Wasn't there a (8mm?) Movie made of a similar trip? IIRC, it was from coast to coast, and you could watch the drive in superfast motion. It takes 15(+-) min to see the whole thing, and the scale speed was something like 600 mph. I seem to recall it was used in a Saturday Night Live sketch as well..
I have a SyncMaster 950p which was purchased on the 'advice' of PC World? (I had about two minutes to make the decision) It was $550 w/ shipping and I'm pretty happy with it except for one thing. The screen is not flat. Unfortunately, my office is set up with a window behind me, and that means glare. I run it at 1600x1200, 24bit color, 75hz on OS X with no probs, but I wish I would have gotten the one with the flat screen.
My advice would be to go to the store, get some black text on a white screen, and stare at it until you go blind. Whichever monitor takes the longest wins.;)
would be for size, or the lack therof. My new tower takes up far too much room by itself, add my 17" Monitor, and we're lookin' at ENIAC, for cripe's sake.
Not to mention the huge amount of heat CRTs put out! In my old apartment, my gas went out (ok, I didn't pay the bill:P), but my computer room was always toasty warm with 3 CRTs going. You haven't lived, till you've used a Mac SE for a foot-warming ottoman!
Exxcept that I haven't bought a CD in _years_ and I don't have a mp3 collection either. (I did but deleted it all for space when I realized I was just collecting it for the hell of it. I never replaced any of it.) I guess I don't like much of the music that the RIAA is offering. I buy records occationally, but not much else.
Mostly when I get a jones for new music, I write it. Too bad more people don't do that.
"If Pets Warehouse had sent me e-mail saying: 'We're sorry you're upset. What can we do to make it better?' I would have vented to them, they would have sent me a $20 gift certificate. I would have posted to APD: 'Yeah, we had a bad deal, but let's give them another chance, and it would have been over.' But instead, he [Novak] sued. It is his act of suing us that has caused all the bad feeling. He has brought this upon himself."
What a Analog-Hole! Did he go to the RIAA school of Business?
"Alienate your customers at all costs!"
"When things don't go your way, sue!"
"If all else fails, involve the government!"
"The customer is ALWAYS wrong, and is trying to destroy your business!"
Ironically, I almost put,We're damned if we do, damned if we don't, and damned if we don't care. as the last line...:)
I agree with you, and not to bring up the old chestnut analogy of the buggy whip manufacturers, but what do we do? Sadly, I am a musician (period:) and am caught in this whole mess more than your average mp3'er. Do I kill myself to put out music, that thanks to the RIAA, I won't be able to distribute by any channel, other than 'approved' copy-protected methods? Is it even possible for an independent musician to make a buck at this? Make it difficult enough to create, distribute, and who will bother? This is how they will 'own' all 'content', and how we will be stuck with lowest common denominator pap. Frankly, it makes me ill.
If I have some documents open and try to play this 'CD' (not a CD! and it damn well better have a warning label ON the disc!), and said disc crashes my computer, making me lose data, is Sony liable? If they are, I see some $$$ coming my way. (and yours, and his, and hers, and....)
BTW. Why put copy protection on this disc? Really, honestly, how many people who actively participate in file sharing (ripping, encoding, and sharing) are going to listen to Celine Dion? I was under the impression that most P2P users were somewhere in the age bracket of 15-30, and male..I may be mistaken, but that's my understanding from following all this..
So why then? I'm guessing that this is an attempt by the RIAA to say, "Look! Copy Protection works! There are 'x' number of copies of Celine floating around the net. Without Copy Protection there would be many more. If we compare it to the latest Nickleback album, you see that copy protection works! This is why Senator Holling's bill is genius! " This is the argument that the RIAA will take to Congress in order to get the SSSCA passed.
Go and buy this disc. Rip it in ANY manner. Make it the MOST shared disc EVER. GIVE copies away to all who WOULD have bought it. Return it to the store. Repeat.
