That accountablity should be part of the service agreement, not the fact that you wrote the software. I mean, if charging lots of money means you will jump when the customer said "jump", then why isn't Micorsoft look like a jack-hammer going up and down very, very fast?
If I go out and charge $20/h to do consulting, I can't get any business, but if I go and charge $200/h, I can get a fair bit of businesness!
This is CRAZY!
What I get from customers is that those who charge more most have something more to deliver because they charge so much. It is the same stupidity that means a person in a three-piece well-fitting suit can open a bank account with obviously bogus ID, while a hippy with lots of good and valid ID gets the runarround.
If things look rich, then people, especially business people tend to trust them more than things that don't look rich. This is a major flaw in the only society I am familar with, North American Society.
It is nice to have Innovation at Apple again in the field of GUIs. Remember Mac 84 = Windows 95? Windows is a very bad GUI compared to the Mac Finder (what they used to call the Mac OS). And XP just doesn't compare to Mac OS-X. The difference between OS-X and Windows is the difference between a product/customer oriented company and a product/sales oriented company. Sure, Apple isn't as big as Microsoft, but whose computer karma would you want; Steve Jobs's, or Bill Gates's?
ttyl
Farrell
Power Outage Haiku
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Haiku vs Spam
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· Score: 5, Funny
Zen's sound is nothing Power out, system silent No power is Zen
As someone who is been in STrek fandom since 1977, we have had something similar to the problem Hackers have had. Trekkies were the childish, "Oh, wow, Spock has Pointed Ears!", while Trekkers were the people putting out the fanzines, doing the letter campains, running the conventions and generally doing all the creative stuff. Calling a Trekkie a Trekker is like calling a Cracker a Hacker.
As for slapping the first "Trekker", Look up Bjo Trimble, a person you probablly don't know who she is. Look up who she is, and be humbled.
Do you not think that Trekkers & Trekkies would gladly sit through 3 hours...heck they would probably sit through 4 hours! Look at the first Movie...nothing can be as boring as that...and it made a great deal of money!
Speaking as a Trekker myself, I would gladly sit thorugh 3 hours of good action, story, etc to be in the Trek Universe on a big screen with a super sound system. And I think that I would love to see a resolution of Wil's charactor from the Trek universe...
No need to have separate Desert/Jungle Camo suites, just turn a dial, and it becomes the one you need. Or, if the power requirements are to much for a personal version us it on buildings, vehicles, tents, etc.
A good overview of earlier electronic music. You did miss Tangerine Dream, who had to build most of their ealier synths from scratch.
As well, Wendy Carlos has always been Wendy, it is just in the days before feminism helped women become able to publish in their own right that the record company didn't think that men would be synth music done by a women...So on Vinyl, Wendy became Walter. Here is the relevent part of Wendy's FAQ:
Q: Why do some of the old LP's have a different name on them?
A: Please be assured that these are all Wendy Carlos albums, and were so when they were first completed. But-- to cut to the chase, in those less enlightened times strong selfish opinions were voiced (synthesizers are a "male" enterprise, don't you see...?). I was flabbergasted to be denyed fair credit (the first S-OB's had no cover credit at all, in fact, just: "Performed on the Moog Synthesizer," creating another misconception: that the Moog synth did it all. CBS signed our instrument, not us, to a contract -- talk about getting no respect...). Well, politically incorrect fears and dissembling perpetuated a fictionalized identity including faked pictures, for 10 years (grrr...). I naively let them run amok, forced to hide from the public until 1979, when fed up, I pulled the plug on the whole mess. Yes, a depressing tale -- old "news" by now. People can be cruel.
On the other hand many female authors have used male pseudonyms, especially if it was believed their writings might be received "more eagerly" with a male image in front of it. Think of George Sand, Sig-O to composer Frederic Chopin, and many more up through Alice Sheldon, the writer whose excellent SF novels were credited: James Tiptree, Jr. A few men have recently written us in (threatened?) outrage, insisting we should perpetuate the folly, and still refuse accurate album credit, "to maintain consistency" (once wrong, always wrong?). Unbelievable cheek (proof we haven't come so far?). Arrgh! Please feel free to bop a few heads for us...
In using a laptop to play MP3s in my car, I use a logitech Marble Mouse Track ball on the center console between the front two seats to control the system.
Fractint and POV-Ray were the first real popular open source graphics tools out there.Fractint brought the Mandelbrot set rendering time from a half hour or so to under a couple of minutes on a 386 system. It is great for providing textures to be mapped on to objects in POV-Ray. You can get it at www.fractint.org...and follow the links to which version you want for what platform.
