This happens randomly. It seems to happen a lot less recently. Now that you mention it, I can't remember that happening in the last few months, but it used to occur like every week or so (or maybe every other week). I imagine it was doing something like consolidating your account to a couple of machines or transferring it to a new cluster or something. Nothing to worry about.
You are thinking of World of Chemistry! However, based on his other post, that wasn't what the grandparent was looking for.
World of Chemistry was the best.
"IA-odin... Po-TAZ-zium" "Wow, look at that!"
Don Showalter was the host for most of the show, and Noble Prize winner Roald Hoffman did some of the other stuff. That was one of the best chem shows around, especially with all the sexual innuendoes. I'll never forget: "pv=nrt; which you can remember as pervnert..." "Excuse me Miss" "Ahhhh!" The pervnert flasher. There was another one where he was making rubbing a glass rod to make it statically charged, and then he stuck it between two balls wrapped in tin foil. It reminded me of something from the Ambiguously Gay Duo.
This will air on PBS, though, correct? Doesn't that mean it is commercial free? I'm looking forward to it, it appears Seattle is the only market that gets it in HD, neat.
I found Almost Live's Guide To Seattle on a Seattle college campus P2P network. Unfortunately, that was about the only AL content they had. It would be neat to get some of the episodes on DVD.
What is the point of legacy peripherals on most business computers? In most offices I've been in, there are only three things connected to the computer: keyboard, mouse, monitor. Printing and such is all done over the network. The businesses that actually need some obscure legacy connector support are probably few.
You are turning the argument around. I didn't say businesses could afford to upgrade every 15 months, I was just correcting the highly inaccurate numbers you stated. That said, OS X is reasonably priced, especially on the server end of things ($1000 for unlimited server license).
Nice troll. If you are using legacy peripherals, you probably already have the legacy computers to use them with. Also, the life cycle of OS X is at least 15 months or so.
I really agree with what you said. My only Mac is a PowerBook, but I use an old Microsoft mouse with it. I like having the right mouse button and scroll wheel on the mouse. However, I absolutely hate two buttons on a laptop. When using the trackpad, my thumb naturally rests where the right mouse button would be. When I use PC laptops, I always have problems with pressing the right mouse button by accident. It is so nice not having to worry about which button your thumb it is on. Also, I just tried putting my thumb where the left button would be, and it put my hand and wrist at a weird angle. Long live the single button trackpads!
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After turning on Yahoo! Mail a few weeks ago (to check out the interface), I had like three spams the first day. I have a number of spams coming to my Gmail, but that is only because I plastered it all over the place for a little while to see how Gmail handles spam (it is much better than it used to).
That sounds familiar. I would use it more (like when going to a website I am familiar with, and know is number one, but don't want to type or don't know the whole result), but I don't want to have to move my mouse to click. I normally just hit enter, since I don't know a way in Safari to go to the I'm Feeling Lucky button.
Okay, you may be a troll, and I may be biting, but if you are worried about that, you should probably be worried more about how cell phones are considered by many to be disposable items. I have yet to replace my cell phone, which I got about three years ago. They gave us the free, crappy (yet indestructible) Nokia phone of the day. It isn't the best, but it works. Mine has been dropped so many times (many on purpose) and has gone through a lot, but it still works just fine. Hell, I consistently get the best reception of everyone I live with. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. I haven't replaced my phone once, yet I know people that go though more than one a year. You should be more worried about all those batteries, plastic covers, and PCBs being produced and later disposed. There are three reasons I haven't upgraded yet: mine works, the current phones aren't quite where I want them yet (camera phone with cheap/free e-mail subscription plan), and because that would increase waste (and since the newer phones aren't as sturdy, I would end up replacing it more often than this one).
Also, the sets probably changed quite a bit between shots. When they move the camera, they don't necessarily keep lighting the same, so you would get a whole different set of problems compounding each other. You are right about the focal length. Plus, a lot of times backgrounds are blurred (to put focus on the actors), so it would be hard reconstruct that.
