has a giganictus library of MP3s that they have assembled from their own CDs, their friend's CD's and P2P.
while some of these are songs they have "purchased" from ITMS, most of them are NOT.
So right now everyone I know is NOT paying ANY monthly fees AND they have a large library of music to choose from, what incentive do they have to subscribe to Napster?
Oh, they don't have use that awful iPod anymore! There's a good reason.
I'm sure this will just get lost, but I'll post it anyways.
I'm in a lucky spot where just about everyone I deal with uses Macs, so my support issues are not that henious.
But one spot EVERYONE is really really bad at is BACKING UP THEIR FILES.
For family (and a few friends) I've gotten into the habit of plugging an external FW drive into their Mac and just dragging over their user folder.
But I've only done this for people I know that trust me to do this. They seem grateful that I've backed up their stuff and don't seem concerned that I "could" go snooping around in their files. But what about people who DON'T know me? Is there any protocol to use for doing backups like this? Maybe just make disc images instead of dragging user files?
Its difficult for people to comprehend that a film can be shot and then matted down for "widescreen" use.
"Back in the day..." I had seen Eraserhead more than a few times and I remember the day I saw it WITHOUT the matting in place in the projector (I think it was the Music Box theater in Chicago...)
Now that the film was being projected without the matting in place I could see all sorts of stuff at the Top and Bottom of the frame that was normally "hidden".
Stuff like LIGHTS, CABLES, it was really rather bizarre.
"It took three weeks and $3,000 to fix the computer. "
yeah, and if she'd had a Mac it would have cost even MORE to fix! Because Macs are more expensive you know. So it costs even MORE to fix them! And they have to get a "special" guy who know Macs to fix them. And it could take weeks! And she might have to end up buying a new computer! Which could cost....uh...$499....
well, driving around my neighborhood, I found ONE SSID that was actually labeled with the street address (number and street). No WEP. Very handy for helping me find just where to park to get the bestest signal.
That is the only SSID as Street Address I've seen, I wish more people would do it, it would be very helpful (to me).
That's nice. Would you mind telling me why you are so certain?
I work in Broadcast TV and Film and I've been an Intern there before.
...The learning curve in the incident quoted had nothing to do with TV and everything to do with poor instructions.
You obviously don't work in Broadcast TV or the Film Industry.
It is considered a privilege to even be allowed to work as an unpaid intern and your job description is basically:
1: Help Put Out Fires
2: Read Minds
Things change so fast that a list of instructions and tasks can become outdated in 15 minutes. You have to learn how to listen and take instructions "in context" with everything else that is going on around you. The faster you learn how to "read the mind" of whoever your boss is, the more job security you have.
It's not really that hard or unfair as it sounds and when you get a good team together, they can accomplish quite a bit in a very short period of time with minimal communication
The world of TV is not as controllable as a Factory Floor or Production Line.
His story about using himself as a moving blanket is actually a pretty common one. Not that exact same story, but I've seen PA's and Interns do all sorts of stupid stuff over the years to make sure that something got safely to its destination on time.
...These are not things you tell about yourself unless you have alternate career plans are trying to set someone else on fire.
No, these are just common stories that everyone who has actually worked in "the Biz" can tell. They are actually rather tame and I'm sure he's got a few whoppers he wouldn't talk about publicly (I know I've got a few....)
I think you mis-read that
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she never called him a "stupid intern".
I'm fairly certain the comment was a self-deprecating one, and he was appreciative that she put up with him as he dealt with the huge learning curve that is Broadcast TV.
they won't turn off their phones, or change habits
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a year ago, DATELINE did some sort of "investigative reporting" on Teen Driving and they PUT CAMERAS in cars.
Teens KNEW the cameras were there and also recording their voices and they STILL would do really stupid stuff, speeding, turning around and talking to passengers while driving, and just basically driving recklessly. No surprises.
They are just so absorbed in "their" worlds that nothing else matters.
and the first thing I thought of when hearing the narration in the trailer was Bela Lugosi's long-winded narrative at the beginning of "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
"All these people.. rushing somewhere...where are they going?"
(not a direct quote, but it was something like that and went on and on and on....supposedly setting the stage for something really ominous to happen, but of course it turned out to be....PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!)
you press a button and it goes into a terrible, but useable "automatic" transmission mode, or tap the shifter up to upshift and down to downshift "manually".
the response is not as quick as a "real" manual transmission though.
What? If you want the car, buy some shares of ZAP! ?
