I actually loved the article. It was a cool read regardless of it's accuracy. I'm not into any of this distro-piriting-p2p stuff, but I know a few people who are and seem to almost live for it. My old apartment building was all networked via ethernet cables dropping out of windows and off balconys. The bulding was nextdoor to the ****** ambasadors residence and we picked up a wifi signal from their providers. Once the guys at the building figured out where the signal came from, they rented out an office in the building itself on the side facing our building block. (Its the Casablanca building by the GTS server-farm at the Zelivskeho Metro stop- that's a little guess the country trivia for anyone who might be reading) They then bought highpower wifi equipment and linked up our building directly to the buildings line. As I recall they never returned to the office, they just used the rented office to set up a large antenna to hook us up. I don't know how fast the connection was in technical terms, but we had almost as many movies and new releases online at our house as the big videostore i regularly rented at (before I moved to this place of course). Interestingly enough, (or unforutnatly enough) I figured out they were also responsible for quite a high volume of spam once my isp starting informing me that my Ip was regularly being blacklisted by spamcop and then relisted. Go figure.
Hey, just as an Aside. I bought a refurbished HP computer yesterday (Overnight delivery from HP) and when I turned it on, I found an empty folder on the harddrive called "Ipod", interesting no?
-dennison
WEll, I still dont know if 10megapixels is really enough to equal the quality of any good 35mm analog film. Some films when shot well are incredible in their qualities.
Well, more than just questions of how soon Digital will overtake film in terms of quality, what about storage medium? While digital has the incredible ability to be archived easilly and in mass quantities, I'm still not convinced of the formats stability. Who's to say that in a hundred years I won't wake up an old man to find my old Digital photo collection on CD, only to find that we haven't been using CD's for some nintey odd years? What if we don't even COMPUTE in that format anymore? I think film has already proved it's staying power, and with the vast quanitites of photographic material still around (Microfilm for example) i suspect it will remain around for a good long while, as unlike digital, the MEDIUM is also important to the photograph. Not so with digital. With photography, even the emulsion has historical aspects to it. That won't be gone anytime soon.
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Maybe it's a step in the 'right' direction. (If world machine domaination and bloodshed is the goal) But I don't know if Machine soldiers are all that good of an idea. First, even tanks- as tough as they are, are preety easy to destroy. Just get a clean shot. Same thing with Blackhawk hellicopters. I wonder if it would be possible to actually 'mass-produce' something like this.
Well, I remeber a lawsuit against them a few years back when I had one of their computers with a built in defective disk-controller chip (or something like that, I don't remeber the details) anyway I took mine into service as it there was a problem and the service reps at ComputerCity (remeber that place?) Didn't know how to fix it, and gave me a run around for three or four months without giving me the computer back. Needless to say after some wrangling I got a new model sent direct, but that one still didn't work right. The only Toshiba that really worked well was my 386sx model with the black and red screen. Oh, wolfenstien 3d in Red and black. Makes my eyes bleed just thinking about it.
Point: They seem no more reliable than any other name brand. Especially their new tablet PC version which is flimsy as all get-out.
Wrong again. I said every professional studio OWNS a good minidisc recorder. I didn't say they used it for mastering their important stuff. I recognize there is stuff specifically made for that. I was debating Minidisc versus MP3, and I stand by my comment that I bet nearly every professional studio has a good minidisc recorder around as part of their equipment setup, not Mp3. Having worked in the film industry for example, I'll tell you a hell of alot of stuff is kept on minidisc. Mind you, it's not nessesarilly the final master of anything, but just as film guys work with Film and ProDV at the SAME TIME so that they can make a preliminary cut of the movie onsite in the trailers, there's a demo soundrack on MiniDisc. Plenty of studios I've seen use Minidisc Multitrackers as well.
Dude, your totally off base with that one. Maybe their format is lossy, but they do a damn good job throwing out the data you never hear or notice is gone. No respectable professional records stuff to mp3 but I bet you EVERY SINGLE professional studio, music producer, radio station, journalist, TV station, etc... owns a good minidisc recorder. MP3 compression at only super high-bitrates compares to Minidisc in quality. Sorry buddy, you can't beat minidisc for portable recording. Thats why you can buy professional multitrack recording systems that record to Minidisc and not to your shitty mp3. And whats your deal with proprietry formats? Mp3 isn't an open format you dolt. It's liscensed to Mp3 player makers like everyone else. Get an education and go buy minidisc.
