well they did not include the Treo600 either (nor the other palmOS phones), since they consider it more a phone than a PDA...... include that and Palm would probably shoot up a bit. there are a few MS phones in the USA, but i am not sure how popular they are overall.
just of note, in 10.3 address book and iCal no longer quit the app if you close the window. but they used to quit from that. i personally prefer that. i use iCal at least once a day, maybe a few times and i would rather click on the dock and have the window pop instead of waiting for the app to launch. it launches fast, but on my G4 800 it is not quite instant.
they are saying the machines have 2 counters.... one for the current year and one for lifetime..... maybe someone saw the lifetime and panicked before knowing what they saw.
i suppose it is possible some places have new machines still coming in. we first got these electronic machines in 2002. maybe they rolled out more to help with expected turnout, so some places has one new machine and one old one? the philly inquirer article yesterday said there are over 3,000 machines at 1,600 voting divisions. that implies average of 2 machines per place, so maybe one was new and one was not. i'm just guessing here... so this post will be junk in a few hours/days/month
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the Philly machines are now the Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 voting machine. i don't think any distric in Philadelphia has had the vintage 1950's mechanical machines for over two years now. they rolled out these machines for the 2002 elections. it was a local big voting year because it was the Mayoral race.
as for the drudgereport story..... it has not made local news that i caught. not sure what the deal is with it.
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i saw our Mayo (John Street, Philly) and his son during the DNC and they were there as delegates.... i think the Governer was there too and who knows what other people.
how do you get that job anyway? i can't remember offhand..... i would assume somebody in the party gives it to you for being special.
the hurricanes have been nothing more than intense storms when they make it up to my area (Philadelphia), but they have made a mess. just this last week all over PA, DE and NJ had lots of mess i watched on the local news. there was a few feet of mud from runoff on I-76 just outside the city. they had to get people off a bus using an xtension ladder from the other side of the road (the jersey wall acted like a dam). in all 30 cars and one bus were destroyed. countless houses and stores flodded out. sinkholes all over the place opening up. a lady was killed in the city because the water coming down the sidewalk was so strong it knocked her over and washed her down the street, she got stuck under a car and by the time people pulled her up she had drowned!
you can get a welding helmet that autodarkens when you arc. they are about $50 and change fast enough for you to not go blind, and run off a 9volt battery.
if you know nothing about welding, that is one issue when you are learning. knowing where the electrode is in relation to the work and getting it close enough to arc, but not to stick. normally you kinda peek then drop your helmet and go for it. the autoshade helmets let you see what you are about to weld and when it gets bright they tint fast enough to protect you..... the tinting is extreme, but under the plasma light youu can see your work.
it's possibly something like that can be used for lasers as well as any other type of super bright blinding light. maybe the lasers are too tricky to trip the sensors, but if they can make the helmets that cheap, and there is a market for it in planes... i bet someone can figure it out. it might help fighter/bomber pilots too. it has to throw their vision to see things explode in front of them... maybe?
if music is only made on CD now, then how can it be a bonus track? i would assume the companies signing on to this stuff do not press vinyl anymore, and everyone knows the vinyl is supposed to have the bonus track because it cost about 3x as much to manufacture.
you can have the coolest gun out there, but waking up to a broken window and stolen stereo means theya re long gone.
my car has a factory alarm that's not the best, but even when some knucklehead sets it off and i wake up, run to the window i never see anything. i usually throw on my boots and run outside an am yet to catch someone. even if i am in deep sleep, my dog knows it's trouble and barks the instant the car alarm goes off. my point being that even if i had a gun ready to go, i would not have anyone to shoot. that is of course ignoring the legality of running into a city street with a gun shooting someone for stealing a crappy car stereo or a car with 170,000 miles on it.
also the post was about their mom..... if they don't live at home then them owning a gun won't help out mom.
x10.com has some DIY home security stuff. you can do things like have a motion detector trigger an alarm or turn on a light in the house. lots of people have motion detector floodlamps outside but if a motion detector triggers a lamp inside somewhere they might think it's an awake person in the house. they also have a fake dog barking device that can be triggered with motion detectors. they may sound fake right in front of them, but from outside it sounds like a dog, and it also will alert anyone home that something might require a peek. if you run the X10 software with the cameras you can also capture the images when the camera detects motion in the driveway. they are not the highest quality images, but the cameras are cheap and wireless. you can even have them posted to a website so you can check on her house for her.
we had motion detector set up so a lil 5 watt bulb came on inside when someone crossed onto our porch...... not security as much as knowing the mail/UPS/FedEx people were there leaving us treats.
