Yep-- I've been pushing for my pals to become supporters for phase 2, and I intend to do so myself when I can scrape together the 40- odd bucks to do it. I almost didn't care what the CD sounded like when it arrived, but happily it's very good (be forewarned that EN isn't for everybody). I prefer Halber Mensch but that's just me.
Do keep in mind that even though they got more support than they were anticipating, they still had to make an album for Mute to offset some unexpected costs, though. I'm not saying that it can't be done, just that there are probably more kinks to work out.
I don't know when this interview was actually published, but I think it must have been a while ago-- "Hacking the Xbox" was picked up by No Starch Press, and it appears to be still published by them...
down the street from me to see if the bus is coming. I wonder if MUNI is up on this-- the pilot program for tracking buses seems to have fizzled out...
Yeah, actually all of USF had 666 prefixes up until a little while ago, including the college radio station. When they switched over I almost wanted to sign up for phone service to see if I could snag one.
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland and Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom are both fictional narratives that demonstrate relativity through greatly exaggerated examples-- apparently Mr. George Gamow has written an umber of other physics books as well.
They're fun to read, and definitely helped me in high school AP physics.
While i have to admit taking issue with your rigid definition of "guy things" and "girl things", you make a valid point-- most (sucessful) heterosexual relationships come with an undertanding of variety.
The result, of course, is that nobody really seems to care why girls like certain types of games and why they're not playing many of the ones out there except the people who make or market those games! My girl likes a fighter or Sonic game just as much as the next guy, and we spend our time gaming together (or not) instead of trying to figure out why that kooky y chromosome makes me like Xenosaga while it bores her to tears.
Seems like every time a game comes out with more than the average number of female fans, everyone tries to figure out exactly why that is and how to "leverage" their "position" with women gamers. Quit trying, I say.
activities which are ostensibly silly or nonsensical often have a protest value that can't be communicated via traditional means. whether the flash mob people have this in mind is anyone's guess, especially now that they've been (electronically) flash mobbed themselves, but i have to wonder.
i, for one, would hate to be working in one of the retail shops that got flash mobbed, though-- poor saps.
At just 2.9 lbs, the $799 Lindows Mobile PC is a featherweight, but it weighs in with such features as LindowsOS, a 933mhz VIA processor, 256MB RAM, USB 2.0, Firewire, Ethernet, and a crisp 12.1" TFT display, plus a PCMCIA slot to add even more functionality such as wireless networking. No other computer is as ideally suited for carry-around mobility as the affordable, under 3lb, Lindows Mobile PC. You'll find yourself taking it with you everywhere!
that'd be a VIA processor, there... and $300 more than the $500 price point that was ostensibly being discussed...
Sega could score big points if they open sourced the server software-- I doubt it'll happen, but it would enable people to keep using their Dreamcasts, and wouldn't cost Sega any money. Of course, if there are too many similarities between the games that they're continuing to support and the ones that they're not, it'd be even less likely to happen.
While I'm the first to agree that kids ought not to be receiving unsolicited porn email, I am very hesitant to invoke the familiar "save the children" cause in prosecuting spam-- I presume that the bulk of pr0n spam is sent from fairly unprosecuable locations anyway, whether they be sufficiently obfuscated or from a riverboat off the coast of Nigeria.
If I were a parent I'd set up a POP account for the grommet and then whitelist filter incoming stuff at the server anyway. oh. and use something like eudora and "don't automatically download images" (no email/web bugs). By the time they're smart enough to get around these measures, they're smart enough to be getting their own porn anyway.
the $5.99 you pay for boneless, skin-off breast accounts for the bones and skin that you throw away when you cut up the chicken yourself-- in other words, you're not saving any money if all you want to wind up with is boneless off breast. butchers rip people off, sure, but this is one instance of the price more or less working out to be what it would be otherwise if you just bought it like that.
of course, the best thing to do is to cut up the chicken and use the whole thing (make chicken stock, eat the gibs and feet, compost the rest) instead of only eating boneless off breast to begin with, but that's a different argument.
