Circus Atari used the paddles - how does this work?
The Finder still needs work
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Is Mac OS X Slow?
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Simple file moving operations can take FOREVER if you are moving around hundreds of files. Though I haven't tried it, I am sure that from the command line, it could be a blink of the eye.
Example: Select, say 600 MAME ROM.zip files, and move them to another folder that already contains 3000 MAME ROM.zip files. Some may exist already and need to be overwritten and some files are new ones.
An operation like this on Windows takes very little time to do. MacOS X can take many minutes to do the same. I don't understand why. This is on a G3 500Mhz iMac DV w/1GB RAM.
The underlying OS is very fast. The GUI/Finder needs all the help it can get. Even after 10.1 and 10.2!
Re:mp3 - ogg (You wouldn't want to do this...)
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MP3 is a "lossy" format - so is Ogg. Conversion from MP3 to Ogg would result in double loss in comparison to the original source CD.
I think solar recharged PDA's made with this kind of technology would be the COOLEST thing! Just a *mostly* clear tablet with a display floating within.
Didn't we see something like this in Our Man Flint...? =)
Finally, is there any way (a la CrazyBrowser again) that I can set up a "Group" of bookmarks, so with one click I can open 7 or 8 pages in tabs all at once?
Why yes, yes you can. Bookmarks->Bookmark this group of tabs. QED.
I have a family member that has had some high-level dealings with SciFi Network. He doesn't have the best things to say about them. He actually told me that really weren't interested in picking up another "space show" because they had many already.
Frill. They are the SciFi channel! Space shows are they're bread and butter!
The problem with television is that relatively new emerging networks (Fox is another example) is their history:
Get launched and have a desperate need to make a name for themselves
Having nothing to lose, take risks by trying non-"same old, same old" programming
Acquire A LOT of very positive attention from an audience starved for original programming
Become successful
With success, they now have something to lose
They lose their edge and stop taking risks and gravitate towards "safe/tried-and-true" programming.
They become freaked out that they are losing marketshare and long for the good-ole-days.
Hmmm... Lots of traditional businesses follow a similar path now that I think of it...
The preface of the book starts out "This book might make Microsoft sound bad." The point being that the author made points of what wasn't working at Microsoft and what should be different.
He's not afraid to say "Those days were not pretty" when making examples of his professional past.
It does not surprise me that this is a well written book. Truth be told, books by Microsoft Press tend to be well written. "Debugging The Development Process" by Steve Maguire is an excellent book both in content and in structure.
Examples:
In the table of contents at the beginning of the book, each chapter listing contains a one paragraph summary of the chapter. You could read the whole 4 pages of Table of Contents and have a very good feel about what the whole book is about.
At the end of each chapter has a bullet point summary of the highlights of the chapter. Save your yellow highlighter - you don't need it.
Each chapter itself it salt'n'peppered with real world in-the-trenches stores of the author's experiences at Microsoft and how they pertain to the do's and dont's of software development management.
Good Lord! If graduate level text books were written like this, I would have gotten SO much more out of college!!!
I wouldn't worry about it. The dev' team for the PS2 gave it lots of bandwidth because they realized that bandwidth is the real performance kicker - not texture RAM, not CPU Mhz. I'm sure the PS3 will be more of the same.
Still, hardware anti-aliasing would be nice...
Re:Iceland electronica(and british and french too)
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I'll second that on Air's Moon Safari. I'd also add Starseed's Parallel Life and Millenia Nova's Slow E-Motion Sightseeing.
On a very related matter, goodbye SomaFM's Groove Salad - you will be sorely missed.
This IS the text on this very sort of thing. I love techno-"oops, that's not right, is it?"-horror stories and this book is filled with them. I REALLY recommend this book! Here's an example of the page after page of entries it contains:
Making Rupee!
Due to a bank error in the current exchange rate, an Australian man was able to purchase Sri Lankan rupees for (Australian) $104,500, and then to sell them to another bank the next day for $440,258. (The first banks' computer had displayed the Central Pacific franc rate in the rupee position.) Because of the circumstances surrounding the bank's error, a judge ruled that the man had acted without intended fraud, and could keep his windfall of $335,758.
Computer Related Risks - Peter G. Neumann - ACM Press - 1995
The bottom line here is "computing is, in a technical sense, a risk". Actually, technology - of any kind - is a risk. Which I suppose leads us to remember that life is a risk.
At which point, I'll just stop rambling and point you all to Amazon to buy the book.
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Can you cite a reference? Please!? So cool!
And it ALSO has Lala Ward in a school girl outfit...
Mmmmm... Lala Ward...
And it also has the best quote ever...
Duggan: You know what I don't understand...?
Romana: I expect so.
Yeah, Doug wrote that - no doubt about it.
