That is an issue of mine, one reason I tend to go over my blog posts so many times to clean them up (and take more time). Also it's the way I am... I've been downgraded in Speech classes for giving too much information. Oh well cie le vie.
As for my speech being a sample blog... right now I see blogs as a couple different sorts.
Scientists & engineers explaning what they are working on and adding.
Review sites
Recap sites or Aggregators
Daily Journals
Meaning less rambling.
I'm sure there are many others I may of missed... but some of those could be lumped in these catagories also. Are there blogs that really are annoying and I tend to back out of? Yes hundreds. But there are a number I visit all the time even if you may not consider them blogs. Say Engadget, BoingBoing, Digg, TechDirt, and in some ways even Slashdot here.
... really. I was so used to just posting unusual URL, stories and such that for S&G when I deceided to do a family site makeover I just converted it to a blog. At first I was thinking I'd only use the blog format to keep it easy to update... and often. But as most addicts I'e been scouring random news stories. And I've actually had a couple positive comments, which has been nice. How a blog I laughingly called Living in the Whine Country ended up talking more about Tech and such... well it works for me. And this way I can get the release of passing on the interesting stories, and the couple regulars can take the spam on their time.
The bad part is that I registered a domain to link to the blog (since the domain name and the blog name did not match in any way) and then I realized that I talked only very little about the Wine Country. Oh well, now it's just explaining that all the visitors care only a little about family happenings and most are reading the tech or weird news.
oh and btw blogs are growing... and I do know a few people who make anough adsense and advertising dollars on it to be profitable... I'm just not one of them.
I say mod this one up as an example of what a real broadcasting company would/should do in broadcasting the olympics.
The NBC broadcast of the Olympics(TM) continues to be the worse showing of the Olympics(TM) I've EVER dealt with. I actually loved the 24/7 showing of the olympics that it used to be. With perhaps prime time reshowing of popular events on broadcast it worked out fine for most involved. You could still catch the sports that interested you VCR delayed (this was pre-PVR) if necessary, but still there.
Not that NBC will give a damn... they wasted a lot of money on this and I hope they lost enough that another network gets the rights.
I play now with Dual montiors... but generally teh second has only been used for IRC/Teamspeak maybe a web browser. But over the years I've championed for Dual Monitor Support for the Battlefiled games. And I found they had played with it (it sorta worked). But they didn't fully know what to do with it. I was pieved. I've always thought they could of put a map (or minimap) as well as stats and similar info on the side. Clear up the killing fields and still provide all the info.
I play this was all the time with IRC/Teamspeak on teh second monitor. All I do is set the video to Dual Display vs. dual span. And then I set teh montior opposite of those things I want to see as primary. Drag the start menu over theere and you're finished.
I've played this way in BF42, AA:O, Far Cry, BF:V, and BF2 no issues.
Good review... but pretty much what was said on the site. I saw it yesterday before it was slashdotted. In fact it looks like my blog post was just a little earlier then your news post. I wish I had known about this interview.
I find my tastes have changed and I still get the paper. And since I get most my international news online, I stopped reading the Chronicle (and it's biased writing) and switched to the Sacramento Bee. It covers most the issues and if sparce their website fills in details. Plus when I'm reading a newspaper, I'm doing it to relax. So the Bee with it's two pages of comics, interesting articles and main news with the important parts covered in decent detail. Enough to perk my interest if I want to later research it. But not so much that the brain hurts.
So I'll scan the front page, go to business, Scene & Comics, and then the Fry's AD, and Region... and then if I have time I'll scan the other section... checking sports if there was something I missed or what not.
Don't even get me started on the Napa Valley Register with pages of retractions and corrections equaling the rest of the paper. I don't even get it to line the bird cage... don't want to upset the bird. Mind they have a website in which is better quality then the actual paper, but no freaking images. They'll comment on what the picture shows... but no picture. gah!
1. There are many ways to fill your ipod... and the 3rd party apps do fill it the same way.
2. You charge your ipod on ANY Powered USB port. It doesn't matter if the port is even plugged into a computer if it's powered.
