I'm not big into music, but I laugh at the pretensious people who act like they know more about music then the general public, because they've decided they know more.... *grin*
I know what your saying but I think i'm actually one of those people who act like they know more than most people about music. I've been a musician for some time now, and am studing Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College Music. But hey, who needs to know what a Tritone Substitution or Modal Modulation is?
Re:Enviorment, not Genes for personality...
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You're right. But there are too many people who blame things directly on their genetic makeup. I have heard too many parents who have adopted children comment that the reason for the kid's misconduct is due to their genes- which I think is bullshit. Ok, the kid might have a tendancy towards agression, but it's your job as a parent to help their work past that. That's part of what I feel separates us from other animals- the ability to push a little past the confinements of genetics, and try to make it better.
Enviorment, not Genes for personality...
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to me, that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes
Ok, so if our personalities were more influenced by Genes, then why aren't all Australians violent people that steal, rape and kill?
I seriously think that enviorment has alot more to do with it than anything. Perhaps there are Genes that make people lean slightly more towards agressive behaviors. But I think it's much more enviormental than anything else.
Yea, Supermicro stuff is great. The only downside to my current board (P6DGU) is that since I am running with some fincky software (Protools LE 5.3.1) it gets a little harry reconfiguring the IRQs. Also, some of the newer features aren't on mine. But then I guess it is an older board. I just wish I could slightly upgrade the board by flashing it. I have flashed it before, but all it did was allow up to 1ghz processors.
Hey, I remember some Ask Slashdot or something about having a Tivo like system based on Linux for recording either 4+ or 16+ streams. I guess this gives a little validity to wanting to record at least two streams anyway. And hell you might even like something asides from just the Simpsons, and want to record three things at once.:)
I don't know what really happened. If you could call an old friend or two and have them look up my call, I am sure we could find out what happened.
No, it didn't seem typical of Compaq. I had encountered them while working as an intern for a county government, and they seemed much better.
Perhaps it was the guy had a bad day? Or just didn't like me? I guess i'll never know. I didn't think that I would get much outta it. The computer was a temporary one, just used it for a few graphic apps. The case was a little too constraining so I went afterwards to a Supermicro 760A case, and a P6DGU mobo.
I can't figure out why they were bothered by my opening the computer, and found that rather odd. I don't think he liked the fact that I couldn't step through his steps that he was told to to talk me through... who knows?
Why was I using it? It was cheap, and beforehand I was using a Pentium 90mhz computer. I thought to call to see if I could get the part. Otherwise, I would just replace the mobo with something better. I never intended to keep the Compaq for long, it was a temporary solution.
I had a simalar experience with Compaq. It was on an older system (PII/300mhz) a few years back. I was on my computer one night, about to call it quits and I hear a loud POP! About 20 seconds later the computer crashed and went black. It did that often though, so I didn't think anything oddly of it. I assumed the pop was a tree branch or something.
So I come back the next day to turn on the computer. Nothing. It's dead Jim. So of course I open it up to see what's wrong. When I open it up, I saw the outside casing of a capacitor laying on the floor of the case, and noticed an odd indention in the case. Aparently a capcitor near the CPU on the MOBO just blew itself off the night before and put a dent in the case! I found on the MOBO where the capacitor was, and it had greatly expanded.
Now it get funny. So I call compaq, thinking that I can ask for a new capacitor, because it seemed to be an odd one that I didn't have a spare of. I call up and I say, I need to get a new part for my motherboard. He asks me what the problem is, not listening to my question. I said the computer won't turn on because of a problem with the MOBO. He took that as a cue to run me through making sure all the cables were plugged in, etc... At one point he thought I had it in sleep mode. Moron. Anyway, he is like, well I want you to do this- and I said "well I can't really do that I know the problem is a capacitor on the motherboard gone bad". He tells me to hit the sleep button again, making sure everything is plugged in. I say I can't do that because the computer is taken apart on my desk. (to get to anything on those you had to take half of the Chasis apart to get to the mobo, which was now laying on the desk). He seemed rather taken back by the fact that I had even opened up the case, let alone taken out the mobo.
