Crap, I forgot to mention on that post how rad it is that LEGO isn't 86-ing Mindstorms! I thought they might not, due to its educational value, so its cool to see. I just hope they don't kill the Discovery series NASA LEGO. I haven't found a better way to interest a three-year-old in space.
It's an interesting problem. To think of it from the girl's perspective, try cats. If you went to a girl's place and she had a cat, you might think. "Oh look, she likes cats. This indicates a number of things about her, all reasonably positive." But if you went to her house and she had like 11 cats, you'd be like "oh man, she's a freak."
A few LEGO projects may indicate a whimsical, curious personality. Too many LEGO may indicate to the women that they will always be second-place to plastic blocks, or other toys. I think most women look for some balance, and extremes in any direction -- too many star wars figures, too many lego, too much money obviously invested in the home theatre -- runs the risk of driving them away.
Or it could be his bathroom isn't clean enough. That's always a deal-breaker with the ladies.
Well, I threw my ThinkPad on the floor (stupid ethernet cable tangled around my foot) and I can confirm, IBM service rules. I had fork over for the LCD but it was fixed before they said it would be and they also were able to ship it back to a different location (where I was going on a trip). I arrived and my ThinkPad was waiting for me.
I spoke to my friend and he told me that there were in fact several hardware add ons for the C64 that could do limited amounts of sound sampling. I forgot the name, but have pointed him to this thread, so he may add it in himself. He also listed off several other instances of samped speech on C64, all of which I forgot, sorry!
I know it took up a ton of space; one of the only places I ever saw it on the Apple II was on a crack of Adventure Mapper ("Cracked by Apple Bandit and Silicon Scorpion"). I have a friend who is a C64 expert and will ask him later today. Worst case one could probably email David Crane and just ask him. I'll post my friend's answer here tonight if you're still interested!
Sampling audio on the Apple II was actually pretty easy -- it involved recording a "sample" on tape, then inputing that part of the tape as data, then playing it back. I think Creative Computing (or possible Compute!) did an article w/ listing that explained it pretty well.
When I color corrected satellite images in school, we never worried about what the "real" colors were, either in the image as captured or in the output image. Just about making the image reveal as much info as possible. So, it could well be that our pals at NASA are doing just that. FWIW I have seen some color Mars shots with a blue sky, from NASA.
First, the Shuttles have only been ground since February 2003; Bush took office in 2001. Dumbass.
Second, considering the previous three presidents did fuck all to advance space exploration in any meaningful -- or more importanly, exciting way -- I'll take the president that can't pronounce the words, but can try to get people excited about going to the Moon / Mars, thanks.
George W. Bush could declare Linux the official OS of the government, get a Penguin tattoo and give Linus Torvalds the Medal of Freedom and/. would still find a way to bag on him for it.
So I just bought an iPod mini, because, well, I caught up in the whole thing. But now I'm rethinking the purchase. Not so much because of the 11 gig gap for $50, but because of the smaller screen size of the mini. Also, I gotta wait till 2/16 for shipping of the mini, and I could go get a big iPod today.
Are they going to be in the Apple stores before 2/16?
Fair enough, and I wasn't trying to imply that the notion of a co-op is a bad one. Even growers' co-ops do some good. Growers tend to take longer views of the environment when they don't have to worry as much about short term price pressure.
There are unions or syndicates controlling everything in China. And the syndicates care a lot more about the status and wealth of their peers than the people they exploit. It's all very equitable at the syndicate stage, but that doesn't preclude them from fucking others, specifically the people who are doing the work.
Basically the country is run by a series of Mafias, the largest of which also happens to be the Peoples Army. Cosco, the shitty company that makes shitty things that you buy for cheap at Wal-Mart -- it's essentially a subsidiary of the Chinese Army.
Vis-a-vis whether the USSR or China were ever socialist, they quite cleary were, given the State control and direction of the economy. They weren't strictly Communist (there's a difference the parent may not understand), but I'd argue that totalitarian monstrosities like PRC or USSR are what you end up with when you try a socialist/communist state.
(And, for the record, a "union" or "co-operative" isn't necessarily an intrinsicly good thing. Most fruit is grown by co-operatives... of plantation owners, who routinely take advantage of the fruit pickers, who's own union is fairly ineffective.)
I have the Maxtor 120GB drive. It's fast (USB 2) and works well. It has a button on it that can automatically start a back-up if you're you're too lazy to launch an application in the normal way. It also comes with a surprisingly full featured version of Retrospect 6.0 , which is more than enough for typical back-up tasks.
I have to admit, as a former Apple lover, than I can no longer stand Macs at all. OSX is great, but using the desktop GUI is way slower on a G4 (haven't tried it on a G5) than System 7 was on my Centris 650 ten years ago. Since I spend a lot of time switching between programs that don't require too much power (word processing, spreadsheets, email -- nothing that couldn't be done well on an Apple//c to be honest), the apparent speed of the computer to me is based entirely on the GUI speed rather than the speed it executes Photoshop filters.
