obTopic: I have been looking to purchase a PVR for some time. While I am not a big fan of the monthly fee (to be paid on top of a cable or satellite bill), it does not seem too bad of a deal.
The big problem I have, though, is that I do not watch enough telelvision to really make it worth it. If I were to lose my [provided free] cable now I do not think I would miss it that much. I have a huge collection of movies that I am constantly adding to. I would rather take the money for a PVR and simply use that to buy/rent/see more movies.
So I suppose the tech guy in me likes the idea of a PVR, but the budget-minded side of me wonders why...
Mariner Software released DropDoc, which is based on the GPL'ed wvWare libraries. It converts Word documents to.rtf, which maintains most of the basic formatting of a Word document.
I was downloading a new beta of iCab in the background while writing that message. From the readme:
"The Web Cache and the image cache (and some other components) were completely replaced by new routines. Because of this iCab is now much faster (depending of the page)."
So maybe iCab will be even faster (it was in the middle of the pack as far as speed goes in the article)
I am disappointed the article did not mention more about iCab's unique abilities. It does have some problems supporting CSS, and it is HTML compliant to a fault (although being "compliant to a fault" with HML could be argues as impossible), but some features it does offer are only now being integrated into other browsers.
iCab's Filter Manager is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen in a web browser. You can filter almost anything (cookies, JavaScript, images) based on domain, link, or another other thing.
Mozilla's coders could learn a lot by studying iCabs Filter Manager.
Do you want to turn off JavaScript except for your online banking (that requires it), and allow all cookies but those coming from DoubleClick? Done. Want to accept Slashdot cookies forever, but Yahoo cookies only until the end of the session? Done. Do you want to not load images that are 480x60 pixels big and not accept any images that come from */ad-bin/*? Done.
iCab (along with some other browsers) also supports "Open in Background Window", which is something I cannot imagine being without while surfing.
Another great thing? You can set it to only send a Referrer: header inside the same domain (or set it to not be sent at all)
Unfortunately the article forgot to mention iCab's ad filtering (which is much more powerful than simply rejecting all images not from the original server and its ability to block pop-ups without seeing them.
I took a course in college on International Relations and I did a paper on the ISS as a tool in international relations. One of the big uses for the ISS budget was an opportunity for the U.S. government to help prop up the new Russia government by giving it cash.
We were supposedly giving it for their parts of the space station, but most people in the community largely agreed that there was never a strong expectation that the Russians would build their components for the costs we thought. There is a lot of supporting evidence that backs this up.
Yes, I realize that Reagan first proposed the idea for the ISS in 1984, before the fall of the Soviet Union. At that time, it was another peice in Reagan's plan to win the Cold War by out-spending the Soviet Union. After the Communist collapse, the purpose basically changed 180 degrees - but it still was not to build an actual space station. That was largely incidental to the two purposes.
The interesting thing would be to see how much of the money was given to Russia for their components.
If you largely market 2.5G and 3G phones because they are able to download new ringtones and background images more quickly, you are not going to sell to the bleeding edge.
I want a 2.5G or 3G phone because I want other mobile devices, like a laptop or my Sony Clie to be able to use that bandwidth. Currently I can hook my Sony Clie up to my Samsung SCH-3500 through SprintPCS and get a 14.4 connection. The Wireless Web option adds a whole $5/month onto my bill. Not too bad..
I keep looking to upgrade to a Vision-capable phone, but I run into a problem of cords. Sprint sometimes offers a Wireless Web connection kit that has a Vision phone - USB cable, but these seem to be there mainly to transfer ringtones and pictures to the phone.
And you can forget about ever hooking up my Clie to the phone. Most of the third-party cord manufacturers seem to be saying "It will be difficult, if not impossible, to make custom built PDA - Vision phone cords."
In addition, most of the Vision plans only include 2MB data a month. That is plenty for ringtones, games, and pictures. If I want to check my mail, though, that starts to use that bandwidth very quickly.
So I am stuck with 14.4, it would seem, and stuck with an old phone so that I might actually have a cable. I am stuck with an old plan so that I can have decent bandwidth every month.
What is pushing 3G? Ringtones and pictures. Why? This seems to be largely the only thing you can do with the 2.5G/3G phones in the U.S.
If I am wrong, someone please correct me on all of this. This seems to be the case using the information I have found (Google, etc.)