Yes, but baking bread at home is an entirely different exercise than baking bread in a manufacturing plant
Well. that all depends on the size of the plant, and even so not necesarily. i was able to adapt recipies just fine from the bakery i worked at for use at home, and in the smaller places there's hardly a difference in the process-- aside from most large-scale recipies' ingredients being measured in weight rather than volume.
I've never made cheese, though, and I understand that making cheese at home can be quite an ordeal. My original point (which is admittedly not terribly obvious) is that the things in the list aren't "lost arts", really. They've become confined to specialty industries, because large-scale manufacturing is so much cheaper, but they survive because of geekish inclination and the need for an alternative to mainstream products-- I'll admit I'm pretty biased here, since I live in a pretty well-connected area as far as agriculture and cottage industry-type suff goes...
Baking [bread] hardly qualifies as an esoteric exercise-- as an ex-butcher and baker, I can testify that both of these activities are doing just fine, thanks. People will be eating bread, making cheese, and tying knots for a long time.
Granted, most of these things which are now done by machine will probably be confined to niche/specialty industries, but they'll definitely survive as long as people are willing to pay a premium for a quality product.
The organization that regulates Parma prosciutto, for instance, is still getting their knickers twisted over import regulations, which bespeaks a healthy industry to me.
I usually try not to be this anal, but please try to spell KaZaA right-- I help administer this site, and as you might guess, about 90% (my estimate) if not more of the traffic taking up bandwidth is people looking for P2P software.
and yeah, I know it's a mess. we're working on it.
Slashdot Mirror
Mines.
Rocket.
Gotta love the deadpan.
Link to downloadable installer
Yep-- I've been pushing for my pals to become supporters for phase 2, and I intend to do so myself when I can scrape together the 40- odd bucks to do it. I almost didn't care what the CD sounded like when it arrived, but happily it's very good (be forewarned that EN isn't for everybody). I prefer Halber Mensch but that's just me.
Do keep in mind that even though they got more support than they were anticipating, they still had to make an album for Mute to offset some unexpected costs, though. I'm not saying that it can't be done, just that there are probably more kinks to work out.
Oops. For what it's worth, I did RTFA, I just didn't RTFSB.
I don't know when this interview was actually published, but I think it must have been a while ago-- "Hacking the Xbox" was picked up by No Starch Press, and it appears to be still published by them...
It's never "Bunnie"-- always "bunnie". Even on the book jacket (both versions).
down the street from me to see if the bus is coming. I wonder if MUNI is up on this-- the pilot program for tracking buses seems to have fizzled out...
Yeah, actually all of USF had 666 prefixes up until a little while ago, including the college radio station. When they switched over I almost wanted to sign up for phone service to see if I could snag one.
Imagine how bummed I am right now. My connection has seemed a little slow lately, come to think of it.
Mailsmith is so great.
Lat I checked, the RvB guys had the foresight to distribute Bittorrent files, in which case you're fine.
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland and Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom are both fictional narratives that demonstrate relativity through greatly exaggerated examples-- apparently Mr. George Gamow has written an umber of other physics books as well.
They're fun to read, and definitely helped me in high school AP physics.
While i have to admit taking issue with your rigid definition of "guy things" and "girl things", you make a valid point-- most (sucessful) heterosexual relationships come with an undertanding of variety.
The result, of course, is that nobody really seems to care why girls like certain types of games and why they're not playing many of the ones out there except the people who make or market those games! My girl likes a fighter or Sonic game just as much as the next guy, and we spend our time gaming together (or not) instead of trying to figure out why that kooky y chromosome makes me like Xenosaga while it bores her to tears.
Seems like every time a game comes out with more than the average number of female fans, everyone tries to figure out exactly why that is and how to "leverage" their "position" with women gamers. Quit trying, I say.
sometimes the point is that there is no point.
activities which are ostensibly silly or nonsensical often have a protest value that can't be communicated via traditional means. whether the flash mob people have this in mind is anyone's guess, especially now that they've been (electronically) flash mobbed themselves, but i have to wonder.
i, for one, would hate to be working in one of the retail shops that got flash mobbed, though-- poor saps.
the cartoon art museum
slac(stanford linear accelerator)
lawrence livermore labs
also a webhost here in town ( laughing sqhid) maintains the squidlist for non-conventional and geeky events.