Of course, this would probably end up being the argument then: "See! We NEED Hardware Copy Protection! We tried to keep them from this disc and they broke the protection!"
The answer, then, is to not buy OR listen to music from the RIAA. Explore unsigned bands! THINK! Has your life improved because of Creed's newest album? Where would you be if you had never heard it? If the RIAA sells nothing, and has no pirate to rail against, where are they? Gone. And, you are also helping out artists who deserve your attention, and are not part of the Media Industry.
Gaaarrrr! I'm gettin a beer.
Info for those who *aren't* artists...
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Here and here are two links that everyone who is _not_ a musician should read. (If you are a musician, you better already know this!) Take special note of Steve's article, since it gives an excellent example of what awaits the 'lucky' signed band.
Herein lies the double edged sword: The Industry has all the $$$. They'll let you have some for awhile, but they will get it back in fucking spades. If anyone thinks the Industry gives one rat's ass about their artists, take note: Where is Hootie now? (not that I care;)
Anytime you add a middleman, prepare to be screwed.
As far as digital pen input goes, my Graphire Tablet ($89) kicks ass - It has a battery-less pen w/ eraser and comes with a 3 button scroll mouse (especially important! A pen is great for drawing/painting stuff, but for precision stuff - I need a mouse. Have a couple cups((or a pot)) of coffee and your shaky hands will make using a pen look like defusing a bomb)
As far as handwriting recognition goes, the last Apple Newton was the pinnacle as far as I have tried...
How about better speech recognition instead? Or better yet, eye movement tracking (silent). If I was able to use my monkey-thought input device with something, that would be the best!
for the government to get it's invasive little paws into the stream of email everywhere! Sounds like an excuse to install "Herbivore". "It's a SPAM-fighter! Honest!" Can't wait to see my tax dollars at work.
Microsoft putting up an Anti-Unix site is like going to Sturgis on your Vespa Scooter, poking a Hell's Angel in the chest, and saying, "Hey, Fatass! My Vespa totally kicks ass over your American-Made pile of crap."
Second:
Exactly how much crap did Steve Mann have embedded in him? Come on, did he have a wire going into the center of his brain, or what? I'm certainly not a fan of 'go to the airport - forfeit your rights', but last time I checked his site (before Air Canaduh), he just had some VR gear and some wireless network thing. Not a pacemaker or anything. (Idea: send Dick Cheney to Canada via Air Canada)
September 11th used to justify everything.
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Yup. I feel much safer knowing that the gov is in the process of locking down the country. What I would like to know is: What rights are actually inalienable?
Carnivore is not here to 'keep us safe'. It's here to keep us quiet. Thank you John Asscroft, for making sure no one speaks out without repercussions.
BTW: The terrorists have already won...the election.
He would be perfect! Linux would be renamed to MICKEY! (My Intent is to Crush Kernel Enjoyment. Yes!) Plus, the desktop would play Cinderella Two 'Back in the Habit', 24-7!
There is no excuse _not_ to run windows with 98lite. It's faster. More stable. I ran a win 98 box w/ lite and it _never_ crashed. (this of course was a pentium 200 OC'ed to 225) I'm now running w98 on a pentium 4 / 1.8 and it's great. It's the way windows should be. Until openBeos get done, that is.
My boss could not live without her million sheets of paper. She prints EVERYTHING out. Everthing. Today I found about forty sheets in the printer that resides in my office, shared by both of us. I looked at it and it was a printout of a directory on my computer. In icon view. It makes me ill to see the waste, and I always hand the stack over with a "Here's your tree...". Geez. Copy and paste into text editor and print two sheets, fer chissakes.
Printing any web site is a great way to get lots of scrap paper, too. How many times have I printed a paragraph and an image, and ended up with five sheets, marked with the url and nothing else!
