I think the "tragically white" moves are meant to be parody, actually. But you're right, this is excellent teaching material, and I hope it will get used for that. The lyrics are just so superbly crafted, and Alpinekat really delivers them.
I love geek rock, and that one really does rock! That lead rapper is awesome, and the lyrics are simply fantastic. The vid itself is quite cool as well.
unless you are arguing that the term "cloud computing" has no meaning.
Correct, it's an unnecessary buzzword (is that an oxymoron?) to cover something that's existed since the days of mainframes and dumb terminals. You know, that limiting, ancient paradigm that led to the microcomputer revolution because it sucked so bad?:)
Gbackup, of course! Well OK, not yer, but apparently coming soon. If you need it now, um, Google is your friend. And there's more, if you check Google.
And BTW, web apps != "the cloud".
It appears they've gone a bit further than just making the latest issue freely available, the archive is also online now.
This is awesome, thanks! Many hours of engrossing reading there.:)
Not to be flippant, but does anyone really believe there is any privacy anymore with simple,
unencrypted email? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the EFF is on the case. But it does seem to me that any expectation of privacy in any communication medium here in the USA went out the window with the news of the NSA telco backdoors. Our government is obsessed with spying on everyone, and they have demonstrated quite thoroughly they don't care about the rules at all.
HP isn't the only one bursting Microsoft's bubble. Microsoft Watch recently reported on the dismal pronouncement on the state of Vista adoption among top businesses. The really bad news for Microsoft is the number of business PCs running Windows XP increased from 2007 to 2008 -- three times the increase in the percentage of PCs running Windows Vista...In a survey reportedly conducted by a systems management appliance company, 60 percent of those surveyed have no plans to deploy Windows Vista and 42 percent are actually exploring Vista alternatives. 11 percent have already made the switch to Mac OS X or Linux.
Wow. Although quoting the statistics from "a survey reportedly conducted by a systems management appliance company" is mighty vague, I'll bet it's not far off. Add to that the rise of the netbook, and it's just looking better and better for Linux.
Garuuu? I watch porn as much or more than the next guy how is porn consumption a power game I like the appearance of women both clothed and unclothed. And yet I find no feeling of power and find stunts like this guy's disgusting.
Yeah, but just look what it's done to your typing!
God, I love that album. He was using analog synths, they sound really substantial. Sadly, they also are a PITA to keep in tune a lot of times, and actually getting the cool sounds was very time-consuming. Nowadays we sometimes compromise by using digital samples of analog synth sounds. It's like a 90% solution, to my ears.
But since most music gets played as a 256kb mp3 file anyway, it just isn't as important as it used to be.
I miss the days of 2" tape and vinyl LPs sometimes. Though making music on the Mac is way less hassle, it's also a bit less magical, and it never sounds quite as good.
Agreed. Extended Applecare saved my butt twice in the past six years. I suppose whether or not the warantee is worthless would depend upon your vendor though.
Indeed. Although I do think he does a great job with the functional aspects, I usually view/. with the following style sheet. It helps me avoid that ginormous "white out" headache:
@charset "UTF-8"; /*
Name: user2.css
Version: 1.01
Author: me
Description: a css for tired li'l eyes...
*/
* {
background: Black !important;
color: #BF5FFF !important;
}
Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.
Looks just fine in Safari and Firefox, both on OS X... Sounds like someone needs to check their settings/browser choice before setting off to "smack" anyone.:) As for trasforming human waste (just urine, according TFA) into drinking water, well, I'm just mighty glad I didn't choose to become an astronaut. I did wonder about this part, though:
It can also be used to feed the station's U.S.-built oxygen generator, which uses electrolysis to split liquid water into breathable oxygen and waste hydrogen.
Waste hydrogen? I would have expected them to have some use for that.
I still haven't u what we need Ubuntu for. We have Debian
Oh, come on now. I prefer Debian myself, but I put my non-geek friends and family on Ubuntu. If I put them on Debian I'll have to explain so much crap their eyes will glaze over and they'll ask me to put Windows back on. It may be trivial to you and me when something goes wrong (an apt-get dist-upgrade breaks the menu system, or optical discs suddenly stop mounting automagically, or the wireless network card no longer shows up in the Gnetwork box), but to a non-geek any one of those things is a total deal killer. Ubuntu may just be Debian slowed down by a bit of idiot-proofing, but it's exactly that idiot-proofing that makes it usable for so many people. When those same people see my ion3 Debian desktop they're like, "WTF? Why don't you just use the easy one, like you gave me?". And of course I explain it's because a more CLI-centric install is easier for me.
Actually, I posted AC because I'm using more than one machine, and multiple logins can cause cookie-related weirdness (like getting the same meta-mod page more than once). But that's not very interesting; what's interesting is why you would want to accuse me of that sort of thing. Axe to grind?
You're probably right. Like old saying goes, locks only keep out the honest people. And the more tyrannical our government becomes, the higher the percentage of criminalized population. Criminalized people can't afford to be honest.
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I think the "tragically white" moves are meant to be parody, actually. But you're right, this is excellent teaching material, and I hope it will get used for that. The lyrics are just so superbly crafted, and Alpinekat really delivers them.
