The Simpsons also looks like crap. However, it has also become crap at this point, so I've stopped watching it.
Fox is only doing 720p, whereas CBS/NBC/ABC do 1080i. PBS is also 720p, and their source material seems to vary a lot in quality, but it's still better than Fox. I'm wondering if the local Fox channel (KTBC Austin TX) is particularly bad.
I was also dismayed to see the amount of new programming on the commercial stations that's letterboxed. PBS seem to be ahead of them, bizarrely enough, perhaps because they buy most of their content from the UK, which has been widescreen for years.
Yeah, I meant TV news was useless as a way of getting actual news. As a clue to what ignorant morons think, it's fairly useful. I just don't have much time for ignorant morons, and feel that there's not much point knowing what they think if I can't do anything about it.
It might require some kind of Bluetooth profile that your Motorola doesn't support. I remember the Bluetooth setup assistant asked me about it when I paired my Sony Ericsson Z520a.
I don't think I've posted it before, but I came up with it independently in conversation with friends. Yours was good, though... working in the bit about 'stability'.
Yeah, the AC was an ass. This is Slashdot, recycling geeky in-jokes is the norm. We like it that way, it means we know when to laugh. If you want something more original from me, read my web site or something.
Are you also proud of not reading books? They waste a vast amount of many people's lives, 90% of them are crap, and after a few weeks you don't miss them.
I have DirecTV, but their HD package is over $10 a month and only has 1 channel in it that I'd be interested in watching, and I'd need a new DirecTiVo, so I skip it.
Instead, I have an $8 RCA wire loop antenna. Since I live within 10km of the broadcast antennas, that suffices to get all the local channels. Of those, the only one with anything worth watching is PBS. "Family Guy" and the like on Fox HD actually look worse than regular DirecTV Fox. In fact, even Fox HD shows look pretty bad compared to NBC, ABC and CBS; and unfortunately, on those three channels with the best HD, there's nothing worth watching.
In my case, the decoder is built in to the TV, rather than a separate box.
You shouldn't watch TV news at all. It's completely useless. Read a newspaper, or ideally several newspapers. You can even get real newspapers via the Internet, rather than having to read crap like USA Today.
First off, when the L.A. Times says "sources tell us", it's a little more reliable than your typical rumour site or ZDnet blogger.
You haven't quite learned to read newspaperese.
"Sources at Google/Wal-Mart tell us..." would mean someone with actual knowledge had spoken to the LA Times.
"Sources say..." just means one of their reporters heard it at a party or read it on the Internet, or was told it by a source with no particular credibility. If the source was credible, they'd have said why.
Boeing have requested that all new development is in Java, even for real-time mission-critical high-performance work. The reason they give is that Java is simply a more productive language to work with.
Great, now all we need to do is make them aware of Ruby and have them fund some work on making it RT capable.
It'll also be interesting to see whether Sony, Microsoft and IBM step up and continue to support PowerPC improvements to GCC. Apple funded many code generation improvements.
So why should Adobe port yet again? I guess the question should be "why would Adobe port any apps in the next 3 years?"
I have 3 PowerPC Macs. I know the x86 transition is coming, so I've put a total freeze on buying any software that isn't available as an x86 fat binary.
If Adobe want me to buy a Photoshop upgrade, they'll get Photoshop running on x86. Because if they don't, I won't buy the upgrade, even if I don't have an x86 Mac yet. Because I know that sooner or later, I will have, and I want all my software to be running on it when I do.
Similarly, no Cubase upgrade for me until there's an x86 version. Ableton Live looks nice, but until it's x86 ready, no deal.
So the market for x86 OS X applications is bigger than the number of x86 OS X machines sold this year.
No, it's one of the dumbest ideas ever. Taking a huge brush and painting anybody exceeding an arbitrary number on the side of the road with the label of dangerous driver, taking no other factors into account, even though they might be driving ten times more safely than the guy beside them doing 5 under the limit with his bald tyres, broken brake lights and rusted-through car, is simply idiotic (assuming your objective is to make the roads safer, of course).