I consider myself a rather devoted movie fan. I go to the theaters about once a week, and I currently own about 120 movies on VHS, about 30 on Laserdisc, and about 50 movies on DVD. I have a full list online.
I would never go for a deal like this, even if it supported MacOS X.
I have gotten to the point where I only rent a movie a few times *a year*. Owning is far easier. Blockbuster is slowly catching on to the idea that the used DVD market is going to be huge, similar to the new VHS market (and the VHS rental industry as it used to be). New DVD sales are also going to be large. Walk into any Bolockbuster and notice the growth in their used and new DVD for sale sections.
I buy most of my movies on DVD for about $8-$10, and most of my movies on VHS for $3-$6. Compare these prices against a one-time watch fee of $3, with quality that probably approaches VHS on my nice television.
My thoughts - I would rather buy a movie for 2x-3x what it coest to rent provided I have a decent notion that the movie is watching more than once. If that is the case, the cost to buy competes directly with renting it ($8 to buy a DVD, or rent twice for $4 each time).
(As far as watching movies in the theater goes - I justify that since the theater has things to offer than I cannot get at home - a huge screen and an atmosphere of being at the theater)
I skimmed through a bunch of comments and it seems that most people seem to be saying that they do not use (or no longer use) PDAs.
I use mine, and I use it daily. Entering data and appointments is sometimes a pain when I am away from my computer, but the PDA makes for a nice central place for all of that (and more portable than a paper planner).
Most of my use for my PDA (now a Sony Clie PEG-T665C) is for simple planning and addresses. I thought long and hard before buying my first PDA (a now retired Hanspring Platinum) since most of what I needed it for could be duplicated (for a lot less) by a electronic organizer.
I finally got the Handspring because none of the organizers would synch with my Mac.
Since then, I found one other thing that made the decision to go full PDA (over an electronic organizer) a good one - I now have a cell phone cable that can attach to my PDA, which means when I travel (once or twice a month usually), I can check my mail anytime I have cell phone reception with SprintPCS.
I also listen to MP3s while on the go, and can play a simple game or two, all for a small size investment (over having a paper planner, an MP3 player and a GameBoy)
So the reason I stick with my PDA is that it does what I want, and is expandable/versitle enough that if I need it to do something else, there is a good chance I can find a solution using the hardware I have.
Beware listening to any comment posted on VersionTracker.
The forums seem to be full of people that either just make up symptoms involving the updated software (kernal panics on download of the install"), or reporting problems that are not at all involved with the software ("I installed AIM, and now the power to my water heater failed")
No matter how safe the updated software (Apple or otherwise), there are always people that will have massive problems.
I no longer even look at the forums.
They make reading Slashdot at -1 look like a rational discussion.
There is a fundamental difference between "working like" and "looking and feeling like".
Apple has sued anyone that makes themes that copy the MacOS "look and feel."
The original poster, on the other hand, is talking about the consistent feel between MacOS applications. I know all of the keyboard commands in MacOS because they are the same in every application.
You do not have to copy Mac's look and feel, you can make your own, but *all* applications neext to follow those consistent guidelines.
There are some guidelines for Linux applications (I think that Gnome is trying to get some together), but it is not where it should be just yet. And, of course, more applications need to follow them.
obTopic: Apple is nice in that they are showing real people (no "Portrayal" disclaimer at the bottom of the ads). Ellen, for better or worse,is a reason person who made the switch.
By rewriting wiretap laws, CSEA would allow limited surveillance without a court order when there is an "ongoing attack" on an Internet-connected computer or "an immediate threat to a national security interest." That kind of surveillance would, however, be limited to obtaining a suspect's telephone number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information--not the contents of online communications or telephone calls.
This is a very important distiction.
Everyone seems intent on the government reading your email. This article seems to say a lot differently.
Indeed, the rights granted seem to make a little sense, even.
iCab, on the Mac, recently added a very nice Filter Manager which allows you to edit all of the numerous filters that the program offers. You can easily add domains without every visiting the site.
Adding something like http*://*/ad/* and http*://*/ad/* really cuts down on a lot, as does http*://*doubleclick*/*
iCab, available only for the Mac, is one of the best browsers I have seen as far as privacy goes.
It can filter images based on the server, link, size, or anything else. It can filter cookies based on the server, duration, or anything else. it can filter JavaScript (InScript) based on server, action, or anything else.
