Amen
At that price point I will impluse buy a CD. If it sucks, hey it cost less than a burrito, not a big deal.
There used to be an awesome used record store in my town, and I would regularly drop $50-80 a month on music and movies, usually purchasing something once a week when my class schedule brought me next door. I'd rather have a physical CD than a download (legal OR illegal), the phycisal disc sounds better on my sound system and allows me to format shift as I please. The store closed, and now I only buy about one disc a month $10-15.
1) put your company's name / logo on a nice small (tight fitting) t-shirt 2) put the tshirt on a "gifted" young woman, 3) let the woman jump on a trampoline 4) film 30 seconds of the logo-shirt 5) ???? 6) Profit!
in this case the ???? is simply: "men watch your ad"
Try to remove all distractions from the writing process.
Many people tend to play with things like formatting and layout when they should be worrying about communicating their ideas. I see this all the time with both individual and group papers, and it drives me up a wall sometimes.
The approach that I've personally found to work the best (for me, YMMV) is to use this workflow: 1: Draft a basic outline on paper with a list of topics / points that I need to hit. 2: Type the outline points into a basic text editor (Textedit on my Mac, Pico/VI on school machines) and comment on each of them as I go. Comments include basic thoughts about what to say and how to say it, figures that I expect to need, specs that I have in-head, and a few fully formed sentences. 3: Transfer that.txt file to a slightly more featured editor with a spell checker (I use "CopyWrite" in fullscreen mode so all i see is my document text), write a full length first draft without figures/tables. 4: Revise the draftfor coherence / completeness. 5: Transfer the document (now a.rft) to a full word processor (MS Word, Pages, LaTax) and set all the formatting bits.
The only problem that I have with this process is when working in groups... for some reason people don't like it when I email them.txt files of my sections. Go figure.
That is the best advice for writing that I've read in...... a long time.
The one caveat is that this process requires time and effort, two things that are not always in large supply.
I use my 12 inch G4 Powerbook every day, most of the day on battery power. I run a custom power setting which is more power efficient than the "Better battery life" option. I turn down the brightness, the sleep timer, and keep bluetooth off.
Those settings are more than usable for everything except watching a movie (or I'd suppose Final Cut Pro... but I don't have that). I pick up about an hour over the "Normal" or "Better Performance" options (which don't seem to differ significantly).
I grew up on the NES, and due to an incredible cheapness on my parents' parts, my brothers and I played NES until the time of the N64. It was a great system, and a great controller yes. The controller was very easy to use (impossible to break,I have holes in my wall to prove it), and once you develope the right hand sideways grip, a natural extension of the body.
But newer systems (with decently designed games) can have the same feel on natural extension. I play a lot of Halo2 on the xBox, after a couple of hours control becomes very narural, and after a couple of days the control becomes totally unconscious. I no longer have to think about buttons, I just think the actions (which can be a real pain when explaining to someone how to play).
Good game design, and a little bit of play time, and current consoles can be just as easy to use. (But don't get me started on that abortion of a control scheme in the Gamecube MegaMan Anniversary collection::glare:: )
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I don't mind that much.
I can't remember the last time I've heard or seen an ad for a band that I liked. In fact, if I don't actively go and search for new releases, I won't hear about them. If iTunes knows that I'm listening to Oasis, and that there's a new Album that I don't have... GREAT! Tell me about that and I'll probably buy it.
If the movie is about the rating system, then chances are it will have to show clips / examples from all of the ratings brackets. So if the film has NC-17 clips, the it would be NC-17 itself.
Personally I don't see that the big deal about the rating is, it'd actually make me more likely to see the film. I've only actually seen one NC-17 movie, "Kids", and it was excellent. I've only really heard of one other (Showgirls), which I've heard from trusted friends sucked.
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Nope, just the FCC
Don't/.ers watch Family Guy?
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As you know, every post equates to One Billion people.
Having several billion consoles crash... I'd call that unstable.
Well... there is no boundary work, no (mechanical) forces acting over a distance, and no shaft work.
I'd say that a processor produces ZERO mechanical work.
