Is this when we finally get to use that sheet of three paper coupons that came in the shipping box with all new Macs throught the 1990s? Remember, the ones that indicated the OS we'd bought and which said they'd be used for upgrades, but NEVER WERE?!
Well, they call your Queueing "Party Shuffle": http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html > > Now with Selective Listening > > Of course your party deserves a great soundtrack, and iTunes > helps you jump-start your set list. The new Party Shuffle feature > creates a dynamic playlist, similar to shuffle play, from either your > entire library or a designated playlist. You can review upcoming songs > to reorder or delete on the fly, taking charge like the DJ you always > wanted to be. You or a guest can add songs to the mix at any time. If > you like the random picks, you can always save them in a personal playlist. > And of course, you can use Party Shuffle when listening to music alone, > too. So your playlist is always full, and always full of good tunes. >
And I think your "gapless playback" could have been helped with the preference for the gap between songs (though that nay only apply to burning CDs). In any case, I agree that it's a very important feature for stuff live albums and arty, no-break albums (of which I have a couple).
queequeq1 wrote: One of the primary stated motives for the new rules was to update 50 year old Department of Labor rules that made it very difficult to determine exactly who was and was not eligible for overtime because the rules referred to positions that for the most part don't exist anymore (e.g. straw men and keypunch operators).
What? I see straw men all *over* the Internet, especially in Slashdot discussions. I thought the rise of blogging practically guaranteed lifetime employment for any straw man who wanted it.
Yuo wrote: > > >No parallel or serial port? That means I'd have to throw out all of my hardware and > > buy new stuff. > > What ghetto hardware do you have that needs parallel and serial ports?? > You'd better say $30,000 medical-imaging systems or something, because > unless your hardware is highly specialized (or essential for business but not > produced in a modern version), you're at serious risk of being branded a > silly Luddite. >
All my "ghetto" three-year old Sun servers: those 420Rs and E3500s require a pretty homely chain of adapters to hook up my laptop (a Targus USB-to-serial dongle, than a serial-to-RJ45 adapter, then a patch cable, then an RJ45-to-serial adapter.)
Just 'cause yer standard Wintel laptop dropped the serial port doesn't mean that everything with one suddenly ground to a halt.
That said, I'm already writing up a Purchase Requisition form to get me one o' them 15", 1.5 GHz sweeties!
Mateito replied; > > Italy is "the land that feminism forgot". >
Ha! Very true. Stories I could tell. > > I don't know where you are, but I'm guessing North or Coastal US, Western Europe or Australia. >
Guilty as charged: I'm an American. But we like to think one of the side effects of our cultural hegemony is emancipation.:7)
And you...British, second year of Uni, not a Geordia?
Mateito wrote: > > Most older women _are_ technically incompetant. > > If you had to pseudocode the role of women in that generation, it would be something like: > > do > cook > clean kitchen > breed > repeat until dead > > There is nothing in there about gaining technical competency. Most older women are > not technically competant because its never been a part of their lives. >
What a reductionist thing to say. My mom is in that group, and she taught herself to be a book-keeper on paper, and the reapplied her skills on PCs when the first IBM PCs hit the store shelves in St. Paul, MN.
She uses a digital camera, she has a Mormon-scale computer-based family geneology project that makes my jaw drop, and she even knows my computer rants as soon as I open my mouth.
My mom's friends' kids are scattered across the country, and most of them use email to stay in touch with their moms (and their kids' grandmas!). It has clearly "become part of their lives" and they're *flocking* to technology!
Your posting history has enough things that make me think you're trying too hard to be funny here (and not trolling), but it's just kind of sad that you think so little of that large a class of people. Remember who those fly-by-night Y2K shops were said to be training to fix old COBOL code? Little old fillipino ladies and out of work telemarketers, or so it was reported: don't you think your mom is representative of a group that's a little smarter and more adaptable than that?
For shame! Go send her some flowers: even though you disclaimed such a broad stroke against her, you still smeared her whole generation.
