My g4 tower runs cool enough so that i can keep it in the closet (with the door closed most of the time), which just about kills any noise. I'd say it's maybe a little quieter than a PC when it's out in the open.
In my last machine (g3), I had the IDE drive that came with it and a SCSI drive installed, and I didn't really notice a difference. Also, make sure you definitely need it before you go with the SCSI option. Some applications (Pro Tools, for instance) don't even support it.
Unless you run memory-intensive apps (like 3D ones) and you know you need it, I say get 256 RAM and spend the rest on processor speed. You can always buy more RAM later, and it'll just get cheaper. Not so with processor speed. I probably don't need to mention to get quality RAM. Newer (the company), for example.
And that's to get Frank Miller to write (or re-write) the script. The Batman/Superman encounter in Return of the Dark Night was excellent. Also, if they paired him with M. Night Shay*an. Unbreakable was just about the best superhero movie ever. I doubt the producers will have the insight to do either though.
The subject here seems to be rumors that are pulled out of your ass (see iTools -->.mac for evidence), so I consider this "on-topic."
I think they'll show an iPod with a mic/line input. This will let you record direct from an analog source or even record stuff like conversations or your own music demos. Additionally, they're gonna implement their voice-recognition software so all you have to do is speak the name of the artist and album into the mic and the iPod will play it. I have a feeling the iPod software will now also include the ability to slow down or speed up a song by as much as +- 100%, in addition to changing the pitch by the same amount. This will effectively be the iPod's killer app for DJs and riff-studying guitar players everywhere.
Yeah, contrast that to Rhino/Atlantic's reissues of Mingus albums, which include a cool informative booklet and a cardboard sleeve made to look like the original vinyl cover, all in a nifty cardboard case. Or those Stones albums reissues, with all the zippers and die cuts. Or the White Album re-release, which was exactly like the original vinyl, including the 4 glamour photos of the beatles. It's almost like a matter of pride owning these wonderful things.
I wonder how much of the camera nazi stuff was caused by being pricks about having their photo taken and how much was from getting sick of goddam flashes popping in their faces every 10 seconds.
All you have to do is buy food that is a pain in the ass to cook. So if you're sitting at the computer and you're like "I feel like munching on something," you'll go to the cabinet and say to yourself "man, I don't feel like cooking any of this stuff. Forget it, I'm going back to quake. I guess I wasn't that hungry after all." See? It's perfect because it's founded on your laziness. A variant of this is to only buy bland food, like white rice and beans. It gets you to eat only when you're really hungry.
A few people above mentioned that you need to exercise. Exercise is for lam3rs. Admit it, every time you see someone in a bright spandex jogging suit you think of spider-man. I say, find something you like to do that requires a physical effort. I doesn't matter if it's hiking, playing basketball, doing gung fu or yoga, or rock climbing. You'll see yourself get in shape magically, with no percieved(*) effort on your part. And you won't quit doing it after a few weeks, because, duh, you like doing it.
* hmmm, okay, i before e, except after c, or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout may, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say...
Nope. That actually sounds pretty interesting. I tried out the game, but got really bored really quick killing rodents to level up. Kept thinking how cool it would be if I had to use quake-like skills to kill things, rather than hitting attack and having the program rely on to-hit stats.
Geez, they've got this simple, completely legal method of copy-protection that works well and also improves their product. People buy CDs, not music. It feels good to spend your money on something you can hold in your hand. Just make the packaging cool, and people will be way more likely to buy a CD rather than copy it. For instance, Kid Koala's CD "Karpal Tunnel Syndrome" comes with a goddam comic book! You don't even have to go all out. Kruder & Dorfmeister's "K & D Sessions" has beautiful photography and a gorgeous fold-out mini poster of a sunflower field. Why don't the record companies issue a memo to all the artists that says "Put some freakin effort into your packaging. No more will we accept a few glamour shots of the band. We need to make the physical CD a work of art, like the music inside, so the public will buy it."