When you look at a computer as a whole, you put in electrical power, and get out heat (with only a tiny amount of real 'work' from the fans). So from a thermodynamic standpoint, it's just an overpriced, inefficient spaceheater.
Always keep that in mind when upgrading;)// end Mechanical Engineer Rant
You would NEVER be able to get a safety release for this kind of thing. All weapons have a 'man in the loop' that determines what is or is not a target, and fires the weapon.
The only application I could see is this; using software to autodetect and track moving objects, but still having a soldier give the firing command (save him flipping a joystick back and forth all the time).
Not really... iTunes lets you create a "smart playlist" that is similar to a saved search.
All songs with genre "Rock" or all songs by Metallica, etc. The autoDJ seems to alow you to do something like... put two DMB songs and an O.A.R. song in the positive seed, a Metallica song in the negative seed, and end up with a grovin' relaxin' playlist.
The last time this story came up I dug up the actual patents in question. (Don't have the links handy atm) IANAL but from what I could gather, the patents don't overlap.
The Apple patent covers all the basic iPod functionality, scroll wheel, music, video (forward thinking I suppose), etc etc.
The Microsoft patent is for something called "Auto DJ". Basically it's software that allows you to pick several songs as positive seeds, and at least one as a negative seed, and based on your choices it will generate a playlist from your music library. Sounds like a DAMN good idea... although knowing MS the execution would end up like Clippy *shudders*
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1) Every guy is
2) Everyone claiming to be a woman is
3) Everyone claiming to be a small child is
CD's sound better too.
Amen At that price point I will impluse buy a CD. If it sucks, hey it cost less than a burrito, not a big deal. There used to be an awesome used record store in my town, and I would regularly drop $50-80 a month on music and movies, usually purchasing something once a week when my class schedule brought me next door. I'd rather have a physical CD than a download (legal OR illegal), the phycisal disc sounds better on my sound system and allows me to format shift as I please. The store closed, and now I only buy about one disc a month $10-15.
I've said this for a while ...
1) put your company's name / logo on a nice small (tight fitting) t-shirt
2) put the tshirt on a "gifted" young woman,
3) let the woman jump on a trampoline
4) film 30 seconds of the logo-shirt
5) ????
6) Profit!
in this case the ???? is simply: "men watch your ad"
Spoken like someone that has never seen 50 pounds of High Explosives stacked on top of a bunch of hard drives.
No, there is MORE risk of engine failure. But when the first engine dies, you can still land on one. Just like a RAID mirror.
Try to remove all distractions from the writing process.
/VI on school machines) and comment on each of them as I go. .txt file to a slightly more featured editor with a spell checker (I use "CopyWrite" in fullscreen mode so all i see is my document text), write a full length first draft without figures/tables. .rft) to a full word processor (MS Word, Pages, LaTax) and set all the formatting bits.
... for some reason people don't like it when I email them .txt files of my sections. Go figure.
Many people tend to play with things like formatting and layout when they should be worrying about communicating their ideas. I see this all the time with both individual and group papers, and it drives me up a wall sometimes.
The approach that I've personally found to work the best (for me, YMMV) is to use this workflow:
1: Draft a basic outline on paper with a list of topics / points that I need to hit.
2: Type the outline points into a basic text editor (Textedit on my Mac, Pico
Comments include basic thoughts about what to say and how to say it, figures that I expect to need, specs that I have in-head, and a few fully formed sentences.
3: Transfer that
4: Revise the draftfor coherence / completeness.
5: Transfer the document (now a
The only problem that I have with this process is when working in groups
That is the best advice for writing that I've read in ...... a long time.
The one caveat is that this process requires time and effort, two things that are not always in large supply.
Meh ....
... but I don't have that). I pick up about an hour over the "Normal" or "Better Performance" options (which don't seem to differ significantly).
... and thats on a 20 month old battery.
I use my 12 inch G4 Powerbook every day, most of the day on battery power. I run a custom power setting which is more power efficient than the "Better battery life" option. I turn down the brightness, the sleep timer, and keep bluetooth off.
Those settings are more than usable for everything except watching a movie (or I'd suppose Final Cut Pro
Cheapest Ford: $11,000
Cheapest Porsche: $45,000
That's $34,000. Go away.
