no, Wes did approach me about helping him with some stuff. But I told him no way.
#1 he is too sloppy (a lot of people knew about his opperation)
#2 He loved showing-off his wealth (He had 2 boats, a fully loaded SUV ($60,000+),a new customized mustang and a bunch of other flash. AND he had no job.
I don't know about the legal system in general, but I do know that he has gotten off far easier then he should have.
He has been busted several other times (for other pot-growing operations and stuff) but he keeps getting off on technicalities.
One time, he had bought a house and let a "buddy" put his name on the deed. The buddy never saw the house. Well guess what Wes was doing in that house?
Yupp, major grow operation. he bypassed the electricy meteer comming into the home, and 'wallpapered' all the walls with aluminum foil & heavy insulation, and had an industrial Air-Conditioner installed) (so the excess heat wouldn't show up on the police helicopters)
The "buddy" went to jail, (i think he might still be there too).
All the cops around here know that Wes was running it, but couldn't prove it. He just kept slipping through.
This guy is my cousin!
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Wes has never been after more then a get-rich-quick kind of guy. Every type of scam/pyramid scheme out there he has tried at least once.
He has always worked very hard at not working. Anything to make an easy buck.
He has also been arrested for growing pot, (several million dollars worth IIRC).
This guy is not worthy of any praise or adoration. We (the family) strongly suspect that he was a scape goat for organized crime in Toronto. He is NOT the evil mastermind that the media is making him out to be.
I have another more distrubing situation happen to me.
I have been a Tribes fan since it first came out, and when I was in school after a long night of intensive gaming, my comments and speach were restricted to things like: vgh (which in Tribes these 3 keys activate a voice command: (V)oice (G)lobal (H)i!
Another simplar situation occurs after long periods of time on IRC. I would goto speak with someone in real-life, and my fingers would move to the imaginary keyboard, and in my minds eye the keys would be in front of me.
I found that both amusing and scary at the same time.
IANAL.........but the fact that you are activly downloading AND uploading data, (the lawyers would have to d'load the file themselves to "prove" that it is indeed copyrighted material.
Here is an interesting idea: If the lawyers are indeed uploading the file are they not condoning or giving permission for others to do the same?
Black-lisitng is fine but you have no way of knowing who is on the other end of that IP, It's probably a valid user like yourself.
It just occured to me why I dislike the "spatial" nature of the new Gnome.
#1) It is just like DOS. You can only be 'active' in one directory at a time. Deep dir's were hell, but shallow ones were kinda quick and easy to copy/move files around and open them.
#2) The entire "browser" style has lasted only because Suzie Soccermom has never learned that by using a "Tree-view + detailed list" is easier, (damn Windows default settings).
#3) IIRC Xtree, Norton Commander and Dosshell were all designed to quickly & easily allow of folder/file manipulation at the deep level. This is a huge improvment over the existing DOS CLI.
Is this really just a case of: "What is old is new again"?
Like a previous poster stated. Spatial systems would work very good for large numbers of files, if the OS did all the sorting for you. (Didn't MS try this with "My Documents, My Pictures, My P0rn..." and we all hated them dearly for it?)
Here's a novel idea, let's make the choices EASILY switchable. Include 999999999 different choices and let the end-user decide.
Damnit that's the mess that we have with any linux distro installer.
Ok, how about the Model-T Ford method: "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black."
Apple beat us to that one too.
ok I give up. Maybe I just go "roll my own". And no I am not talking about linny.
Being the old-fart that I am, (ok I'm just 30 but I feel like an old fart) I started with BBS's, a 300 baud modem and a C=64 around 1986.
I eagerly upgraded to a 386DX/40 and started using DOS v5.
From there I went to Win3.11 and then an addon called Dashboard (made by HP IIRC).
All this time my computer and UI upgrades were fun, and something that I looked forward to.
Then I tried Win95. Ack, I hated it. I couldn't uninstall it quick enough.
I got used to Win95 (never really "liked" it), and followed to upgrade path like everyone else.
Win98 was better, Win2k was good. I enjoyed how 'tight & clean' everything felt, and I still thinks it's the best looking OS that MS made (including XP in classic mode).
