I find it amusing that pretty much everyone is trying to push functionality onto the Mac mini.
I think it is funny, and I don't have a problem with it. Actually, I am doing the same. I can't say I'll "switch", though I think I would love to.
I think of it as an extension of the potential mini-ITX crowd, cramming computers into boxes and devicesit was never intended to go. Mac mini is a little less expandable than mini-ITX but you can't get a nice looking enclosure without spending a lot of time or money on it, and of course, you get a UNIX-like system with a nice UI and more complete hardware support than Linux on ITX can support. The VIA CPUs aren't all that great either, though I don't know which is faster for sure, I'd guess the G4s.
I passed on the DVD burner option for the mini. I figure I can get a better & faster double-density burner sometime down the road as an external firewire option.
This is the second time in two days I've seen someone call dual layer "double density". It isn't double density. Which is odd since it isn't double density and it is such old terminology that I haven't heard of it being used for over a decade.
Adding a second recording layer is different than increasing the write density.
Reading the article, my first thought was "so what? So we can ultracompress audio so it sounds good at low bandwidth? What's the point?" Truth is, everyone (at least in the west and industrialized Asia) has or will get broadband, *especially* those who are interested in things like net radio.
So? That doesn't mean that server load and server bandwidth isn't a factor preventing people from getting into the game, reducing these two means more people can use a server.
I wish open source advocates would quit saying stuff to the effect of "write it yourself". Even though it probably isn't meant to be insulting, not a whole lot of people can actually do it and do a good job of it. Do a bad job and it's probably easier for contributor to rewrite it from scratch than it is to advance the project.
So, if my laptop is dead or won't dial, and my mobile is dead with no way to charge it, and I have any kind of phone without a working dial pad, I'll try this. This assumes I can actually get a dial tone.
Isn't the consumer electronics industry something like twenty times larger than the movie and music industries? I think it was $100B for consumer electronics, and $5B for movies & music combined.
I really didn't have a lifespan problem despite dropping the player onto concrete several times because it fell out of my shirt pocket. I ened up making a belt clip for it though. The thing still works, just the battery door is annoying to deal with now.
As storage becomes more plentiful and cheaper, the improved compression matters less and less, a 10% space savings on a 5 megabyte file doesn't seem worthwhile anymore. Even when scaled up to 50 Gigabyte collection 5 gigs doesn't matter so much if storage costs $0.50 / Gig. Meanwhile there is a standard which everyone accepted that works "well enough" for 97% of consumers, and supported by nearly every audio program and device - MP3. That last point is a sticking point, I'm not going to narrow down my available choices by 95% for one obscure codec, that's like voters that vote on a single issue and that issue only.
Now, I wish people would drop RAR. ZIP works fine and I hate having to dig up an unRAR program for the occasional oddity I might download.
The Mac mini details aren't like that. Think Secret had broad product overviews at best, the info you now find in the Apple store, not info on how to make a Mac mini from scratch.
I don't think EM radiation has anything to do with eye strain. That would be the refresh.
What effects EM radiation has is completely unknown. For example, there has not been demonstrated a correlated or causal link between power line radiation and any illness, but you'll find people make irrational claims anyway. It would be hasty to make any sort of judgement on EM, especially if the display already conforms to numerous emission standards.
I wasn't thinking that far ahead, more like yelling "ERASE ALL FILES!" on a crowded subway train and see how many swear because their players were just blanked.
I remember a PBS special on the origin of HTTP and they did mention and interview Ted Nelson. They talked for a few minutes but the only thing he said was that HTML was worse than Xanadu. His only way to reinforce that claim was that it was just better, no explaination on why. I still went away wondering what the heck it was. Interestingly, all the information I found was pretty much just sets of linear documents without hyperlinking.
DOS on a Pentium Pro? I thought it was a bad enough mis-use of a PPro to benchmark them with Win9x (it wasn't targeted for that), but to use it with MS-DOS? That takes guts, great stupidity or both.
That it is false. If you take passenger vehicle (car, truck, van) miles, men are worse drivers, based on the number of accidents and fatalities per driven mile. These numbers are collected by the DOT.
Statistically, only when you start confusing truck drivers into the mix does it look like men are better drivers. The problem with that is truck drivers are professionals that drive ten times as much as most other people, have a commensurate level of experience and tend to drive better because a citation hurts their ability to earn money.
Bluetooth operates on the same 2.4 to 2.5 GHZ ISM band as "b" and "g" networking, but it is split into something kike 79 non-overlapping channels rather than three non-overlapping channels. I don't know if any reciever allows you to choose, or tries to avoid detected interference though.
It shouldn't interfere, but with a bluetooth mouse next to a bluetooth reciever AND a WLAN reciever within a foot of each other, sometimes I notice a greater lag on the g card.
One thing that bugs me is "vertical" and "horizontal".
Dictionary.com:
"Economics. Relating to or involving all stages from production to sale: vertical integration."
To be honest, I don't understand why that word was chosen.
I HATE "blog". Somehow, it strikes me as a very clumsy word, even for the English language, which is a clumsy amalgamation of too many source languages.
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I find it amusing that pretty much everyone is trying to push functionality onto the Mac mini.
I think it is funny, and I don't have a problem with it. Actually, I am doing the same. I can't say I'll "switch", though I think I would love to.
I think of it as an extension of the potential mini-ITX crowd, cramming computers into boxes and devicesit was never intended to go. Mac mini is a little less expandable than mini-ITX but you can't get a nice looking enclosure without spending a lot of time or money on it, and of course, you get a UNIX-like system with a nice UI and more complete hardware support than Linux on ITX can support. The VIA CPUs aren't all that great either, though I don't know which is faster for sure, I'd guess the G4s.