I love geek rock, and that one really does rock! That lead rapper is awesome, and the lyrics are simply fantastic. The vid itself is quite cool as well.
That was Savannah, you ignernt yankees!
DISCLAIMER: I live in Douglas County. And we all have shotguns here, so they better not try it.
***We all point at you and shriek like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers***
Excuse me, are you serious? It's television , FFS! They edit, it's normal. Been going on since at least the 1950s.
Yes, I did.
Right, which requires a no-charge registration. Worked for me.
Duh, it is an oxymoron -- unless you know of a good paying job in IT one can get and keep without having to learn any buzzwords?
Correct, it's an unnecessary buzzword (is that an oxymoron?) to cover something that's existed since the days of mainframes and dumb terminals. You know, that limiting, ancient paradigm that led to the microcomputer revolution because it sucked so bad? :)
Gbackup, of course! Well OK, not yer, but apparently coming soon. If you need it now, um, Google is your friend. And there's more, if you check Google.
And BTW, web apps != "the cloud".
Well, thank god we have you to remind us what's really important, AC.
Small update -- no registration is required for the latest issue; for the archive there is a no charge reg required.
It appears they've gone a bit further than just making the latest issue freely available, the archive is also online now. This is awesome, thanks! Many hours of engrossing reading there. :)
Not to be flippant, but does anyone really believe there is any privacy anymore with simple, unencrypted email? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the EFF is on the case. But it does seem to me that any expectation of privacy in any communication medium here in the USA went out the window with the news of the NSA telco backdoors. Our government is obsessed with spying on everyone, and they have demonstrated quite thoroughly they don't care about the rules at all.
Oh Balmer, give it up already...
Wow. Although quoting the statistics from "a survey reportedly conducted by a systems management appliance company" is mighty vague, I'll bet it's not far off. Add to that the rise of the netbook, and it's just looking better and better for Linux.
Yeah, but just look what it's done to your typing!
God, I love that album. He was using analog synths, they sound really substantial. Sadly, they also are a PITA to keep in tune a lot of times, and actually getting the cool sounds was very time-consuming. Nowadays we sometimes compromise by using digital samples of analog synth sounds. It's like a 90% solution, to my ears. But since most music gets played as a 256kb mp3 file anyway, it just isn't as important as it used to be.
I miss the days of 2" tape and vinyl LPs sometimes. Though making music on the Mac is way less hassle, it's also a bit less magical, and it never sounds quite as good.
Agreed. Extended Applecare saved my butt twice in the past six years. I suppose whether or not the warantee is worthless would depend upon your vendor though.
Indeed. Although I do think he does a great job with the functional aspects, I usually view /. with the following style sheet. It helps me avoid that ginormous "white out" headache:
/*
@charset "UTF-8";
Name: user2.css
Version: 1.01
Author: me
Description: a css for tired li'l eyes...
*/
* {
background: Black !important;
color: #BF5FFF !important;
}
input, textarea, select {
background: Black !important;
color: #912CEE !important;
}
button, input[type="file"], input[type="submit"], input[type="button"], input[type="reset"] {
background: Black !important;
color: #912CEE !important;
}
a[href] {text-decoration: none !important; background: Black !important;
color: #7F9A65 !important;}
#a[href] img {border: thin solid #7171C6 !important;}
@media print {
* {
background: White !important;
color: Black !important;
}
}
Looks just fine in Safari and Firefox, both on OS X... Sounds like someone needs to check their settings/browser choice before setting off to "smack" anyone. :)
As for trasforming human waste (just urine, according TFA) into drinking water, well, I'm just mighty glad I didn't choose to become an astronaut. I did wonder about this part, though:
Waste hydrogen? I would have expected them to have some use for that.
Oh, come on now. I prefer Debian myself, but I put my non-geek friends and family on Ubuntu. If I put them on Debian I'll have to explain so much crap their eyes will glaze over and they'll ask me to put Windows back on. It may be trivial to you and me when something goes wrong (an apt-get dist-upgrade breaks the menu system, or optical discs suddenly stop mounting automagically, or the wireless network card no longer shows up in the Gnetwork box), but to a non-geek any one of those things is a total deal killer. Ubuntu may just be Debian slowed down by a bit of idiot-proofing, but it's exactly that idiot-proofing that makes it usable for so many people. When those same people see my ion3 Debian desktop they're like, "WTF? Why don't you just use the easy one, like you gave me?". And of course I explain it's because a more CLI-centric install is easier for me.
Actually, I posted AC because I'm using more than one machine, and multiple logins can cause cookie-related weirdness (like getting the same meta-mod page more than once). But that's not very interesting; what's interesting is why you would want to accuse me of that sort of thing. Axe to grind?
The link in TFS didn't work for me (they may have fixed it by now), but here's the marketwatch article and BigBlue's press release.
Oh, and uh, WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!
You're probably right. Like old saying goes, locks only keep out the honest people. And the more tyrannical our government becomes, the higher the percentage of criminalized population. Criminalized people can't afford to be honest.