There is no service dependency that requires your machine to be running a DNS server, a lookup daemon or Rendevous should be more than sufficient for any server set up.
Even if Apple shipped Panther Server with a zone file, what exactly would be in it? What domain would it host? Surely you don't expect them to have knowledge of every internal network's naming and numbering scheme.
My opinion of Ogg is not rediculous. Ogg is not present in any major consumer electronic device at this point besides a few portable players, nor is it planned for any standards track or inclusion in any major standard. MP3 and AAC are both standards, they are both used widely in consumer electronics and are supported by or are part of other major standards and technologies. Ogg will likely never catch on as anything but an open source die-hard's codec. The rest of the world will use AAC or MP3. What I mean by this is that no satellite provider, cable TV operator or television station will ever be broadcating audio in Ogg format. Why? Nobody's pushing Ogg. Who's sitting down in the board rooms selling Ogg to the executives? Who's putting out the marketing dollars? AAC is likely to be the predominant audio codec, it's already part of other transmission standards (like next generation radio and digital tv broadcasts). Who's pushing AAC? Dolby, Apple, Sony,. AT&T amond others.
Ogg will survive long enough for it to be unnecessary, then it along with all the other codecs will dissapear from use In the mean time it will enjoy a life with small recording artists, game developers and a cult like following in the general public.
(and yes, I know that Ogg isn't the codec, it's the container. Vorbis is actually the audio codec. To those confused: Ogg is like QuickTime, Vorbis is like MP3 or Sorenson)
-iTunes is available world wide, you can use it to rip CDs in any country. The music store is another issue. -I'm sorry to hear that you chose a non industry standard to keep your music library in. -There are several open source apps that will sync music libraries with iPod, myTunes written in Java comes to mind. -iTunes is not a complete replacement for a PDA, but it does minimize the times you need to carry another device around -To each their own. While I think it looks neat, I also almost never see it. It's always in my pocket.
iPod isn't for everyone, nothing ever is. Except death.
I didn't say that the iPod had the longest battery life, or that there weren't any players that trumped it in any particular catigory. I just said that the iPod does the best job of compromising between all of those demands of a personal player.
As for your theoretical flight: Two hour wait: every airport I've been to has publically available power outlets around the terminals. It's trivial to locate and use these to charge/power a laptop, cell phone or iPod. You should even be able to get multiple plug modules for the iPod charger brick so it will work around the world.
Four hour flight: Unless you run the backlight, play games and continually select non-buffered songs to play the iPod should easily last 4 hours from the full charge you got sitting in the terminal. Some airlines are now even offering 12vDC car lighter type adapters to power your electronics in-flight.
Hour drive: The iPod should still have over 1/2 it's power left for this drive, even if your drive takes 3 hours you'll still be listening as you walk in to your hotel room where you can plug-in an recharge to 80% capacity in an hour.
I've also found Apple's battery estimates to be a little conservative with my 1st gen iPod, I regularly got at least 11 hours from it. After 2 years I still get 8 hours from the battery.
You shouldn't pay more just because it has an Apple logo. You should pay more because:
The iPod works with the music store that currently makes about 70% of on-line music sales, works on both major desktop OS platforms, plays the major audio formats (AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF with others possible) for high quality compressed and uncompressed audio, operates as a portable hard drive (bootable for Macs), replaces most of the fuctions of your PDA(calendar, notes, alarm clock, contacts, games) and generally does the best job at melding all the requirements of a portable player; mainly small size, long battery life, easily readable display, fast file transfers, high quality audio amplifier, easy navigation, and the elusive cool/wow factor.
It's long, but gramatically I do thing that qualifies as one sentence.
It's backed by the word of the mint that houses the metals, and the auditing company that measures the amouts on a monthly basis.
For there to be fraud here would require a major conspiracy between the oginizational company, the mint and the auditors. Conspiracy of such magnitude would almost certainly cause some suspicion and investigation by the federal government. The mint in question does business with the U.S. Mint and other foreign mints, so the probability of fraud there is mighty low in my opinion.
