He could give them access to the shows on the Tivo's drive but I don't thing the 50Mhz PPC in the Tivo is going to be up to streaming more than one at a time.
Plus it's only got one tv tuner. That really keeps it from seeing more than one live channel at a time.
What would be a nice addition is to have the program automatically generate a short MP3 of the touchtones for the contact telephone number.
It would be nice, yes. But, the iPod portion of the program is not a program! All the organizer does is send your phone numbers as mp3 files to the iPod. No code is actually being run on the iPod, so there is no way to "generate" anything on the iPod.
However, it would be possible to generate mp3s of the numbers desktop-side and send them to the iPod to be played when the number is selected.
Digital typeset lasers IIRC actually can do vectors native. A PS file (or whatever typset document format) is rendered as straight vectors without ever going to pixels. Pretty cool and VERY expensive.
Most of us will probably just see it as a shooting star, if even that. Mir is quite small, and depending on its re-entry speed, I don't think we'll see a whole lot.
Unless you're in the South Pacific, you're not going to see it at all.
While the size and luminosity of the Samsung were nice, it wasn't nearly as sharp as Apple's Cinema Display. And for the Samsung's price you can buy a G4 Cube with the 24" panel!
Ummm... Well... That's interesting because Apple's Cinema Display is built by Samsung!! Unless you've seen the Samsung 24" in action, I will guess your comparison is bullsh*t (it hasn't shipped yet). As to the price of the monitor, Pricewatch lists the Samsung for $6600. I think the extra 50% price is worth the extra 60% resolution (do the math, 1920x1600 vs 1600x1024), don't you?
possibly because (speaking for myself) i'm more productive in Linux with things like tab completion, xterms [it is a windowing environ, just run a lot of whatever shell you like], and perl...
I'm more productive in windows because of those things too!! And the fact that I can use things like Photoshop (gimp sucks ass). Get a friggin life.
"QuickDraw to Quartz
Canvas and other high-end graphics applications stand to benefit a great deal from Apple's move to a Postscript-based graphics system. "
The code is based on a different imaging model (PDF, instead of postscript)...
PDF is PostScript (PS), just w/o the licencing. Same damn thing. I know there are differences, but the "rewrite" from display ps to display pdf probably took three guys a week and a half. Aqua is an abomination on the face of the Earth and is nothing I want to talk about other than to say it is art not an interface.
Actually, the Internet really doesn't use satellites too much. The latency is too bad. Look at ping times, even from the US, to Europe. They're too good to account for the 23,000 miles x4 that a satellite connection would require. It's mostly undersea fiber optics.
I agree wholeheartedly with your post. One nitpick though.
4) 95% (at least) of all municipalities that have cable available for residents have a long term contract in place. To switch to a telco for this would require some nifty sidestepping of issues.
I don't know anyone who has a long-term cable contract. It's always monthly.
Right, you don't know anyone. It's the municipalities themselves. That's why you (US residents, b/c that's who the original post seemed to be aimed at) can't choose cable providers. Their CITY (or county or whatever) contracts on a long term to lock them to a single provider.
The point? Don't bash the technology because the people who are initially using it arn't the nicest people in the world. If this makes it into my city before cable broadband access does, I'll sign up for it.
Although there is a FreeBSD smp project, they expect support only by mid-2001...
Um NO... FreeBSD has supported SMP since version 3.0-STABLE. Since 4.0, the SMP code has been quite good. What you're quoting is a blurb on incorporating BSDi's SMP code, which is great, and won't be done until 5.0.
Like if I encode a MP3 on my single processor computer, it will chew up all the processor time and make other programs running deadly slow (on my windows 2000 machine)
Not to troll, but maybe you should choose another platform if you have this problem. My 266MHz iMac can encode a CD, while playing mp3s, and web browsing...with out a skip. I'm running the supposedly slow MacOS X PB.
You're comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). He said encoding an mp3. That's a very processor intensive operation. You're burning (encoding is the wrong word) a CD while playing mp3s. That's not processor intensive at all; of course it doesn't skip.
Maybe you didn't belong on Ritalin, but it really irks me when people start trying to decide
for other people that drugs are not good for anyone... No two cases are quite the same - some people might not need drugs...
No. Most people don't need them. As stated eariler, 74% of ADD cases are inaccurately diagnosed. Have you seen what ritalin does to someone who doesn't need it? It's awful. It really is. And three quarters of those who are on it don't need it. So yes. We do assume. But, chances are, we're right.
