Yes, I've heard that some retailers will eventually start offering a software variety CD that has a copy of Perl 6, HURD, and Duke Nukem Forever on it! But, due to a strange contract mishap, each developer group is waiting for the other two to publish their software first, so it's just all waiting from here... But, that's just what I've heard.
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Those of you unfamiliar with Perl history may find it interesting that the "Parrot" started out as an elaborate April Fool's day joke two years ago. Here is the book that was announced. Strangely enough, people found the idea useful and are now actively developing it!
Yeah, the William Shatner interview, on the other hand, reminded me of the conversation between Flynn and the "bit" in TRON:
[A Bit flies around Flynn's head in a Recognizer.] Kevin Flynn: Hey! Hold it right there! Bit: Yes. Kevin Flynn: What do you mean, "yes"? Bit: Yes. Kevin Flynn: Is that all you can say? Bit: No. Kevin Flynn: Know anything else? Bit: Yes. Kevin Flynn: Positive and negative, huh. You're a bit, aren't you? Bit: Yes. Kevin Flynn: Well, where's your program? Isn't he going to miss you? Bit: No. Kevin Flynn: I'M your program? Bit: Yes. Kevin Flynn: I've got a mouth to feed. Bit: Yesyesyesyes!
X-Plane is not quite that good yet, but it's getting closer... I remember when Austin added roads into the sim, and there was much rejoicing. He added cars and even added emergency vehicles. At one point, someone realized that there were too many emergency vehicles on the roads, so he tweaked the car:emergency vehicle ratio to fix it. It's really amazing to think of the amount of detail that goes into these sims!
My girlfriend and I recently took a three week cross-country road trip (pictures here), and visited the following destinations (they aren't entirely geeky, but there are some geeky spots along the way):
Tallahassee, FL -> Madisonville, LA -> Austin, TX -> Elephant Butte, NM (silly name, cool place!) -> Williams, AZ (stopped to see the Very Large Array (VLA) on the way, near Magdalena, NM -> Grand Canyon, AZ -> Las Vegas, NV -> Yosemite National Park, CA -> San Francisco, CA (lotsa fun geeky stuff here) -> Lake Tahoe, CA -> Elko, NV -> Denver, CO -> Oklahoma City, OK -> Tallahassee, FL
I highly recommend this trip, as you get to see a lot of things in a fairly short amount of time. Some tips (in no particular order):
- Buy a national parks pass. See my other post for more information. - In desolate areas, keep spare gas with you. Five gallons should do nicely, unless you have an SUV. - Bring a camera. A digital camera is preferred, and a 128 MB picture card (or more) is highly recommended if you are using a digital camera. - Go camping. All motels, regardless of location, are pretty much exactly the same -- four walls, a bed and a shower. Camping is different wherever you go. - Carry a AAA membership. They can get you out of many hairy situations. - Ride with two or more people. This makes the trip that much more fun, because you can share the experiences for a lifetime. It's also much safer to travel this way. - Many of my other recommendations are here -- they are equally important to having a good trip.
Be sure to purchase a National Parks Pass, which for $50 gets you into every U.S. national park with no other entry fees for one year. Considering that Grand Canyon NP and Yosemite NP have $20 entry fees each, going to three national parks usually pays off when using the card. If you are planning on visiting any more than three major national parks in the next year, definitely buy the card.
Besides purchasing one online, you can also purchase the card at the national park entrance (though this may only be for major national parks).
Cool, thanks for the quote! I have attributed Horace in my sig. I'm an engineering student, so while I did have a little grounding in classics (Plato's Republic immediately comes to mind), I didn't have much of one. C'est la vie...
one group is describing sound, and the other is describing music.
Yes, but there are similarities... When things like "nocturnal beast" are mentioned in the Brew review, it is about as descriptive as the "grey tones" that the audiophile mentioned in the parent post. That's my opinion anyway.
About the quote, I actually didn't know it was attributed to Horace. I don't read much Roman poetry, it seems.:^)
Those quotes remind me of Allmusic.com's review of Miles Davis' 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Here is a highlight:
"A three-note bass vamp centers the entire thing as three different modes entwine one another, seeking a groove to bolt onto. It never finds it, but becomes its own nocturnal beast, offering ethereal dark tones and textures to slide the album out the door on."
Apple gets 34 and label gets 65 according to several articles I've read.
That's where our calculations differ -- I was assuming almost the opposite -- that Apple was getting 60%, while the label got 40%... I guess I remembered the ratio inversely.