There's a guy that started printing his own money. This is not illegal, ANYONE can print currency and use it for transactions as long as both parties agree to the value of the currency. A good example of this is Disney Dollars or supermarket script. Anyway... you can use use it to make purchases all the time. His money is backed by actual deposits of gold and silverin an actual warehouse, not debt and guns. The money is widely used for commerce. If you don't like the Fed and corporations restricting your digital imaging of bank notes, then go take a look and try it out.
*I ma not, nor am I affiliated with norfed, I am not an authorized exchange center and I make not money from the currency, I'm just a happy user of the notes.
It's simple. If it exists in any sort of recorded form (writing, magnetic, phonopgraph, punch card, etc) it's copyrighted. That's the way U.S. copyright law works. You don't have to register a copyright for the work to be protected. So... if a file exists on a P2P network, it is copyrighted. Whether the item is there with the permission of the copyright holder is another matter all together.
I'm sure this makes a nice battle cry for the uninformed professional protesters out there, but our legislators and police departments have nothing do do with the cases you are referring to. They are NOT criminal cases, they are civil cases. Civil cases are brought by one party against another , directly without any charges, complaints arrests or investigations by any government entity.
Women = 52% of the Unites States' adult (18+) population Women were responsible for 57% of the money spent on consumer electronics (whatever that really means) It's "common knowledge" that women do 80% of the shopping.
Hardly seems surprising to me.
What I want to know is what were the questions asked in the survey, what did they consider to be consumer electronics, and who and when they called. Results like this have a tendency to unravel when you start looking at the method of polling and the questions asked.
Anyone have access to the CE website and care to post the plain-text study document here?
Two subtle differences. One much more suble than the other.
The obvious one is of course the woman is wearing an iPod. The second is that the date on the "big screen" is changed. The date is in the lower left portion of the talking head screen, and in the original commercial, it read "1-24-84" in now reads "1-24-04"
Apple has completed some very major improvements to the gcc code base, I don't recall, but I think Apple managed so improve compile times by something like 25%, and code performance of something like 15%. I don't remember where I read those numbers, or how close I am to what I read.
The reason (again from what I've read) that the gcc maintainers are resisting the changes that Apple would really like to make for the G5, is that the changes would fundamentally break many if not most of the other platforms compilers. I admit I don't understand compiler optimization, but apparently the logic that gcc uses for modeling the processor just can't keep up with the number of execution units, registers and/or the number of instructions in flight. I think the way the G5 "groups" instructions in to bundles of 5 for scheduling also throws things off a bit. I've read a few discussions that it's time for GCC to go through some sort of fundamental change that would allow for vastly different acitectures to be supported via plug-ins or modules or something.
Apple could indeed fork gcc, but given their commitment to "giving back" to the open source community, that 's probably not going to happen. Hopefully someone more "in the know" can either confirm or correct some of this. I personally think also that forking something as fundamental as the compiler that's used for almost all open-source software would be a "bad thing".
But there is precedent for the other view. I don't know if you were around in the Quadra/Performa days, but you could install system software for your particular machine, or for all machines. If you chose for "your machine", you could not move the system folder to another machine and have it boot if the other machine were substantially different. Granted it was a bit of a mess, but it did provide for a very lean system folder, and increased performance.
You mean it would consume more resources than a complete re-write of the OS from Pascal to C as happened with System 6 to System 7 transition?
I expect that once IBM completes the ObjC compiler that most of the OS will be migrated to that compiler, as will much of the high performance commercial software out there. The developer tools will still come with the free GCC compiler, and Apple will still maintain it, but without changes to the core of GCC (which are being resisted by the maintainers), it will never make the G5 shine.
I have yet to see pricing from IBM on these compilers, so I don't know yet how viable they will be for smaller developers. It might be that developers offer two versions of their software: standard for the regular cost, and the 15%-40% better performance version from the IBM compiler for like 20% higher cost, just so they can recoup their added costs.
If you're a "swinger", you probably use the term playmate in a sexual context quite frequently, but never mean Playmate as in the trademark.
Google would need to allow "playmate" in adWords not related to porn (or insulated food containers), but within porn related ads, could allow it for people searching for sexual playmates, but not to advertize a general "men's entertainment" site.
Now... things get more complicated if you want to use "igloo playmate" to search the internet. Playboy might offer you naked women in snow houses, and igoo of course makes a line of coolers called "Playmate". But then again perhaps you were looking for a children's playhouse in the shape of an igloo that was large enough for a playmate or two.
