I'd mod you up if I had points. I'm almost 40 and use LJ for everything from keeping up with family to seeing who wants to go out for sushi after work. It's a place where my old friends can check up to see what I've been doing and check it again later if they forget. It serves some functions much better than email or phone.
We don't need to make prints anymore as there is this thing called the web. Now photos can be put on webpages and emails sent out to direct friends and family to them before the vacation is even over. The only thing I need prints for is my grandparents who don't own computers.
Most big games come out for the Mac, but if I want them 6 months earlier, with expansions, or to play that odd small time game that will never ever be ported, I need to play it on a Windows platform. Currently, I have multiple computers for that reason and would really like to just have one Mac.
But I can't count the number of times I've cursed that goddamned bomb symbol popping up on the Mac OS.
Of which, probably 99% of them were caused by extension conflicts that could have been solved permananetly with a few minutes work. In some cases, it might have required saving various extension set ups and rebooting to use different programs but in most cases it was caused by something you didn't need or used so infrequently that a reboot wouldn't impact your work. I did tech support back in those days and even the PC lovers I worked with prayed for a Mac problem because they knew it could be solved in just a few minutes opposed to the hours long task of dealing with a PC problem. The Mac OS back then wasn't perfect, but it was damn easy to troubleshoot and fix.
-Rebuild Desktop
-Trash Prefs
-Run with minimal extensions
-Reinstall the program
-Reinstall the OS
All that could be done in under half an hour and if it didn't work, you were almost garanteed to have a hardware problem.
iPhoto with RAW support is a pro-level tool. A much needed pro-level tool. When you come back from a photoshoot with several gigs of photos and dump them to your comptuer, you need something to sort through and pic out the ones worth saving. That means sorting through hundreds of photos to pick out a dozen, then you take that dozen into photoshop to edit them and use complex tools to see which one you really want. If Aprerature does any editing, it needs to be "dumbed down" and things that can preferably be done with a single mouseclick. If it takes more than a second or two to do that editing, then it needs to be done in photoshop or you've taken an hour long project of sorting though your photos and turned it into a five hour long project.
To look at before I buy, but usually, it's instant gratification. When I want something, I want it NOW! I don't want to place an order and wait a few days to weeks to get it. I want to drive down to the store and bring home my prize ASAP.
Other than that, it's usualy a place to hang out, hear the owner talk about the latest news and products, and if you're lucky actually play some games.
If they hadn't gotten a $150 million cash infusion from Microsoft in 1997? That kept the company afloat when it was about to go down for the third time.
I have points and would mod you Flamebait, but assuming that you actually don't know what you're talking about: at the of MS's buying of non-voting stock, Apple still had about $5 billion of cash reserves. $150 million was nothing even at Apple's worst and never "kept the company afloat". If it did anything, it was tell investers that MS had no intentions of attacking Apple and give them confidence in buying Apple stock, but as far as the money goes, it was a token amount.
The boardgame Civilization has been around for a very long time. It was the inspiration for the compter game, but it is a similar but significantly different game. You don't have hexes or regular areas but rather regions like you would see on a Risk board. Each turn, your chits (little cardboard counters) which represent people, double. They can then move and if you can get enough into the same region they can form a city. Move them into a different region with other players chits and they fight through attrition till only one player's units are there. Then you get resource cards for every city you have. the more cities, the higher level or resources. You collect and trade these resource cards to buy tech. First person to reach a suitable tech level wins.
A computer game that was much similar to the boardgame did come out at one point with called Advanced Civilization IIRC.
"The only thing a PDA has on a laptop is size,..."
I'd say they also have the advantage of being instant on devices. If I'm walking and run into somebody on the street, or sitting at a busstop for just a minute, I can open my PDA and quickly write down a phone number or a few thoughts and then turn it off in less time than it takes to boot my laptop. Laptops are great compuers but they make poor PDAs. In a PDA, I want something that assists me with my personal data as fast as possible.
Apple has yet to grab "the middle class" market. Thats the price range from $1000-1500.00, what most consumers in that area expect to pay for a new Laptop. I'm very disappointed that Apple is still charging $2000-2400 for G4 powerbooks that are now a generation behind their desktops and priced more than a comparable Wintel notebook. At this price point looks like we'll be buying some more Mac Mini's and lugging the monitors arround, fun stuff.
Check the Apple website and you'll find something called an iBook. It's a consumer laptop priced in that area.