Don't spout numbers without comparing Specs.
The learning curve is just a little bit steeper.
::glare:: )
I grew up on the NES, and due to an incredible cheapness on my parents' parts, my brothers and I played NES until the time of the N64. It was a great system, and a great controller yes. The controller was very easy to use (impossible to break,I have holes in my wall to prove it), and once you develope the right hand sideways grip, a natural extension of the body.
But newer systems (with decently designed games) can have the same feel on natural extension. I play a lot of Halo2 on the xBox, after a couple of hours control becomes very narural, and after a couple of days the control becomes totally unconscious. I no longer have to think about buttons, I just think the actions (which can be a real pain when explaining to someone how to play).
Good game design, and a little bit of play time, and current consoles can be just as easy to use. (But don't get me started on that abortion of a control scheme in the Gamecube MegaMan Anniversary collection
I don't mind that much.
... GREAT! Tell me about that and I'll probably buy it.
I can't remember the last time I've heard or seen an ad for a band that I liked. In fact, if I don't actively go and search for new releases, I won't hear about them. If iTunes knows that I'm listening to Oasis, and that there's a new Album that I don't have
I find it convenient to rotate one 90 degrees. A 20 inch widescreen turned into a 20 inch portrait makes reading webpages a joy.
No, it makes perfect sense.
If the movie is about the rating system, then chances are it will have to show clips / examples from all of the ratings brackets. So if the film has NC-17 clips, the it would be NC-17 itself.
Personally I don't see that the big deal about the rating is, it'd actually make me more likely to see the film.
I've only actually seen one NC-17 movie, "Kids", and it was excellent. I've only really heard of one other (Showgirls), which I've heard from trusted friends sucked.
Nope, just the FCC
/.ers watch Family Guy?
Don't
As you know, every post equates to One Billion people.
... I'd call that unstable.
Having several billion consoles crash
// Mechanical Engineer Rant
... there is no boundary work, no (mechanical) forces acting over a distance, and no shaft work.
;) // end Mechanical Engineer Rant
Well
I'd say that a processor produces ZERO mechanical work.
When you look at a computer as a whole, you put in electrical power, and get out heat (with only a tiny amount of real 'work' from the fans). So from a thermodynamic standpoint, it's just an overpriced, inefficient spaceheater.
Always keep that in mind when upgrading
NO, they wont.
You would NEVER be able to get a safety release for this kind of thing. All weapons have a 'man in the loop' that determines what is or is not a target, and fires the weapon.
The only application I could see is this; using software to autodetect and track moving objects, but still having a soldier give the firing command (save him flipping a joystick back and forth all the time).
Wow, you really are a Sci-Fi nut....
How about calling someone a "gorram hwoon dahn"?
or how about [Ching-wah tsao duh liou mahng = Frog-humping sonofabitch] ?
ok, back to my Firefly dvds, only 10 more days to finish catching up
NPR?
..... but come January, that'll be a moot point.
The only reason I would use an FM tuner on my iPod is to listen to Howard Stern
imagine that, making something that you use often larger and thus easier to find
Funny, I seem to get a lot of emails about supplements for that kind of thing.
If they could make it into a contact lens, allowing the wearer to view distances without the benefit of binoculars.
Peeping Toms rejoice!
Quicktime is now grouped with "spyware/malware/adware" ?
Not really ... iTunes lets you create a "smart playlist" that is similar to a saved search.
... put two DMB songs and an O.A.R. song in the positive seed, a Metallica song in the negative seed, and end up with a grovin' relaxin' playlist.
All songs with genre "Rock" or all songs by Metallica, etc. The autoDJ seems to alow you to do something like
The last time this story came up I dug up the actual patents in question. (Don't have the links handy atm) IANAL but from what I could gather, the patents don't overlap.
... although knowing MS the execution would end up like Clippy *shudders*
The Apple patent covers all the basic iPod functionality, scroll wheel, music, video (forward thinking I suppose), etc etc.
The Microsoft patent is for something called "Auto DJ". Basically it's software that allows you to pick several songs as positive seeds, and at least one as a negative seed, and based on your choices it will generate a playlist from your music library. Sounds like a DAMN good idea