You can get a cell phone from Virgin for $60. Talk time is 25 cents a minute for the first 10 minutes, and 10 cents after that. What's so great about that? NO PLAN. You just buy these cards with extra minutes on them whenever you need more time to talk. Why should I spend $38 a month on home phone service? I rarely talk on the phone. Even if I make one 4-minute call each day, it'll still only add up to $30 a month. For the young single person, these are perfect.
Phish became as popular as they are because they were the only viable alternative after the deadheads' platform became unsupported. They vertically leveraged Phish and brought over all their old apps, which integrated seamlessly. It had nothing to do with their taping policy, which was just a nice extra.
You know, Quark has eschewed Mac standards for as long as I can remember. They're UI was (is) totally proprietary, and their key shortcuts are a pain to figure out. Learning Quark was about as easy as learning a whole new OS. I always got the feeling it was totally hacked together. Maybe if they'd spent a little time making their program more standard, they wouldn't have this problem. I have no sympathy.
The sooner the educational market switches to OSX the better. I've been using Classic since 7.5, and one thing I didn't like about it is that stuff learned about the Mac OS was non-transferrable. You can learn to hack with ResEdit and write Applescripts and have fun on a Mac, but those skills were useless on any other OS. I always felt like if you want to get your hands dirty, you should run *nix. I knew Windows pretty well in high school, and when I got to college, I didn't even know what Unix was. Now we've got OS X. If you train kids on OS X, they'll be ready for any computing direction. If they go into a computer science field, it'll be an easy transition to a Unix or Linux box (not that they couldn't use a proprietary OS). If they become designers, audio engineers, or digital video specialists, they'll already know the most used OS. If they just want to be Sales Monkeys or gamers, well, they'll have to learn Windows.
It's not an issue of how flawed Classic was. What's important is that OSX is built on rock-solid open technology, the same that is being used on the world's best servers and workstations. I just got OSX a short while ago. Pretty soon, I'll be figuring out how to run a cron job. That knowledge is not Mac-specific. It's general computing knowledge. I like that.
Were they really? I'd be curious to know if the service contract mentions anything about modifying your system to increase bandwidth. If it doesn't, can they be prosecuted for anything? My first instinct is "they were taking away bandwidth from the rest of the community and should be punished." But is that even accurate? I have Optimum Online cable, and I understand that they don't cap their modems (I've even hit download speeds of 700kbps/sec). If a competitor's standard is not capping, it's gotta be hard for the ISP to prove damages.
Of course, that the FBI got involved at all is an embarassment. No wonder that DC sniper took so long to find: the FBI is too busy holding the dicks of mega-corporations while they pee on the little guy.
The article says he does have a clothing line. But no plug? The guy even refused to give his last name. I guess he really isn't in America. Shit, over here, people'll plug their dog's new novel at the planning stage, when they're still thinking about teaching the animal how to type. If you're on a talk show (or many times, in a news article), it's beacause you have something to sell, not because you have something interesting to say.
I have to admit, my first reaction to the story was "freak." My second was "clothing line? Where can I get some?"
The debt he truly owes is to the creators of "Family Matters." If they had never dreamed up that adorable clown Steve Urkel, the comedic genius of Jar-Jar Binks might never have been realized. Also, there should be a nod to the creators of "Charles in Charge" for inspiration garnered from Charles' buddy,... Buddy.
You obviously haven't heard Armand van Helden's remix of her song "Professional Widow." That'll get your ass shaking no matter how long it's been on a chair while you read shashdot.
My site offers my own music for free, along with the source. I also will provide links to anyone else making open-source music, but most musicians seem to be reluctant to give away their seperate tracks. The EFF lists all the music that anyone is releasing under their Open Audio License. This is partly what you're asking for, except that if you're under another license (like my Open Source Music License), or just simply giving away downloads, they won't list you. I can't seem to find the links page now; maybe they took it down?
The problem with mp3.com (one of them anyway) is that they host the music, so they have to make some money somehow to offset the bandwidth costs. A site that linked to the bands' websites could be cheap and simple and maybe offset the hosting costs through ad or membership revenue (like/. does). The other benefit to this is that bands with sites are generally more dedicated, and the overall quality of the music might be better.
What would make this perfect though is some kind of rating system, maybe like Amazon's. Listeners could rate albums (or songs), so someone just visiting the site would have a better chance of finding something they really liked.
Well, hell. I'm not one to sit around whining. Send me (jcsehakatyahoodotcom), or reply to this post with, links of bands you like that let people download at least one complete album of theirs for free. It's gotta be at least a complete album because averyone and their mother gives away sample songs; look how many free downloads there are on Amazon. Include a short description of their style. I'll make a page that lists it all (in addition to open-source bands), and I'll see what I can do about making a rating system. Any help on that would be appreciated. Or just respond to this post saying it's a bad idea or someone else is already doing it and I shouldn't bother.
