Funny. My station says that Prairie Home Companion is the most expensive show. Probably has something to do with paying the guest artists, and the huge staff, as well as the demand.
Perhaps the producers of Car Talk simply charge what "the market will bear", and funnel the profits into subsidies for other programs, high salaries, and perhaps a auto repair shop.
Are these subscriber fees public? Is there any way to determine how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are charged for a particular show?
Sure, if all you had were 68k binaries-- on integer, the PPC601 emulator was half as fast as a comparably clocked 68030. But native applications were quite fast.
A Macintosh (7.8MHz 68000) rates about 0.40 Dhrystone MIPS. A PowerMac 7100 (66 MHz PPC601) gets about 129 MIPS. A 33 MHz 68040, perhaps 23. source
Of course. dhrystone mips are pretty much obsolete as a benchmark.
The New York Times does get some name recognition from its occasional appearances on "Google News", but as this brief exchange illustrates, being the "Paper of Record" just isn't worth it anymore.
REPORTER: Mr. President, in light of the, the New York Times editorial today, tell me why--
GEORGE W. BUSH: Let me stop you, Wendell, I don't read those editorials, [LAUGHTER] so you're going to have to-- maybe you ought to ask the question not in that context but in another context.
The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it's course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregan, Colorado or and other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce
Cool, we could have a shuttle that will transport 7 astronauts to Mars, in order that we might observe the stars undistorted by Earth's atmosphere.
The trouble with adding general mission capability is that sometimes, for one reason or another, some missions prove to be less than worthwhile. Meanwhile, the extra equipment larded on to this general purpose space vehicle just increases the cost.
The eighth star trek movie, "First Content", involved time travel. It can be argued that the minor manipulations of the time stream shown in that movie reverberated into future history, genetically altering the Klingons, summoning the Ferengi, and causing the Borg to enter human space more quickly.
Dolby Digital EX encodes a back surround channel in recordings by distributing in among the two rear surround signals in a Dolby Digital 5.1/5.0 mix. Thus, if the user has the correct equipment, the commonalities between those two signals are reproduced on a speaker set behind the listener.
However, if a normal Dolby Digital recording is played back on such a system in Dolby Digital EX mode, it may sound disorienting. If you use two speakers, offset from the center rear, each reproducing the same signal, it's less so.
The obvious next step was to figure out a way to send a discrete signal to each of the rear surrounds.
The French actually had more and, believe it or not, better tanks than the Germans did.
That's not true, Although the British had 590 tanks, and the French 3437, for a 25 percent advantage over the Germans' 3227 tanks, only 1255 of those allied tanks were capable of 25 mph. All of the German tanks were capable of high speed travel.
source: Dunnigan and Nofi (1994) Dirty Little Secrets of WWII
The French foreswore violence pretty much after World War I, despite the fact their next-door neighbor didn't.
The French War plan was based around the Maginot line. By making the barrier between France and Germany impassable, any invasion force would have to come through Belgium. If Germany were to invade Belgium, the violation of Belgium's neutrality would probably induce Britain to enter the war, and the combined British and French forces could then defeat Germany.
It really doesn't sound like the warplan of a pacifist-- rather too cynical.
Of course, the German forces feinted into northern Belgium, and sent the bulk of their forces through the Ardennes, which had been only lightly defended, avoiding the bulk of the British and French forces. Later on, these forces were essentially "pocketed' while the faster german troops sped on towards Paris.
With Dell you get a three year 24 hour warranty. While Dell has never serviced my laptop warranty claims within 24 hours, they often get them within 48.
So Dell promises, but it can't deliver. Interesting.
Hmm. Perhaps, over a period of ten years, Apple consistently told its outsourcers, product designers, and assembly lines, to "weaken the hinge mechanism". I haven't had any experience with non Apple laptops, though. Perhaps I abuse them in a fairly consistent fashion.
I've owned three Apple laptops-- A powerbook 140, an Powerbook 1400, and an iBook 500. They've all had problems with the backlight or scan lines turning on or off. It's probably not specific to Apple, though.
The "choke test cylinder" has a diameter of 1.25 inches. I'm not in the habit of measuring toilet roll tubes, but this random site indicates that most tubes have a diameter of 1.75 inches.
I had fischer technik-- fun toy, but the sets were impossible to find. I imagine they were expensive-- especially the exotics. I had 4 basic sets, a motor, a strange electrical set, and two of their Statik sets. I'm not sure what happened to my collection. Probably forgotten during a move.
Fischer technik completely outclasses Lego in the "most esoteric parts" category. Not only did they have a complete line of electrical stuff, computer controls, and strange gears, they also sold pneumatic stuff.
