I looked at lots of file options for my photography. I wanted compressed lossless for all my negative scans.
PNG looked good, so I figured I'd give it a try. It was a pain. The scanner program wouldn't save as PNG. Photoshop support wasn't too good, and many programs can't read them. ImageMagick which I use for batch conversion had some issues with it too (It was a while ago, I don't remember exactly what the problem was, but I think it had something to do with the way adobe handled png files)
So while I liked the Idea of using PNG, I settled instead on LZW compressed Tiff. And Jpegs for smaller images.
I like the idea of the PNG format, so hopefully it will continue making inroads, unlike the poorly named jpg2000.
I found a program that did this in nibble. It was early 80s. I used it as protection on my disc. Its really annoying to have your password rejected when you've typed it correcty..
My options seem to be. 1) find a usb/ethernet adapter that works with OSX. (difficult because all macs seem to have built in ethernet.) 2) airport card, but I'm not sure how that would work with my current network (linux box as firewall/ipmasq )
but now this seems like a viable option. If I attached via firewire to the G4 would I be able to see the whole network or just files on the G4?
IBM was all ready to break up into little pieces when they weren't doing well in the 90s.
Then Gerstner came in a leveraged IBMs size as a strength, not a weakness.
Although appples software is really quite beautiful I don't think they're going to break up. Firstly apple tried this (Claris ?) and it didn't work.
Steve jobs seems to be leveraging the HW/SW integration as a strength to make mac systems work as well as they do. I don't think he wants to give this up.
Why would anyone spend 400-500$ on a video card. Unless you really NEED to be cutting edge for the next 6 month or so before the next batch comes out and the price of these cards becomes more reasonable.
I'm not a hard core gamer. I have a Radeon something or other I got with my current machine (powermac g4). It plays wolfenstien and quake 3 great at 1024x768 with lots of eye candy on. I thnk a lot of people get way too caught up in frame rates and technical specs..
Acording to jobs keynote (on the web at macsurfer.com). I can't say it they're all true: +Some of the tracks sound better than the cds because they were taken from source matterial. +The previews are the same quality as the full lenghth track.
I watched Steve Jobs introduction of the apple music store now that its on the web. (look at macsurfer.com for a link) Apple did there homework, they researched other sellers as well as P2P. They tried to make there service better than both. Especially the p2p programs, they know they can't beat P2P on price so they worked hard on making the service much better.
I like many others tried itunes music shop.. It was very easy, and very quick. The AAC sounds good. Before I new it I had spent 10$ on songs. Burned to CD and listening at work the next day. I could see this getting expensive if they had more music on the service, although I found some older stuff I had wanted for a while.
One thing bothered me (almost all songs 99 cents, even those 1 minute), as primus tends to put short little songs between longer ones.
I too played around with the new itunes. Its very easy to use/browse buy. A little too easy (I've already spent 8 dollars). It actually was fun and I'm listening to the CD at work.
I was worried about the quality of ACC. It seems good although not quite CD quality, its hard to tell.
itunes has a option in the drop down menu called convert to mp3. I tried it, and it informed me it wouldn't convert downloaded acc music to mp3.
There are some programs that probably allow you to convert without burning a cd (Audio Hijack or something like that.)
The skit was on snl after the 80s stock market crash. Future man with his perfect stock picking record refuses to tell if or when a recovery happens despite the pleas of analysts.
When one of the analyst does himself in, they ask future man if they knew that would happen. "yes" " then why didn't you stop him" "I never liked him"
IBM seems serious about the new PowerPC 970 chip working with lower end workstations. Hopefully they'll provide inexpensive motherboards for use with the chips so that reasonably priced PPC linux systems become a reality.
Remeber the good old days and the promise of CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform.). It seemed like such a good idea but just never took off when apple killed macos for CHRP.
Maybe Apple will allow clones again, but I'm not holding my breath.
Artists want to be paid for there music? Not in the slashdot world. You must be new here.
Most artist give some away for free, but they want you to visit there site to build "communitiy" around the artist/band. Most artists (I know 2 professional musicians that don't have recording contracts.) don't seem to think that napster like song sharing does them much good when the rent is due.
