“Apple has a long history of technical innovation around DVD hardware and software, and their support of the Blu-ray Disc format is a testament to their commitment of ongoing innovation. The Blu-ray Disc format provides the immense capacity and the revolutionary functionality that Apple’s loyal customer base will be sure to enjoy,” said Maureen Weber, chief BDA spokesperson and general manager of HP's Optical Storage Solutions Business. “We’re thrilled about Apple joining our 16-member board, and we look forward to working with them on the development and promotion of the Blu-ray Disc format.”
...given that USB 2.0 (480MBits) was 40 times faster than USB 1.x (12MBits);-)
[)amien
Pedestrian with good atmosphere
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BioShock Review
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· Score: 1
The atomosphere, storyline, city and graphics are all superb but as soon as you find yourself alternating between breaking open crates and popping off another enemy with exactly the same face, behaviour and voice as the previous 10 you feel in very familiar territory, i.e. every fps you've played in the last 10 years. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game, Half-Life/2, Max Payne/2 and the others of this formula, I just wish it could have dared to do something a little different.
Every battle should be worth fighting, not just another identical body between you and the cutscenes.
The Reichstag Fire Decree in 1933 Germany granted the government additional temporary powers to fight terrorism at the expense of its citizens civil liberties and due process.
This decree was one of the keys steps that led Adolf Hitler to the one-party dictatorship that ultimately culminated in World War II resulting in the death of some 60 million people.
I had an Epson C86 which I loaded with a full set of colour and black cartridges then proceeded to print over 200 pages of mono text making sure that "black only" was set.
Before the end of the run the ink ran out and I switched out my empty black ink and clicked OK.
The printer however would not print.
It's excuse was that my colour ink was also empty.
Not only is this a blatent lie - it hadn't printed a single drop and the cartridges were still full - but it would absolutely not print a single "black only" page without three new colour cartridges.
That's when I got rid of it and marked Epson down as a company I'll never deal with again.
>1) The prisoners elect one of their own to be a counter, the rest we will call non-counters.
And how exactly do they do that, with no form of communication in their sound padded rooms?
[)amien
Re:This sort of thing...
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RIAA Sues a Child
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A friend of mine asked my opinion on a DVD he was about to purchase. At my suggestion he came to my house and watched it. He subsequently decided it wasn't worth purchase.
So in effect I have deprived artists and studios of potential income too.
As does every reviewer who dissuades a potential purchaser.
If we are saying it is perfectly acceptable to sue anyone who takes potential income from you then society would be in a lot of trouble. The lottery would have to go, as would interviewing for jobs....
I think you are forgetting that Microsoft didn't have any GUI under development when Apple gave them Mac developer kits for them to write Office for the Mac.
Apple had given Xerox shares in exchange for just a demo of what they had achieved at PARC.
I brought this printer a while back and it has two very annoying features aimed at making you spend as much money as possible on ink you are not using.
The first is that the printer will not print at all with a missing or empty colou cartridge (there are three), even if you just want black prints.
This could be quite annoying on it's own however the real killer is the next one.
I put a brand new set of colour cartridges in to satisfy the printer, and no small cost. I then printed about 150-200 pages of pure black text pages ensuring the special option in the driver had "black only" set.
The printer ran out of ink and I promptly replaced the black cartridge. The printer however was now telling me all three colour cartridges were empty despite me not printing a single dot. A quick shake of the cartridges revealed they were still full.
Apparently the cartridges contain a chip that is supposed to keep an eye on the ink level.
It would seem it intentionally decreases the amount per page, regardless of whether it was used in a vain and stupid attempt to exert more money for overpriced ink.
>IBM is now something like two years behind on its promised 3 Ghz chips.
It's one year overdue and while they haven't delivered on that promise they have increased their clock speed at a better rate (2.0 to 2.7) than Intel has with the P4 during the same period (3.2 to 3.8 GHz).
2. Laptops
I believe the G5 would be fine in the same sort of big, heavy and hot package that P4 laptops are acceptible in. They are not however acceptible to Apple that has a tradition of thin, stylish laptops with good battery life.
I grant you that Intel's Pentium M would however be attractive if compatibility were not an issue.
3. Cost
Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for The Envisioneering Group, in Seaford, N.Y., told Ziff Davis Internet News;
"...Apple certainly pays much less for IBM and Freescale processors than Intel charges for comparable chips. Probably less than half as much on average."
4. Emulation
It is very inefficient to emulate a RISC processor with it's small fast instructions on a CISC system. The PowerPC also has many more registers than x86. You'd be lucky to see 400MHz G3 performance on a 3.8GHz P4.
Sony are going IBM PPC with the Cell processor, even Microsoft are abandoning Intel to go IBM PPC with the X-Box 2 to get the best performance they can.
