WOW! I've seen discussion after discussion how AA is better than regular font, but I never gave it much thought and acknowledge that they were right, but after comparing the images side by side I was blown away. I have an iMac (come one, let it out, let me have it) and I've always loved how the screen looks, but I didn't know that THAT was AA. It's just so much cleaner, crisper, easier on the eyes. Why WOULDN'T a desktop default to AA fonts? I'm starting to hate Sans Serrif font now.
Come on people, ya'll ought to know that Robotech is what opened up a lot of youngester's eyes, including myself. I ought to get a PhD is Robotechnology since I've read every book, seen every video, studied Tirol's history, including the Seeders and Karbarrans. Come on, my server is named SDF-1 and my network domain is Macross. My screen saver and wallpaper are Robotech and I've been playing the Robotech: Battle Cry on my X-Box for weeks now.
There is big money ($$$) to be made if someone can make a Tivo-like device for home and car radios. This device will enable home users to record talk shows at specific times without user intervention, just like the Tivo so we can fast forward past commercials, also to enable the archiving of the program to our computer in different formats so we can take them on the go on our MP3 players. This same one device will be compatible with a device that will be installed in our cars that will enable us to play the recorded shows from our home/pc device/program. The car Tivo-like radio will provide a 30-minute buffer and an 8-second rewind function and, as stated before, to play our recordings from another device encoder, and maybe add additional data to the storage medium to eject it from the car device player and take it with us.
We know we all like listening to talk shows, NPR, Rush Limbaugh, lawyer or home and garden shows, including ART BELL's Coast-To-Coast (I know, Art is gone, but I still feel it's Art's baby) for use day-walkers who can't stay up at night and listen about the latest government conspiracy or alien abduction.
You could use WinBatch to do all the keyboard and mouse movement automation. It's a very slick, albeit archaic, way to schedule redundant and tedious tasks that have no other way to be automated.
ME TOO!!! I LOVE GRAFFITI!!!! It's great! It took me minutes how to use it! I like the fact that the machine didn't have to recognize every way the letter A could be written lowercase or captitalized. Palm laid down the law and it was great and fast. I been using a Palm since 1997 using my Palm II and have graduated since then, I still use a Palm. I remeber taking it EVERYWHERE and being on the bleeding edge of techno-geek-dom getting the OHHH-AWWWs from everyone. I LOVE IT!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the CC Radio VersaCorder. It's not digital, but it does record FM and AM shows. You tell it the time and it records at 1/4 speed, so you can record those 3 or 4 hours shows on one side. And if you want to listen to it on the go, you use the player which plays the 1/4 speed tapes. It is not digital and it doesn't have a built-in tuner, but hook it up to a radio, or any other device, like a phone to record conversations. C. Crane makes many different products for radios so you might want to take a look at their.
As a long time ColdFusion programmer, since 1995 with ColdFusion 1.5, I've doing some great work with it and my last project I had to us it in a Solaris/Apache environment. It is a little more tricker to get it running in *nix than Windoze, but it works just the same. CF is just sooooo much easier and faster to work with than PHP/ASP, but just sooooo powerful. Now with MX on Java, it just gets better because it is more compatible and can communicate with many more servers and services. I already have an iMac with OS X and now I can do some work with Apache and just add it to my skillset.
I bought an Epson 777 over a year ago, could be two now, but it a long time. Anywho, it came with free ing, black and color. When it came time to refill I almost broke the bank getting refills. One day I had gotten some spam about cheap ink, who doesn't get this e-mail at least once a week. But, I was ticked off at finding the prices as high as they were, so I clicked on the spam at went to the site and found GREAT prices on black and color ink, so I ordered both for less than the cost of one Epson refill cartridge. When I recieved my order I noticed that I could not use the ink because they had no chip. I then went back to the website and found a little device that resets the existing chips on the old cartridge and then let's me take it off and put it on the new generic cartridge. It was about between $15-$20, i forgot, but it came with free black and white ink. It worked PERFECTLY! I figured, buying the mod chipper would save me money in the long run even though I had to plunk down extra $$$ to get it, but it works great!!! When I run low on ink I just reorder the cheap cartridges with no chips, take the chip off the old cartridge, reset it in this small device and out it in the new cartridge and start printing away.
I think I'm going to keep this printer for a long time and then when I decide to get a new one I'll sell this one along with the mod chipper and how ever buys it from me will get the deal of a lifetime.
