Apparently you have never read the Rhino Times. Card has been doing his Op-Ed column in there for YEARS. He talks about everything from city council, to his life, to literature. It's actually kinda interesting to read at times. It's a "conservative" paper, but just for home-town politics generally. As a left-leaning liberal I actually find it to be one of the better publications that I read when I go home to NC.
OSC has also done stuff like directing musicals, etc. He's kinda a weird guy, but it's unfair to tell him to just write stories
We have a small Plone/Zope consulting firm (10-15 developers + project managers + designers, etc). We let our employees and subcontractors do whatever they want. If they want to use vi, emacs, textmate, or whatever the like then they can. We have people running OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. Everyone chooses their own IRC clients, chat clients, etc.
Obviously this doesn't work in ever environment. You can't have the kid at the register at WalMart saying that he wants to use a different embedded OS in his cash register. We have smart people working for us and it's their job to know computers. As long as the job is done, we don't care.
The only downside being that we sometimes want to do something together that gets tricky to standardize then (video conferencing, screen sharing, screencasting) that doesn't work always great in all linux distros. That's rare however. Also since we let people choose then everyone gets very opinionated when it comes to choosing a piece of software that everyone MUST use (like project management tools, document sharing, etc).
Yes, I know there are times that we've all had to drive with less sleep than we should have... but is this a good answer?
To me it would seem to inspire false confidence on the part of the driver, where they might think that they could stay up and not have to worry about falling asleep driving since they had their blue lights blinking or whatever.
I'm thinking that the real solution is making people in the public more aware of the dangers of driving with too little sleep. Everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive (yet many still do) but not enough people realize how dangerous driving when tired is.
Most of all, i hope they don't put these in 18-wheelers are another way to squeeze yet more driving time out of the guys.
When I switched of OS X, I knew that it wasn't a gaming platform. Same when I was a Linux user (97-2002). I knew that to play games I either needed Windows or a console.
At the same time, I switched to OS X for reasons totally unrelated to gaming. I WORK in OS X. Many people WORK in Linux. I do it because this is the best machine for me to spend 12 hours a day on working. I was simply growing up and didn't have time for games, or really care about them. I cared more about getting my job done and doing it well. I very much more wanted that than I wanted a gaming system that did a halfassed job at my work.
If I want games, I'll go and buy a Wii or PS3 honestly. I have bootcamp loaded with XP for occasional gaming, but my machine isn't really up to spec for heavy gaming asides from portal or such.
Shouldn't we send at least two? Or better yet four in total at least? Men and women preferably? Seriously, if it's a one way trip people are going to go nuts without sex, and if it's one way... well at least start colonizing!
Iran and North Korea are buying them all up to make a cluster for weapons trajectory?
Just kidding, but there was a story years ago about Iraq buying Playstation machines (and prior to that a story about the purchase of C64s) to use. The iPhone is the cool new thing.
As a more serious one, perhaps a lot are being shipped overseas and unlocked for use there?
Why the hell didn't you upgrade your development systems in 2006? Microsoft released the first develop versions of IE7 in Jan 2006, and released the "release" version in Oct 2006. We are nearly 2 years into the public existence of IE7. Integrating new technology, even if it's not "certified" in such a slow way is unacceptable. Don't say that it's for "security" as IE6 looks like swiss cheese. If you were truly concerned about security, you'd likely not run IE of any version let alone IE6.
How did this make it to the front page? Someone needs to know that links are better than just a summary. I'm honestly interested in reading for this, but instead of clicking on a link (hello, this is the web!) I have to Google around for it. Lame submission.
An exclamation point in computer logic (and thus our logic here on./) is a way of saying, "not" or a logical negation. As in, shirt = !black. Also sometimes referred to as a "bang" character.
This is adopted in several programming languages. There are other computer based meanings, but here on./ it's considered to be understood as "not" when placed beside a word. So basically they are saying that this comes as no surprise.
The answer isn't a number, but rather another answer (which could perhaps be expressed as a number). Light.
It doesn't seem to make sense at first, but the heat is defined by the speed of the particles in the matter. These particles cannot exceed the speed of light. The max temperature then by definition is light, which is the limit that the particle energy and speed could approach.
I am not a physicist, but this just seems to be common sense.
Don't make Americans even more freaked out. Everyone's already worried about 'security'. Don't make them think that us average dumpster divers and hackers are bad people.