In these cases, the Mac is just anti-productive: The stupid desktop animations can't be turned off entirely (though they can be minimized), and the one-button mouse is just a travesty to navigation compared to a two button mouse with scroll wheel. With XP, I was able to turn off all the stupid fading/animation effects and actually get stuff done fast.
The net effect is that I, at least, work a lot slower on a Mac today than I do on a Windows machine. Hence my anti-Mac status. I'll give you that Macs look awesome, the iPod is neat (I'm sure I'll buy one eventually), but that doesn't go a long way when it takes ten times as long to launch WORD on a Mac than it does on a Windows machine.
Man, I have XM and I love it. Sure, I have hella CDs and MP3s (emusic RIP), but you know, I know what all those songs are! If you want variety to maybe hear music you haven't heard before, XM is awesome. The sppecialty stations, such as jazz, folk, and "old country" are awesome. I don't really like that music enough to shell out for a CD, but when I want to hear bluegrass or something, XM is there!
Also, the talk channels are pretty good, especially the CNN, FNC, and BBC (especially if you don't have cable). Sonic Radio (radio plays) is also excellent for road trips.
Honestly, XM is the only recurring bill I have where I am actually happy to see the charge every month. It would be worth it for Fred (classic alternative from the 80s and 90s) alone, frankly.
Look, I don't want to be a jerk, but all the elegant design and engineering in the world doesn't matter if the thing is currently a scattered pile of scrap on a windswept Martian desert. They didn't have a back-up for the airbags, which burst during the first test, and which they couldn't test again before launch. That kind of sucks.
That said, I agree, it's a massive bummer. I was really hoping that this current crop of Mars probes would all succeed.
A full face smash is bad; your best bet (in my experience) is to hit the narrow back edge (where connectors traditionally go in); barring that, a corner hit can be survivable, assuming the laptop isn't open, and the corner that hits isn't on the LCD side of the clamshell (I walked down that lonely road the hard way with my new ThinkPad a few months ago, sadly enough).
The "roof" is probably not OSHA compliant and a fire hazard. We have a guy trying to build a pirate village in his cube, and they put the kibosh on his thatched roof -- I think he can only have it up for like ten minutes at a time for when he takes pictures. Anything that puts a roof between sprinklers and like, the floor, is pretty much verboten in commercial building in America.
Bubbly people are quite capable of acting like assholes. This behavior, among metrosexuals and genuine gay people, is usually followed by audible intakes of breath by witnessess and someone saying "bitch!"
Rockstar's only mistake was apologizing in the first place, IMHO! They made this controversial and offensive (but oh-so-fun) game. It's rated M. There are no toys based on it. It's, as the parent notes, a dramatic work of fiction. No apologies necessary! If you don't like, don't buy it, don't recommend it, and don't talk about it.
It's like the Sopranos. If you're ethnically Italian, as I am, and it offends you (which I don't understand, since the show obviously doesn't represent the life of most Americans of Italian descent), don't watch it. What's the big deal?
Bullshit. Read HACKERS by Steven Levy, or OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE by Bill Landrith, and you'll see that "hacker" only developed its criminal connotations in the mid-1980s, prior to that it was a word that meant only "someone who worked obsessively on systems" -- not necessarily even computers. The term "cracker" has been around since the early 1980s as well (again, see OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE).
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Crap, I forgot to mention on that post how rad it is that LEGO isn't 86-ing Mindstorms! I thought they might not, due to its educational value, so its cool to see. I just hope they don't kill the Discovery series NASA LEGO. I haven't found a better way to interest a three-year-old in space.
A few LEGO projects may indicate a whimsical, curious personality. Too many LEGO may indicate to the women that they will always be second-place to plastic blocks, or other toys. I think most women look for some balance, and extremes in any direction -- too many star wars figures, too many lego, too much money obviously invested in the home theatre -- runs the risk of driving them away.
Or it could be his bathroom isn't clean enough. That's always a deal-breaker with the ladies.
I think it would capture and then could playback via software. One was called "VoiceMaster 64." A quick googling turned up a few German references.
Well, I threw my ThinkPad on the floor (stupid ethernet cable tangled around my foot) and I can confirm, IBM service rules. I had fork over for the LCD but it was fixed before they said it would be and they also were able to ship it back to a different location (where I was going on a trip). I arrived and my ThinkPad was waiting for me.
I spoke to my friend and he told me that there were in fact several hardware add ons for the C64 that could do limited amounts of sound sampling. I forgot the name, but have pointed him to this thread, so he may add it in himself. He also listed off several other instances of samped speech on C64, all of which I forgot, sorry!
I had the identical situation happen this Christmas. Megablocks just do not have the same qualities of Legos.
