ps Anyone know how to do this? In my case, my older messages are stored on another service which has IMAP access, so I can bring them into something like Thunderbird, but apparently gmail doesn't have IMAP access. Otherwise I think I'd be able to move them over that way...
Oh sure, now that slashdot is spent of the Columbine story, now you're "not doing anything with Colorado these days". Have you forgotten South Park? Legalization of pot? NORAD?
Brought to you by your friendly Colorado dept of commerce. "No, seriously, it's a great place to be a geek now"
p.s. I would gladly support renamimg my fair state after Mr Colbert if he actually did a good job of making fun of right-wing demagogues. Sadly, he doesn't.
I definitely want something along these lines. I have a small condo, without enough room for a nice computer setup and a separate entertainment setup. I am being won over by apple's new stuff, and while I haven't bought anything yet I think I'd really like something along the lines of their 30" cinema display (which just today got bumped from $2500 down to $2000) and a macbook pro to drive it.
I figure a display like that is great for both a computer and a tv, especially in a small place like mine. And doing double duty this way might even justify the price tag. So I come home with the laptop and connect it to the display to make a nice big home computer, life is good. Now I want to watch tv... what do I do? I can download shows on iTunes, yes. I can even connect a usb tv tuner. Apple even has a media center type application (front row) and a remote to drive it with, but it doesn't do tv channels and can't control the tuner.
We're almost there but apparently the big players are not interested enough to make it all mesh. Most people have a separate room for the tv, and aren't sufficiently interested in the possibilities of integrating it with the home pc.
Personally, I think the gloves that let you use the click wheel are pretty cool. The wallet isn't bad either. Anyway, just more examples of the 'long tail' which is a good thing.
Speaking of Bill Gates giving his money away, I was wondering about the results of Microsoft's email beta test. I'm still expecting a check, having forwarded a few notices to a few hundred of my closest friends. Maybe he'll be able to devote more time to that project now.
There are going to be a loooot of male chinese virgins.
A large population of young males is usually a sign that a country will have some political turmoil. If most of those are virgins, well, better not provoke China...
I realize this is targeted at a wide consumer audience, but it would be really cool to see some high-end versions of this for more serious athletes. I would love to see this merged with the kinds of functions the really good fitness computers have.
Nike has the right idea with the foot sensor. All the devices listed above use a similar sort of accelerometer to measure a runner's speed and distance. This Nike+ thing is way cheaper though, which makes me think they're cutting corners. Or they're pricing it extra low to move a lot of them. Hopefully it's the latter.
What Nike+ is missing, that those other products have, is a heart rate monitor. It's a no-brainer. All they'd need to add is the capability to receive data from the heart rate straps Nike already makes. While speed and distance give you performance, heart rate gives you a great indicator of effort. Once you have both performance and effort, you can divide the one by the other and get your fitness level. Then each time you sync your ipod, you get your new songs, update your podcasts, and see an updated graph of your fitness level rising over the last few weeks.
On top of that, the ipod nano could easily record every single heartbeat, which is the sort of thing only the extra-high-end monitors (the S625X and T6) can do. With detailed timing information like that, they've been able to do some other nifty things. Suunto computes an estimate for "EPOC" (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption). Using this, their software can offer advice on how hard your workout should be, and prevent you from overtraining.
Imagine a consumer product that puts this kind of advanced information in the hands of the casual athlete and makes it simple to use. With this equipment, you're already packing enough computing power to record and store the information. Why not use it?
So it's around 1992 or 93, most people have never heard of the internet, let alone have it in their home, but the personal computer has taken off. You're in your middle school computer class where, like many schools, they have a room full of apples, newly upgraded to system 7. Some kids are starting out learning to point and click with a mouse. Others are beyond that and are learning how to use Claris Works for word processing. You like computers, and the teacher can see you've picked up the basics and want to fool around some more because, well, they're neat. She shows you a program called Hypercard. Looks kinda like paintbrush, but also has stuff like text fields that can be moved around on the page. Your assignment is to write a report in Hypercard about anything you want, and with this program you can mix pictures and text.
On second look, this is a little different than paintbrush. It's only black and white, which kinda sucks, but it has some redeeming features. The page is a "card" and you can add more cards to the file to make a "stack", and flip through them using the menus. Hey, you can drop on buttons too, and make it so they take you to the next card (or any other card). That would look better in the report. Alright, it looks nice now, guess I'm about done.
