Xybernaut already has wearables for sale. They've already got contracts with branches of the U.S. military, so swinging a deal with the space jockeys shouldn't be too hard.
I dunno... it looks a lot nicer than a lot of other cases that I've seen, and a damn sight better looking than some "name brand" machines you could buy at a major retailer. It's a cute size, too...
I've never built a machine from scratch before, being a Mac guy and all, but a compact, well-designed box like this might tempt me to build one someday.
Session #5, "Ballad of Fallen Angels"... just an amazing episode in terms of character establishment and development, cinematography, music... the segment where Spike is falling out of the church window is like nothing I've seen before in any real-life movie.
For those of you who aren't into Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, this is a 3 hour block on Saturday nights where they play the "mature" anime, the stuff that doesn't quite fit into the afternoon kiddie stuff (like DBZ and Zoids and the like). This is where they run Bebop, at 11:30, like a previous poster said. (There's also a Swim on Sunday nights with "funny" adult cartoons, but Saturday's got the better stuff, IMHO)
It's worth noting, however, that last Saturday they had a Bebop-a-thon - the entire 3-hour block for Adult Swim was all Bebop cartoons, and unless I misunderstood the scheduling, they're doing it again this Saturday. Last Saturday's 'thon had Fallen Angels in it; I donn't know if they're repeating the same episodes this Saturday, but it's worth watching to find out:)
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COol! I just wandered acrossed the site this morning; I don't have a Mac that can run iTunes with me at the moment, or I'd have checked it out:)
As far as I know, there's no Ogg support for iTunes or iPod at the moment. There's a SourceForge site up with info about an Ogg plugin for Quicktime playback, but that's all I can find so far.
"The FCC said in a ruling yesterday that telephone companies can sell your name, who you call, and for how long you talk to anyone who is an "affiliate."
The question at this juncture is: goes the gov't have to pay? Or will they be able to get this information under the guise of "national security"?
As a shareholder, I'm not going to complain about the free (as in beer) services going away. I'd actually like to know exactly how much it cost Apple to host 2+ million email addresses and file space, and how much they'll be saving (and earning) by going to a pay service.
As a consumer, it's quite a disappointment. Having a mac.com address was a nifty thing, and I was just starting to use iDisk and the free Web hosting aspects of the iTools system. It's a shame it's going away.
As an entry level system admin with a smattering of WebObjects experience, I should think it would be possible to remove the iDisk and Web aspects of an iTools account, and leave just the free email service available.
As a loyal Mac user, I'm surprised that Apple would have nuked such a popular system as iTools without offering something, even of a lesser quality, in it's place.
I believe they were bone-headed and didn't make drivers.
Not that it matters, because (as you said) Dazzle has a Firewire based DV bridge (the Hollywood model) that works great. Composite / s-video in and out, just like the usb, only running a much higher thruput with the Firewire. That's what I picked up, and it works great. I can patch it into my vcr and record live tv, too! See my previous comments about my Mac possibly being a PVR;)
Yes, I know there's cron-type software out there... could probably write an applescript for it, too. But, I'm not running OS X on the box I'm doing the video stuff on, since it won't play nice with the SOnnet G4 upgrade.
I can do video capture on my Mac in iMovie with a DV bridge, without even using a special video capture card; that doesn't make my Mac a PVR... does it?
I wonder how many small (and large) Internet radio shops could relocate to Sealand just to give the finger to the RIAA and the CARP rulings. Imagine if a site live Live365 had to buggger out of the States and move offshore...
Corbin sells an electric-only model, the Sparrow; they were in the Jet Li movie, "The One", in the final scene about "the cleanest city in America":
Sparrow's Specifications
* Onboard battery charger * Three-wheeled vehicle registers, insures and parks as a motorcycle * 1350 lbs. curb weight, 72-inch wheel base, 57 inches vehicle height * 70 mph top speed, 20-40 mile range * $14,900 retail price
The Sparrow II has a 30-60 mile range and a $16,900 retail price. Corbin also advertises a gas-powered car, the Merlin, with "a 300 to 400 mile range on a tank of gas and a projected 70 to 90 miles per gallon", but it won't be out until the fall of 2003.
Why would competing companies want to share their resources with "the enemy"? What reason could there be for AOL to allow MSN users access to their systems, or vice versa?
The answer...
MONEY.