3. itunes just makes it easier to use with an ipod... because they designed it to work mainly witht he ipod. the other apps are designed to work with many different players. Hell if you wanted you could just drag and drop the songs you wanted into the ipod.
seems most the people I know of LameSplit (GameSurge) are in the 30 year old range. Most the kids want to use MSN... Yes of course there are some... but majority? I would guess not.
At one point I was even part of game developement that used GS... but lately most mods (at least the ones I work with) have moved to other networks that don't split as much.
as for the warez... I've seem 100 times more scrim bots then warez bots.
Do you really expect for the average/.er to REALLY read the article. they may gloss over it... read the captions... and then read all the comments, correct spelling and make jokes.
OK short story is that I've used Mac, Linux, NeXtstep(OPENSTEP), and Windows... and Used various programs from Aldus Pagemaker, Adobe Framemaker for NeXT, Create, Gimp, TeX, Quark, Adobe Pagemaker 5 on (to now 7), InDesign 1.5 on... Coral Draw, Freehand, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and Publisher since 95 AND working in a print shop as it's graphic artist for the last 8 years I've come to a few conclusions.
Quark is over-priced, over-buggy, and over-outdated. (Note last version I bothered trying to use was 4.1 outside some 5.0 time at a Kinkos)
Pagemaker is vry easy to use but have numerous little things that like a Mac you can get used to always doing the ritual you have to do to get it to work. But it's easy to use and I'll suggest it to anyone... noting the cost.
Publisher is great for a business to do some quick papers... it's getting there in the area of getting the job to the press... but I only suggest it either to businesses or non profits trying to save money.
As for the Mac vs Windows war... ther eis very little diffeence in speed and intuitiveness... both can be just as fast an dintuitive... give some use. As mch as I hate to say it... Micro$oft has gotten better at not crashing as much... and Apple is still too expensive for the masses... and most print shops and starting to be even service bureaus.
As for graphics... Photoshop is the clear winner. Paintshop Pro is cheap and powerful... but clumbersome. Corel has some natural drawing programs... but not enough power. The gimp has promise... if they ever simplify. Photoshop is just eh winner in this catagory.
For illustration... I've seen 3 main programs used.. and worked with all 3... Corel Draw, which is ok... just don't expect Service Bureaus and Print Shops to have an easy time with the file... Macromedia Freehand, really could have promise... it's a nice layout and actually it's eps output and files sent to tshops have "fewer" problems but... Illustrator, time and again this programs power, accuracy and abilities make it the choice that I've stuck with.
So what do I use (if you couldn't tell):
Photoshop for photo touch up and image manipulation
Illustrator for logo creation, complicated jobs that require a lot of tricks and graphic work (see creavet)
Pagemaker for page layout and most design. It's simple and fast to use day in and day out.
InDesign has a lot to offer and it's gotten a lot better from the program that used to gather dust on my hard drive. It's power with the text allows me to step back from how much I used Illustrator and I'm able to do even more elaborate things easier.
As for Linux... I'd use it more if the programs that ran on it where more intuitive... and or powerful. So given the state of progress so far... maybe 5-10 years down the road.
OK short story is that I've used Mac, Linux, NeXtstep(OPENSTEP), and Windows... and Used various programs from Aldus Pagemaker, Adobe Framemaker for NeXT, Create, Gimp, TeX, Quark, Adobe Pagemaker 5 on (to now 7), InDesign 1.5 on... Coral Draw, Freehand, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and Publisher since 95 AND working in a print shop as it's graphic artist for the last 8 years I've come to a few conclusions.
Quark is over-priced, over-buggy, and over-outdated. (Note last version I bothered trying to use was 4.1 outside some 5.0 time at a Kinkos)
Pagemaker is vry easy to use but have numerous little things that like a Mac you can get used to always doing the ritual you have to do to get it to work. But it's easy to use and I'll suggest it to anyone... noting the cost.
Publisher is great for a business to do some quick papers... it's getting there in the area of getting the job to the press... but I only suggest it either to businesses or non profits trying to save money.
As for the Mac vs Windows war... ther eis very little diffeence in speed and intuitiveness... both can be just as fast an dintuitive... give some use. As mch as I hate to say it... Micro$oft has gotten better at not crashing as much... and Apple is still too expensive for the masses... and most print shops and starting to be even service bureaus.