Hey, Skip over there has a button that makes a little insulting message pop up when you click it. And he changed the button choices in the box. How'd he do that? You can't see that choice here anywhere...
Aha! The button actually has a "script" connected with it. You can pick the button with the selection tool and then open up that script. Lessee... on mouseup
go card 2 end mouseup
So that controls what runs when you click the button, and you can change that middle part to something else...
At this point, you're hooked, and after looking at the included examples or over someone's shoulder, soon you're using loops with counters, and setting properties of objects: on mouseup
mymsg = "Testing "
repeat with x = 1 to 3
mymsg = mymsg + x + "... "
set text of field 1 to mymsg
wait 1000
end repeat end mouseup
I spent a fair amount of time playing with Hypercard. Actually, I'd started with GWBASIC back in 3rd grade, but Hypercard was the next step. I'm sure I got some syntax wrong, it really has been a while.
One time I made a stack that I insisted used an unbreakable code. I was almost right - I'd just reinvented a one time pad but it depended on the machine's pseudorandom number generator. Point is, I had a nice gui frontend, and the code basically added the text of two fields, a character at a time, and spat the output to a third. That was one of many odd projects done on a whim in this very easy, very intuitive, very elegant tool. The more you explored, the more the tool revealed its capabilities. It really encouraged playing around.
I have downloaded so much podcast content (nearly 12 days worth of audio) that it will take me a while just to sift through it and get caught up. Anything that cuts this task down, such as a show going off the air, starting to suck, or starting to charge for their content, just makes this task ahead of me easier:-)
...not to mention a 14 year old "learning a new word". I think I learned all those "new words" by the time I was 8 or 9, and kids today probably learn them by 6 or 7.
Podcasts baby. You can take them anywhere and hear whatever shows you want when it's convenient for you, most of them are free, it never skips due to network lag, and you can fast forward through the small amount of commercials they have. Combine that with an mp3 library and I hardly ever listen to the radio anymore.
Why the hell would anyone want streaming internet radio?
I agree. I have an iPod, which is great most of the time (car stereo, home stereo, walking around with headphones doing chores). I also have a pair of Oakley thumps for running, biking and skiing.
I probably wouldn't wear the thumps just walking around town. That seems a little too geeky. Besides, in that situation it's nicer to be able to navigate through menus on a screen. But having music with no headphone cords when doing something athletic is a cool enough idea that I got another gadget for just that purpose. It's the new walkman.
I have one gripe about the Oakley Thumps - I wore them running and they flaked out when they got sweat on them. I sent them back.
Come on Oakley, the biggest reason to have a product like this is for sports. They should be sweatproof.
I won an essay contest in 5th grade and got to go to Space Camp. One of the days there we built estes rockets - I think we used the Payloader, because there was a clear tube below the nosecone. We found some lucky insects and shot them off.
One girl's rocket wouldn't start. After several failed launches, the instructor unhooked it and tried to take the engine out. She couldn't. These rockets had a hook assembly in the bottom and had been hastily put together. This one had the hook glued in place and unable to move, keeping the engine from sliding out. The instructor had no problem pushing it farther in though. So she just shoved in a new engine.
It launched successfully on that windless day, everybody clapped, and a few seconds elapsed. These engines were single stage engines - some engines are made without a delay so they can ignite another stage while a lower stage separates. In this case, the delay allowed the rocket to point downward before the "second stage" was ignited. The old engine that had had problems was now sending the rocket straight at us. We yelled and ran, and the rocket made touchdown right where we had been standing, the slender nose cone burying itself about 6 inches into the soft dirt and the engine still burning, the body tube twisted and blackened, unraveling about its sprial seam.
A few of us ran back toward the rocket to get a look at it. And right as somebody was pulling it out of the ground, that's when the _second_ ejection charge went off...
My favorite part about the first time this breeder reactor story was put on Slashdot was the guy who said something like, "I was in the kid's class - I rememer him coming to school sometimes with burns on his hands and pieces of uranium in his pockets. There were a lot of rumors about him and he was kindof a loner. If you have any questions just reply to this post and I'll answer them."