So he says to me "didn't you see the warrentee stickers" I said yea, but how else was I supposed to put in a Voodoo 2 instead of your crappy Rage card, and more memory. He seemed to think I was supposed to send it in for that. Anyway, he wouldn't send me a capacitor. And told me to get my warrenty stuff in order and then call them. Morons at compaq. When I build systems for people, I expect them to take them apart. It's not like I overclocked it or anything.
Umm, where the hell did the 24 hour rumor start? Why in the world would that be legitamate? I am not bashing you, but I have seen more people say something about that- and I am currently studying copyright law, and there's nothing about 24 hours. To copy something you need to be paying someone (mechanical fees, etc), or get permission (usually written).
I don't know who started it, but probably the same person that's started other urban myths...
Moreso, would they consider stopping the mining all across the US, because of this? Would the media be saying things like 'this is the last dig for anything in the states for a while'. Would they also point out that one of the guys was from Isreal? And would some morons talk about terrorisim possibly being related???
Think how many people were killed in the research for Airplanes in general, Cars, building large projects (think Great Wall of China or The Pyramids). Did they ever consider abandoning or setting back the project by years, or wasting millions because of 7 deaths? Of course not! I mean, I feel for their families, and am upset about the whole thing- but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The whole space program shouldn't go to hell for this.
Well, I guess it was mainly the Homosexual population at the time that was carrying the virus... but still, weren't you worried about anything else consequntial? I know that it was a long time ago, and people realize things afterwards- but, still... wow. I am in college now, and have my share of fun (and am a Music student mind you), but still do class, and take care of business. I have worked too hard to get to this point to lose it.
Did you have to try to get your GPA that low? And did your finicial aid boot you after the first semester?
It seems like alot of work to try to do so little..
The 'Setup' costs alot more than 20K. Just to have a room built will cost you more than that. You need engineers, acoustical consultants, etc. The equipment itself if very $$$ if you want something good.
Just your monitoring system will cost at least 3,000 if you want something that's really professional. A friend sells $30K monitoring systems in addition to running his studio, and i'll tell you- they do make a world of difference between them and my 'crappy' 700 dollar monitors from Event.
You need D/A convertors for the monitors, you need quality cable, you need a recording system. You'll probably want large flatscreens. You need mic preamps, compressors, microphones, great A/D convertors, etc. Then you probably want a good mixer, which will start about 10 grand, up to over half a million.
There's really alot to it. Just your Protools rig will probably top 20K if you are really going for a good setup with the new 192khz interfaces.
"during installation RealPlayer hides checkboxes that elect that the user receives spam, making it look like the user chose to make the selections when in fact he probably just didn't see the options."
Ok, if you do agree to a EULA no matter how long, it's binding I guess- but what I was reading here, was that they were doing something like making the text and the background, and the checkboxes the same colors, so that in essence they were invisible. That's what I thought it meant. If they were just making the EULA too long, well that's ok I guess. If they actually made it so you couldn't see the checkboxes, no matter how hard you looked, then that's illegal.
I Personally think it should be illegal to make it so that every one of your Millions of users needs to get a lawyer so they can play a streaming file from CNN.com, because you can't make anything simple. I have seen some Great contracts and EULAs that were really simple, and alot more effective I felt because of this straightforwardness...
While I don't know the laws on minimum text size, I am sure that a company cannot make you sign something in.001pt Times New Roman. This is probably very illegal for them to do, and they will probably get away with it...
I would have really liked to see UO ship, or at least release the source... instead of basically firing everyone and burning most of the work for no good reason..
I guess I'm lucky to be living somewhere where you don't need much money, but I could *easily* live off of a full-time minimum wage job.
As it stands, I'm working several very part-time jobs, and covering living expenses pretty easily - had to take out a loan for tuition, but that's different.
I know what you are saying, but like the point you make at the end, it's really hard to live in a big city. Why live in a big city? I dunno. I am in Boston for school, and the rent is crazy. I see studios go for 1000-3000/month, and 1BR's go for 1000-4000/month. I am from North Carolina, and you can have ANYTHING there for 1200/month. Personally I pay about 100 in bills a month, 175 in groceries, and 700 (my share of rent). I guess that's around (quick, but inaccurate, math skills..) $1000+/month in living expenses. I have no car, I don't have a TV, and I don't have a Bus pass- just a subway pass, and I don't eat much. So I am trying to save money... But with school taking up a majority of my week (bad schedule makes in almost impossible to work a job). Even if I had a job working 20 hours a week or so, I couldn't do it at min wage. I would pull about 80/week (after uncle sam's share), or 320/month. That doesn't even make a dent.
