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  1. Re:Why "funny"? I'm building this... on Colocate Your Mac mini · · Score: 1

    Classic II-X just doesn't have the same ring...

  2. Re:Mac mini as thin client? on Colocate Your Mac mini · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall Apple selling a stripped down iMac G5-- no optical drive, a GeForce4MX, etc. to schools. It's $1100.

  3. Re:"New stem cell harvesting was outlawed in the U on US Stem Cells Contaminated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The embryonic stem cells have certain desirable biological characteristics, such as pluripotency. In practice, it's somewhat difficult to separate non-federal funding from federal financing. E.g, previous federal grants may have been used to build and equip a laboratory, necessitating the building of separate, redundant facilities.

  4. Re:WND has an interesting take on this on A Countdown To Global Catastrophe? · · Score: 1

    These scare tactics are exactly what Nazi Germany (and even SCO lol) used to gain power.
    Perhaps you should contemplate the meaning of the word "exactly." The meditation may help you gain some perspective.

  5. Re:Imagine... on Mac mini Review At Macworld · · Score: 1

    The key word here is "remote". You can run the GUI on another Mac OSX computer, and control a headless XServe.

  6. Re:...except for HDTV playback. on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    Any video acceleration information Apple gives out will likely cause a future compatibility problem with Tiger. If Apple knows that no other company is messing about with those registers, it can design CoreVideo without fear of breaking something.

  7. Re:...except for HDTV playback. on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    That's because today's video cards have all sorts of neat video acceleration features which for some reason, ElGato has chosen not to use. Perhaps Apple won't release a needed spec (as it would probably cause no end of trouble with Core Video/Quartz Extreme, etc.)
    HDTV playback, IIRC, is well within the capabilities of a 800 MHz Pentium III. If Apple decides to embrace HDTV, the miniMac will be able to play it back..

  8. Re:Will not be able to record HDTV on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    Recording HD is easy. Hook up the tuner (or the set top box) to the mac via firewire. The bits come in (HDTV is digital), they get written to the hard drive. An HDTV recorder requires very little horsepower, although playback requires either the able assistance of a modern video card (for motion compensation, iDCT calculations, etc) or a rather fast general purpose CPU.

  9. Re:Does it really matter? on Inside the iPod, Past and Present · · Score: 1

    Some classical composers did experiment with infrasound, though the shear bulk of the instruments limited their usefulness. Pipe organs are also capable of deep bass.

    My Headphones (Grado SR-80) have a pretty good bass response, but the treble and midrange can only described as "detailed." The Grado SR-60's are similarly high resolution, but they are somewhat weaker in the low end.

  10. Re:Goodbye firewire set-top boxes on A Brief FAQ on CableCards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many of these interfaces use DRM-- both the sender and the receiver may have IEEE1394 jacks, but the sender may choose to encrypt its data-- and key exchange is often dependent on whether the devices trust each other.

    If the creators of MythTV have not signed the requisite contracts promising, basically, that "users will have no rights", your MythTV will have no easy way of decrypting the data.

  11. Re:Am I missing something here? on EFF Reviews HDTV PVR Solution for Mac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Presumably, because Comcast will kowtow to the major media companies and start respecting the "broadcast flag." The hope is that this device will remain blessedly versatile after July of this year.

    However, suppose that some major media properties persuade Apple to rewrite their firewire drivers, necessitating a a similar driver update from ElGato. The question then becomes: Is ElGato legally required to cripple its software in the course of this update? Could one reinstate compatibility with the old, pre broadcast flag driver by rewriting portions of the Darwin source?

    Perhaps the best solution would be to build a Linux PVR server, possibly adding on a suitable mac client, a la vlc. After all, Linus Torvalds doesn't own an online media shop.

  12. Re:Enough is enough! on New Trojan Threatens Windows XP SP 2 · · Score: 1

    At one time, the MacOSX help system could also be manipulated remotely to execute arbitrary bash scripts, though not as root.