Games don't give you real-life skills or abilities - they give you a source of escape and relaxation
You make a valid point about how specific gaming skills rarely cross over into real life. But the thing about games, and the reason we play them at all, is that they excercise certain skills in a unique and valuable way. For example, less than a year ago my 5-year-old nephew was doing about normal in terms of hand/eye coordination. Then his parents got a gamecube, and he learned to play Simpsons Road Rage. Not long after, his drawing skills improved a LOT. Before, he was drawing people made of circles and lines, and now he makes highly detailed pictures of soldiers with armor and decorative swords, etc. Also, his confidence is way up, due to the fact that he can beat his dad at the game once in a while (without letting him win, I might add). This is exactly the same reason we play games like baseball, air hockey, or chess. Not because they have a direct correlation to real-life activities, but because it feels good to sharpen different skills, useful or not.
That said, while playing Tetris might improve some sort of shape-visualization part of the brain, playing EverQuest likely exercises nothing more than whichever finger you use to press "attack" with. Video games are like TV shows. Some improve you somehow and some are mindless entertainment (which isn't necessarily worthless). The author of the study would've done better to compare how different games affect your brain, rather than try to make a sweeping generalization about a huge and complex genre.
My domains are registered through Go Daddy. I used them because they were cheapest and a friend recommended them to me. To date (several months), I have recieved no spam from them other than a notice warning me about Verisign's nasty renewal notices, and a recent notice about how they're making domain transfer free. Also, my normal flow of spam didn't noticeably go up after registering. So while I'd agree that most registrars are scumbags, I gotta say I'm very happy with Go Daddy. So far, at least.
Imagine that the voters actually go through all the trouble of "writing in" OMWF, and it wins the emmy. It would be unprecedented. All of the sudden, Whedon's emmy would be 100 times more valuable than it would've had the voting been fair. Yeah, the whole thing stinks, (even though awards are nothing more than great marketing tools (and ego fodder)), but there's a possibility here for the show to get some MAD props.
Has anyone out there overclocked and/or water-cooled a Mac? This article has got me interested to try it, but I'm pretty afraid I'll screw it up, especially since all the articles on it seem to be PC oriented. I was mostly interested in getting rid of the fan, so it'd be quieter, but the article mentioned successfully overclocking a pentium 4 to 3000 mhz (apparently 3100 is the limit), and that got me drooling. I wonder how much a g4 can be overclocked?
I copyrighted the note "F" some time ago, and almost successfully sued Britney Spears for using it without my permission, except her lawyers found a loophole, claiming that she wes really singing "E#." Fucking lawyers.
Okay, as I understand it, the labels, afraid that the '98 performance was gonna suck, agreed to not advertise or discount CDs of the previous 2 concerts, so as not to take away from the fanfare of the most recent one. How is this wrong? It's not even like they got together and decided to make all their CDs more expensive. And even if they did, who cares? No one has a monopoly on selling music. It would just make more people take a closer look at independent releases. Besides, I thought price-fixing was reserved for markets that dealt with necessites, like the phone company or gasoline. You don't need CDs. In fact, they're very easy to go without.
I'm the last person to defend major labels' practices (see the RIAA song and wallpaper for proof), but I don't see anything wrong with what they did (or more accurately, didn't do). It's a free market, and they should have the right to choose whatever business model they want, no matter how crappy or unfair.
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I have never lurked around dark tunnels running from ghosts and eating pills I find on the ground.
Yeah, but you're not Robert Downey Jr.
I think I saw this as someone's sig:
"If video games affected real life, we'd all be going around popping pills and listening to repetetive music."
It's true!
Mushrooms make me drive a lot faster, just like in Mario Kart.
just wanted to add:
My g4 tower runs cool enough so that i can keep it in the closet (with the door closed most of the time), which just about kills any noise. I'd say it's maybe a little quieter than a PC when it's out in the open.
In my last machine (g3), I had the IDE drive that came with it and a SCSI drive installed, and I didn't really notice a difference. Also, make sure you definitely need it before you go with the SCSI option. Some applications (Pro Tools, for instance) don't even support it.
Unless you run memory-intensive apps (like 3D ones) and you know you need it, I say get 256 RAM and spend the rest on processor speed. You can always buy more RAM later, and it'll just get cheaper. Not so with processor speed. I probably don't need to mention to get quality RAM. Newer (the company), for example.
I've heard some rumors about apple making a rackmount g4, mostly for pro audio applications. I question the reliability of them though.
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I've heard nothing but good things about these. They're supposed to feel just like vinyl. Of course, for over a grand, they damn well better.
And that's to get Frank Miller to write (or re-write) the script. The Batman/Superman encounter in Return of the Dark Night was excellent. Also, if they paired him with M. Night Shay*an. Unbreakable was just about the best superhero movie ever. I doubt the producers will have the insight to do either though.
The subject here seems to be rumors that are pulled out of your ass (see iTools --> .mac for evidence), so I consider this "on-topic."
I think they'll show an iPod with a mic/line input. This will let you record direct from an analog source or even record stuff like conversations or your own music demos. Additionally, they're gonna implement their voice-recognition software so all you have to do is speak the name of the artist and album into the mic and the iPod will play it. I have a feeling the iPod software will now also include the ability to slow down or speed up a song by as much as +- 100%, in addition to changing the pitch by the same amount. This will effectively be the iPod's killer app for DJs and riff-studying guitar players everywhere.
Well, at least I hope they show this.
Yeah, contrast that to Rhino/Atlantic's reissues of Mingus albums, which include a cool informative booklet and a cardboard sleeve made to look like the original vinyl cover, all in a nifty cardboard case. Or those Stones albums reissues, with all the zippers and die cuts. Or the White Album re-release, which was exactly like the original vinyl, including the 4 glamour photos of the beatles. It's almost like a matter of pride owning these wonderful things.
The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!
must... get... mind... out... of... gutter...
Next they'll claim that you're stealing their soul or singing abilities
I had that idea yesterday. You've stolen it from me and published it without my permission. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
I wonder how much of the camera nazi stuff was caused by being pricks about having their photo taken and how much was from getting sick of goddam flashes popping in their faces every 10 seconds.
All you have to do is buy food that is a pain in the ass to cook. So if you're sitting at the computer and you're like "I feel like munching on something," you'll go to the cabinet and say to yourself "man, I don't feel like cooking any of this stuff. Forget it, I'm going back to quake. I guess I wasn't that hungry after all." See? It's perfect because it's founded on your laziness. A variant of this is to only buy bland food, like white rice and beans. It gets you to eat only when you're really hungry.
A few people above mentioned that you need to exercise. Exercise is for lam3rs. Admit it, every time you see someone in a bright spandex jogging suit you think of spider-man. I say, find something you like to do that requires a physical effort. I doesn't matter if it's hiking, playing basketball, doing gung fu or yoga, or rock climbing. You'll see yourself get in shape magically, with no percieved(*) effort on your part. And you won't quit doing it after a few weeks, because, duh, you like doing it.
* hmmm, okay, i before e, except after c, or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout may, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say...
Nope. That actually sounds pretty interesting. I tried out the game, but got really bored really quick killing rodents to level up. Kept thinking how cool it would be if I had to use quake-like skills to kill things, rather than hitting attack and having the program rely on to-hit stats.
Surveys can find just about anything you want, if done correctly.
"Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."
Geez, they've got this simple, completely legal method of copy-protection that works well and also improves their product. People buy CDs, not music. It feels good to spend your money on something you can hold in your hand. Just make the packaging cool, and people will be way more likely to buy a CD rather than copy it. For instance, Kid Koala's CD "Karpal Tunnel Syndrome" comes with a goddam comic book! You don't even have to go all out. Kruder & Dorfmeister's "K & D Sessions" has beautiful photography and a gorgeous fold-out mini poster of a sunflower field. Why don't the record companies issue a memo to all the artists that says "Put some freakin effort into your packaging. No more will we accept a few glamour shots of the band. We need to make the physical CD a work of art, like the music inside, so the public will buy it."