One of the best features: You can set it to only use "Referer" from within the same domain. So if I link to a Sony.com page from Slashdot, Sony has no idea how I got to the page. But Sony can track how I navigate their site (You can also set iCab to never send referer:)
There are more features than I could ever list here. Suffice to say it is very powerful and very configurable. Anyone using MacOS deserves to look at it.
it is still missing a few things, and it is compliant to a fault at times (with regards to page layout), but I use it for 99.5% of my browsing without and problems.
Marantz has been offerring devices similar to this for quite some time. Check out the RC9200 and RC5200. They offer a serial port connection for easy connection to a PC to get more codes installed.
That price would assume that I am always uploading or downloading something (at 12MB/s, the connection is usually not very busy, obviously).
My job requires me to live on campus and gives me the Internet connection. Network map (the map is a few years old and a few things have changed in the halls, epsecially with RC apartment connections)
The network topology looks like this: 100Base-T connection to a 100Base-T switch (shared with three other computers) Swtich, via 100mbs copper, to Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch. Catalyst 3000, via 200mbs fiber connection, to Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch Catalyst 5000 to DS3 (45mbs) fiber internet connection.
The important thing (and very nice thing) is that the traffic is separate from student traffic until the Catalyst 3000 switch.
Here I am with only *two* installed video cards and 1.25 gigs of RAM. I have another video card not in a machine, but all of my PCI slots are currently filled (second ethernet card, four port USB card, and SCSI card).
So I suppose I cannot test this out to make sure it works.
There was a problem with the 10.2.1 upgrade with multiple video cards of different make (nVidia and ATI, for example) and more than one gig of RAM. Sounds similar, but it sounds like the one that Apple fixed is somewhat different. Both of my cards are Radeons (7500 and 7000), so it never bothered me.
As another poster said, one of the nice things about MacOS is the ease of using old video cards to drive second displays. I have had multiple combinations of cards and monitors and have never had a problem running them at the same time.
I linked to my bedroom before, but this is probably the best place for me to post the link again.
Harware in the bedroom: G4/933 hooked up to a 17" Studio Display, a 15" NEC LCD, and a 14" VGA CRT. Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c with DuoDock II. Headless at the moment. These two are hooked into a 5 port 100Base-T switch. The G4 is hooked (via another port) to a 100Base-T Internet connection. Also hooked up to the G4: CompactFlash drive, MemoryStick drive, Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, a Sony Clie T665c, a Canon S200 digital camera, and a Keyspan Digital Remote Control.
In the closet, I have an Apple//gs with monitor. At one time I had a UMAX S900/200DP hooked up as well That is loaned out, as is a Macintosh Centris 610.
I am looking to add a Athlon-based PC to the mix (via KVM switch to the keyboard and the NEC monitor) to learn FreeBSD on. I am also looking at buying one of the new iBooks to replace the very aging PowerBook Duo.
1) You talk about "ground rules" for the SF genre. Looking over the list of 100 SciFi Books you should read, the thing that amazed me most was the diversity. I would love to see a list of these ground rules written down somewhere. These rules would be followed (roughly) by all of the books listed there?
2) Your category of "Religious Books" would be huge in any bookstore (unless you broke the store in half and had "Religious SciFi" and "Religious Cookbooks" on one side and "SciFi" and "Cookbooks" on the other).
3) I really do not want to get into a creationist vs. natural selection debate, but your very use of the word "evolution" leads me to believe you do not know too much about the debate in question and, therefore, all of the controvery surrounding it. The comment about an author's ability to "rewrite history to fit your personal beliefs" is even more telling. Creationist vs. natural selection (which are the two sides of the debate, much more than creationist vs. evolution) is debating different ways of looking *at the exact same historic evidence.* They are different interpretations of the same scientific evidence. Saying one is more correct than the other, or saying that it has more foundation in scientific evidence is simply incorrect - saying evolution through natural selection occurs is a belief just as much as creationist is. There is evidence in both sides (neither has enough to prove itself without doubt), and neither side has enough evidence to disprove the other side.
You speak of your large library. I would recommend adding a few others that try to give both sides of the evolution debate (or at least read a couple of more science-based creationist books, since you have probably have a good idea of the natural selection side of things). Try to be objective about the evidence and the theories.
If you are truly objective, I think you will end up like myself - unwilling to make a call based soley on the scientific evidence.
