I worked for Unisys and we had a hoteling setup for the consultants who were always supposed to be out working in a practice in the field. It was stifling to sit in one of the empty 'anybody' cubes with a sheet to tell you how to hook up to the network and a vga monitor. This hoteling setup was laptop based.
It was just about as alienating of an environment as I have ever worked in. I spent alot of time just staring around my cublice and occasionally getting softdrinks. I even played games on my palm pilot in the bathroom.
It was the worst.
Later my practice had a project that was done and the company forgot about me and another guy for >4 months. I 'worked from home' with the VPN. It was a lush life. This is the good side of consulting.
Yup. Nick seems like a dork. He got pretty straightforward questions from us, and then he dispenses rhetoric with an abundance of prepositional phrases back to us.
If he really had anything he would come out and say it without a bazillion justifications and excuses.
As it stands now, he looks like a wanker and should be treated as such. I would much rather have a real semblance of the real position of linux. Maybe, I could find that somewhere online.
I am happy to be part of the 3% that get it. This powerbook is the best damn computer that I have ever owned. OSX is the best operating system that I have used.
If they go under then I will start to consider a PC.
Besides, Logic Audio does is not made for PCs anymore. The latency on all my midi stuff is like 2ms, better than PCs.
Sure it does. You get to know people based on the same mistakes that you see them make time after time right before you kill them again.
Sometimes you get good players that really sweat you and you have to be cunning to win the bout.
I have lost many many hours of my life to counter strike and Tac Ops style games precisely because you can discern a bit about the people through their characters.
Besides, nothing says human interaction like the chat that goes on after a team kill. Especially with a grenade.
I have a studio in my basement and a relatively worthless audio engineering degree. I can hear the the difference between radio shack 12 gauge and radio shack 14 gauge cabling on good gear halfer + infinity.
Yeah, ohms law says that I should not even be losing more than a single decibel but the bottom end is tighter on the 12 gauge cabling and I bet you could hear it too.
My testing is done with the same cable ends (gold radio shack bananna clips) so it must be the cabling. The system is 250 watts rms a side.
I think that you could hear it too.
I tested with 24 bit by 96khz audio, cd audio and Rekerdz.
I would agree that most audiophile crap is utter bullshit. But, if you go to an audiophile store the gear there sounds light years better than Best Buy crap. I would not spend money for crazy cabling, but I will buy the better radio shack crap.
//Just imagine the looks on your neighbors faces when you rumble into the midst of their barbecue in a Panzer, and paste the beer cooler with your 37mm potato cannon. That'll teach 'em to drink imported beer on the 4th of July.//
That's where I stopped reading. If that guy trys to in any way separate me from my heinekens on the fourth of July, I will put a serious beat down upon him.
Some of us have more firepower than a potato cannon. Regardless, this type of intrusion into my festivities would warrant a beat down with a stick or just a manual beatdown.
As if I am less American because I drink better beer...
If it is ATM than you can bet there is throttling. Just put everything in different classes of service.
ATM can do bandwidth throttling(sp) better than a frame relay network can, in fact most frame relay networks are transported internally between long distance switch sites on ATM gear. In MCI it was Cisco Stratacom and the infinitely cooler FORE ATM switches.
//'The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over.'"//
I really really doubt that these are your biggest problems with doing journalist reporting properly. Do try to keep in mind that there is an entire culture to news reporting that has grown in it's own studios for decades.
It does take skill to deliver the news properly. I remember working at Cisco and seeing the terrible talking head video on demand and crappy IOS update talk shows. They delivered information but looked completely clueless.
If you are going to do this study up first. Please?
5 hours of juice is about what my tibook gets now. After getting the mac I have never wanted for more battery time anymore. Now I want for CounterStrike though !!
I would like my laptop fuel cell to run on jet fuel. That way I could just pick it up at the airport on the tarmak.
No reason to sell your blog. Be like all the other nitwits and sell Amway instead.
I went to a guys apartment to watch De La Hoya box on pay per view and there was a bunch of seedy fucks there trying to make me sell Amway for them. Total setup from the get go.