Now just from "igloo playmate" as a search phrase and common-language, non-infringing use options, how is Google supposed to know what your intended search was, and how can they limit the use of trademarks in adWords?
The initial judge wrote a well thought and poinient opinion, with which I agree. However, I also think that this should go to trial and have all the merits argued in court and a final decision rendered.
With this floating around without an official judgement, there's nothing stopping any compnay from suing anyone who uses the company's plain-word trademark.
THe problem is that the current system favors this approach for smaller companies and individuals. Why spend all that money, time and effort in starting up a company to produce a product, when large competetors will just manage to skirt the patent and put you out of business?
This way you get your patent and your money without much risk.
To connect with the trekkies out there you should quote Kirk when he's confonting Sybok in "The Final Frontier" "There the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves! I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!!..."
The film and television industries have started making everyone think and look alike, the drug companies will just finish it off.
Slow performance in general is not a bug, what is a bug is the way Apple implimented the data structures for iPhoto. If you've never looked at them, let me bring you up to speed.
All of the photo information (image file location, thumnail file location (both full pahtnames), size, title, description, import date, modification date) is stored in a plain text XML file. To open iPhoto, the entire flat file must be parsed. Every time you make a change to a photo in almost any way, the entire flat file must be re-written. This style of file handling is fine for reading infrequently updated data like a list of emails or an application's preference, but it not acceptable for dealing with interactive data.
This is basic program design. No-one I know would ever write a program like this when it's supposed to update the file many times durting a session. Tou do things like that in at worst, linked lists or individual files. Ideally this would all be put in a "true" database via SQL or even something written specifically for the task.
Its interesting that Apple uses a more easily updated binary format for the information about albums and some of the more esoteric information about indivual images, like the EXIF data.
I've got about 1,200 photos in my library, most are not commented. The two data main files from iPhoto are about 1MB and 2.9MB for the XML and binary files repectively. In the XML file, if I remove all the actual data add leave just the XML structure, the file size shrinks to about 1/3 the size (300KB).
Granted, I learned to program in assembly language on a 4KB machine so perhaps I am a little more concious of data structure sizes, but to add over 33% to a file that you'll need to manupulate many times in a session is just careless.
Perhaps you can't call this a "bug", but it is a serious design flaw in the program. I want iPhoto 3 to be updated with better data handling, not because I'm not willing to pay $50 for iLife, but because iPhoto is the only app in iLife that I care about. My beige G3 can't run iDVD or iMovie for squat, it's well below the specs for Garage Band, and iTunes is already free and will continue to be free as long as the music store drives iPod sales. If I owned a G4 and could use the other apps in iLife, I'd drop $50 in a heartbeat for iPhoto 4 and consider the other apps a nice toy. But I'm not willing to shell out $50 for iPhoto to work the way it should have in the first place.
Since when does HP own the code or the licensing rights to WMA format and codecs? Is HP going to act as some sort of reverse engineering source, then pass on to Apple the specs so Apple can clean-room code a WMA compatible codec? I can't in anny manner understand why Apple would be working with HP instead od Microsoft to implement WMA.
"I was wondering if it would be possible to put up a world map with broadband internet pricing. Yes. Everything is possible. This in particular is even rather easy.
The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable. Of course, the terms DSL and cable are rather nebulous, the bandwidth on these lines varies from 128Kb to 10Mb/s. We'll need to ask what type and what speeds the connections are and if they use proxies, NAT, etc.
I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones." I thought getting screwed was getting lucky?
What are the best and worst prices in your own area? I pay $60/month for a Cable modem that I lease, a static and globaly routable IP, and througput of 3.2Mb/640Kb downstream/upstream. I'm in Mesa, AZ, USA.
Perhaps someone handy with graphics can collect some good data points from your comments and create such a beast. While this is very feasable, it's not going to be easyt to normalize all the data from the posts. It would be neat if someone like broadband reports would provide some simpler/graphic representation of this information.
We obvioulsy see the world much differenly. Your thinking seems to go along with NASA's and has led to the public's non-understanding, disinterest, and near contempt for the amounts of money spent by NASA on projects that fail or don't perform as planned.