What kind of nonsense is that? You must work for ZAP! So just how MANY shares of ZAP! stock should I buy to get to the top of the waiting list to get a SMART ForTwo?
ZAP! exists not to sell cars, but to pump up their stock price. These cars are imported by a Registered Importer and converted to US Standards for resale to US Citizens.
Overseeing the import and conversion is a company named "Smart-Automobiles LLC" which has NO CONNECTION to Mercedes Benz / DaimlerChrysler. They have to buy these things RETAIL in Europe, bring them over to the US, convert them, then ZAP! sells "dealerships" and "franchises" across the country and then the "dealer" takes his cut. No wonder the price is so high.
You cannot buy a Smart ForTwo from ZAP!, you can only buy a dealership.
Despite their advertising claims, ZAP! does NO CONVERSIONS, they are nothing but a bunch of marketing droids in an office trying to get people to think they are a "real" company that actually produces some sort of product.
Here is a conversation on FARK where a few people (including a former employee apparently) pull back the curtain on ZAP!
Here is one quote from the conversation:
The SMART car may be a good idea, but don't buy it from ZAP. They exist for the sole purpose of pumping up their stock price so a few big investors can dump them before any serious shareholders know what happened.
MB / DaimlerChrysler plans to introduce the SMART BRAND to the US with a 2006 model that is a small SUV,built in Brazil called the ForMore, from that point they may introduce a re-designed version of the ForTwo for the US / World market.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the "real" SMART Brand comes to the US and whether all these ZAP! dealers get hit with a restraining order to cease advertising or dealing a Brand they do not have the rights to.
They're more than so bad they're good. They're so bad they're past good and enter the territory of the head-scratchingly bizarre.
I agree.
The "best" films I have ever seen are the ones that are truely the most bizarre.
I went to film school (many years ago) and most of us there had grown up making Super8 films. One of the other students had a film he showed that he made in High School.
It was about a boy that falls in love with his best friend, when his best friend rejects him, he gets a Sex change operation and comes back and tries again, he gets rejected again and he throws himself off a bridge! Oh the Humanity!
This is a High School student making this around the late 1970's!
In College Film School he used to make these films about Business Men with Tortured Souls. At school, he always wore a suit jacket and tie to class too. He had a very "efficient" way of filming, he had a pair of "clamp lights" and he would put one to the Right of the Camera and one to the Left of the Camera. Like a Copy Stand! That's how he filmed EVERYTHING! Even when the camera was moving, he had the lights moving!
Once,He accidently re-used a roll of 16mm film and shot over footage he had already shot,double-exposing it. Deadline looming, he chooses NOT to reshoot, but USES the footage! And it was Brilliant! But, of course, very Bizarre. And, of course it was another film about a Businessman with a Tortured Soul.
I have no clue where he is now, but I think I heard that after college he was working as a Weatherman at a TV station.
my only 'puter is a 12" G3 iBook 700 and I use it for all the things your mentioned plus:
video editing with iMovie
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
GoLive
I usually have 3 browsers open plus iTunes going, plus several other things going on.
all on 640mb of RAM and OS 10.2.8, once I move to Panther (10.3) I expect a bit more performance.
so basically, anything you buy will be better than what I have and what I have is fine for what you want.
I don't need video either, but if you hang around people that watch videos over and over and over again like "my" generation does with music, you can't discount that there is a market for these people.
These are the people that have DVD players in their cars for the kids and the kids are watching a movie while they are driving 15 minutes to go out to Dinner!
One of my clients asked my opinion of some Video Walkman type unit recently, after he got an iPod, he was very intrigued with the idea of being able to transfer a DVD or other program/movie to a small device.
I told him I didn't think the technology was "ready" yet for an EZ way to do this. But he was chomping at the bit to find something that would do this for him.
I can't imagine what he planned to do with this, but he appeared to see some practical use from it. Just because *I* don't want a Video iPod doesn't mean there is not a demand for one. I don't want an iPod Mini, but that didn't stop everyone else from wanting it.
How many people are accustomed to watching videos or TV on a 320x240 screen on their computers already?
"We're targeting 13 to 19 year olds, but we've designed hip-e specifically with the 17 year old in mind -- partly because 13 and 14 year olds aspire to be 17 and have similar tastes."
If I was 17 (sigh...) I would certainly not want be caught dead with this thing in my room.
I showed this to my 2 grandkids: ages 9&10 (and yes those are their real names...)
"You aren't going to get us that for Christmas are you?" they said.