This just hit me, if both light and gravity travel at about the same speed then there must be some commonality. There must be some force or reason that they cannot exceed that limit, and if we are able to define and discover what is prohibiting faster speed limits then we, as in humans, should be able to create a device to enable faster than light (FTL) travel. Maybe that's where warping space might come into play, it's been seen that science fiction becomes science fact.
In 200 millions years from now there should be a new dominant species. I think that is time enough for either dolphins, including porposis (sp?), and/or other primates to evolve into the new dominant species. How long did it take humans? Didn't we hear just a few days ago of a chimp that has about a four word language. That language developed independently and might even be just the beginning. Maybe dum damn dirty apes will be ruling when humans come crashing down again and meeting Dr. Zaues and Troy McCluer.
Yes, you are correct. We all remember the.INI files on Win 3.1 and 95 until the registry was the prefered way. I like having all my configuration settings in one location, the registry, but it is a bitch to get your settings across your environment to make each setting manually or export and import your registry setting, or the way MS is going, to just copy the configuration file in XML format. I think XML configuration files will make it a lot easier to understand and create GUI configuration tools without having to resort to some string parse like Perl, with all of it's experience and wisdom. (Hey, I know where to pay homage to when it is due!)
This sound's like Micro$oft's attempt to keep the news of OSS acceptance into the world at bay, and if not then to debunk it's worth in the eyes of the news savy readers. Joe User doesn't give a rat's @ss about this, but one day he will finally see something different of the shelves and the advertisement flyer's of CompUSA and Best Buy that wasn't there before. The readers of/. already know the benefits of OSS and Linux, but Joe User will need to be kicked and dragged to see the light, and it will burn.
Everyone knows that OSS will be more wide accepted when the user will not have to decrypt configuration files. It might, and I repeat, MIGHT be better to go to an XML based configuration file so they could also be editable through a, dare I say it, GUI? Don't flame me, but most people, including I prefer to use GUIs since it's almost idiot proof so I don't miss-type that comma or underscore. We also know how powerful the command line is when we know what we want. Again, Joe User doesn't want to see a command line. I don't much about cars, but I can drive my truck all day long, refill with gas and continue of my way. That's the way Joe User wants it, and should be. I prefer Linux because it has many many more knobs for me to tweak to my liking.
Anywho, let me get back to the path about MS trying to subvert the truth about OSS. OSS will be more widely accpetable when Joe Admin User can configure his machines easier with a GUI instead of configuration files and look-n-feel feels more "professional" and maybe more high-tech looking instead of the Fisher Price look-n-feel. Yes, eye candy does go a long way.
I always thought that the future of Max Headroom was very bleak, but impossible to achieve, until I heard about this yesterday on NPR. Just a few conglomerates controlling the information that is filtered to us, which one will end up being called "Network 23". Great, now we are going to get commercials, called Blipverts, high-speed commercials condensed into a few seconds, that prevent channel-changing and embed themselves in viewers' minds. Unfortunately, these commercials have one tiny side effect -- sometimes they cause viewers to explode.
Great, this way my wife could explode and I could get to play my PC, X Box, and PS2 all day !!
As I said, the Archos MP3 player works GREAT under Linux. When I connect it via USB it automatically loads and is mounted. I have to admit it, it works better under Linux than under Windows because I didn't need to load any drivers.
I totally agree!!! I consider myself and ubergeek and didn't need much convincing, but I was pretty offset about the initial price and subscription fee. Then my neighbor had gotten a Tivo and after a while I finally had gone over for dinner that their house after my wife was telling me all about it. Well, after an evening of dinner and television I was asking questions all night about it and asking "Can it do {insert your feature there} ?", I was hooked. I read all about it and then bought one new on E-bay. For a while before I had gotten the TIVO, I thought, "what do I need this for"?, but now I can't imagine myself without it. It is just night and day.
Granted, it took a small engineering feat to get it working with my current A/V setup and wiring, but after that was done it was a breeze, except for the waiting and waiting for the indexing, GOD THAT SUCKED! So then as time went by as friends came over I would immediately show off our Tivo, and they got hooked. My niece would stay with us and got so hooked on Tivo that when she gets home she tries to pause or fast forward her own television without realizing that she's at home with a regular television. We have the same psychological problem when watching television in the bedroom. So now, we have decided to get a Tivo for the bedroom. I've already upgraded the hard drive to a 80 GB and works GREAT!
