Re:Your not as smart as you're brain thinks it is
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Students Tracked By RFID
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The AC, in its exuberant urge to aid the flailing grammarian, doesn't have a grasp on basic comma usage, forsooth, as the AC itself left out a necessary comma, and demands the removal of a comma that is nestled snugly into its proper syntax. Go read Faulkner, sheesh.
Sounds like you've got the itch for classic tube gear, and might get a kick out of this massive schematics list on a friend's site, if you can stomach the, uh, markup.
Re:Disconnect and motivation
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The Music Man
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Yarrrrrr.
I am sorry they won't let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief, when it is not to my advantage; damn the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but damn ye altogether: damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make then one of us, than sneak after these villains for employment?"
...Cptn. Bellamy in Defoe's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Maybe that expensive Ipod doesn't look so good when you can get something that does all the same things for 100 dollars cheaper.
People on/. often make this nerdly assumption: spec sheet = function.
In a device like this, aimed at non-nerds, function is largely about the gestalt package, especially its interface. Does the user interface work well, and get out of my way? Does using it feel good? Does the social interface work well, and boost my status by getting noticed? These things represent function as well, aren't articulated by specifications but by experience, and are more important than obscure codecs or universality.
And some of us "Unix guys" (since 1977 or so, in my case) use GUIs for some things and CLIs for others.
I'm a 'desktop guy' but I first dicovered computers through TeX in 1980, and keep a Terminal window open half the time. I too bounce back and forth.
Then there's Quicksilver on OS X, with its hybridity; keyboard control full of CLI hooks, anticipatory bold-and-fast GUI feedback, and it's now being extended well past a search/launch core function. It's both GUI and CLI and neither.
I'm using it more and more on its own. File name completion good iconic feedback really makes things feel instantaneous.
I enjoy the tired old desktop, but I'm hoping something like Quicksilver will replace it.
it would be useful to have the ability to say--highlight a word or phase and by right clicking on it--get the option of:encyclopedia lookup, dictionary, thesarus, etc.
Right now, with OS X services, I have that, including the "etc." part, from pretty much anywhere you can select text, and so far (for me), in any app. Individual applications make their services available through the OS, whether they're running or not.
Clicking the 'X' doesnt actually close the application. This annoyed me to start with
That's the paradigm: application-centric. The application is controlled by the menu, the document by the window. That way I can close all windows and start up a new doc without having to restart the app. Some apps break this, because they're console-like apps with only one window.
Having to select the application window before I can quit it using the application menu.
Command (apple key)-Tab, keep thumb on command key and tab until your application comes up, twitch thumb slightly to command-Q... simple, very fast, mouseless.
Love the dock.
Must be a switcher:-) I still miss the Control Strip from OS 9 -- I had it tricked out as a Dock, and then some.
Most of the file system is hidden from you
Only if you want it to be. TinkerTool gives you GUI access to various advanced Finder settings.
I've had trouble running OS X on Blue and White G3's, so well done. Wait 'til you try it on a G5 with Quartz Extreme.
Yeah, in freakin' Canada, we freakin' paid the extortion, er, levy for the flippin' iPod, eh, and that means we have a legal right to move our paid-for copyrighted material wherever the heck we want, eh.
put the genie back in the bottle
put the genie back
Percy Schmeiser may be a schmuck
but he's a hero to farmers who hate the Man
who gives the loan and takes the farm
and the judges just didn't care
the Man, er, Monsanto won
I've been saving seeds for generations
they were never mine just a resource
for the great grandchildren
but now Cargill done come
and took them all away
'cause the field is a sudden full of their
manufactory
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The AC, in its exuberant urge to aid the flailing grammarian, doesn't have a grasp on basic comma usage, forsooth, as the AC itself left out a necessary comma, and demands the removal of a comma that is nestled snugly into its proper syntax. Go read Faulkner, sheesh.
who spell that badly
especially with cold fingers
People on /. often make this nerdly assumption: spec sheet = function.
