I think it is intriguing that there is a correlation between "elegant mathematics" and visual elegance/beauty. Makes you think about some of the "big questions", doesn't it?
The mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote that "there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." Dr. Huffman, who gave concrete form to beautiful mathematical relations, would no doubt have agreed. In a talk he gave at U.C. Santa Cruz in 1979 to an audience of artists and scientists, he noted that it was rare for the two groups to communicate with one another.
"I don't claim to be an artist. I'm not even sure how to define art," he said. "But I find it natural that the elegant mathematical theorems associated with paper surfaces should lead to visual elegance as well."
It's kind of like declaring this is the year that an asteroid will strike the earth. Keep declearing that this is the year and eventually you will be proved right. (not that Linux on the desktop would mean devastation of life on earth, as we know it).
People are getting all righteously indignant and aren't seeing the real purpose of this offer. By appearing to anonymously post OTHER'S stories, he will be free to publish HIS OWN stories under some cover. He will be able to use the journalist's right to conceal the names of his sources to protect himself - and yet still tell his stories. I'm sure he will still use a few others, but the only ones that he can know really happened for sure are those HE performed.
(On the first hole of this past week's British Open, Tiger Woods lost the ball from his tee shot.) He ended up losing by two strokes. ESPN says:
Of all the aspects that amaze about Tiger Woods' lost tee ball on the first hole of the championship, the one that fascinated me most was that his playing partner, Sergio Garcia, ostensibly, was helping him search.
Yeah. Right. And Saddam Hussein is currently helping the search for weapons of mass destruction.
As charades go, this scene was right up there with Bruno Kirby shouting out, "Baby fish mouth" in "When Harry Met Sally."
In fact, Sergio may damn well have found that ball, and then done what Judge Smails would have done to Al Cverik's ball in the rough -- driven it so far into the shaggy brush of Kent with his foot, its next stop was the core of the planet.
When the marshal eventually found Tiger's ball 30 minutes later, I wanted to do a quick forensics test to see if there was any Adidas golf shoe residue on that bad boy.
Considering Tiger missed the playoff at the Open by two shots, Ben Curtis might owe Sergio's foot 10 percent of that check.
The most significant aspect of the whole presentation was the distributed computing built into the new xTools. Are you kidding me??? Anybody wanna guess how soon we'll be seeing OTHER apps taking advantage of the distributed computing capabilities built into the G5 Mac/Panther?
The old joke about a Beowulf cluster of those becomes reality!
A meteor storm is when it exceeds 2000 per hour. This is actually not an HOURLY figure however, for even meteor storm conditions are relatively brief periods of time. This is why you will see forcasts given in 15 minute segments. NASA forcasts by city can be found here: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/leonids_lowdown_02 1101.html.
Even the HIGHEST prediction is "only" 1200 per hour. While this is a superb shower, it does not qualify as a storm. The moon, as noted, will wash out the fainter ones.
Meteor prediction is a young and inexact science, so don't plan on setting your alarm for the exact time of the peak and then seeing it. Go out early and stay late!
CINCINNATI--Lawyers for Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, warned Monday that the doctor will sue anyone who performs his patented procedure without paying royalties. "The Heimlich maneuver is a registered trademark of my client," attorney Steve Greene said. "We are prepared to protect Mr. Heimlich's proprietary rights, even if it means filing a legal injunction against any non-royalty-paying choking victims."
Well, "world domination" may be a bit strong, but I am completely impressed with Mac OS X and Apple. (Even more with the upcoming Jaguar release). Jobs is not just spouting sound bytes when he says that Apple plans to innovate through this recession.
Apple has had two achilles heels in the past. Number 1: Dependence upon Microsoft Office If Jobs is throwing some of the same programming talent that went into OS X onto Star Office, the result should be sensational. Apple surely has learned that it must lower it's dependency upon a Bill Gates controlled project. I'm sure they have been working on Star Office for some time.
