^ i'll probably go for something exotic to accompany my bossa nuova mood
but no worries, name your poison, i'm a decent bartender
but no worries, name your poison, i'm a decent bartender
The collected works of fu - Page 3
lucky kid you.
don't forget to tell her to remind you the silly things you used to do when you couldn't walk without her (that would make her smile, i bet)
i'm just gonna have a drink in loving memory since mine died 5 years ago
don't forget to tell her to remind you the silly things you used to do when you couldn't walk without her (that would make her smile, i bet)
i'm just gonna have a drink in loving memory since mine died 5 years ago
zahal wrote:
Nowadays it's mostly $laves to the indu$try of $cience.
pretty much where i was heading the conversation about the whole mass(ive) trap, not only in science but in each and every field which is actually tied into the basic characteristics of human nature.
zahal wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvyD2o7w24g
thanks, i've watched that. i'm lucky enough to have conversated w/ Bohm, Feynmann and Pausch, among others, both on and off the camera.
Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Richard Feynman - The Last Journey
some people are modest anyway, others get modest only when they have to deal with death. optimism is one thing, apragmatism is another.
diego i love your threads in this sub-forum, they're pure dadaism just like most relaxed conversations. factor in the occasional misunderstandings due to differences in taste/style/humour/idiosyncrasies and you've got an international funky little Babel ready to rock
from all the punchlines so far i pick VP's about SSD. bring it on man, equipment noise is killing me.
c'mon now, did you really think for a second that anyone here would bite the 2012 story? you can always include a poll in this thread and watch the numbers fly by
shhhh i'm working w/ hamei to get him back into showbiz. Nostr is alive man just like Elvis, we saw him nightclubbing the other day
from all the punchlines so far i pick VP's about SSD. bring it on man, equipment noise is killing me.
GeneratriX wrote:
So: -do you all guys really think that the 2012 will be the EOTW?
c'mon now, did you really think for a second that anyone here would bite the 2012 story? you can always include a poll in this thread and watch the numbers fly by
Frapazoid wrote:
I wonder if they do this to sell books about Nostradamus.
shhhh i'm working w/ hamei to get him back into showbiz. Nostr is alive man just like Elvis, we saw him nightclubbing the other day
Oskar45 wrote:
fu wrote:
name your poison
Snow Queen v Hendrick's...
hendrick's my wife's favourite, i prefer tanq.10
but gin's aplenty in our bar, straight i presume? there you go
(there's another nekochanner who likes gin, just can't recall now, zafunk?)
VenomousPinecone wrote:
]Someone needs to fly around the world in a hot air balloon with the 3d cam slung to the bottom to get all the footage. Could we beam it to a big database on the moon, you know for future pay per view events?
woohoo, want me to mod your qtvr setup? what about chasing pop corn in 0 gravity?
pure class on your side fox
no matter what gifts you bring your parents, having them recalling the period they were the only ones to keep you alive + well is priceless.
i used to find all the silly things dang funny, helps to keep existential quests @ sane levels too
i consider this as a very nice/lucky state to be in
no matter what gifts you bring your parents, having them recalling the period they were the only ones to keep you alive + well is priceless.
i used to find all the silly things dang funny, helps to keep existential quests @ sane levels too
Oskar45 wrote:
...whatever age we are, for our mothers we'll be their kids forever for sure...
i consider this as a very nice/lucky state to be in
gotta find me a really special glass to serve you monica @ the bar diego!
ice-cubes inside?
yay for mediterranean girls, they can bring the EoTW in a few hours
ice-cubes inside?
yay for mediterranean girls, they can bring the EoTW in a few hours
Frapazoid wrote: I can't stand the way schools are run...
no one can, education is a tough one to tackle
Kant went on till the end, Russel could only stand teaching kids about 5 years, Adorno smelled that the times they were a changin' and documented whatever he could...
if sense-o-humour levels low, replace family w/ school below:
hex! sybr dropped the topic and scared all the students. where's all the young ones hiding?
exactly, it was a long debate that officially died somewhere in the 70s. the toughness of the topic includes the fact that (almost) everything (except for hapiness) can be tracked back into education. another big issue is the hallucination that anyone who knows something thinks that he's able to teach kids.