Unfortunately, there's no feasible way to separate the people who can safely drive at way above the speed limit, from the people who are brain-dead idiots. That's why we have speed limits. And of course, we know that statistically 70% or so of drivers think they're above average, meaning that if you left it to driver discretion the result would be carnage.
Still, I'll vote for relaxed speed limits if you'll vote for banning SUVs.
First off: they don't need to keep all the video. Once they get facial recognition sorted, they can just log your ID against a set of waypoints, perhaps with a few reference clips of video. They can probably cross-reference with your mobile phone's location data too, to help identify you. (If cellphone X is the only one to be traced to six locations where face Y is seen, it's a pretty safe bet that X belongs to Y.)
Secondly, it doesn't matter that the cameras are fixed. So long as they're networked and have accurate timestamps, you can reconstruct the likely route across the few places not under surveillance.
In case you missed the story in The Independent, the UK is aiming to keep a 2 year rolling log of every journey made by every car starting this year. Replace the license plate with a face and a cellphone trace, and you can do the same with people.
I happen to believe, like David Brin, that it's inevitable. What we need to be doing is forcing reciprocal transparency.
Yeah, I don't understand why nobody seems to sell capsule flights, particularly for long hauls. You could fit 6 capsules in the space of 8-9 seats on a 747, maybe even more. I'd pay 25% extra to get a capsule bed on a transatlantic flight.
I'm not talking about 'loud', I'm talking about 'painful without earplugs'. Surely it's possible to have some kind of happy medium, where it's only slightly dangerous but still exciting?
So tell me... as someone who works in the live audio industry, WHY THE FUCK do live events always have the audio cranked up to painful health-damaging levels?
I've pretty much given up on live music because of it.
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The Simpsons also looks like crap. However, it has also become crap at this point, so I've stopped watching it.
Fox is only doing 720p, whereas CBS/NBC/ABC do 1080i. PBS is also 720p, and their source material seems to vary a lot in quality, but it's still better than Fox. I'm wondering if the local Fox channel (KTBC Austin TX) is particularly bad.
I was also dismayed to see the amount of new programming on the commercial stations that's letterboxed. PBS seem to be ahead of them, bizarrely enough, perhaps because they buy most of their content from the UK, which has been widescreen for years.
Looks pretty, but I don't do Windows.
Yeah, I meant TV news was useless as a way of getting actual news. As a clue to what ignorant morons think, it's fairly useful. I just don't have much time for ignorant morons, and feel that there's not much point knowing what they think if I can't do anything about it.
OS X 10.4 has support for Bluetooth remotes built in.
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http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/01/using_a_
It might require some kind of Bluetooth profile that your Motorola doesn't support. I remember the Bluetooth setup assistant asked me about it when I paired my Sony Ericsson Z520a.
I don't think I've posted it before, but I came up with it independently in conversation with friends. Yours was good, though... working in the bit about 'stability'.
Yeah, the AC was an ass. This is Slashdot, recycling geeky in-jokes is the norm. We like it that way, it means we know when to laugh. If you want something more original from me, read my web site or something.
If someone made an online multiplayer Elite for the PS2, my social life would be devastated.
Why aren't there any Elite-like games for PS2?
Are you also proud of not reading books? They waste a vast amount of many people's lives, 90% of them are crap, and after a few weeks you don't miss them.
I have DirecTV, but their HD package is over $10 a month and only has 1 channel in it that I'd be interested in watching, and I'd need a new DirecTiVo, so I skip it.
Instead, I have an $8 RCA wire loop antenna. Since I live within 10km of the broadcast antennas, that suffices to get all the local channels. Of those, the only one with anything worth watching is PBS. "Family Guy" and the like on Fox HD actually look worse than regular DirecTV Fox. In fact, even Fox HD shows look pretty bad compared to NBC, ABC and CBS; and unfortunately, on those three channels with the best HD, there's nothing worth watching.
