the bank (bowiebank) was not really any thing more than a licencing deal with USABankshares (an internet based bank, ie no real world branches). Not much more than their normal account with Bowie picture on the ATM card.
The threat was to disembowel him if he was a squatter, but as it turns out he's not (as I though to be the case). So no disemboweling is necessary. What he does deserve is a big HUZZHA for doing the right thing.
That's what I thought, but when I looked a edgeofheaven.com, it appears to be a Garbage fan-site. Not exactly a domain squatter. If they are than they deserve to be disemboweled. Rather, I suspect that it's just a macslash fan who saw that the domain had been swiped and is trying to save the.org from the same fate.
-if you are unprofitable, does that make you a nonprofit?
First, it can be argued that if your initial studio recording is digital, then what I'm about to say would be moot (just covering my ass here). If you are a purist or an audiophile (I'm neither I've ripped my entire music collection to my own server) the analog signal coming off of a vinyl record is closer to the original than that of the digital coming off of the cd. For digital to work it has to cut the signal into mathematical chunks that can be read by an electronic decoder. If you could look at the wave form on the cd it would look like a series of jagged steps, but that same wave off of a good analog recording would be one smooth curve. So in each of those steps (on the digital) you've lost information that was in the original.
If you could get a nice ($10g+) stereo and turntable, you could actually hear the difference between an analog and digital recording. Even if you had only a half decent turn table and a new record (as in never played, not new as in Britney Spears) you could probably hear a difference for the first couple plays.
For most people it's a moot point though, they're not into the sound so much that they worry about loosing that sliver of information, and for most albums made these days they start off digital anyway. The real advantage of digital is not that it sounds or looks better, it's that you can modify, copy, of archive it without any gradual loss of information over time. So if you need to copy a CD but all you have is a nth generation copy, it doesn't matter, but with analog you would always have to keep a master around to get the best copy possible.
Plus you have to add the time you spent posting your op. on/.:P
I agree it was a pretty blah ending, but it left it open for the next movie. The episode as whole was kind of nice for people like me who haven't watched X Files for the last two seasons though.
Actually many photoshop users do care about disk speed. Photoshop is a huge memory hog and its own virtual memory system (adobe calls it the scratch disk). It's recomended that if your going to be working on large PS files that you have a minimum of 2 Gb scratch and I know many people (including myself) who swear by 10Gb. That's a 10 Gb partition, kept clean and only used by PS.
The faster your scratch disk is, the less time PS spends pageing, this can add up to over a 30 second savings on complex filters or actions. Check out barefeats.com for benchmark tests related to graphics a video programs.
well is it? If you owned a computer company, and you owned a company that uses a whole lot of computers, wouldn't you want your own company useing your own products?
The latest issue of Macworld has a short blurb about the G5 (near the end of an article on the new Ghz chips). Apparently Motorola does sell G5's for embedded systems but has no imedate plans for G5 on the Mac. But they are out there.
I've been using omni page lately and it does a fairly good job, but it's still only 99%. 99% sounds good but if you figure 250 to 300 words per page, or 1500 characters, that's 15 mistakes per page. If your doing a whole book that's a lot of mistakes. The way that many large publishing house do it it to get three non-native speakers per document to type it up and then a software package double checks them against each other.
It sounds like your best bet is the 'hire a bunch of collage students' route.
It been a couple years since I worked in a book store (but I did work in them for about 7 years) and when I was leaving the big trend was to take the 'star' romance authors and give them hardback books. I saw more romance HB than I did Sci-Fi. Of course I'm not talking about Harlequins here (though they do sell well) but rather individual authors like JD Robb et al.
Personally I wouldn't trust any best seller list. Within the industry it's well known that the numbers are horribly inaccurate. The NY Times used to get their numbers direct from the publishers, so the lists reflected the number of wholesale copies sold to distribution houses, it did not take into account actual store sales or returns of the book. After that came out they struck a deal with Barnes & Noble to use their best seller list.
Sound fine right, the lists would now be based on sales right, wrong! The lists are a marketing tool and all of the book stores use them as such. Deals are struck with publishers to get the books up on the list, titles will often be immediately put on the lists when they come out before any sales are made. Books are kept off the lists because of one reason or another. Harry Potter was selling gang busters to all age groups but the NY Times refused to put it on the list because it was a 'children's book' and they don't list children's books (they finally compromised by starting a separate list for children's hardcovers). I remember when that book by the wrestler Mankind came out, it was out selling every book in the store 3 to 1, it was reprinted twice in its first week, yet it took well over a month before it was finally let onto the lists.
If I had $40 billion, I would leverage all of holding to force people to use my sub standard products, there by forcing a monopoly on to the world. DAMN, they beat me to it.
read this book by Bill Quinn. It describes how truely evil Wal-Mart is. I've seen small town that have had their retail economies stripmined by Wal-Mart, and seen towns have to hire ful-time legal staffs whose job is solely to keep Wal-Mart out. In Grey's Harbor WA, after the town voted down Wal-Marts bid to buy property to build, they discovered that most of the other bids where placed buy Wal-Mart though dummy corporations.
I'd rather live in a world dominated by Bill Gates than one dominated by Sam Walton.
I have a hard time beliving this. Why would China want to do this? It sounds to me like the CIA is just looking for a new enemy for another cold war, since this shit in the middle east is raping up and americans arn't buying that every Arab is a terorist they need a new boogy man. God, it's like our.gov has fallen backwards 15years to the hight of Reagnism.
the reason that child porn (as well as rape videos, snuff, etc) is illegal is because in order to produce them you have to cause physical or mental harm to another person. It's also the main reason that the virtual child porn law was ruled unconstitutional, the production of a virtual image requires the participation of no one so direct harm is caused.