and that was pretty much the outcome of what officially died somewhere in the 70s. academia became industrialized (just like anything else) selling degrees for "successful, future leaders" in every field. give paper, get paper.
factor in the most common misconception of our time (confusing happiness w/ success in business, balance sheets and amounts in bank accounts) and you have a big bad joke keeping people hypnotized.
that's one of the oldest, proven tricks, known to work since the beginning. fear of unemployment: cultivate it, wrap it up in educational products, see where it takes you.
the sad part about this is that education per se is not nothing but get you a job. it's also a lifelong process. kinda exotic stuff when most people have lost their listening ability.
not long ago, whatever hamei wrote was a funny friendly communistic story. recently we also had a few discussions about recession, currencies hitting the bottom, and anger about the evil chinese world factory. as if this happened overnight while all of us experts were chewing buzzwords like funds, stocks and indexes. lastly, take a look at some of the most popular aphorisms like "a sucker is born every minute", "take or be taken" and you'll see why all this business runs on fear. brain rot what?
(if anyone would like bibliography about the whole educational issues of modern times, i'd be happy to oblige. lucky if you can read french/german as most concrete studies were written in these 2 languages. not sure if most/all of them have been translated)
till then, just set the kids free + enjoy spring :)
wheee! where have you been hiding?
bri3d wrote: ...the authors seem to have trivialized a very complex, long-standing problem. They've come up with some excellent sound bites about how "kids want to learn,"...
exactly, it was a long debate that officially died somewhere in the 70s. the toughness of the topic includes the fact that (almost) everything (except for hapiness) can be tracked back into education. another big issue is the hallucination that anyone who knows something thinks that he's able to teach kids.
bri3d wrote: ...it's just not the kind of learning that will be horribly conducive to a "successful" future.
and that was pretty much the outcome of what officially died somewhere in the 70s. academia became industrialized (just like anything else) selling degrees for "successful, future leaders" in every field. give paper, get paper.
factor in the most common misconception of our time (confusing happiness w/ success in business, balance sheets and amounts in bank accounts) and you have a big bad joke keeping people hypnotized.
eMGee wrote: Luckily in several industries having a good and solid portfolio will get you places, which I'd have to say is particularly meritocratic (especially for the naturally interested and autodidact individuals).
that's one of the oldest, proven tricks, known to work since the beginning. fear of unemployment: cultivate it, wrap it up in educational products, see where it takes you.
the sad part about this is that education per se is not nothing but get you a job. it's also a lifelong process. kinda exotic stuff when most people have lost their listening ability.
not long ago, whatever hamei wrote was a funny friendly communistic story. recently we also had a few discussions about recession, currencies hitting the bottom, and anger about the evil chinese world factory. as if this happened overnight while all of us experts were chewing buzzwords like funds, stocks and indexes. lastly, take a look at some of the most popular aphorisms like "a sucker is born every minute", "take or be taken" and you'll see why all this business runs on fear. brain rot what?
(if anyone would like bibliography about the whole educational issues of modern times, i'd be happy to oblige. lucky if you can read french/german as most concrete studies were written in these 2 languages. not sure if most/all of them have been translated)
till then, just set the kids free + enjoy spring :)
theinonen wrote: Education is not a shortcut to happiness.
wheee! where have you been hiding?
sybrfreq wrote: .. Why not answer the last question posed by the "skeptical bystander"... I don't think there is an answer to that one.
unless you'd like a software-specific answer, the answer (or the understanding to its difficulty) lies in the history of the debate/studies on the educational issues. this ain't new and sure ain't easy. we should clean up our own mess before we start influencing kids w/ hard+fast rules.
sybr already gave some of his thoughts, what about the rest of our students? what is it that you like and what is it that you don't?
oT
VenomousPinecone wrote: ...the lighter the bike at the end...
bike? aw man don't scare me, is your sidewalk surf borken? found some spares while spring-cleaning, give me a shout if you could put them to use :)
/oT
grade-hunting phenomenon, confusion between training (be it academic, college, polytechnic, etc) and education (which is not a one off thing) & the "successful" chewing gum...
nice to hear your thoughts/observation guys, to be honest though, to make it all stick together we'll have to start discussing socio-economic systems too. delayed (written) discourse is sorta tough for this one, and some really decent studies have already been published.
