with broadband, I stay online longer because the experience is less painful. have you seen how huge the average page is at a site like tomshardware? or cnn? or anywhere else? toms front page is 120k, with 250 links and 250 images. (most of which are the same clear gif, but still.)
Unlike the new class of Tablet PCs, the device from StepUp Computing can be navigated by touching the display with any object, such as a stylus pen or your finger. [emphasis added]
One of the nice things about the new M$ tablets and their fancy wacom-style pen is that, since they only respond to the pen, you can rest your hand on the screen and write naturally. go ahead, try it. grab anything and write on it. notice how your whole hand is laying down? now try to write with nothing except the writing instrument's tip touching. not quite the same, eh? writing complicated shapes like a lowercase 'S' is pretty hard when your hand isn't fixed. start writing the letter S smaller and smaller with and without your hand touching and compare the results as the size decreases.
I handled a Transmeta-powered HP tablet running XP. 'My Computer' properties showed it was a 700 MHz Transmeta with some odd amount of RAM, like 236 MB or something really strange. (I guess it had some odd amount shared for video.) Overall, it seemed rather pokey, like w2k on a 233 with 128 MB. Basic boxes, like My Computer's properties or Display Properties took a few seconds to show up, as opposed to <1 second on my w2k/PIII-733 I have sitting here next to me. However, it had enough juice to play an AVI back full-screen without dropping frames, which is all I really care about from any device.:-) Plus, it was really, really cool, and the handwriting recognition was a good system and accurate. I can't wait for them to come out and drop about 2/3 of the price--I was told the one I handled would be about $2000+ when it hit the market. Thank God for St. Moore and his fabulous law.
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Oh yes, how fabulous: you have three options-- 1) Use an Apple display and a third-party display 2) Use two apple displays; requires a $150 adapter 3) use two third-party displays, requires a $50 adapter For a company so into perfection and elegance, it doesn't seem that well thought-out... then again, since 2 of those 3 options require you to spend more money, maybe they accomplished their desired mission perfectly.:-) Granted, when it comes to expense, you'd have to buy a second card in the first place to use two flat panels on a PC, but just like the Windows tax, don't think that Apple is giving you that second output for "free"...
Actually, LCDs can pretty much do true 24-bit color now, and have been able to for a year or two. If you do a *big* gradient, you'll see banding anywhere--if it's 512 pixels high, each band will be 2 px high; if its 1024 pixels high, each band will be 4px, etc. I've been doing Photoshop work on my 18.1" IBM for over a year now and there is no banding at all. Maybe some displays aren't quite up to par yet, I don't know. But I've done Photoshop work on 16 bit displays, and on 24-bit displays that were set to 24-bit, and I know banding when I see it.
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Visit dell.com and bring friends-- buy 3, get 1 free! You can drop the price of a 20" 1600x1200 LCD from $1400 to $1050 if you do. Yes, pricey, but mmm... nice. Plus, it's mathematically beautiful--20" @ 4:3 = 3:4:5 right triangle = 12:16:20 = 12" high, 16" wide... @ 1600x1200, that's exactly 100 dpi!
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Actually, if you have friends, the Dells get cheap, fast. The $1400 20" (mmm...) can be had for $1050 thanks to their buy-3-get-1-free deal right now.
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Maybe it's because Apple LCDs come with proprietary connectors that require a $150 (!!!) adapter to combine DVI, USB, and power into a single cable? (And, from my experience using one to connect a Cinema Display to an Apple (!!!) TiBook, they don't even work that great.) Look on the back of a speed-hole G4--ADC *and* DVI connectors! See? Standards good. Even Apple (eventually) relents. Brief history of Apple display connectors: PPC, Beige G3s: Apple's 2-row connector* B/W G3s: VGA Early G4s: VGA+DVI Middle G4s: VGA+ADC Current G4s: DVI+ADC * and/or somtimes that 'multimedia' connector that was video, sound in, and sound out, most commonly on 6100s and 7100s.
Yeah, let me run out and buy an overpriced Apple flat panel ($999 for a 17"?!?) so I can then go and pay an additional $150 (!!!) to get a DVI+USB+power->ADC adapter.
Visit dell.com--buy 3, get 1 free! That means if you can find 3 friends with disposable income, you can get an 18" for $600 ($800 originally) or a 20" 1600x1200 beastie for $1050 ($1400 originally.)
To reduce [spam], "the mail client now looks at your address book to see if you know the person mailing you, and it displays a different icon if you know the person," Kaufeld says. "When you send an e-mail, it automatically adds that person to your known-person list, and they've added a sorting tool to quickly show you e-mail from only people you know."