They asked everyone in the room "what would you do with a million dollars?" when it was my turn to answer I said "I would become a heavily armed recluse in a sparsely populated western state with intention of training disciples to dispatch of pyramid growth scams".
It was like... a minute before any of those morons said their next word. I was nearly out the door by the time the guy said "...but we are not a pyramid growth scam".
I went to a bar and watched the fight with people that were not wanna-be corporate scumbags. Definitely one of my finest hours.
Exactly, if the artists are a one hit wonder I'll either buy the single-- you do know that they release singles right ? --or I will skip the artists all together.
If it is dance music on vinyl and I can spin it in a set, then I'll fork over for the vinyl. If it's a CD of a group that has one good tune than I will leave it in the store. If it's an MP3 it sounds like shit on a real system anyways.
Most people get the mp3s to listen to on some consumer garbage system. On my still relatively modest system the stereo fields of most mp3s sound like shit. They lack depth and the bottom end of the music is quite mushy. I think a dollar for an mp3 is too much because I would have to buy the cd later.
But of course the anwer is ogg right ? wrong. I believe that CDs already sound crap at 16bit by 44.1khz. Either give me at least the sound quality of CDs or f**k off. All digital technology is doing for the distribution of music to date is making it cheaper to hand out a crappy representation of the artists work.
If you would have heard the music in the control room before mixing/dithering down to 16, 44.1 like I have I believe you would feel the same way I do.
//I knew the monitor was designed poorly, they knew it was designed poorly (they only made 'em for like 6 months). Wouldnt a recall have been easier and cheaper than cross shipping me 5 replacements in a row?//
The answer is no. If they had a recall they would have to recall every monitor not just yours. If it would have been cheaper, they would have done it like that. They are a company with accountants and what not. They know what is cheaper.
IBM is doing it's recall no doubt because they fear litigation. IBM did not recall it's crappy GNX series hard drives that fell apart, because they would not catch fire and expose IBM to a lawsuit.
Yeah. Canada. Where all the pussies live. Where your family is from. Better not walk around Nebraska like a little nonchalant pussy. I'll grab the available arsenal and saunter off to make the news.
//Ummm....not quite. Classics stations are safe. There is a certain segment of the population that has been under the influence of illicit substances since 1968. They'll dig Iron Butterfly until they die in about 30 years./
And when that happens there will be no more rapid development of the HURD operating system.
Uhhm. Dorian is a minor mode. Most pop songs are written in I IV V or II V I like you are talking about and usually roughly over a pentatonic minor scale. This is in direct decendence from the blues which has two more notes that the pentatonic scale.
But if it were that easy, why are you a multimillionaire producer instead of an anonymous coward.
So. Your car dash lights don't work and that sends you to thinking...
Your quandry sends me to thinking. Why don't you do something about it ? Take it apart and fix it. Add extra lights, build a web page about your little adventure. Do something instead of being just another/. nerd whining about something.
Stop playing quake or dreaming up stuff long enough to do something. Ideas do not change the world, the application of them does.
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I see. Good post. So now I can see that this is just slashdot sensationalism and go do something else.
I have the TiBook G4 400 mhz with 640 megs RAM.
... blah blah blah.
OSX has been snappy on this machine. 10.1 was not but Darwin and Jaguar fly on this machine.
Best computer I have ever owned. Best OS I have ever run. My first mac. Blah blah blah love it. Really.
I probably would have had a harder time if I had not spent so much time with BSD, Sys V, Linux, HPUX
It's a sleek unix box that runs all of the fun stuff. Network hauls ASS on this box. I wonder what the next upgrade will give me.
Peace.
I worked for Unisys and we had a hoteling setup for the consultants who were always supposed to be out working in a practice in the field. It was stifling to sit in one of the empty 'anybody' cubes with a sheet to tell you how to hook up to the network and a vga monitor. This hoteling setup was laptop based.
It was just about as alienating of an environment as I have ever worked in. I spent alot of time just staring around my cublice and occasionally getting softdrinks. I even played games on my palm pilot in the bathroom.
It was the worst.
