Two, actually... pcHDTV 3000 or Air2PC. Both work with (slightly tweaked) MythTV, Neither recognizes the broadcast flag, both cost around $170US... pcHDTV is in stock at the moment, Air2PC handles unencrypted QAM (yeah, right) from cable boxes...
What I'm refering to is generally called "single estate chocolates" - grown and processed on a single, small estate, with annual runs on the order of 100kg or less for a given estate. A gourmet foods purveyor in my area carries a half dozen estates' product routinely, and occasionally obtains others on a limited basis. I've found others at various high-end restaurant wholesalers and luxury consumables distributers. A few larger estates have begun selling cocoa beans to, yes, french processors, and the product has just, in the past two years, started showing up, also branded as single estate, but, while showing more character than most European chocolatiers' product, and vastly more than most American commercial product, my impression has been similar to the one I have of the more commercialized single malt scotches, or the multi-estate blended Kona coffees. It has a nice character, but there's something a little too blended, taking off those surprising and gratifying little edges. Perhaps the size of the larger estate encompases too many soil variations, or maybe the refining and processing in a commercial plant is responsible. In any case, I am rather curious about the Salon du chocolat that you mention. Is this an annual symposium? I am no professional... minimally trained in the culinary arts, I am simply an avid amateur. None the less, I grew up with some exposure, as my father was the beverage manager, and wine purchaser, for a fairly high end restaurant. I used to get dragged along to wine symposiums, and there were a number of people in attendance that represented the other gourmet industries... I've only been familiarizing myself with estate chocolates for about six years, having encountered them through a coffee merchant.
Interestingly, most of the finest/darkest chocolate is produced in France, not Belgium or Switzerland, as you would expect.
While much of the finest and darkest chocolate is produced in France, I will take issue with your assertation of most. Most of the finest chocolate is produced in South America, on various single-estate operations. By comparison, most of the best French (and Swiss and Belgian) chocolates I have sampled have tasted bland and homogenized. Of course, any chocolate that is consumed a bar at a time (as opposed to a small square or wedge) is not worth eating...
For example, on Farscape, given Virginia Hey's problems with makeup and contact lenses... heck, any of these humanoids-with-funny-skin-color shows would benefit from not having to put in the hours upon hours of makeup. Instead, we'd see hours upon hours of post-production...
Timesplitters 2, I use a heavily modified scheme from the default.
Heh. I actually modified my scheme in Timesplitters 2 to be *more like* the scheme in Metroid Prime. I've played a lot of PC FPSs, and a few on consoles (Halo, for example), and can handle the controls, but Metroid Prime is the only (technically) FPS I can think of where it feels like the controls are an asset, not another challenge to overcome. I prefer puzzles to shooting, and I really appreciated being able to let the FPS aspects take a back seat, thanks to the targetting system and the rather natural jumps. Yeah, there should have been a way to lower the angle of view for jumps, and your feet should have been visible... but otherwise, there was a smooth arc that is missing from so many FPS jumps...
Feynman died in '88, the cold fusion nonsense didn't start until '89
Feynman does say in his textbooks somewhere (don't ask me where, or for an exact quote, I don't have the lectures on hand, and it's been a long time since I last read them) that he was aware of no theoretical reason the deuterium/tritium reaction couldn't be made sustainable at low temperatures. "Cold Fusion" as a buzzword does not predate the legitimate attempts to achieve controlled reaction at non-plasma temperatures. The legitimate research was unjustly overshadowed by the bogus stuff...
we didn't really have much else going for us. We weren't fast enough to catch prey
There's a theory out there that we really were fast enough to catch almost anything... I've seen it in a few forms, proposed by human biologists, anthropologists, and even hard science fiction writers. What's significant, however, is that it frames our ancestors as endurance runners, and suggests that we tended to run down prey by shedding heat better (keep in mind where we evolved) and absorbing and disipating shocks in our legs and spine. There's an interesting parallel between this and the archeological guesswork that led to the conclusions about the slowness of the T-Rex. We may have evolved intelligence partly because it is far more significant to a strategic hunter than a tactical hunter... after all, instinct works pretty well for tactics, provided they don't change to fast. Look at raptors and seabirds, for instance... Just a thought...