AOL / MSN / etc just need to come up with a cross-IM network advertising system, and things will rapidly fall into place. It might be a bit much to assume you'd see AOL signup ads when using MS software, but most anything else could be fair game. Mark my words...
Thanks for the reminder about the tagline mechanism. I kept forgetting to look into it to see if there was a better way. This is going to make posting a bit easier for me now.
I've been waiting for someone to complain about my taglines. After someone voiced a negative opinion, I was willing to look into changing how I handle them. See, even cowards get respect:)
From what (little) I know about Falun Gong, hacking a satellite doesn't sound like something they'd do, since it's much more likely to be illegal than a sit-down type protest, and MUCH more likely to bring the jackboots down on them.
I'm inclined to think it was some other band of kiddiez that just wanted a good cover for their actions, like the "Hacked By Chinese" incidents from last year.
"It's really theft of services. It uses my connection, my equipment and my in-box, which I pay for," Roth said. "With postal mail, the sender pays for it. With spam e-mail, the receiver pays for it. Big difference."
People will say that spam is the same as junk snail mail, but it's not. "Legitimate" junk snail mailers will happily bear the cost of sending their messages, knowing that they are advertising a legitimate product or service. Spammers push that expense off on the people receiving their message.
To further the theft of services concept, an overwhelming majority of spam is sent through open or unsecured mail relays. This means that people who have no legal right to use those services are using them, much like someone who splices into an apartments building's cable tv system to get free cable. And as I always point out in my spam complaints, there's always this little gem:
Advertising via unsolicited e-mail is trespass to chattel and theft by conversion. That was established in Federal court in 1996/97 in Compuserve vs. Cyberpromo, heard in US District Court in Ohio by one Judge Graham. Spammers routinely also use third-party relay, which is outright theft of services and a violation of the Federal Computer Crimes Act, to wit, unauthorized access to a computer system.
While I don't exactly approve of this "buy software and then kill the Windows branch" stragety, it's interesting to see it happening. As a shareholder, I'm curious to see if all these purchases are truly being made to improve Apple software, or just to limit Windows users access to such software. ----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket? - Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
I was checking out the site, and in the comments section, someone had mentioned that they released a copy of Cannery Row. Someone else posted that they went out and bought extra copies of their favorite books just to release them.
Now true, this might be a good way to get rid of some of your junk sale books, but it seems some folks are having better ideas:)
yeah, let's stop filing complaints about spam, let's just let them do whatever they want to abuse the network... you might as well have said "Just Hit Delete" like all the spammers want you to do.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Same thing here. The last movie I saw was Ocean's 11, and the sound kept cutting out during the big finale. We (myself, my wife, and the rest of the people at that screening) got free tickets, and with any luck, the wife and I will be able to cash them in this weekend when the grandparents come down to see the grandkids:)
But suppose there's a local version of Google, or Yahoo, or some other search engine... would a ruling to remove their links also effect the parent site?
Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment.
All I can say to that is...
moof.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
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The problem is that broke their own rules when going from os9 to osX. Finder commands which have been constant since System 7 changed for no good reason: want to create a new folder? Command-N doesn't do it anymore, that opens a new Finder window - Shift-Command-N is your new keyboard shortcut now. The "stop light" of window control buttons violate their old user interface guidelines on multiple levels. And they even moved the location of "Empty Trash" on the menu bar, so people that went to the menu bar instead of using a keyboard shortcut have to undo all those years of muscle memory training of just going to the last menu item on the right and dragging down...
Yes, it's whining, to a certain degree. I did the same thing when Apple went from System 6 to System 7 and changed how you handled control panels and extensions, and when they went to the "Platinum" puffy Windows-y interface in OS 8.
The changes from 6 to 7 were good for the system, "Platinum" didn't do much for me (I still prefer the clean black-and-white interface of System 7), and osX is a whole new ball game. It's starting to grow on me, and I'm finally learning to go to the Dock instead of the Finder to empty the trash. I'm actually starting to enjoy the Dock now - it's a nice retractable place to put a lot of icons I used to leave lying around on my desktop. I guess change can be good after all:)
But I really don't get this whole "blog" thing. When did it become so popular, and why? Yeah yeah, there's the whole "freedom" and "empowerment" lines, but I still don't get the attraction of putting what seems to me to be a diary online for the world to see. Can anyone else provide me with a clue about this phenomenon?
I guess the web pages I put up when my wife was pregnant with our first child was a sort of blog - I should get around to re-posting that somwehere, actually... but as a geek with a wife, two kids, and a mortgage, I don't seem to have the lifestyle that would make good blog material anymore.