I'm not saying that children should be allowed to buy what ever they want. I think that there should be restrictions on what they can buy and that ultimately that decision lies with the parents. But to lump video games in with child porn is a travesty to those laws. IMHO this judges ruling lessens the laws regarding child porn. The immediate effect of this ruling doesn't bother me, but the specifics of why it was ruled the way it was, does.
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Thanks, that was really funny stuff. ..and now he's lonely astronaut..
So if your going to blame something for the decline of architecture, start with building materials being similar to legos, and not AC.
Have you seen what Bush and Ashcroft have been doing lately? They definitely have the ignorance, suppression and warfare down. I'm sure that you can find famine and strife around too. Does all that count as a 'digital dark age' I don't know, but I'd definatly say that we've entered a political dark age.
ya, ya, I know this is off topic, mod my ass down.
According to the large posters in the B&N entrance, Neil will be here in NY. I hope he's not in San Francisco. Or maybe he has access to some form of matter transport that he's not sharing?
Universal (supporter of this and the DMCA) is one of the largest music companies in the world and a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal. Vivendi announced this week that it's pretty damn close to total bankruptcy, in fact the news section of its own web site is all about restructuring and a need to raise cash fast due to its stock being lowered to junk bond status. So eventually what goes around comes around.
A Dye-sub (or related technology) is the way to go. It looks damn good (much better that than the best inkjet) and it's as archival as a normal c-Print. But getting a lot made is costly, around $15 (I think?) at one of those kodak stations at your local one-hour, or $30 for a Fujix print. The best way to go is to get one of those Olympus printers for $700, it will pay for it self quickly if you have a lot of prints to do.
The premeditation wasn't on the part of Anderton, it was his boss
It's windows only? Is there any indication of other OSes or platforms?
I did this for a while, the problem that you run into is that certain programs (always carbon apps) will not work if your system drive is UFS. They just can't read the drive to do any thing.
I didn't know about the currency, but the bank (bowiebank) was not really any thing more than a licencing deal with USABankshares (an internet based bank, ie no real world branches). Not much more than their normal account with Bowie picture on the ATM card.
The threat was to disembowel him if he was a squatter, but as it turns out he's not (as I though to be the case). So no disemboweling is necessary. What he does deserve is a big HUZZHA for doing the right thing.
-if you are unprofitable, does that make you a nonprofit?
I was trying to come up with where that was from and then I remembered the Rocketeer. Funny Stuff.
If you could get a nice ($10g+) stereo and turntable, you could actually hear the difference between an analog and digital recording. Even if you had only a half decent turn table and a new record (as in never played, not new as in Britney Spears) you could probably hear a difference for the first couple plays.
For most people it's a moot point though, they're not into the sound so much that they worry about loosing that sliver of information, and for most albums made these days they start off digital anyway. The real advantage of digital is not that it sounds or looks better, it's that you can modify, copy, of archive it without any gradual loss of information over time. So if you need to copy a CD but all you have is a nth generation copy, it doesn't matter, but with analog you would always have to keep a master around to get the best copy possible.
I agree it was a pretty blah ending, but it left it open for the next movie. The episode as whole was kind of nice for people like me who haven't watched X Files for the last two seasons though.
The faster your scratch disk is, the less time PS spends pageing, this can add up to over a 30 second savings on complex filters or actions. Check out barefeats.com for benchmark tests related to graphics a video programs.
well is it? If you owned a computer company, and you owned a company that uses a whole lot of computers, wouldn't you want your own company useing your own products?
The latest issue of Macworld has a short blurb about the G5 (near the end of an article on the new Ghz chips). Apparently Motorola does sell G5's for embedded systems but has no imedate plans for G5 on the Mac. But they are out there.
you mean these guys in Seattle. Ya, their still there.
It sounds like your best bet is the 'hire a bunch of collage students' route.
Personally I wouldn't trust any best seller list. Within the industry it's well known that the numbers are horribly inaccurate. The NY Times used to get their numbers direct from the publishers, so the lists reflected the number of wholesale copies sold to distribution houses, it did not take into account actual store sales or returns of the book. After that came out they struck a deal with Barnes & Noble to use their best seller list.
Sound fine right, the lists would now be based on sales right, wrong! The lists are a marketing tool and all of the book stores use them as such. Deals are struck with publishers to get the books up on the list, titles will often be immediately put on the lists when they come out before any sales are made. Books are kept off the lists because of one reason or another. Harry Potter was selling gang busters to all age groups but the NY Times refused to put it on the list because it was a 'children's book' and they don't list children's books (they finally compromised by starting a separate list for children's hardcovers). I remember when that book by the wrestler Mankind came out, it was out selling every book in the store 3 to 1, it was reprinted twice in its first week, yet it took well over a month before it was finally let onto the lists.
If I had $40 billion, I would leverage all of holding to force people to use my sub standard products, there by forcing a monopoly on to the world. DAMN, they beat me to it.
I'd rather live in a world dominated by Bill Gates than one dominated by Sam Walton.
I have a hard time beliving this. Why would China want to do this? It sounds to me like the CIA is just looking for a new enemy for another cold war, since this shit in the middle east is raping up and americans arn't buying that every Arab is a terorist they need a new boogy man. God, it's like our .gov has fallen backwards 15years to the hight of Reagnism.
I'm not saying that children should be allowed to buy what ever they want. I think that there should be restrictions on what they can buy and that ultimately that decision lies with the parents. But to lump video games in with child porn is a travesty to those laws. IMHO this judges ruling lessens the laws regarding child porn. The immediate effect of this ruling doesn't bother me, but the specifics of why it was ruled the way it was, does.