On the plus side, I have really cut back on the number of pages I print each day, since OS X doesn't support my localtalk Oki.:P
Turn on Showtime and see 'Supernova'. It's the same damn thing. I, for one, hate seeing movies that have a cool premise, but then fail to deliver. (Pitch Black) It coould have been so much better... I just wanted to go read 'Nightfall' by Issac Asimov.
They waste all their time posting on Simdot, and bitch to me when the get modded down.
the sad state of Affairs....
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It's really sad that I 'need' to have Ad-aware, and Zone Alarm, and Norton AV, ect.
Why do people feel the need to feed their little monkey egos spying, cracking, and infecting me and everyone else. If humans didn't have the urge to fuck over their neighbor any chance they get, I guess we'd all be dogs.
BTW. Senator Hollings sucks Walts ass.
According to recent news reports on the financial heath of Gateway, they might not have anything to lose.
I also thought of an OEM 'union', but look at it this way. Truckers go on strike, big trucking company has lots of money, can hold out a long time, can hire 'scab' workers. Truckers starve. Big trucking company handpicks new truckers with no aspiration to strike.
I am pretty sure that MS could withstand any sort of PC maker 'blockade' far longer than the low margin hardware industry. Too bad. I just bought a computer and put it together myself, had I bought a 'branded' PC, I would have windows xp right now. Instead (I'm doing audio with a windows only card:( I installed windows 98.
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He used his odometer.
He used a camera with FILM.
He didn't have to stop to change the film.
At night he would mark the last mile, find a motel, sleep.
Then he would resume the trip at the last mile.
Ahhhg. Please mod this +5 redundant and email to all your friends for the ultimate in redundacy.
Wasn't there a (8mm?) Movie made of a similar trip? IIRC, it was from coast to coast, and you could watch the drive in superfast motion. It takes 15(+-) min to see the whole thing, and the scale speed was something like 600 mph. I seem to recall it was used in a Saturday Night Live sketch as well..
My advice would be to go to the store, get some black text on a white screen, and stare at it until you go blind. Whichever monitor takes the longest wins. ;)
Not to mention the huge amount of heat CRTs put out! In my old apartment, my gas went out (ok, I didn't pay the bill :P), but my computer room was always toasty warm with 3 CRTs going. You haven't lived, till you've used a Mac SE for a foot-warming ottoman!
Mostly when I get a jones for new music, I write it. Too bad more people don't do that.
What a Analog-Hole! Did he go to the RIAA school of Business?
"Alienate your customers at all costs!"
"When things don't go your way, sue!"
"If all else fails, involve the government!"
"The customer is ALWAYS wrong, and is trying to destroy your business!"
I agree with you, and not to bring up the old chestnut analogy of the buggy whip manufacturers, but what do we do? Sadly, I am a musician (period :) and am caught in this whole mess more than your average mp3'er. Do I kill myself to put out music, that thanks to the RIAA, I won't be able to distribute by any channel, other than 'approved' copy-protected methods? Is it even possible for an independent musician to make a buck at this? Make it difficult enough to create, distribute, and who will bother? This is how they will 'own' all 'content', and how we will be stuck with lowest common denominator pap. Frankly, it makes me ill.
If so, please test in Washington D.C.
BTW. Why put copy protection on this disc? Really, honestly, how many people who actively participate in file sharing (ripping, encoding, and sharing) are going to listen to Celine Dion? I was under the impression that most P2P users were somewhere in the age bracket of 15-30, and male..I may be mistaken, but that's my understanding from following all this..
So why then? I'm guessing that this is an attempt by the RIAA to say, "Look! Copy Protection works! There are 'x' number of copies of Celine floating around the net. Without Copy Protection there would be many more. If we compare it to the latest Nickleback album, you see that copy protection works! This is why Senator Holling's bill is genius! " This is the argument that the RIAA will take to Congress in order to get the SSSCA passed.
Go and buy this disc. Rip it in ANY manner. Make it the MOST shared disc EVER. GIVE copies away to all who WOULD have bought it. Return it to the store. Repeat.
