I am not flaming just trying to understand after having read most of the feedbacks on/.
Why being so excited about Sony putting up with Linux on PS2. Granted this will probably bring some visibility and increased credibility to the Linux OS (is it good and does it need that really?) The only positive thing is for Sony to get the eggs out of the golden goose, the same way as Red Hat does.
They are the people behing DRM, DMCA, MPAA, and all the ugly things that EFF and other great folks (some of them slashdot readers) are fighting against. Come on, the company is evil, so why are the replies so enthusiastic about this?
If some people just decide to turn to Linux because Sony supports it on their PS2, does the community really needs these people?
Funny, I just read this post as I bought my copy of Metropolis DVD today in Kinokuniya bookstore in San Francisco. They even let you have a pin of one of the hero. This version is Japanese (not region 1) and without English subtitles (there may be I am not sure) and it plays beautifully with VideoLan+DeCSS plugins on my AMD box.
For those of you who are waiting for the release on DVD with English subtitles, and bitching at the US being still centralized around a few spots only (the ones with an Asian population big enough to make the release of the movie worth, all according to these idiots who own theaters), let me tell you that it is so-so, not so good. The story is ok but I was expecting way better from 2 super stars put together to make this anime. So don't be too mad, ok?
I recently ordered the Yamato DVD release from Amazon to find out when it arrived that the media included only the English voices!
Horror! I had opened the box set already and Amazon wouldn't accept it back. I had to sell it on eBay at lost to someone who didn't care so much (yes there are people like that...)
What baffles me is that the 3 box sets are already in Japan for 1 year now, so getting the voices added to the US release wasn't a problem at all. Skip the subtitles, I don't care.
Sometimes the subtitles are even too intrusive in the video itself (See Lain, where they have superimposed roman chars ON TOP of kanjis.) Idiots! They ruined it.
What's more to say than the problem with US of censoring parts of movies because they judge that the audience for anime should be kids only. So you get less blood in the momonoke no hime than the Japanese counter-part. I checked both releases running head to head. The US one arrives 4 mins earlier to the end stop. Disney did it again! Fascists!
So now I buy Japanese anime from Japan only. And I love my APEX 600A. MPAA! Bastards!
PPA, the girl next door.
Does that mean that it's an open door...
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Star Ballz Trumps Lucas
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· Score: 3, Insightful
...for more parodies like that? I have to admit that watching a re-run of "Thunderbirds" on DVD last night, my mind drifted for a moment fantazing about Lady Penelope and Tintin taking care of the 5 sons while the father and Tintin had some fun too and GranMa was watching and cheering up Tintin's father having taken off her denture.
I hope that people with animation talent won't be shy experiencing new ways to bring us joy and visual pleasure.
In a country drown by puritanism and religion, I am impressed about the open mindness verdict the judge has demonstrated. New lifestyles are reaching our country. This is re-assuring.
Kuddos to these guys for protecting US citizen rights by having taken the chance to fight Lucaz.
To these guys and the judge: You've got ballz! I know about a lot of people who would have comply with what ever big corp. would have order them to do (cough! Lindows cough!)
Knowing that my name and address (YES, I am one of them) can be used by M$ marketing droids to fill up my snail mailbox and email one with Windows ads just pisses me off BIG TIME! Why did Lindows complies with this request? This is breaking the privacy policies. I hate this. Can't they do anything against the Beast? Don't tell me that MS had the right to do that. I can't believe it.
It's possible by the time you buy it used that the original owner will have received its new copy, watch it, tape it (if s/he owns a macrovision disabled player) and send it to you just after. I have seen that before.
And it may actually take a big market slice away from already small percentage that is controlled by Apple Computer. Apple is trying to get the rest of us interested about looking at them and the company is diving right into the music market with iPod and the new "digital nub" iMac. Having MTV jumping in there with more than they can provide like for example content, may causes some tooth ache to SJ and its mignons.
It was not, then why stop at 100:1 compression? If the compression scheme was able to compress ramdom data at this ratio, then why not feeding it with its own output and get 10000:1 the second time, and do that a few more times?