I know it took up a ton of space; one of the only places I ever saw it on the Apple II was on a crack of Adventure Mapper ("Cracked by Apple Bandit and Silicon Scorpion"). I have a friend who is a C64 expert and will ask him later today. Worst case one could probably email David Crane and just ask him. I'll post my friend's answer here tonight if you're still interested!
I assume that you could do the same thing on C64.
When I color corrected satellite images in school, we never worried about what the "real" colors were, either in the image as captured or in the output image. Just about making the image reveal as much info as possible. So, it could well be that our pals at NASA are doing just that. FWIW I have seen some color Mars shots with a blue sky, from NASA.
They actually don't *want* to land on Europa -- they don't want to risk contaminating the moon with earth life.
Second, considering the previous three presidents did fuck all to advance space exploration in any meaningful -- or more importanly, exciting way -- I'll take the president that can't pronounce the words, but can try to get people excited about going to the Moon / Mars, thanks.
George W. Bush could declare Linux the official OS of the government, get a Penguin tattoo and give Linus Torvalds the Medal of Freedom and /. would still find a way to bag on him for it.
Are they going to be in the Apple stores before 2/16?
Fair enough, and I wasn't trying to imply that the notion of a co-op is a bad one. Even growers' co-ops do some good. Growers tend to take longer views of the environment when they don't have to worry as much about short term price pressure.
Basically the country is run by a series of Mafias, the largest of which also happens to be the Peoples Army. Cosco, the shitty company that makes shitty things that you buy for cheap at Wal-Mart -- it's essentially a subsidiary of the Chinese Army.
Vis-a-vis whether the USSR or China were ever socialist, they quite cleary were, given the State control and direction of the economy. They weren't strictly Communist (there's a difference the parent may not understand), but I'd argue that totalitarian monstrosities like PRC or USSR are what you end up with when you try a socialist/communist state.
(And, for the record, a "union" or "co-operative" isn't necessarily an intrinsicly good thing. Most fruit is grown by co-operatives... of plantation owners, who routinely take advantage of the fruit pickers, who's own union is fairly ineffective.)
I have the Maxtor 120GB drive. It's fast (USB 2) and works well. It has a button on it that can automatically start a back-up if you're you're too lazy to launch an application in the normal way. It also comes with a surprisingly full featured version of Retrospect 6.0 , which is more than enough for typical back-up tasks.
In these cases, the Mac is just anti-productive: The stupid desktop animations can't be turned off entirely (though they can be minimized), and the one-button mouse is just a travesty to navigation compared to a two button mouse with scroll wheel. With XP, I was able to turn off all the stupid fading/animation effects and actually get stuff done fast.
The net effect is that I, at least, work a lot slower on a Mac today than I do on a Windows machine. Hence my anti-Mac status. I'll give you that Macs look awesome, the iPod is neat (I'm sure I'll buy one eventually), but that doesn't go a long way when it takes ten times as long to launch WORD on a Mac than it does on a Windows machine.
Also, the talk channels are pretty good, especially the CNN, FNC, and BBC (especially if you don't have cable). Sonic Radio (radio plays) is also excellent for road trips.
Honestly, XM is the only recurring bill I have where I am actually happy to see the charge every month. It would be worth it for Fred (classic alternative from the 80s and 90s) alone, frankly.
They do need an all punk station, however.
That said, I agree, it's a massive bummer. I was really hoping that this current crop of Mars probes would all succeed.
A full face smash is bad; your best bet (in my experience) is to hit the narrow back edge (where connectors traditionally go in); barring that, a corner hit can be survivable, assuming the laptop isn't open, and the corner that hits isn't on the LCD side of the clamshell (I walked down that lonely road the hard way with my new ThinkPad a few months ago, sadly enough).
The "roof" is probably not OSHA compliant and a fire hazard. We have a guy trying to build a pirate village in his cube, and they put the kibosh on his thatched roof -- I think he can only have it up for like ten minutes at a time for when he takes pictures. Anything that puts a roof between sprinklers and like, the floor, is pretty much verboten in commercial building in America.
Bubbly people are quite capable of acting like assholes. This behavior, among metrosexuals and genuine gay people, is usually followed by audible intakes of breath by witnessess and someone saying "bitch!"
It's like the Sopranos. If you're ethnically Italian, as I am, and it offends you (which I don't understand, since the show obviously doesn't represent the life of most Americans of Italian descent), don't watch it. What's the big deal?
Both us and the Russians, back when they were the Sovietes, took pretty good care to not militarize Antarctica. An early example of detante.
Bullshit. Read HACKERS by Steven Levy, or OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE by Bill Landrith, and you'll see that "hacker" only developed its criminal connotations in the mid-1980s, prior to that it was a word that meant only "someone who worked obsessively on systems" -- not necessarily even computers. The term "cracker" has been around since the early 1980s as well (again, see OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE).
That internet thing WAS a fad. Nobody uses it anymore.