if someone really wants a TV tuner (like in a dorm or apartment?) there are a few firewire TV tuners for mac..... including the el gato device that makes youur TV a TiVo-like device. honestly a TV tuner card never meant jack to me because my cable company has always required the box for tuning (even in the analog days) and i dont think digital cable tuners really exist yet in machines or as 3rd party devices... right? i know our digital boxes have a mac address that cable guy had to autherize and connect to our account. it would seem like a device better left to 3rd party.... or just a line in kinda thing.
that's why Saturday Night Live can get away with everything, or how MIT did Star Wars the musical. the satire thing puts it in question, but there is also weird rules about political figures. as for Woodie Guthrie himself, if he were alive he might be ok with the spirit of the project if not the project itself. he was a pretty rebellious guy.
it's already rumored Real was in talkes to liscence their technology to sneak songs onto the iPod (making money of this trick)..... if that happens then the other music stores will advertise their music as "works with Apple's iPod". if in some firmware/hardware/software revision it stops working you know Real will blame Apple for changing technology.... which they often do already.
By allowing it, that is kind of consenting to it... and doesn't that set up some degree of responsibility to make sure it works in the future?
you can say that about Apple's user base as much as i can say anyone running M$ Windows only does so because their school or job has them do it and they follow their leaders like sheep..... or i could say anyone that runs Linux is too cheap to pay for an operating system....
how many people run an Apple OS (or Linux) has no bearing on the quality of the product. your statement is a vague clouded viewpoint of the Mac userbase. it's a fact that Apple breaks new ground left and right with hardware and software. If they were such a non-issue why would Dell, Microsoft and others spend so much time trashing them and not just ignore them? with 3.x% of new computer sales they are no real threat to those guys, but their innovation keeps everyone else in check.
more people eat at McDonalds than anywhere else and that food is complete garbage. the fact that they own the prepared food market does not mean they are better than what your mom cooks.
the LCD iMac leak was the day before MacWorld and Steve was going to pull the "one more thing" line and show everyone with the radical new design.
there is no press conference or anything scheduled for this iPod. the Newsweek thing was THE official first notification. and i guess Apple will follow with emails and press releases. ThinkSecret.com was the first site to pick up on the new iPod with some solid information, and one thing they kept saying was that Apple would not be using a press event to show it off, just some unusual (for them) way to publically get the word out to the masses.
ALSO there are rumors from the same sources that a revision to the iPod mini is coming in August. i guess it is known the manufacturer of the mini's drive has made a 6 gig drive (or has one one the way very very soon now?).
i thought the VX6000 only used the OLED display for the outside display? visable when clamshell phone is closed, not a color display..... used as callerID, clock etc.....
i might be wrong, but i am pretty sure only the one is OLED. the shorter lifespan when compared to LCDs seems fine for a cell phone (if cost is ok) since people generally upgrade their cell phones much faster than their digital cameras of personal computers. i guess it also uses a good bit less power...... always nice for cell phones.
it is funny..... someone was playing with my G4 400 last week and commented how it seemed a lot faster than their much newer machine.... turns out they were still running 10.2.x and i was running 10.3.x. i have to say i'm happy that 10.3 keeps the machine usable that much longer, i hope 10.4 is at least as usable.
the leaked screenshots even had spelling errors (part of the reason they were easily dismissed).... i guess the Apple autherized screenshots did not reflect that, but this is obviously even more prelim than the last few years. last few times theyw ere shooting for a fall release... this one is "first half of 2005" which theoretically could give them a whole year to get everything polished.
clear channel or huge commercial stations can swing this easily.... but again this is another thing that would be a nightmare for shoestring budgetted non-commercial / community / educational radio stations.
i realize it's easier to archive 90 days than it was 20 years ago, but 90 days of audio 24/7 recorded and archived is a lot of mess for smaller stations.
there are still plenty of little stations that have the DJ record their show on cassettes. if i remember right the current rule only requires the archive to be kept for 2 weeks. obviously some people (Howard Stern, Rush etc) archive everything they do.
actually as of a few months ago they had a few other cats trademarked for OS name use.... offhand i think puma, lynx and cougar maybe? i may be wrong on the names, but i know there are a few more in the name pool..... even if theya re never used, they were trademarked for use as a name for an operating system...
yes, i know lynx in the unix shell web browser thingy..... but it can still be trademarked for OS use (i think?). whatever the list consisted of, it was found because Apple trademarked the names.