> > Why do people like stuff like Cryptonomicon? I've read a hundred pages or so and I just couldn't take it. >
Because he gets so much of it *right*, and he "wastes" all that on the background. Research that some writers would do for a non-fiction book or article, Stephenson just hoses around his novels for effect, for atmosphere, and for authenticity. It's the sheer profligacy that brings such a stupid grin to my face.
I read _Cryptonomicon_ when it came out, and I liked it...but I wondered at the veracity of all the code-breaking stuff and simply threw up my hands in the face of the details about WWII history.
Fast forward to three years later, and I have recently wrapped up a seventy-page history on my grandfather's WWII service in the Southwest Pacific (viz., Leyte, Palawan, and Morotai) as an intelligence evaluation officer. I went back and re-read _Cryptonomicon_ and I see that prety much every detail of the code-breaking techniques and history that Stephenson uses [as background!] is accurate.
Sure, the broad plot device of the submarine full of gold may be made up (and Qwlghm is fake and the cave must be hokum) -- but given the rate at which FOIA requests are processed and things are declassified from that era, it may yet turn out to be true.:7)
Now, when I know for a fact that Stephenson gets that much right in one book, and then I consider the fictional details he also "got right" (if only consistently, however implausibly) in _Snowcrash_ and _The Diamond Age_, I'll buy anything this guy wrote. The quality of the work he produces should put a burning blush of shame on the cheeks of whoever wrote 95% of the stuff published this year.
And I'm an English major, not some CS dork, so typos and all, I have a sheepskin that says my opinion on books counts extra.
> > I'd much rather wait a week (or more) for a long-form, considered and balanced review >
Well, speaking as a former book store employee and a lifelong book-lover, I agree.
However, the story here (as I submitted it, too!) is that the book is on shelves today. I fully expect original reviews to be posted over the next few days -- but how will folks know to go get the book if we don't tell 'em it's for sale? > > Slashdot has a great thing going with their book reviews.. >
Again, I agree. > >...but if people notice that Slashdot is "scooping" them > by publishing insider accounts, or ignoring their labor in > favour of linking to an outside newspaper, they will eventually > get bored and tired and stop writing. >
Then let's incentivize them! Get reviewer's credentials from the *ahem* Editors here and then pry a review copy out of Harper Collins which the reviewer is traditionally allowed to keep.
(Say, there's an idea for the next Stephenson book in the trilogy...)
> > I thought the tradition for book reviews was for slashdot > contributors to post their own, here. >
There would be more reviews by Slashdottista only if more of us were sufficiently plugged into the publishing world to get galleys or preview copies. The book only hit shelves today!
> > 15-20mins east of Boston? Isn't that....the Atlantic Ocean? >
No, he's actually working the third shift at Kelly's on Revere Beach (if you spend those "15-20 minuters" on the Blue Line) -- but wishing he could get a fat gig at the TJX headquarters out in Natick or Framingham or wherever it sits, overlooking the Mass. Pike.
(I escaped the Boston MetroPlex and now have a job in Providence: neener-neener!)
> > The trees that have been in cold water the longest make some of the best wood in the > world. Apparently, these was/is an effort to get some sunken wood from the bottom of > Lake Superior that went down with logging ships long ago >
I was given a kitchen cutting board made out of a tree recovered from one of the Great Lakes. Having seen a show on TV about this, I was thrilled; my wife wondered why it smelled more of wood when it gets wet than our other cutting boards do.
The thing weighs a lot, too: anybody breaks into my house, I just might go for this instead of a carving knife.
I hear all the kids are getting together in "smart mobs" these days with their "cam phones." I wonder how many more of them would join in the fun if they could use their laptop's wireless card to link up to a central server via this backpack network to post self-congratulatory pictures & articles (which could later be uploaderd to the non-island Internet) (mon) instead of sneaking into a Charbuck's or waiting until they got back to the office/home/parents' basement to blog it?
Just a thought.
(I use quotation marks above not to make fun of techno-hipsters, but because I do not go about in mobs, nor does my phone take pictures, and therefore I have only heard about this.)
> > The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!:) >
There should be a new mod for "-1, not funny any more" or perhaps "-2, stale".
It would be more accurate than using the "troll" or "offtopic" appelations on all those stupid InSovRus or "I for one welcome our new $topic overlords" posts.