Yea, i mean, WE started the internet. The military and government funding had nothing to do with it. ARPAnet is just a fairytale. The military should know that we own this place, not them!
Berklee and Julliard also immune seemingly
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Everyone thinks it's just Harvard that isn't being touched. To the best of my knowledge (haven't checked recently, but I tried to find any instance of this about 6 months ago), they have yet to touch a single Berklee College of Music, or Julliard student/faculty member. I mean, it's not surprising. It would be pretty funny for the RIAA to have tried to sue John Mayer a few years ago (when he was attending Berklee) only to have some of their member companies trying to woo and sign him a few months later.
Then again, while music students have more music downloaded/shared in general than almost anyone else I know, they also actually purchase more music than anyone I know.
Have they been living under a rock? Everyone knows what Guitar Hero is! I've never heard of someone doing a cover song, "Too close" without sampling being sued like this.
If Activision or Harmonix came to me and was like, "Hey, we are going to do a cover of your song for GH/RB" I'd have a pretty damn good idea of what they are doing. It's not going to be a Salsa cover of a rock song, but a pretty damn close cover with at best some parts adapted to fit the game better!
It is definitely software lock-in when I can run any Unix software on my system... I can boot into Linux, Windows XP, and OS X. As for the "hardware lock-in"... that's just silly. My Macbook Pro is no more 'locked in' to its hardware than your Dell/Gateway/Lennovo laptop. Less so IMHO.
On the desktop front, the Mac Pro people have shown you can swap the processors on. You can change the processors, hard drives, video card, memory, optical drives, etc... Everything except the motherboard. Hell you could probably even swap the case if you were crazy.
If Vista had actually done all of the things it promised, and didn't do any bullshit like this then it might actually be a decent operating system. Microsoft's viability might have actually been there.
Main differences being vs Linux/Apple is that Apple is a hardware company and could care less if a small fraction of their user base pirates an operating system as long as they are buying hardware and are spreading the good word, and linux makers... want either support contracts or nothing.
You've just got to 'think small' and think about what you need vs what you want. I don't need a couch. I have my Aeron chair. I rarely have other people over, and prefer to go out to dinner or elsewhere. I get books from the library instead of the bookstore, so that I don't have to allocate space for them (generally) on my shelf. I build a custom desk that fits my needs exactly. I hang my guitars on the wall. I have only what I need in my kitchen (many things that kick out caffeine), and I have a small twin size bed. It's not the best place to have company (at best I had 5 people in here once and there was barely breathing room it felt), but for myself and my cat it seems to fit ok. I can pretend that I'm living on a submarine or something.
If I really really needed space I could alway loft my bed, but I don't need the space that badly.
I live practically beside the Prudential building on the edge of Back Bay. It's a really nice street with brownstones. Yes, it's around 180sq fet. Maybe 200sq ft with the bathroom. That includes the kitchen and my closet. It's about the size of a dorm room if not smaller. It's what I need, not what I want. It's $925/month with all utilities included, which is a pretty sweet deal for this area.
I totally hear you that you CAN get more space outside the city. I used to live near Porter Square on Highland Ave, and paid $625/month for my share of a 2br, which was pretty damn big (had large kitchen, living room and dining room, like around 900 sq ft). However it took me an hour to get anywhere, after walking 20 minutes to Davis or 15 minutes to Porter (which sucked hard in the snow) and then taking the Red line to the Green line to get to Back Bay where all my jobs have been.
I've definitely downscaled in size, but at the same time I can walk anywhere, rarely use public transit, walk to work in Cambridge many days, and enjoy living on a really nice street. I'm looking forward to a bigger place next year, but for now... this works pretty well and is a good deal as it goes to live on my own in the city, and keep in mind my main goal in having this place was to live as close in as possible and to live on my own.
For those of us that live in a major city, this game simply takes too much space. I can deal with cheap DDR pads, as I can fold them away, or a Guitar Hero controller, but in my 180sq/ft studio apartment... this game simply will not fit. I have a real drum set, and it's stacked in a corner, because it just takes up too much space. It must be nice to live in suburbia where you have a room for video games (or laundry even) that is larger than my entire living space. I love Boston/Cambridge.
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Apparently you have never read the Rhino Times. Card has been doing his Op-Ed column in there for YEARS. He talks about everything from city council, to his life, to literature. It's actually kinda interesting to read at times. It's a "conservative" paper, but just for home-town politics generally. As a left-leaning liberal I actually find it to be one of the better publications that I read when I go home to NC.