XP (default) made me gag, and I couldn't change the settings quick enough.
I have always 'tweaked' my OS (from DOS days of hacking the io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com, all the way through till now)
I have tried using most of the linux distro's and it feels anymore like it's just more work to try to turn all crap off that Joe-Programmer "thinks" that Suzie-Soccermom will like.* I have tried using a Mac,and I don't like it. I have heard that it's the best UI for folks who have never used a PC before, and I must admit that this 'old-fart' won't ever touch it if he has the choice.
Anyhow back to my point, I left it somewhere around here. I have recently tried using iTunes.
Untill now I have been using WinAmp v1.8 and then I moved on to FooBar2000.
Tight, small, simple, no fluff. I loved that program, but I thought i'd try something new.
iTunes:
It's great for searching, (even better if you have good ID3 tags)
I still need to learn/use it more, but I think I like it. (The secret is to forget that the DOS world ever existed, don't you dare use Windows Explorer to do anything usefull, and be a Suzie-Soccermom x For Dummies idiot.)
But other then that, I think I like it.
What I want to know: Am I just an old-fart who is stuck in his Carmudgenly ways, or are good UI options being dropped in favor of candy-coloured eye-goop, that serves no enhancement of the computing experience other then the "I wanna see if it can do this" mentality?
*I have tried using XFCE but I couldn't figure out how do do much. The terminal with vi & links & mutt were more intuitive. =)
What needs to come first: A geek writing for a geek. An artist who see the vision that the original geek wrote. Or a geek writing for his sister. (not mother, that is why we have all this eye-candy and Help-Wizards)
My vote: leave the art for the artists the code for the programmers, and the easy to read files for the hackers to hack.
RGB are Additive Colours. (You add them together to create White) CMY(K) are Subtractive Colours. (You add them together to get black)
CMYK has been used in the Colour-copier/printer industry for a long time. It depends on using White paper to 'iluminate' the colours that have been added.
RGB + CMYK negate each other. Considering that any combination of RGB can give you any colour, CMYK can't (for example) give you 'floresent' colours {without cheating}.
CRT's use glowing phospher (sp?), LCD's use a white-light to illuminate the coloured pixels that have been turned 'on'. By this definition CRT's naturally use an RGB approach, while LCD's naturally use a CMYk approach. I think it's just been a faulty evolution to keep LCD's emulating the RGB approach. this CMYK idea will only work if the video card companies make seperate product lines.
I live/work in Canada so the laws might be different, but when I was given the "IP Contract" I simple wrote in bold print: UNDER DURESS next to my signature.
That was 3 years ago and the HR scumm have not ever brought it up.
We all know how server-side apps & dB's along with specialized workstations alread need 64bit goodness, but...
What common usage could joe-sixpack get from 64-bit'ness?
I know what 64-bit offers and doesn't offer so I am not talking about: "Gee my word processor seems to type faster now."
64bit allows for larger memory address' and/or _more_ parallel executions.
If a 64-bit aware app was written to handle xvid/ogg encoding would ripping/encoding movies be quicker?
I don't know about the math involved in the encoding process but ~2hrs to rip a 2hr movie seems like it is excessive. Faster CPU's do encode faster, but the difference is not linear.
The 'killer-app' for any new technology is always an obvious evolution to the existing paradigm, could movie ripping + encoding/decoding at exponentially faster then Real-Time be the next killer-app, that all of us* _need_?
*us only refers total dweebs like myself who are too impatient to wait 2hrs to watch a ripped movie. =)
You sir have hit the nail squarely on the head. Built-in metadata searching? If MS does it with that stupid puppy and/or clippy everybody hates it, but as soon as *GNU* does it; praise the lord.
Egads. Most of the computer users on the planet are dumb enough, do we really need to encourage thier stupidity?