But anyway, yes, the whole idea is awesome. I might break out Fast Tracker II from years past and crank out some music again, mainly to have it available on the iTMS.:^)
Given the $40 entry fee, the 91:9 profit ratio with CDBaby, the 40:60 profit ratio with Apple, and assuming that people only download singles for $0.99 each, it would only take 111 downloads of your band's songs to break-even. Not bad!!
Learn to appreciate the feeling of a tiny hunger. Consider it a sign from your belly to your brain saying "hey dude : you're losing weight right now ! Keep up the spirit !".
Totally agreed. "Eliminate desire" is my mantra -- it works really well on many levels.
A racing bike is a bit more expensive, but it's so much more fun to ride since you don't get exhausted from rubbing the asphalt all the time with those huge gripping tires. When i switched from mountainbikes to racebikes, my appetite for cycling doubled. I do twice as many hours now as I did before.
You can always get a good mountain bike with Specialized Nimbus tires -- they are narrow and similar to a road-bike on the regular contact patch, but grippy on the edges. It makes a mountain bike much faster, without completely sacrificing handling in dirt.
There's also the Nintendo Power Pad, circa 1987. All I remember is doing the long jump, running left-right-left-right-... jump off the pad, watch the guy fly through the air, then jump back on. The trick was knowing just how long you could wait before he would fall.:^)
Yes, it works! I remember many years ago reading that humans can burn 80 calories an hour just by fidgeting. I fidget a lot, and without exercise I have no trouble burning off the calories from hamburgers, pizza and beer. The only drawback is that people think you are super-nervous.:^)
I know that somebody always mentions Apple in/. stories nowadays, but does anyone know how they overcame the micropayment issue with their iTunes Music Store? I would think that some lessons could be gleaned from their experience with it.
Yeah, mine gets clock skewed as well (in the same direction, no less)... Anyway, it does seem like most people don't realize just how useful the Databank watches can be compared to a PDA.
Yeah, it can get out of hand pretty easily around here... I think it's getting better though -- there was a time here when mentioning anything about Apple meant that people would come to your house and hang you by your pinkies.
Actually, DVD-R option for the 12" Powerbook costs another $200 to purchase, so I didn't mention it for price reasons... But yes, you could have a DVD-R equipped 12" Powerbook for less than the cost of one of these new Sony laptops.
I bought a DBC-30 about nine years ago, and it's still chugging along perfectly. After about five years, the original CR2016 battery died, so I replaced it with a CR2032 (it's a thicker battery, but it will fit with a little pressure). I'm expecting another few years before this battery dies.
The watch band for it used to wear out and break on me occasionally, until I replaced it with a 22mm metal watch band. Now it is close to indestructible. I cherish this watch too much for some reason.:^)
I want Casio to come out with a scientific Databank watch, that has a functionality similar to handheld TI calculators... I think they could do it, they just don't see a market for it (and I'll agree that I'm probably one of the few who would buy one).
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Those of you unfamiliar with Perl history may find it interesting that the "Parrot" started out as an elaborate April Fool's day joke two years ago. Here is the book that was announced. Strangely enough, people found the idea useful and are now actively developing it!
Yeah, the William Shatner interview, on the other hand, reminded me of the conversation between Flynn and the "bit" in TRON:
[A Bit flies around Flynn's head in a Recognizer.]
Kevin Flynn: Hey! Hold it right there!
Bit: Yes.
Kevin Flynn: What do you mean, "yes"?
Bit: Yes.
Kevin Flynn: Is that all you can say?
Bit: No.
Kevin Flynn: Know anything else?
Bit: Yes.
Kevin Flynn: Positive and negative, huh. You're a bit, aren't you?
Bit: Yes.
Kevin Flynn: Well, where's your program? Isn't he going to miss you?
Bit: No.
Kevin Flynn: I'M your program?
Bit: Yes.
Kevin Flynn: I've got a mouth to feed.
Bit: Yesyesyesyes!
X-Plane is not quite that good yet, but it's getting closer... I remember when Austin added roads into the sim, and there was much rejoicing. He added cars and even added emergency vehicles. At one point, someone realized that there were too many emergency vehicles on the roads, so he tweaked the car:emergency vehicle ratio to fix it. It's really amazing to think of the amount of detail that goes into these sims!
My girlfriend and I recently took a three week cross-country road trip (pictures here), and visited the following destinations (they aren't entirely geeky, but there are some geeky spots along the way):
Tallahassee, FL -> Madisonville, LA -> Austin, TX -> Elephant Butte, NM (silly name, cool place!) -> Williams, AZ (stopped to see the Very Large Array (VLA) on the way, near Magdalena, NM -> Grand Canyon, AZ -> Las Vegas, NV -> Yosemite National Park, CA -> San Francisco, CA (lotsa fun geeky stuff here) -> Lake Tahoe, CA -> Elko, NV -> Denver, CO -> Oklahoma City, OK -> Tallahassee, FL
I highly recommend this trip, as you get to see a lot of things in a fairly short amount of time. Some tips (in no particular order):
- Buy a national parks pass. See my other post for more information.