Obviously you haven't spent much time in Europe and other parts of the world where MiniDisc is still very popular. In Europe you can actually go into a store and buy your favorite artist already on Minidisc as well as CD. Not only that, but over the years Sony has put out some incredibly sexy designs for their minidisc players that catches the Ipod with it's pants down. True, they are't just as versitile(sp?) yet, but sony is working in it. In Japan they have minidisc camcorders and minidisc laptop drives. Sony obviously sees alot of potential in the format. Besides, the new machines are backwards compatible with the pletora of cheap media already out there, and already you can fit five CD's onto one media disc, which while isn't 10,000 CD's is still pretty decent for most people. Beyond that, a NetMD minidisc player/recorder can be had for $100. Personally, that's alot better in terms of flexibility and coolness than the Ipod. Beyond that, Minidisc is a format used by many companies, not just one. Sharp Panasonic and others come out with some incredible designs. Try 1-bit Digital amplifiers for recording, or 165 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Yeah, you read that one right. So if anything would be an Ipod killer, Minidisc would be. (Although Ipod is probably more like the minidisc killer, with minidisc mustering re-enforcements). Want to slobber over some? check out: http://www.minidisco.com to get one direct from Asia.
No, maybe photoshop doesn't scan every image for banknotes. Why has no one mentioned the possibility that banknote detection might be built into the OS? Has anyone tried graphics programs in older OS's? It would seem like to me it would be easyier to put a detection routine into the OS so that any developer could easilly call it in their program. Otherwise, think of how different and varied the detection effectiveness could be across software programs if each company designed it's own. I bet its built into the OS.
YEah, I think this kinda hits home with the basic point. Stuff like Digital Music editing and Video Sampler/scratchers and iGarageband and so-on are great. Really great. Innovative, amazing, inredible and great.
But as systems get more sophisticated they are probably removing more from any one genre then they are adding, what happens when the signal to noise ratio gets so bad that theres more 'art' than could ever be appreciated? Sure it's cool if everyone can make music with their computers or be artists and everything, but when it only costs $49 and Steve Jobs can sit up on stage and compose a pretty decent sounding song in under two minutes; something I think, has been lost.
are you kidding me? The sci-fi channel butchered DUNE. That was the most horrible production of DUNE EVER! (Okay so there aren't many, but still bad). Maybe the old was was corny also, but it was better for the times it was made in than this one. It was whore-a-ble.
While I'm happy and all that he was captured, I agree that it's more of a diversion from the war on terror than anything else. There are lots of dictators in the world; some actually seem to have nuclear weapons (North Korea).
In this case, it's great that he's captured, but I am more worried about what happens next for Iraq. To Quote Edmond Burke from his opinion of the French Revolution:
" I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France, until I was informed how it had been combined with government; with public force; with the discipline and obedience of armies; with the collection of an effective and well-distributed revenue; with morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints."
Oh, and avoid computer games. I have a rule about playing counterstrike- only at the internet cafe. Never at my house. Either that, or install the games on girlfriends computers. Keep yours drug free.
Hey man- I feel you're pain. I'm a university student who had, and in many ways still have the same problem. Personally, I feel it's from just the nature of society today. There's too much f-ing stuff always around us. It's hard to get any direction.
Don't let people make you think you have a problem, that it can be solved by medicine or that you have ADD or whatever. What you need is discipline. That's the stuff we don't get enough of these days, really. What you have to do is really just take some time in your life to not just acomplish something, but to really get away from everything so that you can put it into prespective.
Me personally? I did alot of volunteering, often in far away, hard-on-the-body type of places. You should try volunteering in a refugee camp in yugoslavia or diggin wells in africa for a summer. I know people will think it's crazy, but before you can get discipline, you really need prespective to understand where you stand in the world and in you're life.
hey, it certianlly won't hurt.
Other than that, try you're local soup kitchen, or try habitat for humanity. I bet you'll find building houses every weekend really centering. I know maybe it sounds crazy, but lots of people have these sorts of problems these days. It's bascially the penalty for living in such a succesfull opulent society.
