The difference is that humans are well adapted to large variances in temperature and climate. A whole lot of the other life on this planet isn't, including many of our favorite crops. If the temperature reaches a point where corn, wheat, rice, etc aren't able to tolerate it, it can have a dramatic impact on humans.
That was my initial thought, too. Then I went to the Apple forum linked in the PC World article and the first post indicates that this is not the case. The guy is able to begin the boot process in verbose mode and is able to get into single user mode, which indicates that he still has his hfs+ partition. It's a partition corruption problem (for him at least).
I'm always wary of any program that resizes a partition that contains data, NO MATTER WHAT THE OS! This is one of those tasks that you should always be careful with--make full backups before doing it. It doesn't matter how braindead simple the software is. There's always the chance that it could screw something up. That said, it seems that the number of affected users is surprisingly low.
Unless you want to go the negative scanning route (which is the best option if you have all of the negatives, the money, and the time), your best bet is to get a mid to high quality fast flatbed scanner. You can arrange probably 5 to 7 3x5s on the bed and chop them up into the individual pics later. You're best off scanning at the highest resolution you can afford (time and storage-space-wise). When it comes down to it, it'll be a fairly time-consuming task to do it all, but it should be worth it. As mentioned, hire the neighborhood kid to do the grunt work. You'll probably want to be involved in the finalizing steps, though (cropping, color correcting, etc). And for the people suggesting using an office document scanner, unless you can get one specially made for photos, don't even bother. The ones I've dealt with generally only support up to 8-bit greyscale and really aren't particularly good quality.
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Last week's This Week in Tech podcast had about 5 or 6 people from the early Apple days doing a 30th anniversary episode, and Woz was among them (actually, Leo's had Woz on 4 or 5 TWiTs now). Anyhow, Leo asked him about this very thing. Woz responded that while he and Steve did have their occasional run-ins, Jobs seemed to have a great respect for Woz and his talents and never really flew off the handle towards him.
I wish I had that much talent - if I tried that it'd just be a random sequence of sounds.
Hmm. I just watched the video and it pretty much is a random sequence of sounds. It's really hard to go wrong when you only have five tones to choose from for each instrument, especially when they're all in the same key. The rhythms/beats of the different tracks he was laying didn't match up at all, though. So, ummm, yeah. Still, an incredibly cool hack for the guitar hero controller though. I gotta give him tons of credit for that. And I'm sure some of the tracks he's spent more time honing sound great too.
Handy link to the Widescreen Gaming Forum website. It includes a listing of games that work with widescreen monitors, including hacks, patches, and workarounds to get games that don't natively support them to work.
Ummm, instaed of having four machines sharing one screen, wouldn't it make more sense for the game to be reworked to take advantage of one output device and four input devices instead?
Excuse me? I merely asked a very legitimate question of him. Interesting that both he and you accuse me of very much unfounded things (projection as giorgiofrs put it), yet there is no basis for any of that in my posts. And I'll let you have the final word on this, since I really don't care one way or the other for final words.
Wow. Incredibly mature response on your part. And just to let you know, I used to work for an international telecom company. About half of our development team were from Russia, so apparently I have as much anecdotal evidence as you do. And from what they told me, it wasn't anywhere nearly as bad as the US's jingoistic public school education would have people believe. It wasn't that great, but it also wasn't all that bad. Which interestingly enough, is very much my take on capitalism. It has many great aspects to it, but it also has a handful of negatives to go along with those. My point--every economic system has it's pluses and minuses. Just because you were raised under one doesn't instantly make it the best and all the others are completely evil and wrong, as many of your neighbors and cohorts would have you believe.
Well, they'll be upset to learn that I've discovered the secret to always winning on eBay. You simply enter a bunch of nines into the number field. Whammo! Winner every time! Hehehehe...suckers...
Oh yeah, and get a pitchpipe, a tuning fork, or possibly a chromatic electric tuner to tune your instrument. It's a lot easier than having to boot up your computer and launch a program to tune your instrument. Not to mention, if you're just playing by yourself, you often only need to tune the instrument to itself, which in itself is very good practice for your ear.
If you are just beginning to learn an instrument, take the low tech approach and don't mix the computer into it at all. It will only distract you and waste your time when you could actually be learning the instrument. Or if you feel that you must use software to help develop your tuning and intonation skills, then break it up into "with computer" and "without computer" sessions. Honestly, the way to learn an instrument is to become intimately familiar with it, and you won't get that by fiddling with a computer.
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The difference is that humans are well adapted to large variances in temperature and climate. A whole lot of the other life on this planet isn't, including many of our favorite crops. If the temperature reaches a point where corn, wheat, rice, etc aren't able to tolerate it, it can have a dramatic impact on humans.
That was my initial thought, too. Then I went to the Apple forum linked in the PC World article and the first post indicates that this is not the case. The guy is able to begin the boot process in verbose mode and is able to get into single user mode, which indicates that he still has his hfs+ partition. It's a partition corruption problem (for him at least).