Later my practice had a project that was done and the company forgot about me and another guy for >4 months. I 'worked from home' with the VPN. It was a lush life. This is the good side of consulting.
See what I mean ?
Yup. Nick seems like a dork. He got pretty straightforward questions from us, and then he dispenses rhetoric with an abundance of prepositional phrases back to us.
If he really had anything he would come out and say it without a bazillion justifications and excuses.
As it stands now, he looks like a wanker and should be treated as such. I would much rather have a real semblance of the real position of linux. Maybe, I could find that somewhere online.
Could be cause it aint there as well.
.... perhaps if I scouted all around europe I could have found some bluetooth devices.
How many devices have IR and how many devices have Bluetooth ? It may change but for now the standard could so easily go the way of Betamax.
Maybe in Germany
Or perhaps you just like Bluetooth because you don't want to believe that you bought a lemon.
I lived in Holland all of last year.
Did not see it there either. Although bluetooth was the last thing in my mind while living in A'dam.
Still, my powerbook has IR today.
I thought bluetooth had went the way of 100base VG, betamax, bernoulli drives, .sea compression, BeOS, 8 track, and SACD.
Now that I hear this, I think, maybe this is just what the technology needs to become uber prevalent.
HA HA I AM KIDDING !!!!
It will still be a distant 47th to IR connectivity.
I am happy to be part of the 3% that get it. This powerbook is the best damn computer that I have ever owned. OSX is the best operating system that I have used.
If they go under then I will start to consider a PC.
Besides, Logic Audio does is not made for PCs anymore. The latency on all my midi stuff is like 2ms, better than PCs.
For doing my crap Macs are better.
Sure it does. You get to know people based on the same mistakes that you see them make time after time right before you kill them again.
Sometimes you get good players that really sweat you and you have to be cunning to win the bout.
I have lost many many hours of my life to counter strike and Tac Ops style games precisely because you can discern a bit about the people through their characters.
Besides, nothing says human interaction like the chat that goes on after a team kill. Especially with a grenade.
I have a studio in my basement and a relatively worthless audio engineering degree. I can hear the the difference between radio shack 12 gauge and radio shack 14 gauge cabling on good gear halfer + infinity. Yeah, ohms law says that I should not even be losing more than a single decibel but the bottom end is tighter on the 12 gauge cabling and I bet you could hear it too. My testing is done with the same cable ends (gold radio shack bananna clips) so it must be the cabling. The system is 250 watts rms a side. I think that you could hear it too. I tested with 24 bit by 96khz audio, cd audio and Rekerdz. I would agree that most audiophile crap is utter bullshit. But, if you go to an audiophile store the gear there sounds light years better than Best Buy crap. I would not spend money for crazy cabling, but I will buy the better radio shack crap.
//Just imagine the looks on your neighbors faces when you rumble into the midst of their barbecue in a Panzer, and paste the beer cooler with your 37mm potato cannon. That'll teach 'em to drink imported beer on the 4th of July. //
...
...*BAP*!
That's where I stopped reading. If that guy trys to in any way separate me from my heinekens on the fourth of July, I will put a serious beat down upon him.
Some of us have more firepower than a potato cannon. Regardless, this type of intrusion into my festivities would warrant a beat down with a stick or just a manual beatdown.
As if I am less American because I drink better beer
That guy deserves a bitchslap
If it is ATM than you can bet there is throttling. Just put everything in different classes of service.
ATM can do bandwidth throttling(sp) better than a frame relay network can, in fact most frame relay networks are transported internally between long distance switch sites on ATM gear. In MCI it was Cisco Stratacom and the infinitely cooler FORE ATM switches.
The guy with the T1 gets penalized because.
ha.
//'The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over.'"//
I really really doubt that these are your biggest problems with doing journalist reporting properly. Do try to keep in mind that there is an entire culture to news reporting that has grown in it's own studios for decades.
It does take skill to deliver the news properly. I remember working at Cisco and seeing the terrible talking head video on demand and crappy IOS update talk shows. They delivered information but looked completely clueless.
If you are going to do this study up first. Please?