You state that my proposed construction method would be much more expensive than the current ISS method. I would argue that the costs would me much more predictable and managable. Go look up the numbers for the ISS initial projected cost and the final cost. Compare where the project was supposed to be now (11 people living on board) and the surrent state of things (3 people on board, usually). Compared to the stated goals, ISS is a failure and a waste of money.
As for the sensors, I don't understand why you keep saying things like "...sensing units and pressure maintenance units are not tied together...". I never stated that these units are or should be tied together. I've stated several times that there should be multiple independent sensors and controllers for cabin pressure. The redundant monitoring sensors should be separate and isolated from the control sensors, which should in turn be separate and isolated from the gas flow sensors and the tank pressure sensors. This scheme gives four points of fault isolaiton, and automated control over faults that you don't seem able to predict. Your wriring seems to indicate you can only forsee two failure scenareos: slow insignificant leak, and catastrophic breach causing instant death. There are more scenareos between those two that the system you define can not handle in a manner that would preserve life and the mission. In my layout, the problems are taken care of in an automated fasion, AND humans are alerted to the issue at the same time. There is nothing about this setup that is lesser than the current one you define.
As for plate on frame not being very good for pressure vessels: that's essentially what the space station is right now. It's just more of a foil than a plate. The "plates" in a more standardized construction would not have to be solid metal. We have these wonderful composite materials like carbon fiber, fiberglass, kevlar, etc. Used in layers youl could build a larger uninterrupted volume that would be safer and easier to temperature control.
I just went to the doom9 site and it seems to be all about informing people about how to rip and back up DVDs they own. Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time there though. Why exactly would publishing this info make these people, or those who visit it experts in streaming audio/video codecs? Wouldn't it be a better idea to have developed the codecs with a community of A/V experts or web content producers? In my limited view, this statement seems about like: "We at Yugo have developed our new car with close consultation of car wash operators." The one has nothing to do with the other.
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There is no service dependency that requires your machine to be running a DNS server, a lookup daemon or Rendevous should be more than sufficient for any server set up.
Even if Apple shipped Panther Server with a zone file, what exactly would be in it? What domain would it host? Surely you don't expect them to have knowledge of every internal network's naming and numbering scheme.
My opinion of Ogg is not rediculous. Ogg is not present in any major consumer electronic device at this point besides a few portable players, nor is it planned for any standards track or inclusion in any major standard.
MP3 and AAC are both standards, they are both used widely in consumer electronics and are supported by or are part of other major standards and technologies.
Ogg will likely never catch on as anything but an open source die-hard's codec. The rest of the world will use AAC or MP3. What I mean by this is that no satellite provider, cable TV operator or television station will ever be broadcating audio in Ogg format.
Why? Nobody's pushing Ogg. Who's sitting down in the board rooms selling Ogg to the executives? Who's putting out the marketing dollars? AAC is likely to be the predominant audio codec, it's already part of other transmission standards (like next generation radio and digital tv broadcasts).
Who's pushing AAC? Dolby, Apple, Sony,. AT&T amond others.
Ogg will survive long enough for it to be unnecessary, then it along with all the other codecs will dissapear from use In the mean time it will enjoy a life with small recording artists, game developers and a cult like following in the general public.
(and yes, I know that Ogg isn't the codec, it's the container. Vorbis is actually the audio codec. To those confused: Ogg is like QuickTime, Vorbis is like MP3 or Sorenson)
-iTunes is available world wide, you can use it to rip CDs in any country. The music store is another issue.
-I'm sorry to hear that you chose a non industry standard to keep your music library in.
-There are several open source apps that will sync music libraries with iPod, myTunes written in Java comes to mind.
-iTunes is not a complete replacement for a PDA, but it does minimize the times you need to carry another device around
-To each their own. While I think it looks neat, I also almost never see it. It's always in my pocket.
iPod isn't for everyone, nothing ever is. Except death.
I didn't say that the iPod had the longest battery life, or that there weren't any players that trumped it in any particular catigory. I just said that the iPod does the best job of compromising between all of those demands of a personal player.