In a device like this, aimed at non-nerds, function is largely about the gestalt package, especially its interface. Does the user interface work well, and get out of my way? Does using it feel good? Does the social interface work well, and boost my status by getting noticed? These things represent function as well, aren't articulated by specifications but by experience, and are more important than obscure codecs or universality.
Aye, and the difference between "mineral" and "tin" is obvious to any fool.
I'm a 'desktop guy' but I first dicovered computers through TeX in 1980, and keep a Terminal window open half the time. I too bounce back and forth.
Then there's Quicksilver on OS X, with its hybridity; keyboard control full of CLI hooks, anticipatory bold-and-fast GUI feedback, and it's now being extended well past a search/launch core function. It's both GUI and CLI and neither.
I'm using it more and more on its own. File name completion good iconic feedback really makes things feel instantaneous.
I enjoy the tired old desktop, but I'm hoping something like Quicksilver will replace it.
Right now, with OS X services, I have that, including the "etc." part, from pretty much anywhere you can select text, and so far (for me), in any app. Individual applications make their services available through the OS, whether they're running or not.
That's the paradigm: application-centric. The application is controlled by the menu, the document by the window. That way I can close all windows and start up a new doc without having to restart the app. Some apps break this, because they're console-like apps with only one window.
Having to select the application window before I can quit it using the application menu.
Command (apple key)-Tab, keep thumb on command key and tab until your application comes up, twitch thumb slightly to command-Q... simple, very fast, mouseless.
Love the dock.
Must be a switcher :-) I still miss the Control Strip from OS 9 -- I had it tricked out as a Dock, and then some.
Most of the file system is hidden from you
Only if you want it to be. TinkerTool gives you GUI access to various advanced Finder settings.
I've had trouble running OS X on Blue and White G3's, so well done. Wait 'til you try it on a G5 with Quartz Extreme.
Yeah, in freakin' Canada, we freakin' paid the extortion, er, levy for the flippin' iPod, eh, and that means we have a legal right to move our paid-for copyrighted material wherever the heck we want, eh.
war on poverty
war on drugs
war on the body
war on love
war on copycats
war on peace
war on an active mind
war on real democracy
war on choice
war on, general ashcroft
great, none of your steak comes from a store
or, kill your own meat for two months
then say "it's what we do"
put the genie back
Percy Schmeiser may be a schmuck
but he's a hero to farmers who hate the Man
who gives the loan and takes the farm
and the judges just didn't care
the Man, er, Monsanto won
I've been saving seeds for generations
they were never mine just a resource
for the great grandchildren
but now Cargill done come
and took them all away
'cause the field is a sudden full of their
manufactory
the new slavery
won't be robots
it will be patents on your body structure
and royalty producing genes
pay fees to have kids
annual dues to Monsanto
no farmers will keep seed
the food chain will grow longer
dangling from Cargill's noose
billions will be made from the bloodlines of the poor
and the unusual
The Commons is no longer Out There
but down in the tissues
and the rush is on
in the old countries, woman's independence is killed
for honour
and women are killed for independence
in the new societies countries are fading
heritage is notation
sea change is the teat of growth
the new migration swelled west and west
towards the new world
until it broke on the western shore
and got stagnant
now west is up
and there is no one to colonize there
we need to survive
not meteors not warming
not an eschaton
but ourselves
a new culture is real hope
-the mission critical data-
and needs an offshore haven
let them test on tourists
and the freaks and geeks will follow
niche, eddy, mainstream,
there are only two stories:
hero goes on a journey
a stranger comes to town
all the rest is hornblowing
and markets
when you can live on
in the web
Death Is The Ultimate Trip
born too late
died too early
will not save you
abandon your voice
and despair
what was, is
and what is, won't be
because you have seen it into being
all systems cycle home to a different place
let the terror reign and we will find peace
in our own destruction
the profitic burning bush
serves a grander surprise
what's mine is yours, what's yours is yours
and it will come home
Northern lights reach down
to pull us up
shifting patterns reflected
on the purity of snow
will be our solace, eh
we are already on top of the world