My 12" which was bought in August didn't show its problems for a few months. Then I noticed a white splotch on the screen (different color then the rest, a huge area) and the screen started squeaking. I'm taking mine to the Apple Store in a few days, once school is over and I no longer need it every day (and will have access to other computers).
The P/E may be high, but it was even higher before the most recent conference call and I believe the stock has gone up since then. The forward P/E on Yahoo! Finance is 32.56, so, assuming their earnings skyrocket like many people think the Mac mini will cause to happen, the P/E ratio may stay fairly stable. Also, they are expected to see another 20 million iPods this year. I wasn't expecting them to sell as many iPods this quarter as winter quarter, but they surprised me with lower prices and iPod shuffles. Now they have a whole new market of users. I bought AAPL two years ago (right after it dropped on the rumor of buying, I believe, Vivendi) because I heard the rumors of the music store and because I felt a lot of users would switch in the future. I had noticed a trend in the tech savvy crowd and I thought it would only be a matter of time before common-folk switch. It appears to be happening (the reported iPod halo effect), so their future looks good. Some people recommended I sell before, but I'm in it for the long run because Apple has a lot of market share to gain.
Okay, it turns out it is possible to do a normal search query. I used [geneva -convention -conventions] and it worked pretty well. If you click on advanced while adding the new entry, you can give it a better looking title (I used [Geneva]). Here is an example of Geneva.
I also wanted local news. What I did was create two new categories with keywords of the cities I live in. The keywords work really well and I see mostly relevant content. Give it a try.
It took me 294 days to fill that inbox up. It helped that I subscribed to the Linux Kernel list and a few other high traffic lists. I also used about 40-60 megs with a script I wrote. The rest came from just a couple of threads where some friends and I were e-mailing large attachments back and forth. It kind of got boring in the end, but I think the payoff was worth it. Now most of the messages are in my trash and in 29 days I'll get my space back.
Netscape 4.7 just happened to be in my OS 9 Applications folder. I first discovered that when I was at Yahoo!'s Launch music website, which said it needed Netscape 4.7 to work on Mac OS. Grr.
Umm, that doesn't change the/weather/ feature. That is their calculator, but it doesn't work automatically do it for the weather. I want to be able to see what the weather is like for the up coming days without having to type each on in again and have it get converted individually.
So wait... can you explain this some more? The video is sent over Firewire with 5C/HDCP encoding that prevents it from being saved? The Firewire output was designed to connect to TVs, so how does the TV display it (or do all TVs with Firewire have this?)? I'll try it and see what happens. If true, that'll really piss me off, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to save shows for as long as I want (on another machine with more space).
True, and that is the reason I watch HDTV in the first place! There are shows I would never watch in standard definition, but I do in HD, because of the simple fact that it is HD (like a recent show on Antarctica on the INHD channel).
There is one point that is right, though, it is dual tuner and that would have been more clear for me to say.
And the thing is, I don't mind commercials, but there are some caveats. They have to be entertaining (like IBM commercials or some of the recent Pepsi ads and those Ameri[quest|trade] ones they did during the super bowl ('Don't judge too fast")), they can't be obnoxious or stupid, and I better not see them too much. If I see a new IBM commercial, or even a commercial I've seen before but like, I'll stop fast forwarding, rewind, and watch it. Now, it won't necessarily make me want to buy the product (I don't drink pop/soda, sorry Pepsi), but it does make me mention the company more (like in this post, or other times when discussing the commercial). The more commercials I see (and the more often I have to see the same ones over and over), the less likely I want to watch them.
Somehow I don't think that is going to happen. Also, I don't think Coral works with streaming video (which this is). That said, I'd recommend people watch this video. I attended the lecture and it was really interesting. If you read a lot about Google and are observant, not much is new, but it is all put together nicely. However, you do get to see some interesting idea clustering stuff they have in their backend. I had never seen this before. Also, Jeffrey Dean is a funny guy.