"The three companies predict the entire development cost will run to about 400 million dollars (52 billion yen). "
Wow! I guess they could raise any interest if they were talking about $400K. It had to be a huge number. That makes sense coming from big corporates. If it is based on OSS and still cost that much, it would have to be marketing mostly.
"According to the sources, local area networks will be used to connect PCs installed with the operating system to TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators and other home appliances, giving great flexibility in controlling home appliances."
I am sure that everyone needs their AC plugged to the TV. Really useful stuff.
"The larger bandwidth of a broadband connection will open the door to the downloading of movies, TV programs and video games via the Internet, the sources said. "
OK, but does that matter really when more than half of the computer owners in the US are still on dial up connections? Being able to blast my movies all over my home is one thing, but VOD has got nothing to do with it. And I can't even move the content of my DVDs around thanks to the same companies listed here.
"Users will be able to store television programs in their PCs and watch them at any time and any place."
Like I just said, I could do that today by copying my DVDs to a hard-disk but they won't even let me do that legally. So, why should I believe some smoke and mirrors BS will make that happen in the future.
"TVs with the OS installed will be much smaller as they will not need a tuner, the sources said. "
Now we are talking! A tuner in the TV must take as much as the size of a cigarette lighter. Saving that space is really justifying investing in this new stuff. Really needed.
"All controls will be accessible from the TV screen, making the system more user-friendly, the sources said, an important feature when considering the elderly and those unfamiliar with using PCs. "
Which controls? Like PLAY STOP and PAUSE? Coz I got that already on my remote.
"The OS will also enable tasks impossible for current technology, the sources said.
OK, that is what I thought. They are still looking for the killer app for that gizmos. Seems like they got authorization by their finance to go and do something they are not really sure about. But it comes right after the M$ homestation read earlier. So that is probably the only valid reason to spend near half a billion dollars. Like I said, makes total sense.
PPA, the girl next door.
Even if this email is rubbish, I can understand why it doesn't sound too much crazy to think that it could be written from inside MS.
As for myself, my budget resolution for 2002 is:
"Don't spend a penny on Microsoft products."
I skipped getting XP and XBox in 2001, zapped Win2000 from my laptop a few months back and installed Linux and got a Gamecube for Xmas
It took me a while at work to finally convince my boss that I could do my job on Linux running Forte for Java and Mozilla/Evolution for corporate communication, as well as StarOffice to read and write documents. And things are really smooth from day one. I haven't experienced any slow down and getting support when things don't work the way I want them is way easier and friendlier than buying and reading the MS manuals and books.
If I can do it, I am convinced that other people are going to do it too. And MS will have to write more funny emails like this one for my pleasure to read and laugh about.
I just spent too much time sticking to the OS X band wagon to find out that it was all marketing BS. When it comes to innovation, I wonder what can be said about OS X really.
What has brought OS X is a lickable but sluggish interface that I got tired of using because of its flashy and uncustomizable look, and its feel that is too slow even on dual cpu hardware and too big to show up on something smaller than a 22" display. Also try running a few apps together with less than 512MB. What else has been put into OS X that deserves to be cited but a NeXT reap off framework, unsuccessful because of its lack of language support (C++ library in Cocoa anyone?), a performance bottleneck not only due to its incredibly slow hardware platform (running on mythically faster CPUs) but also because of tons of layers to provide a Carbon Framework to port old apps (Carbon thread API is built on Posix threads, Yuk!) that was put together with bad and quick development (design process? what design process?!?), inexistent compatibility and no support for hardware sold more than 2 years ago (ATI Rage accel or PPC G3.)
BeOS has had a Finder database integration from the start (MS is just catching up with something similar), a UI that is clean and efficient and probably inspired from the original mac one, CLI with POSIX compatibility, one of the fastest OpenGL implementation on Desktop PC, a C++ framework easy to use and FUN to program with (I never had so much fun designing UI sw than on the BeOS.) The OS was also ported and SUPPORTED on both PPC and Intel x86.