That'll work great, until newbies start replying to every piece of spam they get asking to be removed from the list. "Oh, look, it's my good friend at IGN again!"
Open the reader on one machine. VNC, PCAnywhere, or Timbuktu to it from a different Win, Mac, or Lin box, then take a screenshot from there. Or, just take a pic of the screen--my dad's new 3MPixel camera does quite nicely.
I have, in my hand, 2 reams of garbage, starting with a few characters, then "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." 2 reams with 1-15 lines at the top of each page, some of it overprinted. At least my 10-year-old won't run out of drawing paper before college. (Don't know where it came from, it was just sitting by the printer this morning. It actually might not be BB, it's just my guess based on timing and what I've heard.)
...has been rolled into Theora, as is said at bothsites.
from vp3.com: NOTE TO ALL VP3 DEVELOPERS: Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Starting today, all source code development and maintenance for the VP3 open source codec has moved to a new home: www.theora.org. Piloted by the open-source wunderkids at xiph.org who brought you Vorbis audio, Theora heralds a new era of open and license-free multimedia.
from theora.org: What is Theora? Theora will be a video codec that builds upon On2's VP3 codec.
So, in case anyone was wondering (like I just was), there you go.
Yeah, but they left off one important part--pronounciation. If you pronounce the G, it sounds bad; if you don't, it sounds like "new" which is not a useful or accurate description. I respect their work and might start writing GNU/Linux, but I can't imagine saying it.
This is how things are in America--I don't say "me'-hee-co" and "ro'-ma", I say "meks'-i-coe" and "rome" for Mexico and Rome.
Not sure about speed yet--I've been using it for about 3 minutes--but the customizable toolbar is GREAT! FINALLY! I get my 'home' button up where it belongs, as well as a 'go' button. thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! good work guys! yes, I'm excited! how could you tell?!?!?
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Too fucking bad. We're the consumers, it's what we want, deal with it.
with broadband, I stay online longer because the experience is less painful. have you seen how huge the average page is at a site like tomshardware? or cnn? or anywhere else? toms front page is 120k, with 250 links and 250 images. (most of which are the same clear gif, but still.)
...start them on Windows now, so when they're in their teens and start rebelling, they'll move towards linux...
OT/Correction: Is the quality of this cocaine satisfactory, Mr. Delorian?
That should be DeLorean.
Unlike the new class of Tablet PCs, the device from StepUp Computing can be navigated by touching the display with any object, such as a stylus pen or your finger. [emphasis added]
One of the nice things about the new M$ tablets and their fancy wacom-style pen is that, since they only respond to the pen, you can rest your hand on the screen and write naturally. go ahead, try it. grab anything and write on it. notice how your whole hand is laying down? now try to write with nothing except the writing instrument's tip touching. not quite the same, eh? writing complicated shapes like a lowercase 'S' is pretty hard when your hand isn't fixed. start writing the letter S smaller and smaller with and without your hand touching and compare the results as the size decreases.
I handled a Transmeta-powered HP tablet running XP. 'My Computer' properties showed it was a 700 MHz Transmeta with some odd amount of RAM, like 236 MB or something really strange. (I guess it had some odd amount shared for video.) Overall, it seemed rather pokey, like w2k on a 233 with 128 MB. Basic boxes, like My Computer's properties or Display Properties took a few seconds to show up, as opposed to <1 second on my w2k/PIII-733 I have sitting here next to me. However, it had enough juice to play an AVI back full-screen without dropping frames, which is all I really care about from any device. :-) Plus, it was really, really cool, and the handwriting recognition was a good system and accurate. I can't wait for them to come out and drop about 2/3 of the price--I was told the one I handled would be about $2000+ when it hit the market. Thank God for St. Moore and his fabulous law.
Oh yes, how fabulous: you have three options-- :-)
1) Use an Apple display and a third-party display
2) Use two apple displays; requires a $150 adapter
3) use two third-party displays, requires a $50 adapter
For a company so into perfection and elegance, it doesn't seem that well thought-out... then again, since 2 of those 3 options require you to spend more money, maybe they accomplished their desired mission perfectly.
Granted, when it comes to expense, you'd have to buy a second card in the first place to use two flat panels on a PC, but just like the Windows tax, don't think that Apple is giving you that second output for "free"...
Quote from the article: It contains both errors, halftruths, and lies.
Unfortunately, the article contains both spelling errors, grammatical errors, and errors of style.
