Interesting... I assume you mean it's the standard for final output on projects? You don't edit in DivX, do you?
Will you also archive your projects in DivX? If so, I'm glad I didn't attend U of South FL. I prefer my demo reel to be on something other people can look at easily, such as one of the established tape formats, not some unknown codec inappropriate for broadcast and not available on most desktops.
or (3), incessantly repeated nerdisms such as "if it was hard to write it should be hard to read" instill an improper sense into young, impressionable programmers.
If a solid-state physicist hits a particle physicist over the head with a tree that fell in the woods while nobody's around, we can finally get Schrödinger's cat out of that box...
Fair comments. But, before you disparage it, take into account the next bunch of teenagers saving their lawnmowing money for this "digital crap" may be the ones who will push music creation and/or delivery towards a brand new direction.
Your complaints are similar to the first guy who complained about electrifying the guitar: "Just put a mic on a plain old' accoustic--that's the best sound you can get!"
Here's a from-the-ass example: a bunch of guitar players get together in a club, connect all together through a switch, and run the signals through a processor that converts all the sounds to the same key. Which key is controlled by another device that reads motion patterns of the people on the dance floor. The combined sound is then piped into the club's speakers. Evolutionary music!
Just keep an open mind about it. Sure, Gibson developed it to sell more stuff, but that's what they're there for. Unless you think that music stopped in the 1970's with guitar rock...
I'll miss your Johnny-come-lately, me-too games and expensive consoles, your cheap-ass arcade hardware that tended to snap off in my hands (or saved me the trouble by eating my quarters).
Pfft... they're gone because they sucked and they were stupid. Cry me some crocodile tears...
What if there were no control over the HTTP protocol? Then every browser manufacturer would implement the protocol however they wanted...
As this is basically the case now, what can we observe? Well, there are incompatable HTML tags and such between browsers, but by and large, things work--because it is in the interest of the protocol implementors to follow the protocol (generally, if not exactly).
Like I said elsewhere, a central authority controlling the airwaves has positives, but has negatives as well. Which is worse?
The flip side of this benefit of which you speak is the neccessity of smart, technologically adept professors being forced to endure hours of testimony to idiot balding white men in an attempt to free up frequencies for unlicensed public use, while these same idiot balding white men are being given gobs of cash from the licensees of the airwaves to encourage them to ignore those smart, technologically adept professors.
That other edge of the sword is pretty darn sharp, too!
Well, an asshole with a good gift for programming (at least to my uneducated eye). The work Theo and the other OpenBSD team members have done is good stuff. I, too, am an OpenBSD user.
I went back and re-read the whole mail archive again, and I don't see from where you derived this label as an asshole. A significant portion of the archive were messages from Theo exclaiming or proclaiming some bit of hackery he had done to further the sparc port. These were interspersed with messages from core members asking again and again, "will you promise to do items 1, 2, and 3", with Theo replying again and again, "yes, I will, can I have cvs access again?" to, apparently deaf ears. There were plenty of dirty sphincters to go around; I wouldn't be so quick as to fling one on Theo's back.
Actually, I'll give Theo some credit here: I would have left in much less time and found other diversions. I have less patience (if more tact) than Theo does.
I think Theo's abrasive nature is just that--his nature. He isn't willing to change his way of dealing with people.
Often I'll wish people would just simply way what they think, with no prevarication; and when somebody (like Theo) does exactly that, I get squeamish all of a sudden. "Ooh, I can't believe he said that..."
Theo has a habit of speaking his mind. Dealing with him is probably a chore, but a worthwhile one.
He is neither--he simply has political ideas and opinions that you disagree with. Calling him names neither diminishes him, nor strengthens your argument, and it insults a lot of dead people who were killed fighting real Facists and Nazis.
Next time buttress your argument rather than raising your voice.
Ah, yes. A pro-active Supreme Court. Just what we need. A dias packed with old windbags in black mu-mus dispensing justice as they see fit, without regard for Constitutional limits.
Arise, Torquemada, arise! We have work for you, yet!
Next year, you can give them the Shelf of Fiction (scroll to the bottom).
The huge variation in price depends on how you acquire the lot. You can buy book-by-book in flea markets (making a charming shelf of odd-sized and colored books), or all in a lot, if you by a collection (making an impressive shelf, appropriate for a lawyer's TV commercial).
This is also a good gift for those who don't get much out of school: if you read through the entire shelf, you've basically acquired a liberal-arts education.
Other than the physical exertion, what's the big deal? This isn't remarkably more dangerous than sitting down at a Nautilus machine for the equivalent ammount of time.