I have been involved in running Science Fiction conferences (we call them "cons" for short) for about 20 years now. We have attendancess between a few dozen, and a few thousand, with some going over the 5 thousand membership mark. We get some of the best people in our community to be guests of honour( GoH), and then stock panels with people both attending and from the local area. How much do we charge? Well, the going rate is around $40 for a weekend pass. That usually includes a program book, access to the hospitality suite (with either free or cheap food/drink). You can usually find crash space one someone's floor for $10 a night. And there are usually lots of open parties.
SF Fans don't have any "sugar daddies" to pay for their memberships, as is expected by the various Computer Conferences, and thus cannot charge large fees. And we are about community, not making money.
About the only event that has crossed the SF con with the Computer con is Andrew Hutton and his Ottawa Linux Symposium. But then again, he has attended a number of SF cons, including a few I helped run (Can-CON). More people need to learn how to run SF style cons, and run Open Source gatherings on the same format. SF fandom has a model that works, and all it takes is a few people in some of the larger population bases to put together SF style cons to get this going. And seek out your local SF con, and volenteer...it's the best way to learn how to run these things!
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
Staff for:
Maplecon, Pinekone, I-Con, Ad Astra, Concept, and Can-CON.
The last time there was a major war happening that the states were involved with, I am willing to bet people went out to see more movies than bought music! (That includes sheet music sales since that was the more popular form of "distributing" music back then)
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Farrell
Re:Everyone has forgotten Dr. Fiorella Terenzi?
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Space Music
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· Score: 2
It's hard to get her stuff up here in Canada...much less *see* her in Canada...Oh, well. I did meet Tori Amos in person! But that's another story...
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Farrell
Everyone has forgotten Dr. Fiorella Terenzi?
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Space Music
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· Score: 2
She is the radio astrophysicist, who took radiowave data from UGC 6697 and turned it into music. She has a album of this music called Music From The Galaxies.
She also sang two songs on Thomas Dolby's soundtrack to "The Gate to the Mind's Eye". (one of my fav soundtracks, and the best of the "Mind's Eye" series), The cuts are "Quantum Mechanic" and "N.E.O. (Near Earth Objects)".
Well, I guess I will have to celebrate the passing of another great musician to the Great Gig in the Sky.
Us Celts believe that when a person dies, thet go to the Otherworld, a place that is better than this...think if your idealistic summer day, not too hot, not too cold. Many of your friends are there, and you meet other who become your friend. Then, when you are rested and ready to take on this World again, you are reborn here, which is why Celts mourn a birth.
Damn, that must be a great jam session, John arriving there to see Jim Morrison and Jimmy Hendrix on stage, and suddenly the there is a sound from behind the drum kit, and Keith Moon comes storming out from behind the drums and gives John a bone crushing hug and says "I hate to see you here so soon, but I am going to love playing with you again!"
When I download a source tarball, I can look in the README or INSTALL file, and find out what things it needs. RPMs have no such facility. Add to that, who *knows* what command line options were used, if some features were left out, etc.
This reads like a recent Canadian Government scandle...it seems like all the esteemed Toqueville Inst. did was re-write some MS FUD, and copy some text off the internet.
I do love the "...Numbers of Line of Code" in the OS chart...WinXP is big and tall, while Linux is short and stubby...gee, do they think that XP gives you a bigger dick? What drugs are these guys smoking?
It is not inconcievable that there were more than one "Captain's Chair". Considering the number of practical jokes that were played on various cast members, like Shatner...it seems that he had an ongoing weight-gain problem as the average season went on...and they would purposely take camera angles to emphesize this...it wouldn't suprise me that they once made a captain's chair that was slightly smaller as a practical joke.
Gods, I know too much about Star Trek, the Original!
Slashdot Mirror
Another: Wrong!
That accountablity should be part of the service agreement, not the fact that you wrote the software. I mean, if charging lots of money means you will jump when the customer said "jump", then why isn't Micorsoft look like a jack-hammer going up and down very, very fast?
ttyl
Farrell
If I go out and charge $20/h to do consulting, I can't get any business, but if I go and charge $200/h, I can get a fair bit of businesness!
This is CRAZY!
What I get from customers is that those who charge more most have something more to deliver because they charge so much. It is the same stupidity that means a person in a three-piece well-fitting suit can open a bank account with obviously bogus ID, while a hippy with lots of good and valid ID gets the runarround.
