Being exaggeratedly Russian was very much in keeping with Chekov - it was all about Keptins and Wessels.
~A
THIS lwce was the geeks vs suits tipping point?
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seems like the last one he was at was '00 in san jose. now THAT was a party. ever since has been drab, and this one was just about as average as the rest of the west coast/bay area ones since.
although, yeah,.org pavilion being relocated to the mezzanine was lame - but it was still good to be able to walk up to the folks at gentoo, kde, moz and eff and give them the props they deserved.
I echo most honest musicians' take on this (as stated).. but also do want to say that even mainstream music has become polarized - 5-10 years ago, it used to be pretty much homogenized crap, but now it's split up into utter crap and "hmm, this is actually not bad" - i think a lot of "sellout" musicians have made it past their freshman/sophomoric label-satisfying cookie-cutter crap and are fighting for their creative independence.
i mean - alter bridge's record actually has two or three honest to goodness 16th-note riffin' metal tunes instead of your average nu-metal whole-note compressed-guitar crap, and these guys used to be CREED, ffs!
and yet, you have your ashlee simpsons and *insert yet another actress-turned-talented-musician here*s.. (although once again, in the spirit of polarization, minnie driver's record sounds like it's worth checking out), so i guess there is still balance.
~A
ps: my post in no way intends to take honest musical credit from the bands that are still struggling to get their voices heard and deserve to and probably never will, nor does it intend to overlook the initial sell-out-age of the bands in question in the body of the post.
this tells of many users (myself included) whose firewire drives no longer mount. system profiler sees a device, but the drive doesn't show up in the disk utility.
the drive mounts fine on an older machine, so it's not damaging to the data like the original panther release was.
i guess the ball's in apple's court.
~A
I installed the new release (Max v3) - but I guess it was too new for most OSS developers to fix outstanding issues - the ESS Maestro3 drivers remain incomplete.
(more fyi, than anything - i'll be getting in touch with the guys who're working on this once i get this record out of the way).
and to be fair, OpenGL apps i've written seem to churn out more fps under linux too.. not just q3. (again, talking about nv hardware.. won't touch ATi with several 42 foot poles...)
sure, good software costs money, but at some point it isn't about:
10 developers @ $100 a piece = $1,000.00
turning into
10 developers @ $1,000 a piece = $10,000.00
it's more like:
10 developers @ $100 a piece = $1,000.00
turning into
1 [desperate|gullible] 'developer' @ $1,000 a piece = $1,000.00
obviously the blind and complacent thing to do would be to assume that every single current developer in your camp is either desperate or gullible (or both) and will stick with your absurd pricing policies for bet..uhh..bad or worse.
it's not like i can get visual studio.net "personal edition" for free, is it? even for personal use? well, head over to java.sun.com and download your free copy of j2se now to use for your amazing pleasure.
~A
yes, a bit of a ramble, but i'm trying to make a point here.
my eyes just glaze over when i see microsoft's revenue and restriction plans.
it's something i've come to expect and pass over. pretty soon the whole world should be getting numb to microsoft, and when people get numb to something, that something starts losing any appeal it might ever have had.
can you say ibm?
the article from a couple days ago about microsoft going the ibm way (existing but not cutting edge) is being fulfilled with every developer's rolling eyes.
Personally, I think cheats are the one redemption to most games played for score. Especially earlier FPSs (wolf, doom, nukem) - i find it more rewarding to be able to play the game, explore the maps, find secrets) than just frag 'em all and get all treasures (although that has it's own pleasure). Probably why I loved myst and riven.
I havent installed the software either.. just wanna play with scanning codes.. thing is, it decodes into a proprietary code.. so what I wanna know is, how do you translate
.C3nZC3nZC3nYChDXDxT0CNnY.fHmc.C3T2ChPYDhrWDhf1. into
085391773726 ?
Kudos to whoever figures out what that 'product' is:D
Dammit! What happened to the fact that all linuces were essentially the same? since when did diversification make 'em mutex?