I'm always wary of any program that resizes a partition that contains data, NO MATTER WHAT THE OS! This is one of those tasks that you should always be careful with--make full backups before doing it. It doesn't matter how braindead simple the software is. There's always the chance that it could screw something up. That said, it seems that the number of affected users is surprisingly low.
from the we-were-apes dept.
Speak for yourself, Zonk. I know I was never an ape. My distant relatives are a different story...
I'm pretty sure there's a rule against using "Rosie O'Donnel" and "erect" in the same sentence.
Dammit. Valar beat me to it by 3 minutes...
Telecommuting is quickly becoming widespread.
I disagree.
I beg to differ. I've been doing my job from India for quite a while now. : p
Very good point. Just do this for a rough archive and then deal with the rest when the time comes around for a reprint or whatever.
Yeah, but a lot of schools do. And this program (and ANAT before that) are godsends for anyone administering a large amount of Macs.
Unless you want to go the negative scanning route (which is the best option if you have all of the negatives, the money, and the time), your best bet is to get a mid to high quality fast flatbed scanner. You can arrange probably 5 to 7 3x5s on the bed and chop them up into the individual pics later. You're best off scanning at the highest resolution you can afford (time and storage-space-wise). When it comes down to it, it'll be a fairly time-consuming task to do it all, but it should be worth it. As mentioned, hire the neighborhood kid to do the grunt work. You'll probably want to be involved in the finalizing steps, though (cropping, color correcting, etc). And for the people suggesting using an office document scanner, unless you can get one specially made for photos, don't even bother. The ones I've dealt with generally only support up to 8-bit greyscale and really aren't particularly good quality.
Last week's This Week in Tech podcast had about 5 or 6 people from the early Apple days doing a 30th anniversary episode, and Woz was among them (actually, Leo's had Woz on 4 or 5 TWiTs now). Anyhow, Leo asked him about this very thing. Woz responded that while he and Steve did have their occasional run-ins, Jobs seemed to have a great respect for Woz and his talents and never really flew off the handle towards him.
I wish I had that much talent - if I tried that it'd just be a random sequence of sounds.
Hmm. I just watched the video and it pretty much is a random sequence of sounds. It's really hard to go wrong when you only have five tones to choose from for each instrument, especially when they're all in the same key. The rhythms/beats of the different tracks he was laying didn't match up at all, though. So, ummm, yeah. Still, an incredibly cool hack for the guitar hero controller though. I gotta give him tons of credit for that. And I'm sure some of the tracks he's spent more time honing sound great too.
Handy link to the Widescreen Gaming Forum website. It includes a listing of games that work with widescreen monitors, including hacks, patches, and workarounds to get games that don't natively support them to work.
Ummm, instaed of having four machines sharing one screen, wouldn't it make more sense for the game to be reworked to take advantage of one output device and four input devices instead?
They were assigned to Viaweb, and became Yahoo's when they bought us.
Well, that certainly explains the Yahoo! favicon for his page... : p
Excuse me? I merely asked a very legitimate question of him. Interesting that both he and you accuse me of very much unfounded things (projection as giorgiofrs put it), yet there is no basis for any of that in my posts. And I'll let you have the final word on this, since I really don't care one way or the other for final words.
Wow. Incredibly mature response on your part. And just to let you know, I used to work for an international telecom company. About half of our development team were from Russia, so apparently I have as much anecdotal evidence as you do. And from what they told me, it wasn't anywhere nearly as bad as the US's jingoistic public school education would have people believe. It wasn't that great, but it also wasn't all that bad. Which interestingly enough, is very much my take on capitalism. It has many great aspects to it, but it also has a handful of negatives to go along with those. My point--every economic system has it's pluses and minuses. Just because you were raised under one doesn't instantly make it the best and all the others are completely evil and wrong, as many of your neighbors and cohorts would have you believe.
Whereas in a communist country they certainly do.
Do you speak from firsthand experience or are you just pulling stuff from your ass?
Well, they'll be upset to learn that I've discovered the secret to always winning on eBay. You simply enter a bunch of nines into the number field. Whammo! Winner every time! Hehehehe...suckers...
Topic: Bill Gates plans to rule world.
Woah woah woah! Bill Gates plans to do what?!? Why haven't I heard anyone say anything about this before???
Oh yeah, and get a pitchpipe, a tuning fork, or possibly a chromatic electric tuner to tune your instrument. It's a lot easier than having to boot up your computer and launch a program to tune your instrument. Not to mention, if you're just playing by yourself, you often only need to tune the instrument to itself, which in itself is very good practice for your ear.
If you are just beginning to learn an instrument, take the low tech approach and don't mix the computer into it at all. It will only distract you and waste your time when you could actually be learning the instrument. Or if you feel that you must use software to help develop your tuning and intonation skills, then break it up into "with computer" and "without computer" sessions. Honestly, the way to learn an instrument is to become intimately familiar with it, and you won't get that by fiddling with a computer.
Damn 2000 flushes splashback...
You know, you're right. The name Brent Kirkwood does have a very Japanese ring to it.
Very wise move on your part. : p