Well, I now have a BB-flat Contrabass Clarinet (two octaves down from soprano,) so if I wanted to 'get in' somewhere right now I'd spend a few months becoming more proficient on it. Then, if there was no part for it in the music, I could double with the Tuba.;)
He runs a non-Apple OS on it. Apple 'punishes' people who do that by setting the fans to run full tilt 100% of the time, if MacOS 10 isn't 'there' to regulate the fans.
A better company would have a small embedded controller regulate the fans.
Any game where the goal is to shuffle around parts desperately until you fail in the end, and where 'winning' is just a matter of how long you survived, has a whiff of evil about it.
It's not at all ironic that Tetris originates from someone who grew up under Soviet rule.
If they were YOUR servers, you'd be wearing a suit, and not that smelly RPM sweatshirt. Face it, YOU ARE THE DATA JANITOR. It hurts when the people in the nice clothes walk by your floor scrubber without even noticing they're marring your newly waxed floor, but that's life when you decide to be a Janitor-grade employee.
NOW GET ON UP TO THE LJET4 ON THIRD FLOOR AND CHANGE THE FUCKING TONER CARTRIDGE, BOY. Hop to it!
They provided Windows NT for Sparc, or they produced it and kept it 'in the can'? I've never seen it 'in the wild' nor have I seen where to order it on www.microsoft.com.
Solitaire is a relatively new component of Windows. Windows before 3.0 had a different compliment of games. Reversi was the main one I remember. Might have been the only one.
I agree with much of what you say. However, when I wanted into a Music Department back in the late 70's, I was at a strong disadvantage because I play clarinet. There were 'quotas' in place for different kinds of instruments. If I had played the oboe at the level I was at, it would have been a slam dunk to get into a department.
What you say about orchestration is very true. It's a good thing for a composer to be quite familiar with all the instruments on his/her score.
Actually, they require all people entering Music Major programs to be 'star performers' even though if your emphasis is on composition and music theory, you're writing stores, not 'playing beautiful solos.' The emphasis on performance in most college Music Departments is just wrong.
Be careful. iPod investors (anybody who has sunk all that money into one with it's fixed) get pretty upset when you tell them you can get 7 gigs (ten CDR disks) of removable MP3 storage on YOUR player for a couple bucks. They start rambling about size, etc.
It's a tradeoff, for certain, but there's no clear 'advantage' to flash, hard drive, or CD-based players that means the other formats aren't good too. But don't tell that to people who've bought into a fashion trend.
I remember downloading the Mpeg reference code, compiling it on Slackware, and encoding MP2's back in about 1997. The big challange then was finding CDROM drives that would extract CDDA. In fact, it's surprising there STILL isn't a lot of effort being made by the media companies to get CDROM drives out there that won't extract CDDA. It seems the hardware vendors silently stopped 'blocking' it in drive firmware in the mid 90's.
Naw. The 'entire industry' is now working overtime to come up with a translucent mounting bracket with cold-cathode backlight, available in four color shades.
Well, I once put a heat-sink on top of the Z-80 processor in my 'BigBoard' (CP/M) system. Yes, you can get heat sinks for 40-pin DIP chips.
Didn't improve system stability. Then I installed Window Air conditioners in all the rooms of the house (I lived in a hot upper duplex). Didn't matter. Then I installed several small cooling fans that blew air across the circuit board of the system.
It never crashed again from overheating.
No, the BigBoard was NOT something you could buy at a superstore.
The fan gets it's power from a 'pickup mechanism' that grabs kinetic energy from the rotation of the earth. The same force that makes the water swirl in a drain.
When explaining this to 'mere mortal' computer users, also urge them to bring their hard drive into the auto repair shop and have holes tapped and grease fittings added.
The super strong magnet in the drive itself is installed in a tightly closed-loop arrangement. How the stray fields in a fan motor spread will vary wildly depending on the fan used and how it's mounted.
I was using MIDI back when the GUI interface for the software I was running was the GEM Desktop. On a MIDI-out keyboard and into a MIDI-in synth about the size of an external modem.
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Well, I now have a BB-flat Contrabass Clarinet (two octaves down from soprano,) so if I wanted to 'get in' somewhere right now I'd spend a few months becoming more proficient on it. Then, if there was no part for it in the music, I could double with the Tuba. ;)
I think you're forgetting all the money that the Trade Union Bosses siphon from their members' paychecks and then shuttle off to political campaigns.
He means, it overheats unless you buy a $300 after-market fan for it.
Oops, no. That was true of the Mac Plus. This is the New Era (tm).
He runs a non-Apple OS on it. Apple 'punishes' people who do that by setting the fans to run full tilt 100% of the time, if MacOS 10 isn't 'there' to regulate the fans.
