The Neuros Audio Computers are incredibly sweet, and smartly designed. How smartly designed?
* The firmware is open source right from the developers. It's also Linux friendly as a storage device, and there's an open-source sync manager for putting on songs into the database. * It plays the usual formats plus Ogg/Vorbis. Records in WAV and MP3 off the internal mic, or there's a line-in plug. * It's modular. Pop the controller out and plug it in to a bigger (or just different) hard drive, or a flash memory cradle, while keeping all your settings. * It broadcasts FM without fancy add-ons. * The playlist manager isn't bad either. Reads ID3 tag info, sorts by title, album, genre, etc. I think it even pays attention to ReplayGain info. * 6 different bookmarks available at the touch of a button. * A hard-lockout switch to freeze the controls without navigating a menu. * A decent battery replacement policy.
In fact, the only downside to this audio gem that I can find is that I bought it... for my wife.
You could have cigarettes in a black pack with a skull and crossbones on the front called "Tumors" and smokers would be lining up around the corner to by them...
As I understand it, OSX is a BSD-alike, and that's pretty cool. Security, stability, that's all great, but it's not unreachable elsewhere, and is therefore not the prime draw.
The real envy I have for Macs is the sheer, tight, totally-integrated desktop management environment.
Every app drags'n'drops the same way (which is much more than I can say for every X-based box I've worked on), the extra features of which are astounding. The keyboard shortcuts are impressive, especially when used on a laptop. Expose is a freakin' MARVEL. It seems like every app can pass user data to every other app in intuitive, functional ways. The single drop-down-menu means that app windows don't take up more room than they need to. The window manager makes the display hardware hop up and sing. The desktop looks like it was polished with silk and angel tears.
The BSD core is nice, but DAMN. I wish Gnome or KDE could stand up to the beauty, interfunctionality, and deeply philisophical majesty of the OSX GUI.
That having been said, I'm seriously looking into getting a good powerbook -- and putting Portage for OSX on it so I can keep all my nice OSS apps.:)
From the article: allow wireless laptop computers to connect to the Web from as far as 200 feet away.
To borrow from another school of irate neighbor: TURN THAT DAMN NOISE DOWN!
Jesus. I'm sharing a wireless network with my neighbor--yeah, he's invited me on it--and I can't get signal for shit outside of 40 feet away , and the antenna is out in the OPEN AIR. If he wanted to just cover his house with no bleed, he could move the antenna inside and have no problems at all. It's not even a question of knowing how to shape signal and all that techo-jizz; he just doesn't have the AP turned up to 11.
I mean, it's one thing if the wardrivers have to sit in front of your house, it's a whole 'nuther if they can be halfway down the block. Lower the gain, fools!
On the other hand, maybe the wardrivers *do* have the upper hand in technology: the Pringles can. Devious, those guys.
But they are motivated by a fictional video game character
Bah. Elitist bullshit.
A video game character is no different in this context than an Iowa farmer, a small businessman, Joe SixPack, Soccer Mom(TM), or any other character designed to appeal to a demographic in order to get a vote. What, you think those jawflappers on the "serious" political ads are all real too?
It's a question of what you react to, not a question of what (or even *if*) you think about politics. Just because you play Halo doesn't mean you don't take the world situation seriously.
More power to them, sez I. Anybody who can drag the unmotivated out of their chairs and into the booth gets my endorsement.
CLIFrotz looks nice, it's true, but the requirement of keeping the Z-Code on an expansion card makes me sad. It would probably be the first time in history that I'd *upgrade* my computer to play an Infocom-style game.
Frobnitz, on the other hand, has a utility that will convert Z-Code into a.pdb to let it live in main memory. With 64M onboard my Tungsten, that's not a problem at all.
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Okay instead of "never", how about: "It would take a significant and improbable level of improvement on Intel's part, coupled with AMD's engineers collectively drinking the kool-aid"?
AMD rocks. They're breaking barriers left and right.