If things look rich, then people, especially business people tend to trust them more than things that don't look rich. This is a major flaw in the only society I am familar with, North American Society.
ttyl
Farrell
It is nice to have Innovation at Apple again in the field of GUIs. Remember Mac 84 = Windows 95? Windows is a very bad GUI compared to the Mac Finder (what they used to call the Mac OS). And XP just doesn't compare to Mac OS-X. The difference between OS-X and Windows is the difference between a product/customer oriented company and a product/sales oriented company. Sure, Apple isn't as big as Microsoft, but whose computer karma would you want; Steve Jobs's, or Bill Gates's?
ttyl
Farrell
Zen's sound is nothing
Power out, system silent
No power is Zen
Would love to get their IP addresses, and any company working for them to add to my blocked list on my firewall, and my customers firewalls.
ttyl
Farrell
As someone who is been in STrek fandom since 1977, we have had something similar to the problem Hackers have had. Trekkies were the childish, "Oh, wow, Spock has Pointed Ears!", while Trekkers were the people putting out the fanzines, doing the letter campains, running the conventions and generally doing all the creative stuff. Calling a Trekkie a Trekker is like calling a Cracker a Hacker.
As for slapping the first "Trekker", Look up Bjo Trimble, a person you probablly don't know who she is. Look up who she is, and be humbled.
ttyl
Farrell
I mean, the guy called him "kid".
Do you not think that Trekkers & Trekkies would gladly sit through 3 hours...heck they would probably sit through 4 hours! Look at the first Movie...nothing can be as boring as that...and it made a great deal of money!
Speaking as a Trekker myself, I would gladly sit thorugh 3 hours of good action, story, etc to be in the Trek Universe on a big screen with a super sound system. And I think that I would love to see a resolution of Wil's charactor from the Trek universe...
ttyl
Farrell
I have three powerglvoes, and one set of the trancievers...time to dust them off!
ttyl
Farrell
How compatible is this with Linux and other non-Windoz OSs? It all kinda sucks if you have to Windows to access this "wonderful" new service!
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Farrell
Thanx to the people to worked on it...it is silliness like this that make Linux well worth the effort to learn, understand and play with!
ttyl
Farrell
No need to have separate Desert/Jungle Camo suites, just turn a dial, and it becomes the one you need. Or, if the power requirements are to much for a personal version us it on buildings, vehicles, tents, etc.
ttyl
Farrell
A good overview of earlier electronic music. You did miss Tangerine Dream, who had to build most of their ealier synths from scratch.
As well, Wendy Carlos has always been Wendy, it is just in the days before feminism helped women become able to publish in their own right that the record company didn't think that men would be synth music done by a women...So on Vinyl, Wendy became Walter. Here is the relevent part of Wendy's FAQ:
Q: Why do some of the old LP's have a different name on them?
A: Please be assured that these are all Wendy Carlos albums, and were so when they were first completed. But-- to cut to the chase, in those less enlightened times strong selfish opinions were voiced (synthesizers are a "male" enterprise, don't you see...?). I was flabbergasted to be denyed fair credit (the first S-OB's had no cover credit at all, in fact, just: "Performed on the Moog Synthesizer," creating another misconception: that the Moog synth did it all. CBS signed our instrument, not us, to a contract -- talk about getting no respect...). Well, politically incorrect fears and dissembling perpetuated a fictionalized identity including faked pictures, for 10 years (grrr...). I naively let them run amok, forced to hide from the public until 1979, when fed up, I pulled the plug on the whole mess. Yes, a depressing tale -- old "news" by now. People can be cruel.
On the other hand many female authors have used male pseudonyms, especially if it was believed their writings might be received "more eagerly" with a male image in front of it. Think of George Sand, Sig-O to composer Frederic Chopin, and many more up through Alice Sheldon, the writer whose excellent SF novels were credited: James Tiptree, Jr. A few men have recently written us in (threatened?) outrage, insisting we should perpetuate the folly, and still refuse accurate album credit, "to maintain consistency" (once wrong, always wrong?). Unbelievable cheek (proof we haven't come so far?). Arrgh! Please feel free to bop a few heads for us...