BTW, my wife is sooooooo not technical and hates computers and anything electronic, but she LOVES Tivo. It's like a phone, you can't imagine life without it. Anyone how I've given the remote to can easily operate Tivo with it's simple VCR like control and the easy on-screen navigation. The season pass is great, but not perfect. I wish there was an Advance mode where us power users could get a Season Pass for a show without recording every episode on every channel, but get to select on what days and channels to get a Season Pass only, for example, X-files in on both Sci-Fi and FX, we might only care for one channel. Also, think about The Simpsons, I might only want to record Sunday nights because I've already seen every episode and they show new episodes on Sundays.
So, in summary,
1 - Yes, those with a Tivo will get additional units into the home as do PC owners.
2 - Even grandma and techno-phobes can use Tivo, but might need a helping hand installing it, maybe Best Buy can offer a small installation fee to come to your house. But, I don't know if this is feasible, maybe an instructional video will help, but isn't that what the instruction booklet is for?
3 - PVRs are not toys but are and will become standard home applicances, such as the microwave oven. People didn't think much about them, now you can't live without them.
4 - People do buy Tivo from experience through friends/relatives.
5 - And finally, Tivo is not perfect, but it is getting better.
Yeah, the KGB finds the posts, arrests you, and sends you to prision in Siberia.
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GIMMIE GIMMIE! I need it! I've been at work since last night, all through the wee hours listening to talk radio with Art Bell, and I'm getting the shakes here at 11:00 a.m. I'm still have to put in a full days work today and I'm starting to hallucinate!
WTF, what is a cow doing in my cubicle?!
Seriously, this would be a great benefit to use computer nerds/programmers/technicians!
You shall not pass. I shall NOT read the spoilers and become corrupted. Behind me Satan, and may Jebus be my light. HE should confound the critics so that they may not reveal what will lay hidden until that fateful day of reckoning comes to pass later this month at the local theater.
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WOW! I've seen discussion after discussion how AA is better than regular font, but I never gave it much thought and acknowledge that they were right, but after comparing the images side by side I was blown away. I have an iMac (come one, let it out, let me have it) and I've always loved how the screen looks, but I didn't know that THAT was AA. It's just so much cleaner, crisper, easier on the eyes. Why WOULDN'T a desktop default to AA fonts? I'm starting to hate Sans Serrif font now.
Come on people, ya'll ought to know that Robotech is what opened up a lot of youngester's eyes, including myself. I ought to get a PhD is Robotechnology since I've read every book, seen every video, studied Tirol's history, including the Seeders and Karbarrans. Come on, my server is named SDF-1 and my network domain is Macross. My screen saver and wallpaper are Robotech and I've been playing the Robotech: Battle Cry on my X-Box for weeks now.
This story should be moderated as REDUNDANT!
There is big money ($$$) to be made if someone can make a Tivo-like device for home and car radios. This device will enable home users to record talk shows at specific times without user intervention, just like the Tivo so we can fast forward past commercials, also to enable the archiving of the program to our computer in different formats so we can take them on the go on our MP3 players. This same one device will be compatible with a device that will be installed in our cars that will enable us to play the recorded shows from our home/pc device/program. The car Tivo-like radio will provide a 30-minute buffer and an 8-second rewind function and, as stated before, to play our recordings from another device encoder, and maybe add additional data to the storage medium to eject it from the car device player and take it with us.
We know we all like listening to talk shows, NPR, Rush Limbaugh, lawyer or home and garden shows, including ART BELL's Coast-To-Coast (I know, Art is gone, but I still feel it's Art's baby) for use day-walkers who can't stay up at night and listen about the latest government conspiracy or alien abduction.
You could use WinBatch to do all the keyboard and mouse movement automation. It's a very slick, albeit archaic, way to schedule redundant and tedious tasks that have no other way to be automated.
ME TOO!!! I LOVE GRAFFITI!!!! It's great! It took me minutes how to use it! I like the fact that the machine didn't have to recognize every way the letter A could be written lowercase or captitalized. Palm laid down the law and it was great and fast. I been using a Palm since 1997 using my Palm II and have graduated since then, I still use a Palm. I remeber taking it EVERYWHERE and being on the bleeding edge of techno-geek-dom getting the OHHH-AWWWs from everyone. I LOVE IT!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the CC Radio VersaCorder. It's not digital, but it does record FM and AM shows. You tell it the time and it records at 1/4 speed, so you can record those 3 or 4 hours shows on one side. And if you want to listen to it on the go, you use the player which plays the 1/4 speed tapes. It is not digital and it doesn't have a built-in tuner, but hook it up to a radio, or any other device, like a phone to record conversations. C. Crane makes many different products for radios so you might want to take a look at their .