So what does that mean for our SciFi writers? They can use either theory easily, since whichever they go with is unproven and, more importantly, impossible to disprove currently.
And to think there is such a joke you could have made with the terms "science fiction" and "creationist".
You contradict yourself. You say that writers are free to add it in there right after you say that doing so feels like them being dishonest.
I am torn between creationism and natural selection (took a great class in Evolution at Cornell University), and I am a fan of OSC. In a lot of his books he does hint at a sense of ethics, but I have yet to see him pull strongly for a creationist's standpoint in any of his books.
In addition, by picking up a book I feel that I am opening myself up to the ethics of the author. I recently read "Just for Fun" (Linus's autobiography). Do you think that he would leave out his ethics surrounding the open-source movement?
I gladly welcome any author adding his or her ethics and beliefs into a story. It is fiction. Just because I am reading it does not mean that I have to believe it. And almost any good fiction book, SciFi or not, is going to have ethical questions and decisions. They book would not be any good without them.
"Cryptnomicon" - is it alright to take money from drug lords and other criminals to start a business that will provide something that will benifit the common man once it gets up and going?
Fiction works on a "suspension of beliefs" idea. If you are unable to suspend your belief in natural selection for one book, I feel sorry for you.
I am running three monitors off my G4/933 - a 17" Studio Display off a Radeon 7500, and a 15" NEC LCD and 14" crap CRT screen both running off a Radeon 7000 card.
I went with dual displays back when I had two 15" VGAs. They work seamlessly under MacOS (I started with them under 7.6.1, and now run them under 10.2.1) and I find that I am significantly more productive as a result.
The tird monitor was largely because I had an exta monitor and an extra VGA out to run it off of. Right now I just keep iTunes on that monitor.
I highly recommend multiple monitors to anyone that can run them. A lot of times, a second monitor can be added for a lot less money than a larger monitor (since the second monitor can be relegated to non-accelerated tasks and can use a cheap video card, especially sicne it will be stuck in a PCI slot).
I like Taco's answer to that, but I like my answer even more:
I strongly dislike the MPAA and RIAA because they are trying to stifle me from something that I enjoy quite a bit.
If the MPAA was regulating say, my use of eating cabbage, I would not have a big problem with that, because I do not like cabbage.
So i am left with a tough decision - do I give up something I like *a lot*, or do I fight as much as I can against it and still enjoy the thing in question?
I like movies too much to give them up despite what the MPAA is trying to do.
ObTopic: I thought that the first twenty seconds or so were great (before the light scene) and very realistic. The movie definitely seems to be lacking in one spot, though, and that is plot.
Movies like Toy Story and The Lion King demonstrate that you can have a reasonable plot with complex characters in a children's movie.
He is a fish, looking for his son.
This sounds like "The Land Before Time" or something.
A lot of people responding to this message are missing the point.
1) It would be very easy to change the blocking software so that the ad is *not* downloaded. iCab, the wonderful Mac browser, does not download the ad at all.
2) Adding the adserver to a Hosts file might be easy, but most normal computer users are not going to be that proficient. They want an easy answer. In iCab, I right-click on an add, select "Filter..." and tell iCab what to folter (all ads from that server, all ads that size, all ads that point to that domain, etc.)
I block probably 99% of the ads on pages I see using iCab's built-in blocker.
The other thing that will become big will be pop-up blockers. People hate them already. Imagine if they are going to have to start paying to see things they never requested in the first place.
A while back I was in the market to replace my second monitor (previously a ViewSonic 15" CRT) with an 15" LCD. I have a 17" Apple LCD as my primary display and absolutely love it.
I figured that since I have both DVI and VGA out (Radeon 7000 as a second video card), I would look for LCDs with DVI in. I was amazed to find that DVI-capable 15" LCDs generally run anywhere from $70-$150 more than a similar VGA-only LCD.
Does anyone have any idea why this is?
(And, yes, I read the reports that said that DVI did not add that much to the display quality).
I ended up with an NEC 1550V running VGA because of the cost/quality.
(And for everyone knocking Apple LCDs - running the NEC next to the Apple, the Apple is clearly a better monitor. The NEC is nice, but the Apple is even better so)
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obTopic: I have been looking to purchase a PVR for some time. While I am not a big fan of the monthly fee (to be paid on top of a cable or satellite bill), it does not seem too bad of a deal.