My advice, move somewhere cheap, and get a job. I have been offered jobs in NC, that would probably pay 40-60K/year after I got into them, but nope, I wanted to go to school....
I would be using Linux for most of my activities, including gaming, if it were not for the fact that I run Protools for recording all of my music, and that my soundcard (Digi001) is only supported under Mac OS 9.2 and Windows XP at the moment. Support for OS X (10.2) will be out in December, but there's no linux support in site, and we don't even think that the developers know what linux is. Perhaps some smart chaps will figure out how to take the 10.2 version to Linux, but until then...
So why don't I have a mac? For the most part I don't like OS 9.2. It's about as far from Linux to me as you can get. Windows is much more down and dirty as you would say, than Mac OS 9.2. Well, that's my opinion. I always had a PC (x86 processor) but now I want a mac, but with school costs and everything, I must sell my HP laptop to buy it, and even then I am still down on the cash....
Anyone want a PIII/850 laptop, it runs linux well...?
Re:Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving?
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I like MSFT too. Many people around here (esp the trolls)- seem to think that the kingdom of Bill is the worst thing in the world. Mention using Visual Studio, and you will get bashed for not using vi, make, and gcc. Mention Outlook (which I do use), and get thrown around for not using pine, or elm. I personally like open source. But actually, at the time being, I am using almost all MSFT stuff, just because i have some proprietary hardware that only runs on Mac OS 9.2 or on Windows XP (Protools). I will be moving to a new Mac g4 as soon I as I sell my laptop...
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I'm not big into music, but I laugh at the pretensious people who act like they know more about music then the general public, because they've decided they know more.... *grin*
I know what your saying but I think i'm actually one of those people who act like they know more than most people about music. I've been a musician for some time now, and am studing Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College Music.
But hey, who needs to know what a Tritone Substitution or Modal Modulation is?
You're right. But there are too many people who blame things directly on their genetic makeup. I have heard too many parents who have adopted children comment that the reason for the kid's misconduct is due to their genes- which I think is bullshit. Ok, the kid might have a tendancy towards agression, but it's your job as a parent to help their work past that. That's part of what I feel separates us from other animals- the ability to push a little past the confinements of genetics, and try to make it better.
to me, that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes
Ok, so if our personalities were more influenced by Genes, then why aren't all Australians violent people that steal, rape and kill?
I seriously think that enviorment has alot more to do with it than anything. Perhaps there are Genes that make people lean slightly more towards agressive behaviors. But I think it's much more enviormental than anything else.
Yea, Supermicro stuff is great. The only downside to my current board (P6DGU) is that since I am running with some fincky software (Protools LE 5.3.1) it gets a little harry reconfiguring the IRQs. Also, some of the newer features aren't on mine. But then I guess it is an older board. I just wish I could slightly upgrade the board by flashing it. I have flashed it before, but all it did was allow up to 1ghz processors.
Hey, I remember some Ask Slashdot or something about having a Tivo like system based on Linux for recording either 4+ or 16+ streams. I guess this gives a little validity to wanting to record at least two streams anyway. And hell you might even like something asides from just the Simpsons, and want to record three things at once. :)
I don't know what really happened. If you could call an old friend or two and have them look up my call, I am sure we could find out what happened.
No, it didn't seem typical of Compaq. I had encountered them while working as an intern for a county government, and they seemed much better.
Perhaps it was the guy had a bad day? Or just didn't like me? I guess i'll never know. I didn't think that I would get much outta it. The computer was a temporary one, just used it for a few graphic apps. The case was a little too constraining so I went afterwards to a Supermicro 760A case, and a P6DGU mobo.
I can't figure out why they were bothered by my opening the computer, and found that rather odd. I don't think he liked the fact that I couldn't step through his steps that he was told to to talk me through... who knows?