It was about between $15-$20, i forgot, but it came with free black and white ink.
Man, I've got to get me some of those black and white cartridges.
Okay, okay, it was a typo. I busted a gut when I read your reply. I deserved it. It should have read, "free black and color ink"
As a long time ColdFusion programmer, since 1995 with ColdFusion 1.5, I've doing some great work with it and my last project I had to us it in a Solaris/Apache environment. It is a little more tricker to get it running in *nix than Windoze, but it works just the same. CF is just sooooo much easier and faster to work with than PHP/ASP, but just sooooo powerful. Now with MX on Java, it just gets better because it is more compatible and can communicate with many more servers and services. I already have an iMac with OS X and now I can do some work with Apache and just add it to my skillset.
See my reply here about the Epson chips.
I bought an Epson 777 over a year ago, could be two now, but it a long time. Anywho, it came with free ing, black and color. When it came time to refill I almost broke the bank getting refills. One day I had gotten some spam about cheap ink, who doesn't get this e-mail at least once a week. But, I was ticked off at finding the prices as high as they were, so I clicked on the spam at went to the site and found GREAT prices on black and color ink, so I ordered both for less than the cost of one Epson refill cartridge. When I recieved my order I noticed that I could not use the ink because they had no chip. I then went back to the website and found a little device that resets the existing chips on the old cartridge and then let's me take it off and put it on the new generic cartridge. It was about between $15-$20, i forgot, but it came with free black and white ink. It worked PERFECTLY! I figured, buying the mod chipper would save me money in the long run even though I had to plunk down extra $$$ to get it, but it works great!!! When I run low on ink I just reorder the cheap cartridges with no chips, take the chip off the old cartridge, reset it in this small device and out it in the new cartridge and start printing away.
I think I'm going to keep this printer for a long time and then when I decide to get a new one I'll sell this one along with the mod chipper and how ever buys it from me will get the deal of a lifetime.
This just hit me, if both light and gravity travel at about the same speed then there must be some commonality. There must be some force or reason that they cannot exceed that limit, and if we are able to define and discover what is prohibiting faster speed limits then we, as in humans, should be able to create a device to enable faster than light (FTL) travel. Maybe that's where warping space might come into play, it's been seen that science fiction becomes science fact.
Just my $0.02.
In 200 millions years from now there should be a new dominant species. I think that is time enough for either dolphins, including porposis (sp?), and/or other primates to evolve into the new dominant species. How long did it take humans? Didn't we hear just a few days ago of a chimp that has about a four word language. That language developed independently and might even be just the beginning. Maybe dum damn dirty apes will be ruling when humans come crashing down again and meeting Dr. Zaues and Troy McCluer.
Yes, you are correct. We all remember the .INI files on Win 3.1 and 95 until the registry was the prefered way. I like having all my configuration settings in one location, the registry, but it is a bitch to get your settings across your environment to make each setting manually or export and import your registry setting, or the way MS is going, to just copy the configuration file in XML format. I think XML configuration files will make it a lot easier to understand and create GUI configuration tools without having to resort to some string parse like Perl, with all of it's experience and wisdom. (Hey, I know where to pay homage to when it is due!)
This sound's like Micro$oft's attempt to keep the news of OSS acceptance into the world at bay, and if not then to debunk it's worth in the eyes of the news savy readers. Joe User doesn't give a rat's @ss about this, but one day he will finally see something different of the shelves and the advertisement flyer's of CompUSA and Best Buy that wasn't there before. The readers of /. already know the benefits of OSS and Linux, but Joe User will need to be kicked and dragged to see the light, and it will burn.
Everyone knows that OSS will be more wide accepted when the user will not have to decrypt configuration files. It might, and I repeat, MIGHT be better to go to an XML based configuration file so they could also be editable through a, dare I say it, GUI? Don't flame me, but most people, including I prefer to use GUIs since it's almost idiot proof so I don't miss-type that comma or underscore. We also know how powerful the command line is when we know what we want. Again, Joe User doesn't want to see a command line. I don't much about cars, but I can drive my truck all day long, refill with gas and continue of my way. That's the way Joe User wants it, and should be. I prefer Linux because it has many many more knobs for me to tweak to my liking.