The big problem I have, though, is that I do not watch enough telelvision to really make it worth it. If I were to lose my [provided free] cable now I do not think I would miss it that much. I have a huge collection of movies that I am constantly adding to. I would rather take the money for a PVR and simply use that to buy/rent/see more movies.
So I suppose the tech guy in me likes the idea of a PVR, but the budget-minded side of me wonders why...
Mariner Software released DropDoc, which is based on the GPL'ed wvWare libraries. It converts Word documents to .rtf, which maintains most of the basic formatting of a Word document.
I have used it and it works fairly well.
I was downloading a new beta of iCab in the background while writing that message. From the readme:
"The Web Cache and the image cache (and some other components) were completely replaced by new routines. Because of this iCab is now much faster (depending of the page)."
So maybe iCab will be even faster (it was in the middle of the pack as far as speed goes in the article)
I am disappointed the article did not mention more about iCab's unique abilities. It does have some problems supporting CSS, and it is HTML compliant to a fault (although being "compliant to a fault" with HML could be argues as impossible), but some features it does offer are only now being integrated into other browsers.
iCab's Filter Manager is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen in a web browser. You can filter almost anything (cookies, JavaScript, images) based on domain, link, or another other thing.
Mozilla's coders could learn a lot by studying iCabs Filter Manager.
Do you want to turn off JavaScript except for your online banking (that requires it), and allow all cookies but those coming from DoubleClick? Done. Want to accept Slashdot cookies forever, but Yahoo cookies only until the end of the session? Done. Do you want to not load images that are 480x60 pixels big and not accept any images that come from */ad-bin/*? Done.
iCab (along with some other browsers) also supports "Open in Background Window", which is something I cannot imagine being without while surfing.
Another great thing? You can set it to only send a Referrer: header inside the same domain (or set it to not be sent at all)
Unfortunately the article forgot to mention iCab's ad filtering (which is much more powerful than simply rejecting all images not from the original server and its ability to block pop-ups without seeing them.
I took a course in college on International Relations and I did a paper on the ISS as a tool in international relations. One of the big uses for the ISS budget was an opportunity for the U.S. government to help prop up the new Russia government by giving it cash.
We were supposedly giving it for their parts of the space station, but most people in the community largely agreed that there was never a strong expectation that the Russians would build their components for the costs we thought. There is a lot of supporting evidence that backs this up.
Yes, I realize that Reagan first proposed the idea for the ISS in 1984, before the fall of the Soviet Union. At that time, it was another peice in Reagan's plan to win the Cold War by out-spending the Soviet Union. After the Communist collapse, the purpose basically changed 180 degrees - but it still was not to build an actual space station. That was largely incidental to the two purposes.
The interesting thing would be to see how much of the money was given to Russia for their components.
If you largely market 2.5G and 3G phones because they are able to download new ringtones and background images more quickly, you are not going to sell to the bleeding edge.
I want a 2.5G or 3G phone because I want other mobile devices, like a laptop or my Sony Clie to be able to use that bandwidth. Currently I can hook my Sony Clie up to my Samsung SCH-3500 through SprintPCS and get a 14.4 connection. The Wireless Web option adds a whole $5/month onto my bill. Not too bad..
I keep looking to upgrade to a Vision-capable phone, but I run into a problem of cords. Sprint sometimes offers a Wireless Web connection kit that has a Vision phone - USB cable, but these seem to be there mainly to transfer ringtones and pictures to the phone.
And you can forget about ever hooking up my Clie to the phone. Most of the third-party cord manufacturers seem to be saying "It will be difficult, if not impossible, to make custom built PDA - Vision phone cords."
In addition, most of the Vision plans only include 2MB data a month. That is plenty for ringtones, games, and pictures. If I want to check my mail, though, that starts to use that bandwidth very quickly.
So I am stuck with 14.4, it would seem, and stuck with an old phone so that I might actually have a cable. I am stuck with an old plan so that I can have decent bandwidth every month.
What is pushing 3G? Ringtones and pictures.
Why? This seems to be largely the only thing you can do with the 2.5G/3G phones in the U.S.
If I am wrong, someone please correct me on all of this. This seems to be the case using the information I have found (Google, etc.)
I consider myself a rather devoted movie fan. I go to the theaters about once a week, and I currently own about 120 movies on VHS, about 30 on Laserdisc, and about 50 movies on DVD. I have a full list online.
