Wrong! Currently I'm running an Intel board which is almost an exact duplicate of the first Apple 86x boards. They were sourced from Intel with minor chip differences and can be loaded with 10.5 easily.
I have a Rega Planar 3 which is really sweet! Basically agree with your statements. The fact that most video is available digitised is enough for me. Audio is different - pop is ok as mp3/flak etc but anything truly enjoyable I go vinyl. Also there are CD versions of LPs that sound absolutely horrible. Eg Japan:Tin Drum - The LP easily shines over the crappy CD. There are a few others IMHO.
Yeah. Travian is pretty addictive - takes over your whole life 24/7/365 days. Talked to someone who only sleeps 3hrs at a time, logging on to play, log-off to sleep. Others play and lose their jobs. Family comes 2nd. After a year, the game finishes only to restart 3 weeks later. A real vicious circle.
I dunno. If the cable was attached to the moon, dangling down to the Earth with a platform on it about n metres above the surface, then the platform would follow the motion of the moon transcribing it's path over the Earth's surface. The trick would be to hop onto the moving platform and then into the elevator and wizz... up you go!
History and Philosophy of Science is nowadays an established discipline, which unfortunately isn't taken as seriously as it should be. I suppose my argument isn't with Newtonian methodology. Newton himself asked why and conclusions should normally answer Why-style questions, except in many papers today, a conclusion is a summary of the results and pointers for further research.
In some eyes, the lost science of Analogy could be of help here. If the golden ratio is apparent in the nano-scale quantum universe where Newtonian physics takes a sidestep, then perhaps it should be looked at as a constant in the fabric of matter, in harmonics perhaps. The golden ratio is mathematics and not religion or pseudo-science. Pythagoras and Euclid were investigative mathematicians who recognised the ratio in extant buildings, 2D and 3D geometry. Later, it's been linked to human activity like music and some have even proposed it to be a law of nature.
The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.
Interesting. Now how do you write the Twilight Zone theme Da da da da just doesn't cut it IMHO. Which brings me to the point of all this - How come only a very few scientists ever ask 'Why is this so?'. All they seem to do is to observe and record. What relationship is there between the Parthenon, quantum physics and nano tech? Why 1.618 and not 10/7 or any other semi-mystical ratio???
Sitting in front of a terminal all day doing graphics is not an "IT" job! Come on, let's get our terms straight. Look it up. Being a full-time programmer is also not "IT". IT means being a systems administrator or analyst (or tech).
Sort of agree. 'IT' aka Information Technology is an umbrella term originating in the early 1980's covering a swathe of job descriptions and specialities to do with computers and communication. A 'computer operator' (pre-1985) would be certainly be classified IT but nowadays anyone operating a computer cannot be called IT. They are just skilled at operating a computer. It would be interesting to create a generic non-IT list:
- webdesign - graphics - programmer
all fall into the non-IT classification, but know their systems and processes well and have more knowledge than the typical front-liner who is definitely classified IT.
I think the definition has changed over the past 20 years, but no-one mentioned it to the masses.
I'm also freelance and I too like crap consumer computers. It makes me money and Kudos. The golden age for me was working on those crap Packard Bell's and HPs that cost $1000s and came with a massive 256mb ram. Memory and HD upgrade later - happy customer!
# Typically get paid by the hour, anywhere from $10/hr to as much as $150/hr working for individuals - this does not count businesses. So while it would behoove us in the short term to drag things out and pad the bill, in the long term that would hurt us. So on the whole, we don't.
No! Don't do it that way! Businesses are another matter, but work out a call-out fee and with regular customers, a flat fee. If it's going to take more than 1-2hrs to fix, then it should go back to the workshop. I do $50 over a 15 mile radius minimum, but I drop off for free with regulars when I pass by - often they come to me.
I also built custom gaming systems and I have no problem using ATI over NVidia if the specs are better and Intel only for compatibility. Nothing beats a juiced up i5 ATM.
Also, I'm happy to decrapify everything that comes in as part of the service.
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Pee-Pee? Ok then, don't forget the 'Woo-Woo'
(if you get that reference, then you should be the head of the Institute for the Very Very Nervous).
Wrong! Currently I'm running an Intel board which is almost an exact duplicate of the first Apple 86x boards. They were sourced from Intel with minor chip differences and can be loaded with 10.5 easily.
Mods? That's gotta be worth some points!
Good stuff mrvan
POO (Point of Order): Violette Szabo is Hungarian, not Russian.
a genetically modified shark with a laser on its head!
I'd go with irritable sea bass.
There's a lot less paperwork.
HAIL Cthulu!
When the Great One returns, all will be revealed.
"CQ - CQ - Do you read me Smokey Bear?"