that's one of the messiest (as its directly related to regime/socio-economic system), the romantic plan was that all this debate about education + technological/scientific advancement would set people free, to work(slave) less, and have more time to think (produce thought) and other cool exotic things. right now we're at the other extreme. truth/beauty always lies in the sweetspot but we're really far from that.
laconically strictly-to-the-topicesque, keeping your mind/thought free is hard work. brain-rot is everywhere, just take a look @ what we're consuming.
keep your thoughts coming if you like, you're the only future that we can talk to (unless you all want to wait for Nostradamus comeback to a tv near you that is)
[tres cool, mr vp]
nice to hear your thoughts/observation guys, to be honest though, to make it all stick together we'll have to start discussing socio-economic systems too. delayed (written) discourse is sorta tough for this one, and some really decent studies have already been published.
bri3d wrote:
...Yet too often in the US we see parents blaming schools for problems that are ultimately not the school's problem to solve, and schools and teachers being graded and funded mostly based on factors they have no control over. Or, we see academics coming out with writing like this, blaming the problems with education today on a stifling of exploration and the "dumbing down" of teaching...
that's one of the messiest (as its directly related to regime/socio-economic system), the romantic plan was that all this debate about education + technological/scientific advancement would set people free, to work(slave) less, and have more time to think (produce thought) and other cool exotic things. right now we're at the other extreme. truth/beauty always lies in the sweetspot but we're really far from that.
laconically strictly-to-the-topicesque, keeping your mind/thought free is hard work. brain-rot is everywhere, just take a look @ what we're consuming.
keep your thoughts coming if you like, you're the only future that we can talk to (unless you all want to wait for Nostradamus comeback to a tv near you that is)
[tres cool, mr vp]
dizzy is my man,
muppet-proof talk
@3:26
sky, did you stick to vnc?
a friend just asked me about mac<->pc vncing, and i was about to ask here as i have no idea what happens on the windowy side
i just found CoRD (based on RDP, config how-to ), sent him the link, waiting for feedback.
jose, is your setup inside a small/home LAN? do you have any experience w/ RDP over ssh?
a friend just asked me about mac<->pc vncing, and i was about to ask here as i have no idea what happens on the windowy side
i just found CoRD (based on RDP, config how-to ), sent him the link, waiting for feedback.
jose, is your setup inside a small/home LAN? do you have any experience w/ RDP over ssh?
>bleep< memory loss recovered
bwahaha, "baby it's cold outside" in the sauna & her lightweight aerials...
bwahaha, "baby it's cold outside" in the sauna & her lightweight aerials...
fast + dandy, looks like RDP is working for him too under XP Pro <-> 10.5 inside a small LAN
he wants to RDP between home<->work so he's looking into it
i've only used vnc outside MacOS w/ my o2, tightvnc never gave me trouble back then, but my needs are usually simplistic
thanks for the pointers gents,
cheerio!
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i've only used vnc outside MacOS w/ my o2, tightvnc never gave me trouble back then, but my needs are usually simplistic
thanks for the pointers gents,
cheerio!
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any particular preference(s) Dave?
prime, zoom (long/short)?
all-rounder macro or say one to shoot hardware for the visual aggregator?
do you like shooting as close as possible to your subjects or have some room to breath?
prime, zoom (long/short)?
all-rounder macro or say one to shoot hardware for the visual aggregator?
do you like shooting as close as possible to your subjects or have some room to breath?
shhh, remind me to dig into my mother's archive for some rare footage when i get back to nyc
toxygen wrote:
...studio...
2 thoughts assuming that this pays your bills rather than being a hobby
-if you're in production, don't touch anything till the project is out
toxygen wrote:
We did some benchmarks, but we have all but the time to tweak & test all filesystems/parameters.
-you have to do this, hit a pause for a few days and do decent tests (w/ realistic video chunks not just the default diskperf stuff). quick+dirty tests are ok for editing shots of your dog doing tricks on a netbook.
mr foetz is da man, Dr. Dave also went through the hassle to document some really nice tests here, run a search or try the irc channel.
cool cool toxy, to be honest i thought this was a deja vu for a second, then i saw your location
2 weeks ago i brought a project into a fresh studio somewhere in Europe. The array went down, stretching everything 33 hours after the deadline. guess who payed the bill (me, sony or them)
best of luck and do hop on irc (and do as many tests as you can :))
2 weeks ago i brought a project into a fresh studio somewhere in Europe. The array went down, stretching everything 33 hours after the deadline. guess who payed the bill (me, sony or them)
best of luck and do hop on irc (and do as many tests as you can :))
skywriter wrote:
hamei wrote:
You people are nuts, have no sense of priorities and get exactly the government and economy you deserve. "We need wealthy people to give jobs to poor people" haysoos h kristos. The place is doomed.