So, if I compare the two companies, there is little thinking about which one I would like the Desktop PC to take ideas from.
Would I be able to change the weather in the game too? Is the weather the same on Mars as it is on Earth. The article doesn't give too much details about this part. Is this an Hollywood to represent the Red planet weather as really tough? Thanks for the info.
PPA, the girl next door.
This would make for a great game.
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I always wanted to get a Flight Sim with accurate physics (and of course landscapes.) for the solar system planets and satellites. I hope that a game with this theme will show up one day. Maybe hacking XPlane would work?
I don't claim to have the answer to that, not being a self proclaimed visionary (like Steve J. and Bill G., or even Larry E.)
But... it seems pretty much simple to me that :
CONTENT == POWER.
So far, Sony and AOL (yuk)-TM have been pretty good at verifying this equation.
So... the result is that no DVD can be sold if the big fishes don't use the content. And Companies like Sony are even big enough to manufacture them if they are not pleased by the others.
It's a big corporate world out there, and if you are a standard customer looking to spend money, I am afraid that you don't weight too much in the equation above. Kinda like the simplified equation of relativity if you will.
I installed it on my system on its dedicated spare disk, boot it, run it and update the release from time to time.
It's not great as for device support but getting there. Drivers have always and will always be a problem for ANY OS (look at MacOS X and *BSD for living examples.) There are other features in the OS itself that make it forth a try.
If you guys are curious about it, you should definitely give it a try. Some compatibility layer is also provide for Linux drivers and apps. This needs work but what doesn't really.
The good thing is the upper layers which will provide POSIX compatibility for Unix developers to port their work. Pretty straightforward. The main reason why the distro has grown so largely in a small amount of time.
I read false assumptions and mistaken comments on this list about what is HURD. It's a kernel like Linux, and it's based on a microkernel architecture. Mach 4.0 happens to be this micro kernel but the architecture is not locked down so this can evolve if needs to be.
I read also people asking why does HURD exist at all. The answer is pretty simple: Why not? In the ten years it has existed, it should have died many times but it's still here. It's not a commercial OS like BeOS, some it doesn't need to generate streams of revenues to survive. It's just a bunch of code with ideas in it that are still pretty amazing today for it to still occupy developers to put efforts in it.
After all, we are living in a society that should encourage diversity and growth of new ideas (the US haven't being built with pioneers.) So, I am getting sick and tired of the moronic way of thinking in black & white (binary): Only two alternatives (Linux vs. Windoz) and no space for the others . And why is that? Why not letting people who enjoy using BSD and developing with HURD just do it without being hassled by the 2 main opponents?
Don't worry, it's not adopted yet. These guys would have to be backep up by all the LCD fabs in the world. and the money they would save to these big manufacturers would probably be used to pay their licensing rights.
-Type a letter (long painful task),
- Save your new document.
-Type a name for your new document. You are on OS X so no problem about file names greater than 31 chars so you type a very long descriptive name
- You save.
- BING! Error message after the save window has disappeared. "can't use more that 31 chars."
Repeat in Excel, rinse in PowerPoint, get the same error in Internet explorer with file truncation when downloading from the Web and you finally get the idea that what's living under this crap is not Unix (like GNU) and has been around for more than 2 years.
No need for new drivers. Just change the gamma correction for the blue (this is available on all calibration savvy monitor.)
And this won't solve the problem of people whining really. First, people whining are doomed to whine all the time. Second, it's not because you amplify a signal on a smaller surface that you can correct for the flaw. If it work that way they would have already manufactured the monitors with the blue component every other pixel. The main problem is the pattern in that case. Images are linearely digitized and rendered. Displaying these images on that type of monitor would light colors in the "wrong" place. To give the best effect, images would have to be processed thru a adjustment filter to account for the pattern (is this a valid patent case? Dunno, but if you think so and are a lawier, please contact me;-)
No it's not. Do a google search on CLEARTYPE to find pages describing the technique that the Apple ][ was using (Woz == God) and that M$ tried to patent twenty years after.