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well they did not include the Treo600 either (nor the other palmOS phones), since they consider it more a phone than a PDA...... include that and Palm would probably shoot up a bit.
there are a few MS phones in the USA, but i am not sure how popular they are overall.
just of note, in 10.3 address book and iCal no longer quit the app if you close the window. but they used to quit from that.
i personally prefer that. i use iCal at least once a day, maybe a few times and i would rather click on the dock and have the window pop instead of waiting for the app to launch. it launches fast, but on my G4 800 it is not quite instant.
they are saying the machines have 2 counters.... one for the current year and one for lifetime..... maybe someone saw the lifetime and panicked before knowing what they saw.
i suppose it is possible some places have new machines still coming in. we first got these electronic machines in 2002. maybe they rolled out more to help with expected turnout, so some places has one new machine and one old one? the philly inquirer article yesterday said there are over 3,000 machines at 1,600 voting divisions. that implies average of 2 machines per place, so maybe one was new and one was not. i'm just guessing here... so this post will be junk in a few hours/days/month
the Philly machines are now the Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 voting machine. i don't think any distric in Philadelphia has had the vintage 1950's mechanical machines for over two years now. they rolled out these machines for the 2002 elections. it was a local big voting year because it was the Mayoral race.
as for the drudgereport story..... it has not made local news that i caught. not sure what the deal is with it.
not nrrdy, but funny as hell....
http://www.thestranger.com/current/special.html
once again they got you to think everything is based in europe or north america. it's like when you see Jesus as being blonde with blue eyes
yes, i realize i used the term "western culture".
if it's there i don't see the link anywhere.. let alone near the wmv one..... maybe it is gone?
i saw our Mayo (John Street, Philly) and his son during the DNC and they were there as delegates.... i think the Governer was there too and who knows what other people.
how do you get that job anyway? i can't remember offhand..... i would assume somebody in the party gives it to you for being special.
the hurricanes have been nothing more than intense storms when they make it up to my area (Philadelphia), but they have made a mess. just this last week all over PA, DE and NJ had lots of mess i watched on the local news. there was a few feet of mud from runoff on I-76 just outside the city. they had to get people off a bus using an xtension ladder from the other side of the road (the jersey wall acted like a dam). in all 30 cars and one bus were destroyed. countless houses and stores flodded out. sinkholes all over the place opening up. a lady was killed in the city because the water coming down the sidewalk was so strong it knocked her over and washed her down the street, she got stuck under a car and by the time people pulled her up she had drowned!
you can get a welding helmet that autodarkens when you arc. they are about $50 and change fast enough for you to not go blind, and run off a 9volt battery.
if you know nothing about welding, that is one issue when you are learning. knowing where the electrode is in relation to the work and getting it close enough to arc, but not to stick. normally you kinda peek then drop your helmet and go for it. the autoshade helmets let you see what you are about to weld and when it gets bright they tint fast enough to protect you..... the tinting is extreme, but under the plasma light youu can see your work.
it's possibly something like that can be used for lasers as well as any other type of super bright blinding light. maybe the lasers are too tricky to trip the sensors, but if they can make the helmets that cheap, and there is a market for it in planes... i bet someone can figure it out. it might help fighter/bomber pilots too. it has to throw their vision to see things explode in front of them... maybe?
if music is only made on CD now, then how can it be a bonus track? i would assume the companies signing on to this stuff do not press vinyl anymore, and everyone knows the vinyl is supposed to have the bonus track because it cost about 3x as much to manufacture.
you can have the coolest gun out there, but waking up to a broken window and stolen stereo means theya re long gone.
my car has a factory alarm that's not the best, but even when some knucklehead sets it off and i wake up, run to the window i never see anything. i usually throw on my boots and run outside an am yet to catch someone. even if i am in deep sleep, my dog knows it's trouble and barks the instant the car alarm goes off. my point being that even if i had a gun ready to go, i would not have anyone to shoot. that is of course ignoring the legality of running into a city street with a gun shooting someone for stealing a crappy car stereo or a car with 170,000 miles on it.
also the post was about their mom..... if they don't live at home then them owning a gun won't help out mom.
x10.com has some DIY home security stuff. you can do things like have a motion detector trigger an alarm or turn on a light in the house. lots of people have motion detector floodlamps outside but if a motion detector triggers a lamp inside somewhere they might think it's an awake person in the house. they also have a fake dog barking device that can be triggered with motion detectors. they may sound fake right in front of them, but from outside it sounds like a dog, and it also will alert anyone home that something might require a peek. if you run the X10 software with the cameras you can also capture the images when the camera detects motion in the driveway. they are not the highest quality images, but the cameras are cheap and wireless. you can even have them posted to a website so you can check on her house for her.
we had motion detector set up so a lil 5 watt bulb came on inside when someone crossed onto our porch...... not security as much as knowing the mail/UPS/FedEx people were there leaving us treats.