There is a lot of tech goes into figuring out how to make fire. Most art cars try to have a flame thrower or four. Take these kerosene projectors for example. Consider that they are surrounding the man shooting flame about 300' into the air and I can only get a clear shot because it is so hot that the crowd in front of me had ducked down to escape the heat. http://www.brchardware.org/photos/BM2001/images/P9 010005.jpg
Many othe things include two story tall teeter-totters that not only go up and down but also spin 360 degrees, art structures that are meant to be have people climb over them all week that include sound, lighting, fire and moving parts that all must be powered somehow out in the middle of the desert by the artist. I suppose that it would be more engineering than R&D technology, but you should get the idea.
I realize the new items offer a lot of new functionality over the ones their replacing, but what's with the sudden willingness to spend hundreds of dollars on items like these?
Well, for digital cameras, it was not having to develop film any more. I spend $300 once to shoot as many photos as I want instead of $50 plus another $10 for every 36 photos in film and developing costs. I shot a lot of film before digital. Hundreds of dollars a year in fim and developing. Not even figuring in the increase in photos that I started taking with my digital, my $500 point and shoot digital camera (this was a few years ago) paid for itself in the first year. The same goes when I replaced my SLR. It may have cost five times what a new film SLR would have, but I can make that up in extra photos taken in just a few shoots because there's no extra cost of film and developing.
Why are they switching to Linux instead of, say, Windows or Mac OSX?
My guess would be that Linux networking is the best. For something like this render farm, I would suspect that much of the efficiency is tied up in how well the computers talk to eachother and Linux probably does it best. I'm a Mac fan but word that comes back from friends that test such things is that OS X networking can't be pushed as far as Linux's can be.
Have you seen the new WotC ads? It has a some guy sitting infront of a comptuer lit only by light from the monitor and says "If you're going to sit around and pretend to be an elf all night long, you might as well do it with friends."
Yes, I want to use a Mac. Many of my customers (I'm IT support for a bunch of doctors) want to use Macs and do. However, for their professions, there are certain programs that only run in Windows and they have to use Windows. Many have two machines, their Mac and their Windows box. Others who don't have the desktop space or gave up trying to bother hae switched to PCs. If the Mac could run windows programs also, then our department would allow them to buy new Macs and many of the PCs would be replaced with them.
As for Virtual PC, I've bought it and am having all sorts of trouble getting it to work with any of the programs I'm trying to run.
PCs have and always will be about the "killer app". If Apple or MS manage to make it so that Windows can run in spearate memory space like classic in OS X right now, then I can see many people getting Apple hardware because they want Mac OS X but are required to use certain Windows apps. You can buy cheaper Windows hardware, but for professional useage, people rarely do because they want power and reliablity backed by a name brand warranty. As is usually demonstrated an equally built Apple and Dell are close enough in price that its not going to matter to a professional buyer.
IIRC, Copyright mark is the date of first publication, otherwise it would be listed as "unpublished work Copr. 1946". If first publication is on 2005, then the copyright is then and lasts for another 90 years from that date or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Since the 120 years would be shorter, although the copyright is 2005, the end of the copyright happens 120 years from creation, 2066.
"Works Originally Created before January 1, 1978, But Not Published or Registered by That Date
These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047."
So, the story is copyrighted automatically on creation, and it is considered copyrighted for at least 70 years after the death of the author. I imagine the sn inherited all the father's copyright as part of this estate.
Actually, i would expect a $6-10 recycle fee at purchase, would put it on the reseller instead of the consumer. one would assume that such costs go to the consumer but usually, resellers have certain price points they stick things at. Nothing is ever $2005, it's usually $1999. The wholeseller may add in the $6-10 to their price raising the price the reseller pays to get the product, but rather than just raise the consumer price the same amount, they'll probably suck up the cost out of their profit to keep that same sell point.
The medical market, much like the rest of the computer market is switching over to LCD over CRT. They're just now making high-res LCD. Our hospital has given up on buying any more CRTs for over a year now. Even GE has dropped CRT support for their radiology systems. Check out some of the systems like Dome which has hi-res, hi-contrast LCD monitors that require special software and video cards and run over $10k each.
CRTs are larger, heavier, and take more power and desktop space. We see no reason to keep any around and would replace them all if we could afford it, and the doctors are pushing us to do so.
The problem the original poster has is that his specialty software does not support LCDs. At the cost of support for medical software in general, I'm sure that either the company will come up with a software or hardware solution and support LCD monitors as soon as they start losing business.
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...and this differs from any other slashdot article how?
In other words...playing games.
I'm waiting for an iPod that can beat mix.
Wake me when their chips manage to hit 3 gigahertz.
I'd mod you up if I had points. I'm almost 40 and use LJ for everything from keeping up with family to seeing who wants to go out for sushi after work. It's a place where my old friends can check up to see what I've been doing and check it again later if they forget. It serves some functions much better than email or phone.