IMNAL, and I don't play one on TV, but... Actually, the filing date is April, 2000... the 1996 filing that this is a continuance of doesn't mention any of the relevant claims, aside from the selection of updates (hello, anyone remember the pre-web info-mac archives?!), so the actual claims they are saying Apple and Microsoft violated were filed after the first beta versions of their respective update technologies shipped!!! Sounds like someone got greedy...
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They can always go to the library and be anonymous.
For now, until someone gets wise. See the Patriot Act, for why this is a dubious option for the U.S. over the long term, at least if Bush stays in office. And some internet cafes and similar shops are requiring IDs...
If you argue ad hominem, I get to argue ad quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur!
Wow! Someone who can conjugate "video" instead of copying and pasting the incorrect "viditur" bit... but you still used a lowercase for "Latine". (Shades of my college Latin prof here.)
On the issue of vehicle registration: California charges you a hefty registration "transfer fee" on a vehicle purchased out of state, approximately equal to what the sales tax would have been if you purchased it in CA. This is aside from the low emissions requirement (which I do approve of), and amounts to another use tax. What is disturbing is, there's no exception on the topical use tax for vehicles.
Incidentally, I've made several internet purchases which were gifts for people in Hawai'i, where shipping is a problem, and had them shipped to me in California, then reshipped (or personally delivered) to Hawai'i. Do they expect me to report those as well? They must be nuts!!!
You can't be "unfamiliar with the command line" and a programmer.
Then what do you call those things that ran on Mac OS X and the people who wrote them, if they weren't "programs" and "programmers" respectively? Took me 16 years of shipping commercial software products before I had to use a command line at all, personally.
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Hmm. 16 years. Commercial software. Let's see, that would (assuming the first time was five minutes before your post) put you at 1987, not using a command line, writing commercial software.
In 1987, assuming you were a DOS programmer, (couldn't have been Unix) you would have been using a command line for everything. Windows was still in its infancy - Windows 2.0 - See This, and on the Mac, your choices were - Mac Pascal or MPW. MPW was a programmer's shell - a command line. Mac Pascal was a graphical programming tool, except - you guessed it - someone had to write (essentially command line) scripts for the version available in 1987, or you couldn't get a basic "hello world" compiled.
Please don't tell me you wrote Basic apps on the Mac in 1987 and sold them commercially...
Just about every MUD resource online can be found via the library at kanga.nu, as can some extensive archives of the online game development list (MUD-Dev), which you can find if you nose around the site. Several of Jessica's articles can be found there, as well as Dr Bartle's Suits article referenced above. The mail list itself can get fairly heady, but might as well be required reading if you're serious about being part of the industry. There's more social engineering and business plan traffic on the list now, compared to the extremely technical bent of five, six, seven years past, when it was by invite only, but it's still the most serious discussion venue online. Take a look...
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Bleah. Yeah, it's nice that OS X will run out of the box. No, that doesn't make me less grumpy about the obvious implication: no incentive to get > 4GB machines out. Meaning that much more time until I can use a 64 bit Darwin (or Linux PPC) as a cheap platform to test 64 bit versions of the software I write. Meaning, so far, the only platforms I can use for 64 bit testing at > 4GB without getting some overpriced high end Sun box are still Alpha racks or IBM options (eg POWER3-II based rack mounts like pSeries 610 - still talking $12k with a minimum dev setup...)
I'd been too hopeful too soon when I first read IBM's earlier press release. I hadn't realized they were making it that easy on Apple. I mean, 32 bit OS on the API layers, but I figured they would need to build a 64 bit kernel at least... and with one thing leading to another, I figured we'd get to see an XServe offering with 8GB ram sooner, rather than later.
Ah, well. Back to putting in proposal requests for that pSeries... and hopefully getting all of my requisite external libraries somehow.