Why was I using it? It was cheap, and beforehand I was using a Pentium 90mhz computer. I thought to call to see if I could get the part. Otherwise, I would just replace the mobo with something better. I never intended to keep the Compaq for long, it was a temporary solution.
I had a simalar experience with Compaq. It was on an older system (PII/300mhz) a few years back. I was on my computer one night, about to call it quits and I hear a loud POP! About 20 seconds later the computer crashed and went black. It did that often though, so I didn't think anything oddly of it. I assumed the pop was a tree branch or something.
So I come back the next day to turn on the computer. Nothing. It's dead Jim. So of course I open it up to see what's wrong. When I open it up, I saw the outside casing of a capacitor laying on the floor of the case, and noticed an odd indention in the case. Aparently a capcitor near the CPU on the MOBO just blew itself off the night before and put a dent in the case! I found on the MOBO where the capacitor was, and it had greatly expanded.
Now it get funny. So I call compaq, thinking that I can ask for a new capacitor, because it seemed to be an odd one that I didn't have a spare of. I call up and I say, I need to get a new part for my motherboard. He asks me what the problem is, not listening to my question. I said the computer won't turn on because of a problem with the MOBO. He took that as a cue to run me through making sure all the cables were plugged in, etc... At one point he thought I had it in sleep mode. Moron.
Anyway, he is like, well I want you to do this- and I said "well I can't really do that I know the problem is a capacitor on the motherboard gone bad". He tells me to hit the sleep button again, making sure everything is plugged in. I say I can't do that because the computer is taken apart on my desk. (to get to anything on those you had to take half of the Chasis apart to get to the mobo, which was now laying on the desk). He seemed rather taken back by the fact that I had even opened up the case, let alone taken out the mobo.
So he says to me "didn't you see the warrentee stickers" I said yea, but how else was I supposed to put in a Voodoo 2 instead of your crappy Rage card, and more memory. He seemed to think I was supposed to send it in for that. Anyway, he wouldn't send me a capacitor. And told me to get my warrenty stuff in order and then call them.
Morons at compaq. When I build systems for people, I expect them to take them apart. It's not like I overclocked it or anything.
Sad but true... sad but true...
Umm, where the hell did the 24 hour rumor start? Why in the world would that be legitamate? I am not bashing you, but I have seen more people say something about that- and I am currently studying copyright law, and there's nothing about 24 hours. To copy something you need to be paying someone (mechanical fees, etc), or get permission (usually written).
I don't know who started it, but probably the same person that's started other urban myths...
Moreso, would they consider stopping the mining all across the US, because of this? Would the media be saying things like 'this is the last dig for anything in the states for a while'. Would they also point out that one of the guys was from Isreal? And would some morons talk about terrorisim possibly being related???
Think how many people were killed in the research for Airplanes in general, Cars, building large projects (think Great Wall of China or The Pyramids). Did they ever consider abandoning or setting back the project by years, or wasting millions because of 7 deaths? Of course not! I mean, I feel for their families, and am upset about the whole thing- but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The whole space program shouldn't go to hell for this.
Well, I guess it was mainly the Homosexual population at the time that was carrying the virus... but still, weren't you worried about anything else consequntial? I know that it was a long time ago, and people realize things afterwards- but, still... wow. I am in college now, and have my share of fun (and am a Music student mind you), but still do class, and take care of business. I have worked too hard to get to this point to lose it.
Did you have to try to get your GPA that low? And did your finicial aid boot you after the first semester?
It seems like alot of work to try to do so little..
The 'Setup' costs alot more than 20K. Just to have a room built will cost you more than that. You need engineers, acoustical consultants, etc. The equipment itself if very $$$ if you want something good.
Just your monitoring system will cost at least 3,000 if you want something that's really professional. A friend sells $30K monitoring systems in addition to running his studio, and i'll tell you- they do make a world of difference between them and my 'crappy' 700 dollar monitors from Event.
You need D/A convertors for the monitors, you need quality cable, you need a recording system. You'll probably want large flatscreens. You need mic preamps, compressors, microphones, great A/D convertors, etc. Then you probably want a good mixer, which will start about 10 grand, up to over half a million.
There's really alot to it. Just your Protools rig will probably top 20K if you are really going for a good setup with the new 192khz interfaces.