My mom surprised me one day saying she ordered the HD DVR from Comcast (which runs Microsoft software). It is like $5/month or something like that, and there was no up front purchase. I was horrified, someone between those two companies could be nothing less than spawn of the devil. Well, as usual, the installation experience was bad (I've never had a good install from Comcast), because their software servers were having problems and it took a few hours to download the software. After that, however, I was amazed at how much better it was than I expected. The interface is nothing to call home about, but at least it loads and moves pretty fast. The thing that impressed me the most was the HDTV recording ability. You are able to record two HD streams and watch another at the same time! I tried scrubbing through some HD shows we recorded and it was smooth at any speed I tried, it fast forwarded better than any digital content I have seen and even VHS tapes... and this was high definition content.
Another that I appreciate is that it doesn't put ads on screen when you pause video, you can see exactly what you want to. It also doesn't assume what you are interested in and try recording shows it thinks you would like. Probably my biggest gripe is that it doesn't know what channels you don't get (which is probably Comcast's fault). It'll dispaly a bunch of channels while browsing the channels, but we don't get half of them. Not only does it take more time to scroll, but I have also tried recording shows that are on a channel we don't get. Since it doesn't know better, it silently tries to record it, yet nothing shows up. It would be nice if it could give us a warning. I have yet to see a show we weren't able to record (although, if it starts happening when the broadcast flag comes out, I'll have my parents return it).
Last Sunday I set it to record the Oscars, and then I fast forwarded through at super speed and just watched the good parts. That was very handy.
It also has firewire output, but I have yet to try transferring the shows to my PowerBook (using a utility that saves HD streams from firewire). I'd really like to do this so I can save all the IMAX movies on the INHD channels for a long period of time.
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This happens randomly. It seems to happen a lot less recently. Now that you mention it, I can't remember that happening in the last few months, but it used to occur like every week or so (or maybe every other week). I imagine it was doing something like consolidating your account to a couple of machines or transferring it to a new cluster or something. Nothing to worry about.
You are thinking of World of Chemistry! However, based on his other post, that wasn't what the grandparent was looking for.
World of Chemistry was the best.
"IA-odin... Po-TAZ-zium" "Wow, look at that!"
Don Showalter was the host for most of the show, and Noble Prize winner Roald Hoffman did some of the other stuff. That was one of the best chem shows around, especially with all the sexual innuendoes. I'll never forget: "pv=nrt; which you can remember as pervnert..." "Excuse me Miss" "Ahhhh!" The pervnert flasher. There was another one where he was making rubbing a glass rod to make it statically charged, and then he stuck it between two balls wrapped in tin foil. It reminded me of something from the Ambiguously Gay Duo.
Great show. You can buy all 26 episodes on VHS for $199.
This will air on PBS, though, correct? Doesn't that mean it is commercial free? I'm looking forward to it, it appears Seattle is the only market that gets it in HD, neat.
I found Almost Live's Guide To Seattle on a Seattle college campus P2P network. Unfortunately, that was about the only AL content they had. It would be neat to get some of the episodes on DVD.
What is the point of legacy peripherals on most business computers? In most offices I've been in, there are only three things connected to the computer: keyboard, mouse, monitor. Printing and such is all done over the network. The businesses that actually need some obscure legacy connector support are probably few.
You are turning the argument around. I didn't say businesses could afford to upgrade every 15 months, I was just correcting the highly inaccurate numbers you stated. That said, OS X is reasonably priced, especially on the server end of things ($1000 for unlimited server license).
Nice troll. If you are using legacy peripherals, you probably already have the legacy computers to use them with. Also, the life cycle of OS X is at least 15 months or so.