Never trust technology when you're dealing with icebergs. Once, a long time ago, these people built this huge titanic ocean liner, and said it was unsinkable, then they ran into this giant titanic iceberg that tore this titanic gash in its hull, sinking the ship. I wish I could remember the name of the ship though. I think it was "The Enormous."
Every behind-the-scenes show I've seen on a movie with a lot of FX (like Jurassic Park) always seems to show the animators working in Softimage. Of course, it's not available for OSX (unless I'm mistaken). I'd guess that Maya is its closest equivalent. Lightwave is used a lot in TV, but it always seems to look crappy. But that could be due to budget and scheduling rather than the quality of the program. The impression I get from Softimage is it's real strength is in its animation and physics. But to me, the still images also look better than any other program.
Will this work on a US playstation 2? I'm guessing no, not without a mod chip. Is there a certain mod chip that's the best? Can a US resident even get one these days?
Also, does anyone know of a place on the web that helps you teach yourself Japanese, or at least will translate? I just tried babelfish.altavista.com, and the japanese bit doesn't work. It'd be nice to be able to read the messages in the game if I do wind up getting it.
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I've only used 10.1, not 10.2. I used it on a g4 450mhz with 384mb of ram, and virtual memory turned off, over the period of a few months while dual-booting with OS9.
I found it to be annoyingly slow. Even after a clean install on a blank partition, I'd click on files and have to wait half a second for the computer to acknowledge it. I kept OS9 because Pro Tools hasn't migrated yet. They still don't have an OSX version, and I stopped using OSX 10.1. It was too sluggish.
I figured I'd just get the 10.2 update and use it when they made it faster. Then I found out there is no update. They want me to pay $120 for something I might not want to use, after I've already spent $120 on something I definitely won't use. I'm still using OS9 because I don't consider myself a rube. The next time I buy an operating system will be when I buy a new Mac and I get it included for free. No sooner.
Pros:
* 200+ KBps downloads (needing to be reconfigured every 35 minutes)
That's funny. I use Optimum Online Cable, and for $50/month, I routinely get download speeds of 100+ KB/sec. I could see where uncapping could be fun if you ended up with 10MB/sec transfer rates, but 200K? And having to reset it every half-hour? Feh. Even if it was totally legal it wouldn't be worth it. What a waste of FBI recources and taxpayer money.
No, it's relative. Women are a minority in the make-stuff-from-junk area, not the whole population. Just like men are, I'm sure, a minority in the quilting community. I agree that the negative probably overwhelms the positive on the whole, and showing a women in a field like engineering helps encourage young women to go into these fields, so it's a Good Thing to choose an equally-qualified woman over a man in a case like this. Maybe even a slightly-underqualified woman. But doing this is discrimination, which is considered by nearly everyone to be Evil. I just thought it was interesting and wanted to challenge people's notions of discrimination.
I'm equally sure they wouldn't sacrifice the quality of the show by hiring dumb pretty girls; that's reserved for MTV.
From what Cathy said, it sounds like attractive women (or any women) who would be good candidates for JW are very much in the minority. So much so that she has had troube finding them. I expect it says that women in general like building stuff out of scraps a lot less than men do. Why? Who the hell knows? The fact that Cathy is the only attractive women you've seen on the show probably says something about the ratio of attractive to unattractive women in the likes-to-make-stuff-out-of-scraps segment of the populace. It also says something (not necessarily bad) about the kind of woman you find attractive.
but any tech-keen ladies reading this, please please apply! you have my ear.
It's kinda interesting how a lot of times, being a minority will help you get a leg up on things. Like here, if you're a woman, you probably would have to be only half as good as the average male contestant at junkyard-wars-type stuff in order to get on the show. And if you were really hot, probably only 1/4. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. I think it's great, in fact. There are plenty of areas in which being a minority is a disadvantage. This kinda evens it out. It just goes to show that there are advantages and disadvantages to being whoever you are, and the smart people are the ones who capitalize on the former.
Now if only I was a parapalegic endangered albino 3-toed sloth with a caffeine addiction and a penchant for daredevil stunts. I'd get my own show for sure!
...how do some states get away without it? I just came from Montana, which has no sales tax. Do they raise other taxes to compensate? If some states can not have a sales tax, why can't the internet also? Can it be looked upon as a virtual state?
Besides, if internet sales were taxed, shouldn't it be by the feds? They're the ones who created the internet in the first place.
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You can get a cell phone from Virgin for $60. Talk time is 25 cents a minute for the first 10 minutes, and 10 cents after that. What's so great about that? NO PLAN. You just buy these cards with extra minutes on them whenever you need more time to talk. Why should I spend $38 a month on home phone service? I rarely talk on the phone. Even if I make one 4-minute call each day, it'll still only add up to $30 a month. For the young single person, these are perfect.
