there are many many utilities that will allow you to save anything you play through your computers speakers..
1. This won't allow you to play "protected" songs bought through itunes. 2. If your machine is already on the local network then its trivial to copy the music files from computer to computer..
They say in any given event anything can happen. Thats why they play the games.
Models may be able to approximate overall medal performance but its a little disingenuous because its up to each of the athletes to perform in his/her event.
If the models worked too well gambling on sports would stop.
I have a 98 Volkwagon TDI Jetta. I get about 45 miles per gallon over the 140,000 miles I've driven. The car has been great, always starts even in the cold winters in the NE. The car isn't a speed demon, but its not bad accelerating (the turbo helps and the tourque of engine is strong.)
I've been looking at the hybrids. They look like a good. Cleaner than the diesels . But according to usa today, the mileage of the hybrid prius isn't as good as the diesel. USA today..
Mod me a flamebait, but I feel Mono is just driving users to windows where the best development tools are.
Development tools are one of microsoft stronger suits. Its going to be hard to get development tools that good for linux, so in the end more users will end up developing on windows.
I looked at mono for development, and ended up at java/eclipse. Eclipse is one of the most impresive open source projects since apache. I wish sun was more open and every linux distro would come with java preinstalled.
You can't win with either java or mono(c#).. Maybe its time ffor python/perl/php/ruby.....
newshub been doing news gathering for a long time..
google came and did it better..
Now MSN is throwing its hat in the ring. AOL will provide a web page with news/ other stuff based on what you want to see which is oddly good (It shows movies playing at the closest movie theaters..)
There a probably lots of others I'm missing.
Competetion is good. Hopefully everyone competes and makes theses sites better.
I thought the post was funny as hell not insightful.
When I went to school we had apple//es and a vax. VMS is kinda relevent today. 6504 assembler is not.
In computers things change all the time. The pace has slowed but the times they are a changing..
Maybe I'm just jaded because I'm an engineer and we're taught general ways to solve problems. The modeling classes taught us how to model any kind of system (electrical/mechanical/civil).
Seriously. Get a good heavy tripod. This is more important than the video camera. Having the camera stable is key to making video look good. HD video would look terrible hand held.
Get one with a fluid head (bogon/monfroto make sume). Usually the heads are sold separately.
Nothing says ametuer video like a handheld camera. You can't hold it steady enough even with the stabilizers they build into the cameras, I started using a tripod with my minidv camera and was surprised how much better the video looked.
Also if you need the camera for a limit time need you can probably rent a better one than you can afford to buy.
I have an old mouse with instead of a ball it it had two "paddles" like the contols of an etch-a-sketch. It worked ok, but the ball worked much better.
Now its has come full circle and you can use a ball mouse to the 2 paddles..
If you read any of the articles in the times, especially the magazine. Some are quite long and execellent (they have one on genetic engineering called playing god in the garden which covers all sides of the topic well..). These go away after a couple weeks into the archives. Some of that my have to do with the contracts writers contracts.
There was a big dispute being free lance writers who wern't paid to have there works published in-perpetuity and the newspaper. I don't know the exact details but it may have something to do with the limited time many articles are availabele.
But there is really few free news sources that cover topics as in depth. All are pay,Wall street journal, economist.etc...Some are just books and those aren't available online.
My brother spent 2 years in the peace corp teaching computers. (Its hard to do forrestry during a drought). Then they starting rationing the power....
I suggest teaching apache/php/mysql. Its a decent start to programming and athough clunky useful in industry.
Most large scale applications are custom built, so its hard to just drop in somethine. SAP/PeopleSoft have a very expensive/ non trivial install procedure ($$$/ Months to years..)
Apple is spending on R&D obviously. They took in 2.01 billion $. They spent most of that on bussiness expenses (including R&D). and were left with 61 million. While not great, they didn't loose money.
When I was in research, IBM was spending 6 billion on R&D. But IBM is significantly larger than apple (and had some old apple employees on the payroll).
Dell and Gateway do very very little R&D. They're more business companies that package. There was an interesting article comparing HP / Dell in terms of RD.
Apple does a lot of interesting inovative stuff considering what they spend.
I agree. I actualy would prefer single g5 minitower priced around 1000-1200$. I want to use the monitor I have and paid good money for and that is happy attach to my g4.
Or at least make an additional video out jack to be able to dual screen the new imac.
I been looking for that application container. I can't find it. Xhtml/ccs/javascript look like the closest thing, and thats really sad.
I think.net/mono could do well/ be the answer (I will be if MS incorporates.net into what it could be). Open source java could be made to work but, sigh... sun, (I like the sandbox security model and the ability to extend functionality at runtime via plugins ala eclipse/jedit).
I used a copy of "lotus components" and liked it. Memory hog. Like Apples opendoc these mini applications could be built into the application framework.
If there was a standard, so I could get to the business of writing those rich web apps.
Maybe I should start wrting that application framework for mono...or see if a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/java/"> gcj is far enough allong..
Great.. A world of proprietary apps
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Lets face it, the browsers in there current form are not good. Having developed web applications it makes a lowsy front end,
However the browser is the one application that makes the world a much more platform independent place. There is a reason Explorer was rushed out to head off a netscape dominated browser world.