But that's funny you mention that, because CLEARTYPE using the contiguous alternation of red green and blue on the screen WON'T work with this new thing. And because MS had to go to the trouble of many thousand hours of user testing to optimize CLEARTYPE, expect them to anti-market this type of technology (as they clearly did with BlueTooth in XP.)
One more point: Is it me or the figure showing the pattern shows the blue as covering pretty much as much as the other components?
My concern (if the figure is not right), does that work for people who are colorblind or are more sensitive to blue than the average user population?
Finally just a question: why did they stop here, as green is perceived twice as much as red and red is perceived twice as much as blue (roughtly.) Can anyone on/. think about a pattern that would represent this even better scheme?
What's more important for you? To get a present from someone who think about you? or what is it you get from anyone?
When my family and friend send me a present, I really don't think the important thing is what they are sending. It's the feeling that someone thought about me and put time choosing something for me. In one way, it is not MY present. It is THEIR present. I wouldn't want anything to change about that.
The reason I run debian and shy away from distros like RH and Mandrake is to be able to keep my computer waist slim, and its diet clean and lean.
I don't know about slackware, but debian does the job admirably. I love it and no it's not really hard to set up. Just go to #debian irc and ask questions, you'll get nice answers.
I live in the bay area and read recently that CALTRAIN plans to shutdown the railroad system every weekends for TWO years! Reason given: repairs and improvements.
Do you think that they are planning on installing a broadband access in trains too?
I seriously doubt that but since the recent events of downturn economy, uprising traffic and risks in flying have cropped up, train usage has rapidely become popular around here.
They could even use the tracks themselves to carry the signal. And typing on a laptop during an hour commute to the city would make more sense than sitting in a car stupidely behind the wheels.
Sorry, I didn't forget about the drive ref. but being at work, it was a little bit hard to find it again. I was talking about the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, ST380021A. I've bought two since it came out. I can't tell when they seek during defragmentation!!!
Here is a link to the review on TH's Web site:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/01q3/010905 /p erformance-01.html
My bad. I know very little about IA. The PowerPC has an interrupt vector to execute code when overheating. The new G4 revs have a bug disabling this feature though. I would have thought (wrongly apparently) that it was a feature common to most cpus. BTW, I once forgot to put by the heatsink on my dual g4 and it was working fine for a few hours until I realized that the heat sink was sitting on my desk. Was I lucky or is the PowerPC a little less hungry for power?
You are basically saying that the thermal threshold went undetected by the cpu and the chip fried instead of the system trapping to the shutdown code. Wow! Was it running Linux or Winblows?
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I am not flaming just trying to understand after having read most of the feedbacks on /.
Why being so excited about Sony putting up with Linux on PS2. Granted this will probably bring some visibility and increased credibility to the Linux OS (is it good and does it need that really?) The only positive thing is for Sony to get the eggs out of the golden goose, the same way as Red Hat does.
They are the people behing DRM, DMCA, MPAA, and all the ugly things that EFF and other great folks (some of them slashdot readers) are fighting against. Come on, the company is evil, so why are the replies so enthusiastic about this?
If some people just decide to turn to Linux because Sony supports it on their PS2, does the community really needs these people?
I want to understand.
PPA, the girl next door.
Funny, I just read this post as I bought my copy of Metropolis DVD today in Kinokuniya bookstore in San Francisco. They even let you have a pin of one of the hero. This version is Japanese (not region 1) and without English subtitles (there may be I am not sure) and it plays beautifully with VideoLan+DeCSS plugins on my AMD box.
For those of you who are waiting for the release on DVD with English subtitles, and bitching at the US being still centralized around a few spots only (the ones with an Asian population big enough to make the release of the movie worth, all according to these idiots who own theaters), let me tell you that it is so-so, not so good. The story is ok but I was expecting way better from 2 super stars put together to make this anime. So don't be too mad, ok?
PPA, the Japanese girl next door.
Agreed 100% (about dubbing)
I recently ordered the Yamato DVD release from Amazon to find out when it arrived that the media included only the English voices!
Horror! I had opened the box set already and Amazon wouldn't accept it back. I had to sell it on eBay at lost to someone who didn't care so much (yes there are people like that...)
What baffles me is that the 3 box sets are already in Japan for 1 year now, so getting the voices added to the US release wasn't a problem at all. Skip the subtitles, I don't care.
Sometimes the subtitles are even too intrusive in the video itself (See Lain, where they have superimposed roman chars ON TOP of kanjis.) Idiots! They ruined it.
What's more to say than the problem with US of censoring parts of movies because they judge that the audience for anime should be kids only. So you get less blood in the momonoke no hime than the Japanese counter-part. I checked both releases running head to head. The US one arrives 4 mins earlier to the end stop. Disney did it again! Fascists!
So now I buy Japanese anime from Japan only. And I love my APEX 600A. MPAA! Bastards!
PPA, the girl next door.
...for more parodies like that? I have to admit that watching a re-run of "Thunderbirds" on DVD last night, my mind drifted for a moment fantazing about Lady Penelope and Tintin taking care of the 5 sons while the father and Tintin had some fun too and GranMa was watching and cheering up Tintin's father having taken off her denture.
I hope that people with animation talent won't be shy experiencing new ways to bring us joy and visual pleasure.
In a country drown by puritanism and religion, I am impressed about the open mindness verdict the judge has demonstrated. New lifestyles are reaching our country. This is re-assuring.
Kuddos to these guys for protecting US citizen rights by having taken the chance to fight Lucaz.
To these guys and the judge: You've got ballz! I know about a lot of people who would have comply with what ever big corp. would have order them to do (cough! Lindows cough!)
PPA, the (bi) girl next door.
Knowing that my name and address (YES, I am one of them) can be used by M$ marketing droids to fill up my snail mailbox and email one with Windows ads just pisses me off BIG TIME! Why did Lindows complies with this request? This is breaking the privacy policies. I hate this. Can't they do anything against the Beast? Don't tell me that MS had the right to do that. I can't believe it.
PPA, the girl next door.
It's possible by the time you buy it used that the original owner will have received its new copy, watch it, tape it (if s/he owns a macrovision disabled player) and send it to you just after. I have seen that before.
PPA, the girl next door.
at least from the minority stand point.
And it may actually take a big market slice away from already small percentage that is controlled by Apple Computer. Apple is trying to get the rest of us interested about looking at them and the company is diving right into the music market with iPod and the new "digital nub" iMac. Having MTV jumping in there with more than they can provide like for example content, may causes some tooth ache to SJ and its mignons.
PPA, the girl next door.
It was not, then why stop at 100:1 compression? If the compression scheme was able to compress ramdom data at this ratio, then why not feeding it with its own output and get 10000:1 the second time, and do that a few more times?
PPA -- the girl next door.
Even if this email is rubbish, I can understand why it doesn't sound too much crazy to think that it could be written from inside MS.
As for myself, my budget resolution for 2002 is:
"Don't spend a penny on Microsoft products."
I skipped getting XP and XBox in 2001, zapped Win2000 from my laptop a few months back and installed Linux and got a Gamecube for Xmas
It took me a while at work to finally convince my boss that I could do my job on Linux running Forte for Java and Mozilla/Evolution for corporate communication, as well as StarOffice to read and write documents. And things are really smooth from day one. I haven't experienced any slow down and getting support when things don't work the way I want them is way easier and friendlier than buying and reading the MS manuals and books.
If I can do it, I am convinced that other people are going to do it too. And MS will have to write more funny emails like this one for my pleasure to read and laugh about.
PPA, the girl next door.
I just spent too much time sticking to the OS X band wagon to find out that it was all marketing BS. When it comes to innovation, I wonder what can be said about OS X really.
What has brought OS X is a lickable but sluggish interface that I got tired of using because of its flashy and uncustomizable look, and its feel that is too slow even on dual cpu hardware and too big to show up on something smaller than a 22" display. Also try running a few apps together with less than 512MB. What else has been put into OS X that deserves to be cited but a NeXT reap off framework, unsuccessful because of its lack of language support (C++ library in Cocoa anyone?), a performance bottleneck not only due to its incredibly slow hardware platform (running on mythically faster CPUs) but also because of tons of layers to provide a Carbon Framework to port old apps (Carbon thread API is built on Posix threads, Yuk!) that was put together with bad and quick development (design process? what design process?!?), inexistent compatibility and no support for hardware sold more than 2 years ago (ATI Rage accel or PPC G3.)
BeOS has had a Finder database integration from the start (MS is just catching up with something similar), a UI that is clean and efficient and probably inspired from the original mac one, CLI with POSIX compatibility, one of the fastest OpenGL implementation on Desktop PC, a C++ framework easy to use and FUN to program with (I never had so much fun designing UI sw than on the BeOS.) The OS was also ported and SUPPORTED on both PPC and Intel x86.
So, if I compare the two companies, there is little thinking about which one I would like the Desktop PC to take ideas from.
Would I be able to change the weather in the game too? Is the weather the same on Mars as it is on Earth. The article doesn't give too much details about this part. Is this an Hollywood to represent the Red planet weather as really tough? Thanks for the info.
PPA, the girl next door.
I always wanted to get a Flight Sim with accurate physics (and of course landscapes.) for the solar system planets and satellites. I hope that a game with this theme will show up one day. Maybe hacking XPlane would work?
PPA, the girl next door.
I don't claim to have the answer to that, not being a self proclaimed visionary (like Steve J. and Bill G., or even Larry E.)
But... it seems pretty much simple to me that :
CONTENT == POWER.
So far, Sony and AOL (yuk)-TM have been pretty good at verifying this equation.
So... the result is that no DVD can be sold if the big fishes don't use the content. And Companies like Sony are even big enough to manufacture them if they are not pleased by the others.
It's a big corporate world out there, and if you are a standard customer looking to spend money, I am afraid that you don't weight too much in the equation above. Kinda like the simplified equation of relativity if you will.
PPA, the girl next door.
I installed it on my system on its dedicated spare disk, boot it, run it and update the release from time to time.
It's not great as for device support but getting there. Drivers have always and will always be a problem for ANY OS (look at MacOS X and *BSD for living examples.) There are other features in the OS itself that make it forth a try.
If you guys are curious about it, you should definitely give it a try. Some compatibility layer is also provide for Linux drivers and apps. This needs work but what doesn't really.
The good thing is the upper layers which will provide POSIX compatibility for Unix developers to port their work. Pretty straightforward. The main reason why the distro has grown so largely in a small amount of time.
I read false assumptions and mistaken comments on this list about what is HURD. It's a kernel like Linux, and it's based on a microkernel architecture. Mach 4.0 happens to be this micro kernel but the architecture is not locked down so this can evolve if needs to be.
I read also people asking why does HURD exist at all. The answer is pretty simple: Why not? In the ten years it has existed, it should have died many times but it's still here. It's not a commercial OS like BeOS, some it doesn't need to generate streams of revenues to survive. It's just a bunch of code with ideas in it that are still pretty amazing today for it to still occupy developers to put efforts in it.
After all, we are living in a society that should encourage diversity and growth of new ideas (the US haven't being built with pioneers.) So, I am getting sick and tired of the moronic way of thinking in black & white (binary): Only two alternatives (Linux vs. Windoz) and no space for the others . And why is that? Why not letting people who enjoy using BSD and developing with HURD just do it without being hassled by the 2 main opponents?
Feeling grumpy because of the rain today.
PPA, the girl next door.
Good comment!
Don't worry, it's not adopted yet. These guys would have to be backep up by all the LCD fabs in the world. and the money they would save to these big manufacturers would probably be used to pay their licensing rights.
PPA, the girl next door.
and all the bugs associated with it.
Ex: In Word for Office v. X (aweful name btw.)
-Type a letter (long painful task),
- Save your new document.
-Type a name for your new document. You are on OS X so no problem about file names greater than 31 chars so you type a very long descriptive name
- You save.