As for your theoretical flight:
Two hour wait: every airport I've been to has publically available power outlets around the terminals. It's trivial to locate and use these to charge/power a laptop, cell phone or iPod. You should even be able to get multiple plug modules for the iPod charger brick so it will work around the world.
Four hour flight: Unless you run the backlight, play games and continually select non-buffered songs to play the iPod should easily last 4 hours from the full charge you got sitting in the terminal. Some airlines are now even offering 12vDC car lighter type adapters to power your electronics in-flight.
Hour drive: The iPod should still have over 1/2 it's power left for this drive, even if your drive takes 3 hours you'll still be listening as you walk in to your hotel room where you can plug-in an recharge to 80% capacity in an hour.
I've also found Apple's battery estimates to be a little conservative with my 1st gen iPod, I regularly got at least 11 hours from it. After 2 years I still get 8 hours from the battery.
You shouldn't pay more just because it has an Apple logo. You should pay more because:
The iPod works with the music store that currently makes about 70% of on-line music sales, works on both major desktop OS platforms, plays the major audio formats (AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF with others possible) for high quality compressed and uncompressed audio, operates as a portable hard drive (bootable for Macs), replaces most of the fuctions of your PDA(calendar, notes, alarm clock, contacts, games) and generally does the best job at melding all the requirements of a portable player; mainly small size, long battery life, easily readable display, fast file transfers, high quality audio amplifier, easy navigation, and the elusive cool/wow factor.
It's long, but gramatically I do thing that qualifies as one sentence.
It's backed by the word of the mint that houses the metals, and the auditing company that measures the amouts on a monthly basis.
For there to be fraud here would require a major conspiracy between the oginizational company, the mint and the auditors. Conspiracy of such magnitude would almost certainly cause some suspicion and investigation by the federal government.
The mint in question does business with the U.S. Mint and other foreign mints, so the probability of fraud there is mighty low in my opinion.
There's a guy that started printing his own money. This is not illegal, ANYONE can print currency and use it for transactions as long as both parties agree to the value of the currency. A good example of this is Disney Dollars or supermarket script.
Anyway... you can use use it to make purchases all the time. His money is backed by actual deposits of gold and silverin an actual warehouse, not debt and guns. The money is widely used for commerce.
If you don't like the Fed and corporations restricting your digital imaging of bank notes, then go take a look and try it out.
*I ma not, nor am I affiliated with norfed, I am not an authorized exchange center and I make not money from the currency, I'm just a happy user of the notes.
It's simple. If it exists in any sort of recorded form (writing, magnetic, phonopgraph, punch card, etc) it's copyrighted. That's the way U.S. copyright law works. You don't have to register a copyright for the work to be protected.
So... if a file exists on a P2P network, it is copyrighted. Whether the item is there with the permission of the copyright holder is another matter all together.
I'm sure this makes a nice battle cry for the uninformed professional protesters out there, but our legislators and police departments have nothing do do with the cases you are referring to. They are NOT criminal cases, they are civil cases. Civil cases are brought by one party against another , directly without any charges, complaints arrests or investigations by any government entity.
Women = 52% of the Unites States' adult (18+) population
Women were responsible for 57% of the money spent on consumer electronics (whatever that really means)
It's "common knowledge" that women do 80% of the shopping.
Hardly seems surprising to me.
What I want to know is what were the questions asked in the survey, what did they consider to be consumer electronics, and who and when they called. Results like this have a tendency to unravel when you start looking at the method of polling and the questions asked.
Anyone have access to the CE website and care to post the plain-text study document here?
A quote from the article
"Last Mother's Day, a Circuit City ad prominently featured one of the sleek TVs in a kitchen."
On Mother's Day, I think one of the last things a mom would want to be reminded of is the anount of time spent in the kitchen.
Two subtle differences. One much more suble than the other.
The obvious one is of course the woman is wearing an iPod.
The second is that the date on the "big screen" is changed. The date is in the lower left portion of the talking head screen, and in the original commercial, it read "1-24-84" in now reads "1-24-04"
Apple has completed some very major improvements to the gcc code base, I don't recall, but I think Apple managed so improve compile times by something like 25%, and code performance of something like 15%. I don't remember where I read those numbers, or how close I am to what I read.