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I spent about 18 months trying to wrap my brain around the string theory math. At that point, I'd already gotten to the point that I could do QM and GR with very little difficulty (even occasionally coming up with tricks to shave pages off of the solutions my fellow physics grads came up with, thanks in large part to an extensive background in transform methods), and was writing very good multipass prediction software for cluster-scale orbitals (essentially, how likely is it that there will be an electron interaction at point x if the energy level of the cluster is in range y, with permutations i and j from outside electromagnetic fields; and what does the field look like; and how does it permute the said outside fields? - The whole point of this was computational analysis of nerve signal induction solutions...) and string theory was creating tangles in my gray matter comporable to what happens to those strings of colored lights people store in their attics. And this, even though my transform background made the multidimensional tensor analysis part of it trivial...
For me, though, it's a simple question of economics. I buy a 300-page novel, I'll have it finished in two hours, maybe three hours with distractions (yes, my reading speed is that high). After that, unless the author is very good, it's several months before I can reread it and get the same enjoyment from it -- and I do read books over and over again, simply because if I bought enough books to keep me in new reading material, I'd go broke.
Out of curiousity, how old are you? I'm asking because...
When I was ten or eleven, I hit a reading rate of one 300-400 page midweight (e.g. later Heinlein, Tolkien) book every 40 minutes, approximately. My reading rate increased slightly over the next few years, but when I was a freshman in high school, it began to decline slightly. I thought it might be simply that I spent more time chewing on the thoughts spawned by the words, but...
At some point after my 21st birthday, it dawned on me that I was taking a good one to two hours to read a 500 page book of moderate literary complexity. Somewhere around my 25th birthday, I noticed that it had become three to four hours for a similar book.
I read War of Honor a week ago. It's no 300 page book, but the truth is, Weber's a relatively lightweight writer. So when I realized that I'd been reading it for seven hours straight...
And Pratchett's "Night Watch" took me nearly five.
I'm not yet thirty. I refuse to believe my brain's degenerating that much, already...
On the flip side, I could afford my reading habits now, if I still read that much, even without the libraries that kept me afloat through college.
Sorry, that's 64 MB, not 64kB...
In short, a lot more cache, a lot less speed...
Note, BTW, that the "L3 cache" in question is not high speed cache, comparable with that on the Itanium. More like RAM...
Bear in mind that the single core POWER4 in question is 1GHz/64k L3 cache, and it may not be as meaningful to look at the green box as you suggest... note the speed and cache on the P4 next to it. Also, I think the other POWER4 is the 2 core version... the Itanium wouldn't look so hot next to the 8 core version that IBM lists on some of their big iron...
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Two, actually... pcHDTV 3000 or Air2PC. Both work with (slightly tweaked) MythTV, Neither recognizes the broadcast flag, both cost around $170US... pcHDTV is in stock at the moment, Air2PC handles unencrypted QAM (yeah, right) from cable boxes...
How about:
Real programmers type with 10 fingers: their left index finger and their right index finger.
There's only one thing that makes me disagree with you here...
Simon Furman
Regards... A transformers comics fan for 20 years and counting...
HAND.
What I'm refering to is generally called "single estate chocolates" - grown and processed on a single, small estate, with annual runs on the order of 100kg or less for a given estate. A gourmet foods purveyor in my area carries a half dozen estates' product routinely, and occasionally obtains others on a limited basis. I've found others at various high-end restaurant wholesalers and luxury consumables distributers. A few larger estates have begun selling cocoa beans to, yes, french processors, and the product has just, in the past two years, started showing up, also branded as single estate, but, while showing more character than most European chocolatiers' product, and vastly more than most American commercial product, my impression has been similar to the one I have of the more commercialized single malt scotches, or the multi-estate blended Kona coffees. It has a nice character, but there's something a little too blended, taking off those surprising and gratifying little edges. Perhaps the size of the larger estate encompases too many soil variations, or maybe the refining and processing in a commercial plant is responsible. In any case, I am rather curious about the Salon du chocolat that you mention. Is this an annual symposium? I am no professional... minimally trained in the culinary arts, I am simply an avid amateur. None the less, I grew up with some exposure, as my father was the beverage manager, and wine purchaser, for a fairly high end restaurant. I used to get dragged along to wine symposiums, and there were a number of people in attendance that represented the other gourmet industries... I've only been familiarizing myself with estate chocolates for about six years, having encountered them through a coffee merchant.