Intel are lagging behind AMD in the performance steaks on the PC.
Why the hell would Apple throw away binary compatibility, their user base and the most promising architecture around to go with the one lagging at the back?
More about this on my blog, posted before this/. article...
Why do you predict the answer is no for backwards compatibility with the X-Box 1?
Microsoft own a little piece of software called Virtual PC for Macintosh that lets x86 code run on the Power PC chip.
Sure it's a little sluggish on G4 systems but the triple core 3.2GHz PowerPC they announced should surely be able to reach 700MHz Celeron speeds.
The only real issue is emulating the Nvidia video extensions either in s/w or on the ATI card. Nvidia already seem miffed over loosing the XBox 2 deal so they may not be co-operative with details or patents...
I've recently been using Subversion as a backup solution at home with great success.
My server runs it's own SVN repository and each of my machines can check in it's important files into the tree.
This backup solution is quick and thanks to tools like TortoiseSVN integrates into the desktop for ease of use.
Additional bonus factors are the ability to see the revision history, roll-back, full cross-platform support.
You can also manage multiple copies of the same file to multiple machines should you need to work on them or just want additional resilience.
The real icing of the cake of course is that you can run it over SSL via Apache or over SSH and therefore remotely access your backed-up files from out on the Internet should you suddenly need an invoice or a photograph while sitting in a net cafe in a foreign country.
Oh, and it's free by both definitions. http://subversion.tigris.org
Slashdot Mirror
People believe Apple famously avoids Blu-Ray? In 2005 they were backing it over the competing HD-DVD format. To quote their press release at http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/mar/10blu-ray.html
“Apple has a long history of technical innovation around DVD hardware and software, and their support of the Blu-ray Disc format is a testament to their commitment of ongoing innovation. The Blu-ray Disc format provides the immense capacity and the revolutionary functionality that Apple’s loyal customer base will be sure to enjoy,” said Maureen Weber, chief BDA spokesperson and general manager of HP's Optical Storage Solutions Business. “We’re thrilled about Apple joining our 16-member board, and we look forward to working with them on the development and promotion of the Blu-ray Disc format.”
...given that USB 2.0 (480MBits) was 40 times faster than USB 1.x (12MBits) ;-)
[)amien
The atomosphere, storyline, city and graphics are all superb but as soon as you find yourself alternating between breaking open crates and popping off another enemy with exactly the same face, behaviour and voice as the previous 10 you feel in very familiar territory, i.e. every fps you've played in the last 10 years. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game, Half-Life/2, Max Payne/2 and the others of this formula, I just wish it could have dared to do something a little different.
Every battle should be worth fighting, not just another identical body between you and the cutscenes.
[)amien
The Reichstag Fire Decree in 1933 Germany granted the government additional temporary powers to fight terrorism at the expense of its citizens civil liberties and due process.
This decree was one of the keys steps that led Adolf Hitler to the one-party dictatorship that ultimately culminated in World War II resulting in the death of some 60 million people.
I had an Epson C86 which I loaded with a full set of colour and black cartridges then proceeded to print over 200 pages of mono text making sure that "black only" was set.
Before the end of the run the ink ran out and I switched out my empty black ink and clicked OK.
The printer however would not print.
It's excuse was that my colour ink was also empty.
Not only is this a blatent lie - it hadn't printed a single drop and the cartridges were still full - but it would absolutely not print a single "black only" page without three new colour cartridges.
That's when I got rid of it and marked Epson down as a company I'll never deal with again.
I've an original Model M (keyspring), a Mattias Pro (Alps switch) and a Das Keyboard II (Cherry switch).
The Das Keyboard II is nicer to type on than the IBM imho...
Seeing as EFI supports drivers and that the OS is to sit on top of EFI any rootkits there could hide whatever they wanted from your OS....
Unless of course your OS exposes the EFI configuration and drivers too...
[)
Check out http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpyEnterpri se.cfm
"Microsoft shares their spyware definitions with Sunbelt, but SunBelt uses the threat information differently."
That would mean SunBelt haven't violated any EULA's and that the lawsuit should be aimed at Microsoft...
>1) The prisoners elect one of their own to be a counter, the rest we will call non-counters.
And how exactly do they do that, with no form of communication in their sound padded rooms?
[)amien
A friend of mine asked my opinion on a DVD he was about to purchase. At my suggestion he came to my house and watched it. He subsequently decided it wasn't worth purchase.
So in effect I have deprived artists and studios of potential income too.
As does every reviewer who dissuades a potential purchaser.
If we are saying it is perfectly acceptable to sue anyone who takes potential income from you then society would be in a lot of trouble. The lottery would have to go, as would interviewing for jobs....
IIS6 already has an XML based configuration system as standard.