Number 2: Dependence upon Motorola. Any company risks their entire future when they have a single point of failure and for Apple, that is Motorola. They have been limited by Motorola's ability to produce faster chips and enough of them in the past. They also lose mindshare with the "megahertz myth". I'm sure Apple by now has realized that most people don't give a damn about processor internals and pipelines. It is just going to be harder for Apple (in the mindshare department) once Intel is shipping 2 GHz processors in quantity, while Apple is just cracking 1 GHz.
Everyone knows that Darwin runs on Intel. What you don't see is how much more advanced development is going on at Apple to bring the full look and power to the Intel/AMD platform. In a Yahoo financial interview recently, Jobs played coy with the question but did not deny it.
This doesn't mean that Apple is turning it's back on the hardware business. Apple could easily make sure that it's OS X innovations became available first on it's own hardware. But an operating system that competes on traditional Windows platforms that includes great apps like iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, and Broadcaster (plus the new ones like iCal and iSync) for a prospective $129 must have the Microsoft honchos tossing in their sleep. Making the iPod available for Windows, is just another indication that Apple is opening up to a whole new market.
No, Windows isn't going away but now it must fight a strong competitor on two fronts: IBM/Linux and Apple/OS X. Linux shipping on Walmart computers for the average user may be a pipe dream, but do you think Walmart wouldn't love shipping Wintel platforms with OS X and saving the Windows OS fee?
I love Linux, but I encourage Linux programmers to take a good hard look at OS X (if you haven't already). Your product could run on both platforms with very little extra work. I have seen the future, and it is OS X.
Curious George
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Exactly how does your miserable self worth go up by keeping your knowledge or appreciation of art form to yourself? Sharing knowledge or opinions now makes one a "sellout"?
I doubt that you were born with an intrinsic knowledge of anything (none of us are). Therefore you are advocating barring the door only after you are safely inside. What an intellectually dishonest position!
Like all art forms, there is no "right" or "wrong". It is a matter of personal preference. All the questioner is asking is for opinions on the starting points recommended by others.
We agree on one point however. If your personality (as your post reveals volumes about) is representative of the "community" I would rather we all stay out. Something tells me "the community" is smart enough to know that it is you that is driving down property values.
New Scientist has this article under the headline: Nerve Implant Experiment "a Gimmick", but you can't help but wonder if it is jealousy at the media attention that the guy garners more than bad science that has other scientist against this guy.
Since everybody seems to agree that Microsoft has a hammer they can drop at any time, has anybody figured out that WINE is a no-lose proposition for Microsoft? On the one hand, it opens up a market for Microsoft products on Linux machines and on the other gives them a case study (not to mention code study) should they want to offer a Microsoft "official" Windows on Linux product in the future (should Linux marketshare on the desktop become problematic). They can make their competition in this area disappear with a wave of a court order (should they so desire). In the meantime, they appear benevolent as the Justice department and European Union consider their normally heavy-handed tactics.
iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by.78" thick 6.5 ounces
* One hour recharge, 10 hour battery capacity charges over FireWire -- no charging cable needed
* 20 minute skip protection FireWire built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* "To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. Never before possible."
3 breakthroughs in iPod: 1. Ultra-portable. Ultra-thin hard drive. 1.8 inch hard drive is.2 inches thick. 5 Gigabytes. 1000 songs at 160K bit rate.
* MP3 (incl. VBR), WAV, and AIFF playback. Holds 1000 songs.
* Music players: flash (MP3) player, hard disk player, CD player, MP3 CD player
Apple's new device is a hard drive-based music player: iPod.
* It's a part of everyone's life. It's a large target market. It knows now boundaries. And there is no market leader.
No one has really found the recipe yet for digital music. And not only will we find the recipe, we think the Apple brand is great for this.
* We are executing on this stuff today. Nine months from having a strategy, and we're basically shipping all of it -- iDVD will ship early next month.
iApps know all about the devices. But a thought occurred to us late last year -- the devices don't know anything about the iApps. There's never been a device built to take advantage... what if there was?
And we decided to do it.
The field we chose was music.
Why music? Well, we love music. and it's always good to do something you love.