As for graphics... Photoshop is the clear winner. Paintshop Pro is cheap and powerful... but clumbersome. Corel has some natural drawing programs... but not enough power. The gimp has promise... if they ever simplify. Photoshop is just eh winner in this catagory.
For illustration... I've seen 3 main programs used.. and worked with all 3... Corel Draw, which is ok... just don't expect Service Bureaus and Print Shops to have an easy time with the file... Macromedia Freehand, really could have promise... it's a nice layout and actually it's eps output and files sent to tshops have "fewer" problems but... Illustrator, time and again this programs power, accuracy and abilities make it the choice that I've stuck with.
So what do I use (if you couldn't tell):
Photoshop for photo touch up and image manipulation
Illustrator for logo creation, complicated jobs that require a lot of tricks and graphic work (see creavet)
Pagemaker for page layout and most design. It's simple and fast to use day in and day out.
InDesign has a lot to offer and it's gotten a lot better from the program that used to gather dust on my hard drive. It's power with the text allows me to step back from how much I used Illustrator and I'm able to do even more elaborate things easier.
As for Linux... I'd use it more if the programs that ran on it where more intuitive... and or powerful. So given the state of progress so far... maybe 5-10 years down the road.
The only option I can think of is take a drill press and with the rack secured underneith (this is assuming you can remove that) carefully drill teh screw out. I'd suggest that you start with a real small bit and work your way up... Be carfull not too go to big. Once you have a bin enough hold insert a tap and unscrew it that way. You'll want to make sure nothing moves (you don't want to damage the board) and go slow.
If you have support for one verion of BSD... It can not be hard to get it running for another version. And for that matter another version of *nix. It might just be a matter of recompiling.
Now give me nVidia and ATI drivers that have all the support/features under linux/BSD that you have under windows THEN I'll be exited.
How about aromoured cars with water cannons? The only draw back? My friend and I had to struggle with this length of hose dragging after them. Add in a empty lot.:-)
Yes... we had an arms race with both of us ending up with water cannons powered by city pressure.
Most Distros have some sort of install to do. Big slack will install on a fat(32) partition and you can either start it from the command line or I just have a line in autoexec that starts it automatically. You can install it on a standard linux partition. But I have found it useful (for example) to extract them in a windows enviroment... edit the two text files (even setup the computer to dual boot VERY easily)... and either exit to dos and type linux or just reboot.
When trying to convert some people (on sometimes older computers) to linux. This has been surprisingly successful.
Yes I do know and use knoppix now that it's out there. But Big slack has been available for a while and I have to say that it can be easier to setup then even knoppix.
I've used Slackware for many things... But I have to say that Zipslack and Bigslack are two things I've enjoy and use the most.
Have a old computer that doesn't have a whole lot of space? ZipSlack.
Have no CD-Rom on a computer or just want a FAST easy ready made distro? Big slack. (just extract the zipped files over from a zip disk on the Hard Drive. Edit a text file... reboot:-) Fully functional Linux Distro.
The problem is that usually it takes a bit after the main release before the goodies really come out.
I use SuSE for most everything else but these ready made Distro are great.
>I guess this is simply an acknowledgement of the
> kind of hardware most schools have. But I find it
> amusing anyway: how often does Apple release software
> for Windows computers? It's almost always been the
> other way (Office, etc.).
Apple took OPENSTEP Enterprise and created WebObjects with that. It used to and I believe still runs on PPC and x86. Plus at one time they ran on NeXT boxes.
This ability to run under Windows NT is a leftover from the NeXT days. Actually I think that they mainly push the PPC version of WebObjects to run it.
What I find interesting is the fact that they didn't plug into the sound mixer directly. It sounds as though they are using cheap mics plugged into the sound card instead of a balanced feed out of the mixer.
NOTE: I had done sound for a number of years including situations where I had to setup up "hard of hearing" systems. The easiest thing to do was just treat the HOH system as a different monitor. (The boards I worked on typically had at least two seperate monitor channels... And one had five)
I found the way that the USGS down in LA ended up implimenting Load Balancing even more informative then the fact that Michael went to check the information of the website. After all in the many quakes I've felt, I've always gone to the USGS Website once during and a number of times afterwards to find out both the epicenter (One was too damn close) and the magnitude. And in two cases the website was updating the start and end of the quake while I was reloading.