As a special experiment, to complement today's coverage of the Chandra XRay observatory, pages C12-C14 have been printed in a ink containing a number of radioisotopes, so as to more accurately depict the XRay emitting stars Chandra has discovered.
Please note that these pages are not recyclable.
Also, for our younger readers, "Erlenmeyer and Lever" have prepared a special edition of the "Science For Kids" column entitled "Fun with XRays"
1. Ask your parents to cut out the section labeled "Warning: Radiological Hazard", and...
MDI gets in the way. I recall that MDI was particularly invasive when I was trying to use a hex editor (AXE?), to write texture loaders with Codewarrior. AXE, because of a strange design decision was MDE, which meant that running a debugger and simultaneously viewing a binary file dump was difficult. Instead of neatly placing a critical window from one application into the void left by an arrangement of three rectangular windows in another application, I had to deal with the fact that the MDI app had no useful voids.
Codewarrior by the way, used a floating menubar palette, in a attempt to replicate the Mac User interface. It was largely successful.
The trend in Mac GUI design seems to be going towards single window applications (xcode, itunes...). Bit of a shame, really. Maybe it's some strange Next design influence.
and if one of the wood chip operators gets really cheesed off at the other wood chip operator, one of the wood chip operators can be forced into the wood chipper.
The "crappy widgets and horrible fonts" have nothing to do with Quartz vs X11. The X Athena Widget toolkit might look ugly by todays standards, sure, but why use that today? GTK with the industrial theme looks great (IMO), and there are a lot of great fonts now. If you like Aqua, fine, but that's not due to Quartz. Quartz is nice, but IMO Cairo has it beat, being based on the network transparent, portable X window system.
Aqua cannot be separated so easily from the underlying graphics engine. It's not as though Apple decided to create some kind of elaborate theme engine that substitutes the proper pixmap when a particular widget is called for. Certain of the effects, such as drop shadows, transparency, animation, and whatnot, are created with calls to Quartz.
If Quartz was so "good", why would Apple need to make it's own (non-free for that matter) version of X11 available as well?
Probably because it's easier to port existing programs by just including the relevant libs and headers than it is to rewrite the display subsystem of the program. The latter endeavour is still worthwhile, though-- xchat-aqua does have a built-in spellchecker, courtesy of the AppKit...
As for Apple's X11.app, that's a bit of a quandary. The current quartz window manager meshes in with the other programs on screen in a way that twm never did. It's rather nice to be able to treat an xterm as if it was just another MacOSX window--dockable, interleavable and so on. I'm not sure how much of X11.app's sources made it back into the XFree86 codebase, though.
Carbs, Carbs. Carbs. All I hear are "carbs". Not "Carbohydrates". Not "Saccharides". Not "sugars". Not "good food". Not "cusine". But "Carbs". Such an ugly little term.
Carbs. That's not even accurate. Fats contain carbon. So do amino acids. And so do lipids. The word is Carbohydrate. Can you say Carbohydrate? I knew you could.
I suppose that when this all blows over, and some idiot proposes regulating ones intake of protein, subliterates will speak of "Amines".
The reviews are all the same--run various permutations of the PC through benchmarks, and display the results using bar charts. And not just any bar charts. Use a gradient to color the bar, so that the color legend is rendered useless.
The reviewers should read Tufte, and figure out a more effective way of illustrating their analyses than endless pages of bar charts. Oh wait, that's how they get their ad revenue. Never mind.
A better question is: What happens to my ipod when I climb Mt. Everest?
On the second day of his everest expedition, Bob's iPod was not responding well to the cold. "Damn it, I just bought this thing", thought Bob, as he desperately tried to diagnose the trouble. The thick heavy mittens he wore weren't helping, and suddenly, his precious iPod slipped out of his hand, and half buried itself in the fresh powder.
"My precious!, Where is my precious?" thought Bob. He tore off his sun goggles, in a desperate attempt to locate the shiny white mp3 player. It was perhaps the worst decision of his ill fated decision since he had dozed off during one of the orienteering lectures, lulled by the gentle rhythms of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
The snow was bright, so very bright. And his ipod so very small. Up ahead, the rest of his party had moved on. But Bob felt sure he would be soon be able to rock out with a little Donavan. Finely, he spotted something. Was it his player? No, it was merely some loose snow concealing a crevasse...
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Times != Times New Roman.
I prefer palatino.
Funny. My station says that Prairie Home Companion is the most expensive show. Probably has something to do with paying the guest artists, and the huge staff, as well as the demand.