(Posts about Ralph Wiggum, however, are always funny.)
I did -- but I've never been good at math. (I'm still getting my shoes back on after making change for a guy after he went to the Coke machine for me at lunch.)
How do you know? _I_ don't even know: I Previewed it half a dozen times, and corrected something every time: coulda been eight, coulda been ten.
I really ought to get back to work, though.
The music from "Midnight Run" is used on about a quarter of the trailers I've ever seen. The music is very catchy, some twangy guitars and harmonica: you wouldn't listen to a whole CD of it at once, but it works great over the kind of bits and pieces that comprise a trailer.
The original film was fantastic. And when my college roommate turned out to own the album, I was delighted.:7)
In fact, I hear the music a lot more now than I ever hear the movie itself mentioned, which is too bad: DeNiro and Charles Grodin, with Dennis Farina as an awseome mobster, and Joe Pantoliano before he started showing up under every Hollywood rock you turned over, plus Yaphet Kotto as Angent Foster Grant.
*sigh*
Man, I love that movie.
This got moderated to a 5? > > If all of you are mature abd straight enough > character wist it may work. I've seen one > or two family business's that have worled, > more that have failed. >
I see that "abd" was probably meant to be "and" -- but what do "wist" and "worled" mean? Is "wist" supposed to be "-wise" and the latter "worked"?
This post is _very_ sensible -- my dad, mom, and brother work together, and I've always been impressed that three mature people can be the entirety of a successful company (especially after watching the head of a restaurant where I worked get cut out of the family business because he was such a coke-head) -- but I have to read between the lines to be sure.
Get yourself the credit that your smart posts deserve and Preview, once or even twice. (And yes, I corrected seven mistakes in this, because I suck.:7)
> > "Not-Cs... I hate those guys." > - Indiana Jones >
Wasn't that actually a scene from the original "Blues Brothers" movie?
Cop: "It the ***** Not-C Party. They got a permit to march."
Joliet Jake: "I *hate* Illinois Not-Cs." *SFX: brakes squeal; crowd noises; then splashes as Illinois Not-Cs leap from bridge...*
I ordered this book thinking that it'd be a beefy tome a la "UNIX Power Tools" but it's a little lighter weight -- both intellectually and literally.
Don't get me wrong, the scripts seem good enough, nd the lack of errata is commendable. But I don't want a loan calculator, weather tracker, or datebook: those seem like _applications_ to me, not scripts for system administration (as the book claims it contains).
Anyway, I'll try some of them out on my iMac and my Solaris systems, but this won't be making that big move out of the bookshelf onto the desk, if you know what I mean.
Hal Flynn, is that you? I saw your past this week on that Security Focus mailing list about heading to the mid-east, so come on out here right now, and bring your Purchase Request form with you!
If you spend $16 to buy a CD, you get a couple of good songs and a bushel of filler -- but the same money at the iTunes Music Store will let you cherry-pick more than enough good tracks to fill your own mixed CD. Or, you can pay Apple for the album, plus maybe a few extra songs.
Burn your Apple tunes to a CD, and you're in business.
What's not to like? Sure, some will scoff that the quality is better on a CD, but I'd much rather get a little noise in tunes I want than crystal-clear reproduction of all the rubbish it took to pad out an EP into an album.
The Massachusetts Non-Resident form is a godawful mess of nested, interlocking schedules, forms, and mini-worksheets.
We, like plenty of other folks, live in Rhode Island, while receiving income from Mass sources (my wife works still there and I used to work in Boston). Every year, TaxCut Deluxe is reduced to sucking on its fingers and quietly crying while I grimly clench my teeth and enter the data for the Mass state forms manually.
On the other hand, good ol' Rhodey just asks you to copy over a few entries from your 1040 onto their one-age form, and then asks for a small percentage of that.
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Is this when we finally get to use that sheet of three paper coupons that came in the shipping box with all new Macs throught the 1990s? Remember, the ones that indicated the OS we'd bought and which said they'd be used for upgrades, but NEVER WERE?!