While much of the finest and darkest chocolate is produced in France, I will take issue with your assertation of most. Most of the finest chocolate is produced in South America, on various single-estate operations. By comparison, most of the best French (and Swiss and Belgian) chocolates I have sampled have tasted bland and homogenized. Of course, any chocolate that is consumed a bar at a time (as opposed to a small square or wedge) is not worth eating...
For example, on Farscape, given Virginia Hey's problems with makeup and contact lenses... heck, any of these humanoids-with-funny-skin-color shows would benefit from not having to put in the hours upon hours of makeup. Instead, we'd see hours upon hours of post-production...
Heh. I actually modified my scheme in Timesplitters 2 to be *more like* the scheme in Metroid Prime. I've played a lot of PC FPSs, and a few on consoles (Halo, for example), and can handle the controls, but Metroid Prime is the only (technically) FPS I can think of where it feels like the controls are an asset, not another challenge to overcome. I prefer puzzles to shooting, and I really appreciated being able to let the FPS aspects take a back seat, thanks to the targetting system and the rather natural jumps. Yeah, there should have been a way to lower the angle of view for jumps, and your feet should have been visible... but otherwise, there was a smooth arc that is missing from so many FPS jumps...
Back in June, there was an article in MacTech detailing an iPod hack to enable Quicktime playback, written in (of all things) Snobol.
Of course, on investigation, it turned out to be a misscheduled April story...
Sweating. See the links in my reply to the parent post...
I've seen it in a few forms, proposed by human biologists, anthropologists, and even hard science fiction writers.
What's significant, however, is that it frames our ancestors as endurance runners, and suggests that we tended to run down prey by shedding heat better (keep in mind where we evolved) and absorbing and disipating shocks in our legs and spine. There's an interesting parallel between this and the archeological guesswork that led to the conclusions about the slowness of the T-Rex.
We may have evolved intelligence partly because it is far more significant to a strategic hunter than a tactical hunter... after all, instinct works pretty well for tactics, provided they don't change to fast. Look at raptors and seabirds, for instance...
Just a thought...
Er, that was IANAL. My fingers fumbled my thoughts.
IMNAL, and I don't play one on TV, but...
Actually, the filing date is April, 2000... the 1996 filing that this is a continuance of doesn't mention any of the relevant claims, aside from the selection of updates (hello, anyone remember the pre-web info-mac archives?!), so the actual claims they are saying Apple and Microsoft violated were filed after the first beta versions of their respective update technologies shipped!!!
Sounds like someone got greedy...
They can always go to the library and be anonymous.
For now, until someone gets wise. See the Patriot Act, for why this is a dubious option for the U.S. over the long term, at least if Bush stays in office. And some internet cafes and similar shops are requiring IDs...
If you argue ad hominem, I get to argue ad quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur!
Wow! Someone who can conjugate "video" instead of copying and pasting the incorrect "viditur" bit... but you still used a lowercase for "Latine". (Shades of my college Latin prof here.)
On the issue of vehicle registration: California charges you a hefty registration "transfer fee" on a vehicle purchased out of state, approximately equal to what the sales tax would have been if you purchased it in CA. This is aside from the low emissions requirement (which I do approve of), and amounts to another use tax. What is disturbing is, there's no exception on the topical use tax for vehicles.
Incidentally, I've made several internet purchases which were gifts for people in Hawai'i, where shipping is a problem, and had them shipped to me in California, then reshipped (or personally delivered) to Hawai'i. Do they expect me to report those as well? They must be nuts!!!
Hmm. 16 years. Commercial software. Let's see, that would (assuming the first time was five minutes before your post) put you at 1987, not using a command line, writing commercial software.
In 1987, assuming you were a DOS programmer, (couldn't have been Unix) you would have been using a command line for everything. Windows was still in its infancy - Windows 2.0 - See This, and on the Mac, your choices were - Mac Pascal or MPW. MPW was a programmer's shell - a command line. Mac Pascal was a graphical programming tool, except - you guessed it - someone had to write (essentially command line) scripts for the version available in 1987, or you couldn't get a basic "hello world" compiled.
