TiVo has 30-second skip as well, though it's an "easter egg" that requires a sequence of button pushes that isn't in the official docs anywhere. It also disables itself whenever the unit upgrades its OS. Mine did this last week but the 30-sec skip re-enabled with no trouble (once I punched it in right, anyway!).
According to at least one TV exec, I'm stealing by doing this because I don't see their ads...
It seems like your comment might be implying that Macs only have iTunes available, though I might be wrong. Just in case, I'll address that:
No one ever said you can't install any number of other MP3 playing apps on your Mac, either. I just today burned a CD of Audion for 9/X for my boss' stepdaughter when she found out her 3rd-gen iPod wouldn't work in iTunes 2. But I tested Audion for OS 9 with my 3rd-gen iPod and it worked just fine. So third-party players can and do work fine on Macs and with Apple's iPods. As for iTMS files on other devices -- I've never tried and no one I know has. But it's not difficult to make standard MP3s from iTMS files if your computer is authorized to play them.
If that was on an iBook, it's a semi-common problem on the new ice (glossy white) iBooks.
With my old G3 (Lombard) machine, I went through three motherboards as it kept eating them for some odd reason. AppleCare paid for them all -- $900 each without it!
For car headlights, you can get PAIRS of them, for VW Golfs/Jettas, at least, for around $300. Even less if you get them used by knowing where to look (the vwvortex.com classifieds are a great source of such things.) Sometimes you get lucky and someone is willing to split a pair and sell you just one for around $100.
The trick is knowing how to get the bumper off the car to get to the modules. Fortunately, the above site's model-specific forums are great for VW owners.
For the computer -- you didn't say what kind it is, but for Apple Powerbooks, try http://www.pbparts.com.
I'm a space buff and I recently picked up the Mission to Mars set (Mars Odyssey, Delta II, and MER) and the ISS kit, and both of them impressed me because they built into high-quality replicas (the Delta II and launch tower impressed me especially with their accuracy)... out of plain old regular bricks, very few specialty pieces included.
My TV is now acting as a display base for three of those constructs (haven't built Odyssey yet) and everyone who looks at them recognizes them immediately, even though they're Legos and not detailed model kits or scratchbuilds.
Lego needs to keep doing this. Inexpensive kits (the kits were $20 or less in this case) that contain mostly standard bricks, so they'll do well mixed into a larger collection, but build into recognizable items.
Except that companies are laying off their bread and butter -- tech geeks who would buy the kind of stuff their company makes, and also people who make the right amount of money to create the demand for the products. If no one can buy anything, then the company will fail because nothing is selling. They're shooting themselves in the foot.
And then they whine and moan about it, like the RIAA is whining and moaning that no one is buying their stuff. Suddenly, it's our fault they're not making the fat profits they got used to while the economy was good.
Large companies are just making themselves extinct. In the case of the RIAA, it was because the product was so inferior that no one wanted it. In the case of HP and similar companies, it's because they stopped providing people the means to buy stuff.
And, of course, it's always our (the public's) fault.
Agreed. A lot of people go to school for long periods of time, get doctorates, master's degrees, etc. for the purpose of raising their earnings potential.
I've got a friend who's got a master's degree in biochemistry, and he's squeaking by (but not by much right now) but he's aiming to get a Ph.D. and end up in the upper middle class later in life. Would he do that if highly-educated people would get the same amount as a high-school dropout flipping burgers at McDonalds'? Hell no.
By HP's logic, we should all go to grad school (or equivalent) for ten years after getting our BS/BA, and then live in debt for the rest of our lives because our McJobs won't pay enough to pay off the horrid student loan debt.
And this is okay? I can't believe that anyone would make a statement like that, even a corporate flunkie, and be able to keep a straight face.
If that statement is a direct quote, she's advocating illegal labor practices. The minimum wage is called that by a reason. Pay people less than that, and go to jail (or whatever the fine is.) If you don't like the law, lady, write your senator/rep. Of course, don't expect too much -- people will rightfully ream any congresscritter who tries this, and they're too busy pandering to the RIAA to listen to anyone else anyway.
As I recall, the judge laughed Greenpeace (or whoever it was) out of court and threw out their kill-Cassini lawsuit.
Nuclear power already is a requirement for missions past Mars because the amount of sunlight that gets that far is too low for solar cells to work. That's why Cassini, Pioneer 10/11, Voyager 1/2, Ulysses, and Galileo all use RTGs.
The first time I went down to the Cape to view a shuttle launch, a '71 (or so) VW bus, Westfalia camper edition, tooled past me. Spraypainted on three sides were the words "STOP CASSINI"... As a die-hard Dubhead as well as a space buff, my reaction was to shake my head and think, "What a waste of a perfectly good bus."
And they'll last longer. One of the Viking landers lasted well into the 1980s -- they used nuclear power and could stay awake throughout the night, and they didn't have solar cells that would degrade or become dust-clogged within weeks. Why we gave up that perfectly good technology in the present crop of landers I'm still not sure.
Sending a rover into more "interesting" terrain is too risky. If the rover comes down in a crevasse, in a crater (this may have happened to Beagle 2), or hits a large rock, it's game over. The selected landing sites are chosen as a compromise between safety and scientific interest.