Wow. It sounds to me like you advocate populating the Supreme Court with individuals who have a vested interest in abdicating their authority to both the executive AND legislative branches so they can keep their cushy government jobs. Especially with the Survivor rules.
It strikes me that determining the function of a branch of government by basing it on TELEVISION is kind of, well, dumb. Or at least, short-sighted.
What makes the Supreme Court work is that you've really got to fight your case long and hard to even get on their radar. Review, review, review, that's the key. Besides, I'd hate to slog through a decade of lawsuits over a vital point of justice just to find that the President against whom I may have voted had stacked the judicial deck the day before.
Which interpreter do you mean, the CLI, the X, or the Palm interpreter?
>CLI.
Frotz is a great CLI interpreter with lots of ports to other OSes. A very good place to start, keeps it simple, and brings back all the nostalgia of white-on-black text.
>OOPS, X.
If you're dedicated to X, try Zoom. It handles later versions of Z with graphics and sound as well.
>OOPS, PALM.
For those on the go, Frobnitz is a Z-Code machine for Palm Pilots, but I've found it has some weird display kinks. One really nice feature, though, is that you can extended-click a word on the screen and get a pop-up menu of common commands like Take, Examine, and so on, all pre-selected with the word in mind. It takes longer to explain than to learn how to use.
A method for determining average molecular energy present in escatological, theological, or purgatory-like environments tied to eternity and either removed from or integrated with the mortal realm of affairs.
In a recent interview that we had with Star Trek head honchos Rick Berman and Manny Coto we asked them what kind of advice they would offer George Lucas regarding a weekly Star Wars TV series. "Its one thing to have three years and over a 100 million dollars to create a one 2 hour movie compared to 22 to 26 one hour episodes in a year with a very limited budget and still have to remain fresh in the eyes of your audience", said Berman. Manny Coto also had a good point when he said " You have to concentrate on the story and also the characters and not make a weekly special effects show." When asked if he had any other advice for George, "He can always hire me if Enterprise doesn't work out". (My emphasis)
It's as if a million voices inside me all cried out... and then fell silent.
George, I know your track record is spotty, but if you're going to take advice from Berman, you might as well douse the whole shebang in gasoline right now...
I'm excited that Novell has invested in Evolution, but after seeing their java-based client, I have to hold back my optimism. Most of the client was crippled and akward. I don't know if it was a java thing or what, but it was so bad that I just learned to live at work without keeping my email client up all day. I guess I can thank Novell for that, at least, since the day seems to go by much more quickly.
As far as Evolution goes, I'm curious to know what kind of integration is really in there. Can it handle proxying from account to account? How about sharing address books and folders? Do existing rules carry over? Is there a counterpart to Notify? In other words, is Evolution a complete replacement for GroupWise, or just a slapdash patchover?
All the screen shots are okay, but I'm worried about what I'm not seeing, even though they're trolling through all the menues ad nauseum.
Ditto, almost verbatim. I still have a tv, but its sole purpose is as a DVD monitor. For half a second my heart started pounding -- Oh no! No way to watch TV on my computer! -- but that quickly faded when I realized that I didn't really miss TV.
Funnily enough, I took up Go too! Help me lose my first 50 games quickly: Look up Brayd on KGS for a friendly game.
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The Neuros Audio Computers are incredibly sweet, and smartly designed. How smartly designed?
* The firmware is open source right from the developers. It's also Linux friendly as a storage device, and there's an open-source sync manager for putting on songs into the database.
* It plays the usual formats plus Ogg/Vorbis. Records in WAV and MP3 off the internal mic, or there's a line-in plug.
* It's modular. Pop the controller out and plug it in to a bigger (or just different) hard drive, or a flash memory cradle, while keeping all your settings.
* It broadcasts FM without fancy add-ons.
* The playlist manager isn't bad either. Reads ID3 tag info, sorts by title, album, genre, etc. I think it even pays attention to ReplayGain info.
* 6 different bookmarks available at the touch of a button.
* A hard-lockout switch to freeze the controls without navigating a menu.
* A decent battery replacement policy.
In fact, the only downside to this audio gem that I can find is that I bought it... for my wife.
You could have cigarettes in a black pack with a skull and crossbones on the front called "Tumors" and smokers would be lining up around the corner to by them...
Everything except a virus checker...
*sigh*
And halfway into the presentation, in front of all the world, inexplicably, BlankScreen(TM) turns a familiar shade of blue...
As I understand it, OSX is a BSD-alike, and that's pretty cool. Security, stability, that's all great, but it's not unreachable elsewhere, and is therefore not the prime draw.
:)
The real envy I have for Macs is the sheer, tight, totally-integrated desktop management environment.
Every app drags'n'drops the same way (which is much more than I can say for every X-based box I've worked on), the extra features of which are astounding. The keyboard shortcuts are impressive, especially when used on a laptop. Expose is a freakin' MARVEL. It seems like every app can pass user data to every other app in intuitive, functional ways. The single drop-down-menu means that app windows don't take up more room than they need to. The window manager makes the display hardware hop up and sing. The desktop looks like it was polished with silk and angel tears.
The BSD core is nice, but DAMN. I wish Gnome or KDE could stand up to the beauty, interfunctionality, and deeply philisophical majesty of the OSX GUI.
That having been said, I'm seriously looking into getting a good powerbook -- and putting Portage for OSX on it so I can keep all my nice OSS apps.
Those who are willing to sacrifice a little context sensitive menu to preserve an author's IP deserve neither, you insensitive clod!
-- B3n Fr4nkl1n
So here's a question for you all:
If a DRM scheme depends on a bug in a product, and the product manufacturer corrects the bug to improve their product, has the DMCA been violated?
Basically, can a DRM scheme cement bugs in place by exploiting them?
Does it even make sense to have a chip called the Pentium 5? Shouldn't that be, like, Pentium Squared, or something?
From the article: allow wireless laptop computers to connect to the Web from as far as 200 feet away.
To borrow from another school of irate neighbor: TURN THAT DAMN NOISE DOWN!
Jesus. I'm sharing a wireless network with my neighbor--yeah, he's invited me on it--and I can't get signal for shit outside of 40 feet away , and the antenna is out in the OPEN AIR. If he wanted to just cover his house with no bleed, he could move the antenna inside and have no problems at all. It's not even a question of knowing how to shape signal and all that techo-jizz; he just doesn't have the AP turned up to 11.
I mean, it's one thing if the wardrivers have to sit in front of your house, it's a whole 'nuther if they can be halfway down the block. Lower the gain, fools!
On the other hand, maybe the wardrivers *do* have the upper hand in technology: the Pringles can. Devious, those guys.
But they are motivated by a fictional video game character
Bah. Elitist bullshit.
A video game character is no different in this context than an Iowa farmer, a small businessman, Joe SixPack, Soccer Mom(TM), or any other character designed to appeal to a demographic in order to get a vote. What, you think those jawflappers on the "serious" political ads are all real too?
It's a question of what you react to, not a question of what (or even *if*) you think about politics. Just because you play Halo doesn't mean you don't take the world situation seriously.
More power to them, sez I. Anybody who can drag the unmotivated out of their chairs and into the booth gets my endorsement.
CLIFrotz looks nice, it's true, but the requirement of keeping the Z-Code on an expansion card makes me sad. It would probably be the first time in history that I'd *upgrade* my computer to play an Infocom-style game.
.pdb to let it live in main memory. With 64M onboard my Tungsten, that's not a problem at all.
Frobnitz, on the other hand, has a utility that will convert Z-Code into a
Okay instead of "never", how about: "It would take a significant and improbable level of improvement on Intel's part, coupled with AMD's engineers collectively drinking the kool-aid"?
AMD rocks. They're breaking barriers left and right.
To sum up, then:
Right to Free Speech != Right to be Heard.
Say what you like. The intended audience is in no way obliged to care, or even to attend you.
Um...
WHERE?
And why post anonymously about it? Is somebody tapping your line or something?