I passed on the DVD burner option for the mini. I figure I can get a better & faster double-density burner sometime down the road as an external firewire option.
This is the second time in two days I've seen someone call dual layer "double density". It isn't double density. Which is odd since it isn't double density and it is such old terminology that I haven't heard of it being used for over a decade.
Adding a second recording layer is different than increasing the write density.
Reading the article, my first thought was "so what? So we can ultracompress audio so it sounds good at low bandwidth? What's the point?" Truth is, everyone (at least in the west and industrialized Asia) has or will get broadband, *especially* those who are interested in things like net radio.
So? That doesn't mean that server load and server bandwidth isn't a factor preventing people from getting into the game, reducing these two means more people can use a server.
Develop it, you'd be cool for doing it.
I wish open source advocates would quit saying stuff to the effect of "write it yourself". Even though it probably isn't meant to be insulting, not a whole lot of people can actually do it and do a good job of it. Do a bad job and it's probably easier for contributor to rewrite it from scratch than it is to advance the project.
It seems they have been more lately because there haven't been as many duped stories lately.
So, if my laptop is dead or won't dial, and my mobile is dead with no way to charge it, and I have any kind of phone without a working dial pad, I'll try this. This assumes I can actually get a dial tone.
That, and you might stand a chance of pointing it at Earth and use it as a spy satellite.
Isn't the consumer electronics industry something like twenty times larger than the movie and music industries? I think it was $100B for consumer electronics, and $5B for movies & music combined.
I really didn't have a lifespan problem despite dropping the player onto concrete several times because it fell out of my shirt pocket. I ened up making a belt clip for it though. The thing still works, just the battery door is annoying to deal with now.
As storage becomes more plentiful and cheaper, the improved compression matters less and less, a 10% space savings on a 5 megabyte file doesn't seem worthwhile anymore. Even when scaled up to 50 Gigabyte collection 5 gigs doesn't matter so much if storage costs $0.50 / Gig. Meanwhile there is a standard which everyone accepted that works "well enough" for 97% of consumers, and supported by nearly every audio program and device - MP3. That last point is a sticking point, I'm not going to narrow down my available choices by 95% for one obscure codec, that's like voters that vote on a single issue and that issue only.
Now, I wish people would drop RAR. ZIP works fine and I hate having to dig up an unRAR program for the occasional oddity I might download.
The Mac mini details aren't like that. Think Secret had broad product overviews at best, the info you now find in the Apple store, not info on how to make a Mac mini from scratch.
I don't think EM radiation has anything to do with eye strain. That would be the refresh.
What effects EM radiation has is completely unknown. For example, there has not been demonstrated a correlated or causal link between power line radiation and any illness, but you'll find people make irrational claims anyway. It would be hasty to make any sort of judgement on EM, especially if the display already conforms to numerous emission standards.
I wasn't thinking that far ahead, more like yelling "ERASE ALL FILES!" on a crowded subway train and see how many swear because their players were just blanked.
I remember a PBS special on the origin of HTTP and they did mention and interview Ted Nelson. They talked for a few minutes but the only thing he said was that HTML was worse than Xanadu. His only way to reinforce that claim was that it was just better, no explaination on why. I still went away wondering what the heck it was. Interestingly, all the information I found was pretty much just sets of linear documents without hyperlinking.
I think it is funny that only two posts up, the one saying it is satire, not flamebait was marked as flamebait.
Lately, better for the FBI generally meaning worse for ordinary citizens.
There IS a video, but it only pops off the cover, like skinning an animal and that's it. I plan to do a thoughrough disection and document it.
I suggest you look up the prices of miniPCI wireless cards. $75 isn't that out of line.
is a mini-PCI slot, so it is a standard, although a rarely seen one.
Mostly because few people, even hardware tech sites, ever bother disassembling or even taking a panel off laptops.
I think every Centrino has a miniPCI slot. My pre-Centrino laptop has one for 10/100 ethernet + modem.
I think the driver issue is a valid one, but I've heard of a project where Mac users successfully ported a BSD wireless card driver.
DOS on a Pentium Pro? I thought it was a bad enough mis-use of a PPro to benchmark them with Win9x (it wasn't targeted for that), but to use it with MS-DOS? That takes guts, great stupidity or both.
I agree with your post. Trek isn't fresh anymore and from the original to Enterprise, there's already enough out there to keep any newbies occupied.
I wish they didn't try the two concurrent shows, because that dragged them down, split their talent and was simply a mess.
That it is false. If you take passenger vehicle (car, truck, van) miles, men are worse drivers, based on the number of accidents and fatalities per driven mile. These numbers are collected by the DOT.
Statistically, only when you start confusing truck drivers into the mix does it look like men are better drivers. The problem with that is truck drivers are professionals that drive ten times as much as most other people, have a commensurate level of experience and tend to drive better because a citation hurts their ability to earn money.
Bluetooth operates on the same 2.4 to 2.5 GHZ ISM band as "b" and "g" networking, but it is split into something kike 79 non-overlapping channels rather than three non-overlapping channels. I don't know if any reciever allows you to choose, or tries to avoid detected interference though.
It shouldn't interfere, but with a bluetooth mouse next to a bluetooth reciever AND a WLAN reciever within a foot of each other, sometimes I notice a greater lag on the g card.
Interesting you say IKEA is selling American consumerism. I thought they were a Swedish company?
I wonder why the MP3 makers bother with FM.
One thing that bugs me is "vertical" and "horizontal".
Dictionary.com:
"Economics. Relating to or involving all stages from production to sale: vertical integration."
To be honest, I don't understand why that word was chosen.
I HATE "blog". Somehow, it strikes me as a very clumsy word, even for the English language, which is a clumsy amalgamation of too many source languages.