Considering Chernobol will be uninhabitable for the next million years or so, why not just store it there? (add security, and safty first though)
1. The world benefits from having 1 world-wide dump that would be easy to monitor. 2. Russia could charge good money for the storage. 3. The Eco-monkeys can't complain about it becoming "more" toxic. (yes they could bitch about transporting it though) 4. Profit for all! (sorry I couldn't resist)
I had mine done about 10 years ago, (First lasik Doc in Canada, blah, blah)
Before with glasses I was almost legaly blind. The Big E on the eye chart was blurry.
With glasses I had very sharp and precise vision, (I didn't need the galsses for very close work like soldering).
Now, after the surgury my eyesight was A LOT better, (I didn't need glasses to drive anymore (20/40 is my current vision)) BUT everything is slightly blurry.
It's like I am stuck reading news-print all the time. I can't stare at a computer moniter for very long, and now I wear glasses 100% of the time. I payed $4400 CDN when I got mine done. My self-esteem went through the roof for the first 6 months after getting it done.
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no, Wes did approach me about helping him with some stuff. But I told him no way.
#1 he is too sloppy (a lot of people knew about his opperation)
#2 He loved showing-off his wealth (He had 2 boats, a fully loaded SUV ($60,000+),a new customized mustang and a bunch of other flash. AND he had no job.
I don't know about the legal system in general, but I do know that he has gotten off far easier then he should have.
He has been busted several other times (for other pot-growing operations and stuff) but he keeps getting off on technicalities.
One time, he had bought a house and let a "buddy" put his name on the deed. The buddy never saw the house. Well guess what Wes was doing in that house?
Yupp, major grow operation. he bypassed the electricy meteer comming into the home, and 'wallpapered' all the walls with aluminum foil & heavy insulation, and had an industrial Air-Conditioner installed) (so the excess heat wouldn't show up on the police helicopters)
The "buddy" went to jail, (i think he might still be there too).
All the cops around here know that Wes was running it, but couldn't prove it.
He just kept slipping through.
Wes has never been after more then a get-rich-quick kind of guy. Every type of scam/pyramid scheme out there he has tried at least once.
He has always worked very hard at not working. Anything to make an easy buck.
He has also been arrested for growing pot, (several million dollars worth IIRC).
This guy is not worthy of any praise or adoration. We (the family) strongly suspect that he was a scape goat for organized crime in Toronto. He is NOT the evil mastermind that the media is making him out to be.
I know his MO. He will be back in jail again.
I have another more distrubing situation happen to me.
I have been a Tribes fan since it first came out, and when I was in school after a long night of intensive gaming, my comments and speach were restricted to things like: vgh
(which in Tribes these 3 keys activate a voice command: (V)oice (G)lobal (H)i!
Another simplar situation occurs after long periods of time on IRC. I would goto speak with someone in real-life, and my fingers would move to the imaginary keyboard, and in my minds eye the keys would be in front of me.
I found that both amusing and scary at the same time.
I am 60% pleased, 30% worried, and 10% indifferent.
Pleased: Despite all the MS bashing that occurs here, MS does make some very nice A/V codecs.
Worried: MS has a history of hamstringing their good codecs with DRM and other crap too.
Indifferent: Nothing to see here folks, FOSS will reverse-engineer and/or come out with far better codecs.
This sounds like a perfect application to use with Mom & Pop computers.
You can run a proxy server to help filer out all the "Bad Stuff" (TM) on the Internet, and you know it won't be a support nightmare.
Less bandwidth intensive then a terminal session, but less apps too. Might be a good compromise.
You can't use Moz as a file browser.
The example that he stated was to use Konqueror for file management & Moz. for Web Browser.
IANAL..... ....but the fact that you are activly downloading AND uploading data, (the lawyers would have to d'load the file themselves to "prove" that it is indeed copyrighted material.
Here is an interesting idea: If the lawyers are indeed uploading the file are they not condoning or giving permission for others to do the same?
Black-lisitng is fine but you have no way of knowing who is on the other end of that IP, It's probably a valid user like yourself.
The BT tracker keeps 'track' of all IP's that are connected to it and downloading/uploading a particular file.
BT does not and can not "scan your hard-drive" You only share the active torrents that you have open.
BT is NOT good for warez because if you are downloading or seeding a file, the server has your IP.
I thought the story was always the same.