Well, they call your Queueing "Party Shuffle": http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html
>
> Now with Selective Listening
>
> Of course your party deserves a great soundtrack, and iTunes
> helps you jump-start your set list. The new Party Shuffle feature
> creates a dynamic playlist, similar to shuffle play, from either your
> entire library or a designated playlist. You can review upcoming songs
> to reorder or delete on the fly, taking charge like the DJ you always
> wanted to be. You or a guest can add songs to the mix at any time. If
> you like the random picks, you can always save them in a personal playlist.
> And of course, you can use Party Shuffle when listening to music alone,
> too. So your playlist is always full, and always full of good tunes.
>
And I think your "gapless playback" could have been helped with the preference for the gap between songs (though that nay only apply to burning CDs). In any case, I agree that it's a very important feature for stuff live albums and arty, no-break albums (of which I have a couple).
queequeq1 wrote:
One of the primary stated motives for the new rules was to update 50 year old Department of Labor rules that made it very difficult to determine exactly who was and was not eligible for overtime because the rules referred to positions that for the most part don't exist anymore (e.g. straw men and keypunch operators).
What? I see straw men all *over* the Internet, especially in Slashdot discussions. I thought the rise of blogging practically guaranteed lifetime employment for any straw man who wanted it.
Yuo wrote:
>
> >No parallel or serial port? That means I'd have to throw out all of my hardware and
> > buy new stuff.
>
> What ghetto hardware do you have that needs parallel and serial ports??
> You'd better say $30,000 medical-imaging systems or something, because
> unless your hardware is highly specialized (or essential for business but not
> produced in a modern version), you're at serious risk of being branded a
> silly Luddite.
>
All my "ghetto" three-year old Sun servers: those 420Rs and E3500s require a pretty homely chain of adapters to hook up my laptop (a Targus USB-to-serial dongle, than a serial-to-RJ45 adapter, then a patch cable, then an RJ45-to-serial adapter.)
Just 'cause yer standard Wintel laptop dropped the serial port doesn't mean that everything with one suddenly ground to a halt.
That said, I'm already writing up a Purchase Requisition form to get me one o' them 15", 1.5 GHz sweeties!
Mateito replied; :7)
>
> Italy is "the land that feminism forgot".
>
Ha! Very true. Stories I could tell.
>
> I don't know where you are, but I'm guessing North or Coastal US, Western Europe or Australia.
>
Guilty as charged: I'm an American. But we like to think one of the side effects of our cultural hegemony is emancipation.
And you...British, second year of Uni, not a Geordia?
Mateito wrote:
>
> Most older women _are_ technically incompetant.
>
> If you had to pseudocode the role of women in that generation, it would be something like:
>
> do
> cook
> clean kitchen
> breed
> repeat until dead
>
> There is nothing in there about gaining technical competency. Most older women are
> not technically competant because its never been a part of their lives.
>
What a reductionist thing to say. My mom is in that group, and she taught herself to be a book-keeper on paper, and the reapplied her skills on PCs when the first IBM PCs hit the store shelves in St. Paul, MN.
She uses a digital camera, she has a Mormon-scale computer-based family geneology project that makes my jaw drop, and she even knows my computer rants as soon as I open my mouth.
My mom's friends' kids are scattered across the country, and most of them use email to stay in touch with their moms (and their kids' grandmas!). It has clearly "become part of their lives" and they're *flocking* to technology!
Your posting history has enough things that make me think you're trying too hard to be funny here (and not trolling), but it's just kind of sad that you think so little of that large a class of people. Remember who those fly-by-night Y2K shops were said to be training to fix old COBOL code? Little old fillipino ladies and out of work telemarketers, or so it was reported: don't you think your mom is representative of a group that's a little smarter and more adaptable than that?
For shame! Go send her some flowers: even though you disclaimed such a broad stroke against her, you still smeared her whole generation.
>
> A song, like a book (or book series), is a discrete unit of art.
>
I take it you're not familiar with the works of the 1970s prog-rockers YES?
> :7)
> Why do people like stuff like Cryptonomicon? I've read a hundred pages or so and I just couldn't take it.