I really agree with what you said. My only Mac is a PowerBook, but I use an old Microsoft mouse with it. I like having the right mouse button and scroll wheel on the mouse. However, I absolutely hate two buttons on a laptop. When using the trackpad, my thumb naturally rests where the right mouse button would be. When I use PC laptops, I always have problems with pressing the right mouse button by accident. It is so nice not having to worry about which button your thumb it is on. Also, I just tried putting my thumb where the left button would be, and it put my hand and wrist at a weird angle. Long live the single button trackpads!
After turning on Yahoo! Mail a few weeks ago (to check out the interface), I had like three spams the first day. I have a number of spams coming to my Gmail, but that is only because I plastered it all over the place for a little while to see how Gmail handles spam (it is much better than it used to).
That sounds familiar. I would use it more (like when going to a website I am familiar with, and know is number one, but don't want to type or don't know the whole result), but I don't want to have to move my mouse to click. I normally just hit enter, since I don't know a way in Safari to go to the I'm Feeling Lucky button.
Okay, you may be a troll, and I may be biting, but if you are worried about that, you should probably be worried more about how cell phones are considered by many to be disposable items. I have yet to replace my cell phone, which I got about three years ago. They gave us the free, crappy (yet indestructible) Nokia phone of the day. It isn't the best, but it works. Mine has been dropped so many times (many on purpose) and has gone through a lot, but it still works just fine. Hell, I consistently get the best reception of everyone I live with. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. I haven't replaced my phone once, yet I know people that go though more than one a year. You should be more worried about all those batteries, plastic covers, and PCBs being produced and later disposed. There are three reasons I haven't upgraded yet: mine works, the current phones aren't quite where I want them yet (camera phone with cheap/free e-mail subscription plan), and because that would increase waste (and since the newer phones aren't as sturdy, I would end up replacing it more often than this one).
Andrew
Also, the sets probably changed quite a bit between shots. When they move the camera, they don't necessarily keep lighting the same, so you would get a whole different set of problems compounding each other. You are right about the focal length. Plus, a lot of times backgrounds are blurred (to put focus on the actors), so it would be hard reconstruct that.
My 12" which was bought in August didn't show its problems for a few months. Then I noticed a white splotch on the screen (different color then the rest, a huge area) and the screen started squeaking. I'm taking mine to the Apple Store in a few days, once school is over and I no longer need it every day (and will have access to other computers).
The P/E may be high, but it was even higher before the most recent conference call and I believe the stock has gone up since then. The forward P/E on Yahoo! Finance is 32.56, so, assuming their earnings skyrocket like many people think the Mac mini will cause to happen, the P/E ratio may stay fairly stable. Also, they are expected to see another 20 million iPods this year. I wasn't expecting them to sell as many iPods this quarter as winter quarter, but they surprised me with lower prices and iPod shuffles. Now they have a whole new market of users. I bought AAPL two years ago (right after it dropped on the rumor of buying, I believe, Vivendi) because I heard the rumors of the music store and because I felt a lot of users would switch in the future. I had noticed a trend in the tech savvy crowd and I thought it would only be a matter of time before common-folk switch. It appears to be happening (the reported iPod halo effect), so their future looks good. Some people recommended I sell before, but I'm in it for the long run because Apple has a lot of market share to gain.
Okay, it turns out it is possible to do a normal search query. I used [geneva -convention -conventions] and it worked pretty well. If you click on advanced while adding the new entry, you can give it a better looking title (I used [Geneva]). Here is an example of Geneva.
Oh, hmm. Is it possible to do a normal search query, like [Geneva -convention]? That might work, but it would look weird as a headline.
I also wanted local news. What I did was create two new categories with keywords of the cities I live in. The keywords work really well and I see mostly relevant content. Give it a try.
It took me 294 days to fill that inbox up. It helped that I subscribed to the Linux Kernel list and a few other high traffic lists. I also used about 40-60 megs with a script I wrote. The rest came from just a couple of threads where some friends and I were e-mailing large attachments back and forth. It kind of got boring in the end, but I think the payoff was worth it. Now most of the messages are in my trash and in 29 days I'll get my space back.