We'll probably have to wait for manned missions before any landings can be made in more varied terrain, as a human can make the judgments needed to find that one safe spot in the middle of a cluster of craters. As it is, even that can be risky -- Apollo 11's lander nearly crashed into a rock-strewn plain and had to be sent manually farther downrange by overriding the automatic landing software.
Go to a VW dealer and ask for the brochure about the red and blue New Beetle special editions. It was partly printed in (badly aligned) anaglyph stereo and comes with a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses. It's free. Find a dealer with this form.
That's because the high-gain antenna wasn't deployed until last night, and these pictures were sent before then.
Anaglyphs aren't generally done in color anyway -- it can work but only with certain "neutral" tones that are the same brightness through both red and green/cyan cellophane used in 3D glasses -- because the colors in the color photo can interfere with the anaglyphic process and skew the brain's perception of the 3D effect. Color pictures of Mars are a no-no - you DO NOT use images of red or green/blue objects or you'll ruin the effect entirely as one eye will see the red/blue objects much more brightly than the other. For this reason, Sports Illustrated Magazine's special issue for the Olympics a few years ago ran an apology for not having any anaglyphic shots of the Chinese athletes... because they wore red uniforms.
Step one in the process I use to make anaglyphs: Strip out color (convert to greyscale). I work in an electron microscopy research lab and we process nearly everything into anaglyph format, so I do this all the time. You can fiddle with the gamma/brightness/contrast all you want, but color is a no-no. This means that when I make my own color anaglyphs (with better alignment than the ones linked in the article) -- looking forward to the high-res shots -- the color goes poof before ANYTHING else gets done to the images.
Not everyone who uses open source software knows how to contribute back. I don't; if I did, I would at least try. (I do plan to learn a bit of programming at some point, so I still might, and there are a few bits of open source software that I use often that I'd like to contribute to.)
The chances that a corporation does have someone who can contribute are a lot higher than for an individual. My comments were aimed at them -- though you do have a good point.
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TiVo has 30-second skip as well, though it's an "easter egg" that requires a sequence of button pushes that isn't in the official docs anywhere. It also disables itself whenever the unit upgrades its OS. Mine did this last week but the 30-sec skip re-enabled with no trouble (once I punched it in right, anyway!).
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According to at least one TV exec, I'm stealing by doing this because I don't see their ads
Nah, that's my childhood scrap Lego pile!
Ah, thanks! Try searching macupdate.com and versiontracker.com, too, to see what else is out there.
It seems like your comment might be implying that Macs only have iTunes available, though I might be wrong. Just in case, I'll address that:
No one ever said you can't install any number of other MP3 playing apps on your Mac, either. I just today burned a CD of Audion for 9/X for my boss' stepdaughter when she found out her 3rd-gen iPod wouldn't work in iTunes 2. But I tested Audion for OS 9 with my 3rd-gen iPod and it worked just fine. So third-party players can and do work fine on Macs and with Apple's iPods. As for iTMS files on other devices -- I've never tried and no one I know has. But it's not difficult to make standard MP3s from iTMS files if your computer is authorized to play them.
Hey, do you have a spare A key? I hope you still have the old keyboard. If you do, I need one for another machine. (For a G4 TiBook.)
If that was on an iBook, it's a semi-common problem on the new ice (glossy white) iBooks.
With my old G3 (Lombard) machine, I went through three motherboards as it kept eating them for some odd reason. AppleCare paid for them all -- $900 each without it!
For car headlights, you can get PAIRS of them, for VW Golfs/Jettas, at least, for around $300. Even less if you get them used by knowing where to look (the vwvortex.com classifieds are a great source of such things.) Sometimes you get lucky and someone is willing to split a pair and sell you just one for around $100.
The trick is knowing how to get the bumper off the car to get to the modules. Fortunately, the above site's model-specific forums are great for VW owners.
For the computer -- you didn't say what kind it is, but for Apple Powerbooks, try http://www.pbparts.com.
I'm a space buff and I recently picked up the Mission to Mars set (Mars Odyssey, Delta II, and MER) and the ISS kit, and both of them impressed me because they built into high-quality replicas (the Delta II and launch tower impressed me especially with their accuracy) ... out of plain old regular bricks, very few specialty pieces included.
My TV is now acting as a display base for three of those constructs (haven't built Odyssey yet) and everyone who looks at them recognizes them immediately, even though they're Legos and not detailed model kits or scratchbuilds.
Lego needs to keep doing this. Inexpensive kits (the kits were $20 or less in this case) that contain mostly standard bricks, so they'll do well mixed into a larger collection, but build into recognizable items.
Already there! :) (not as a student)
Except that companies are laying off their bread and butter -- tech geeks who would buy the kind of stuff their company makes, and also people who make the right amount of money to create the demand for the products. If no one can buy anything, then the company will fail because nothing is selling. They're shooting themselves in the foot.
And then they whine and moan about it, like the RIAA is whining and moaning that no one is buying their stuff. Suddenly, it's our fault they're not making the fat profits they got used to while the economy was good.