Original story = 3 Acts
Each act = HUGE script/story
Smart idea = "I can split up each act into 3 parts (movies)."
Biz idea = Act 2 (part 1/episode 4) looks like the best thing I can sell to the BigWigs.
Profit - Finish Act 2.
Retirement Fund = Act 1
Never have time to make and/or leave that one for my kids = Act 3
It just occured to me why I dislike the "spatial" nature of the new Gnome.
#1) It is just like DOS. You can only be 'active' in one directory at a time. Deep dir's were hell, but shallow ones were kinda quick and easy to copy/move files around and open them.
#2) The entire "browser" style has lasted only because Suzie Soccermom has never learned that by using a "Tree-view + detailed list" is easier, (damn Windows default settings).
#3) IIRC Xtree, Norton Commander and Dosshell were all designed to quickly & easily allow of folder/file manipulation at the deep level. This is a huge improvment over the existing DOS CLI.
Is this really just a case of: "What is old is new again"?
Like a previous poster stated. Spatial systems would work very good for large numbers of files, if the OS did all the sorting for you. (Didn't MS try this with "My Documents, My Pictures, My P0rn..." and we all hated them dearly for it?)
Here's a novel idea, let's make the choices EASILY switchable. Include 999999999 different choices and let the end-user decide.
Damnit that's the mess that we have with any linux distro installer.
Ok, how about the Model-T Ford method: "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black."
Apple beat us to that one too.
ok I give up. Maybe I just go "roll my own". And no I am not talking about linny.
=) I love Mondays
Being the old-fart that I am, (ok I'm just 30 but I feel like an old fart) I started with BBS's, a 300 baud modem and a C=64 around 1986.
I eagerly upgraded to a 386DX/40 and started using DOS v5.
From there I went to Win3.11 and then an addon called Dashboard (made by HP IIRC).
All this time my computer and UI upgrades were fun, and something that I looked forward to.
Then I tried Win95. Ack, I hated it. I couldn't uninstall it quick enough.
I got used to Win95 (never really "liked" it), and followed to upgrade path like everyone else.
Win98 was better, Win2k was good. I enjoyed how 'tight & clean' everything felt, and I still thinks it's the best looking OS that MS made (including XP in classic mode).
XP (default) made me gag, and I couldn't change the settings quick enough.
I have always 'tweaked' my OS (from DOS days of hacking the io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com, all the way through till now)
I have tried using most of the linux distro's and it feels anymore like it's just more work to try to turn all crap off that Joe-Programmer "thinks" that Suzie-Soccermom will like.* I have tried using a Mac,and I don't like it. I have heard that it's the best UI for folks who have never used a PC before, and I must admit that this 'old-fart' won't ever touch it if he has the choice.
Anyhow back to my point, I left it somewhere around here. I have recently tried using iTunes.
Untill now I have been using WinAmp v1.8 and then I moved on to FooBar2000.
Tight, small, simple, no fluff. I loved that program, but I thought i'd try something new.
iTunes:
It's great for searching, (even better if you have good ID3 tags)
I still need to learn/use it more, but I think I like it. (The secret is to forget that the DOS world ever existed, don't you dare use Windows Explorer to do anything usefull, and be a Suzie-Soccermom x For Dummies idiot.)
But other then that, I think I like it.
What I want to know: Am I just an old-fart who is stuck in his Carmudgenly ways, or are good UI options being dropped in favor of candy-coloured eye-goop, that serves no enhancement of the computing experience other then the "I wanna see if it can do this" mentality?
*I have tried using XFCE but I couldn't figure out how do do much. The terminal with vi & links & mutt were more intuitive. =)
What needs to come first: A geek writing for a geek. An artist who see the vision that the original geek wrote. Or a geek writing for his sister. (not mother, that is why we have all this eye-candy and Help-Wizards)
My vote: leave the art for the artists
the code for the programmers,
and the easy to read files for the hackers to hack.
Between those 3,a good combination will be met.
Well, I think I should have all my comments modded as -5 idiot.
As many of you have pointed out, My momma must have dropped me on my head when I was a child.