* Jobs demos iMovie -- showed clips of baby videos
* iDVD2 shipping early November
* Jobs then showed a four-piece pie chart: video (iMovie 2), Music (iTunes), DVD (iDVD), and Photo
* Let's start with the digital hub. This is a strategy we announced in January 2001. We believe Mac can become the center of your digital lifestyle. In other words, we're being surrounded by these amazing digital devices these days.
* We have something really stunning for you today -- we have a lot of things going on.
* Steve Jobs comes onstage:
Don'tcha just know I gotta add this to my collection!
Curious George
The University of Nebraska at Kearney is bustin' its buttons over the publicity being given to Mahabir Pun's project. He has an undergraduate degree from UNK and is now back for his graduate degree.
Mahabir is spreading the word about UNK in Nepal and we now boast a good-sized community of Nepalese students. Most of them are here in our Computer Science/Information Systems program. UNK boasts a large number of international students considering that we are a small university (approx. 6500 students) in the middle of the heartland. We support our international students in a variety of ways and boast one of the best educational values (read: low tuition, low cost of living) in the country!
If you are looking for a safe, low-crime environment in which to get your undergraduate degree:Check us out!.
My first modem was a 300 baud I bought at a garage sale and used with my Mac Plus and it's whoppin' 20MB hard drive. ('Course I later upgraded to a 1200 baud modem).
While MPEG 1& 2 dealt with compression/decompression of video and audio, MPEG 4 is based on the Apple QuickTime technology. Although the MPEG-4 file format is based on QuickTime, it resolves issues that haven't been accounted for in QuickTime, such as the issue of dynamically adjusting to a user's modem speed. It offers high quality with low data transfer rates (from 20-1000Kbps).
The wavelet compression of MPEG-4 offers better quality than JPEG with file sizes approximately 25 percent of the size for Web quality. Wavelets dynamically allow servers to reduce bitmap file sizes (which also affect quality) when working with lower bandwidths, reducing the need to create different presentations to account for a variety of connection speeds.
For audio, MPEG-4 offers a wide variety of features, such as codecs for low-bitrate speech and general purpose audio. For servers, the audio component offers several quality layers which, based on bandwidth, can be dynamically adjusted. Given how MP3 became a popular music file format MPEG-4 could well follow the same trend.
For Rich Media, MPEG-4 constructs everything out of media objects, such as video/audio streams, stills, text, etc. Further, these media objects can be mapped to a scene as opposed to simply working within a rectangle. Also, MPEG-4 can blend the capabilities of Flash, VRML, Shockwave and digital video into a single file format, making it easier to deliver content over slower connection.
MPEG-4 Variations Version 1 of MPEG-4 offered nine video and four audio profiles. Version 2 added seven more video and four audio profiles. These profiles create subsets for different marketing options. Profiles, or features, are designed to work on different platforms. An example would be cell phones and on the other end of technology, HDTV. Into the Future Among other things, MPEG-4 has been slated to replace the current MPEG-2 standard in the cable industry, meaning among other things, that the companies could triple the number of channels available and could implement interactive capabilities.
MPEG-4 also offers MPEG-J, a Java library for controlling MPEG-4. Combining the two would let developers embed a Java applet in the MPEG stream, making possible such innovative cable options as interactive advertisements, home shopping capabilities and more. Other possibilities include videoconferencing, security observation, etc.
A potential barrier to widespread MPEG-4 use are the licensing and fees issues, due to several companies having patents that apply to aspects of MPEG-4. According to Shelly: "There is a group known as MPEG LA, based out of Los Angeles, that are working with a number of people who hold patents. They are attempting to speak for the entire industry, but not everyone who owns a patent for MPEG is a part of that group." The challenge is to combine the patents into one licensing fee, which is still in process.
Doesn't reading and responding to threads that have nothing to do with the disaster also show the lack of humanity you claim to abhor? So stop with your flamebaiting posting and go back to under your desk and resume chewing your fingernails. Interrupting normal life as we live it is the whole goal of the terrorism. Congrats on perpetuating their objectives with your brilliant post!
I am an INTP. I have no tolerance for pompous asses!