- BING! Error message after the save window has disappeared. "can't use more that 31 chars."
Repeat in Excel, rinse in PowerPoint, get the same error in Internet explorer with file truncation when downloading from the Web and you finally get the idea that what's living under this crap is not Unix (like GNU) and has been around for more than 2 years.
M$ QA: which QA?!?
PPA, the girl next door.
No need for new drivers. Just change the gamma correction for the blue (this is available on all calibration savvy monitor.)
;-)
And this won't solve the problem of people whining really. First, people whining are doomed to whine all the time. Second, it's not because you amplify a signal on a smaller surface that you can correct for the flaw. If it work that way they would have already manufactured the monitors with the blue component every other pixel. The main problem is the pattern in that case. Images are linearely digitized and rendered. Displaying these images on that type of monitor would light colors in the "wrong" place. To give the best effect, images would have to be processed thru a adjustment filter to account for the pattern (is this a valid patent case? Dunno, but if you think so and are a lawier, please contact me
PPA, the girl next door
No it's not. Do a google search on CLEARTYPE to find pages describing the technique that the Apple ][ was using (Woz == God) and that M$ tried to patent twenty years after.
/. think about a pattern that would represent this even better scheme?
But that's funny you mention that, because CLEARTYPE using the contiguous alternation of red green and blue on the screen WON'T work with this new thing. And because MS had to go to the trouble of many thousand hours of user testing to optimize CLEARTYPE, expect them to anti-market this type of technology (as they clearly did with BlueTooth in XP.)
One more point: Is it me or the figure showing the pattern shows the blue as covering pretty much as much as the other components?
My concern (if the figure is not right), does that work for people who are colorblind or are more sensitive to blue than the average user population?
Finally just a question: why did they stop here, as green is perceived twice as much as red and red is perceived twice as much as blue (roughtly.) Can anyone on
PPA, the girl next door.
The article is just too much.
What's more important for you? To get a present from someone who think about you? or what is it you get from anyone?
When my family and friend send me a present, I really don't think the important thing is what they are sending. It's the feeling that someone thought about me and put time choosing something for me. In one way, it is not MY present. It is THEIR present. I wouldn't want anything to change about that.
PPA, the girl next door.
Mod the original post up people!
The reason I run debian and shy away from distros like RH and Mandrake is to be able to keep my computer waist slim, and its diet clean and lean.
I don't know about slackware, but debian does the job admirably. I love it and no it's not really hard to set up. Just go to #debian irc and ask questions, you'll get nice answers.
PPA, the girl next door.
I live in the bay area and read recently that CALTRAIN plans to shutdown the railroad system every weekends for TWO years! Reason given: repairs and improvements.
Do you think that they are planning on installing a broadband access in trains too?
I seriously doubt that but since the recent events of downturn economy, uprising traffic and risks in flying have cropped up, train usage has rapidely become popular around here.
They could even use the tracks themselves to carry the signal. And typing on a laptop during an hour commute to the city would make more sense than sitting in a car stupidely behind the wheels.
Ah! I miss Japan.
PPA -- the girl next door.
Sorry, I didn't forget about the drive ref. but being at work, it was a little bit hard to find it again. I was talking about the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, ST380021A. I've bought two since it came out. I can't tell when they seek during defragmentation!!!
5 /p erformance-01.html
Here is a link to the review on TH's Web site:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/01q3/01090
Enjoy!
PPA -- the girl next door
My bad. I know very little about IA. The PowerPC has an interrupt vector to execute code when overheating. The new G4 revs have a bug disabling this feature though. I would have thought (wrongly apparently) that it was a feature common to most cpus. BTW, I once forgot to put by the heatsink on my dual g4 and it was working fine for a few hours until I realized that the heat sink was sitting on my desk. Was I lucky or is the PowerPC a little less hungry for power?
You are basically saying that the thermal threshold went undetected by the cpu and the chip fried instead of the system trapping to the shutdown code. Wow! Was it running Linux or Winblows?