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Xybernaut already has wearables for sale. They've already got contracts with branches of the U.S. military, so swinging a deal with the space jockeys shouldn't be too hard.
I dunno... it looks a lot nicer than a lot of other cases that I've seen, and a damn sight better looking than some "name brand" machines you could buy at a major retailer. It's a cute size, too...
I've never built a machine from scratch before, being a Mac guy and all, but a compact, well-designed box like this might tempt me to build one someday.
Session #5, "Ballad of Fallen Angels"... just an amazing episode in terms of character establishment and development, cinematography, music... the segment where Spike is falling out of the church window is like nothing I've seen before in any real-life movie.
:)
For those of you who aren't into Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, this is a 3 hour block on Saturday nights where they play the "mature" anime, the stuff that doesn't quite fit into the afternoon kiddie stuff (like DBZ and Zoids and the like). This is where they run Bebop, at 11:30, like a previous poster said. (There's also a Swim on Sunday nights with "funny" adult cartoons, but Saturday's got the better stuff, IMHO)
It's worth noting, however, that last Saturday they had a Bebop-a-thon - the entire 3-hour block for Adult Swim was all Bebop cartoons, and unless I misunderstood the scheduling, they're doing it again this Saturday. Last Saturday's 'thon had Fallen Angels in it; I donn't know if they're repeating the same episodes this Saturday, but it's worth watching to find out
COol! I just wandered acrossed the site this morning; I don't have a Mac that can run iTunes with me at the moment, or I'd have checked it out :)
As far as I know, there's no Ogg support for iTunes or iPod at the moment. There's a SourceForge site up with info about an Ogg plugin for Quicktime playback, but that's all I can find so far.
"The FCC said in a ruling yesterday that telephone companies can sell your name, who you call, and for how long you talk to anyone who is an "affiliate."
The question at this juncture is: goes the gov't have to pay? Or will they be able to get this information under the guise of "national security"?
Time to dust off that anti-telemarketers script...
As a shareholder, I'm not going to complain about the free (as in beer) services going away. I'd actually like to know exactly how much it cost Apple to host 2+ million email addresses and file space, and how much they'll be saving (and earning) by going to a pay service.
As a consumer, it's quite a disappointment. Having a mac.com address was a nifty thing, and I was just starting to use iDisk and the free Web hosting aspects of the iTools system. It's a shame it's going away.
As an entry level system admin with a smattering of WebObjects experience, I should think it would be possible to remove the iDisk and Web aspects of an iTools account, and leave just the free email service available.
As a loyal Mac user, I'm surprised that Apple would have nuked such a popular system as iTools without offering something, even of a lesser quality, in it's place.
I believe they were bone-headed and didn't make drivers.
;)
Not that it matters, because (as you said) Dazzle has a Firewire based DV bridge (the Hollywood model) that works great. Composite / s-video in and out, just like the usb, only running a much higher thruput with the Firewire. That's what I picked up, and it works great. I can patch it into my vcr and record live tv, too! See my previous comments about my Mac possibly being a PVR
cron jobs in OS9? :)
Yes, I know there's cron-type software out there... could probably write an applescript for it, too. But, I'm not running OS X on the box I'm doing the video stuff on, since it won't play nice with the SOnnet G4 upgrade.
I can do video capture on my Mac in iMovie with a DV bridge, without even using a special video capture card; that doesn't make my Mac a PVR... does it?
what about Apple? MacOS does a lot of things with OpenGL too...
I wonder how many small (and large) Internet radio shops could relocate to Sealand just to give the finger to the RIAA and the CARP rulings. Imagine if a site live Live365 had to buggger out of the States and move offshore...
Corbin sells an electric-only model, the Sparrow; they were in the Jet Li movie, "The One", in the final scene about "the cleanest city in America":
Sparrow's Specifications
* Onboard battery charger
* Three-wheeled vehicle registers, insures and parks as a motorcycle
* 1350 lbs. curb weight, 72-inch wheel base, 57 inches vehicle height
* 70 mph top speed, 20-40 mile range
* $14,900 retail price
The Sparrow II has a 30-60 mile range and a $16,900 retail price. Corbin also advertises a gas-powered car, the Merlin, with "a 300 to 400 mile range on a tank of gas and a projected 70 to 90 miles per gallon", but it won't be out until the fall of 2003.