*is glad for his 'distributed' distribution*
Check out Engines of Creation, by Eric Drexler, not-so-much fiction about nanotech. also ray kurzweil's "the age of spiritual machines". if you go to www.technetcast.com >= 04/20, they'll have the webcast of the stanford symposium on "will spiritual robots replace humanity by 2100?".. interesting stuff.. i was there:)
Having been at the symposium myself, I found it rather disturbing that not even people in attendence there shared Bill Joy's concerns as to how our pursuit of what he deemed, correctly so, as dangerous technologies. Although I wouldn't advocate relinquishment just as yet, given that so much is still in the hypothetical stage, but as soon as we have any indication of the reality of the situation (and I mean as soon as we figure we can do any form of GNR (genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, collectively), we must realize where such technologies would put us. Yet, Bill Joy is justified in asking for the action now itself, given the historical precedent of creating and then thinking about relinquishing necessarily dangerous technologies. Further, it seemed that 'most everyone on the panel (ray and hans, notably) seemed almost defensive of their stand on machine spirituality. When asked by the audience whether the extinction of humanity brought about by a breed of machines created by it would be it's greatest failure, Hans argued that it would, in fact, be mankind's greatest triumph to unleash it's full potential. To not do so would be mankind's greatest failure. No-one seemed to mind. I also found ray's stand that our current encounters with the only form of self replicating technology we know today, viruses, has been successful - we've been able to create shields to pretect ourselves, and if we do create a form of self replicating, self evolving nanobots, we'd be able to protect ourselves too. To which I wanted to ask (in tune with Bill's article) what kind of riskes he was willing to put humanity to.. to realize that a/several/tens of thousands of crashed harddrive/s as a result of a virus is nothing compared to the single human life that might be lost. In context, quoting from Bill's article's quote of Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation: Among the cognoscenti of nanotechnology, this threat has become known as the "gray goo problem." Though masses of uncontrolled replicators need not be gray or gooey, the term "gray goo" emphasizes that replicators able to obliterate life might be less inspiring than a single species of crabgrass. They might be superior in an evolutionary sense, but this need not make them valuable. Bill adds: Gray goo would surely be a depressing ending to our human adventure on Earth, far worse than mere fire or ice, and one that could stem from a simple laboratory accident. Oops. Okay, enough on that, I wanted to voice a concern here, not write an essay *grin* And to correct csy, as I remember it - Bill's response to the question if software grows in accordance with Moore's Law, was that 'and operating system's size grows as Moore's Law, but it's function remains fixed':) UltraWarm Regards, Anuj_Himself
Way cool, but article's not exactly complete.
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The article was well writeen and blah, blah, blah, but it doesn't mention where the sattelites were made.. nor who made them... They were made by an all-female engineering team at the Santa Clara Univ, CA, as a senior design project (i'm pretty sure). What's more, one of 'em's the TA for a course I'm takin' there. (Hiya there if you're reading this.. it's 2:40am Monday night/Tue Morn, and I'm still puzzling out that dang prelab for tomorrow.. aaaagh) Ah well UltraWarm Regards, Anuj_Himself
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Being exaggeratedly Russian was very much in keeping with Chekov - it was all about Keptins and Wessels.
~A
seems like the last one he was at was '00 in san jose. now THAT was a party. ever since has been drab, and this one was just about as average as the rest of the west coast/bay area ones since.
.org pavilion being relocated to the mezzanine was lame - but it was still good to be able to walk up to the folks at gentoo, kde, moz and eff and give them the props they deserved.
although, yeah,
~A
I echo most honest musicians' take on this (as stated) .. but also do want to say that even mainstream music has become polarized - 5-10 years ago, it used to be pretty much homogenized crap, but now it's split up into utter crap and "hmm, this is actually not bad" - i think a lot of "sellout" musicians have made it past their freshman/sophomoric label-satisfying cookie-cutter crap and are fighting for their creative independence.