High School sucks. There was a Princeton study some time in the middle 90s that showed that there was NO link between good grades in High School and success anywhere at any time. I'm glad you made salutatorian. It means a lot to some people and if you were helped by it, that's great (I'm not being sarcastic). But, it means nothing.
I had a 2.9 GPA in High School. My teachers hated me (execpt for the GOOD ones: Mrs. Jago, you're a GOD) because I didn't do their stupid busy work. They wanted to put me on ritalin just to shut me up when I complained that I wasn't learning anything in their moronic classes. Thank god they didn't (my parents are smart). I took five AP exams and got 5s on all of them, and got 1470 on my SAT (800 Verbal, 670 Math). I had a decent time in High School and a great senior year. But, once again: High School sucks. It MEANS NOTHING.
I'm now at UC Santa Cruz (sophomore, double major in Physical Anthropology and International Politics) and have a 3.9 GPA. My profs are actually smart human beings and I do the work they assign because it's not stupid.
To all you High School kids out there: if you're having a shitty time in High School, don't worry, it gets a lot better. If you're having a good time in High School, just wait, it gets even better. Don't loose hope.
You may have learned less, but would other people in your class have had an opportunity to learn MORE?
I met a psychologist a few years back who suggested putting all the smart/disruptive people in a special
school so they couldn't screw up the learning opportunities for everyone else. He was ridiculed for this
non-PC idea, but can you suggest a better one?
Yes. Train teachers better. A good teacher knows how to deal with those sorts of kids (like me) and give them stuff to do so they aren't bored off their asses!
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- He could give them access to the shows on the Tivo's drive but I don't thing the 50Mhz PPC in the Tivo is going to be up to streaming more than one at a time.
Plus it's only got one tv tuner. That really keeps it from seeing more than one live channel at a time.http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/transition/nsc.htm
hint: it's a joke
ciao
- What would be a nice addition is to have the program automatically generate a short MP3 of the touchtones for the contact telephone number.
It would be nice, yes. But, the iPod portion of the program is not a program! All the organizer does is send your phone numbers as mp3 files to the iPod. No code is actually being run on the iPod, so there is no way to "generate" anything on the iPod.However, it would be possible to generate mp3s of the numbers desktop-side and send them to the iPod to be played when the number is selected.
ciao
Digital typeset lasers IIRC actually can do vectors native. A PS file (or whatever typset document format) is rendered as straight vectors without ever going to pixels. Pretty cool and VERY expensive.
'nough said :)
Intel bought the Alpha division from Compaq a while ago, before HP bought the rest. So, no, Compaq will not be getting Alpha.
- Most of us will probably just see it as a shooting star, if even that. Mir is quite small, and depending on its re-entry speed, I don't think we'll see a whole lot.
Unless you're in the South Pacific, you're not going to see it at all.Hint: The Earth is curved....
- While the size and luminosity of the Samsung were nice, it wasn't nearly as sharp as Apple's Cinema Display. And for the Samsung's price you can buy a G4 Cube with the 24" panel!
Ummm... Well... That's interesting because Apple's Cinema Display is built by Samsung!! Unless you've seen the Samsung 24" in action, I will guess your comparison is bullsh*t (it hasn't shipped yet). As to the price of the monitor, Pricewatch lists the Samsung for $6600. I think the extra 50% price is worth the extra 60% resolution (do the math, 1920x1600 vs 1600x1024), don't you?- possibly because (speaking for myself) i'm more productive in Linux with things like tab completion, xterms [it is a windowing environ, just run a lot of whatever shell you like], and perl...
I'm more productive in windows because of those things too!! And the fact that I can use things like Photoshop (gimp sucks ass). Get a friggin life.- While PDF is a descendant of DP they're different enough (really different in some ways) that I don't believe one can claim continuity.
Yes you can. Apple does."QuickDraw to Quartz
Canvas and other high-end graphics applications stand to benefit a great deal from Apple's move to a Postscript-based graphics system. "
- The code is based on a different imaging model (PDF, instead of postscript)...
PDF is PostScript (PS), just w/o the licencing. Same damn thing. I know there are differences, but the "rewrite" from display ps to display pdf probably took three guys a week and a half. Aqua is an abomination on the face of the Earth and is nothing I want to talk about other than to say it is art not an interface.Actually, the Internet really doesn't use satellites too much. The latency is too bad. Look at ping times, even from the US, to Europe. They're too good to account for the 23,000 miles x4 that a satellite connection would require. It's mostly undersea fiber optics.