The reason (again from what I've read) that the gcc maintainers are resisting the changes that Apple would really like to make for the G5, is that the changes would fundamentally break many if not most of the other platforms compilers. I admit I don't understand compiler optimization, but apparently the logic that gcc uses for modeling the processor just can't keep up with the number of execution units, registers and/or the number of instructions in flight. I think the way the G5 "groups" instructions in to bundles of 5 for scheduling also throws things off a bit. I've read a few discussions that it's time for GCC to go through some sort of fundamental change that would allow for vastly different acitectures to be supported via plug-ins or modules or something.
Apple could indeed fork gcc, but given their commitment to "giving back" to the open source community, that 's probably not going to happen. Hopefully someone more "in the know" can either confirm or correct some of this. I personally think also that forking something as fundamental as the compiler that's used for almost all open-source software would be a "bad thing".
But there is precedent for the other view. I don't know if you were around in the Quadra/Performa days, but you could install system software for your particular machine, or for all machines.
If you chose for "your machine", you could not move the system folder to another machine and have it boot if the other machine were substantially different.
Granted it was a bit of a mess, but it did provide for a very lean system folder, and increased performance.
You mean it would consume more resources than a complete re-write of the OS from Pascal to C as happened with System 6 to System 7 transition?
I expect that once IBM completes the ObjC compiler that most of the OS will be migrated to that compiler, as will much of the high performance commercial software out there. The developer tools will still come with the free GCC compiler, and Apple will still maintain it, but without changes to the core of GCC (which are being resisted by the maintainers), it will never make the G5 shine.
I have yet to see pricing from IBM on these compilers, so I don't know yet how viable they will be for smaller developers. It might be that developers offer two versions of their software: standard for the regular cost, and the 15%-40% better performance version from the IBM compiler for like 20% higher cost, just so they can recoup their added costs.
If you're a "swinger", you probably use the term playmate in a sexual context quite frequently, but never mean Playmate as in the trademark.
Google would need to allow "playmate" in adWords not related to porn (or insulated food containers), but within porn related ads, could allow it for people searching for sexual playmates, but not to advertize a general "men's entertainment" site.
Now... things get more complicated if you want to use "igloo playmate" to search the internet. Playboy might offer you naked women in snow houses, and igoo of course makes a line of coolers called "Playmate". But then again perhaps you were looking for a children's playhouse in the shape of an igloo that was large enough for a playmate or two.
Now just from "igloo playmate" as a search phrase and common-language, non-infringing use options, how is Google supposed to know what your intended search was, and how can they limit the use of trademarks in adWords?
The initial judge wrote a well thought and poinient opinion, with which I agree. However, I also think that this should go to trial and have all the merits argued in court and a final decision rendered.
With this floating around without an official judgement, there's nothing stopping any compnay from suing anyone who uses the company's plain-word trademark.
THe problem is that the current system favors this approach for smaller companies and individuals. Why spend all that money, time and effort in starting up a company to produce a product, when large competetors will just manage to skirt the patent and put you out of business?
This way you get your patent and your money without much risk.
To connect with the trekkies out there you should quote Kirk when he's confonting Sybok in "The Final Frontier"
"There the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves! I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!!..."
The film and television industries have started making everyone think and look alike, the drug companies will just finish it off.
Slow performance in general is not a bug, what is a bug is the way Apple implimented the data structures for iPhoto.
If you've never looked at them, let me bring you up to speed.
All of the photo information (image file location, thumnail file location (both full pahtnames), size, title, description, import date, modification date) is stored in a plain text XML file. To open iPhoto, the entire flat file must be parsed.
Every time you make a change to a photo in almost any way, the entire flat file must be re-written. This style of file handling is fine for reading infrequently updated data like a list of emails or an application's preference, but it not acceptable for dealing with interactive data.
This is basic program design. No-one I know would ever write a program like this when it's supposed to update the file many times durting a session. Tou do things like that in at worst, linked lists or individual files. Ideally this would all be put in a "true" database via SQL or even something written specifically for the task.
Its interesting that Apple uses a more easily updated binary format for the information about albums and some of the more esoteric information about indivual images, like the EXIF data.
I've got about 1,200 photos in my library, most are not commented. The two data main files from iPhoto are about 1MB and 2.9MB for the XML and binary files repectively. In the XML file, if I remove all the actual data add leave just the XML structure, the file size shrinks to about 1/3 the size (300KB).