Wow. It sounds to me like you advocate populating the Supreme Court with individuals who have a vested interest in abdicating their authority to both the executive AND legislative branches so they can keep their cushy government jobs. Especially with the Survivor rules.
It strikes me that determining the function of a branch of government by basing it on TELEVISION is kind of, well, dumb. Or at least, short-sighted.
What makes the Supreme Court work is that you've really got to fight your case long and hard to even get on their radar. Review, review, review, that's the key. Besides, I'd hate to slog through a decade of lawsuits over a vital point of justice just to find that the President against whom I may have voted had stacked the judicial deck the day before.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Which interpreter do you mean, the CLI, the X, or the Palm interpreter?
>CLI.
Frotz is a great CLI interpreter with lots of ports to other OSes. A very good place to start, keeps it simple, and brings back all the nostalgia of white-on-black text.
>OOPS, X.
If you're dedicated to X, try Zoom. It handles later versions of Z with graphics and sound as well.
>OOPS, PALM.
For those on the go, Frobnitz is a Z-Code machine for Palm Pilots, but I've found it has some weird display kinks. One really nice feature, though, is that you can extended-click a word on the screen and get a pop-up menu of common commands like Take, Examine, and so on, all pre-selected with the word in mind. It takes longer to explain than to learn how to use.
A method for determining average molecular energy present in escatological, theological, or purgatory-like environments tied to eternity and either removed from or integrated with the mortal realm of affairs.
In a recent interview that we had with Star Trek head honchos Rick Berman and Manny Coto we asked them what kind of advice they would offer George Lucas regarding a weekly Star Wars TV series. "Its one thing to have three years and over a 100 million dollars to create a one 2 hour movie compared to 22 to 26 one hour episodes in a year with a very limited budget and still have to remain fresh in the eyes of your audience", said Berman. Manny Coto also had a good point when he said " You have to concentrate on the story and also the characters and not make a weekly special effects show." When asked if he had any other advice for George, "He can always hire me if Enterprise doesn't work out". (My emphasis)
It's as if a million voices inside me all cried out... and then fell silent.
George, I know your track record is spotty, but if you're going to take advice from Berman, you might as well douse the whole shebang in gasoline right now...
Providing a list of two or more liberties which may or may not be missing is against the PATRIOT ACT. Especially if you're in a library.
Please report to Cuba for re-education.
I think you mean "six of one AND a half dozen of the other." That's not a correction to the old saying: that's how things actually are.
Depressing.
Acidic batteries in ancient Baghdad: http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm
The Persians may not have known why batteries worked, but it appears that they knew how to make them.
I'm excited that Novell has invested in Evolution, but after seeing their java-based client, I have to hold back my optimism. Most of the client was crippled and akward. I don't know if it was a java thing or what, but it was so bad that I just learned to live at work without keeping my email client up all day. I guess I can thank Novell for that, at least, since the day seems to go by much more quickly.
As far as Evolution goes, I'm curious to know what kind of integration is really in there. Can it handle proxying from account to account? How about sharing address books and folders? Do existing rules carry over? Is there a counterpart to Notify? In other words, is Evolution a complete replacement for GroupWise, or just a slapdash patchover?
All the screen shots are okay, but I'm worried about what I'm not seeing, even though they're trolling through all the menues ad nauseum.
Wow -- if you can get a PocketPC to sync with anything at all, ever, then my hat's off to you. I hate having to support those damn things.
As far as MS Mobile... maybe you're running into the Y20K bug?
Ditto, almost verbatim. I still have a tv, but its sole purpose is as a DVD monitor. For half a second my heart started pounding -- Oh no! No way to watch TV on my computer! -- but that quickly faded when I realized that I didn't really miss TV.
:)
Funnily enough, I took up Go too! Help me lose my first 50 games quickly: Look up Brayd on KGS for a friendly game.
Don't count on the GF thing though.
Unless they were planning to Superglue the token to the kid?
Nope. A simple mark in the hand or on the forehead will do.
Thanks, antichrist!