No, the flag is held to the pole and also suspended from ANOTHER pole running along the top margin of the flag. No springs.
- Frankly, the watermarks don't bug me all that much unless they result in quality degredation.
Which they all do.- Stick a lava lamp in front of it, and you`re sorted!
You mean like this?- 4) 95% (at least) of all municipalities that have cable available for residents have a long term contract in place. To switch to a telco for this would require some nifty sidestepping of issues.
Right, you don't know anyone. It's the municipalities themselves. That's why you (US residents, b/c that's who the original post seemed to be aimed at) can't choose cable providers. Their CITY (or county or whatever) contracts on a long term to lock them to a single provider.I don't know anyone who has a long-term cable contract. It's always monthly.
- The point? Don't bash the technology because the people who are initially using it arn't the nicest people in the world. If this makes it into my city before cable broadband access does, I'll sign up for it.
Right on.Except that FreeBSD's SMP is already damn good. When BDSi's code makes it in (5.0), it will blow Linux away.
OK. ipchains is a good effort. It still isn't as good as ipf.
- MkLinux is still available for older systems (NuBus based Power Macs, and I believe pre PowerPC systems).
Not quite. NuBus based PowerMacs, yes. Pre-PPC, no. That's Linux/mac68k's job. The rest of your post is right on though.- Although there is a FreeBSD smp project, they expect support only by mid-2001...
Um NO... FreeBSD has supported SMP since version 3.0-STABLE. Since 4.0, the SMP code has been quite good. What you're quoting is a blurb on incorporating BSDi's SMP code, which is great, and won't be done until 5.0.OS X supports SMP fully, as it's based on NextStep. (OS X is nothing more than NextStep with its out of date userland programs updated with FreeBSD's.)
Do some research next time.
- Like if I encode a MP3 on my single processor computer, it will chew up all the processor time and make other programs running deadly slow (on my windows 2000 machine)
You're comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). He said encoding an mp3 . That's a very processor intensive operation. You're burning (encoding is the wrong word) a CD while playing mp3s. That's not processor intensive at all; of course it doesn't skip.Not to troll, but maybe you should choose another platform if you have this problem. My 266MHz iMac can encode a CD, while playing mp3s, and web browsing...with out a skip. I'm running the supposedly slow MacOS X PB.
- Their "low end" machines are still well over $1000.
Try $799redir: you're off your rocker. give up
- Maybe you didn't belong on Ritalin, but it really irks me when people start trying to decide
for other people that drugs are not good for anyone... No two cases are quite the same - some people might not need drugs...
No. Most people don't need them. As stated eariler, 74% of ADD cases are inaccurately diagnosed. Have you seen what ritalin does to someone who doesn't need it? It's awful. It really is. And three quarters of those who are on it don't need it. So yes. We do assume. But, chances are, we're right.High School sucks. There was a Princeton study some time in the middle 90s that showed that there was NO link between good grades in High School and success anywhere at any time. I'm glad you made salutatorian. It means a lot to some people and if you were helped by it, that's great (I'm not being sarcastic). But, it means nothing.
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I had a 2.9 GPA in High School. My teachers hated me (execpt for the GOOD ones: Mrs. Jago, you're a GOD) because I didn't do their stupid busy work. They wanted to put me on ritalin just to shut me up when I complained that I wasn't learning anything in their moronic classes. Thank god they didn't (my parents are smart). I took five AP exams and got 5s on all of them, and got 1470 on my SAT (800 Verbal, 670 Math). I had a decent time in High School and a great senior year. But, once again: High School sucks. It MEANS NOTHING
I'm now at UC Santa Cruz (sophomore, double major in Physical Anthropology and International Politics) and have a 3.9 GPA. My profs are actually smart human beings and I do the work they assign because it's not stupid.
To all you High School kids out there: if you're having a shitty time in High School, don't worry, it gets a lot better. If you're having a good time in High School, just wait, it gets even better. Don't loose hope.
- You may have learned less, but would other people in your class have had an opportunity to learn MORE?
I met a psychologist a few years back who suggested putting all the smart/disruptive people in a special
school so they couldn't screw up the learning opportunities for everyone else. He was ridiculed for this
non-PC idea, but can you suggest a better one?
Yes. Train teachers better. A good teacher knows how to deal with those sorts of kids (like me) and give them stuff to do so they aren't bored off their asses!That's all.