I would never go for a deal like this, even if it supported MacOS X.
I have gotten to the point where I only rent a movie a few times *a year*. Owning is far easier. Blockbuster is slowly catching on to the idea that the used DVD market is going to be huge, similar to the new VHS market (and the VHS rental industry as it used to be). New DVD sales are also going to be large. Walk into any Bolockbuster and notice the growth in their used and new DVD for sale sections.
I buy most of my movies on DVD for about $8-$10, and most of my movies on VHS for $3-$6. Compare these prices against a one-time watch fee of $3, with quality that probably approaches VHS on my nice television.
My thoughts - I would rather buy a movie for 2x-3x what it coest to rent provided I have a decent notion that the movie is watching more than once. If that is the case, the cost to buy competes directly with renting it ($8 to buy a DVD, or rent twice for $4 each time).
(As far as watching movies in the theater goes - I justify that since the theater has things to offer than I cannot get at home - a huge screen and an atmosphere of being at the theater)
I skimmed through a bunch of comments and it seems that most people seem to be saying that they do not use (or no longer use) PDAs.
I use mine, and I use it daily. Entering data and appointments is sometimes a pain when I am away from my computer, but the PDA makes for a nice central place for all of that (and more portable than a paper planner).
Most of my use for my PDA (now a Sony Clie PEG-T665C) is for simple planning and addresses. I thought long and hard before buying my first PDA (a now retired Hanspring Platinum) since most of what I needed it for could be duplicated (for a lot less) by a electronic organizer.
I finally got the Handspring because none of the organizers would synch with my Mac.
Since then, I found one other thing that made the decision to go full PDA (over an electronic organizer) a good one - I now have a cell phone cable that can attach to my PDA, which means when I travel (once or twice a month usually), I can check my mail anytime I have cell phone reception with SprintPCS.
I also listen to MP3s while on the go, and can play a simple game or two, all for a small size investment (over having a paper planner, an MP3 player and a GameBoy)
So the reason I stick with my PDA is that it does what I want, and is expandable/versitle enough that if I need it to do something else, there is a good chance I can find a solution using the hardware I have.
Beware listening to any comment posted on VersionTracker.
The forums seem to be full of people that either just make up symptoms involving the updated software (kernal panics on download of the install"), or reporting problems that are not at all involved with the software ("I installed AIM, and now the power to my water heater failed")
No matter how safe the updated software (Apple or otherwise), there are always people that will have massive problems.
I no longer even look at the forums.
They make reading Slashdot at -1 look like a rational discussion.
There is a fundamental difference between "working like" and "looking and feeling like".
Apple has sued anyone that makes themes that copy the MacOS "look and feel."
The original poster, on the other hand, is talking about the consistent feel between MacOS applications. I know all of the keyboard commands in MacOS because they are the same in every application.
You do not have to copy Mac's look and feel, you can make your own, but *all* applications neext to follow those consistent guidelines.
There are some guidelines for Linux applications (I think that Gnome is trying to get some together), but it is not where it should be just yet. And, of course, more applications need to follow them.
obTopic: Apple is nice in that they are showing real people (no "Portrayal" disclaimer at the bottom of the ads). Ellen, for better or worse,is a reason person who made the switch.
This is a very important distiction.
Everyone seems intent on the government reading your email. This article seems to say a lot differently.
Indeed, the rights granted seem to make a little sense, even.
iCab, on the Mac, recently added a very nice Filter Manager which allows you to edit all of the numerous filters that the program offers. You can easily add domains without every visiting the site.
Adding something like http*://*/ad/* and http*://*/ad/* really cuts down on a lot, as does http*://*doubleclick*/*
iCab, available only for the Mac, is one of the best browsers I have seen as far as privacy goes.
It can filter images based on the server, link, size, or anything else.
It can filter cookies based on the server, duration, or anything else.
it can filter JavaScript (InScript) based on server, action, or anything else.
One of the best features: You can set it to only use "Referer" from within the same domain. So if I link to a Sony.com page from Slashdot, Sony has no idea how I got to the page. But Sony can track how I navigate their site (You can also set iCab to never send referer:)
There are more features than I could ever list here. Suffice to say it is very powerful and very configurable. Anyone using MacOS deserves to look at it.
it is still missing a few things, and it is compliant to a fault at times (with regards to page layout), but I use it for 99.5% of my browsing without and problems.