>
Because he gets so much of it *right*, and he "wastes" all that on the background. Research that some writers would do for a non-fiction book or article, Stephenson just hoses around his novels for effect, for atmosphere, and for authenticity. It's the sheer profligacy that brings such a stupid grin to my face.
I read _Cryptonomicon_ when it came out, and I liked it...but I wondered at the veracity of all the code-breaking stuff and simply threw up my hands in the face of the details about WWII history.
Fast forward to three years later, and I have recently wrapped up a seventy-page history on my grandfather's WWII service in the Southwest Pacific (viz., Leyte, Palawan, and Morotai) as an intelligence evaluation officer. I went back and re-read _Cryptonomicon_ and I see that prety much every detail of the code-breaking techniques and history that Stephenson uses [as background!] is accurate.
Sure, the broad plot device of the submarine full of gold may be made up (and Qwlghm is fake and the cave must be hokum) -- but given the rate at which FOIA requests are processed and things are declassified from that era, it may yet turn out to be true.
Now, when I know for a fact that Stephenson gets that much right in one book, and then I consider the fictional details he also "got right" (if only consistently, however implausibly) in _Snowcrash_ and _The Diamond Age_, I'll buy anything this guy wrote. The quality of the work he produces should put a burning blush of shame on the cheeks of whoever wrote 95% of the stuff published this year.
And I'm an English major, not some CS dork, so typos and all, I have a sheepskin that says my opinion on books counts extra.
> ...but if people notice that Slashdot is "scooping" them
> I'd much rather wait a week (or more) for a long-form, considered and balanced review
>
Well, speaking as a former book store employee and a lifelong book-lover, I agree.
However, the story here (as I submitted it, too!) is that the book is on shelves today. I fully expect original reviews to be posted over the next few days -- but how will folks know to go get the book if we don't tell 'em it's for sale?
>
> Slashdot has a great thing going with their book reviews..
>
Again, I agree.
>
>
> by publishing insider accounts, or ignoring their labor in
> favour of linking to an outside newspaper, they will eventually
> get bored and tired and stop writing.
>
Then let's incentivize them! Get reviewer's credentials from the *ahem* Editors here and then pry a review copy out of Harper Collins which the reviewer is traditionally allowed to keep.
(Say, there's an idea for the next Stephenson book in the trilogy...)
>
> I thought the tradition for book reviews was for slashdot
> contributors to post their own, here.
>
There would be more reviews by Slashdottista only if more of us were sufficiently plugged into the publishing world to get galleys or preview copies. The book only hit shelves today!
>
> 15-20mins east of Boston? Isn't that....the Atlantic Ocean?
>
No, he's actually working the third shift at Kelly's on Revere Beach (if you spend those "15-20 minuters" on the Blue Line) -- but wishing he could get a fat gig at the TJX headquarters out in Natick or Framingham or wherever it sits, overlooking the Mass. Pike.
(I escaped the Boston MetroPlex and now have a job in Providence: neener-neener!)
>
> The trees that have been in cold water the longest make some of the best wood in the
> world. Apparently, these was/is an effort to get some sunken wood from the bottom of
> Lake Superior that went down with logging ships long ago
>
I was given a kitchen cutting board made out of a tree recovered from one of the Great Lakes. Having seen a show on TV about this, I was thrilled; my wife wondered why it smelled more of wood when it gets wet than our other cutting boards do.
The thing weighs a lot, too: anybody breaks into my house, I just might go for this instead of a carving knife.
I hear all the kids are getting together in "smart mobs" these days with their "cam phones." I wonder how many more of them would join in the fun if they could use their laptop's wireless card to link up to a central server via this backpack network to post self-congratulatory pictures & articles (which could later be uploaderd to the non-island Internet) (mon) instead of sneaking into a Charbuck's or waiting until they got back to the office/home/parents' basement to blog it?
Just a thought.
(I use quotation marks above not to make fun of techno-hipsters, but because I do not go about in mobs, nor does my phone take pictures, and therefore I have only heard about this.)
> :)
> The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!
>
There should be a new mod for "-1, not funny any more" or perhaps "-2, stale".