Phish became as popular as they are because they were the only viable alternative after the deadheads' platform became unsupported. They vertically leveraged Phish and brought over all their old apps, which integrated seamlessly. It had nothing to do with their taping policy, which was just a nice extra.
...on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!
"NO!!! Don't mix the red and gree- *KABOOM!!!*
"George, I told you to put that stuff away. What's that, the third model we've killed? Well, see if we at least snapped the photo in time."
You know, Quark has eschewed Mac standards for as long as I can remember. They're UI was (is) totally proprietary, and their key shortcuts are a pain to figure out. Learning Quark was about as easy as learning a whole new OS. I always got the feeling it was totally hacked together. Maybe if they'd spent a little time making their program more standard, they wouldn't have this problem. I have no sympathy.
The sooner the educational market switches to OSX the better. I've been using Classic since 7.5, and one thing I didn't like about it is that stuff learned about the Mac OS was non-transferrable. You can learn to hack with ResEdit and write Applescripts and have fun on a Mac, but those skills were useless on any other OS. I always felt like if you want to get your hands dirty, you should run *nix. I knew Windows pretty well in high school, and when I got to college, I didn't even know what Unix was. Now we've got OS X. If you train kids on OS X, they'll be ready for any computing direction. If they go into a computer science field, it'll be an easy transition to a Unix or Linux box (not that they couldn't use a proprietary OS). If they become designers, audio engineers, or digital video specialists, they'll already know the most used OS. If they just want to be Sales Monkeys or gamers, well, they'll have to learn Windows.
It's not an issue of how flawed Classic was. What's important is that OSX is built on rock-solid open technology, the same that is being used on the world's best servers and workstations. I just got OSX a short while ago. Pretty soon, I'll be figuring out how to run a cron job. That knowledge is not Mac-specific. It's general computing knowledge. I like that.
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Were they really? I'd be curious to know if the service contract mentions anything about modifying your system to increase bandwidth. If it doesn't, can they be prosecuted for anything? My first instinct is "they were taking away bandwidth from the rest of the community and should be punished." But is that even accurate? I have Optimum Online cable, and I understand that they don't cap their modems (I've even hit download speeds of 700kbps/sec). If a competitor's standard is not capping, it's gotta be hard for the ISP to prove damages.
Of course, that the FBI got involved at all is an embarassment. No wonder that DC sniper took so long to find: the FBI is too busy holding the dicks of mega-corporations while they pee on the little guy.
You're forgetting about World of Warcraft. This promises to kick EQ's ass. Unfortunately, it's going to be at least a year or two until it comes out.
The article says he does have a clothing line. But no plug? The guy even refused to give his last name. I guess he really isn't in America. Shit, over here, people'll plug their dog's new novel at the planning stage, when they're still thinking about teaching the animal how to type. If you're on a talk show (or many times, in a news article), it's beacause you have something to sell, not because you have something interesting to say.
I have to admit, my first reaction to the story was "freak." My second was "clothing line? Where can I get some?"
The debt he truly owes is to the creators of "Family Matters." If they had never dreamed up that adorable clown Steve Urkel, the comedic genius of Jar-Jar Binks might never have been realized. Also, there should be a nod to the creators of "Charles in Charge" for inspiration garnered from Charles' buddy,... Buddy.
You obviously haven't heard Armand van Helden's remix of her song "Professional Widow." That'll get your ass shaking no matter how long it's been on a chair while you read shashdot.
My site offers my own music for free, along with the source. I also will provide links to anyone else making open-source music, but most musicians seem to be reluctant to give away their seperate tracks. The EFF lists all the music that anyone is releasing under their Open Audio License. This is partly what you're asking for, except that if you're under another license (like my Open Source Music License), or just simply giving away downloads, they won't list you. I can't seem to find the links page now; maybe they took it down?
/. does). The other benefit to this is that bands with sites are generally more dedicated, and the overall quality of the music might be better.
The problem with mp3.com (one of them anyway) is that they host the music, so they have to make some money somehow to offset the bandwidth costs. A site that linked to the bands' websites could be cheap and simple and maybe offset the hosting costs through ad or membership revenue (like
What would make this perfect though is some kind of rating system, maybe like Amazon's. Listeners could rate albums (or songs), so someone just visiting the site would have a better chance of finding something they really liked.
Well, hell. I'm not one to sit around whining. Send me (jcsehakatyahoodotcom), or reply to this post with, links of bands you like that let people download at least one complete album of theirs for free. It's gotta be at least a complete album because averyone and their mother gives away sample songs; look how many free downloads there are on Amazon. Include a short description of their style. I'll make a page that lists it all (in addition to open-source bands), and I'll see what I can do about making a rating system. Any help on that would be appreciated. Or just respond to this post saying it's a bad idea or someone else is already doing it and I shouldn't bother.