5 hours of juice is about what my tibook gets now. After getting the mac I have never wanted for more battery time anymore. Now I want for CounterStrike though !!
I would like my laptop fuel cell to run on jet fuel. That way I could just pick it up at the airport on the tarmak.
No reason to sell your blog. Be like all the other nitwits and sell Amway instead.
... a minute before any of those morons said their next word. I was nearly out the door by the time the guy said "...but we are not a pyramid growth scam".
I went to a guys apartment to watch De La Hoya box on pay per view and there was a bunch of seedy fucks there trying to make me sell Amway for them. Total setup from the get go.
They asked everyone in the room "what would you do with a million dollars?" when it was my turn to answer I said "I would become a heavily armed recluse in a sparsely populated western state with intention of training disciples to dispatch of pyramid growth scams".
It was like
I went to a bar and watched the fight with people that were not wanna-be corporate scumbags. Definitely one of my finest hours.
Exactly, if the artists are a one hit wonder I'll either buy the single-- you do know that they release singles right ? --or I will skip the artists all together.
If it is dance music on vinyl and I can spin it in a set, then I'll fork over for the vinyl. If it's a CD of a group that has one good tune than I will leave it in the store. If it's an MP3 it sounds like shit on a real system anyways.
Most people get the mp3s to listen to on some consumer garbage system. On my still relatively modest system the stereo fields of most mp3s sound like shit. They lack depth and the bottom end of the music is quite mushy. I think a dollar for an mp3 is too much because I would have to buy the cd later.
But of course the anwer is ogg right ? wrong. I believe that CDs already sound crap at 16bit by 44.1khz. Either give me at least the sound quality of CDs or f**k off. All digital technology is doing for the distribution of music to date is making it cheaper to hand out a crappy representation of the artists work.
If you would have heard the music in the control room before mixing/dithering down to 16, 44.1 like I have I believe you would feel the same way I do.
//I knew the monitor was designed poorly, they knew it was designed poorly (they only made 'em for like 6 months). Wouldnt a recall have been easier and cheaper than cross shipping me 5 replacements in a row?//
The answer is no. If they had a recall they would have to recall every monitor not just yours. If it would have been cheaper, they would have done it like that. They are a company with accountants and what not. They know what is cheaper.
IBM is doing it's recall no doubt because they fear litigation. IBM did not recall it's crappy GNX series hard drives that fell apart, because they would not catch fire and expose IBM to a lawsuit.
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It's in Canada you dork. The reason it's like that is because Sweden rocks and Canada ... doesn't.
Yeah. Canada. Where all the pussies live. Where your family is from. Better not walk around Nebraska like a little nonchalant pussy. I'll grab the available arsenal and saunter off to make the news.
Theres real men down hare boywee !!!!
Peace
Dj Firbee, experienced Canuck killer.
//Ummm....not quite. Classics stations are safe. There is a certain segment of the population that has been under the influence of illicit substances since 1968. They'll dig Iron Butterfly until they die in about 30 years./
And when that happens there will be no more rapid development of the HURD operating system.
Uhhm. Dorian is a minor mode.
Most pop songs are written in I IV V or II V I like you are talking about and usually roughly over a pentatonic minor scale. This is in direct decendence from the blues which has two more notes that the pentatonic scale.
But if it were that easy, why are you a multimillionaire producer instead of an anonymous coward.
//If you read science fiction at all, you're familiar with Larry Niven. (If you don't, his work is a great place to start.)//
/. should have given Larry Niven a better intro, if he is "all that".
Shouldn't this read (if you don't his seminal work $blah is a great place to start) ? Where $blah is the name of some piece of his work ?
I just don't get all of these inside slashdot references but IANAL and YMMV. IMHO
So. Your car dash lights don't work and that sends you to thinking...
/. nerd whining about something.
Your quandry sends me to thinking. Why don't you do something about it ? Take it apart and fix it. Add extra lights, build a web page about your little adventure. Do something instead of being just another
Stop playing quake or dreaming up stuff long enough to do something. Ideas do not change the world, the application of them does.
Be an active nerd. Much more fufilling.
Peace.