A better company would have a small embedded controller regulate the fans.
Any game where the goal is to shuffle around parts desperately until you fail in the end, and where 'winning' is just a matter of how long you survived, has a whiff of evil about it.
It's not at all ironic that Tetris originates from someone who grew up under Soviet rule.
If they were YOUR servers, you'd be wearing a suit, and not that smelly RPM sweatshirt. Face it, YOU ARE THE DATA JANITOR. It hurts when the people in the nice clothes walk by your floor scrubber without even noticing they're marring your newly waxed floor, but that's life when you decide to be a Janitor-grade employee.
NOW GET ON UP TO THE LJET4 ON THIRD FLOOR AND CHANGE THE FUCKING TONER CARTRIDGE, BOY. Hop to it!
It amazes me that somebody who is manipulating > 2 gb files is still running a FAT based filesystem.
Sounds a lot like NT 4.0 for Power PC.
I brought it up on a PREP box, then scoured the net using it's built-in Internet Explorer 2.0 trying to find ANYTHING that would run on it.
Felt kinda like the last passenger pidgeon flying around helplessly.
They provided Windows NT for Sparc, or they produced it and kept it 'in the can'? I've never seen it 'in the wild' nor have I seen where to order it on www.microsoft.com.
Solitaire is a relatively new component of Windows. Windows before 3.0 had a different compliment of games. Reversi was the main one I remember. Might have been the only one.
I agree with much of what you say. However, when I wanted into a Music Department back in the late 70's, I was at a strong disadvantage because I play clarinet. There were 'quotas' in place for different kinds of instruments. If I had played the oboe at the level I was at, it would have been a slam dunk to get into a department.
What you say about orchestration is very true. It's a good thing for a composer to be quite familiar with all the instruments on his/her score.
But this is wildly off topic for Slashdot...
* Rennaisance festivals (look for the "less hot")
Fat chicks in outfits their bosoms erupt out of?
While some men apparently would be happy to spend the next 40 years of their lives working on the next version of MS Office, I want to *do* something
So you're going into Math Education instead? So you can teach Jill and Johnny the wonders of the derivative??
correction:
writing scores, not 'writing stores'
Actually, they require all people entering Music Major programs to be 'star performers' even though if your emphasis is on composition and music theory, you're writing stores, not 'playing beautiful solos.' The emphasis on performance in most college Music Departments is just wrong.
Be careful. iPod investors (anybody who has sunk all that money into one with it's fixed) get pretty upset when you tell them you can get 7 gigs (ten CDR disks) of removable MP3 storage on YOUR player for a couple bucks. They start rambling about size, etc.
It's a tradeoff, for certain, but there's no clear 'advantage' to flash, hard drive, or CD-based players that means the other formats aren't good too. But don't tell that to people who've bought into a fashion trend.
I remember downloading the Mpeg reference code, compiling it on Slackware, and encoding MP2's back in about 1997. The big challange then was finding CDROM drives that would extract CDDA. In fact, it's surprising there STILL isn't a lot of effort being made by the media companies to get CDROM drives out there that won't extract CDDA. It seems the hardware vendors silently stopped 'blocking' it in drive firmware in the mid 90's.
It's the Court System that lets murderers, armed robbers, and rapists run amok.
Naw. The 'entire industry' is now working overtime to come up with a translucent mounting bracket with cold-cathode backlight, available in four color shades.
Well, I once put a heat-sink on top of the Z-80 processor in my 'BigBoard' (CP/M) system. Yes, you can get heat sinks for 40-pin DIP chips.
Didn't improve system stability. Then I installed Window Air conditioners in all the rooms of the house (I lived in a hot upper duplex). Didn't matter. Then I installed several small cooling fans that blew air across the circuit board of the system.
It never crashed again from overheating.
No, the BigBoard was NOT something you could buy at a superstore.
I use hot glue to mount the heat sink on my Pentium Pro processor.
The fan gets it's power from a 'pickup mechanism' that grabs kinetic energy from the rotation of the earth. The same force that makes the water swirl in a drain.
When explaining this to 'mere mortal' computer users, also urge them to bring their hard drive into the auto repair shop and have holes tapped and grease fittings added.
Or just open the drive, remove the disks, and belt-sand off all the oxide.
People go all nuts with the whole drive, when it's just the platters that need to be destroyed.
The super strong magnet in the drive itself is installed in a tightly closed-loop arrangement. How the stray fields in a fan motor spread will vary wildly depending on the fan used and how it's mounted.
I was using MIDI back when the GUI interface for the software I was running was the GEM Desktop. On a MIDI-out keyboard and into a MIDI-in synth about the size of an external modem.
Do you know what MIDI is?
Do you have any sense of humor at all?