Once upon a time, there were people who set out across the ocean who didn't know what might appear on the other side of the horizon, never knowing if they would get rich, get killed, or get laid. Those were adventurers. These people are simply fame-seekers.
The answer you get is going to be horribly weighted by somebody else's baggage, the circumstances under which they were hired, or fired, even where they were located.
I worked for the Investor Relations department at the corporate headquarters in Clinton, Mississippi. Small department, great people. I loved my job and the people I worked with. The dress was corporate casual, and regular casual on Fridays.
I worked with the Bernie Ebbers, the CEO for a few projects. He's a very nice, polite guy--driven, but many entrepreneurs are like that. Also, he's very tall.
The IT department in Clinton is staffed with great people, the network/Internet/Intranet guys are top-notch and well managed. I still go bowling with them occasionally.
However, some people don't have such nice memories. When Worldcom bought MCI, there was quite a clash of cultures. MCI's IR department had 2.5 times the number of people, and didn't do as good a job as Worldcom did. All of them were laid-off in the merger. MCI had something like 5 corporate jets. Worldcom had 2 corporate jets. Bernie sold most of MCI's immediately. Former MCI people were undergoing "attrition" at a fearsome rate. Worldcom's culture was of a gritty startup, almost. You worked hard, but you were compensated for your effort. MCI was much more corporate, only their stock price reflected that "corporate" wasn't cutting it.
Unfortunately, MCI's marketing department stayed around. This is where you get those really shitty "generation d" commercials. And also why the web site sucks so much now.
This was a few years ago, but from what I can tell, the culture hasn't changed that much--at least, not in Clinton, MS. Other locations are different.
A glove interacting with a computer has quite a long way to go before it will be able to compete with the humble wad of clay.
The kinds of tools available to a sculptor, the tactile feedback of the medium is far, far superior to a single glove acting on air and the artist looking at a computer screen.
The glove has it's uses: it is not a replacement for a 3D capture device, however.
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Interesting... I assume you mean it's the standard for final output on projects? You don't edit in DivX, do you?
Will you also archive your projects in DivX? If so, I'm glad I didn't attend U of South FL. I prefer my demo reel to be on something other people can look at easily, such as one of the established tape formats, not some unknown codec inappropriate for broadcast and not available on most desktops.
I'm just impressed he didn't use the word "geek" somewhere in there...
Are you implying that our armed forces are ignorant?!?!
As a recovering MUDaholic, I have to say "w,n,n,e,s,u", and I should add "pub".
or (3), incessantly repeated nerdisms such as "if it was hard to write it should be hard to read" instill an improper sense into young, impressionable programmers.
If a solid-state physicist hits a particle physicist over the head with a tree that fell in the woods while nobody's around, we can finally get Schrödinger's cat out of that box...
Fair comments. But, before you disparage it, take into account the next bunch of teenagers saving their lawnmowing money for this "digital crap" may be the ones who will push music creation and/or delivery towards a brand new direction.
Your complaints are similar to the first guy who complained about electrifying the guitar: "Just put a mic on a plain old' accoustic--that's the best sound you can get!"
Here's a from-the-ass example: a bunch of guitar players get together in a club, connect all together through a switch, and run the signals through a processor that converts all the sounds to the same key. Which key is controlled by another device that reads motion patterns of the people on the dance floor. The combined sound is then piped into the club's speakers. Evolutionary music!
Just keep an open mind about it. Sure, Gibson developed it to sell more stuff, but that's what they're there for. Unless you think that music stopped in the 1970's with guitar rock...
Pfft... they're gone because they sucked and they were stupid. Cry me some crocodile tears...
What if there were no control over the HTTP protocol? Then every browser manufacturer would implement the protocol however they wanted...
As this is basically the case now, what can we observe? Well, there are incompatable HTML tags and such between browsers, but by and large, things work--because it is in the interest of the protocol implementors to follow the protocol (generally, if not exactly).
Like I said elsewhere, a central authority controlling the airwaves has positives, but has negatives as well. Which is worse?
The flip side of this benefit of which you speak is the neccessity of smart, technologically adept professors being forced to endure hours of testimony to idiot balding white men in an attempt to free up frequencies for unlicensed public use, while these same idiot balding white men are being given gobs of cash from the licensees of the airwaves to encourage them to ignore those smart, technologically adept professors.
That other edge of the sword is pretty darn sharp, too!
No, all you Canucks eat is back bacon and beer.
P.S. Please stop sending all those cold air masses across our border.
Well, an asshole with a good gift for programming (at least to my uneducated eye). The work Theo and the other OpenBSD team members have done is good stuff. I, too, am an OpenBSD user.