It's actually nice to see a government agency attempting to save money by implimenting an open source solution rather then going out and plopping down 10K in our tax dollars rashly. Hell I wish ALLPublic Agencies did that.
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um NeXT = OSX It's pretty much the same thing, just changed names.
As for my speech being a sample blog... right now I see blogs as a couple different sorts.
I'm sure there are many others I may of missed... but some of those could be lumped in these catagories also. Are there blogs that really are annoying and I tend to back out of? Yes hundreds. But there are a number I visit all the time even if you may not consider them blogs. Say Engadget, BoingBoing, Digg, TechDirt, and in some ways even Slashdot here.
... really. I was so used to just posting unusual URL, stories and such that for S&G when I deceided to do a family site makeover I just converted it to a blog. At first I was thinking I'd only use the blog format to keep it easy to update... and often. But as most addicts I'e been scouring random news stories. And I've actually had a couple positive comments, which has been nice. How a blog I laughingly called Living in the Whine Country ended up talking more about Tech and such... well it works for me. And this way I can get the release of passing on the interesting stories, and the couple regulars can take the spam on their time.
The bad part is that I registered a domain to link to the blog (since the domain name and the blog name did not match in any way) and then I realized that I talked only very little about the Wine Country. Oh well, now it's just explaining that all the visitors care only a little about family happenings and most are reading the tech or weird news.
oh and btw blogs are growing... and I do know a few people who make anough adsense and advertising dollars on it to be profitable... I'm just not one of them.
I say mod this one up as an example of what a real broadcasting company would/should do in broadcasting the olympics.
The NBC broadcast of the Olympics(TM) continues to be the worse showing of the Olympics(TM) I've EVER dealt with. I actually loved the 24/7 showing of the olympics that it used to be. With perhaps prime time reshowing of popular events on broadcast it worked out fine for most involved. You could still catch the sports that interested you VCR delayed (this was pre-PVR) if necessary, but still there.
Not that NBC will give a damn... they wasted a lot of money on this and I hope they lost enough that another network gets the rights.
I play now with Dual montiors... but generally teh second has only been used for IRC/Teamspeak maybe a web browser. But over the years I've championed for Dual Monitor Support for the Battlefiled games. And I found they had played with it (it sorta worked). But they didn't fully know what to do with it. I was pieved. I've always thought they could of put a map (or minimap) as well as stats and similar info on the side. Clear up the killing fields and still provide all the info.
I play this was all the time with IRC/Teamspeak on teh second monitor. All I do is set the video to Dual Display vs. dual span. And then I set teh montior opposite of those things I want to see as primary. Drag the start menu over theere and you're finished.
I've played this way in BF42, AA:O, Far Cry, BF:V, and BF2 no issues.
Good review... but pretty much what was said on the site. I saw it yesterday before it was slashdotted. In fact it looks like my blog post was just a little earlier then your news post. I wish I had known about this interview.
afore meantioned blog post
Rambus lost big a long time ago. I always assumed if they sued enough companies they may win one. :\
I find my tastes have changed and I still get the paper. And since I get most my international news online, I stopped reading the Chronicle (and it's biased writing) and switched to the Sacramento Bee. It covers most the issues and if sparce their website fills in details. Plus when I'm reading a newspaper, I'm doing it to relax. So the Bee with it's two pages of comics, interesting articles and main news with the important parts covered in decent detail. Enough to perk my interest if I want to later research it. But not so much that the brain hurts.
So I'll scan the front page, go to business, Scene & Comics, and then the Fry's AD, and Region... and then if I have time I'll scan the other section... checking sports if there was something I missed or what not.
Don't even get me started on the Napa Valley Register with pages of retractions and corrections equaling the rest of the paper. I don't even get it to line the bird cage... don't want to upset the bird. Mind they have a website in which is better quality then the actual paper, but no freaking images. They'll comment on what the picture shows... but no picture. gah!