We need Janitor Man(tm)!
Urope too! Urope too!
old continental toast is fried
london is plain misery, berlin tries to breath, kids have started grabbing stones
where is your "right there" oskar? Carnegie Hall?
Oskar45 wrote:
As I write this, I listen to a radio-play about the Nigerian 419 - great fun
radio-play about the e-mail scam? where did you find it? don't tell me the beeb is on it!
(as i write this i travel from the us back to europe. had to say goodbye to a friend, dennis's dead )
just bumped into this while travelling:
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
iirc, sun got (gradually) siphoned when google ditched their hardware for cheap, velcro-mounted, components à la carte…
Quote:
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
“Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said another.
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”
In early January, some new hires were still being allowed to install Windows on their laptops, but it was not an option for their desktop computers. Google would not comment on its current policy.
Windows is known for being more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and more susceptible to computer viruses than other operating systems. The greater number of attacks on Windows has much to do with its prevalence, which has made it a bigger target for attackers.
Employees wanting to stay on Windows required clearance from “quite senior levels”, one employee said. “Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,” said another employee.
“Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said another.
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”
In early January, some new hires were still being allowed to install Windows on their laptops, but it was not an option for their desktop computers. Google would not comment on its current policy.
Windows is known for being more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and more susceptible to computer viruses than other operating systems. The greater number of attacks on Windows has much to do with its prevalence, which has made it a bigger target for attackers.
Employees wanting to stay on Windows required clearance from “quite senior levels”, one employee said. “Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,” said another employee.
iirc, sun got (gradually) siphoned when google ditched their hardware for cheap, velcro-mounted, components à la carte…
r-ten can't really remember the details (might as well be a memory fault o' mine) but there was a buzz around tinseltown for a while. sun's suits were hanging around, playing the micro-soft game before the sell-out.
all tech analysis/commentary over to you guys
(one of the most puzzling questions of mine still stands: how on earth do people go back to work after witnessing one of steve ballmer's "presentations"?)
all tech analysis/commentary over to you guys
(one of the most puzzling questions of mine still stands: how on earth do people go back to work after witnessing one of steve ballmer's "presentations"?)
Oskar45 wrote:
*Austrian* radio isn't as bad as you might think
Anyway, check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zane_Mairowitz
for the author of said play...
Anyway, check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zane_Mairowitz
for the author of said play...
thanks for the link, i was just kidding about the bbc (beeb). Wolfgang Bauer is one of my (modern) favourites. austrian too, outsider by the old standards of his time and one of the few who could write about teenagers w/o missing all things that matter (All Change, Magic Afternoon).
Oskar45 wrote:
...I'm confident quite a few of us will die of prostate cancer as well. I might.
this one's totally freaking me off (probably the only thing i couldn't joke about too) as all the near/dears i've lost during the last decade, died of one form of cancer or the other. hope you're talking about probabilities rather than a diagnosis on your end.
i envy my grandparents who died naturally in their sleep, no medical cabling, tubes, pacemakers, chemotherapy and soup o' pills for them, just a good night's sleep…
dear science, please fix this!
pentium are you ok? can't recall threads of yours without a screenshot (or a dozen) :). aj's description rings a bell, can't check though (sgi-less)
and boy what used to happen when you'd get a bad idea (like dragging the image across the screen). we'd race our friends to the school and back again while the computa was trying to compute graphics.
josehill wrote:
...Back when I was a young man, every vector image loaded sllooowww like that, and we liked it! We had to walk a couple of miles to school, too! :D
and boy what used to happen when you'd get a bad idea (like dragging the image across the screen). we'd race our friends to the school and back again while the computa was trying to compute graphics.