Large companies are just making themselves extinct. In the case of the RIAA, it was because the product was so inferior that no one wanted it. In the case of HP and similar companies, it's because they stopped providing people the means to buy stuff.
And, of course, it's always our (the public's) fault.
Agreed. A lot of people go to school for long periods of time, get doctorates, master's degrees, etc. for the purpose of raising their earnings potential.
I've got a friend who's got a master's degree in biochemistry, and he's squeaking by (but not by much right now) but he's aiming to get a Ph.D. and end up in the upper middle class later in life. Would he do that if highly-educated people would get the same amount as a high-school dropout flipping burgers at McDonalds'? Hell no.
By HP's logic, we should all go to grad school (or equivalent) for ten years after getting our BS/BA, and then live in debt for the rest of our lives because our McJobs won't pay enough to pay off the horrid student loan debt.
And this is okay? I can't believe that anyone would make a statement like that, even a corporate flunkie, and be able to keep a straight face.
But US laws don't apply outside of the US ... ... oh, wait ... didn't we bust Dimitri on our laws despite his having done nothing wrong here? Never mind.
If that statement is a direct quote, she's advocating illegal labor practices. The minimum wage is called that by a reason. Pay people less than that, and go to jail (or whatever the fine is.) If you don't like the law, lady, write your senator/rep. Of course, don't expect too much -- people will rightfully ream any congresscritter who tries this, and they're too busy pandering to the RIAA to listen to anyone else anyway.
Chrysler doesn't own Volkswagen. In fact, Chrysler is itself owned by Daimler-Benz, forming DaimlerChrysler.
VW does own Audi, SEAT, Bentley, and Skoda.
There's a neat little surprise on the back of the high-gain antenna. Check out spaceflightnow.com.
As I recall, the judge laughed Greenpeace (or whoever it was) out of court and threw out their kill-Cassini lawsuit.
... As a die-hard Dubhead as well as a space buff, my reaction was to shake my head and think, "What a waste of a perfectly good bus."
Nuclear power already is a requirement for missions past Mars because the amount of sunlight that gets that far is too low for solar cells to work. That's why Cassini, Pioneer 10/11, Voyager 1/2, Ulysses, and Galileo all use RTGs.
The first time I went down to the Cape to view a shuttle launch, a '71 (or so) VW bus, Westfalia camper edition, tooled past me. Spraypainted on three sides were the words "STOP CASSINI"
And they'll last longer. One of the Viking landers lasted well into the 1980s -- they used nuclear power and could stay awake throughout the night, and they didn't have solar cells that would degrade or become dust-clogged within weeks. Why we gave up that perfectly good technology in the present crop of landers I'm still not sure.
Sending a rover into more "interesting" terrain is too risky. If the rover comes down in a crevasse, in a crater (this may have happened to Beagle 2), or hits a large rock, it's game over. The selected landing sites are chosen as a compromise between safety and scientific interest.
We'll probably have to wait for manned missions before any landings can be made in more varied terrain, as a human can make the judgments needed to find that one safe spot in the middle of a cluster of craters. As it is, even that can be risky -- Apollo 11's lander nearly crashed into a rock-strewn plain and had to be sent manually farther downrange by overriding the automatic landing software.
Go to a VW dealer and ask for the brochure about the red and blue New Beetle special editions. It was partly printed in (badly aligned) anaglyph stereo and comes with a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses. It's free. Find a dealer with this form.
Stand-up and roll-off is expected to take as long as a week, actually. But we'll see a lot of data returned before the rover even moves.
That's because the high-gain antenna wasn't deployed until last night, and these pictures were sent before then.
... because they wore red uniforms.
Anaglyphs aren't generally done in color anyway -- it can work but only with certain "neutral" tones that are the same brightness through both red and green/cyan cellophane used in 3D glasses -- because the colors in the color photo can interfere with the anaglyphic process and skew the brain's perception of the 3D effect. Color pictures of Mars are a no-no - you DO NOT use images of red or green/blue objects or you'll ruin the effect entirely as one eye will see the red/blue objects much more brightly than the other. For this reason, Sports Illustrated Magazine's special issue for the Olympics a few years ago ran an apology for not having any anaglyphic shots of the Chinese athletes
Step one in the process I use to make anaglyphs: Strip out color (convert to greyscale). I work in an electron microscopy research lab and we process nearly everything into anaglyph format, so I do this all the time. You can fiddle with the gamma/brightness/contrast all you want, but color is a no-no. This means that when I make my own color anaglyphs (with better alignment than the ones linked in the article) -- looking forward to the high-res shots -- the color goes poof before ANYTHING else gets done to the images.
0 to 60?
No.
Actually, we do get it here in the US (though not the wagon version -- a huge shame, as the wagon is gorgeous) -- as the Acura TSX.
Mmmm, pizza. That's an idea. I already do several of those things, happily. :)
Not everyone who uses open source software knows how to contribute back. I don't; if I did, I would at least try. (I do plan to learn a bit of programming at some point, so I still might, and there are a few bits of open source software that I use often that I'd like to contribute to.)
The chances that a corporation does have someone who can contribute are a lot higher than for an individual. My comments were aimed at them -- though you do have a good point.