We don't need to make prints anymore as there is this thing called the web. Now photos can be put on webpages and emails sent out to direct friends and family to them before the vacation is even over. The only thing I need prints for is my grandparents who don't own computers.
Games.
Most big games come out for the Mac, but if I want them 6 months earlier, with expansions, or to play that odd small time game that will never ever be ported, I need to play it on a Windows platform. Currently, I have multiple computers for that reason and would really like to just have one Mac.
Of which, probably 99% of them were caused by extension conflicts that could have been solved permananetly with a few minutes work. In some cases, it might have required saving various extension set ups and rebooting to use different programs but in most cases it was caused by something you didn't need or used so infrequently that a reboot wouldn't impact your work. I did tech support back in those days and even the PC lovers I worked with prayed for a Mac problem because they knew it could be solved in just a few minutes opposed to the hours long task of dealing with a PC problem. The Mac OS back then wasn't perfect, but it was damn easy to troubleshoot and fix.
-Rebuild Desktop
-Trash Prefs
-Run with minimal extensions
-Reinstall the program
-Reinstall the OS
All that could be done in under half an hour and if it didn't work, you were almost garanteed to have a hardware problem.
iPhoto with RAW support is a pro-level tool. A much needed pro-level tool. When you come back from a photoshoot with several gigs of photos and dump them to your comptuer, you need something to sort through and pic out the ones worth saving. That means sorting through hundreds of photos to pick out a dozen, then you take that dozen into photoshop to edit them and use complex tools to see which one you really want. If Aprerature does any editing, it needs to be "dumbed down" and things that can preferably be done with a single mouseclick. If it takes more than a second or two to do that editing, then it needs to be done in photoshop or you've taken an hour long project of sorting though your photos and turned it into a five hour long project.
To look at before I buy, but usually, it's instant gratification. When I want something, I want it NOW! I don't want to place an order and wait a few days to weeks to get it. I want to drive down to the store and bring home my prize ASAP. Other than that, it's usualy a place to hang out, hear the owner talk about the latest news and products, and if you're lucky actually play some games.
If they hadn't gotten a $150 million cash infusion from Microsoft in 1997? That kept the company afloat when it was about to go down for the third time.
I have points and would mod you Flamebait, but assuming that you actually don't know what you're talking about: at the of MS's buying of non-voting stock, Apple still had about $5 billion of cash reserves. $150 million was nothing even at Apple's worst and never "kept the company afloat". If it did anything, it was tell investers that MS had no intentions of attacking Apple and give them confidence in buying Apple stock, but as far as the money goes, it was a token amount.
that boardgame is based ont eh comptuer game but it is not the original Civilaization.
Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/71
Advanced Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/177
Sid Meir's Civilization _ the board game
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3633
The boardgame Civilization has been around for a very long time. It was the inspiration for the compter game, but it is a similar but significantly different game. You don't have hexes or regular areas but rather regions like you would see on a Risk board. Each turn, your chits (little cardboard counters) which represent people, double. They can then move and if you can get enough into the same region they can form a city. Move them into a different region with other players chits and they fight through attrition till only one player's units are there. Then you get resource cards for every city you have. the more cities, the higher level or resources. You collect and trade these resource cards to buy tech. First person to reach a suitable tech level wins.
A computer game that was much similar to the boardgame did come out at one point with called Advanced Civilization IIRC.
"The only thing a PDA has on a laptop is size,..."
I'd say they also have the advantage of being instant on devices. If I'm walking and run into somebody on the street, or sitting at a busstop for just a minute, I can open my PDA and quickly write down a phone number or a few thoughts and then turn it off in less time than it takes to boot my laptop. Laptops are great compuers but they make poor PDAs. In a PDA, I want something that assists me with my personal data as fast as possible.
Apple has yet to grab "the middle class" market. Thats the price range from $1000-1500.00, what most consumers in that area expect to pay for a new Laptop. I'm very disappointed that Apple is still charging $2000-2400 for G4 powerbooks that are now a generation behind their desktops and priced more than a comparable Wintel notebook. At this price point looks like we'll be buying some more Mac Mini's and lugging the monitors arround, fun stuff.
Check the Apple website and you'll find something called an iBook. It's a consumer laptop priced in that area.