Games don't give you real-life skills or abilities - they give you a source of escape and relaxation
You make a valid point about how specific gaming skills rarely cross over into real life. But the thing about games, and the reason we play them at all, is that they excercise certain skills in a unique and valuable way. For example, less than a year ago my 5-year-old nephew was doing about normal in terms of hand/eye coordination. Then his parents got a gamecube, and he learned to play Simpsons Road Rage. Not long after, his drawing skills improved a LOT. Before, he was drawing people made of circles and lines, and now he makes highly detailed pictures of soldiers with armor and decorative swords, etc. Also, his confidence is way up, due to the fact that he can beat his dad at the game once in a while (without letting him win, I might add). This is exactly the same reason we play games like baseball, air hockey, or chess. Not because they have a direct correlation to real-life activities, but because it feels good to sharpen different skills, useful or not.
That said, while playing Tetris might improve some sort of shape-visualization part of the brain, playing EverQuest likely exercises nothing more than whichever finger you use to press "attack" with. Video games are like TV shows. Some improve you somehow and some are mindless entertainment (which isn't necessarily worthless). The author of the study would've done better to compare how different games affect your brain, rather than try to make a sweeping generalization about a huge and complex genre.
I don't understand why Shell, the company who helps fund south african dictators to maintain control over their oil supply, is involved with this.
It's like Microsoft having an uptime contest.
My domains are registered through Go Daddy. I used them because they were cheapest and a friend recommended them to me. To date (several months), I have recieved no spam from them other than a notice warning me about Verisign's nasty renewal notices, and a recent notice about how they're making domain transfer free. Also, my normal flow of spam didn't noticeably go up after registering. So while I'd agree that most registrars are scumbags, I gotta say I'm very happy with Go Daddy. So far, at least.
Thanks for the long post. It was really helpful, if only to fund my inactivity (or keep my funds inactive--a good thing, to be sure!).
Imagine that the voters actually go through all the trouble of "writing in" OMWF, and it wins the emmy. It would be unprecedented. All of the sudden, Whedon's emmy would be 100 times more valuable than it would've had the voting been fair. Yeah, the whole thing stinks, (even though awards are nothing more than great marketing tools (and ego fodder)), but there's a possibility here for the show to get some MAD props.
Has anyone out there overclocked and/or water-cooled a Mac? This article has got me interested to try it, but I'm pretty afraid I'll screw it up, especially since all the articles on it seem to be PC oriented. I was mostly interested in getting rid of the fan, so it'd be quieter, but the article mentioned successfully overclocking a pentium 4 to 3000 mhz (apparently 3100 is the limit), and that got me drooling. I wonder how much a g4 can be overclocked?
So when is "The Return of Elvis" coming out?
I copyrighted the note "F" some time ago, and almost successfully sued Britney Spears for using it without my permission, except her lawyers found a loophole, claiming that she wes really singing "E#." Fucking lawyers.
Okay, as I understand it, the labels, afraid that the '98 performance was gonna suck, agreed to not advertise or discount CDs of the previous 2 concerts, so as not to take away from the fanfare of the most recent one. How is this wrong? It's not even like they got together and decided to make all their CDs more expensive. And even if they did, who cares? No one has a monopoly on selling music. It would just make more people take a closer look at independent releases. Besides, I thought price-fixing was reserved for markets that dealt with necessites, like the phone company or gasoline. You don't need CDs. In fact, they're very easy to go without.
I'm the last person to defend major labels' practices (see the RIAA song and wallpaper for proof), but I don't see anything wrong with what they did (or more accurately, didn't do). It's a free market, and they should have the right to choose whatever business model they want, no matter how crappy or unfair.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-1