Apache does NOT have XML configuration files.
As far as I know Apache won't load new modules without a restart.
I think you are forgetting that Microsoft didn't have any GUI under development when Apple gave them Mac developer kits for them to write Office for the Mac.
Apple had given Xerox shares in exchange for just a demo of what they had achieved at PARC.
Microsoft did not give Apple or Xerox anything.
Here's another site with the images:
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http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/categor
I normally print 1-5 pages a month.
This just happened to be a big job printing wedding invites for my sisters wedding.
[)amien
I brought this printer a while back and it has two very annoying features aimed at making you spend as much money as possible on ink you are not using.
The first is that the printer will not print at all with a missing or empty colou cartridge (there are three), even if you just want black prints.
This could be quite annoying on it's own however the real killer is the next one.
I put a brand new set of colour cartridges in to satisfy the printer, and no small cost. I then printed about 150-200 pages of pure black text pages ensuring the special option in the driver had "black only" set.
The printer ran out of ink and I promptly replaced the black cartridge. The printer however was now telling me all three colour cartridges were empty despite me not printing a single dot. A quick shake of the cartridges revealed they were still full.
Apparently the cartridges contain a chip that is supposed to keep an eye on the ink level.
It would seem it intentionally decreases the amount per page, regardless of whether it was used in a vain and stupid attempt to exert more money for overpriced ink.
I think I'll go for a laser.
No, Motorola spun off their PPC business to FreeScale http://www.freescale.com/ who produce the G4 chips used in PowerBooks, eMac, iBooks.
They also have a roadmap for faster G4 processors.
>IBM is now something like two years behind on its promised 3 Ghz chips.
It's one year overdue and while they haven't delivered on that promise they have increased their clock speed at a better rate (2.0 to 2.7) than Intel has with the P4 during the same period (3.2 to 3.8 GHz).
2. Laptops
I believe the G5 would be fine in the same sort of big, heavy and hot package that P4 laptops are acceptible in. They are not however acceptible to Apple that has a tradition of thin, stylish laptops with good battery life.
I grant you that Intel's Pentium M would however be attractive if compatibility were not an issue.
3. Cost
Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for The Envisioneering Group, in Seaford, N.Y., told Ziff Davis Internet News;
"...Apple certainly pays much less for IBM and Freescale processors than Intel charges for comparable chips. Probably less than half as much on average."
4. Emulation
It is very inefficient to emulate a RISC processor with it's small fast instructions on a CISC system. The PowerPC also has many more registers than x86. You'd be lucky to see 400MHz G3 performance on a 3.8GHz P4.
Sony are going IBM PPC with the Cell processor, even Microsoft are abandoning Intel to go IBM PPC with the X-Box 2 to get the best performance they can.
/. article...
Intel are lagging behind AMD in the performance steaks on the PC.
Why the hell would Apple throw away binary compatibility, their user base and the most promising architecture around to go with the one lagging at the back?
More about this on my blog, posted before this
Why do you predict the answer is no for backwards compatibility with the X-Box 1?
Microsoft own a little piece of software called Virtual PC for Macintosh that lets x86 code run on the Power PC chip.
Sure it's a little sluggish on G4 systems but the triple core 3.2GHz PowerPC they announced should surely be able to reach 700MHz Celeron speeds.
The only real issue is emulating the Nvidia video extensions either in s/w or on the ATI card. Nvidia already seem miffed over loosing the XBox 2 deal so they may not be co-operative with details or patents...
I've been accessing gMail for all my mail solidly for the last couple of months.
I've not seen any server messages within the last few days. That doesn't mean there aren't any but it's worth investigating your own end too.
[)amien
The binary files I use don't tend to change very often with the exception of Office documents.
;-)
I'll check out that exploit before I open up my svn to the outside world
No, it's a source control system for files, not a disk imaging system.
I've recently been using Subversion as a backup solution at home with great success.
My server runs it's own SVN repository and each of my machines can check in it's important files into the tree.
This backup solution is quick and thanks to tools like TortoiseSVN integrates into the desktop for ease of use.
Additional bonus factors are the ability to see the revision history, roll-back, full cross-platform support.
You can also manage multiple copies of the same file to multiple machines should you need to work on them or just want additional resilience.
The real icing of the cake of course is that you can run it over SSL via Apache or over SSH and therefore remotely access your backed-up files from out on the Internet should you suddenly need an invoice or a photograph while sitting in a net cafe in a foreign country.
Oh, and it's free by both definitions. http://subversion.tigris.org
Yes, thats right.
If you can't independently examine and verify your "proof" then how can it be considered proof of anything?
Is that when series 2 starts we find out Eccleston never really was the doctor when McGann shows up.
;-)
After all we've not seen McGann generate into Eccleston...
Thus saving one more precious generation