It would be more accurate than using the "troll" or "offtopic" appelations on all those stupid InSovRus or "I for one welcome our new $topic overlords" posts.
(Posts about Ralph Wiggum, however, are always funny.)
> ...but it looks like it's only accepting Zip numbers...
>
>
It's already down -- it's not accepting *any* numbers!
I did -- but I've never been good at math. (I'm still getting my shoes back on after making change for a guy after he went to the Coke machine for me at lunch.)
How do you know? _I_ don't even know: I Previewed it half a dozen times, and corrected something every time: coulda been eight, coulda been ten.
I really ought to get back to work, though.
The music from "Midnight Run" is used on about a quarter of the trailers I've ever seen. The music is very catchy, some twangy guitars and harmonica: you wouldn't listen to a whole CD of it at once, but it works great over the kind of bits and pieces that comprise a trailer. :7)
The original film was fantastic. And when my college roommate turned out to own the album, I was delighted.
In fact, I hear the music a lot more now than I ever hear the movie itself mentioned, which is too bad: DeNiro and Charles Grodin, with Dennis Farina as an awseome mobster, and Joe Pantoliano before he started showing up under every Hollywood rock you turned over, plus Yaphet Kotto as Angent Foster Grant.
*sigh*
Man, I love that movie.
This got moderated to a 5? :7)
>
> If all of you are mature abd straight enough
> character wist it may work. I've seen one
> or two family business's that have worled,
> more that have failed.
>
I see that "abd" was probably meant to be "and" -- but what do "wist" and "worled" mean? Is "wist" supposed to be "-wise" and the latter "worked"?
This post is _very_ sensible -- my dad, mom, and brother work together, and I've always been impressed that three mature people can be the entirety of a successful company (especially after watching the head of a restaurant where I worked get cut out of the family business because he was such a coke-head) -- but I have to read between the lines to be sure.
Get yourself the credit that your smart posts deserve and Preview, once or even twice. (And yes, I corrected seven mistakes in this, because I suck.
>
> "Not-Cs... I hate those guys."
> - Indiana Jones
>
Wasn't that actually a scene from the original "Blues Brothers" movie?
Cop: "It the ***** Not-C Party. They got a permit to march."
Joliet Jake: "I *hate* Illinois Not-Cs."
*SFX: brakes squeal; crowd noises; then splashes as Illinois Not-Cs leap from bridge...*
>
> So what, they did a dupe?
>
No, they just called a "do-over".
What, you didn't do that when you were a kid?
I ordered this book thinking that it'd be a beefy tome a la "UNIX Power Tools" but it's a little lighter weight -- both intellectually and literally.
Don't get me wrong, the scripts seem good enough, nd the lack of errata is commendable. But I don't want a loan calculator, weather tracker, or datebook: those seem like _applications_ to me, not scripts for system administration (as the book claims it contains).
Anyway, I'll try some of them out on my iMac and my Solaris systems, but this won't be making that big move out of the bookshelf onto the desk, if you know what I mean.
Hal Flynn, is that you? I saw your past this week on that Security Focus mailing list about heading to the mid-east, so come on out here right now, and bring your Purchase Request form with you!
If you spend $16 to buy a CD, you get a couple of good songs and a bushel of filler -- but the same money at the iTunes Music Store will let you cherry-pick more than enough good tracks to fill your own mixed CD. Or, you can pay Apple for the album, plus maybe a few extra songs.
Burn your Apple tunes to a CD, and you're in business.
What's not to like? Sure, some will scoff that the quality is better on a CD, but I'd much rather get a little noise in tunes I want than crystal-clear reproduction of all the rubbish it took to pad out an EP into an album.
The Massachusetts Non-Resident form is a godawful mess of nested, interlocking schedules, forms, and mini-worksheets.
We, like plenty of other folks, live in Rhode Island, while receiving income from Mass sources (my wife works still there and I used to work in Boston). Every year, TaxCut Deluxe is reduced to sucking on its fingers and quietly crying while I grimly clench my teeth and enter the data for the Mass state forms manually.
On the other hand, good ol' Rhodey just asks you to copy over a few entries from your 1040 onto their one-age form, and then asks for a small percentage of that.