The browser needs to become an application container. Java seemed to be working towards this, however.... Flash does it well.
I don't want to have to download a different applicaiton to buy things from various online stores/check prices do my timecard etc. Especially to find that the app doesn't work under sun/linux/ms etc..
The browser needs to change not go away. Change into something that handles being the front end of web apps better.
When comparing specs and prices after a google search, I open each searched item into a new tab.
Sometimes Its better/ I want 2 pages side by side to compair specs of equipment. Right now I have to open a new browser window then cut/paste the url to get them side by side. I would like to be able to take a tab into a separate window (or 2 panes side by side, I'm not picky. my big monitor helps with this).
Also cool would be able to set some bookmarks to look it web pages have changes since you last looked at them. This is expensive and wastefull, but might be usefull as some sites update weekly/monthly and it would be nice to see if they've changed.
I like a multitude of search engines, and I find google to be harder and harder to get reviews out of. I've gotten better but so have the google bombers. (although to be honest this effects most search engines.)
I have to put a few words in that a sales page won't have (sharpness for lenses saturation for printers etc..) to hunt down the reviews.
Besides google I've been using Teoma , yahoo About.com (which sometimes is junky but pretty good for some topics
and when looking hard voila.com which despite having to select "world" instead of "france" works well..
I'm pretty sure ATRAC was used on minidiscs which sounded great (I have an old minidisc player/ can't tell it appart from a CD). I'm one of the few that still uses one, but they don't skip and are good on batteries.
Mini Disc is an exampple of a good idea killed by too much restrictions. (Musicians like recording on it but couldn't upload digitially./ Convert mp3->atrac to dump music digitally from a computer??)
I guess they've lowered the bit rate way too much for newer players to be able to market large number of minutes per disc. ATRAC doesn't hold up very well at low bit rates apparently.
I like the letters sections of that magazine.. I keep the font issure. Irreverent and entertaining and informative. Before broadband I would live for that cd of software/demos that came with it.
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there are many many utilities that will allow you to save anything you play through your computers speakers..
1. This won't allow you to play "protected" songs bought through itunes.
2. If your machine is already on the local network then its trivial to copy the music files from computer to computer..
Itunes let you play music from any another computer on your subnet. Turn "sharing" on in the preferences box in itunes.
I use this to play music via my ibook in the kitchen. The music is on my desktop. Wirelessly to boot.
Itunes even finds the music shares automagically through zero conf (rendezous).
Why is this news?
I like this..
Google wasn't original but it did search significantly better. Created interesing products that worked well. Now the payoff.
They deserve it.
They say in any given event anything can happen. Thats why they play the games.
Models may be able to approximate overall medal performance but its a little disingenuous because its up to each of the athletes to perform in his/her event.
If the models worked too well gambling on sports would stop.
I hoped someone tried to catch them..
Because, hey... free dummies.
AH the power of the deep thought
I have a 98 Volkwagon TDI Jetta. I get about 45 miles per gallon over the 140,000 miles I've driven. The car has been great, always starts even in the cold winters in the NE. The car isn't a speed demon, but its not bad accelerating (the turbo helps and the tourque of engine is strong.)
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I've been looking at the hybrids. They look like a good. Cleaner than the diesels . But according to usa today, the mileage of the hybrid prius isn't as good as the diesel.
USA today..
and mack trucks are getting into the action with diesel electric hybrids..
http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=102
Mod me a flamebait, but I feel Mono is just driving users to windows where the best development tools are.
Development tools are one of microsoft stronger suits. Its going to be hard to get development tools that good for linux, so in the end more users will end up developing on windows.
I looked at mono for development, and ended up at java/eclipse. Eclipse is one of the most impresive open source projects since apache. I wish sun was more open and every linux distro would come with java preinstalled.
You can't win with either java or mono(c#).. Maybe its time ffor python/perl/php/ruby.....
All real would have to do is use un DRMed mp3s or aac.
Problem solved..
newshub been doing news gathering for a long time..
google came and did it better..
Now MSN is throwing its hat in the ring. AOL will provide a web page with news/ other stuff based on what you want to see which is oddly good (It shows movies playing at the closest movie theaters..)
There a probably lots of others I'm missing.
Competetion is good. Hopefully everyone competes and makes theses sites better.
Win Win Win...
I thought the post was funny as hell not insightful.
//es and a vax. VMS is kinda relevent today. 6504 assembler is not.
When I went to school we had apple
In computers things change all the time. The pace has slowed but the times they are a changing..
Maybe I'm just jaded because I'm an engineer and we're taught general ways to solve problems. The modeling classes taught us how to model any kind of system (electrical/mechanical/civil).
My dad used to be in publishing.
The first book was very expensive, every one after that was about 1-2$ for a paper back.
The book business is similar to recording/software. You pay for the creation, the duplication is fairly inexpensive.
I still think this is a good idea, people will pay good money for books that are out of print.
Seriously. Get a good heavy tripod. This is more important than the video camera. Having the camera stable is key to making video look good. HD video would look terrible hand held.