R-ten-K wrote:
...(although I assume it is not a purely American phenomenon).
of course not, ol' mcdonald had a farm, then he found a way to pitch the idea of subsidizing chickens worldwide
R-ten-K wrote:
..Which is reaaaaaaaally scary if you think about it.
beautifying fear is our game, when the suits funk up, they come to us to fix some pr/ads for them. there's nothing like a suit in fear trying to play cool on camera. ironically, few of them do startups as "independent studios" while trying to find what to do w/ their MBA.
sigh
...like a cat on a hot tin roof
eMGee wrote:
How do you mean? You don't need an IRIX system to open or otherwise manipulate a PDF document from the TPL though (unless you meant something else).
oh yeah but no fun on 2 cores + 4 gigs o' ram of my mbp :P
i was thinking of the old-skool motion effect the rest of the guys talk about. alas, my o2 is being fostered by another member of the board
no problemo pent, viddy, viddy well :)
i'd usually back up the way saq mentioned. if you gotta have an image, you can boot off a MacOS CD (any compatible version will do) and use Disk Copy to create an image.
- System 7.1 through Mac OS 7.6: Compatibility With Macintosh Computers
- Mac OS 8 and 9 compatibility with Macintosh computers
you can also take a look @ gamba's classic page
- System 7.1 through Mac OS 7.6: Compatibility With Macintosh Computers
- Mac OS 8 and 9 compatibility with Macintosh computers
you can also take a look @ gamba's classic page
hamei wrote:
I would even allow crackers
(i thought (for a second) of italicizing the play but sky+eM have exclusive rights right now, no one else can use italics anymore)
summer of the tiger is here, anyone lucky enough to get some holidays?
Libertango!
the tango-in-the-street shot is fantastic, boy this used to happen all the time. is that you Dieguito, dancing w/ your wife ?
good to read that Teatro Colon is ready to (re)open
saludos capitán
the tango-in-the-street shot is fantastic, boy this used to happen all the time. is that you Dieguito, dancing w/ your wife ?
good to read that Teatro Colon is ready to (re)open
saludos capitán
^ kowalski-supersoul style
РОФЛ!
mayakovsky would cry-lol his arse out too, then he'd do a poem w/ Tarzan, most likely..
welcome Bubba, pay no mind to this post, it's just about esoterica humour
РОФЛ!
mayakovsky would cry-lol his arse out too, then he'd do a poem w/ Tarzan, most likely..
welcome Bubba, pay no mind to this post, it's just about esoterica humour
GeneratriX wrote:
Yeap, the musicians were installed over the roof of taxis that were driving quietly over the avenue! ...
ahh! so the're was a band in motion, slowly travelling through the city, spreading music all around...
just my kind of thing
i'd love to pay a visit again soon, i suck @ tango but with the right girl, "el Firulete"...
GeneratriX wrote:
Oh!, so are you some kind of "Virulazo"?
the maestro milonguero? (Nureyev admired him to the bone)
i wish i wish
i'm just a crazy rock-n-roller
(i might ask for your help later Diego, i'm checking the website of Teatro Colon and i can't find anything in english. my spanish skills are not that good)
wheee!
robots, fer forgé, palm trees, sunny beach, yachts, price bubble, a thousand colours, all for 149.99!
penny change sir
and you thought that the 80s were the end of taste eh?
robots, fer forgé, palm trees, sunny beach, yachts, price bubble, a thousand colours, all for 149.99!
penny change sir
and you thought that the 80s were the end of taste eh?
РОФЛ!
you kids are loco, automagic whatever you like but don't touch the colo(u)rs
or this place will look like a flyer done by the marketing guys
(dear santa, i've been really really good this year, please put an end to the 80s)
you kids are loco, automagic whatever you like but don't touch the colo(u)rs
or this place will look like a flyer done by the marketing guys
(dear santa, i've been really really good this year, please put an end to the 80s)
sybrfreq wrote:
It's one thing to buy a knockoff...
hamei wrote:
Ain't globalization grand ?
play you a song?
You told me you was high class
I could see through that
And baby I know
You ain't no real cool cat
…
You can wag your tail
But I ain't gonna feed you no more
sybrfreq wrote:
But it isn't
all
crap. That machine taught me to never dismiss any product because of it's country of origin.
sybr, it's what hamei said above (foreign owned factories)
some (now most) prestigious equipment in the filmmaking business comes from there too. (big joke is that it was coming from China before all this went mainstream, i.e. even before made in XyZ included China)