.. (although once again, in the spirit of polarization, minnie driver's record sounds like it's worth checking out), so i guess there is still balance.
:)
i mean - alter bridge's record actually has two or three honest to goodness 16th-note riffin' metal tunes instead of your average nu-metal whole-note compressed-guitar crap, and these guys used to be CREED, ffs!
and yet, you have your ashlee simpsons and *insert yet another actress-turned-talented-musician here*s
~A
ps: my post in no way intends to take honest musical credit from the bands that are still struggling to get their voices heard and deserve to and probably never will, nor does it intend to overlook the initial sell-out-age of the bands in question in the body of the post.
pps: shameless self-promotion: blatant innuendo
this tells of many users (myself included) whose firewire drives no longer mount. system profiler sees a device, but the drive doesn't show up in the disk utility. the drive mounts fine on an older machine, so it's not damaging to the data like the original panther release was. i guess the ball's in apple's court. ~A
what kinda tv tuner?
:)
mdk recognized all three of the tuner cards i've had straight out of the box (ati and two hauppauges) - all happy and ready to use.
try that
~A
60s mainframes had chips?
~A
My guess as to why this works w/ Shakespeare and wouldn't with NS is that plays read more like IRC than regular prose does.
~A
yup, another worthless so-this-is-how-the-matrix-started.
that, or it's a matrix w/in a matrix.
but they wouldn't let that happen, would they?
~A
I installed the new release (Max v3) - but I guess it was too new for most OSS developers to fix outstanding issues - the ESS Maestro3 drivers remain incomplete.
(more fyi, than anything - i'll be getting in touch with the guys who're working on this once i get this record out of the way).
~A
and to be fair, OpenGL apps i've written seem to churn out more fps under linux too .. not just q3. (again, talking about nv hardware.. won't touch ATi with several 42 foot poles...)
~A
dunno about nvidia .. most nv cards i've played w/ sem quicker playing the same game (err, quake3) under linux...
~A
did nobody notice the data impression that prot constantly did?
it was brilliant.
i liked the movie - didn't expect too much, so i enjoyed myself.
~A
sure, good software costs money, but at some point it isn't about:
10 developers @ $100 a piece = $1,000.00
turning into
10 developers @ $1,000 a piece = $10,000.00
it's more like:
10 developers @ $100 a piece = $1,000.00
turning into
1 [desperate|gullible] 'developer' @ $1,000 a piece = $1,000.00
obviously the blind and complacent thing to do would be to assume that every single current developer in your camp is either desperate or gullible (or both) and will stick with your absurd pricing policies for bet..uhh..bad or worse.
it's not like i can get visual studio.net "personal edition" for free, is it? even for personal use? well, head over to java.sun.com and download your free copy of j2se now to use for your amazing pleasure.
~A
yes, a bit of a ramble, but i'm trying to make a point here.
my eyes just glaze over when i see microsoft's revenue and restriction plans.
it's something i've come to expect and pass over. pretty soon the whole world should be getting numb to microsoft, and when people get numb to something, that something starts losing any appeal it might ever have had.
can you say ibm?
the article from a couple days ago about microsoft going the ibm way (existing but not cutting edge) is being fulfilled with every developer's rolling eyes.
~A
for the record, this works in WinMe too.
~A
Personally, I think cheats are the one redemption to most games played for score. Especially earlier FPSs (wolf, doom, nukem) - i find it more rewarding to be able to play the game, explore the maps, find secrets) than just frag 'em all and get all treasures (although that has it's own pleasure). Probably why I loved myst and riven.
~A
Heat cannot be used to do work? Wow! I guess what they taught me in HS and how they cars work is all mysticism, right?
Work -> Heat is the ~100% efficient process..
Heat -> Work is not impossible, just inefficient (~20-30%).
Carnot will be turning in his grave.