In using a laptop to play MP3s in my car, I use a logitech Marble Mouse Track ball on the center console between the front two seats to control the system.
ttyl
Farrell
Fractint and POV-Ray were the first real popular open source graphics tools out there.Fractint brought the Mandelbrot set rendering time from a half hour or so to under a couple of minutes on a 386 system. It is great for providing textures to be mapped on to objects in POV-Ray. You can get it at www.fractint.org...and follow the links to which version you want for what platform.
ttyl
Farrell
I have been involved in running Science Fiction conferences (we call them "cons" for short) for about 20 years now. We have attendancess between a few dozen, and a few thousand, with some going over the 5 thousand membership mark. We get some of the best people in our community to be guests of honour( GoH), and then stock panels with people both attending and from the local area. How much do we charge? Well, the going rate is around $40 for a weekend pass. That usually includes a program book, access to the hospitality suite (with either free or cheap food/drink). You can usually find crash space one someone's floor for $10 a night. And there are usually lots of open parties.
SF Fans don't have any "sugar daddies" to pay for their memberships, as is expected by the various Computer Conferences, and thus cannot charge large fees. And we are about community, not making money.
About the only event that has crossed the SF con with the Computer con is Andrew Hutton and his Ottawa Linux Symposium. But then again, he has attended a number of SF cons, including a few I helped run (Can-CON). More people need to learn how to run SF style cons, and run Open Source gatherings on the same format. SF fandom has a model that works, and all it takes is a few people in some of the larger population bases to put together SF style cons to get this going. And seek out your local SF con, and volenteer...it's the best way to learn how to run these things!
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
Staff for:
Maplecon, Pinekone, I-Con, Ad Astra, Concept, and Can-CON.
The last time there was a major war happening that the states were involved with, I am willing to bet people went out to see more movies than bought music! (That includes sheet music sales since that was the more popular form of "distributing" music back then)
ttyl
Farrell
It's hard to get her stuff up here in Canada...much less *see* her in Canada...Oh, well. I did meet Tori Amos in person! But that's another story...
ttyl
Farrell
She is the radio astrophysicist, who took radiowave data from UGC 6697 and turned it into music. She has a album of this music called Music From The Galaxies.
e renzi.html
She also sang two songs on Thomas Dolby's soundtrack to "The Gate to the Mind's Eye". (one of my fav soundtracks, and the best of the "Mind's Eye" series), The cuts are "Quantum Mechanic" and "N.E.O. (Near Earth Objects)".
You can check her music out at MP3.com, url:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/164/dr_fiorella_t
And, to be a little "sexist" here, she is really hot! She also has her own website...URL:
http://www.fiorella.com/
ttyl
Farrell
Or does anyone else think the blue part of the Caldera logo looks like the left ear and part of the head of Mickey Mouse?!?!?!
ttyl
Farrell
Well, I guess I will have to celebrate the passing of another great musician to the Great Gig in the Sky.
Us Celts believe that when a person dies, thet go to the Otherworld, a place that is better than this...think if your idealistic summer day, not too hot, not too cold. Many of your friends are there, and you meet other who become your friend. Then, when you are rested and ready to take on this World again, you are reborn here, which is why Celts mourn a birth.
Damn, that must be a great jam session, John arriving there to see Jim Morrison and Jimmy Hendrix on stage, and suddenly the there is a sound from behind the drum kit, and Keith Moon comes storming out from behind the drums and gives John a bone crushing hug and says "I hate to see you here so soon, but I am going to love playing with you again!"
ttyl
Farrell
I say that Microsoft should get it's money back for this report...it is just a re-hash of things that have already been said...
ttyl
Farrell
When I download a source tarball, I can look in the README or INSTALL file, and find out what things it needs. RPMs have no such facility. Add to that, who *knows* what command line options were used, if some features were left out, etc.
I'll stick with source, thank you.
ttyl
Farrell
This reads like a recent Canadian Government scandle...it seems like all the esteemed Toqueville Inst. did was re-write some MS FUD, and copy some text off the internet.
I do love the "...Numbers of Line of Code" in the OS chart...WinXP is big and tall, while Linux is short and stubby...gee, do they think that XP gives you a bigger dick? What drugs are these guys smoking?
ttyl
Farrell
It is not inconcievable that there were more than one "Captain's Chair". Considering the number of practical jokes that were played on various cast members, like Shatner...it seems that he had an ongoing weight-gain problem as the average season went on...and they would purposely take camera angles to emphesize this...it wouldn't suprise me that they once made a captain's chair that was slightly smaller as a practical joke.
Gods, I know too much about Star Trek, the Original!
ttyl
Farrell
Check it out...lots of good information!
http://www.sfwriter.com/
ttyl
Farrell