Netscape 4.7 just happened to be in my OS 9 Applications folder. I first discovered that when I was at Yahoo!'s Launch music website, which said it needed Netscape 4.7 to work on Mac OS. Grr.
Well, maybe I like Google's interface better and like to be able to access it quickly and easily.
This was the first browser I thought about checking in. Here you can see, Gmail running in Netscape 4.7.
Umm, that doesn't change the /weather/ feature. That is their calculator, but it doesn't work automatically do it for the weather. I want to be able to see what the weather is like for the up coming days without having to type each on in again and have it get converted individually.
So wait... can you explain this some more? The video is sent over Firewire with 5C/HDCP encoding that prevents it from being saved? The Firewire output was designed to connect to TVs, so how does the TV display it (or do all TVs with Firewire have this?)? I'll try it and see what happens. If true, that'll really piss me off, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to save shows for as long as I want (on another machine with more space).
True, and that is the reason I watch HDTV in the first place! There are shows I would never watch in standard definition, but I do in HD, because of the simple fact that it is HD (like a recent show on Antarctica on the INHD channel).
There is one point that is right, though, it is dual tuner and that would have been more clear for me to say.
And the thing is, I don't mind commercials, but there are some caveats. They have to be entertaining (like IBM commercials or some of the recent Pepsi ads and those Ameri[quest|trade] ones they did during the super bowl ('Don't judge too fast")), they can't be obnoxious or stupid, and I better not see them too much. If I see a new IBM commercial, or even a commercial I've seen before but like, I'll stop fast forwarding, rewind, and watch it. Now, it won't necessarily make me want to buy the product (I don't drink pop/soda, sorry Pepsi), but it does make me mention the company more (like in this post, or other times when discussing the commercial). The more commercials I see (and the more often I have to see the same ones over and over), the less likely I want to watch them.
Somehow I don't think that is going to happen. Also, I don't think Coral works with streaming video (which this is). That said, I'd recommend people watch this video. I attended the lecture and it was really interesting. If you read a lot about Google and are observant, not much is new, but it is all put together nicely. However, you do get to see some interesting idea clustering stuff they have in their backend. I had never seen this before. Also, Jeffrey Dean is a funny guy.
My mom surprised me one day saying she ordered the HD DVR from Comcast (which runs Microsoft software). It is like $5/month or something like that, and there was no up front purchase. I was horrified, someone between those two companies could be nothing less than spawn of the devil. Well, as usual, the installation experience was bad (I've never had a good install from Comcast), because their software servers were having problems and it took a few hours to download the software. After that, however, I was amazed at how much better it was than I expected. The interface is nothing to call home about, but at least it loads and moves pretty fast. The thing that impressed me the most was the HDTV recording ability. You are able to record two HD streams and watch another at the same time! I tried scrubbing through some HD shows we recorded and it was smooth at any speed I tried, it fast forwarded better than any digital content I have seen and even VHS tapes... and this was high definition content.
Another that I appreciate is that it doesn't put ads on screen when you pause video, you can see exactly what you want to. It also doesn't assume what you are interested in and try recording shows it thinks you would like. Probably my biggest gripe is that it doesn't know what channels you don't get (which is probably Comcast's fault). It'll dispaly a bunch of channels while browsing the channels, but we don't get half of them. Not only does it take more time to scroll, but I have also tried recording shows that are on a channel we don't get. Since it doesn't know better, it silently tries to record it, yet nothing shows up. It would be nice if it could give us a warning. I have yet to see a show we weren't able to record (although, if it starts happening when the broadcast flag comes out, I'll have my parents return it).
Last Sunday I set it to record the Oscars, and then I fast forwarded through at super speed and just watched the good parts. That was very handy.
It also has firewire output, but I have yet to try transferring the shows to my PowerBook (using a utility that saves HD streams from firewire). I'd really like to do this so I can save all the IMAX movies on the INHD channels for a long period of time.
Andrew