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I actually loved the article. It was a cool read regardless of it's accuracy. I'm not into any of this distro-piriting-p2p stuff, but I know a few people who are and seem to almost live for it. My old apartment building was all networked via ethernet cables dropping out of windows and off balconys. The bulding was nextdoor to the ****** ambasadors residence and we picked up a wifi signal from their providers. Once the guys at the building figured out where the signal came from, they rented out an office in the building itself on the side facing our building block. (Its the Casablanca building by the GTS server-farm at the Zelivskeho Metro stop- that's a little guess the country trivia for anyone who might be reading) They then bought highpower wifi equipment and linked up our building directly to the buildings line. As I recall they never returned to the office, they just used the rented office to set up a large antenna to hook us up. I don't know how fast the connection was in technical terms, but we had almost as many movies and new releases online at our house as the big videostore i regularly rented at (before I moved to this place of course). Interestingly enough, (or unforutnatly enough) I figured out they were also responsible for quite a high volume of spam once my isp starting informing me that my Ip was regularly being blacklisted by spamcop and then relisted. Go figure.
Hey, just as an Aside. I bought a refurbished HP computer yesterday (Overnight delivery from HP) and when I turned it on, I found an empty folder on the harddrive called "Ipod", interesting no? -dennison
OR -www.Retrobox.com- They have deals that are even sweeter.
WEll, I still dont know if 10megapixels is really enough to equal the quality of any good 35mm analog film. Some films when shot well are incredible in their qualities.
Well, more than just questions of how soon Digital will overtake film in terms of quality, what about storage medium? While digital has the incredible ability to be archived easilly and in mass quantities, I'm still not convinced of the formats stability. Who's to say that in a hundred years I won't wake up an old man to find my old Digital photo collection on CD, only to find that we haven't been using CD's for some nintey odd years? What if we don't even COMPUTE in that format anymore? I think film has already proved it's staying power, and with the vast quanitites of photographic material still around (Microfilm for example) i suspect it will remain around for a good long while, as unlike digital, the MEDIUM is also important to the photograph. Not so with digital. With photography, even the emulsion has historical aspects to it. That won't be gone anytime soon.
Maybe it's a step in the 'right' direction. (If world machine domaination and bloodshed is the goal) But I don't know if Machine soldiers are all that good of an idea. First, even tanks- as tough as they are, are preety easy to destroy. Just get a clean shot. Same thing with Blackhawk hellicopters. I wonder if it would be possible to actually 'mass-produce' something like this.
Well, I remeber a lawsuit against them a few years back when I had one of their computers with a built in defective disk-controller chip (or something like that, I don't remeber the details) anyway I took mine into service as it there was a problem and the service reps at ComputerCity (remeber that place?) Didn't know how to fix it, and gave me a run around for three or four months without giving me the computer back. Needless to say after some wrangling I got a new model sent direct, but that one still didn't work right. The only Toshiba that really worked well was my 386sx model with the black and red screen. Oh, wolfenstien 3d in Red and black. Makes my eyes bleed just thinking about it.
Point: They seem no more reliable than any other name brand. Especially their new tablet PC version which is flimsy as all get-out.
Wrong again. I said every professional studio OWNS a good minidisc recorder. I didn't say they used it for mastering their important stuff. I recognize there is stuff specifically made for that. I was debating Minidisc versus MP3, and I stand by my comment that I bet nearly every professional studio has a good minidisc recorder around as part of their equipment setup, not Mp3. Having worked in the film industry for example, I'll tell you a hell of alot of stuff is kept on minidisc. Mind you, it's not nessesarilly the final master of anything, but just as film guys work with Film and ProDV at the SAME TIME so that they can make a preliminary cut of the movie onsite in the trailers, there's a demo soundrack on MiniDisc. Plenty of studios I've seen use Minidisc Multitrackers as well.
Dude, your totally off base with that one. Maybe their format is lossy, but they do a damn good job throwing out the data you never hear or notice is gone. No respectable professional records stuff to mp3 but I bet you EVERY SINGLE professional studio, music producer, radio station, journalist, TV station, etc... owns a good minidisc recorder. MP3 compression at only super high-bitrates compares to Minidisc in quality. Sorry buddy, you can't beat minidisc for portable recording. Thats why you can buy professional multitrack recording systems that record to Minidisc and not to your shitty mp3. And whats your deal with proprietry formats? Mp3 isn't an open format you dolt. It's liscensed to Mp3 player makers like everyone else. Get an education and go buy minidisc.
