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You've got several options.

Keyspan makes two models, one of which also works with the Airport Express, if you want remote control of Airtunes.

If you have a bluetooth phone and you buy a mini with the bluetooth option, you can use Salling Clicker which is a pretty cool bit of software for controlling your mac with your phone. I use it for iTunes, but it's usable to control the DVD player. Actually you can use it to control pretty much anything that is scriptable on your mac.

If you didn't get the Bluetooth BTO option on you mini, you can always add a USB Bluetooth adapter

There might be other solutions as well. These are just the ones I know about.

this page says that there's a trick to make iDVD 5 create an image, rather than burn a disk. Also, there's a hack out there to do this in iDVD 4. I used it a year ago and it worked fine. made a plain-vanilla .iso or .dmg or .img (I forget which) so no, it shouldn't be some goofy iDVD-only format. I made images one one mac and burned them on another with Toast. I'm posting this from my combo-drive mini but I haven't installed iLife 05 yet. (Ships with '04 and comes with '05 on a DVD.)

According to this, you still have to have a Superdrive-equipped computer to burn DVDs directly from iDVD.

According to this, however, the disk images feature would allow you to save your project as a DVD image and then burn the image to a disc with another app.

~Philly

iDVD '05 (or whatever it's called) will support saving a DVD image. iDVD Features

I've never used this software, but here is a web page that explains how to do the same thing with iDVD 2.0-4.0 Burning iDVD to 3rd party drives

It sounds like what you actually want is Final Cut Express, which was going for $99 with the purchase of any new Mac a while ago. I think it's $299 now.

You know other countries have factories, oil, pollution, etc ?

Factories?

Us?

We're an anarcho syndicalist collective. No factories here. Or shrubberies either.

Sounds like .Mac.

Which is to say, not as crazy as it seems on the surface. If people really like the MS application, and like being able to access it anywhere, they're liable to pay.

Big if, though.

The coolest thing I have seen from the great site gathering these open images (link in article) is a poster combinging and tying together all of the pictures seen so far here.

It's 2MB and I wouldn't nromally link to something that big on Slashdot, but it's very cool and held in a .Mac account so it will hold up to load (I just hope it's not locked).

It shows a picture of Titan, and the square from that that represents a blow-up of a small section, then links a part of that to the aerial view displaying the "rivers", then from that to the side view from above showing the shore, then shows in there where the landing site is and the picture from that.

Enjoy!

1. The footprint of the Mini is less than your average car stereo. In theory you could simply replace the mini case with car stereo case. All you need is a DC-DC converter, perhaps rewire a few things for audio and you've got a headunit that is more useful than what you can buy for more or less the same price.
2. Controlling the Mini could be a problem. Unless you use the salling clicker http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/ind ex.html/ which lets you control most of the things we would care about from your bluetooth phone or Palm. With a bit of scripting, you could set it up to control your hydrolics or what ever else you have.
3. You should be able to setup your mini to act as the hands free for your bluetooth phone. Route your calls through your stereo. Salling Clicker will ensure that your tunes pause while you're on the phone.
4. Ideally, you'd want to find a 7" LCD with DVI but it shouldn't be hard to find a dongle to converd DVI to composite or what ever.

Uh, no, what you want to do is use OS X's Spoken User Interface for hands free operation. The touch screen idea isn't bad, and maybe the best overall solution is some combination of the two.

Also, with the appropriate hacks (perhaps Salling Clicker), you could integrate your bluetooth phone into the mix. Open Address Book, search for a name and have the computer dial out over the phone with voice commands. Incoming calls could also automatically mute the volume on iTunes.

I dunno, that's just off the top of my head. You could also use your bluetooth phone to connect to the internet to look up directions on mapquest, but it'd probably be better to pull over for that.

One question. If the mini Mac goes into the car stereo space, does the printer go into the glove compartment or do you just mount it on top of the dash? =)

zterm works for me. Its very primitive and not really finished, but does the trick.

Better than IR remotes, add the internal bluetooth BTO option, and control it with your cellphone using Romeo or Salling Clicker.

And if we do that, netTunes would be the logical way to control iTunes on the headless server. That'd be an ideal setup.

If you've got a blue tooth phone, you can control iTunes on a blue tooth enabled mac with Salling Clicker. It's pretty damn cool, and you can use it to do a lot more than just iTunes.

I used it just recently with the car stereo I installed. ;)

http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa /wa/default?user=newbie4&templatefn=FileSharing1.h tml&xmlfn=TKDocument.1.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff =consumer&cty=US&lang=en

Just like my little iPod case made from a milk jug. Yes, it really works!

Remember the Speak and Spell from back in the 80's?

emulator:

http://homepage.mac.com/jakesmith/speaknspell/inde x.html

The ideas been spinning around since the early 90s at least.

But new technology isn't created solely by the market -- that just gives a massive economic incentive. The actual creation of new products is done by all those geeks and hackers who can't stop themselves from fiddling with technology.

The first serious consumer computer was the Apple II. Which was not what Wozniak had in mind when he designed it -- he wanted a system that other geeks, like himself, would enjoy playing with. So he built in concepts of openness and expandability that dominate PC design to this very day. Which means that everybody who uses a computer needs a tame Wozniak nearby to keep their computer working.

This has always been true, but Microsoft's security woes, driven by their need to fiddle and hack and featurize themselves to death, is rubbing everybody's nose in the fact. So all of a sudden, everybody's talking about "the end of the PC". And it's not a bad idea -- it's just not clear who's going to make that fundamental change. Because the people who create all the tech just don't think that way.

BTW, the rise of the laptop is hardly evidence of "the PC forever". A laptop actually is more of a "post-PC" system than any desktop, since laptops are, by design, much less configurable. And in theory, you could have a laptop which never needs to have anything installed on it. If you need new software, you just run it off a server. Not practical without pervasive networking, of course, but that's fast becomming a reality.

But laptops aren't going to be the post-PC either -- they're still designed around the idea that a computer is an open system you keep adding components to. It's just that the components are software rather than hardware. And despite all this talk of "Post PC", I don't see that changing any time soon.

142 comments and no mention of blogger's biggest kill- perhaps when their importance was proven beyond a doubt.

I'm sure you'll all remember that a week or two before the election, Dan Rather went on 60 minutes with a story about how Bush allegedly got special treatment when he was in the air national guard. To prove this, CBS posted PDF's of supporting memos, 'from' the 70's, on their website.

Within hours, someone mentioned on freerepublic that the documents looked like they came from microsoft word.

Over the 12 hours, Littlegreenfootballs.com , with the help of powerlineblog.com blew the lid off the story.

Here's a detailed analysis later put together by a guy who pretty much wrote the book on computer typesetting: Dr. Newcomer

Bloggers showed that CBS had aired a story based on piss-poor forgeries made with MS Word 2003 default settings within hours, and then let so many people know about it so rapidly that there was no turning back for Rather and 60 minutes. His retirement this spring was announced within a month of this fiasco, IIRC.

Now, regardless of what you happen to think of Bush (Dr. Newcomer was a Kerry fan), basing a story on fabricated evidence is inexcusable. Basing it on such obvious forgeries is beyond inexcusable, and reaches into incredibly stupidity.

Bloggers busted 60 minutes on this. Huge story. And I'm suprised I'm the first one posting it.

The PowerLineBlog was chosen by Time Magazine as "Blog of the Year" perhaps in no small part due to PowerLine being a clearing house for Dan RaTHer's education about MS Word vs Typewriters

Perhaps like other less-frequent Slashdot readers, I am puzzled why anyone would want to $ub$cribe to $la$dot ;-);-);-) given that Slashdot continues to miss "BIG" news for nerds, stuff that matters stories like ... Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet and RaTHerGate

Right under the nose of the Slashdot Editors the really BIG story broke on the blogosphere back in August (SwiftVets) and many (e.g. Slashdot readers and the few $ub$criber$) were completely detached from the discussion of the long-term implications.

The more stereotypical SlashDot discussions at the time were about "BusHitler", raTHer (grin) than an informed discussion about the long-term impact of the internet on society.

From the Belmont Club blog ... The undercard in the Kerry vs Swiftvets bout is Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet, two distinctly different fights, but both over information. The first is really the struggle over the way Vietnam will be remembered by posterity; .... But the undercard holds a fascination of its own. The reigning champion, the Mainstream Media, has been forced against all odds to accept the challenge of an upstart over the coverage of the Swiftvets controversy. Joe Strupp at Editor and Publisher writes:

"There are too many places for people to get information," O'Shea said. " I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore -- to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong, and here is why."

Yet for good or ill, the genie is out of the bottle. Before the Gutenberg printing press men knew the contents of the Bible solely through the prism of the professional clergy, who could alone afford the expensively hand copied books and who exclusively interpreted it. But when technology made books widely available, men could read the sacred texts for themselves and form their own opinions. And the world was never the same again.

Match up the landmarks

Already done for you.

- Tony

You can also see the sat photos here, with the difference that I aligned the images so you can toggle between before and after views.

I submitted this link last night, but, of course, it was rejected in favor of the plain, individual sat photos.

- Tony

speaking of helping, i put together this handy page to place an amazon donate badge on someone's site.

please spread the word. and donate.

The gas mileage you can get with a hybrid is far less than what you can get with a good diesel engine. Hybrids are a bad idea, twice the weight (batteries, two motors), half the interior room.

They are not twice the weight. A hybrid Civic weighs 100kg more than a non-hybrid Civic.

They are not half the interior. A hybrid Civic has the same interior as a non-hybrid Civic.

And you cannot compare diesel MPG to petrol MPG. They are different fuels with different densities.

Think of it like this. Diesel powered trains are actually HYBRID vehicles. The diesel motor turns a generator to provide electrical power to the electric engines. If hybrid was such a damn stupid idea compared to straight diesel do you think diesel-electric trains would be cost effective? The existence of diesel-electric trains should be a great big fucking clue.

Diesel-engined cars have been getting 50+ MPG for years and years.

Yes. 800kg 1.3L 3-cyl diesel cars get 50+ MPG. A family-sized sedan hybrid Prius with a PETROL engine gets 60+ MPG. This guy gets 80+ MPG with his Prius.

A lot of similar devices popped up in recent months. And I really mean a lot. Maybe not all of them are powered by AA batteries, some have Li-Ion rechargable battery, some have bundled power adapter. I did a bit of research on this some time ago, here's list of already available devices (as opposed to the one from story, which will be available in mid Jan only):

http://www.macally.com/new/new_syncbox.html, review of this product.
http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/table ts.html - "coming soon"
http://www.delkin.com/pdf/product_docs/usb_bridge. pdf
http://www.usbgear.com/USBG-OTG25.html
http://www.sarotech.com/cgi/main_eng.cgi?cmd=cutie dx_e
http://www.welland.com.tw/html/otg.html
http://www.welland.com.tw/html/otg/940otg.html
http://www.sitecom.com/index.php?prod_id=308&grp_i d=1
http://www.usbgear.com/USBG-OTG1.html
http://itsupplier.trustpass.alibaba.com/offerdetai l/12276816/Sell_font_color_red_Otg_font_Enclosure. html
http://www.globalsources.com/si/6007000637244/Prod uctDetail/Flash-MP3/product_id-1000452775/action-G etProduct.htm

Make your pick. But remember that some USB devices (like flash drives) are powered through USB port directly, so USB On-the-go host is supposed to provide power both for embedded hard drive and whatever you attach to it. Think about it when buying device powered by AA batteries - they may be not enough for some power-hungry USB appliances, microdrive-based "flash" drives are coming to mind here.

This site says the asteroid is projected to strike in India or the Indian ocean.
I would guess that the governments of the world would find it more economical to just move the many millions of people that could be affected rather than try to alter the course of the asteroid.

I also played quite a bit of Spectre and Spectre Supreme. Ran great on my LC II. I'm not sure, but I might have played network games of it with a Duo 230 as well.

Hmmm, these kind of sites are becoming a nuisance.

Sorry, that website uses broken embed tags and Windows-specific registry CLSIDs to point to quicktime player. I don't have a "registry" or a "quick time" player. For those of us who choose our own browser helper applications (instead of it being decided by a "registry") here is the relevant link [mac.com].

For those of you with a "registry" that decides which applications will open what, and when, you might want to go here [symantec.com].
pmr

In everything from the allocation of resources to polling places to the determination of the order of candidates, non-random, systematic "errors" can be surprisingly powerful in a democracy such as ours.

--MarkusQ

I saw it a couple weeks ago. The animation was beautiful, as is to be expected from a Miyazaki movie. However, the plot made absolutely no sense, and after talking with a friend who's read the book, the only conclusion I can reach is that Miyazaki's off his rocker and should have retired after Spirited Away. I wrote a longer tirade here.

no
"Scientist, Artist, Explorer of Spiritual Realms, All Around Nice Guy"
EMAIL me! tell me you love me!
im trying...really

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"Scientist, Artist, Explorer of Spiritual Realms, All Around Nice Guy"
EMAIL me! tell me you love me!
im trying...really

no
"Scientist, Artist, Explorer of Spiritual Realms, All Around Nice Guy"
EMAIL me! tell me you love me!
im trying...really

spam me! i'm a self-righteous twat!

rgbuice@mac.com

spam me! i'm a self-righteous twat!

spam me! i'm a self-righteous twat!

rgbuice@mac.com

spam me! i'm a self-righteous twat!

Look, I'll get down to it....
We all love geek chicks.
Yadda, yadda, yadda...
Congrats to Jeri on her success, and now here are some pix of her, enjoy. :-)

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Look, I'll get down to it....
We all love geek chicks.
Yadda, yadda, yadda...
Congrats to Jeri on her success, and now here are some pix of her, enjoy. :-)

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typical slashdot: they post a story about a C64 in a joystick and what are we concerned about? Looking up the skirt of the developer ;)

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typical slashdot: they post a story about a C64 in a joystick and what are we concerned about? Looking up the skirt of the developer ;)

Search ebay for B&W or Quicksilver cases, you can sometimes pick them up fairly cheap. The cases are really nice, very sturdy, but you'll have to do some modifications to get the motherboard inside.

Check out how this guy did it.

Got mine. Tenth birthday present, IIRC, and a quarter century (um, plus) later, it still works.

Unfortunately, Pentax cancelled the model in 1997, though used equipment should be available for the next several decades.

If you're a true diehard, you could always try a windows emulator, or WINE if it's available for Apple, though I guess that misses the hardware issue. Ok, that's getting twisted, never mind, I'll go home now.

So, how does he address the issue of fan out? As far as I can tell, if changing an input will cause a computer built from mechanical lego to do N transitions, then the mechanical force for all these N transitions would have to be applied at the input.

This doesn't scale and will hit the limits very soon.

He doesn't. But it would be trivial to add force amplifiers.

This page is about torque amps, which aren't quite what you want here, but the design might serve as a starting point. :)

High school students are enamored with their cell phones. I am especially surprised at the number of high school girls running around with cell phones as accessories to their outfit. Find ways to show kids how to do cool things with their cell phones, things like controlling a Mac via bluetooth or writing Java games for their phone. I think you will spark some interest if you can show them how to do stuff that will increase their social status by having the coolest phone or the game nobody else has. Of course I was the quintessential geek in high school so what do I know!

...And the Apple Store London Opening still has nothing on The Longest Line (the line at the Apple Store Ginza opening). Check out the video, thousands of people (between 2 and 5 thousand depending on who's estimates you believe) waiting in line out in the rain.

Was the one in London as long as the when the Tokyo Apple Store opened?

http://homepage.mac.com/hsk/applejapan.html/

The PureAudio url is http://homepage.mac.com/steve_bryan/FileSharing11. html.

For what it's worth I just did a photoshop diff on the durning and after images and then bumped up the contrast a smidge. The results can be found here: Image Link (5.2 MB JPEG)

TMM switched hosting companies recently, and they've taken us offline. We thought we could survive a slashdotting, alas, we cannot.

Here's a mirror of the image (hosted on .mac) http://homepage.mac.com/dark_lotus/ipodflash.jpg

If it's the latter, it's really quite cheap and could be helpful to build cheap, sustainable housing. Hell, I'm an out-door buff and I'd love to buy one of these that can be reused when I go on long treks and climbs.

Sure as hell beats living in a tent for weeks on end.

Really?

Even $10,000 is a ridiculous price for the structure in that picture. You could build a whole village of yurts for the price of one tiny "cardboard house" from these people.

Seems like a great use for all those trees. Wait, aren't houses made of trees?
And I thought I was cool with an iPod case made from a milk jug. I think I just got schooled.