Perhaps the producers of Car Talk simply charge what "the market will bear", and funnel the profits into subsidies for other programs, high salaries, and perhaps a auto repair shop.
Are these subscriber fees public? Is there any way to determine how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are charged for a particular show?
Ohio State charges 10 dollars per day for recalled items, and 5 dollars per hour for reserve items.
And if you're wedded to x86, there's always this solution.
Sure, if all you had were 68k binaries-- on integer, the PPC601 emulator was half as fast as a comparably clocked 68030. But native applications were quite fast.
A Macintosh (7.8MHz 68000) rates about 0.40 Dhrystone MIPS. A PowerMac 7100 (66 MHz PPC601) gets about 129 MIPS. A 33 MHz 68040, perhaps 23. source
Of course. dhrystone mips are pretty much obsolete as a benchmark.
source
In an illiterate society, the sword is mightier than the pen.
President Thomas Jefferson's Instructions
to Captain Meriwether Lewis (June 20, 1803)
Cool, we could have a shuttle that will transport 7 astronauts to Mars, in order that we might observe the stars undistorted by Earth's atmosphere.
The trouble with adding general mission capability is that sometimes, for one reason or another, some missions prove to be less than worthwhile. Meanwhile, the extra equipment larded on to this general purpose space vehicle just increases the cost.
The eighth star trek movie, "First Content", involved time travel. It can be argued that the minor manipulations of the time stream shown in that movie reverberated into future history, genetically altering the Klingons, summoning the Ferengi, and causing the Borg to enter human space more quickly.
(Argument is left as an exercise for the student)
Dolby Digital EX encodes a back surround channel in recordings by distributing in among the two rear surround signals in a Dolby Digital 5.1/5.0 mix. Thus, if the user has the correct equipment, the commonalities between those two signals are reproduced on a speaker set behind the listener.
However, if a normal Dolby Digital recording is played back on such a system in Dolby Digital EX mode, it may sound disorienting. If you use two speakers, offset from the center rear, each reproducing the same signal, it's less so.
The obvious next step was to figure out a way to send a discrete signal to each of the rear surrounds.
There are other experimental designs, which add speakers at various elevations, a second independent LFE channel and so on. The 1950s road show "standard" used 5 front channels and one rear channel. Naturally some of these setups may be wholly incompatible with others.
The French actually had more and, believe it or not, better tanks than the Germans did.
That's not true, Although the British had 590 tanks, and the French 3437, for a 25 percent advantage over the Germans' 3227 tanks, only 1255 of those allied tanks were capable of 25 mph. All of the German tanks were capable of high speed travel.
source: Dunnigan and Nofi (1994) Dirty Little Secrets of WWII
The French foreswore violence pretty much after World War I, despite the fact their next-door neighbor didn't.
The French War plan was based around the Maginot line. By making the barrier between France and Germany impassable, any invasion force would have to come through Belgium. If Germany were to invade Belgium, the violation of Belgium's neutrality would probably induce Britain to enter the war, and the combined British and French forces could then defeat Germany.
It really doesn't sound like the warplan of a pacifist-- rather too cynical.
Of course, the German forces feinted into northern Belgium, and sent the bulk of their forces through the Ardennes, which had been only lightly defended, avoiding the bulk of the British and French forces. Later on, these forces were essentially "pocketed' while the faster german troops sped on towards Paris.
With Dell you get a three year 24 hour warranty. While Dell has never serviced my laptop warranty claims within 24 hours, they often get them within 48.
So Dell promises, but it can't deliver. Interesting.
Hmm. Perhaps, over a period of ten years, Apple consistently told its outsourcers, product designers, and assembly lines, to "weaken the hinge mechanism". I haven't had any experience with non Apple laptops, though. Perhaps I abuse them in a fairly consistent fashion.
I've owned three Apple laptops-- A powerbook 140, an Powerbook 1400, and an iBook 500. They've all had problems with the backlight or scan lines turning on or off. It's probably not specific to Apple, though.
In X11, the scrollwheel button pastes (with all the precison that one would expect a scrollwheel button to have).
In Safari, it functions as an option click--so that the clicked link opens in a new tab.
er, forget it. On second thought, perhaps a smaller diameter is more useful to manufacturers than to worried parents.
The "choke test cylinder" has a diameter of 1.25 inches. I'm not in the habit of measuring toilet roll tubes, but this random site indicates that most tubes have a diameter of 1.75 inches.
I had fischer technik-- fun toy, but the sets were impossible to find. I imagine they were expensive-- especially the exotics. I had 4 basic sets, a motor, a strange electrical set, and two of their Statik sets. I'm not sure what happened to my collection. Probably forgotten during a move.