  13. Re:What a brilliant Article on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 1

    That's not terribly significant. The Washington Post suffered a greater loss:

    For the first nine months of 2004, Post daily and Sunday circulation declined 3.3% and 2.3%, respectively, compared to the same period of the prior year.

    As did Dow Jones
    Circulation and other revenue for the U.S. print publications decreased $0.8 million, or 1.3%, to $62.8 million. Average circulation for the third quarter of 2004 for The Wall Street Journal was 1,844,000 compared with circulation of 1,750,000 in the third quarter of 2003. Barron's average circulation was 297,000 in the quarter, down from 323,000 in the third quarter 2003.

  14. Re:What a brilliant Article on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 1

    Subscribers are declining due to their ongoing credibility problems.

    Prove it. Go on. Prove it. The New York Times Company is a public company, so data to support your claim should be easy to find. Don't forget to account for the growth or decline of nytimes.com. Naturally, such figures should be compared to the growth of a rival dead-tree newspaper, such as the Washington Post or the LA Times.

  15. Re:What remains in 64-bit land? on HP, Intel Call it Quits on Itanium Partnership · · Score: 1

    Sparc.
    Power/PowerPC
    AMD's Opteron and Athlon64
    Some form of Pentium with 64 bits lashed on.

    Really, there's lots of options. Just be sure to get a chip that's well supported by good compilers. Itanium was a bit player, apparently because an optimized VLIW compiler was very difficult to write.

  16. Re:Weather data weak on Weather Monitoring Frequencies Subject to Pollution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh, no.
    Chaos theory allows a scientist to identify which systems are chaotic, and which are not.

    Under certain conditions, it may be possible to coerce a system back into predictability. Obviously, the practical application of such coercion is limited when one is studying global weather systems. On the other hand, if a heart starts beating in a chaotic fashion, and if that heart is equipped with a pacemaker, the heartbeat can be corrected with a mild electric shock. The timing and voltage of that shock can optimally determined with chaos theory. Similarly, some industrial processes might be amenable to such corrective measures.

  17. Re:"New York Times" admits bias. on Internet Kills LA Times National Edition · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the "Public Editor" is not a "senior editorial" position. It's rather akin to an ombudsman

  18. Re:It's obvious what he wants.. on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    RTFA. Last sentence.

    The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said.

    Oh right. This is the 21st century. Media attention doesn't mean "media analysis", much less the bothersome questions of a practicing journalist.

  19. Re:Possible? on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it. The US dollar is weakening, and Apple's relatively high valuation of Canuck currency will soon cease to be much of a problem.

  20. Re:Not Speed on What Do You Look For in a Big Iron Review? · · Score: 1

    You're about half a processor short. Next time, check your work before submitting it to /.

    2^(log(6)/log(2))=6

  21. Re:Mostly... on What Do You Look For in a Big Iron Review? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Cray used to light up its supercomputers in dramatic fashion, and they may have stooped to using a fog machine. Their ad copy had certain similarities to Italian "supercar" photography. No hot chicks, though.

  22. Re:Far Out indeed on Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Whenever I'm at the video shop, my consumerist mind tries to draw connections.

    "Ah, The Dancer upstairs Decent movie. But I'd really like to see the film the the guerillas were watching. 'Something... of Siege' and so on."

    Having access to online reviews would also be helpful. Amazon provides those, although, naturally, if it doesn't carry old Costa-Gavras films, it probably won't be of much use. A cell phone interface to the imdb might be more useful...

  23. Re:Grade on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but Grissom later ordered the product, as it came with a rather useful database of chromatographic data.

  24. Re:More Junk Science (Rant) on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    CSI: Miami airs on Mondays. It's usually quite trashy, and IMHO, has less "science" than the original.

    Every once in a while, CSI investigates some strange mishap at a casino, with scantily clad women, a mob connection or two, and weirdoes. Generally, such casino night episodes are less satisfying intellectually than the more prosaic episodes.

    Every night is casino night down in Miami.

  25. Re:This may be nitpicky... on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    Of course they were mentioned on SUV--who do you think processes the rape kits? That show got old, quickly.