My office is getting me a G4 Powerbook (I opted to wait to see what improvements the September announcements bring), so I'll have to try that. Sounds extremely cool. Makes me think of a Swiss Army Knife.
Hey! Wouldn't that be a cool idea for Apple and Victorinox to get together and offer a G4 Powerbook in the Swiss Army Red (replace the apple logo with the Swiss white cross?) Too cool. It would be a win/win for both companies!
If you are a linux on PPC user, you owe it to yourself to try Mandrake. When I'm looking for RPMs to install, one of the things that normally bums me out is that the ppc.rpms are WAY behind the i386-i586 rpms (in versions available). Check out the RPMFINDER database if you don't believe me. The most recent versions are almost ALWAYS available from the Mandrake/Cooker project. I think these guys deserve our support!
(Linux is a great way to put older Mac Hardware to use!) Mandrake offer's great online installation instructions, too! Also, check out the Mandrake Linux PPC 8.0 FAQ (it says "beta", but applies to the more recent releases, as well.)
Understanding that it WAS not only possible, but SIMPLE (to remove the browser without crippling the OS) certainly hurt Microsoft's credibility in the entire case. Judge Jackson DID get the point (after it was demonstrated to him) and is surely one of the big reasons that everything Microsoft said was viewed with suspicion from that point on.
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He probably did it kinda like this:
http://www.atpm.com/10.06/blender.shtml
If it hits the earth it is a meteorite.
It's kind of like declaring this is the year that an asteroid will strike the earth. Keep declearing that this is the year and eventually you will be proved right. (not that Linux on the desktop would mean devastation of life on earth, as we know it).
People are getting all righteously indignant and aren't seeing the real purpose of this offer. By appearing to anonymously post OTHER'S stories, he will be free to publish HIS OWN stories under some cover. He will be able to use the journalist's right to conceal the names of his sources to protect himself - and yet still tell his stories. I'm sure he will still use a few others, but the only ones that he can know really happened for sure are those HE performed.
Curious George
(On the first hole of this past week's British Open, Tiger Woods lost the ball from his tee shot.) He ended up losing by two strokes.
ESPN says:
Of all the aspects that amaze about Tiger Woods' lost tee ball on the first hole of the championship, the one that fascinated me most was that his playing partner, Sergio Garcia, ostensibly, was helping him search.
Yeah. Right. And Saddam Hussein is currently helping the search for weapons of mass destruction.
As charades go, this scene was right up there with Bruno Kirby shouting out, "Baby fish mouth" in "When Harry Met Sally."
In fact, Sergio may damn well have found that ball, and then done what Judge Smails would have done to Al Cverik's ball in the rough -- driven it so far into the shaggy brush of Kent with his foot, its next stop was the core of the planet.
When the marshal eventually found Tiger's ball 30 minutes later, I wanted to do a quick forensics test to see if there was any Adidas golf shoe residue on that bad boy.
Considering Tiger missed the playoff at the Open by two shots, Ben Curtis might owe Sergio's foot 10 percent of that check.
I'm sorry, but aesthetics is important to me and the fact that the new system with its multiple fans is almost twice as quiet as the current G4 tower, is trés cool. The case is massively cool. I'd like to know how they are gonna put that thing in Powerbooks without requiring the use of oven mitts.
The most significant aspect of the whole presentation was the distributed computing built into the new xTools. Are you kidding me??? Anybody wanna guess how soon we'll be seeing OTHER apps taking advantage of the distributed computing capabilities built into the G5 Mac/Panther?
The old joke about a Beowulf cluster of those becomes reality!
Curious George
but without the boobies.
Even the HIGHEST prediction is "only" 1200 per hour. While this is a superb shower, it does not qualify as a storm. The moon, as noted, will wash out the fainter ones.
Meteor prediction is a young and inexact science, so don't plan on setting your alarm for the exact time of the peak and then seeing it. Go out early and stay late!
Great page here at space.com.
I'm hoping for CLEAR SKIES!
is awesome. You have to check it out. http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/naqoyqatsi/.
You won't find these at your usual video store. I've only seen the first one. It is an "experience", but not your traditional "movie".