In my case, the decoder is built in to the TV, rather than a separate box.
You shouldn't watch TV news at all. It's completely useless. Read a newspaper, or ideally several newspapers. You can even get real newspapers via the Internet, rather than having to read crap like USA Today.
FYI, you can use any Bluetooth cell phone as a remote.
Mac OS X 10.6 Liger.
Known for its skills in magic.
You haven't quite learned to read newspaperese.
"Sources at Google/Wal-Mart tell us..." would mean someone with actual knowledge had spoken to the LA Times.
"Sources say..." just means one of their reporters heard it at a party or read it on the Internet, or was told it by a source with no particular credibility. If the source was credible, they'd have said why.
Great, now all we need to do is make them aware of Ruby and have them fund some work on making it RT capable.
I guess that's true: I wrote C++ for years, and hate it, but I'm not complaining.
It'll also be interesting to see whether Sony, Microsoft and IBM step up and continue to support PowerPC improvements to GCC. Apple funded many code generation improvements.
(Anyone know if the Xbox360 dev kit uses GCC?)
I have 3 PowerPC Macs. I know the x86 transition is coming, so I've put a total freeze on buying any software that isn't available as an x86 fat binary.
If Adobe want me to buy a Photoshop upgrade, they'll get Photoshop running on x86. Because if they don't, I won't buy the upgrade, even if I don't have an x86 Mac yet. Because I know that sooner or later, I will have, and I want all my software to be running on it when I do.
Similarly, no Cubase upgrade for me until there's an x86 version. Ableton Live looks nice, but until it's x86 ready, no deal.
So the market for x86 OS X applications is bigger than the number of x86 OS X machines sold this year.
Unfortunately, there's no feasible way to separate the people who can safely drive at way above the speed limit, from the people who are brain-dead idiots. That's why we have speed limits. And of course, we know that statistically 70% or so of drivers think they're above average, meaning that if you left it to driver discretion the result would be carnage.
Still, I'll vote for relaxed speed limits if you'll vote for banning SUVs.
First off: they don't need to keep all the video. Once they get facial recognition sorted, they can just log your ID against a set of waypoints, perhaps with a few reference clips of video. They can probably cross-reference with your mobile phone's location data too, to help identify you. (If cellphone X is the only one to be traced to six locations where face Y is seen, it's a pretty safe bet that X belongs to Y.)
Secondly, it doesn't matter that the cameras are fixed. So long as they're networked and have accurate timestamps, you can reconstruct the likely route across the few places not under surveillance.
In case you missed the story in The Independent, the UK is aiming to keep a 2 year rolling log of every journey made by every car starting this year. Replace the license plate with a face and a cellphone trace, and you can do the same with people.
I happen to believe, like David Brin, that it's inevitable. What we need to be doing is forcing reciprocal transparency.
Yeah, I don't understand why nobody seems to sell capsule flights, particularly for long hauls. You could fit 6 capsules in the space of 8-9 seats on a 747, maybe even more. I'd pay 25% extra to get a capsule bed on a transatlantic flight.
The article says 10 square meters. Maybe they modeled the size of their coffin on fat Americans.
If you eliminate the CMSs running on crufty hole-ridden PHP, there aren't very many.
First, get everyone using a mail client that supports S/MIME. Thunderbird works, as does Apple Mail.
Then, use S/MIME.
I guess I'll just continue to avoid live events then.
I'm not talking about 'loud', I'm talking about 'painful without earplugs'. Surely it's possible to have some kind of happy medium, where it's only slightly dangerous but still exciting?
So tell me... as someone who works in the live audio industry, WHY THE FUCK do live events always have the audio cranked up to painful health-damaging levels?
I've pretty much given up on live music because of it.