Actually, LCDs can pretty much do true 24-bit color now, and have been able to for a year or two. If you do a *big* gradient, you'll see banding anywhere--if it's 512 pixels high, each band will be 2 px high; if its 1024 pixels high, each band will be 4px, etc. I've been doing Photoshop work on my 18.1" IBM for over a year now and there is no banding at all. Maybe some displays aren't quite up to par yet, I don't know. But I've done Photoshop work on 16 bit displays, and on 24-bit displays that were set to 24-bit, and I know banding when I see it.
Visit dell.com and bring friends-- buy 3, get 1 free! You can drop the price of a 20" 1600x1200 LCD from $1400 to $1050 if you do. Yes, pricey, but mmm... nice. Plus, it's mathematically beautiful--20" @ 4:3 = 3:4:5 right triangle = 12:16:20 = 12" high, 16" wide... @ 1600x1200, that's exactly 100 dpi!
Actually, if you have friends, the Dells get cheap, fast. The $1400 20" (mmm...) can be had for $1050 thanks to their buy-3-get-1-free deal right now.
Maybe it's because Apple LCDs come with proprietary connectors that require a $150 (!!!) adapter to combine DVI, USB, and power into a single cable? (And, from my experience using one to connect a Cinema Display to an Apple (!!!) TiBook, they don't even work that great.) Look on the back of a speed-hole G4--ADC *and* DVI connectors! See? Standards good. Even Apple (eventually) relents.
Brief history of Apple display connectors:
PPC, Beige G3s: Apple's 2-row connector*
B/W G3s: VGA
Early G4s: VGA+DVI
Middle G4s: VGA+ADC
Current G4s: DVI+ADC
* and/or somtimes that 'multimedia' connector that was video, sound in, and sound out, most commonly on 6100s and 7100s.
Yeah, let me run out and buy an overpriced Apple flat panel ($999 for a 17"?!?) so I can then go and pay an additional $150 (!!!) to get a DVI+USB+power->ADC adapter.
Visit dell.com--buy 3, get 1 free! That means if you can find 3 friends with disposable income, you can get an 18" for $600 ($800 originally) or a 20" 1600x1200 beastie for $1050 ($1400 originally.)
That'll work great, until newbies start replying to every piece of spam they get asking to be removed from the list. "Oh, look, it's my good friend at IGN again!"
Open the reader on one machine. VNC, PCAnywhere, or Timbuktu to it from a different Win, Mac, or Lin box, then take a screenshot from there. Or, just take a pic of the screen--my dad's new 3MPixel camera does quite nicely.
So did ours-- out of 6 trays, only 1 has letter, it holds 1 ream, and there are at least 2 kinds of paper here. (Slightly different colors.) *sigh*
I have, in my hand, 2 reams of garbage, starting with a few characters, then "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." 2 reams with 1-15 lines at the top of each page, some of it overprinted. At least my 10-year-old won't run out of drawing paper before college. (Don't know where it came from, it was just sitting by the printer this morning. It actually might not be BB, it's just my guess based on timing and what I've heard.)
Hear that "whirr"? That's Stallman spinning in his grave, and he's not even dead yet!
1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; 1=-1; 1=0
:-)
Shouldn't the last bit be '2=0'?
...has been rolled into Theora, as is said at both sites.
from vp3.com:
NOTE TO ALL VP3 DEVELOPERS:
Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Starting today, all source code development and maintenance for the VP3 open source codec has moved to a new home: www.theora.org. Piloted by the open-source wunderkids at xiph.org who brought you Vorbis audio, Theora heralds a new era of open and license-free multimedia.
from theora.org:
What is Theora? Theora will be a video codec that builds upon On2's VP3 codec.
So, in case anyone was wondering (like I just was), there you go.
Yeah, but they left off one important part--pronounciation. If you pronounce the G, it sounds bad; if you don't, it sounds like "new" which is not a useful or accurate description. I respect their work and might start writing GNU/Linux, but I can't imagine saying it.
This is how things are in America--I don't say "me'-hee-co" and "ro'-ma", I say "meks'-i-coe" and "rome" for Mexico and Rome.
ServerMan: *gasp* can't... hold... out... much... longer... ... slashdot... crowd... too... powerful!
Not sure about speed yet--I've been using it for about 3 minutes--but the customizable toolbar is GREAT! FINALLY! I get my 'home' button up where it belongs, as well as a 'go' button. thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! good work guys! yes, I'm excited! how could you tell?!?!?
:-)
!!!!!
They forgot to mention the Trek, Lego, LOTR, p2p, and 'f*** the **AA' communities.