- In desolate areas, keep spare gas with you. Five gallons should do nicely, unless you have an SUV.
- Bring a camera. A digital camera is preferred, and a 128 MB picture card (or more) is highly recommended if you are using a digital camera.
- Go camping. All motels, regardless of location, are pretty much exactly the same -- four walls, a bed and a shower. Camping is different wherever you go.
- Carry a AAA membership. They can get you out of many hairy situations.
- Ride with two or more people. This makes the trip that much more fun, because you can share the experiences for a lifetime. It's also much safer to travel this way.
- Many of my other recommendations are here -- they are equally important to having a good trip.
Happy travels!
Be sure to purchase a National Parks Pass, which for $50 gets you into every U.S. national park with no other entry fees for one year. Considering that Grand Canyon NP and Yosemite NP have $20 entry fees each, going to three national parks usually pays off when using the card. If you are planning on visiting any more than three major national parks in the next year, definitely buy the card.
Besides purchasing one online, you can also purchase the card at the national park entrance (though this may only be for major national parks).
Hehe... I just added it, that's why. :^)
Cool, thanks for the quote! I have attributed Horace in my sig. I'm an engineering student, so while I did have a little grounding in classics (Plato's Republic immediately comes to mind), I didn't have much of one. C'est la vie...
About the quote, I actually didn't know it was attributed to Horace. I don't read much Roman poetry, it seems.
Those quotes remind me of Allmusic.com's review of Miles Davis' 1969 album, Bitches Brew . Here is a highlight:
"A three-note bass vamp centers the entire thing as three different modes entwine one another, seeking a groove to bolt onto. It never finds it, but becomes its own nocturnal beast, offering ethereal dark tones and textures to slide the album out the door on."
But anyway, yes, the whole idea is awesome. I might break out Fast Tracker II from years past and crank out some music again, mainly to have it available on the iTMS.
Maybe Bush could create the Department of Asteroid Terrorism Awareness, or DATA for short. :^)
Given the $40 entry fee, the 91:9 profit ratio with CDBaby, the 40:60 profit ratio with Apple, and assuming that people only download singles for $0.99 each, it would only take 111 downloads of your band's songs to break-even. Not bad!!
You can always get a good mountain bike with Specialized Nimbus tires -- they are narrow and similar to a road-bike on the regular contact patch, but grippy on the edges. It makes a mountain bike much faster, without completely sacrificing handling in dirt.
There's also the Nintendo Power Pad, circa 1987. All I remember is doing the long jump, running left-right-left-right- ... jump off the pad, watch the guy fly through the air, then jump back on. The trick was knowing just how long you could wait before he would fall. :^)
Yes, it works! I remember many years ago reading that humans can burn 80 calories an hour just by fidgeting. I fidget a lot, and without exercise I have no trouble burning off the calories from hamburgers, pizza and beer. The only drawback is that people think you are super-nervous. :^)
...we think you should enter the management track. :^)
Don't forget the Free Software Song... :^)
I know that somebody always mentions Apple in /. stories nowadays, but does anyone know how they overcame the micropayment issue with their iTunes Music Store? I would think that some lessons could be gleaned from their experience with it.
Yeah, mine gets clock skewed as well (in the same direction, no less)... Anyway, it does seem like most people don't realize just how useful the Databank watches can be compared to a PDA.
Yeah, it can get out of hand pretty easily around here... I think it's getting better though -- there was a time here when mentioning anything about Apple meant that people would come to your house and hang you by your pinkies.
Actually, DVD-R option for the 12" Powerbook costs another $200 to purchase, so I didn't mention it for price reasons... But yes, you could have a DVD-R equipped 12" Powerbook for less than the cost of one of these new Sony laptops.
Databank owners unite! :^)
:^)
I bought a DBC-30 about nine years ago, and it's still chugging along perfectly. After about five years, the original CR2016 battery died, so I replaced it with a CR2032 (it's a thicker battery, but it will fit with a little pressure). I'm expecting another few years before this battery dies.
The watch band for it used to wear out and break on me occasionally, until I replaced it with a 22mm metal watch band. Now it is close to indestructible. I cherish this watch too much for some reason.
I want Casio to come out with a scientific Databank watch, that has a functionality similar to handheld TI calculators... I think they could do it, they just don't see a market for it (and I'll agree that I'm probably one of the few who would buy one).