That would make PPC's and Power4's even more attractive!
Circus Atari used the paddles - how does this work?
Simple file moving operations can take FOREVER if you are moving around hundreds of files. Though I haven't tried it, I am sure that from the command line, it could be a blink of the eye.
.zip files, and move them to another folder that already contains 3000 MAME ROM .zip files. Some may exist already and need to be overwritten and some files are new ones.
Example: Select, say 600 MAME ROM
An operation like this on Windows takes very little time to do. MacOS X can take many minutes to do the same. I don't understand why. This is on a G3 500Mhz iMac DV w/1GB RAM.
The underlying OS is very fast. The GUI/Finder needs all the help it can get. Even after 10.1 and 10.2!
MP3 is a "lossy" format - so is Ogg. Conversion from MP3 to Ogg would result in double loss in comparison to the original source CD.
Not completely true. On Jaguar, I get:
/usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib
ld: tivocrack.o illegal reference to symbol: _RIPEMD160 defined in indirectly referenced dynamic library
After the changes suggested here.
Homestar Runner's Pumpkin Carving Contest!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/halloween2002.html
I think I've recommended this book serveral times on Slashdot. Simply put, THE collection of computing related horror stories.
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I think solar recharged PDA's made with this kind of technology would be the COOLEST thing! Just a *mostly* clear tablet with a display floating within.
Didn't we see something like this in Our Man Flint...? =)
The required ROMS make it kind of a gray app. But the full source IS available...
Personally, I think it's a cross between Cowboy Bebop with some "world of Trigun" mixed in. Not bad.
Finally, is there any way (a la CrazyBrowser again) that I can set up a "Group" of bookmarks, so with one click I can open 7 or 8 pages in tabs all at once?
Why yes, yes you can. Bookmarks->Bookmark this group of tabs. QED.
Ooooo... Is SHE going to be surprised Monday morning...
Frill. They are the SciFi channel! Space shows are they're bread and butter!
The problem with television is that relatively new emerging networks (Fox is another example) is their history:
Hmmm... Lots of traditional businesses follow a similar path now that I think of it...
Solution?
The preface of the book starts out "This book might make Microsoft sound bad." The point being that the author made points of what wasn't working at Microsoft and what should be different.
He's not afraid to say "Those days were not pretty" when making examples of his professional past.
It does not surprise me that this is a well written book. Truth be told, books by Microsoft Press tend to be well written. "Debugging The Development Process" by Steve Maguire is an excellent book both in content and in structure.
Examples:
In the table of contents at the beginning of the book, each chapter listing contains a one paragraph summary of the chapter. You could read the whole 4 pages of Table of Contents and have a very good feel about what the whole book is about.
At the end of each chapter has a bullet point summary of the highlights of the chapter. Save your yellow highlighter - you don't need it.
Each chapter itself it salt'n'peppered with real world in-the-trenches stores of the author's experiences at Microsoft and how they pertain to the do's and dont's of software development management.
Good Lord! If graduate level text books were written like this, I would have gotten SO much more out of college!!!
...and what would be your prefered featured ingredient? (!)
I wouldn't worry about it. The dev' team for the PS2 gave it lots of bandwidth because they realized that bandwidth is the real performance kicker - not texture RAM, not CPU Mhz. I'm sure the PS3 will be more of the same.
Still, hardware anti-aliasing would be nice...
I'll second that on Air's Moon Safari. I'd also add Starseed's Parallel Life and Millenia Nova's Slow E-Motion Sightseeing.
On a very related matter, goodbye SomaFM's Groove Salad - you will be sorely missed.
After years of dealing with r/w head alignment problems on that @#!%* drive, I've always refered to 1541 as being the *real* number of the beast...
You're right. Voyager set your standards too low.
It looks like TiVo Inc. read their copy of Gonzo Marketing and believed it.
Any NDA breakers out there?
This IS the text on this very sort of thing. I love techno-"oops, that's not right, is it?"-horror stories and this book is filled with them. I REALLY recommend this book! Here's an example of the page after page of entries it contains:
Making Rupee!
Due to a bank error in the current exchange rate, an Australian man was able to purchase Sri Lankan rupees for (Australian) $104,500, and then to sell them to another bank the next day for $440,258. (The first banks' computer had displayed the Central Pacific franc rate in the rupee position.) Because of the circumstances surrounding the bank's error, a judge ruled that the man had acted without intended fraud, and could keep his windfall of $335,758.
Computer Related Risks - Peter G. Neumann - ACM Press - 1995
The bottom line here is "computing is, in a technical sense, a risk". Actually, technology - of any kind - is a risk. Which I suppose leads us to remember that life is a risk.
At which point, I'll just stop rambling and point you all to Amazon to buy the book.