Obviously you haven't spent much time in Europe and other parts of the world where MiniDisc is still very popular. In Europe you can actually go into a store and buy your favorite artist already on Minidisc as well as CD. Not only that, but over the years Sony has put out some incredibly sexy designs for their minidisc players that catches the Ipod with it's pants down. True, they are't just as versitile(sp?) yet, but sony is working in it. In Japan they have minidisc camcorders and minidisc laptop drives. Sony obviously sees alot of potential in the format. Besides, the new machines are backwards compatible with the pletora of cheap media already out there, and already you can fit five CD's onto one media disc, which while isn't 10,000 CD's is still pretty decent for most people. Beyond that, a NetMD minidisc player/recorder can be had for $100. Personally, that's alot better in terms of flexibility and coolness than the Ipod. Beyond that, Minidisc is a format used by many companies, not just one. Sharp Panasonic and others come out with some incredible designs. Try 1-bit Digital amplifiers for recording, or 165 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Yeah, you read that one right. So if anything would be an Ipod killer, Minidisc would be. (Although Ipod is probably more like the minidisc killer, with minidisc mustering re-enforcements). Want to slobber over some? check out: http://www.minidisco.com to get one direct from Asia.
-dennison
-dennison
No, maybe photoshop doesn't scan every image for banknotes. Why has no one mentioned the possibility that banknote detection might be built into the OS? Has anyone tried graphics programs in older OS's? It would seem like to me it would be easyier to put a detection routine into the OS so that any developer could easilly call it in their program. Otherwise, think of how different and varied the detection effectiveness could be across software programs if each company designed it's own. I bet its built into the OS.
-dennison
YEah, I think this kinda hits home with the basic point. Stuff like Digital Music editing and Video Sampler/scratchers and iGarageband and so-on are great. Really great. Innovative, amazing, inredible and great.
But as systems get more sophisticated they are probably removing more from any one genre then they are adding, what happens when the signal to noise ratio gets so bad that theres more 'art' than could ever be appreciated? Sure it's cool if everyone can make music with their computers or be artists and everything, but when it only costs $49 and Steve Jobs can sit up on stage and compose a pretty decent sounding song in under two minutes; something I think, has been lost.
are you kidding me? The sci-fi channel butchered DUNE. That was the most horrible production of DUNE EVER! (Okay so there aren't many, but still bad). Maybe the old was was corny also, but it was better for the times it was made in than this one. It was whore-a-ble.
While I'm happy and all that he was captured, I agree that it's more of a diversion from the war on terror than anything else. There are lots of dictators in the world; some actually seem to have nuclear weapons (North Korea).
In this case, it's great that he's captured, but I am more worried about what happens next for Iraq. To Quote Edmond Burke from his opinion of the French Revolution:
" I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France, until I was informed how it had been combined with government; with public force; with the discipline and obedience of armies; with the collection of an effective and well-distributed revenue; with morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints."
Oh, and avoid computer games. I have a rule about playing counterstrike- only at the internet cafe. Never at my house. Either that, or install the games on girlfriends computers. Keep yours drug free.
Hey man- I feel you're pain. I'm a university student who had, and in many ways still have the same problem. Personally, I feel it's from just the nature of society today. There's too much f-ing stuff always around us. It's hard to get any direction. Don't let people make you think you have a problem, that it can be solved by medicine or that you have ADD or whatever. What you need is discipline. That's the stuff we don't get enough of these days, really. What you have to do is really just take some time in your life to not just acomplish something, but to really get away from everything so that you can put it into prespective. Me personally? I did alot of volunteering, often in far away, hard-on-the-body type of places. You should try volunteering in a refugee camp in yugoslavia or diggin wells in africa for a summer. I know people will think it's crazy, but before you can get discipline, you really need prespective to understand where you stand in the world and in you're life. hey, it certianlly won't hurt. Other than that, try you're local soup kitchen, or try habitat for humanity. I bet you'll find building houses every weekend really centering. I know maybe it sounds crazy, but lots of people have these sorts of problems these days. It's bascially the penalty for living in such a succesfull opulent society.