OSC has also done stuff like directing musicals, etc. He's kinda a weird guy, but it's unfair to tell him to just write stories
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2114228.shtml
We have a small Plone/Zope consulting firm (10-15 developers + project managers + designers, etc). We let our employees and subcontractors do whatever they want. If they want to use vi, emacs, textmate, or whatever the like then they can. We have people running OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. Everyone chooses their own IRC clients, chat clients, etc.
Obviously this doesn't work in ever environment. You can't have the kid at the register at WalMart saying that he wants to use a different embedded OS in his cash register. We have smart people working for us and it's their job to know computers. As long as the job is done, we don't care.
The only downside being that we sometimes want to do something together that gets tricky to standardize then (video conferencing, screen sharing, screencasting) that doesn't work always great in all linux distros. That's rare however. Also since we let people choose then everyone gets very opinionated when it comes to choosing a piece of software that everyone MUST use (like project management tools, document sharing, etc).
Funny, I thought it was OS X (intel) by Apple. Mac isn't a company. Mac is in reference to the computers themselves.
Now the candidates get to feel what it's really like to be an American in 2008- no privacy from the gov't!
Yes, I know there are times that we've all had to drive with less sleep than we should have... but is this a good answer?
To me it would seem to inspire false confidence on the part of the driver, where they might think that they could stay up and not have to worry about falling asleep driving since they had their blue lights blinking or whatever.
I'm thinking that the real solution is making people in the public more aware of the dangers of driving with too little sleep. Everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive (yet many still do) but not enough people realize how dangerous driving when tired is.
Most of all, i hope they don't put these in 18-wheelers are another way to squeeze yet more driving time out of the guys.
When I switched of OS X, I knew that it wasn't a gaming platform. Same when I was a Linux user (97-2002). I knew that to play games I either needed Windows or a console. At the same time, I switched to OS X for reasons totally unrelated to gaming. I WORK in OS X. Many people WORK in Linux. I do it because this is the best machine for me to spend 12 hours a day on working. I was simply growing up and didn't have time for games, or really care about them. I cared more about getting my job done and doing it well. I very much more wanted that than I wanted a gaming system that did a halfassed job at my work. If I want games, I'll go and buy a Wii or PS3 honestly. I have bootcamp loaded with XP for occasional gaming, but my machine isn't really up to spec for heavy gaming asides from portal or such.
Shouldn't we send at least two? Or better yet four in total at least? Men and women preferably? Seriously, if it's a one way trip people are going to go nuts without sex, and if it's one way... well at least start colonizing!
Apple does something, then Microsoft copies it and it will take off. Just like the Zune right?
Iran and North Korea are buying them all up to make a cluster for weapons trajectory?
Just kidding, but there was a story years ago about Iraq buying Playstation machines (and prior to that a story about the purchase of C64s) to use. The iPhone is the cool new thing.
As a more serious one, perhaps a lot are being shipped overseas and unlocked for use there?
Why the hell didn't you upgrade your development systems in 2006? Microsoft released the first develop versions of IE7 in Jan 2006, and released the "release" version in Oct 2006. We are nearly 2 years into the public existence of IE7. Integrating new technology, even if it's not "certified" in such a slow way is unacceptable. Don't say that it's for "security" as IE6 looks like swiss cheese. If you were truly concerned about security, you'd likely not run IE of any version let alone IE6.
Just seems silly to me.
How did this make it to the front page? Someone needs to know that links are better than just a summary. I'm honestly interested in reading for this, but instead of clicking on a link (hello, this is the web!) I have to Google around for it. Lame submission.
It's where you go for 3am dyslexia
An exclamation point in computer logic (and thus our logic here on ./) is a way of saying, "not" or a logical negation. As in, shirt = !black. Also sometimes referred to as a "bang" character.
./ it's considered to be understood as "not" when placed beside a word. So basically they are saying that this comes as no surprise.
This is adopted in several programming languages. There are other computer based meanings, but here on
The answer isn't a number, but rather another answer (which could perhaps be expressed as a number). Light.
It doesn't seem to make sense at first, but the heat is defined by the speed of the particles in the matter. These particles cannot exceed the speed of light. The max temperature then by definition is light, which is the limit that the particle energy and speed could approach.