Obligatory Links:
SacBee -> http://wwww.sacbee.com
Chronicle -> http://www.sfgate.com
Napa Register -> http://www.napanews.com
1. There are many ways to fill your ipod... and the 3rd party apps do fill it the same way.
2. You charge your ipod on ANY Powered USB port. It doesn't matter if the port is even plugged into a computer if it's powered.
3. itunes just makes it easier to use with an ipod... because they designed it to work mainly witht he ipod. the other apps are designed to work with many different players. Hell if you wanted you could just drag and drop the songs you wanted into the ipod.
Well they've already got Google Earth and taken the moon.
Soooo taking on the world is nothing... I'm waiting for Google Universe(TM) to come out so we can get Open Standards Space Travel.
seems most the people I know of LameSplit (GameSurge) are in the 30 year old range. Most the kids want to use MSN... Yes of course there are some... but majority? I would guess not.
At one point I was even part of game developement that used GS... but lately most mods (at least the ones I work with) have moved to other networks that don't split as much.
as for the warez... I've seem 100 times more scrim bots then warez bots.
Do you really expect for the average /.er to REALLY read the article. they may gloss over it... read the captions... and then read all the comments, correct spelling and make jokes.
/.
Welcome to
heh... How about with some formatting...
OK short story is that I've used Mac, Linux, NeXtstep(OPENSTEP), and Windows... and Used various programs from Aldus Pagemaker, Adobe Framemaker for NeXT, Create, Gimp, TeX, Quark, Adobe Pagemaker 5 on (to now 7), InDesign 1.5 on... Coral Draw, Freehand, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and Publisher since 95 AND working in a print shop as it's graphic artist for the last 8 years I've come to a few conclusions.
Quark is over-priced, over-buggy, and over-outdated. (Note last version I bothered trying to use was 4.1 outside some 5.0 time at a Kinkos)
Pagemaker is vry easy to use but have numerous little things that like a Mac you can get used to always doing the ritual you have to do to get it to work. But it's easy to use and I'll suggest it to anyone... noting the cost.
Publisher is great for a business to do some quick papers... it's getting there in the area of getting the job to the press... but I only suggest it either to businesses or non profits trying to save money.
As for the Mac vs Windows war... ther eis very little diffeence in speed and intuitiveness... both can be just as fast an dintuitive... give some use. As mch as I hate to say it... Micro$oft has gotten better at not crashing as much... and Apple is still too expensive for the masses... and most print shops and starting to be even service bureaus.
As for graphics... Photoshop is the clear winner. Paintshop Pro is cheap and powerful... but clumbersome. Corel has some natural drawing programs... but not enough power. The gimp has promise... if they ever simplify. Photoshop is just eh winner in this catagory.
For illustration... I've seen 3 main programs used.. and worked with all 3... Corel Draw, which is ok... just don't expect Service Bureaus and Print Shops to have an easy time with the file... Macromedia Freehand, really could have promise... it's a nice layout and actually it's eps output and files sent to tshops have "fewer" problems but... Illustrator, time and again this programs power, accuracy and abilities make it the choice that I've stuck with.
So what do I use (if you couldn't tell):
Photoshop for photo touch up and image manipulation
Illustrator for logo creation, complicated jobs that require a lot of tricks and graphic work (see creavet)
Pagemaker for page layout and most design. It's simple and fast to use day in and day out.
InDesign has a lot to offer and it's gotten a lot better from the program that used to gather dust on my hard drive. It's power with the text allows me to step back from how much I used Illustrator and I'm able to do even more elaborate things easier.
As for Linux... I'd use it more if the programs that ran on it where more intuitive... and or powerful. So given the state of progress so far... maybe 5-10 years down the road.