Get one with a fluid head (bogon/monfroto make sume). Usually the heads are sold separately.
Nothing says ametuer video like a handheld camera. You can't hold it steady enough even with the stabilizers they build into the cameras, I started using a tripod with my minidv camera and was surprised how much better the video looked.
Also if you need the camera for a limit time need you can probably rent a better one than you can afford to buy.
I have an old mouse with instead of a ball it it had two "paddles" like the contols of an etch-a-sketch. It worked ok, but the ball worked much better.
Now its has come full circle and you can use a ball mouse to the 2 paddles..
If you read any of the articles in the times, especially the magazine. Some are quite long and execellent (they have one on genetic engineering called playing god in the garden which covers all sides of the topic well..). These go away after a couple weeks into the archives. Some of that my have to do with the contracts writers contracts.
There was a big dispute being free lance writers who wern't paid to have there works published in-perpetuity and the newspaper. I don't know the exact details but it may have something to do with the limited time many articles are availabele.
But there is really few free news sources that cover topics as in depth. All are pay,Wall street journal, economist.etc...Some are just books and those aren't available online.
type
esc -x
tetris
This works on emacs and xemacs.
Of course its only really playable on xemacs.
Tetris in lisp.. Now there is someone with a lot time...
My brother spent 2 years in the peace corp teaching computers. (Its hard to do forrestry during a drought). Then they starting rationing the power....
I suggest teaching apache/php/mysql. Its a decent start to programming and athough clunky useful in industry.
Most large scale applications are custom built, so its hard to just drop in somethine. SAP/PeopleSoft have a very expensive/ non trivial install procedure ($$$/ Months to years..)
Apple is spending on R&D obviously. They took in 2.01 billion $. They spent most of that on bussiness expenses (including R&D). and were left with 61 million. While not great, they didn't loose money.
When I was in research, IBM was spending 6 billion on R&D. But IBM is significantly larger than apple (and had some old apple employees on the payroll).
Dell and Gateway do very very little R&D. They're more business companies that package. There was an interesting article comparing HP / Dell in terms of RD.
Apple does a lot of interesting inovative stuff considering what they spend.
I agree. I actualy would prefer single g5 minitower priced around 1000-1200$. I want to use the monitor I have and paid good money for and that is happy attach to my g4.
Or at least make an additional video out jack to be able to dual screen the new imac.
Interesting
.net/mono could do well/ be the answer (I will be if MS incorporates .net into what it could be). Open source java could be made to work but, sigh... sun, (I like the sandbox security model and the ability to extend functionality at runtime via plugins ala eclipse/jedit).
I been looking for that application container. I can't find it. Xhtml/ccs/javascript look like the closest thing, and thats really sad.
I think
I used a copy of "lotus components" and liked it. Memory hog. Like Apples opendoc these mini applications could be built into the application framework.
If there was a standard, so I could get to the business of writing those rich web apps.
Maybe I should start wrting that application framework for mono...or see if a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/java/"> gcj is far enough allong..
Lets face it, the browsers in there current form are not good. Having developed web applications it makes a lowsy front end,
However the browser is the one application that makes the world a much more platform independent place. There is a reason Explorer was rushed out to head off a netscape dominated browser world.
The browser needs to become an application container. Java seemed to be working towards this, however.... Flash does it well.
I don't want to have to download a different applicaiton to buy things from various online stores/check prices do my timecard etc. Especially to find that the app doesn't work under sun/linux/ms etc..
The browser needs to change not go away. Change into something that handles being the front end of web apps better.
When comparing specs and prices after a google search, I open each searched item into a new tab.
Sometimes Its better/ I want 2 pages side by side to compair specs of equipment. Right now I have to open a new browser window then cut/paste the url to get them side by side. I would like to be able to take a tab into a separate window (or 2 panes side by side, I'm not picky. my big monitor helps with this).
Also cool would be able to set some bookmarks to look it web pages have changes since you last looked at them. This is expensive and wastefull, but might be usefull as some sites update weekly/monthly and it would be nice to see if they've changed.
ooops.. I even previewed...
oh well..
I like a multitude of search engines, and I find google to be harder and harder to get reviews out of. I've gotten better but so have the google bombers. (although to be honest this effects most search engines.)
,
I have to put a few words in that a sales page won't have (sharpness for lenses saturation for printers etc..) to hunt down the reviews.
Besides google I've been using Teoma
yahoo
About.com (which sometimes is junky but pretty good for some topics
and when looking hard voila.com which despite having to select "world" instead of "france" works well..
I'm pretty sure ATRAC was used on minidiscs which sounded great (I have an old minidisc player/ can't tell it appart from a CD). I'm one of the few that still uses one, but they don't skip and are good on batteries.
Mini Disc is an exampple of a good idea killed by too much restrictions. (Musicians like recording on it but couldn't upload digitially./ Convert mp3->atrac to dump music digitally from a computer??)
I guess they've lowered the bit rate way too much for newer players to be able to market large number of minutes per disc. ATRAC doesn't hold up very well at low bit rates apparently.
I like the letters sections of that magazine.. I keep the font issure. Irreverent and entertaining and informative. /demos that came with it.
Before broadband I would live for that cd of software