Anywho, let me get back to the path about MS trying to subvert the truth about OSS. OSS will be more widely accpetable when Joe Admin User can configure his machines easier with a GUI instead of configuration files and look-n-feel feels more "professional" and maybe more high-tech looking instead of the Fisher Price look-n-feel. Yes, eye candy does go a long way.
Now... I am ready for your bashing.
Please GOD, let this be the first post.
BTW, Micro$oft needs to get a life.
I always thought that the future of Max Headroom was very bleak, but impossible to achieve, until I heard about this yesterday on NPR. Just a few conglomerates controlling the information that is filtered to us, which one will end up being called "Network 23". Great, now we are going to get commercials, called Blipverts, high-speed commercials condensed into a few seconds, that prevent channel-changing and embed themselves in viewers' minds. Unfortunately, these commercials have one tiny side effect -- sometimes they cause viewers to explode.
Great, this way my wife could explode and I could get to play my PC, X Box, and PS2 all day !!
As I said, the Archos MP3 player works GREAT under Linux. When I connect it via USB it automatically loads and is mounted. I have to admit it, it works better under Linux than under Windows because I didn't need to load any drivers.
I totally agree!!! I consider myself and ubergeek and didn't need much convincing, but I was pretty offset about the initial price and subscription fee. Then my neighbor had gotten a Tivo and after a while I finally had gone over for dinner that their house after my wife was telling me all about it. Well, after an evening of dinner and television I was asking questions all night about it and asking "Can it do {insert your feature there} ?", I was hooked. I read all about it and then bought one new on E-bay. For a while before I had gotten the TIVO, I thought, "what do I need this for"?, but now I can't imagine myself without it. It is just night and day.
Granted, it took a small engineering feat to get it working with my current A/V setup and wiring, but after that was done it was a breeze, except for the waiting and waiting for the indexing, GOD THAT SUCKED! So then as time went by as friends came over I would immediately show off our Tivo, and they got hooked. My niece would stay with us and got so hooked on Tivo that when she gets home she tries to pause or fast forward her own television without realizing that she's at home with a regular television. We have the same psychological problem when watching television in the bedroom. So now, we have decided to get a Tivo for the bedroom. I've already upgraded the hard drive to a 80 GB and works GREAT!
BTW, my wife is sooooooo not technical and hates computers and anything electronic, but she LOVES Tivo. It's like a phone, you can't imagine life without it. Anyone how I've given the remote to can easily operate Tivo with it's simple VCR like control and the easy on-screen navigation. The season pass is great, but not perfect. I wish there was an Advance mode where us power users could get a Season Pass for a show without recording every episode on every channel, but get to select on what days and channels to get a Season Pass only, for example, X-files in on both Sci-Fi and FX, we might only care for one channel. Also, think about The Simpsons, I might only want to record Sunday nights because I've already seen every episode and they show new episodes on Sundays.
So, in summary,
1 - Yes, those with a Tivo will get additional units into the home as do PC owners.
2 - Even grandma and techno-phobes can use Tivo, but might need a helping hand installing it, maybe Best Buy can offer a small installation fee to come to your house. But, I don't know if this is feasible, maybe an instructional video will help, but isn't that what the instruction booklet is for?
3 - PVRs are not toys but are and will become standard home applicances, such as the microwave oven. People didn't think much about them, now you can't live without them.
4 - People do buy Tivo from experience through friends/relatives.
5 - And finally, Tivo is not perfect, but it is getting better.
Yeah, the KGB finds the posts, arrests you, and sends you to prision in Siberia.
GIMMIE GIMMIE! I need it! I've been at work since last night, all through the wee hours listening to talk radio with Art Bell, and I'm getting the shakes here at 11:00 a.m. I'm still have to put in a full days work today and I'm starting to hallucinate!
WTF, what is a cow doing in my cubicle?!
Seriously, this would be a great benefit to use computer nerds/programmers/technicians!
Looks like Mr. Burns' director, Spielbergo, did this movie with an alien that happens to have human compatible sperm to impregnate a terran women.
Oh, also, if they were soooo smart why did they crash, twice?!
You shall not pass. I shall NOT read the spoilers and become corrupted. Behind me Satan, and may Jebus be my light. HE should confound the critics so that they may not reveal what will lay hidden until that fateful day of reckoning comes to pass later this month at the local theater.
I got addicted to RPG by playing Zillion and then graduated to the Phantasy Star saga.
She sounded soooooo unintelligent. I never used "like" at all. No, I do not have ANY children. I do have a teenage niece who is very intelligent.