I have a Rega Planar 3 which is really sweet!
Basically agree with your statements. The fact that most video is available digitised is enough for me.
Audio is different - pop is ok as mp3/flak etc but anything truly enjoyable I go vinyl.
Also there are CD versions of LPs that sound absolutely horrible. Eg Japan:Tin Drum - The LP easily shines over the crappy CD. There are a few others IMHO.
There's nothing wrong with Black and White TV.
All this colour nonsense is nonsense.
Yeah. Travian is pretty addictive - takes over your whole life 24/7/365 days.
Talked to someone who only sleeps 3hrs at a time, logging on to play, log-off to sleep. Others play and lose their jobs. Family comes 2nd.
After a year, the game finishes only to restart 3 weeks later. A real vicious circle.
Naah.. They just want to get an ignoble award.
What could possibly go wrong' implying, of course, that something exceptionally negative will come about as a result of it?
How about Aurochs with lasers on their heads?
I dunno. If the cable was attached to the moon, dangling down to the Earth with a platform on it about n metres above the surface, then the platform would follow the motion of the moon transcribing it's path over the Earth's surface.
The trick would be to hop onto the moving platform and then into the elevator and wizz... up you go!
Simple really!
Damn fine idea you have there boy!
Here's a cigar... Now tell me more of this plan you speak of?
History and Philosophy of Science is nowadays an established discipline, which unfortunately isn't taken as seriously as it should be.
I suppose my argument isn't with Newtonian methodology. Newton himself asked why and conclusions should normally answer Why-style questions, except in many papers today, a conclusion is a summary of the results and pointers for further research.
In some eyes, the lost science of Analogy could be of help here.
If the golden ratio is apparent in the nano-scale quantum universe where Newtonian physics takes a sidestep, then perhaps it should be looked at as a constant in the fabric of matter, in harmonics perhaps.
The golden ratio is mathematics and not religion or pseudo-science. Pythagoras and Euclid were investigative mathematicians who recognised the ratio in extant buildings, 2D and 3D geometry. Later, it's been linked to human activity like music and some have even proposed it to be a law of nature.
see http://www.moillusions.com/2007/12/julian-beevers-new-3d-sidewalk.html
I just can't see it.. but then maybe because I've only got one eye.
I'm more concerned about invisible sharks with lasers on their heads.
The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.
Interesting. Now how do you write the Twilight Zone theme Da da da da just doesn't cut it IMHO.
Which brings me to the point of all this - How come only a very few scientists ever ask 'Why is this so?'.
All they seem to do is to observe and record.
What relationship is there between the Parthenon, quantum physics and nano tech?
Why 1.618 and not 10/7 or any other semi-mystical ratio???
Sitting in front of a terminal all day doing graphics is not an "IT" job! Come on, let's get our terms straight. Look it up.
Being a full-time programmer is also not "IT". IT means being a systems administrator or analyst (or tech).
Sort of agree. 'IT' aka Information Technology is an umbrella term originating in the early 1980's covering a swathe of job descriptions and specialities to do with computers and communication.
A 'computer operator' (pre-1985) would be certainly be classified IT but nowadays anyone operating a computer cannot be called IT. They are just skilled at operating a computer.
It would be interesting to create a generic non-IT list:
- webdesign
- graphics
- programmer
all fall into the non-IT classification, but know their systems and processes well and have more knowledge than the typical front-liner who is definitely classified IT.
I think the definition has changed over the past 20 years, but no-one mentioned it to the masses.
Stuff working out what's wrong. Format and re-install.... simple.
Thanks. Good post
I keep hearing that. Dell USA must have different stock to those in other countries because they are quite reliable.
I'm also freelance and I too like crap consumer computers. It makes me money and Kudos. The golden age for me was working on those crap Packard Bell's and HPs that cost $1000s and came with a massive 256mb ram.
Memory and HD upgrade later - happy customer!
# Typically get paid by the hour, anywhere from $10/hr to as much as $150/hr working for individuals - this does not count businesses. So while it would behoove us in the short term to drag things out and pad the bill, in the long term that would hurt us. So on the whole, we don't.
No! Don't do it that way! Businesses are another matter, but work out a call-out fee and with regular customers, a flat fee. If it's going to take more than 1-2hrs to fix, then it should go back to the workshop.
I do $50 over a 15 mile radius minimum, but I drop off for free with regulars when I pass by - often they come to me.
I also built custom gaming systems and I have no problem using ATI over NVidia if the specs are better and Intel only for compatibility. Nothing beats a juiced up i5 ATM.
Also, I'm happy to decrapify everything that comes in as part of the service.
You missed 'cheeper'
Knowing Pi to 40 or so places
Face it, we all should know by now it's 42