Please don't tell me you wrote Basic apps on the Mac in 1987 and sold them commercially...
Just about every MUD resource online can be found via the library at kanga.nu, as can some extensive archives of the online game development list (MUD-Dev), which you can find if you nose around the site. Several of Jessica's articles can be found there, as well as Dr Bartle's Suits article referenced above. The mail list itself can get fairly heady, but might as well be required reading if you're serious about being part of the industry. There's more social engineering and business plan traffic on the list now, compared to the extremely technical bent of five, six, seven years past, when it was by invite only, but it's still the most serious discussion venue online. Take a look... -- To email me, drop the second through seventh character and the repeated symbols.
It does if you have the money to buy a new one and want it enough...
Bleah. Yeah, it's nice that OS X will run out of the box. No, that doesn't make me less grumpy about the obvious implication: no incentive to get > 4GB machines out. Meaning that much more time until I can use a 64 bit Darwin (or Linux PPC) as a cheap platform to test 64 bit versions of the software I write. Meaning, so far, the only platforms I can use for 64 bit testing at > 4GB without getting some overpriced high end Sun box are still Alpha racks or IBM options (eg POWER3-II based rack mounts like pSeries 610 - still talking $12k with a minimum dev setup...)
I'd been too hopeful too soon when I first read IBM's earlier press release. I hadn't realized they were making it that easy on Apple. I mean, 32 bit OS on the API layers, but I figured they would need to build a 64 bit kernel at least... and with one thing leading to another, I figured we'd get to see an XServe offering with 8GB ram sooner, rather than later.
Ah, well. Back to putting in proposal requests for that pSeries... and hopefully getting all of my requisite external libraries somehow.
I spent about 18 months trying to wrap my brain around the string theory math. At that point, I'd already gotten to the point that I could do QM and GR with very little difficulty (even occasionally coming up with tricks to shave pages off of the solutions my fellow physics grads came up with, thanks in large part to an extensive background in transform methods), and was writing very good multipass prediction software for cluster-scale orbitals (essentially, how likely is it that there will be an electron interaction at point x if the energy level of the cluster is in range y, with permutations i and j from outside electromagnetic fields; and what does the field look like; and how does it permute the said outside fields? - The whole point of this was computational analysis of nerve signal induction solutions...) and string theory was creating tangles in my gray matter comporable to what happens to those strings of colored lights people store in their attics. And this, even though my transform background made the multidimensional tensor analysis part of it trivial...
Out of curiousity, how old are you? I'm asking because...
When I was ten or eleven, I hit a reading rate of one 300-400 page midweight (e.g. later Heinlein, Tolkien) book every 40 minutes, approximately. My reading rate increased slightly over the next few years, but when I was a freshman in high school, it began to decline slightly. I thought it might be simply that I spent more time chewing on the thoughts spawned by the words, but...
At some point after my 21st birthday, it dawned on me that I was taking a good one to two hours to read a 500 page book of moderate literary complexity. Somewhere around my 25th birthday, I noticed that it had become three to four hours for a similar book.
I read War of Honor a week ago. It's no 300 page book, but the truth is, Weber's a relatively lightweight writer. So when I realized that I'd been reading it for seven hours straight...
And Pratchett's "Night Watch" took me nearly five.
I'm not yet thirty. I refuse to believe my brain's degenerating that much, already...
On the flip side, I could afford my reading habits now, if I still read that much, even without the libraries that kept me afloat through college.
Sorry, that's 64 MB, not 64kB...
In short, a lot more cache, a lot less speed...
Note, BTW, that the "L3 cache" in question is not high speed cache, comparable with that on the Itanium. More like RAM...
Bear in mind that the single core POWER4 in question is 1GHz/64k L3 cache, and it may not be as meaningful to look at the green box as you suggest... note the speed and cache on the P4 next to it. Also, I think the other POWER4 is the 2 core version... the Itanium wouldn't look so hot next to the 8 core version that IBM lists on some of their big iron...