I was wrong with the statments that I made. I was purely thinking of the "painter" analogy, and not the "flashlight".
Sorry, please feel free to delete this thread.
I am an idiot.
RGB and CMYK are counter-productive.
RGB are Additive Colours. (You add them together to create White)
CMY(K) are Subtractive Colours. (You add them together to get black)
CMYK has been used in the Colour-copier/printer industry for a long time. It depends on using White paper to 'iluminate' the colours that have been added.
RGB + CMYK negate each other. Considering that any combination of RGB can give you any colour, CMYK can't (for example) give you 'floresent' colours {without cheating}.
CRT's use glowing phospher (sp?), LCD's use a white-light to illuminate the coloured pixels that have been turned 'on'. By this definition CRT's naturally use an RGB approach, while LCD's naturally use a CMYk approach. I think it's just been a faulty evolution to keep LCD's emulating the RGB approach. this CMYK idea will only work if the video card companies make seperate product lines.
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You can see a list of links of participating stations here
I work for a large company that makes Multifunction photocopier/printer/fax/scanner office equipment.
Our machine can receive print data via a few protocols such as: TCPIP:port 9100, LPR/LPD, SMB
We even offer full Linux support for PS printing (very cool I use it every day).
What I need to know; will this new service-pack break XP's ability to print?
I live/work in Canada so the laws might be different, but when I was given the "IP Contract" I simple wrote in bold print: UNDER DURESS next to my signature.
That was 3 years ago and the HR scumm have not ever brought it up.
We all know how server-side apps & dB's along with specialized workstations alread need 64bit goodness, but...
What common usage could joe-sixpack get from 64-bit'ness?
I know what 64-bit offers and doesn't offer so I am not talking about: "Gee my word processor seems to type faster now."
64bit allows for larger memory address' and/or _more_ parallel executions.
If a 64-bit aware app was written to handle xvid/ogg encoding would ripping/encoding movies be quicker?
I don't know about the math involved in the encoding process but ~2hrs to rip a 2hr movie seems like it is excessive. Faster CPU's do encode faster, but the difference is not linear.
The 'killer-app' for any new technology is always an obvious evolution to the existing paradigm, could movie ripping + encoding/decoding at exponentially faster then Real-Time be the next killer-app, that all of us* _need_?
*us only refers total dweebs like myself who are too impatient to wait 2hrs to watch a ripped movie. =)
Mod parent up!
You sir have hit the nail squarely on the head. Built-in metadata searching? If MS does it with that stupid puppy and/or clippy everybody hates it, but as soon as *GNU* does it; praise the lord.
Egads. Most of the computer users on the planet are dumb enough, do we really need to encourage thier stupidity?
Considering Chernobol will be uninhabitable for the next million years or so, why not just store it there? (add security, and safty first though)
1. The world benefits from having 1 world-wide dump that would be easy to monitor.
2. Russia could charge good money for the storage.
3. The Eco-monkeys can't complain about it becoming "more" toxic. (yes they could bitch about transporting it though)
4. Profit for all! (sorry I couldn't resist)
Any chance you feel sorry for me and want to give me a gmail invite?
=)
I had mine done about 10 years ago, (First lasik Doc in Canada, blah, blah)
Before with glasses I was almost legaly blind. The Big E on the eye chart was blurry.
With glasses I had very sharp and precise vision, (I didn't need the galsses for very close work like soldering).
Now, after the surgury my eyesight was A LOT better, (I didn't need glasses to drive anymore (20/40 is my current vision)) BUT everything is slightly blurry.
It's like I am stuck reading news-print all the time. I can't stare at a computer moniter for very long, and now I wear glasses 100% of the time. I payed $4400 CDN when I got mine done. My self-esteem went through the roof for the first 6 months after getting it done.
Now I want to see that docter die.
USR (as we knew it) used the name because of Asimov's works.
IIRC they did pay for the rights to use it. (I remember reading an interview where he was actually quite honoured that they wanted to use it)
I have always used: aolsux@aol.com
I have checked it myself, it never bounced back. I just hope it isn't a real guys addy. I hope it's aliased to the VP or something. =)