Me: "why not"
Them: (eyes roll as they leave the room) 10:"it is so Gay!" 9:"Duh!" 10: "Don't agree with me, I'm gonna kick your ass!" 9: "no I'm gonna kick YOURS!" (much fakey Kung Fu ensues...)
Well, I guess they aren't really the target audience anyways., sorry, Off-topic
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while some of these are songs they have "purchased" from ITMS, most of them are NOT.
So right now everyone I know is NOT paying ANY monthly fees AND they have a large library of music to choose from, what incentive do they have to subscribe to Napster?
Oh, they don't have use that awful iPod anymore! There's a good reason.
*cough*
I'm in a lucky spot where just about everyone I deal with uses Macs, so my support issues are not that henious.
But one spot EVERYONE is really really bad at is BACKING UP THEIR FILES.
For family (and a few friends) I've gotten into the habit of plugging an external FW drive into their Mac and just dragging over their user folder.
But I've only done this for people I know that trust me to do this. They seem grateful that I've backed up their stuff and don't seem concerned that I "could" go snooping around in their files. But what about people who DON'T know me? Is there any protocol to use for doing backups like this? Maybe just make disc images instead of dragging user files?
link or study to back up this claim?
or is it just the vast majority of the people at your desk?
"Back in the day..." I had seen Eraserhead more than a few times and I remember the day I saw it WITHOUT the matting in place in the projector (I think it was the Music Box theater in Chicago...)
Now that the film was being projected without the matting in place I could see all sorts of stuff at the Top and Bottom of the frame that was normally "hidden".
Stuff like LIGHTS, CABLES, it was really rather bizarre.
yeah, and if she'd had a Mac it would have cost even MORE to fix!
Because Macs are more expensive you know. So it costs even MORE to fix them!
And they have to get a "special" guy who know Macs to fix them. And it could take weeks! And she might have to end up buying a new computer! Which could cost....uh...$499....
/end sarcastic rant
here's an update that allows you to use a Serial Mouse with your Etch-A-Sketch!
sorry, OT....I'll take my lumps.
I just read: "...you can't even sign up unless you know somebody else who has it"
however-to be fair, I've seen other postings like the parent on other discussion lists.
Just "Here's some GMail invites" and a list of URLs.
Very handy for helping me find just where to park to get the bestest signal.
That is the only SSID as Street Address I've seen, I wish more people would do it, it would be very helpful (to me).
"Peelcoat" paints of some sort or another have been available to TV and Advertising for many many years.
Maybe this stuff is just more durable?
I work in Broadcast TV and Film and I've been an Intern there before.
You obviously don't work in Broadcast TV or the Film Industry.
It is considered a privilege to even be allowed to work as an unpaid intern and your job description is basically:
1: Help Put Out Fires
2: Read Minds
Things change so fast that a list of instructions and tasks can become outdated in 15 minutes. You have to learn how to listen and take instructions "in context" with everything else that is going on around you.
The faster you learn how to "read the mind" of whoever your boss is, the more job security you have.
It's not really that hard or unfair as it sounds and when you get a good team together, they can accomplish quite a bit in a very short period of time with minimal communication
The world of TV is not as controllable as a Factory Floor or Production Line.
His story about using himself as a moving blanket is actually a pretty common one. Not that exact same story, but I've seen PA's and Interns do all sorts of stupid stuff over the years to make sure that something got safely to its destination on time.
No, these are just common stories that everyone who has actually worked in "the Biz" can tell. They are actually rather tame and I'm sure he's got a few whoppers he wouldn't talk about publicly
(I know I've got a few....)
I'm fairly certain the comment was a self-deprecating one, and he was appreciative that she put up with him as he dealt with the huge learning curve that is Broadcast TV.
"self heated with water and calcium chloride"
says it only takes 40 seconds though.
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Teens KNEW the cameras were there and also recording their voices and they STILL would do really stupid stuff, speeding, turning around and talking to passengers while driving, and just basically driving recklessly. No surprises.
They are just so absorbed in "their" worlds that nothing else matters.
(not a direct quote, but it was something like that and went on and on and on....supposedly setting the stage for something really ominous to happen, but of course it turned out to be....PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!)
are they better in Hollywood/TV-land or Geekdom?
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you press a button and it goes into a terrible, but useable "automatic" transmission mode, or tap the shifter up to upshift and down to downshift "manually".
the response is not as quick as a "real" manual transmission though.
What? If you want the car, buy some shares of ZAP! ?