What xml support does it have? I want at minimum a browser that, when pointed at an xml document, will find its stylesheet (in the instruction) and correctly apply the stylesheet. XSLT should definitely be supported, and XSL-FO if/when that is available (I'm not sure if it is yet). XPointer and XPath support should also be there (and XLink if/when that is finalized).
I'm working on a web application making use of the above and since I don't care about backward-compatibility where xml is concerned, I want it up as soon as a browser with acceptable support is out. IE is well on its way. If the Mozilla project gives us something that can do the above, I will be thrilled.
Since modern attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces began, gravity in particular has presented a difficulty for scientists, and it appears that the solution may be changes in constants we previously believed to be, well, constant.
This could have far-reaching implications for the way we think about science, and especially our understanding of what science can tell us. It seems possible that our disciplines of science and natural history might actually be driven farther apart, as we lose any reliable base indicators on which to base assumptions about the past.
For some in the scientific orthodoxy, this is anathema and they will fight it tooth and nail to the bitter end, for it forces them to accept a reality that they have long denied. The liberals constantly tell us that because of the relatively slow travel of light from distant galaxies, it must have been traveling for long periods of time, and the universe must therefore be quite old (billions and billions... you know the drill). Now their rationalizing will be laid bare and they must admit that the Bible has again withstood vigorous attempts at disproof, that they have a Creator and are therefore accountable to Him.
Slashdot Mirror
"If you want to see where the computer industry is going, you often have to watch the computer component manufacturers"
Well we knew that
ps
Anyone know how to do this? In my case, my older messages are stored on another service which has IMAP access, so I can bring them into something like Thunderbird, but apparently gmail doesn't have IMAP access. Otherwise I think I'd be able to move them over that way...
Oh sure, now that slashdot is spent of the Columbine story, now you're "not doing anything with Colorado these days". Have you forgotten South Park? Legalization of pot? NORAD?
Brought to you by your friendly Colorado dept of commerce.
"No, seriously, it's a great place to be a geek now"
p.s.
I would gladly support renamimg my fair state after Mr Colbert if he actually did a good job of making fun of right-wing demagogues. Sadly, he doesn't.
I definitely want something along these lines. I have a small condo, without enough room for a nice computer setup and a separate entertainment setup. I am being won over by apple's new stuff, and while I haven't bought anything yet I think I'd really like something along the lines of their 30" cinema display (which just today got bumped from $2500 down to $2000) and a macbook pro to drive it.
I figure a display like that is great for both a computer and a tv, especially in a small place like mine. And doing double duty this way might even justify the price tag. So I come home with the laptop and connect it to the display to make a nice big home computer, life is good. Now I want to watch tv... what do I do? I can download shows on iTunes, yes. I can even connect a usb tv tuner. Apple even has a media center type application (front row) and a remote to drive it with, but it doesn't do tv channels and can't control the tuner.
We're almost there but apparently the big players are not interested enough to make it all mesh. Most people have a separate room for the tv, and aren't sufficiently interested in the possibilities of integrating it with the home pc.
Personally, I think the gloves that let you use the click wheel are pretty cool. The wallet isn't bad either. Anyway, just more examples of the 'long tail' which is a good thing.
Wait, you're saying high margins translates to profit? I think you need to be more explicit in step 3.
Oh wait, no you don't. You don't need a step 3.
Speaking of Bill Gates giving his money away, I was wondering about the results of Microsoft's email beta test. I'm still expecting a check, having forwarded a few notices to a few hundred of my closest friends. Maybe he'll be able to devote more time to that project now.
There are going to be a loooot of male chinese virgins.
A large population of young males is usually a sign that a country will have some political turmoil. If most of those are virgins, well, better not provoke China...
I realize this is targeted at a wide consumer audience, but it would be really cool to see some high-end versions of this for more serious athletes. I would love to see this merged with the kinds of functions the really good fitness computers have.
f =global_home#equipment
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Here's a sampling of such products:
Nike's Triax Elite running watch is one of the items on this page
http://www.nike.com/nikerunning/usa/home.jhtml?re
Polar's S625X Running watch with S1 foot pod
http://www.polarusa.com/consumer/runtri/model/S62
and perhaps coolest of all, Suunto's T6
http://www.suunto.com/dyn/t6
Nike has the right idea with the foot sensor. All the devices listed above use a similar sort of accelerometer to measure a runner's speed and distance. This Nike+ thing is way cheaper though, which makes me think they're cutting corners. Or they're pricing it extra low to move a lot of them. Hopefully it's the latter.