At just 2.9 lbs, the $799 Lindows Mobile PC is a featherweight, but it weighs in with such features as LindowsOS, a 933mhz VIA processor, 256MB RAM, USB 2.0, Firewire, Ethernet, and a crisp 12.1" TFT display, plus a PCMCIA slot to add even more functionality such as wireless networking. No other computer is as ideally suited for carry-around mobility as the affordable, under 3lb, Lindows Mobile PC. You'll find yourself taking it with you everywhere!
that'd be a VIA processor, there... and $300 more than the $500 price point that was ostensibly being discussed...
please hurry. that sounds useful-- as opposed to marginally interesting.
Sega could score big points if they open sourced the server software-- I doubt it'll happen, but it would enable people to keep using their Dreamcasts, and wouldn't cost Sega any money. Of course, if there are too many similarities between the games that they're continuing to support and the ones that they're not, it'd be even less likely to happen.
still. maybe a petition is in order?
While I'm the first to agree that kids ought not to be receiving unsolicited porn email, I am very hesitant to invoke the familiar "save the children" cause in prosecuting spam-- I presume that the bulk of pr0n spam is sent from fairly unprosecuable locations anyway, whether they be sufficiently obfuscated or from a riverboat off the coast of Nigeria.
If I were a parent I'd set up a POP account for the grommet and then whitelist filter incoming stuff at the server anyway.
oh. and use something like eudora and "don't automatically download images" (no email/web bugs). By the time they're smart enough to get around these measures, they're smart enough to be getting their own porn anyway.
Well, I personally don't care for Pearl Jam, but I do appreciate what they've done (and for the ticketmaster thing a ways back also).
It's important to know that as a musician you have alternatives to the majors-- here's another one.
i'm not a musician, by the way. just a...
I realize that the EFF have a lot to do already, but this strikes me as a singularly visible case-- does anyone know if this guy talked to them?
Maybe he'll be able to countersue? I mean, the RIAA basically admitted that he didn't do anything wrong, if I understand the article correctly...
the $5.99 you pay for boneless, skin-off breast accounts for the bones and skin that you throw away when you cut up the chicken yourself-- in other words, you're not saving any money if all you want to wind up with is boneless off breast. butchers rip people off, sure, but this is one instance of the price more or less working out to be what it would be otherwise if you just bought it like that.
of course, the best thing to do is to cut up the chicken and use the whole thing (make chicken stock, eat the gibs and feet, compost the rest) instead of only eating boneless off breast to begin with, but that's a different argument.
I've never made cheese, though, and I understand that making cheese at home can be quite an ordeal. My original point (which is admittedly not terribly obvious) is that the things in the list aren't "lost arts", really. They've become confined to specialty industries, because large-scale manufacturing is so much cheaper, but they survive because of geekish inclination and the need for an alternative to mainstream products-- I'll admit I'm pretty biased here, since I live in a pretty well-connected area as far as agriculture and cottage industry-type suff goes...
Baking [bread] hardly qualifies as an esoteric exercise-- as an ex-butcher and baker, I can testify that both of these activities are doing just fine, thanks. People will be eating bread, making cheese, and tying knots for a long time.
Granted, most of these things which are now done by machine will probably be confined to niche/specialty industries, but they'll definitely survive as long as people are willing to pay a premium for a quality product.
The organization that regulates Parma prosciutto, for instance, is still getting their knickers twisted over import regulations, which bespeaks a healthy industry to me.
I usually try not to be this anal, but please try to spell KaZaA right-- I help administer this site, and as you might guess, about 90% (my estimate) if not more of the traffic taking up bandwidth is people looking for P2P software.
and yeah, I know it's a mess. we're working on it.
cheers
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