(From this week's The Onion)
Apple has had two achilles heels in the past. Number 1: Dependence upon Microsoft Office If Jobs is throwing some of the same programming talent that went into OS X onto Star Office, the result should be sensational. Apple surely has learned that it must lower it's dependency upon a Bill Gates controlled project. I'm sure they have been working on Star Office for some time.
Number 2: Dependence upon Motorola. Any company risks their entire future when they have a single point of failure and for Apple, that is Motorola. They have been limited by Motorola's ability to produce faster chips and enough of them in the past. They also lose mindshare with the "megahertz myth". I'm sure Apple by now has realized that most people don't give a damn about processor internals and pipelines. It is just going to be harder for Apple (in the mindshare department) once Intel is shipping 2 GHz processors in quantity, while Apple is just cracking 1 GHz.
Everyone knows that Darwin runs on Intel. What you don't see is how much more advanced development is going on at Apple to bring the full look and power to the Intel/AMD platform. In a Yahoo financial interview recently, Jobs played coy with the question but did not deny it.
This doesn't mean that Apple is turning it's back on the hardware business. Apple could easily make sure that it's OS X innovations became available first on it's own hardware. But an operating system that competes on traditional Windows platforms that includes great apps like iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, and Broadcaster (plus the new ones like iCal and iSync) for a prospective $129 must have the Microsoft honchos tossing in their sleep. Making the iPod available for Windows, is just another indication that Apple is opening up to a whole new market.
No, Windows isn't going away but now it must fight a strong competitor on two fronts: IBM/Linux and Apple/OS X. Linux shipping on Walmart computers for the average user may be a pipe dream, but do you think Walmart wouldn't love shipping Wintel platforms with OS X and saving the Windows OS fee?
I love Linux, but I encourage Linux programmers to take a good hard look at OS X (if you haven't already). Your product could run on both platforms with very little extra work. I have seen the future, and it is OS X.
Curious George
Exactly how does your miserable self worth go up by keeping your knowledge or appreciation of art form to yourself? Sharing knowledge or opinions now makes one a "sellout"?
I doubt that you were born with an intrinsic knowledge of anything (none of us are). Therefore you are advocating barring the door only after you are safely inside. What an intellectually dishonest position!
Like all art forms, there is no "right" or "wrong". It is a matter of personal preference. All the questioner is asking is for opinions on the starting points recommended by others.
We agree on one point however. If your personality (as your post reveals volumes about) is representative of the "community" I would rather we all stay out. Something tells me "the community" is smart enough to know that it is you that is driving down property values.
Curious George
Your "Rooby Roo" dialog had me spewing in my keyboard. Funny, funny stuff.
Curious George
It's up now.
Have a look
The Apple Store
The Apple Home Page
The iPod Product Page
iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by
* One hour recharge, 10 hour battery capacity charges over FireWire -- no charging cable needed
* 20 minute skip protection FireWire built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* "To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. Never before possible."
3 breakthroughs in iPod: 1. Ultra-portable. Ultra-thin hard drive. 1.8 inch hard drive is
* MP3 (incl. VBR), WAV, and AIFF playback. Holds 1000 songs.
* Music players: flash (MP3) player, hard disk player, CD player, MP3 CD player
Apple's new device is a hard drive-based music player: iPod.
* It's a part of everyone's life. It's a large target market. It knows now boundaries. And there is no market leader.
No one has really found the recipe yet for digital music. And not only will we find the recipe, we think the Apple brand is great for this.
* We are executing on this stuff today. Nine months from having a strategy, and we're basically shipping all of it -- iDVD will ship early next month.
iApps know all about the devices. But a thought occurred to us late last year -- the devices don't know anything about the iApps. There's never been a device built to take advantage... what if there was?
And we decided to do it.
The field we chose was music.
Why music? Well, we love music. and it's always good to do something you love.
* Jobs demos iMovie -- showed clips of baby videos
* iDVD2 shipping early November
* Jobs then showed a four-piece pie chart: video (iMovie 2), Music (iTunes), DVD (iDVD), and Photo
* Let's start with the digital hub. This is a strategy we announced in January 2001. We believe Mac can become the center of your digital lifestyle. In other words, we're being surrounded by these amazing digital devices these days.
* We have something really stunning for you today -- we have a lot of things going on.
* Steve Jobs comes onstage:
Don'tcha just know I gotta add this to my collection!
Curious George
Mahabir is spreading the word about UNK in Nepal and we now boast a good-sized community of Nepalese students. Most of them are here in our Computer Science/Information Systems program. UNK boasts a large number of international students considering that we are a small university (approx. 6500 students) in the middle of the heartland. We support our international students in a variety of ways and boast one of the best educational values (read: low tuition, low cost of living) in the country!
If you are looking for a safe, low-crime environment in which to get your undergraduate degree:Check us out!.
Lower bandwidth site: here.
Curious George
My first modem was a 300 baud I bought at a garage sale and used with my Mac Plus and it's whoppin' 20MB hard drive. ('Course I later upgraded to a 1200 baud modem).
Them wuzz the dayz.
Curious George
(clearly not an english major)
The wavelet compression of MPEG-4 offers better quality than JPEG with file sizes approximately 25 percent of the size for Web quality. Wavelets dynamically allow servers to reduce bitmap file sizes (which also affect quality) when working with lower bandwidths, reducing the need to create different presentations to account for a variety of connection speeds.
For audio, MPEG-4 offers a wide variety of features, such as codecs for low-bitrate speech and general purpose audio. For servers, the audio component offers several quality layers which, based on bandwidth, can be dynamically adjusted. Given how MP3 became a popular music file format MPEG-4 could well follow the same trend.
For Rich Media, MPEG-4 constructs everything out of media objects, such as video/audio streams, stills, text, etc. Further, these media objects can be mapped to a scene as opposed to simply working within a rectangle. Also, MPEG-4 can blend the capabilities of Flash, VRML, Shockwave and digital video into a single file format, making it easier to deliver content over slower connection.
MPEG-4 Variations Version 1 of MPEG-4 offered nine video and four audio profiles. Version 2 added seven more video and four audio profiles. These profiles create subsets for different marketing options. Profiles, or features, are designed to work on different platforms. An example would be cell phones and on the other end of technology, HDTV. Into the Future Among other things, MPEG-4 has been slated to replace the current MPEG-2 standard in the cable industry, meaning among other things, that the companies could triple the number of channels available and could implement interactive capabilities.
MPEG-4 also offers MPEG-J, a Java library for controlling MPEG-4. Combining the two would let developers embed a Java applet in the MPEG stream, making possible such innovative cable options as interactive advertisements, home shopping capabilities and more. Other possibilities include videoconferencing, security observation, etc.
A potential barrier to widespread MPEG-4 use are the licensing and fees issues, due to several companies having patents that apply to aspects of MPEG-4. According to Shelly: "There is a group known as MPEG LA, based out of Los Angeles, that are working with a number of people who hold patents. They are attempting to speak for the entire industry, but not everyone who owns a patent for MPEG is a part of that group." The challenge is to combine the patents into one licensing fee, which is still in process.
The preceding is from: http://streamingmediaworld.com/
Curious George
Doesn't reading and responding to threads that have nothing to do with the disaster also show the lack of humanity you claim to abhor? So stop with your flamebaiting posting and go back to under your desk and resume chewing your fingernails. Interrupting normal life as we live it is the whole goal of the terrorism. Congrats on perpetuating their objectives with your brilliant post!
I am an INTP. I have no tolerance for pompous asses!
Curious George
Hey! Wouldn't that be a cool idea for Apple and Victorinox to get together and offer a G4 Powerbook in the Swiss Army Red (replace the apple logo with the Swiss white cross?) Too cool. It would be a win/win for both companies!
I am a marketing GENIUS! hee hee!
Curious George
(Linux is a great way to put older Mac Hardware to use!) Mandrake offer's great online installation instructions, too! Also, check out the Mandrake Linux PPC 8.0 FAQ (it says "beta", but applies to the more recent releases, as well.)
Curious George
Curious George