The remote is not that useful simply because you can't navigate through all the mp3s without looking at the display. So basically you have to be close enough to your audiotron to read the display or use the web interface.
What you can do with the remote is assign playlists to the favorites buttons but you will have to memorize what they are and there are not that many favorite buttons anyway.
It seems the Streamium has lots of features however I'd bet the sound quality is quite mediocre, on par with a $199 mini-system.
I recommend the Audiotron. It plays streams over the internet, mp3s, wmas and can be totally configured and controlled over a web interface. More importantly it has a digital output so the quality is there (as long as your mp3s are good quality, of course).
I find it quite amazing that when talking about US foreign policy people completely forget something called the "cold war".
The deadly antagonism with the Soviet Union dictated completely the foreign policy of the USA from 1945 to 1989 and can even explain a lot of the current policy (e.g. the relationship with Israel).
So why don't people ever think about or discuss it? I guess they have a 5-minute memory after watching too much bad tv.
I work in a high-tech industry and I see more people carrying their PDAs than actually using them.
If people carry them is because they use them. Sure, you can carry some gadget for a week for its novelty factor but if you don't use it sooner than later you will stop taking it with you.
Having said that PDAs are not for everybody. Unless you spend certain amount of time away from you desk and in need of contact information, scheduling or some specific application maybe a PDA is not for you.
Personally I love my XDA especially because I have my email always updated anywhere I go. I don't use it as a phone very often but when I do it works very well although certainly not as well as a normal cell phone.
Every one of the recent processors from both Intel and AMD are very much power hungry. While the P4 3.06 pushes 80 watts the top-of-the-line AMD is not far behind.
Sadly this trend won't go away anytime soon. When you pack that many transistors running at ultrahigh frenquencies in a tiny package you have to pay somehow.
If Microsoft lowers their price so that they are competitive then they will squash these machines like a bug. If not, then expect Microsoft's Tablet OS to be a huge flop.
Yes, the initial prices are certainly not very reasonable but I don't think Microsoft is to blame here since they don't have a say in this, the same way they don't tell Dell what to sell their PCs for. Microsoft collects a license per unit that is probably around $100. The rest is up to the OEM.
Most mouse based applications work naturally with a pen anyway. Web browsing, e-book reading, marking up text, drawing, and things like that work like a charm with standard Linux applications on a Linux-based tablet.
Yes, that's right, you can do all that with Linux. However the point of a Tablet PC is to be completely intuitive. Say you want to write an email, you would tap the email app, tap the to: field and a list of previous address used would pop up. You would select one, and then start scribbling away. It's all about integration and the problem with Linux on the desktop is precisely that it lacks cohesion and more so if you are using a touchscreen. A Tablet PC is useless without thousands of hours of usability studies and nobody does that for Linux.
And even with no handwriting recognition, an on-screen keyboard makes entering text and data quite easy and quick and, again, requires no application changes (given the modular X11 architecture). And fully integrated handwriting and gesture recognition also already exists for X11.
Believe me, on-screen keyboards suck and will always suck. Handwriting recognition is the killer feature here and Microsoft has done tons of research on this. Check out the Microsoft Research website.
A tablet form factor does not a Tablet PC make. The Tablet PC is cool because of all the software that handles inputing with an stylus and integrating that with the rest of applications. That software has been in development for a couple of years and is far from trivial.
At this stage Linux doesn't have anything even close to that. Of course it would be fun to hack a Tablet PC but not much productivity could be expected.
It's not a profile per se but by using Mobile Information Server 2002 you can get a lot of functionality. Basically this product allows you to connect to your Exchange server and synchronize Calendar, Contacts and Email from anywhere using your cell phone or pda.
Now the rest of the 5.9999 billion people in Earth has just to move to Iceland where they can just make a hole on the ground and use geothermal energy and we won't need to use any more oil...
And I've got two more news for you: -The forecasts that announce the inminent depletion of oil are flawed. Extraction techniques are advancing all the time. -As oil becomes scarcer and dearer to pump out the market will provide new sources of energy. In this case free market definitely works.
Is Attack of the Clones worse than The Phantom Menace? Or putting it another way, is worse being kicked down there that getting a couple of teeth pulled out?
The acting of Attack of the Clones is utterly horrific and the sloppy script seems to have been written by a twelve year old. It's so bad you will laugh when people die, promise each other eternal love or describe their most cherished childhood memories. Oh yeah, and it turns out Jedi Knights are like James Bond on steroids.
Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) is so lame I couldn't believe it and Natalie Portman is right there after him. They will likely be remembered as one of the couples with less chemistry in the history of moviemaking. Attack of the Clones is like Titanic set in space but George Lucas is no James Cameron. While Cameron has limitations George Lucas couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag. George Lucas is lazy and mediocre. It's time people smell the fucking coffee.
And BTW, the CGI of the interior of buildings lacks depth of field and looks shitty.
Here's the list of new scenes in the longer cut of the movie:
-A new addition to the opening sequence in which Bilbo provides background on Hobbits and their history in voice-over as he writes his memoirs.
-A new introduction to Samwise Gamgee, seen in his capacity as a gardener.
-A scene taking place at the Green Dragon Inn, which introduces us to the camaraderie of the Hobbits (we see them singing together) and sets up the geopolitics of the story.
-The Hobbits witnessing the departure of the Elves from Middle Earth on the way to Bree.
-Aragorn watching over the sleeping Hobbits, singing the ballad of Beren and Luthien to himself in the night.
-Aragorn at his mother's grave, in which we learn that he was raised by Elves and that Sauron has long hunted him.
-Two new moments during the departure from Rivendale, one in which we see Arwen's emotional reaction to Aragorn's leaving, and another in which Elrond sees the Fellowship off.
-A scene with the Fellowship in the mines of Moria, in which we learn how the Dwarves themselves unleashed the fire-demon that eventually destroyed them.
-A scene at Lothlorien, where Galadriel bestows upon each of the Fellowship a gift which will play an important role later in the Trilogy.
-And finally, more footage of the battle at Amon Hen. This is not particularly bloody footage, but its addition will likely result in this cut of the film receiving an R-rating.
It seems like the added scenes will add much needed depth to the movie.
Killed/Injured Israel 286/1024 Palestine 1125/20,000+
What's that supposed to mean? That Israel are the bad guys?
To any intelligent person it would mean only one thing: that the palestinians can't kill as many people as they'd like to. They don't have any means of killing israelis other than going inside a bar and blowing themselves up and in fact that's what they do.
On the other hand, Israel has nuclear weapons, which they have chosen not to use. What do you think the palestinians would do with nuclear weapons?
Basically this newsbit goes something like: "The states want to have the right to pursue antitrust cases even when they don't have the support of the federal goverment". And this constitutes news?
Seem like a no brainer to me. Nothing to see here, please move on.
Now Sun is saying that since they're the only game in town, they don't get to just pick up their toys and go home. They have a responsibility to the public/market to allow anybody to play.. but they still have to play fair.
Of course you can always go and download a Java VM and you can even download one from Microsoft (!). Isn't that fair enough?
Sure, Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop but using that as an excuse to ask them to bundle with the OS or browser each product they are competing with seems a tad excesive. If Sun gets its way, couldn't then Real Networks and AOL ask to get their products included with Windows XP?
On January 23, 2001 Microsoft and Sun settled on the lawsuit about Microsoft shipping non-standard versions of Java. Part of the settlement was the following: "Sun has agreed to grant Microsoft a limited license to continue to distribute its current version of the software, provided that all future versions of such products pass Sun's compatibility tests. This part of the agreement lasts seven years. Beyond that date, Microsoft can not distribute Java technology or use any of Sun's intellectual property."
Ok, so Microsoft can't distribute any Java after 2008. But Microsoft decided not to included the Java VM with Windows XP, kind of saying we don't need your stinking POS. Now, on this new lawsuit Sun asks among other things for: "Preliminary injunctions prior to trial requiring Microsoft to: Distribute Sun's current, binary implementation of Java Plug-in as part of Windows XP and Internet Explorer." Why don't they make up their fucking mind?
It seems to me Sun is just looking for some money to pad their lackluster balance sheet. If you think Sun is doing any of this for the good of the public you should stop watching the Teletubbies.
Except that it may take that long to subtitle, edit, and generally prepare the movie for foreign markets.
Maybe they should sit on the movie until they've readied it for all markets and then release simultaneously? Just like software, right?
The main reason why movies are not released everywhere at the same time is simply that the same prints that are used for the US are then sent abroad. I don't know how much a print costs but for sure many thousands. Multiply that for a few thousand copies and you get a tidy sum.
If they wanted worldwide launches they could and if fact they do. One recent movie that had such a launch was Harry Potter. I think worlwide launches will be more common in the future since the world is shrinking continously and it makes sense to leverage your marketing dollars, which let's not forget these days are as much as the movie costs to produce. This will obviously be the case when they move to digital media.
If I look at it like just another adventure movie it gets thumbs up.
However if I look at the book I have to say the movie doesn't convey most of what's important. The story of The Lord of the Rings it's nothing special. What makes the book special is its language and the amazing detail with all the linguistics, anthropology, mythology, poetry, genealogy, geology, etc that J.R.R. Tolkien spent many years researching. By looking at the movie I just see a not so original story with plenty of action and a neck breaking pace. I think the characterization, imagery and locations are very good but not enough to recreate the content of the book.
This movie is probably the best of all the possible renditions given the constraints but in all I think it's a poor reflection of the original work.
Flame away!
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This story appeared five months ago and if you pay attention that's an XDK (a development Xbox kit). To get MAME running on a normal Xbox you'll have to crack the protection that prevents you from running unsigned discs which from what I've read won't be easy at all.
Or, you could move. I wouldn't suggest the USA- with the present anal-retentiveness of the body politic going bughouse, I've been contemplating greener pastures myself.
Yes, he's suggesting that poor soul to move in order to avoid using Windows.
I was raised speaking basque, and NO operating systems support my language. SO I have been forced to learn English.
First, every OS that supports ANSI 1252 (99.9% of them) supports Basque.
Second, there are localized versions of Win9X in Basque. That means that all the UI is in Basque, Euskara, Euskera or whatever you want to call it depending on your political color. As far as I know there's going to be a Basque version of Whistler too.
The Economist, arguably one of the best periodicals out there, often has articles about the cost of living around the world. I guess that you could get an idea starting with those:
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The remote is not that useful simply because you can't navigate through all the mp3s without looking at the display. So basically you have to be close enough to your audiotron to read the display or use the web interface.
What you can do with the remote is assign playlists to the favorites buttons but you will have to memorize what they are and there are not that many favorite buttons anyway.
I recommend the Audiotron. It plays streams over the internet, mp3s, wmas and can be totally configured and controlled over a web interface. More importantly it has a digital output so the quality is there (as long as your mp3s are good quality, of course).
There should make a study linking the use of pr0n with inability to engage in relationships in the real world.
I find it quite amazing that when talking about US foreign policy people completely forget something called the "cold war".
The deadly antagonism with the Soviet Union dictated completely the foreign policy of the USA from 1945 to 1989 and can even explain a lot of the current policy (e.g. the relationship with Israel).
So why don't people ever think about or discuss it? I guess they have a 5-minute memory after watching too much bad tv.
If people carry them is because they use them. Sure, you can carry some gadget for a week for its novelty factor but if you don't use it sooner than later you will stop taking it with you.
Having said that PDAs are not for everybody. Unless you spend certain amount of time away from you desk and in need of contact information, scheduling or some specific application maybe a PDA is not for you.
Personally I love my XDA especially because I have my email always updated anywhere I go. I don't use it as a phone very often but when I do it works very well although certainly not as well as a normal cell phone.
See this article from Tom's Hardware.
Sadly this trend won't go away anytime soon. When you pack that many transistors running at ultrahigh frenquencies in a tiny package you have to pay somehow.
If Microsoft lowers their price so that they are competitive then they will squash these machines like a bug. If not, then expect Microsoft's Tablet OS to be a huge flop.
Yes, the initial prices are certainly not very reasonable but I don't think Microsoft is to blame here since they don't have a say in this, the same way they don't tell Dell what to sell their PCs for. Microsoft collects a license per unit that is probably around $100. The rest is up to the OEM.
Most mouse based applications work naturally with a pen anyway. Web browsing, e-book reading, marking up text, drawing, and things like that work like a charm with standard Linux applications on a Linux-based tablet.
Yes, that's right, you can do all that with Linux. However the point of a Tablet PC is to be completely intuitive. Say you want to write an email, you would tap the email app, tap the to: field and a list of previous address used would pop up. You would select one, and then start scribbling away. It's all about integration and the problem with Linux on the desktop is precisely that it lacks cohesion and more so if you are using a touchscreen. A Tablet PC is useless without thousands of hours of usability studies and nobody does that for Linux.
And even with no handwriting recognition, an on-screen keyboard makes entering text and data quite easy and quick and, again, requires no application changes (given the modular X11 architecture). And fully integrated handwriting and gesture recognition also already exists for X11.
Believe me, on-screen keyboards suck and will always suck. Handwriting recognition is the killer feature here and Microsoft has done tons of research on this. Check out the Microsoft Research website.
At this stage Linux doesn't have anything even close to that. Of course it would be fun to hack a Tablet PC but not much productivity could be expected.
And here an article about Tablet PC software.
It's not a profile per se but by using Mobile Information Server 2002 you can get a lot of functionality. Basically this product allows you to connect to your Exchange server and synchronize Calendar, Contacts and Email from anywhere using your cell phone or pda.
http://www.microsoft.com/miserver/evaluation/overv iew/default.asp
It works really well.
I figured I was lucky, I got everything I wanted to know without it costing me anything but the time. I doubt many others were so lucky.
Are you sure? Do you know if this loser Sara is right for you?
Now the rest of the 5.9999 billion people in Earth has just to move to Iceland where they can just make a hole on the ground and use geothermal energy and we won't need to use any more oil...
And I've got two more news for you:
-The forecasts that announce the inminent depletion of oil are flawed. Extraction techniques are advancing all the time.
-As oil becomes scarcer and dearer to pump out the market will provide new sources of energy. In this case free market definitely works.
While looking at a galactic 3d map Obi Wan says: "I'm looking for a system south of here".
Yes, George Lucas is a master comedian.
Is Attack of the Clones worse than The Phantom Menace? Or putting it another way, is worse being kicked down there that getting a couple of teeth pulled out?
The acting of Attack of the Clones is utterly horrific and the sloppy script seems to have been written by a twelve year old. It's so bad you will laugh when people die, promise each other eternal love or describe their most cherished childhood memories. Oh yeah, and it turns out Jedi Knights are like James Bond on steroids.
Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) is so lame I couldn't believe it and Natalie Portman is right there after him. They will likely be remembered as one of the couples with less chemistry in the history of moviemaking. Attack of the Clones is like Titanic set in space but George Lucas is no James Cameron. While Cameron has limitations George Lucas couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag. George Lucas is lazy and mediocre. It's time people smell the fucking coffee.
And BTW, the CGI of the interior of buildings lacks depth of field and looks shitty.
Here's the list of new scenes in the longer cut of the movie:
-A new addition to the opening sequence in which Bilbo provides background on Hobbits and their history in voice-over as he writes his memoirs.
-A new introduction to Samwise Gamgee, seen in his capacity as a gardener.
-A scene taking place at the Green Dragon Inn, which introduces us to the camaraderie of the Hobbits (we see them singing together) and sets up the geopolitics of the story.
-The Hobbits witnessing the departure of the Elves from Middle Earth on the way to Bree.
-Aragorn watching over the sleeping Hobbits, singing the ballad of Beren and Luthien to himself in the night.
-Aragorn at his mother's grave, in which we learn that he was raised by Elves and that Sauron has long hunted him.
-Two new moments during the departure from Rivendale, one in which we see Arwen's emotional reaction to Aragorn's leaving, and another in which Elrond sees the Fellowship off.
-A scene with the Fellowship in the mines of Moria, in which we learn how the Dwarves themselves unleashed the fire-demon that eventually destroyed them.
-A scene at Lothlorien, where Galadriel bestows upon each of the Fellowship a gift which will play an important role later in the Trilogy.
-And finally, more footage of the battle at Amon Hen. This is not particularly bloody footage, but its addition will likely result in this cut of the film receiving an R-rating.
It seems like the added scenes will add much needed depth to the movie.
Killed/Injured Israel 286/1024 Palestine 1125/20,000+
What's that supposed to mean? That Israel are the bad guys?
To any intelligent person it would mean only one thing: that the palestinians can't kill as many people as they'd like to. They don't have any means of killing israelis other than going inside a bar and blowing themselves up and in fact that's what they do.
On the other hand, Israel has nuclear weapons, which they have chosen not to use. What do you think the palestinians would do with nuclear weapons?
Who are the bad guys now?
Basically this newsbit goes something like: "The states want to have the right to pursue antitrust cases even when they don't have the support of the federal goverment". And this constitutes news?
Seem like a no brainer to me. Nothing to see here, please move on.
Of course you can always go and download a Java VM and you can even download one from Microsoft (!). Isn't that fair enough? Sure, Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop but using that as an excuse to ask them to bundle with the OS or browser each product they are competing with seems a tad excesive. If Sun gets its way, couldn't then Real Networks and AOL ask to get their products included with Windows XP?
On January 23, 2001 Microsoft and Sun settled on the lawsuit about Microsoft shipping non-standard versions of Java. Part of the settlement was the following: "Sun has agreed to grant Microsoft a limited license to continue to distribute its current version of the software, provided that all future versions of such products pass Sun's compatibility tests. This part of the agreement lasts seven years. Beyond that date, Microsoft can not distribute Java technology or use any of Sun's intellectual property."
Ok, so Microsoft can't distribute any Java after 2008. But Microsoft decided not to included the Java VM with Windows XP, kind of saying we don't need your stinking POS. Now, on this new lawsuit Sun asks among other things for: "Preliminary injunctions prior to trial requiring Microsoft to: Distribute Sun's current, binary implementation of Java Plug-in as part of Windows XP and Internet Explorer." Why don't they make up their fucking mind?
It seems to me Sun is just looking for some money to pad their lackluster balance sheet. If you think Sun is doing any of this for the good of the public you should stop watching the Teletubbies.
Except that it may take that long to subtitle, edit, and generally prepare the movie for foreign markets.
Maybe they should sit on the movie until they've readied it for all markets and then release simultaneously? Just like software, right?
The main reason why movies are not released everywhere at the same time is simply that the same prints that are used for the US are then sent abroad. I don't know how much a print costs but for sure many thousands. Multiply that for a few thousand copies and you get a tidy sum.
If they wanted worldwide launches they could and if fact they do. One recent movie that had such a launch was Harry Potter. I think worlwide launches will be more common in the future since the world is shrinking continously and it makes sense to leverage your marketing dollars, which let's not forget these days are as much as the movie costs to produce. This will obviously be the case when they move to digital media.
If I look at it like just another adventure movie it gets thumbs up.
However if I look at the book I have to say the movie doesn't convey most of what's important. The story of The Lord of the Rings it's nothing special. What makes the book special is its language and the amazing detail with all the linguistics, anthropology, mythology, poetry, genealogy, geology, etc that J.R.R. Tolkien spent many years researching. By looking at the movie I just see a not so original story with plenty of action and a neck breaking pace. I think the characterization, imagery and locations are very good but not enough to recreate the content of the book.
This movie is probably the best of all the possible renditions given the constraints but in all I think it's a poor reflection of the original work.
Flame away!
This story appeared five months ago and if you pay attention that's an XDK (a development Xbox kit). To get MAME running on a normal Xbox you'll have to crack the protection that prevents you from running unsigned discs which from what I've read won't be easy at all.
Please put down the crack pipe.
Yes, he's suggesting that poor soul to move in order to avoid using Windows.
Get a life!!!
First, every OS that supports ANSI 1252 (99.9% of them) supports Basque.
Second, there are localized versions of Win9X in Basque. That means that all the UI is in Basque, Euskara, Euskera or whatever you want to call it depending on your political color. As far as I know there's going to be a Basque version of Whistler too.
-Overall cost of living by city
-Taxi fares
-The Big Mac index. This is useful to find out if a currency is overvalued more than being a cost of living indicator, but it's fun nonetheless.