Take off, ya hoser! :)
Never trust technology when you're dealing with icebergs. Once, a long time ago, these people built this huge titanic ocean liner, and said it was unsinkable, then they ran into this giant titanic iceberg that tore this titanic gash in its hull, sinking the ship. I wish I could remember the name of the ship though. I think it was "The Enormous."
(w/ apologies to Homer)
Every behind-the-scenes show I've seen on a movie with a lot of FX (like Jurassic Park) always seems to show the animators working in Softimage. Of course, it's not available for OSX (unless I'm mistaken). I'd guess that Maya is its closest equivalent. Lightwave is used a lot in TV, but it always seems to look crappy. But that could be due to budget and scheduling rather than the quality of the program. The impression I get from Softimage is it's real strength is in its animation and physics. But to me, the still images also look better than any other program.
Will this work on a US playstation 2? I'm guessing no, not without a mod chip. Is there a certain mod chip that's the best? Can a US resident even get one these days?
Also, does anyone know of a place on the web that helps you teach yourself Japanese, or at least will translate? I just tried babelfish.altavista.com, and the japanese bit doesn't work. It'd be nice to be able to read the messages in the game if I do wind up getting it.
I've only used 10.1, not 10.2. I used it on a g4 450mhz with 384mb of ram, and virtual memory turned off, over the period of a few months while dual-booting with OS9.
I found it to be annoyingly slow. Even after a clean install on a blank partition, I'd click on files and have to wait half a second for the computer to acknowledge it. I kept OS9 because Pro Tools hasn't migrated yet. They still don't have an OSX version, and I stopped using OSX 10.1. It was too sluggish.
I figured I'd just get the 10.2 update and use it when they made it faster. Then I found out there is no update. They want me to pay $120 for something I might not want to use, after I've already spent $120 on something I definitely won't use. I'm still using OS9 because I don't consider myself a rube. The next time I buy an operating system will be when I buy a new Mac and I get it included for free. No sooner.
Linking to leaked software is very close to linking to warez, IMO.
Yeah, why should I buy the full version of Doom III now, when I have a bug-ridden alpha demo that runs at a crappy frame rate?
The big difference here is that linking to warez theoretically hurts sales of the software. No sane person could believe that this does.
Pros: * 200+ KBps downloads (needing to be reconfigured every 35 minutes)
That's funny. I use Optimum Online Cable, and for $50/month, I routinely get download speeds of 100+ KB/sec. I could see where uncapping could be fun if you ended up with 10MB/sec transfer rates, but 200K? And having to reset it every half-hour? Feh. Even if it was totally legal it wouldn't be worth it. What a waste of FBI recources and taxpayer money.
Very interesting. Thanks. I wish I hadn't participated in the discussion so I could mod it up as informative.
No, it's relative. Women are a minority in the make-stuff-from-junk area, not the whole population. Just like men are, I'm sure, a minority in the quilting community. I agree that the negative probably overwhelms the positive on the whole, and showing a women in a field like engineering helps encourage young women to go into these fields, so it's a Good Thing to choose an equally-qualified woman over a man in a case like this. Maybe even a slightly-underqualified woman. But doing this is discrimination, which is considered by nearly everyone to be Evil. I just thought it was interesting and wanted to challenge people's notions of discrimination.
I'm equally sure they wouldn't sacrifice the quality of the show by hiring dumb pretty girls; that's reserved for MTV.
From what Cathy said, it sounds like attractive women (or any women) who would be good candidates for JW are very much in the minority. So much so that she has had troube finding them. I expect it says that women in general like building stuff out of scraps a lot less than men do. Why? Who the hell knows? The fact that Cathy is the only attractive women you've seen on the show probably says something about the ratio of attractive to unattractive women in the likes-to-make-stuff-out-of-scraps segment of the populace. It also says something (not necessarily bad) about the kind of woman you find attractive.
but any tech-keen ladies reading this, please please apply! you have my ear.
It's kinda interesting how a lot of times, being a minority will help you get a leg up on things. Like here, if you're a woman, you probably would have to be only half as good as the average male contestant at junkyard-wars-type stuff in order to get on the show. And if you were really hot, probably only 1/4. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. I think it's great, in fact. There are plenty of areas in which being a minority is a disadvantage. This kinda evens it out. It just goes to show that there are advantages and disadvantages to being whoever you are, and the smart people are the ones who capitalize on the former.
Now if only I was a parapalegic endangered albino 3-toed sloth with a caffeine addiction and a penchant for daredevil stunts. I'd get my own show for sure!
...how do some states get away without it? I just came from Montana, which has no sales tax. Do they raise other taxes to compensate? If some states can not have a sales tax, why can't the internet also? Can it be looked upon as a virtual state?
Besides, if internet sales were taxed, shouldn't it be by the feds? They're the ones who created the internet in the first place.