~A
I havent installed the software either.. just wanna play with scanning codes.. thing is, it decodes into a proprietary code.. so what I wanna know is, how do you translate.
:D
.C3nZC3nZC3nYChDXDxT0CNnY.fHmc.C3T2ChPYDhrWDhf1
into
085391773726 ?
Kudos to whoever figures out what that 'product' is
~A
AN~ :)
They already do this.. and do even better.. it's called the upgrade version.
~A
Dammit! What happened to the fact that all linuces were essentially the same? since when did diversification make 'em mutex?
*is glad for his 'distributed' distribution*
~A
Check out Engines of Creation, by Eric Drexler, not-so-much fiction about nanotech. also ray kurzweil's "the age of spiritual machines". if you go to www.technetcast.com >= 04/20, they'll have the webcast of the stanford symposium on "will spiritual robots replace humanity by 2100?".. interesting stuff.. i was there :)
UltraWarm Regards,
Anuj_Himself
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
This should give you another idea.
Hope this helps.
UltraWarm Regards,
Anuj_Himself
Bill Joy quotes Eric Drexler extensively in his paper... and your point about dumb nanites, as it were is a good one. :)
UltraWarm Regards,
Anuj_Himself
Having been at the symposium myself, I found it rather disturbing that not even people in attendence there shared Bill Joy's concerns as to how our pursuit of what he deemed, correctly so, as dangerous technologies. Although I wouldn't advocate relinquishment just as yet, given that so much is still in the hypothetical stage, but as soon as we have any indication of the reality of the situation (and I mean as soon as we figure we can do any form of GNR (genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, collectively), we must realize where such technologies would put us. Yet, Bill Joy is justified in asking for the action now itself, given the historical precedent of creating and then thinking about relinquishing necessarily dangerous technologies. Further, it seemed that 'most everyone on the panel (ray and hans, notably) seemed almost defensive of their stand on machine spirituality. When asked by the audience whether the extinction of humanity brought about by a breed of machines created by it would be it's greatest failure, Hans argued that it would, in fact, be mankind's greatest triumph to unleash it's full potential. To not do so would be mankind's greatest failure. No-one seemed to mind. I also found ray's stand that our current encounters with the only form of self replicating technology we know today, viruses, has been successful - we've been able to create shields to pretect ourselves, and if we do create a form of self replicating, self evolving nanobots, we'd be able to protect ourselves too. To which I wanted to ask (in tune with Bill's article) what kind of riskes he was willing to put humanity to.. to realize that a/several/tens of thousands of crashed harddrive/s as a result of a virus is nothing compared to the single human life that might be lost. In context, quoting from Bill's article's quote of Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation: Among the cognoscenti of nanotechnology, this threat has become known as the "gray goo problem." Though masses of uncontrolled replicators need not be gray or gooey, the term "gray goo" emphasizes that replicators able to obliterate life might be less inspiring than a single species of crabgrass. They might be superior in an evolutionary sense, but this need not make them valuable. Bill adds: Gray goo would surely be a depressing ending to our human adventure on Earth, far worse than mere fire or ice, and one that could stem from a simple laboratory accident. Oops. Okay, enough on that, I wanted to voice a concern here, not write an essay *grin* And to correct csy, as I remember it - Bill's response to the question if software grows in accordance with Moore's Law, was that 'and operating system's size grows as Moore's Law, but it's function remains fixed' :) UltraWarm Regards, Anuj_Himself
The article was well writeen and blah, blah, blah, but it doesn't mention where the sattelites were made .. nor who made them...
They were made by an all-female engineering team at the Santa Clara Univ, CA, as a senior design project (i'm pretty sure). What's more, one of 'em's the TA for a course I'm takin' there.
(Hiya there if you're reading this.. it's 2:40am Monday night/Tue Morn, and I'm still puzzling out that dang prelab for tomorrow.. aaaagh)
Ah well
UltraWarm Regards,
Anuj_Himself