Of course, this would probably end up being the argument then: "See! We NEED Hardware Copy Protection! We tried to keep them from this disc and they broke the protection!"
The answer, then, is to not buy OR listen to music from the RIAA. Explore unsigned bands! THINK! Has your life improved because of Creed's newest album? Where would you be if you had never heard it? If the RIAA sells nothing, and has no pirate to rail against, where are they? Gone. And, you are also helping out artists who deserve your attention, and are not part of the Media Industry.
Gaaarrrr! I'm gettin a beer.
Herein lies the double edged sword: The Industry has all the $$$. They'll let you have some for awhile, but they will get it back in fucking spades. If anyone thinks the Industry gives one rat's ass about their artists, take note: Where is Hootie now? (not that I care ;)
Anytime you add a middleman, prepare to be screwed.
As far as handwriting recognition goes, the last Apple Newton was the pinnacle as far as I have tried...
How about better speech recognition instead? Or better yet, eye movement tracking (silent). If I was able to use my monkey-thought input device with something, that would be the best!
from me sitting in a van with my laptop with a sign that says "CD Backups: 2 for $10"?
for the government to get it's invasive little paws into the stream of email everywhere! Sounds like an excuse to install "Herbivore". "It's a SPAM-fighter! Honest!" Can't wait to see my tax dollars at work.
Microsoft putting up an Anti-Unix site is like going to Sturgis on your Vespa Scooter, poking a Hell's Angel in the chest, and saying, "Hey, Fatass! My Vespa totally kicks ass over your American-Made pile of crap."
Second:
Exactly how much crap did Steve Mann have embedded in him? Come on, did he have a wire going into the center of his brain, or what? I'm certainly not a fan of 'go to the airport - forfeit your rights', but last time I checked his site (before Air Canaduh), he just had some VR gear and some wireless network thing. Not a pacemaker or anything. (Idea: send Dick Cheney to Canada via Air Canada)
Carnivore is not here to 'keep us safe'. It's here to keep us quiet. Thank you John Asscroft, for making sure no one speaks out without repercussions.
BTW: The terrorists have already won...the election.
He would be perfect! Linux would be renamed to MICKEY! (My Intent is to Crush Kernel Enjoyment. Yes!) Plus, the desktop would play Cinderella Two 'Back in the Habit', 24-7!
note to self: page ALL the way down.
pigeons still have a job! Yay google! All those pigeon children won't have to starve!
For anyone wondering, "why windows?" Audio.
Actually, if you read an EBook in your lap, it will make you sterile.
Printing any web site is a great way to get lots of scrap paper, too. How many times have I printed a paragraph and an image, and ended up with five sheets, marked with the url and nothing else!
On the plus side, I have really cut back on the number of pages I print each day, since OS X doesn't support my localtalk Oki. :P
Turn on Showtime and see 'Supernova'. It's the same damn thing. I, for one, hate seeing movies that have a cool premise, but then fail to deliver. (Pitch Black) It coould have been so much better... I just wanted to go read 'Nightfall' by Issac Asimov.
They waste all their time posting on Simdot, and bitch to me when the get modded down.
Why do people feel the need to feed their little monkey egos spying, cracking, and infecting me and everyone else. If humans didn't have the urge to fuck over their neighbor any chance they get, I guess we'd all be dogs. BTW. Senator Hollings sucks Walts ass.
I also thought of an OEM 'union', but look at it this way. Truckers go on strike, big trucking company has lots of money, can hold out a long time, can hire 'scab' workers. Truckers starve. Big trucking company handpicks new truckers with no aspiration to strike.
I am pretty sure that MS could withstand any sort of PC maker 'blockade' far longer than the low margin hardware industry. Too bad. I just bought a computer and put it together myself, had I bought a 'branded' PC, I would have windows xp right now. Instead (I'm doing audio with a windows only card :( I installed windows 98.