What Nike+ is missing, that those other products have, is a heart rate monitor. It's a no-brainer. All they'd need to add is the capability to receive data from the heart rate straps Nike already makes. While speed and distance give you performance, heart rate gives you a great indicator of effort. Once you have both performance and effort, you can divide the one by the other and get your fitness level. Then each time you sync your ipod, you get your new songs, update your podcasts, and see an updated graph of your fitness level rising over the last few weeks.
On top of that, the ipod nano could easily record every single heartbeat, which is the sort of thing only the extra-high-end monitors (the S625X and T6) can do. With detailed timing information like that, they've been able to do some other nifty things. Suunto computes an estimate for "EPOC" (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption). Using this, their software can offer advice on how hard your workout should be, and prevent you from overtraining.
Imagine a consumer product that puts this kind of advanced information in the hands of the casual athlete and makes it simple to use. With this equipment, you're already packing enough computing power to record and store the information. Why not use it?
So far I haven't seen any mention of Hypercard?!
So it's around 1992 or 93, most people have never heard of the internet, let alone have it in their home, but the personal computer has taken off. You're in your middle school computer class where, like many schools, they have a room full of apples, newly upgraded to system 7. Some kids are starting out learning to point and click with a mouse. Others are beyond that and are learning how to use Claris Works for word processing. You like computers, and the teacher can see you've picked up the basics and want to fool around some more because, well, they're neat. She shows you a program called Hypercard. Looks kinda like paintbrush, but also has stuff like text fields that can be moved around on the page. Your assignment is to write a report in Hypercard about anything you want, and with this program you can mix pictures and text.
On second look, this is a little different than paintbrush. It's only black and white, which kinda sucks, but it has some redeeming features. The page is a "card" and you can add more cards to the file to make a "stack", and flip through them using the menus. Hey, you can drop on buttons too, and make it so they take you to the next card (or any other card). That would look better in the report. Alright, it looks nice now, guess I'm about done.
Hey, Skip over there has a button that makes a little insulting message pop up when you click it. And he changed the button choices in the box. How'd he do that? You can't see that choice here anywhere...
Aha! The button actually has a "script" connected with it. You can pick the button with the selection tool and then open up that script. Lessee...
on mouseup
go card 2
end mouseup
So that controls what runs when you click the button, and you can change that middle part to something else...
At this point, you're hooked, and after looking at the included examples or over someone's shoulder, soon you're using loops with counters, and setting properties of objects:
on mouseup
mymsg = "Testing "
repeat with x = 1 to 3
mymsg = mymsg + x + "... "
set text of field 1 to mymsg
wait 1000
end repeat
end mouseup
I spent a fair amount of time playing with Hypercard. Actually, I'd started with GWBASIC back in 3rd grade, but Hypercard was the next step. I'm sure I got some syntax wrong, it really has been a while.
One time I made a stack that I insisted used an unbreakable code. I was almost right - I'd just reinvented a one time pad but it depended on the machine's pseudorandom number generator. Point is, I had a nice gui frontend, and the code basically added the text of two fields, a character at a time, and spat the output to a third. That was one of many odd projects done on a whim in this very easy, very intuitive, very elegant tool. The more you explored, the more the tool revealed its capabilities. It really encouraged playing around.
Ubuntu is also more widely known than Apple in the area they're in
I'm really curious - where is that?
I have downloaded so much podcast content (nearly 12 days worth of audio) that it will take me a while just to sift through it and get caught up. Anything that cuts this task down, such as a show going off the air, starting to suck, or starting to charge for their content, just makes this task ahead of me easier :-)
...not to mention a 14 year old "learning a new word". I think I learned all those "new words" by the time I was 8 or 9, and kids today probably learn them by 6 or 7.
Podcasts baby. You can take them anywhere and hear whatever shows you want when it's convenient for you, most of them are free, it never skips due to network lag, and you can fast forward through the small amount of commercials they have. Combine that with an mp3 library and I hardly ever listen to the radio anymore.
Why the hell would anyone want streaming internet radio?