Biotech ishould we use it ? this is one of the more interesting ethical delemas. We could feed more people and use less pestisides which is good. The question is what happens when this polen cross breeds with natural strains. Do we want large companies controlling all seeds. ? Is it ethical for a company to sell plants that are genetically engineered not to produce seed (third world farmers depend on seeds from previous years crops..
All this and the fact that our society/scientist don't often consider the implications of things before they do them.. Should we..?
I'm an EIT (Engineer in Training) as licenced by the state of massachusetts. I never got my PE(Professional engineering licence) and moved to programming. There is very little chance that anyone who graduates with a degree in Comp-Sci could pass the EIT test (lots of physics / mechanics/chemisty and circut analysis).
Engineering is more applied science, computer science is more applied mathmatics. I like the term computer science.
I was a civil engineer and its a much different filed than software. Before anything is built a drawing must be stamped by a PE licenced by the state. When things go wrong they look at who stamped it. It takes 4 years of experience to get that stamp. I don't see how that would work in software. There currently is less responsibility for releasing buggy code than for designing a building that colapses.
As computers manage more importing things for people this responsibility is starting to change.
Thats not to say software isn't hard and shouldn't be / designed well by experienced people. Its just very different than what most commonly is known as engineering.
In universities computer science is often in a differnet college
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I looked at lots of file options for my photography.
I wanted compressed lossless for all my negative scans.
PNG looked good, so I figured I'd give it a try.
It was a pain. The scanner program wouldn't save as PNG. Photoshop support wasn't too good, and many programs can't read them. ImageMagick which I use for batch conversion had some issues with it too (It was a while ago, I don't remember exactly what the problem was, but I think it had something to do with the way adobe handled png files)
So while I liked the Idea of using PNG, I settled instead on LZW compressed Tiff. And Jpegs for smaller images.
I like the idea of the PNG format, so hopefully it will continue making inroads, unlike the poorly named jpg2000.
It tracks the top 100 tracks and 10 albums. But it also does the same for each genere (rock/classical/folk..).
,...
Its also interesting to see the "people who bought this bought.."
Listeners who bought "Pavorati the early years" also bought Def Lepords album X.
Listener who bought Def Lepords X also bought the Moody Blues
etc.. etc...
Great, Now we can have a streaming verision of UDP...
TCPs strength is the error checking.. And large message sizes. Otherwise why not break it all up int 64 k packets and use UDP?
Bonn would be the capitol of west germany. East germany (DDR or the commie half..) has a different capital.
This is acording to my map.. Which might be a LITTLE out of date
Of course this whole using free software thing might be the fault of those anti-capitalist East Germans.
Of course I might be kidding
There a lies, damm lies and statistics .
I remember SPEC benchmarking ment something, and companies putting special routines to make chips seems faster than they were.
Thats why "Real world testing" is important. While not always the greatest comparison, its much better in most cases.
If IBM is officially releasing this information these machines should be out soon.. As apple is probably not going to sell a lot of G4s now..
I found a program that did this in nibble. It was early 80s. I used it as protection on my disc. Its really annoying to have your password rejected when you've typed it correcty..
Wow.. I mean it worked so well for SGI, its a wonder everyone doesn't realease servers like this..
I have an ibook with a broken Ethernet port.
My options seem to be.
1) find a usb/ethernet adapter that works with OSX. (difficult because all macs seem to have built in ethernet.)
2) airport card, but I'm not sure how that would work with my current network (linux box as firewall/ipmasq )
but now this seems like a viable option. If I attached via firewire to the G4 would I be able to see the whole network or just files on the G4?
IBM was all ready to break up into little pieces when they weren't doing well in the 90s.
Then Gerstner came in a leveraged IBMs size as a strength, not a weakness.
Although appples software is really quite beautiful I don't think they're going to break up.
Firstly apple tried this (Claris ?) and it didn't work.
Steve jobs seems to be leveraging the HW/SW integration as a strength to make mac systems work as well as they do. I don't think he wants to give this up.
You miss my point.. Some games are still quite playable and fun, even if I can't play them with all the graphics features turned on.
Gameplay quality is way more important to me than graphics quality.
I'm not say graphics are irrelivant, I'm just wondering who spends 500$ on a graphics card, when much cheaper cards provide a good experience.
Why would anyone spend 400-500$ on a video card. Unless you really NEED to be cutting edge for the next 6 month or so before the next batch comes out and the price of these cards becomes more reasonable.
I'm not a hard core gamer. I have a Radeon something or other I got with my current machine (powermac g4). It plays wolfenstien and quake 3 great at 1024x768 with lots of eye candy on. I thnk a lot of people get way too caught up in frame rates and technical specs..
Bzzzt...the New ipod has both Firewire and USB 2.0.
Acording to jobs keynote (on the web at macsurfer.com). I can't say it they're all true:
+Some of the tracks sound better than the cds because they were taken from source matterial.
+The previews are the same quality as the full lenghth track.
I watched Steve Jobs introduction of the apple music store now that its on the web. (look at macsurfer.com for a link) Apple did there homework, they researched other sellers as well as P2P. They tried to make there service better than both. Especially the p2p programs, they know they can't beat P2P on price so they worked hard on making the service much better.
I like many others tried itunes music shop..
It was very easy, and very quick. The AAC sounds good. Before I new it I had spent 10$ on songs. Burned to CD and listening at work the next day. I could see this getting expensive if they had more music on the service, although I found some older stuff I had wanted for a while.
One thing bothered me (almost all songs 99 cents, even those 1 minute), as primus tends to put short little songs between longer ones.
I too played around with the new itunes. Its very easy to use/browse buy. A little too easy (I've already spent 8 dollars). It actually was fun and I'm listening to the CD at work.
I was worried about the quality of ACC. It seems good although not quite CD quality, its hard to tell.
itunes has a option in the drop down menu called convert to mp3. I tried it, and it informed me it wouldn't convert downloaded acc music to mp3.
There are some programs that probably allow you to convert without burning a cd (Audio Hijack or something like that.)
Art is more about the final product than how it is built. Its what it does that matters not How its done.
The skit was on snl after the 80s stock market crash. Future man with his perfect stock picking record refuses to tell if or when a recovery happens despite the pleas of analysts.
When one of the analyst does himself in, they ask future man if they knew that would happen.
"yes"
" then why didn't you stop him"
"I never liked him"
DVD-Rs of my home movies play fine on it.
Haven't had the problems with the dvd drive you've experienced.
The audio over internet to phone phase seemed to work but being free the companies didn't survive.
Why not just audio chat. The bandwidth would be much lower. The jerky video that modem users have would make this useless.
IBM seems serious about the new PowerPC 970 chip working with lower end workstations. Hopefully they'll provide inexpensive motherboards for use with the chips so that reasonably priced PPC linux systems become a reality.
Remeber the good old days and the promise of CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform.). It seemed like such a good idea but just never took off when apple killed macos for CHRP.
Maybe Apple will allow clones again, but I'm not holding my breath.
Artists want to be paid for there music? Not in the slashdot world. You must be new here.
Most artist give some away for free, but they want you to visit there site to build "communitiy" around the artist/band. Most artists (I know 2 professional musicians that don't have recording contracts.) don't seem to think that napster like song sharing does them much good when the rent is due.
Biotech ishould we use it ? this is one of the more interesting ethical delemas. We could feed more people and use less pestisides which is good. The question is what happens when this polen cross breeds with natural strains. Do we want large companies controlling all seeds. ? Is it ethical for a company to sell plants that are genetically engineered not to produce seed (third world farmers depend on seeds from previous years crops..
All this and the fact that our society/scientist don't often consider the implications of things before they do them.. Should we..?
I'm an EIT (Engineer in Training) as licenced by the state of massachusetts. I never got my PE(Professional engineering licence) and moved to programming. There is very little chance that anyone who graduates with a degree in Comp-Sci could pass the EIT test (lots of physics / mechanics/chemisty and circut analysis).
Engineering is more applied science, computer science is more applied mathmatics. I like the term computer science.
I was a civil engineer and its a much different filed than software. Before anything is built a drawing must be stamped by a PE licenced by the state. When things go wrong they look at who stamped it. It takes 4 years of experience to get that stamp. I don't see how that would work in software. There currently is less responsibility for releasing buggy code than for designing a building that colapses.
As computers manage more importing things for people this responsibility is starting to change.
Thats not to say software isn't hard and shouldn't be / designed well by experienced people. Its just very different than what most commonly is known as engineering.
In universities computer science is often in a differnet college