Marantz has been offerring devices similar to this for quite some time. Check out the RC9200 and RC5200. They offer a serial port connection for easy connection to a PC to get more codes installed.
They are also available in the United States.
That price would assume that I am always uploading or downloading something (at 12MB/s, the connection is usually not very busy, obviously).
My job requires me to live on campus and gives me the Internet connection.
Network map (the map is a few years old and a few things have changed in the halls, epsecially with RC apartment connections)
The network topology looks like this:
100Base-T connection to a 100Base-T switch (shared with three other computers)
Swtich, via 100mbs copper, to Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch.
Catalyst 3000, via 200mbs fiber connection, to Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch
Catalyst 5000 to DS3 (45mbs) fiber internet connection.
The important thing (and very nice thing) is that the traffic is separate from student traffic until the Catalyst 3000 switch.
Here I am with only *two* installed video cards and 1.25 gigs of RAM. I have another video card not in a machine, but all of my PCI slots are currently filled (second ethernet card, four port USB card, and SCSI card).
So I suppose I cannot test this out to make sure it works.
There was a problem with the 10.2.1 upgrade with multiple video cards of different make (nVidia and ATI, for example) and more than one gig of RAM. Sounds similar, but it sounds like the one that Apple fixed is somewhat different. Both of my cards are Radeons (7500 and 7000), so it never bothered me.
As another poster said, one of the nice things about MacOS is the ease of using old video cards to drive second displays. I have had multiple combinations of cards and monitors and have never had a problem running them at the same time.
I linked to my bedroom before, but this is probably the best place for me to post the link again.
//gs with monitor. At one time I had a UMAX S900/200DP hooked up as well That is loaned out, as is a Macintosh Centris 610.
Harware in the bedroom:
G4/933 hooked up to a 17" Studio Display, a 15" NEC LCD, and a 14" VGA CRT.
Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c with DuoDock II. Headless at the moment.
These two are hooked into a 5 port 100Base-T switch. The G4 is hooked (via another port) to a 100Base-T Internet connection.
Also hooked up to the G4:
CompactFlash drive, MemoryStick drive, Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, a Sony Clie T665c, a Canon S200 digital camera, and a Keyspan Digital Remote Control.
In the closet, I have an Apple
I am looking to add a Athlon-based PC to the mix (via KVM switch to the keyboard and the NEC monitor) to learn FreeBSD on. I am also looking at buying one of the new iBooks to replace the very aging PowerBook Duo.
1) You talk about "ground rules" for the SF genre. Looking over the list of 100 SciFi Books you should read, the thing that amazed me most was the diversity. I would love to see a list of these ground rules written down somewhere. These rules would be followed (roughly) by all of the books listed there?
2) Your category of "Religious Books" would be huge in any bookstore (unless you broke the store in half and had "Religious SciFi" and "Religious Cookbooks" on one side and "SciFi" and "Cookbooks" on the other).
3) I really do not want to get into a creationist vs. natural selection debate, but your very use of the word "evolution" leads me to believe you do not know too much about the debate in question and, therefore, all of the controvery surrounding it. The comment about an author's ability to "rewrite history to fit your personal beliefs" is even more telling. Creationist vs. natural selection (which are the two sides of the debate, much more than creationist vs. evolution) is debating different ways of looking *at the exact same historic evidence.* They are different interpretations of the same scientific evidence. Saying one is more correct than the other, or saying that it has more foundation in scientific evidence is simply incorrect - saying evolution through natural selection occurs is a belief just as much as creationist is. There is evidence in both sides (neither has enough to prove itself without doubt), and neither side has enough evidence to disprove the other side.
You speak of your large library. I would recommend adding a few others that try to give both sides of the evolution debate (or at least read a couple of more science-based creationist books, since you have probably have a good idea of the natural selection side of things). Try to be objective about the evidence and the theories.
If you are truly objective, I think you will end up like myself - unwilling to make a call based soley on the scientific evidence.
So what does that mean for our SciFi writers? They can use either theory easily, since whichever they go with is unproven and, more importantly, impossible to disprove currently.
And to think there is such a joke you could have made with the terms "science fiction" and "creationist".
You contradict yourself. You say that writers are free to add it in there right after you say that doing so feels like them being dishonest.