What kind of nonsense is that? You must work for ZAP!
So just how MANY shares of ZAP! stock should I buy to get to the top of the waiting list to get a SMART ForTwo?
ZAP! exists not to sell cars, but to pump up their stock price.
These cars are imported by a Registered Importer and converted to US Standards for resale to US Citizens. Overseeing the import and conversion is a company named "Smart-Automobiles LLC" which has NO CONNECTION to Mercedes Benz / DaimlerChrysler.
They have to buy these things RETAIL in Europe, bring them over to the US, convert them, then ZAP! sells "dealerships" and "franchises" across the country and then the "dealer" takes his cut. No wonder the price is so high.
ZAP! exists merely to sell franchises and dealerships for a brand they do not own the rights to.
You cannot buy a Smart ForTwo from ZAP!, you can only buy a dealership.
Despite their advertising claims, ZAP! does NO CONVERSIONS, they are nothing but a bunch of marketing droids in an office trying to get people to think they are a "real" company that actually produces some sort of product.
Here is a conversation on FARK where a few people (including a former employee apparently) pull back the curtain on ZAP!
Here is one quote from the conversation:
MB / DaimlerChrysler plans to introduce the SMART BRAND to the US with a 2006 model that is a small SUV,built in Brazil called the ForMore, from that point they may introduce a re-designed version of the ForTwo for the US / World market.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the "real" SMART Brand comes to the US and whether all these ZAP! dealers get hit with a restraining order to cease advertising or dealing a Brand they do not have the rights to.
I agree.
The "best" films I have ever seen are the ones that are truely the most bizarre.
I went to film school (many years ago) and most of us there had grown up making Super8 films.
One of the other students had a film he showed that he made in High School.
It was about a boy that falls in love with his best friend, when his best friend rejects him, he gets a Sex change operation and comes back and tries again, he gets rejected again and he throws himself off a bridge! Oh the Humanity!
This is a High School student making this around the late 1970's!
In College Film School he used to make these films about Business Men with Tortured Souls.
At school, he always wore a suit jacket and tie to class too. He had a very "efficient" way of filming, he had a pair of "clamp lights" and he would put one to the Right of the Camera and one to the Left of the Camera. Like a Copy Stand! That's how he filmed EVERYTHING! Even when the camera was moving, he had the lights moving!
Once,He accidently re-used a roll of 16mm film and shot over footage he had already shot,double-exposing it. Deadline looming, he chooses NOT to reshoot, but USES the footage! And it was Brilliant! But, of course, very Bizarre. And, of course it was another film about a Businessman with a Tortured Soul.
I have no clue where he is now, but I think I heard that after college he was working as a Weatherman at a TV station.
I wish I could remember his name!
video editing with iMovie
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
GoLive
I usually have 3 browsers open plus iTunes going, plus several other things going on.
all on 640mb of RAM and OS 10.2.8, once I move to Panther (10.3) I expect a bit more performance.
so basically, anything you buy will be better than what I have and what I have is fine for what you want.
These are the people that have DVD players in their cars for the kids and the kids are watching a movie while they are driving 15 minutes to go out to Dinner!
One of my clients asked my opinion of some Video Walkman type unit recently, after he got an iPod, he was very intrigued with the idea of being able to transfer a DVD or other program/movie to a small device.
I told him I didn't think the technology was "ready" yet for an EZ way to do this. But he was chomping at the bit to find something that would do this for him.
I can't imagine what he planned to do with this, but he appeared to see some practical use from it. Just because *I* don't want a Video iPod doesn't mean there is not a demand for one. I don't want an iPod Mini, but that didn't stop everyone else from wanting it.
How many people are accustomed to watching videos or TV on a 320x240 screen on their computers already?
I have not yet seen it announced.
Watch out Apple!
(linked image is Safe for Work...)
If I was 17 (sigh...) I would certainly not want be caught dead with this thing in my room.
I showed this to my 2 grandkids: ages 9&10 (and yes those are their real names...)
"You aren't going to get us that for Christmas are you?" they said.
Me: "why not"
Them: (eyes roll as they leave the room)
10:"it is so Gay!"
9:"Duh!"
10: "Don't agree with me, I'm gonna kick your ass!"
9: "no I'm gonna kick YOURS!"
(much fakey Kung Fu ensues...)
Well, I guess they aren't really the target audience anyways., sorry, Off-topic
what? I'm sorry, I dozed off while reading your post.
Do you write the Dr. Bronner's labels too?