I went back and re-read the whole mail archive again, and I don't see from where you derived this label as an asshole. A significant portion of the archive were messages from Theo exclaiming or proclaiming some bit of hackery he had done to further the sparc port. These were interspersed with messages from core members asking again and again, "will you promise to do items 1, 2, and 3", with Theo replying again and again, "yes, I will, can I have cvs access again?" to, apparently deaf ears. There were plenty of dirty sphincters to go around; I wouldn't be so quick as to fling one on Theo's back.
Actually, I'll give Theo some credit here: I would have left in much less time and found other diversions. I have less patience (if more tact) than Theo does.
I think Theo's abrasive nature is just that--his nature. He isn't willing to change his way of dealing with people.
Often I'll wish people would just simply way what they think, with no prevarication; and when somebody (like Theo) does exactly that, I get squeamish all of a sudden. "Ooh, I can't believe he said that..."
Theo has a habit of speaking his mind. Dealing with him is probably a chore, but a worthwhile one.
He is neither--he simply has political ideas and opinions that you disagree with. Calling him names neither diminishes him, nor strengthens your argument, and it insults a lot of dead people who were killed fighting real Facists and Nazis.
Next time buttress your argument rather than raising your voice.
However, the codicil still works regardless. Thus, we are both correct.
Ah, yes. A pro-active Supreme Court. Just what we need. A dias packed with old windbags in black mu-mus dispensing justice as they see fit, without regard for Constitutional limits.
Arise, Torquemada, arise! We have work for you, yet!
For my rebuttul, please refer to every other post on alt.audiophiles.recurring.pointless.holy.wars
A great gift for youngsters and oldsters alike.
The Harvard Classics. You can find them on eBay every now and then.
Next year, you can give them the Shelf of Fiction (scroll to the bottom).
The huge variation in price depends on how you acquire the lot. You can buy book-by-book in flea markets (making a charming shelf of odd-sized and colored books), or all in a lot, if you by a collection (making an impressive shelf, appropriate for a lawyer's TV commercial).
This is also a good gift for those who don't get much out of school: if you read through the entire shelf, you've basically acquired a liberal-arts education.
Other than the physical exertion, what's the big deal? This isn't remarkably more dangerous than sitting down at a Nautilus machine for the equivalent ammount of time.
Once upon a time, there were people who set out across the ocean who didn't know what might appear on the other side of the horizon, never knowing if they would get rich, get killed, or get laid. Those were adventurers. These people are simply fame-seekers.
Bah.
RTFA
His PowerTower Pro, in a standard AT-style PC case, was also damaged quite severely.
Patenly untrue.
Which is better information? The name of Heidi Klum's dog groomer, or Heidi Klum's phone number?
Because we don't want Mars to become a space-borne Australia...
*ducks and runs*
It reminds ME of Niven's Known Space books. Homeworld indeed...
I volunteer to be the first of the Belters.
It Depends.
The answer you get is going to be horribly weighted by somebody else's baggage, the circumstances under which they were hired, or fired, even where they were located.
I worked for the Investor Relations department at the corporate headquarters in Clinton, Mississippi. Small department, great people. I loved my job and the people I worked with. The dress was corporate casual, and regular casual on Fridays.
I worked with the Bernie Ebbers, the CEO for a few projects. He's a very nice, polite guy--driven, but many entrepreneurs are like that. Also, he's very tall.
The IT department in Clinton is staffed with great people, the network/Internet/Intranet guys are top-notch and well managed. I still go bowling with them occasionally.
However, some people don't have such nice memories. When Worldcom bought MCI, there was quite a clash of cultures. MCI's IR department had 2.5 times the number of people, and didn't do as good a job as Worldcom did. All of them were laid-off in the merger. MCI had something like 5 corporate jets. Worldcom had 2 corporate jets. Bernie sold most of MCI's immediately. Former MCI people were undergoing "attrition" at a fearsome rate. Worldcom's culture was of a gritty startup, almost. You worked hard, but you were compensated for your effort. MCI was much more corporate, only their stock price reflected that "corporate" wasn't cutting it.
Unfortunately, MCI's marketing department stayed around. This is where you get those really shitty "generation d" commercials. And also why the web site sucks so much now.
This was a few years ago, but from what I can tell, the culture hasn't changed that much--at least, not in Clinton, MS. Other locations are different.
A glove interacting with a computer has quite a long way to go before it will be able to compete with the humble wad of clay.
The kinds of tools available to a sculptor, the tactile feedback of the medium is far, far superior to a single glove acting on air and the artist looking at a computer screen.
The glove has it's uses: it is not a replacement for a 3D capture device, however.