Have you ever smelled burnt chicken feathers? :p
Why would competing companies want to share their resources with "the enemy"? What reason could there be for AOL to allow MSN users access to their systems, or vice versa?
The answer...
MONEY.
AOL / MSN / etc just need to come up with a cross-IM network advertising system, and things will rapidly fall into place. It might be a bit much to assume you'd see AOL signup ads when using MS software, but most anything else could be fair game. Mark my words...
Thanks for the reminder about the tagline mechanism. I kept forgetting to look into it to see if there was a better way. This is going to make posting a bit easier for me now.
:)
I've been waiting for someone to complain about my taglines. After someone voiced a negative opinion, I was willing to look into changing how I handle them. See, even cowards get respect
From what (little) I know about Falun Gong, hacking a satellite doesn't sound like something they'd do, since it's much more likely to be illegal than a sit-down type protest, and MUCH more likely to bring the jackboots down on them.
I'm inclined to think it was some other band of kiddiez that just wanted a good cover for their actions, like the "Hacked By Chinese" incidents from last year.
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Darwin is an evolutionary OS...
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
People will say that spam is the same as junk snail mail, but it's not. "Legitimate" junk snail mailers will happily bear the cost of sending their messages, knowing that they are advertising a legitimate product or service. Spammers push that expense off on the people receiving their message.
To further the theft of services concept, an overwhelming majority of spam is sent through open or unsecured mail relays. This means that people who have no legal right to use those services are using them, much like someone who splices into an apartments building's cable tv system to get free cable. And as I always point out in my spam complaints, there's always this little gem:
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Darwin is an evolutionary OS...
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
While I don't exactly approve of this "buy software and then kill the Windows branch" stragety, it's interesting to see it happening. As a shareholder, I'm curious to see if all these purchases are truly being made to improve Apple software, or just to limit Windows users access to such software.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
I was checking out the site, and in the comments section, someone had mentioned that they released a copy of Cannery Row. Someone else posted that they went out and bought extra copies of their favorite books just to release them.
:)
Now true, this might be a good way to get rid of some of your junk sale books, but it seems some folks are having better ideas
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
yeah, let's stop filing complaints about spam, let's just let them do whatever they want to abuse the network... you might as well have said "Just Hit Delete" like all the spammers want you to do.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Same thing here. The last movie I saw was Ocean's 11, and the sound kept cutting out during the big finale. We (myself, my wife, and the rest of the people at that screening) got free tickets, and with any luck, the wife and I will be able to cash them in this weekend when the grandparents come down to see the grandkids :)
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
But suppose there's a local version of Google, or Yahoo, or some other search engine... would a ruling to remove their links also effect the parent site?
Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment.
All I can say to that is...
moof.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
The problem is that broke their own rules when going from os9 to osX. Finder commands which have been constant since System 7 changed for no good reason: want to create a new folder? Command-N doesn't do it anymore, that opens a new Finder window - Shift-Command-N is your new keyboard shortcut now. The "stop light" of window control buttons violate their old user interface guidelines on multiple levels. And they even moved the location of "Empty Trash" on the menu bar, so people that went to the menu bar instead of using a keyboard shortcut have to undo all those years of muscle memory training of just going to the last menu item on the right and dragging down...
:)
Yes, it's whining, to a certain degree. I did the same thing when Apple went from System 6 to System 7 and changed how you handled control panels and extensions, and when they went to the "Platinum" puffy Windows-y interface in OS 8.
The changes from 6 to 7 were good for the system, "Platinum" didn't do much for me (I still prefer the clean black-and-white interface of System 7), and osX is a whole new ball game. It's starting to grow on me, and I'm finally learning to go to the Dock instead of the Finder to empty the trash. I'm actually starting to enjoy the Dock now - it's a nice retractable place to put a lot of icons I used to leave lying around on my desktop. I guess change can be good after all
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
But I really don't get this whole "blog" thing. When did it become so popular, and why? Yeah yeah, there's the whole "freedom" and "empowerment" lines, but I still don't get the attraction of putting what seems to me to be a diary online for the world to see. Can anyone else provide me with a clue about this phenomenon?
I guess the web pages I put up when my wife was pregnant with our first child was a sort of blog - I should get around to re-posting that somwehere, actually... but as a geek with a wife, two kids, and a mortgage, I don't seem to have the lifestyle that would make good blog material anymore.
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist