There is eff-all I'm optimistic about, but realising the petrol is going to run out, and that there won't be a bridge technology of sufficient capacity found in time to prevent the inevitable social collapse, couple with a love of rockabilly, I'm optomistic that after 30 years of playing guitar and electric bass, I'll be able to learn upright bass (bass fiddle) really quickly.
Windows automotive? Yet another reason to trot out the old FORD is an acronym joke - Fix Or Repair Daily, Found On Rubbish Dumps, F***ed On Race Day;-)
Look, biodiesal doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere, it relocates CO2 from where the biodiesal is made to where the biodiesal is burned. Add to this that even the best, most modern diesal engines still produce significantly higher levels of particulate pollution (particulates are what make for smog related health problems in cities) than other mobile energy sources and biodiesal doesn't even look good as a transitional energy source.
There is no more CO2 mitigation in using biodiesal than there is from carbon trading. It's all deck chairs on the Titanic. Only giving up combustion energy altogether will save the planet (except maybe hydrogen, but that's got its own problems), but you "septic tanks" aren't about to give up your SUVs, are you?:-/
No date disply? What's the system-wide time menu then? Click on the time and the first item in the menu is the date (greyed out because it's just a display)
Delete-right? Delete-right is the stupidest thing I've ever come across in Doze, it's a pain in the arse and frankly, if Apple ever add this "feature", I'll be turning it off.
They lost me after these, obviously they have NO idea what they're talking about. Horseshit all of it.
Off the main topic, I know, but it shits me to tears when people speak about how communism failed. Communism has never been tried. Ever.
No, never, not once, in any form.
A sort of socialist inspired, facist-run, managed economy has been, but nothing that Marx and Engels proposed has ever been tried on this planet at a national scale. So, the battle between capitalism and communism is a right-wing propagandist's construct on both sides, and we have no idea about Marx's masturbatory index, consequently.
And, as for work, be it in small or large business: it causes alienation when you don't enjoy it, and elation and community when you do (drinking the cool-aid). Own the responsibility for how you feel at work, rather than blame the boss, your colleagues or the environment, and work becomes at least tolerable, if not enjoyable.
For me, and by far and away the least cool thing posted, I guess, compared to some of the other things (I like the police response time to 40 foot flame jets! ROFLMAO!!!;-), but I'm pretty stoked with my mobile recording studio.
A secondhand iBook G4 933, Audacity 1.3.2 beta (Garage Band is too bloated to use for live multitrack), 1x Griffin iMic, 3x Sony Singstar audio adapters, an 8-way balanced to unbalanced buffer board and a 4-way USB hub aggregated in AudioMIDI Setup. Total cost (excluding mics and cables) AU$1000 (About US$730)
Still sorting some levels calibartion issues (the kick drum looked like I'd run it through the guitarist's Marshall! Ah, the magic of EQ in post;-), but it's rockin'!
You know, Rigor Morty, the best way to treat arthritis is to keep the painful parts moving. Yeh, it hurts, but it'll hurt way more if you stop using it. Get out walking, cycling and canoing when you're not gaming, too. So, play your games, just be mindful of increased risk of overuse injury, and choose games which rely more on skill and strategy rather require high-speed button pushing.
The last game I'll ever play is TetrisMAX. I haven't played a computer or console game in probably 10 years because I got burned out on TetrisMax;-)
Amen! Most first purchase laws cover hardware. First purchase laws don't necessarily cover intellectual property, and in most countries, first purchase protection is a tort, not a statute and can be overridden, anyway.
There will be no Apple if they don't make it a breach of the licence agreement to run Apple's software on non-Apple hardware. Apple are a hardware company who just happen to not outsource their software, so they have every right to protect their product by any legal means necessary. They actually don't have to open ANY part of the kernal if they don't need to, I'm sure they have a version of Darwin which doesn't spring from the open tree, and could easily swap that one in at any time.
Jeez, your company is enlightened, they give you a box. Most would just escort you to the door and if you're lucky, they say they'll forward your things to your last known address on record.
I agree, Apple cocked up here. The thing that craps me off the most about iPod is I have to format it to suit the PC at work if I want to use it on both the office poo box and my mac at home. Therein lies the problem. If the iPod Doze installer included a driver for HFS+ disks, viruses would have to be a little cleverer to work with iPod. Having to format as a FAT32 disk makes me feel dirty;-)
I think what this debate shows is that even the large sum proposed is a drop in the ocean compared to the monetary value of commercial copyright.
I would suggest that moneys used to reserve works for public access would be better spent freeing stuff that has become social archetypes, famous newsreel footage, songs (such as happy birthday) that people are often suprised to find are still in copyright and core systems standards (such as the core APIs of various commercial operating systems, while still protecting the proprietory front-end.)
It would be legal if you installed Vista on a Mac then used EasyBCD to install and run MacOS X, but most people who have legitimate Apple hardware who have need for Doze are already served by Bootcamp (2nd rate, 1990s solution yes) or Parallels (dearer, but probably more reliable than the EasyBCD approach.)
Frankly, I don't see too many people really "needing" multiple OSes. Sure some will, but until somebody manages to legally "Pandora" Doze or MacOS into a reverse-engineered open-source state, there are very few instances where you'd need much more than Mac OS, Office Mac and for those rare occassions, if you really MUST, Bootcamp.
Remember people, Zune's wireless DRM wrapper wraps everything, including CC and free licences, a clear breach of these licences. I for one know that if I find one of my songs has been zuned, I'll be going microsoft for huge damages and theft.
Regardless of whether it's in the context of software or daily usage, this is a clear case of pryor art, because the method has been used in language siince the dawn of language (and programming is a language instance), so this is just macroslop fishing for legal context to be able to repatent all sorts of stuff in the future. Unbridalled capitalism is worse than unbridalled communism.
Obviously, if the game of monopoly is a friendly passtime, then all the scammer gains is a bad rep and an increasing pool of people who won't play them, but if others make a living from a game, and somebody scams them to their disadvantage, it's fraud.
Rigging sports betting is fraud, so might a similar situation arise in online RPGs. If not now, eventually.
How many mice can screw in a lightbulb?
Only two, but if they're a particularly small species of mouse they might manage a menage a troi (boom tish)
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All this is leading to the "Butlerian Jihad", the revolution against thinking machines Frank Herbert wrote of as the history of the worlds in his Dune novels.
When we let the machines think for us, we stop thinking for ourselves. Sounds fatuous written like that, doesn't it. It's not though.
Nothing wrong with machines as "slaves" doing our literal bidding, but 'puters making decisions for us is as dangerous a life as that led by The Dice Man (another literary reference, sorry.)
...this is why I choose a Mac every time, and I mean EVERY time, I have the choice. I spend 8 hours every weekday at a dozer inflicted on my by my employer doing this sort of crap all the time. Every Mac I have ever owned has simply worked. Like the rolex, they take a licking yet keep on ticking. Only time I've lost a Mac is to the 2nd law of thermodynamics (oh, and a bastard melbourne airport baggage handler who dropped my old PB1400 too hard a few years back, but even that was more due to age, wear and tear.) I got 9 years of happy (if slow) work out of my old clock-chipped 6100 66av (spun out to 88Mhz) and it was running 9.2 and photoshop 5.5 quite nicely right up until it died of a mobo failure, prolly heat related.
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There is eff-all I'm optimistic about, but realising the petrol is going to run out, and that there won't be a bridge technology of sufficient capacity found in time to prevent the inevitable social collapse, couple with a love of rockabilly, I'm optomistic that after 30 years of playing guitar and electric bass, I'll be able to learn upright bass (bass fiddle) really quickly.
I'm always optomistic about music.
Windows automotive? Yet another reason to trot out the old FORD is an acronym joke - Fix Or Repair Daily, Found On Rubbish Dumps, F***ed On Race Day ;-)
Look, biodiesal doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere, it relocates CO2 from where the biodiesal is made to where the biodiesal is burned. Add to this that even the best, most modern diesal engines still produce significantly higher levels of particulate pollution (particulates are what make for smog related health problems in cities) than other mobile energy sources and biodiesal doesn't even look good as a transitional energy source.
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There is no more CO2 mitigation in using biodiesal than there is from carbon trading. It's all deck chairs on the Titanic. Only giving up combustion energy altogether will save the planet (except maybe hydrogen, but that's got its own problems), but you "septic tanks" aren't about to give up your SUVs, are you?
you bastage, i was going to say that ;-)
No date disply? What's the system-wide time menu then? Click on the time and the first item in the menu is the date (greyed out because it's just a display) Delete-right? Delete-right is the stupidest thing I've ever come across in Doze, it's a pain in the arse and frankly, if Apple ever add this "feature", I'll be turning it off. They lost me after these, obviously they have NO idea what they're talking about. Horseshit all of it.
sleep function, been there on all macs for ages (probably on all dozers for ages if you know where to look)
Off the main topic, I know, but it shits me to tears when people speak about how communism failed. Communism has never been tried. Ever.
No, never, not once, in any form.
A sort of socialist inspired, facist-run, managed economy has been, but nothing that Marx and Engels proposed has ever been tried on this planet at a national scale. So, the battle between capitalism and communism is a right-wing propagandist's construct on both sides, and we have no idea about Marx's masturbatory index, consequently.
And, as for work, be it in small or large business: it causes alienation when you don't enjoy it, and elation and community when you do (drinking the cool-aid). Own the responsibility for how you feel at work, rather than blame the boss, your colleagues or the environment, and work becomes at least tolerable, if not enjoyable.
...but then, so is MySpace. Just the same, if you make music, and want that music heard, MySpace is unavoidable. (It's still f***ed up, though.)
For me, and by far and away the least cool thing posted, I guess, compared to some of the other things (I like the police response time to 40 foot flame jets! ROFLMAO!!! ;-), but I'm pretty stoked with my mobile recording studio.
;-), but it's rockin'!
A secondhand iBook G4 933, Audacity 1.3.2 beta (Garage Band is too bloated to use for live multitrack), 1x Griffin iMic, 3x Sony Singstar audio adapters, an 8-way balanced to unbalanced buffer board and a 4-way USB hub aggregated in AudioMIDI Setup. Total cost (excluding mics and cables) AU$1000 (About US$730)
Still sorting some levels calibartion issues (the kick drum looked like I'd run it through the guitarist's Marshall! Ah, the magic of EQ in post
You know, Rigor Morty, the best way to treat arthritis is to keep the painful parts moving. Yeh, it hurts, but it'll hurt way more if you stop using it. Get out walking, cycling and canoing when you're not gaming, too. So, play your games, just be mindful of increased risk of overuse injury, and choose games which rely more on skill and strategy rather require high-speed button pushing.
;-)
The last game I'll ever play is TetrisMAX. I haven't played a computer or console game in probably 10 years because I got burned out on TetrisMax
Amen! Most first purchase laws cover hardware. First purchase laws don't necessarily cover intellectual property, and in most countries, first purchase protection is a tort, not a statute and can be overridden, anyway. There will be no Apple if they don't make it a breach of the licence agreement to run Apple's software on non-Apple hardware. Apple are a hardware company who just happen to not outsource their software, so they have every right to protect their product by any legal means necessary. They actually don't have to open ANY part of the kernal if they don't need to, I'm sure they have a version of Darwin which doesn't spring from the open tree, and could easily swap that one in at any time.
Jeez, your company is enlightened, they give you a box. Most would just escort you to the door and if you're lucky, they say they'll forward your things to your last known address on record.
I agree, Apple cocked up here. The thing that craps me off the most about iPod is I have to format it to suit the PC at work if I want to use it on both the office poo box and my mac at home. Therein lies the problem. If the iPod Doze installer included a driver for HFS+ disks, viruses would have to be a little cleverer to work with iPod. Having to format as a FAT32 disk makes me feel dirty ;-)
I think what this debate shows is that even the large sum proposed is a drop in the ocean compared to the monetary value of commercial copyright.
I would suggest that moneys used to reserve works for public access would be better spent freeing stuff that has become social archetypes, famous newsreel footage, songs (such as happy birthday) that people are often suprised to find are still in copyright and core systems standards (such as the core APIs of various commercial operating systems, while still protecting the proprietory front-end.)
It would be legal if you installed Vista on a Mac then used EasyBCD to install and run MacOS X, but most people who have legitimate Apple hardware who have need for Doze are already served by Bootcamp (2nd rate, 1990s solution yes) or Parallels (dearer, but probably more reliable than the EasyBCD approach.) Frankly, I don't see too many people really "needing" multiple OSes. Sure some will, but until somebody manages to legally "Pandora" Doze or MacOS into a reverse-engineered open-source state, there are very few instances where you'd need much more than Mac OS, Office Mac and for those rare occassions, if you really MUST, Bootcamp.
Remember people, Zune's wireless DRM wrapper wraps everything, including CC and free licences, a clear breach of these licences. I for one know that if I find one of my songs has been zuned, I'll be going microsoft for huge damages and theft.
Ants on stationary bicycles could probably outrun this gas turbine gadget. ;-)
too funny! yeh, spelling, I meant "prior" didn't I (DOH!)
Regardless of whether it's in the context of software or daily usage, this is a clear case of pryor art, because the method has been used in language siince the dawn of language (and programming is a language instance), so this is just macroslop fishing for legal context to be able to repatent all sorts of stuff in the future. Unbridalled capitalism is worse than unbridalled communism.
Obviously, if the game of monopoly is a friendly passtime, then all the scammer gains is a bad rep and an increasing pool of people who won't play them, but if others make a living from a game, and somebody scams them to their disadvantage, it's fraud. Rigging sports betting is fraud, so might a similar situation arise in online RPGs. If not now, eventually.
How many mice can screw in a lightbulb? Only two, but if they're a particularly small species of mouse they might manage a menage a troi (boom tish)
All this is leading to the "Butlerian Jihad", the revolution against thinking machines Frank Herbert wrote of as the history of the worlds in his Dune novels. When we let the machines think for us, we stop thinking for ourselves. Sounds fatuous written like that, doesn't it. It's not though. Nothing wrong with machines as "slaves" doing our literal bidding, but 'puters making decisions for us is as dangerous a life as that led by The Dice Man (another literary reference, sorry.)
Rockbox rocks for penguins. I personally wouldn't use it under MacOS, but for linux on any of the supported players, it kicks bum.
...this is why I choose a Mac every time, and I mean EVERY time, I have the choice. I spend 8 hours every weekday at a dozer inflicted on my by my employer doing this sort of crap all the time. Every Mac I have ever owned has simply worked. Like the rolex, they take a licking yet keep on ticking. Only time I've lost a Mac is to the 2nd law of thermodynamics (oh, and a bastard melbourne airport baggage handler who dropped my old PB1400 too hard a few years back, but even that was more due to age, wear and tear.) I got 9 years of happy (if slow) work out of my old clock-chipped 6100 66av (spun out to 88Mhz) and it was running 9.2 and photoshop 5.5 quite nicely right up until it died of a mobo failure, prolly heat related.
That's one of the most inspiring tech lists I've ever read! Seriously! I love it when passion meets intellect!