I am not a physicist, but this just seems to be common sense.
Don't make Americans even more freaked out. Everyone's already worried about 'security'. Don't make them think that us average dumpster divers and hackers are bad people.
Yea, i mean, WE started the internet. The military and government funding had nothing to do with it. ARPAnet is just a fairytale. The military should know that we own this place, not them!
Prequel?
Everyone thinks it's just Harvard that isn't being touched. To the best of my knowledge (haven't checked recently, but I tried to find any instance of this about 6 months ago), they have yet to touch a single Berklee College of Music, or Julliard student/faculty member. I mean, it's not surprising. It would be pretty funny for the RIAA to have tried to sue John Mayer a few years ago (when he was attending Berklee) only to have some of their member companies trying to woo and sign him a few months later.
Then again, while music students have more music downloaded/shared in general than almost anyone else I know, they also actually purchase more music than anyone I know.
Have they been living under a rock? Everyone knows what Guitar Hero is! I've never heard of someone doing a cover song, "Too close" without sampling being sued like this.
If Activision or Harmonix came to me and was like, "Hey, we are going to do a cover of your song for GH/RB" I'd have a pretty damn good idea of what they are doing. It's not going to be a Salsa cover of a rock song, but a pretty damn close cover with at best some parts adapted to fit the game better!
Really, i mean what did they expect?
morons.
It is definitely software lock-in when I can run any Unix software on my system... I can boot into Linux, Windows XP, and OS X. As for the "hardware lock-in"... that's just silly. My Macbook Pro is no more 'locked in' to its hardware than your Dell/Gateway/Lennovo laptop. Less so IMHO.
On the desktop front, the Mac Pro people have shown you can swap the processors on. You can change the processors, hard drives, video card, memory, optical drives, etc... Everything except the motherboard. Hell you could probably even swap the case if you were crazy.
If Vista had actually done all of the things it promised, and didn't do any bullshit like this then it might actually be a decent operating system. Microsoft's viability might have actually been there.
Main differences being vs Linux/Apple is that Apple is a hardware company and could care less if a small fraction of their user base pirates an operating system as long as they are buying hardware and are spreading the good word, and linux makers... want either support contracts or nothing.
You've just got to 'think small' and think about what you need vs what you want. I don't need a couch. I have my Aeron chair. I rarely have other people over, and prefer to go out to dinner or elsewhere. I get books from the library instead of the bookstore, so that I don't have to allocate space for them (generally) on my shelf. I build a custom desk that fits my needs exactly. I hang my guitars on the wall. I have only what I need in my kitchen (many things that kick out caffeine), and I have a small twin size bed. It's not the best place to have company (at best I had 5 people in here once and there was barely breathing room it felt), but for myself and my cat it seems to fit ok. I can pretend that I'm living on a submarine or something.
If I really really needed space I could alway loft my bed, but I don't need the space that badly.
I live practically beside the Prudential building on the edge of Back Bay. It's a really nice street with brownstones. Yes, it's around 180sq fet. Maybe 200sq ft with the bathroom. That includes the kitchen and my closet. It's about the size of a dorm room if not smaller. It's what I need, not what I want. It's $925/month with all utilities included, which is a pretty sweet deal for this area.
I totally hear you that you CAN get more space outside the city. I used to live near Porter Square on Highland Ave, and paid $625/month for my share of a 2br, which was pretty damn big (had large kitchen, living room and dining room, like around 900 sq ft). However it took me an hour to get anywhere, after walking 20 minutes to Davis or 15 minutes to Porter (which sucked hard in the snow) and then taking the Red line to the Green line to get to Back Bay where all my jobs have been.
I've definitely downscaled in size, but at the same time I can walk anywhere, rarely use public transit, walk to work in Cambridge many days, and enjoy living on a really nice street. I'm looking forward to a bigger place next year, but for now... this works pretty well and is a good deal as it goes to live on my own in the city, and keep in mind my main goal in having this place was to live as close in as possible and to live on my own.
For those of us that live in a major city, this game simply takes too much space. I can deal with cheap DDR pads, as I can fold them away, or a Guitar Hero controller, but in my 180sq/ft studio apartment... this game simply will not fit. I have a real drum set, and it's stacked in a corner, because it just takes up too much space. It must be nice to live in suburbia where you have a room for video games (or laundry even) that is larger than my entire living space. I love Boston/Cambridge.