if someone really wants a TV tuner (like in a dorm or apartment?) there are a few firewire TV tuners for mac..... including the el gato device that makes youur TV a TiVo-like device.
honestly a TV tuner card never meant jack to me because my cable company has always required the box for tuning (even in the analog days) and i dont think digital cable tuners really exist yet in machines or as 3rd party devices... right? i know our digital boxes have a mac address that cable guy had to autherize and connect to our account.
it would seem like a device better left to 3rd party.... or just a line in kinda thing.
i thought electronic steering went nowhere because the DOT would never approve a system that failed if you blew a fuse.
that's why Saturday Night Live can get away with everything, or how MIT did Star Wars the musical.
the satire thing puts it in question, but there is also weird rules about political figures. as for Woodie Guthrie himself, if he were alive he might be ok with the spirit of the project if not the project itself. he was a pretty rebellious guy.
um, shouldn't you change your name FROM John Conner to something else? lay low till it's your time.
there is no future but what we make
it's already rumored Real was in talkes to liscence their technology to sneak songs onto the iPod (making money of this trick)..... if that happens then the other music stores will advertise their music as "works with Apple's iPod". if in some firmware/hardware/software revision it stops working you know Real will blame Apple for changing technology.... which they often do already.
By allowing it, that is kind of consenting to it... and doesn't that set up some degree of responsibility to make sure it works in the future?
you can say that about Apple's user base as much as i can say anyone running M$ Windows only does so because their school or job has them do it and they follow their leaders like sheep.....
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i could say anyone that runs Linux is too cheap to pay for an operating system....
how many people run an Apple OS (or Linux) has no bearing on the quality of the product. your statement is a vague clouded viewpoint of the Mac userbase. it's a fact that Apple breaks new ground left and right with hardware and software. If they were such a non-issue why would Dell, Microsoft and others spend so much time trashing them and not just ignore them? with 3.x% of new computer sales they are no real threat to those guys, but their innovation keeps everyone else in check.
more people eat at McDonalds than anywhere else and that food is complete garbage. the fact that they own the prepared food market does not mean they are better than what your mom cooks.
i think thinksecret.com actually was first to break it... a few other rumor sites have been crediting them as being the first with the story
the LCD iMac leak was the day before MacWorld and Steve was going to pull the "one more thing" line and show everyone with the radical new design.
there is no press conference or anything scheduled for this iPod. the Newsweek thing was THE official first notification. and i guess Apple will follow with emails and press releases. ThinkSecret.com was the first site to pick up on the new iPod with some solid information, and one thing they kept saying was that Apple would not be using a press event to show it off, just some unusual (for them) way to publically get the word out to the masses.
ALSO there are rumors from the same sources that a revision to the iPod mini is coming in August. i guess it is known the manufacturer of the mini's drive has made a 6 gig drive (or has one one the way very very soon now?).
i thought the VX6000 only used the OLED display for the outside display? visable when clamshell phone is closed, not a color display..... used as callerID, clock etc.....
i might be wrong, but i am pretty sure only the one is OLED. the shorter lifespan when compared to LCDs seems fine for a cell phone (if cost is ok) since people generally upgrade their cell phones much faster than their digital cameras of personal computers. i guess it also uses a good bit less power...... always nice for cell phones.
it is funny..... someone was playing with my G4 400 last week and commented how it seemed a lot faster than their much newer machine.... turns out they were still running 10.2.x and i was running 10.3.x. i have to say i'm happy that 10.3 keeps the machine usable that much longer, i hope 10.4 is at least as usable.
the leaked screenshots even had spelling errors (part of the reason they were easily dismissed).... i guess the Apple autherized screenshots did not reflect that, but this is obviously even more prelim than the last few years. last few times theyw ere shooting for a fall release... this one is "first half of 2005" which theoretically could give them a whole year to get everything polished.
clear channel or huge commercial stations can swing this easily.... but again this is another thing that would be a nightmare for shoestring budgetted non-commercial / community / educational radio stations.
i realize it's easier to archive 90 days than it was 20 years ago, but 90 days of audio 24/7 recorded and archived is a lot of mess for smaller stations.
there are still plenty of little stations that have the DJ record their show on cassettes. if i remember right the current rule only requires the archive to be kept for 2 weeks. obviously some people (Howard Stern, Rush etc) archive everything they do.
actually as of a few months ago they had a few other cats trademarked for OS name use.... offhand i think puma, lynx and cougar maybe? i may be wrong on the names, but i know there are a few more in the name pool..... even if theya re never used, they were trademarked for use as a name for an operating system...
yes, i know lynx in the unix shell web browser thingy..... but it can still be trademarked for OS use (i think?). whatever the list consisted of, it was found because Apple trademarked the names.