OK short story is that I've used Mac, Linux, NeXtstep(OPENSTEP), and Windows... and Used various programs from Aldus Pagemaker, Adobe Framemaker for NeXT, Create, Gimp, TeX, Quark, Adobe Pagemaker 5 on (to now 7), InDesign 1.5 on... Coral Draw, Freehand, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and Publisher since 95 AND working in a print shop as it's graphic artist for the last 8 years I've come to a few conclusions. Quark is over-priced, over-buggy, and over-outdated. (Note last version I bothered trying to use was 4.1 outside some 5.0 time at a Kinkos) Pagemaker is vry easy to use but have numerous little things that like a Mac you can get used to always doing the ritual you have to do to get it to work. But it's easy to use and I'll suggest it to anyone... noting the cost. Publisher is great for a business to do some quick papers... it's getting there in the area of getting the job to the press... but I only suggest it either to businesses or non profits trying to save money. As for the Mac vs Windows war... ther eis very little diffeence in speed and intuitiveness... both can be just as fast an dintuitive... give some use. As mch as I hate to say it... Micro$oft has gotten better at not crashing as much... and Apple is still too expensive for the masses... and most print shops and starting to be even service bureaus. As for graphics... Photoshop is the clear winner. Paintshop Pro is cheap and powerful... but clumbersome. Corel has some natural drawing programs... but not enough power. The gimp has promise... if they ever simplify. Photoshop is just eh winner in this catagory. For illustration... I've seen 3 main programs used.. and worked with all 3... Corel Draw, which is ok... just don't expect Service Bureaus and Print Shops to have an easy time with the file... Macromedia Freehand, really could have promise... it's a nice layout and actually it's eps output and files sent to tshops have "fewer" problems but... Illustrator, time and again this programs power, accuracy and abilities make it the choice that I've stuck with. So what do I use (if you couldn't tell): Photoshop for photo touch up and image manipulation Illustrator for logo creation, complicated jobs that require a lot of tricks and graphic work (see creavet) Pagemaker for page layout and most design. It's simple and fast to use day in and day out. InDesign has a lot to offer and it's gotten a lot better from the program that used to gather dust on my hard drive. It's power with the text allows me to step back from how much I used Illustrator and I'm able to do even more elaborate things easier. As for Linux... I'd use it more if the programs that ran on it where more intuitive... and or powerful. So given the state of progress so far... maybe 5-10 years down the road.
The only option I can think of is take a drill press and with the rack secured underneith (this is assuming you can remove that) carefully drill teh screw out. I'd suggest that you start with a real small bit and work your way up... Be carfull not too go to big. Once you have a bin enough hold insert a tap and unscrew it that way. You'll want to make sure nothing moves (you don't want to damage the board) and go slow.
Who would want one... This is right up there with those annoying things that play relaxing "Nature Sounds".
Now give me nVidia and ATI drivers that have all the support/features under linux/BSD that you have under windows THEN I'll be exited.
Yes... we had an arms race with both of us ending up with water cannons powered by city pressure.
Ahhh the simple days...
When trying to convert some people (on sometimes older computers) to linux. This has been surprisingly successful.
Yes I do know and use knoppix now that it's out there. But Big slack has been available for a while and I have to say that it can be easier to setup then even knoppix.
Have a old computer that doesn't have a whole lot of space? ZipSlack.
Have no CD-Rom on a computer or just want a FAST easy ready made distro? Big slack. (just extract the zipped files over from a zip disk on the Hard Drive. Edit a text file... reboot :-) Fully functional Linux Distro.
The problem is that usually it takes a bit after the main release before the goodies really come out.
I use SuSE for most everything else but these ready made Distro are great.
Apple took OPENSTEP Enterprise and created WebObjects with that. It used to and I believe still runs on PPC and x86. Plus at one time they ran on NeXT boxes.
This ability to run under Windows NT is a leftover from the NeXT days. Actually I think that they mainly push the PPC version of WebObjects to run it.
NOTE: I had done sound for a number of years including situations where I had to setup up "hard of hearing" systems. The easiest thing to do was just treat the HOH system as a different monitor. (The boards I worked on typically had at least two seperate monitor channels... And one had five)
OK I was bored.
/. ok who's loosing spacing... hmmm...
I found the way that the USGS down in LA ended up implimenting Load Balancing even more informative then the fact that Michael went to check the information of the website. After all in the many quakes I've felt, I've always gone to the USGS Website once during and a number of times afterwards to find out both the epicenter (One was too damn close) and the magnitude. And in two cases the website was updating the start and end of the quake while I was reloading.
It's actually nice to see a government agency attempting to save money by implimenting an open source solution rather then going out and plopping down 10K in our tax dollars rashly. Hell I wish ALL Public Agencies did that.
sorry about old links :-)>