Granted, I learned to program in assembly language on a 4KB machine so perhaps I am a little more concious of data structure sizes, but to add over 33% to a file that you'll need to manupulate many times in a session is just careless.
Perhaps you can't call this a "bug", but it is a serious design flaw in the program. I want iPhoto 3 to be updated with better data handling, not because I'm not willing to pay $50 for iLife, but because iPhoto is the only app in iLife that I care about. My beige G3 can't run iDVD or iMovie for squat, it's well below the specs for Garage Band, and iTunes is already free and will continue to be free as long as the music store drives iPod sales.
If I owned a G4 and could use the other apps in iLife, I'd drop $50 in a heartbeat for iPhoto 4 and consider the other apps a nice toy. But I'm not willing to shell out $50 for iPhoto to work the way it should have in the first place.
Since when does HP own the code or the licensing rights to WMA format and codecs? Is HP going to act as some sort of reverse engineering source, then pass on to Apple the specs so Apple can clean-room code a WMA compatible codec?
I can't in anny manner understand why Apple would be working with HP instead od Microsoft to implement WMA.
"I was wondering if it would be possible to put up a world map with broadband internet pricing.
Yes. Everything is possible. This in particular is even rather easy.
The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable.
Of course, the terms DSL and cable are rather nebulous, the bandwidth on these lines varies from 128Kb to 10Mb/s. We'll need to ask what type and what speeds the connections are and if they use proxies, NAT, etc.
I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones."
I thought getting screwed was getting lucky?
What are the best and worst prices in your own area?
I pay $60/month for a Cable modem that I lease, a static and globaly routable IP, and througput of 3.2Mb/640Kb downstream/upstream. I'm in Mesa, AZ, USA.
Perhaps someone handy with graphics can collect some good data points from your comments and create such a beast.
While this is very feasable, it's not going to be easyt to normalize all the data from the posts. It would be neat if someone like broadband reports would provide some simpler/graphic representation of this information.
Flamebait? How the hell is that flaimbait?
We obvioulsy see the world much differenly. Your thinking seems to go along with NASA's and has led to the public's non-understanding, disinterest, and near contempt for the amounts of money spent by NASA on projects that fail or don't perform as planned.
You state that my proposed construction method would be much more expensive than the current ISS method. I would argue that the costs would me much more predictable and managable. Go look up the numbers for the ISS initial projected cost and the final cost. Compare where the project was supposed to be now (11 people living on board) and the surrent state of things (3 people on board, usually). Compared to the stated goals, ISS is a failure and a waste of money.
As for the sensors, I don't understand why you keep saying things like "...sensing units and pressure maintenance units are not tied together...". I never stated that these units are or should be tied together. I've stated several times that there should be multiple independent sensors and controllers for cabin pressure. The redundant monitoring sensors should be separate and isolated from the control sensors, which should in turn be separate and isolated from the gas flow sensors and the tank pressure sensors. This scheme gives four points of fault isolaiton, and automated control over faults that you don't seem able to predict. Your wriring seems to indicate you can only forsee two failure scenareos: slow insignificant leak, and catastrophic breach causing instant death. There are more scenareos between those two that the system you define can not handle in a manner that would preserve life and the mission.
In my layout, the problems are taken care of in an automated fasion, AND humans are alerted to the issue at the same time. There is nothing about this setup that is lesser than the current one you define.
As for plate on frame not being very good for pressure vessels: that's essentially what the space station is right now. It's just more of a foil than a plate. The "plates" in a more standardized construction would not have to be solid metal. We have these wonderful composite materials like carbon fiber, fiberglass, kevlar, etc. Used in layers youl could build a larger uninterrupted volume that would be safer and easier to temperature control.
I just went to the doom9 site and it seems to be all about informing people about how to rip and back up DVDs they own. Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time there though. Why exactly would publishing this info make these people, or those who visit it experts in streaming audio/video codecs?
Wouldn't it be a better idea to have developed the codecs with a community of A/V experts or web content producers?
In my limited view, this statement seems about like: "We at Yugo have developed our new car with close consultation of car wash operators." The one has nothing to do with the other.