Flame Pendulum - It stand abot 20' high and is swung by the jets coming out of it. Quite impressive once it gets going.g es/IMG_6309.jpg
http://www.voltagemagazine.com/galleries/BM05/ima
Some of the art cars made by the Houston art car guys are monstrosities of hydraulics, automotives and burning propane.g es/IMG_6703.jpg
http://www.voltagemagazine.com/galleries/BM05/ima
This art car is actually a pipe organ that blows flame out of the tubes as they are played. he dries it to where it needs to be, then the organ sits upright and the fire burns.8 280100.jpg
http://www.brchardware.org/photos/BM2001/images/P
There used to be alot more mechaincal mayhem with robots that were used to destroy art structures and eachother.8 310026.jpg
http://www.brchardware.org/photos/BM2001/images/P
There is a lot of tech goes into figuring out how to make fire. Most art cars try to have a flame thrower or four. Take these kerosene projectors for example. Consider that they are surrounding the man shooting flame about 300' into the air and I can only get a clear shot because it is so hot that the crowd in front of me had ducked down to escape the heat.9 010005.jpg
http://www.brchardware.org/photos/BM2001/images/P
Many othe things include two story tall teeter-totters that not only go up and down but also spin 360 degrees, art structures that are meant to be have people climb over them all week that include sound, lighting, fire and moving parts that all must be powered somehow out in the middle of the desert by the artist. I suppose that it would be more engineering than R&D technology, but you should get the idea.
I realize the new items offer a lot of new functionality over the ones their replacing, but what's with the sudden willingness to spend hundreds of dollars on items like these?
Well, for digital cameras, it was not having to develop film any more. I spend $300 once to shoot as many photos as I want instead of $50 plus another $10 for every 36 photos in film and developing costs. I shot a lot of film before digital. Hundreds of dollars a year in fim and developing. Not even figuring in the increase in photos that I started taking with my digital, my $500 point and shoot digital camera (this was a few years ago) paid for itself in the first year. The same goes when I replaced my SLR. It may have cost five times what a new film SLR would have, but I can make that up in extra photos taken in just a few shoots because there's no extra cost of film and developing.
Why are they switching to Linux instead of, say, Windows or Mac OSX? My guess would be that Linux networking is the best. For something like this render farm, I would suspect that much of the efficiency is tied up in how well the computers talk to eachother and Linux probably does it best. I'm a Mac fan but word that comes back from friends that test such things is that OS X networking can't be pushed as far as Linux's can be.
Have you seen the new WotC ads? It has a some guy sitting infront of a comptuer lit only by light from the monitor and says "If you're going to sit around and pretend to be an elf all night long, you might as well do it with friends."
As for Virtual PC, I've bought it and am having all sorts of trouble getting it to work with any of the programs I'm trying to run.
PCs have and always will be about the "killer app". If Apple or MS manage to make it so that Windows can run in spearate memory space like classic in OS X right now, then I can see many people getting Apple hardware because they want Mac OS X but are required to use certain Windows apps. You can buy cheaper Windows hardware, but for professional useage, people rarely do because they want power and reliablity backed by a name brand warranty. As is usually demonstrated an equally built Apple and Dell are close enough in price that its not going to matter to a professional buyer.
IIRC, Copyright mark is the date of first publication, otherwise it would be listed as "unpublished work Copr. 1946". If first publication is on 2005, then the copyright is then and lasts for another 90 years from that date or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Since the 120 years would be shorter, although the copyright is 2005, the end of the copyright happens 120 years from creation, 2066.
"Works Originally Created before January 1, 1978, But Not Published or Registered by That Date These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047."
So, the story is copyrighted automatically on creation, and it is considered copyrighted for at least 70 years after the death of the author. I imagine the sn inherited all the father's copyright as part of this estate.
Because your brand new $400 video card is much better than your 3 year old $400 game console that won't be upgraded for another two years.
Actually, i would expect a $6-10 recycle fee at purchase, would put it on the reseller instead of the consumer. one would assume that such costs go to the consumer but usually, resellers have certain price points they stick things at. Nothing is ever $2005, it's usually $1999. The wholeseller may add in the $6-10 to their price raising the price the reseller pays to get the product, but rather than just raise the consumer price the same amount, they'll probably suck up the cost out of their profit to keep that same sell point.
The medical market, much like the rest of the computer market is switching over to LCD over CRT. They're just now making high-res LCD. Our hospital has given up on buying any more CRTs for over a year now. Even GE has dropped CRT support for their radiology systems. Check out some of the systems like Dome which has hi-res, hi-contrast LCD monitors that require special software and video cards and run over $10k each.
CRTs are larger, heavier, and take more power and desktop space. We see no reason to keep any around and would replace them all if we could afford it, and the doctors are pushing us to do so.
The problem the original poster has is that his specialty software does not support LCDs. At the cost of support for medical software in general, I'm sure that either the company will come up with a software or hardware solution and support LCD monitors as soon as they start losing business.