Suprized that no one thought that it was either a troll or funny at least :)...
Wonder if Jon Katz and Junis will play online with their C64s now...
Hey Junis won't have to work so hard now to get games to work on his Comodore 64 from under the sand.
The C64 should handle the 32K games alot better than the Divx movies he normally watches- and he's already got a high speed hookup...
Anyone else remember typing in games from magazines?
"during installation RealPlayer hides checkboxes that elect that the user receives spam, making it look like the user chose to make the selections when in fact he probably just didn't see the options."
Ok, if you do agree to a EULA no matter how long, it's binding I guess- but what I was reading here, was that they were doing something like making the text and the background, and the checkboxes the same colors, so that in essence they were invisible. That's what I thought it meant. If they were just making the EULA too long, well that's ok I guess. If they actually made it so you couldn't see the checkboxes, no matter how hard you looked, then that's illegal.
I Personally think it should be illegal to make it so that every one of your Millions of users needs to get a lawyer so they can play a streaming file from CNN.com, because you can't make anything simple. I have seen some Great contracts and EULAs that were really simple, and alot more effective I felt because of this straightforwardness...
While I don't know the laws on minimum text size, I am sure that a company cannot make you sign something in .001pt Times New Roman. This is probably very illegal for them to do, and they will probably get away with it...
I'm still holding my breath on flying cars...
Never came out.. but Soviet Russia was mentioned a few too many times...
Sorry about that.. I hate it when others do that... and I really hate it when I do it :)
UO2 == Ultima Online 2 == Never came out, and never will
I would have really liked to see UO ship, or at least release the source... instead of basically firing everyone and burning most of the work for no good reason..
I guess I'm lucky to be living somewhere where you don't need much money, but I could *easily* live off of a full-time minimum wage job.
As it stands, I'm working several very part-time jobs, and covering living expenses pretty easily - had to take out a loan for tuition, but that's different.
I know what you are saying, but like the point you make at the end, it's really hard to live in a big city. Why live in a big city? I dunno. I am in Boston for school, and the rent is crazy. I see studios go for 1000-3000/month, and 1BR's go for 1000-4000/month. I am from North Carolina, and you can have ANYTHING there for 1200/month. Personally I pay about 100 in bills a month, 175 in groceries, and 700 (my share of rent). I guess that's around (quick, but inaccurate, math skills..) $1000+/month in living expenses. I have no car, I don't have a TV, and I don't have a Bus pass- just a subway pass, and I don't eat much. So I am trying to save money...
But with school taking up a majority of my week (bad schedule makes in almost impossible to work a job). Even if I had a job working 20 hours a week or so, I couldn't do it at min wage. I would pull about 80/week (after uncle sam's share), or 320/month. That doesn't even make a dent.
My advice, move somewhere cheap, and get a job. I have been offered jobs in NC, that would probably pay 40-60K/year after I got into them, but nope, I wanted to go to school....
I would be using Linux for most of my activities, including gaming, if it were not for the fact that I run Protools for recording all of my music, and that my soundcard (Digi001) is only supported under Mac OS 9.2 and Windows XP at the moment.
Support for OS X (10.2) will be out in December, but there's no linux support in site, and we don't even think that the developers know what linux is. Perhaps some smart chaps will figure out how to take the 10.2 version to Linux, but until then...
So why don't I have a mac? For the most part I don't like OS 9.2. It's about as far from Linux to me as you can get. Windows is much more down and dirty as you would say, than Mac OS 9.2. Well, that's my opinion. I always had a PC (x86 processor) but now I want a mac, but with school costs and everything, I must sell my HP laptop to buy it, and even then I am still down on the cash....
Anyone want a PIII/850 laptop, it runs linux well...?
I like MSFT too. Many people around here (esp the trolls)- seem to think that the kingdom of Bill is the worst thing in the world. Mention using Visual Studio, and you will get bashed for not using vi, make, and gcc. Mention Outlook (which I do use), and get thrown around for not using pine, or elm.
I personally like open source. But actually, at the time being, I am using almost all MSFT stuff, just because i have some proprietary hardware that only runs on Mac OS 9.2 or on Windows XP (Protools). I will be moving to a new Mac g4 as soon I as I sell my laptop...