Fischer technik completely outclasses Lego in the "most esoteric parts" category. Not only did they have a complete line of electrical stuff, computer controls, and strange gears, they also sold pneumatic stuff.
A note to readers:
...
As a special experiment, to complement today's coverage of the Chandra XRay observatory, pages C12-C14 have been printed in a ink containing a number of radioisotopes, so as to more accurately depict the XRay emitting stars Chandra has discovered.
Please note that these pages are not recyclable.
Also, for our younger readers, "Erlenmeyer and Lever" have prepared a special edition of the "Science For Kids" column entitled "Fun with XRays"
1. Ask your parents to cut out the section labeled "Warning: Radiological Hazard", and
MDI gets in the way. I recall that MDI was particularly invasive when I was trying to use a hex editor (AXE?), to write texture loaders with Codewarrior. AXE, because of a strange design decision was MDE, which meant that running a debugger and simultaneously viewing a binary file dump was difficult. Instead of neatly placing a critical window from one application into the void left by an arrangement of three rectangular windows in another application, I had to deal with the fact that the MDI app had no useful voids.
Codewarrior by the way, used a floating menubar palette, in a attempt to replicate the Mac User interface. It was largely successful.
The trend in Mac GUI design seems to be going towards single window applications (xcode, itunes...). Bit of a shame, really. Maybe it's some strange Next design influence.
and if one of the wood chip operators gets really cheesed off at the other wood chip operator, one of the wood chip operators can be forced into the wood chipper.
The "crappy widgets and horrible fonts" have nothing to do with Quartz vs X11. The X Athena Widget toolkit might look ugly by todays standards, sure, but why use that today? GTK with the industrial theme looks great (IMO), and there are a lot of great fonts now. If you like Aqua, fine, but that's not due to Quartz.
Quartz is nice, but IMO Cairo has it beat, being based on the network transparent, portable X window system.
Aqua cannot be separated so easily from the underlying graphics engine. It's not as though Apple decided to create some kind of elaborate theme engine that substitutes the proper pixmap when a particular widget is called for. Certain of the effects, such as drop shadows, transparency, animation, and whatnot, are created with calls to Quartz.
If Quartz was so "good", why would Apple need to make it's own (non-free for that matter) version of X11 available as well?
Probably because it's easier to port existing programs by just including the relevant libs and headers than it is to rewrite the display subsystem of the program. The latter endeavour is still worthwhile, though-- xchat-aqua does have a built-in spellchecker, courtesy of the AppKit...
As for Apple's X11.app, that's a bit of a quandary. The current quartz window manager meshes in with the other programs on screen in a way that twm never did. It's rather nice to be able to treat an xterm as if it was just another MacOSX window--dockable, interleavable and so on. I'm not sure how much of X11.app's sources made it back into the XFree86 codebase, though.
Carbs, Carbs. Carbs.
All I hear are "carbs". Not "Carbohydrates". Not "Saccharides". Not "sugars". Not "good food". Not "cusine". But "Carbs". Such an ugly little term.
Carbs. That's not even accurate. Fats contain carbon. So do amino acids. And so do lipids. The word is Carbohydrate. Can you say Carbohydrate? I knew you could.
I suppose that when this all blows over, and some idiot proposes regulating ones intake of protein, subliterates will speak of "Amines".
The reviews are all the same--run various permutations of the PC through benchmarks, and display the results using bar charts. And not just any bar charts. Use a gradient to color the bar, so that the color legend is rendered useless.
The reviewers should read Tufte, and figure out a more effective way of illustrating their analyses than endless pages of bar charts. Oh wait, that's how they get their ad revenue. Never mind.
A better question is: What happens to my ipod when I climb Mt. Everest?
On the second day of his everest expedition, Bob's iPod was not responding well to the cold. "Damn it, I just bought this thing", thought Bob, as he desperately tried to diagnose the trouble. The thick heavy mittens he wore weren't helping, and suddenly, his precious iPod slipped out of his hand, and half buried itself in the fresh powder.
"My precious!, Where is my precious?" thought Bob. He tore off his sun goggles, in a desperate attempt to locate the shiny white mp3 player. It was perhaps the worst decision of his ill fated decision since he had dozed off during one of the orienteering lectures, lulled by the gentle rhythms of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
The snow was bright, so very bright. And his ipod so very small. Up ahead, the rest of his party had moved on. But Bob felt sure he would be soon be able to rock out with a little Donavan. Finely, he spotted something. Was it his player? No, it was merely some loose snow concealing a crevasse...