That's another nice thing about the thumps - the ear "buds" can hover an inch away from your ear, so that you can hear your surroundings just fine.
I agree. I have an iPod, which is great most of the time (car stereo, home stereo, walking around with headphones doing chores). I also have a pair of Oakley thumps for running, biking and skiing.
I probably wouldn't wear the thumps just walking around town. That seems a little too geeky. Besides, in that situation it's nicer to be able to navigate through menus on a screen. But having music with no headphone cords when doing something athletic is a cool enough idea that I got another gadget for just that purpose. It's the new walkman.
I have one gripe about the Oakley Thumps - I wore them running and they flaked out when they got sweat on them. I sent them back.
Come on Oakley, the biggest reason to have a product like this is for sports. They should be sweatproof.
I showed that to a liberal arts teacher of mine and he made me read Kuhn
Anyone know if there is a 1.0 version of the vorbis dll for Audiograbber? And if there is, where it can be downloaded?
The pledge in your .sig ("One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all") is wrong.
There is no comma after "nation". It should read, "One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"
Try it. It sounds better.
Not a Slashdot topic? Are you insane?
Taco has made references to his "Who habit" ever since this site started. This is as much a Slashdot topic as any of that "Your Rights Online" crap.
I have a similar story
I won an essay contest in 5th grade and got to go to Space Camp. One of the days there we built estes rockets - I think we used the Payloader, because there was a clear tube below the nosecone. We found some lucky insects and shot them off.
One girl's rocket wouldn't start. After several failed launches, the instructor unhooked it and tried to take the engine out. She couldn't. These rockets had a hook assembly in the bottom and had been hastily put together. This one had the hook glued in place and unable to move, keeping the engine from sliding out. The instructor had no problem pushing it farther in though. So she just shoved in a new engine.
It launched successfully on that windless day, everybody clapped, and a few seconds elapsed. These engines were single stage engines - some engines are made without a delay so they can ignite another stage while a lower stage separates. In this case, the delay allowed the rocket to point downward before the "second stage" was ignited. The old engine that had had problems was now sending the rocket straight at us. We yelled and ran, and the rocket made touchdown right where we had been standing, the slender nose cone burying itself about 6 inches into the soft dirt and the engine still burning, the body tube twisted and blackened, unraveling about its sprial seam.
A few of us ran back toward the rocket to get a look at it. And right as somebody was pulling it out of the ground, that's when the _second_ ejection charge went off...
:-)
heh.
;-)
My favorite part about the first time this breeder reactor story was put on Slashdot was the guy who said something like, "I was in the kid's class - I rememer him coming to school sometimes with burns on his hands and pieces of uranium in his pockets. There were a lot of rumors about him and he was kindof a loner. If you have any questions just reply to this post and I'll answer them."
He got a lot of replies
...can it parse XML and do XSLT transformations? How about MathML and SVG support?
What xml support does it have? I want at minimum a browser that, when pointed at an xml document, will find its stylesheet (in the instruction) and correctly apply the stylesheet. XSLT should definitely be supported, and XSL-FO if/when that is available (I'm not sure if it is yet). XPointer and XPath support should also be there (and XLink if/when that is finalized).
I'm working on a web application making use of the above and since I don't care about backward-compatibility where xml is concerned, I want it up as soon as a browser with acceptable support is out. IE is well on its way. If the Mozilla project gives us something that can do the above, I will be thrilled.
This is interesting news.
Since modern attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces began, gravity in particular has presented a difficulty for scientists, and it appears that the solution may be changes in constants we previously believed to be, well, constant.
This could have far-reaching implications for the way we think about science, and especially our understanding of what science can tell us. It seems possible that our disciplines of science and natural history might actually be driven farther apart, as we lose any reliable base indicators on which to base assumptions about the past.
For some in the scientific orthodoxy, this is anathema and they will fight it tooth and nail to the bitter end, for it forces them to accept a reality that they have long denied. The liberals constantly tell us that because of the relatively slow travel of light from distant galaxies, it must have been traveling for long periods of time, and the universe must therefore be quite old (billions and billions... you know the drill). Now their rationalizing will be laid bare and they must admit that the Bible has again withstood vigorous attempts at disproof, that they have a Creator and are therefore accountable to Him.