I am torn between creationism and natural selection (took a great class in Evolution at Cornell University), and I am a fan of OSC. In a lot of his books he does hint at a sense of ethics, but I have yet to see him pull strongly for a creationist's standpoint in any of his books.
In addition, by picking up a book I feel that I am opening myself up to the ethics of the author. I recently read "Just for Fun" (Linus's autobiography). Do you think that he would leave out his ethics surrounding the open-source movement?
I gladly welcome any author adding his or her ethics and beliefs into a story. It is fiction. Just because I am reading it does not mean that I have to believe it. And almost any good fiction book, SciFi or not, is going to have ethical questions and decisions. They book would not be any good without them.
"Cryptnomicon" - is it alright to take money from drug lords and other criminals to start a business that will provide something that will benifit the common man once it gets up and going?
Fiction works on a "suspension of beliefs" idea. If you are unable to suspend your belief in natural selection for one book, I feel sorry for you.
I have a picure of my set-up online.
I am running three monitors off my G4/933 - a 17" Studio Display off a Radeon 7500, and a 15" NEC LCD and 14" crap CRT screen both running off a Radeon 7000 card.
I went with dual displays back when I had two 15" VGAs. They work seamlessly under MacOS (I started with them under 7.6.1, and now run them under 10.2.1) and I find that I am significantly more productive as a result.
The tird monitor was largely because I had an exta monitor and an extra VGA out to run it off of. Right now I just keep iTunes on that monitor.
I highly recommend multiple monitors to anyone that can run them. A lot of times, a second monitor can be added for a lot less money than a larger monitor (since the second monitor can be relegated to non-accelerated tasks and can use a cheap video card, especially sicne it will be stuck in a PCI slot).
It would be really nice to have a computer that small with those power requirements.
Look into either Flex AT or Micro ITX motherboards.
I like Taco's answer to that, but I like my answer even more:
I strongly dislike the MPAA and RIAA because they are trying to stifle me from something that I enjoy quite a bit.
If the MPAA was regulating say, my use of eating cabbage, I would not have a big problem with that, because I do not like cabbage.
So i am left with a tough decision - do I give up something I like *a lot*, or do I fight as much as I can against it and still enjoy the thing in question?
I like movies too much to give them up despite what the MPAA is trying to do.
ObTopic: I thought that the first twenty seconds or so were great (before the light scene) and very realistic. The movie definitely seems to be lacking in one spot, though, and that is plot.
Movies like Toy Story and The Lion King demonstrate that you can have a reasonable plot with complex characters in a children's movie.
He is a fish, looking for his son.
This sounds like "The Land Before Time" or something.
iCab, for the Mac, allows you to turn it off, or, even better, to restrict it to only within the same site.
So Sony cano trace how I navigated through their site, but cannot tell that I linked there from Amazon.com
Why do all not web browsers offer this amount of easy security and preferences?
(iCab also features built-in ad blocking and the ability to identify itself as any browser).
A lot of people responding to this message are missing the point.
1) It would be very easy to change the blocking software so that the ad is *not* downloaded. iCab, the wonderful Mac browser, does not download the ad at all.
2) Adding the adserver to a Hosts file might be easy, but most normal computer users are not going to be that proficient. They want an easy answer. In iCab, I right-click on an add, select "Filter..." and tell iCab what to folter (all ads from that server, all ads that size, all ads that point to that domain, etc.)
I block probably 99% of the ads on pages I see using iCab's built-in blocker.
The other thing that will become big will be pop-up blockers. People hate them already. Imagine if they are going to have to start paying to see things they never requested in the first place.
A while back I was in the market to replace my second monitor (previously a ViewSonic 15" CRT) with an 15" LCD. I have a 17" Apple LCD as my primary display and absolutely love it.
I figured that since I have both DVI and VGA out (Radeon 7000 as a second video card), I would look for LCDs with DVI in. I was amazed to find that DVI-capable 15" LCDs generally run anywhere from $70-$150 more than a similar VGA-only LCD.
Does anyone have any idea why this is?
(And, yes, I read the reports that said that DVI did not add that much to the display quality).
I ended up with an NEC 1550V running VGA because of the cost/quality.
(And for everyone knocking Apple LCDs - running the NEC next to the Apple, the Apple is clearly a better monitor. The NEC is nice, but the Apple is even better so)