As far as I can tell, Apple is working with HD makers so that the iPods can be out before the drives are generally released. The iPod price is also very close to the price of the bare drive, so competitors have no room to compete.
Sure, here ya go. As a bonus, this code uses my patented Relay Acceleration Technology (RAT) that performs many times more adds then a normal relay network can handle.
You're welcome.
int timer=0; byte add(byte a, byte b) {
if(++timer > 100000) {
clickSomeRelays();
timer = 0;
}
return (a+b) }
And I think the played it badly. If those blanks are intended for copies of that CD, then why didn't they just include 3 copies to begin with? This also would've allowed them to claim triple the sales, and become the nation's biggest artist overnight!
I partly agree. I got the 40GB Zen ($250, nyah) and love it. I agree that requiring a driver is dumb, but I didn't buy the thing to haul files, I bought it to haul music. For that, the driver works extremely well. (Except for the crashing, of course.)
The interface is actually quite good as well. Not the best; the side-mounted buttons are clumsy, and scrolling around takes patience. But every feature I need is there, and almost every feature that's there is something I use. Clicking a song doesn't play the song, because you get a choice: Play Now, Add to Playlist, or Preview. The 'preview' option is especially cool, cuz it lets you look for a song without munging your playlist.
So I suspect the biggest shortcoming in HD players is the missing scroll wheel. If everyone had one, then the iPod advantage would be MUCH smaller.
That's not a PDA, that's a micro-laptop. It has a processor, lots of RAM, a display, and a keyboard. Granted, we surpassed those specs 5-10 years ago, but it really is a laptop. So it's natural a full Linux distro would work, as would DOS and Windows.
Qube 1 and 2 aren't X86, they use some other chip. But even the X86 Qubes are tricky, cuz they're completely headless - no video chip, and no slot to add one.
It's not really that hard.. as a kid, I saw the Milky Way fairly regularly from my parents' back yard. We were technically just outside the city limits, but there wasn't a street light for miles, so the sky was very dark.
So I'm not too impressed with the Way itself, but the sheer quantity of stars up there still takes me by surprise. Between any two stars, no matter how faint, you can always find another star.
But what's depressing is that all these stars are burning their energy simultaneously. In only a few dozen billion years, it'll all be gone.
It's called "magneto optical". Currently tops out around 6 GB on a 5.25" disk. Your 32 GB wish is not currently viable; the best we can do is the 25 GB Blu-Ray.
Look into the loan terms of your 401k.. usually you get to keep the interest you pay. It might be worth shifting more of your mortgage to your own 401k.
You're thinking too big. Particles can have "quantum reactions" and "atomic reactions". (If there're terms for those, I dunno what they are.) If your particle is in superposition, a quantum reaction will leave it there, but won't tell you what happened. An atomic reaction will tell you what happened, but also collapse your particle to one state or another.
It has nothing to do with consciousness; merely putting the particle in a situation that requires it to choose a state will cause the wave function to collapse. The insight that QM brings is that particles won't choose a state until they absolutely have to.
And a cat can never be in a true superposition; all his atoms have already been collapsed. He will in fact be either dead or alive, you just won't know it.
That was apparantly posted in sarcasm, but this is exactly the thing I can't figure out. People keep suggesting new ways to make electronic voting secure and verifiable, but that's never been the problem. The paper trail is itself is the problem that electronic voting is meant to solve. You can't dictate leaders if you can't control the vote. The paper system is too hard to control, hence this new digital system.
Between proprietary gadgets that are hard to verify, and the DMCA which makes it illegal to verify, we're well on our way to a full dictatorship. It's too hard to force the populace to vote your way (especially under our constitution), so they've had to be much more devious about it.
(Wait, let me adjust my tinfoil.)
You might want to blame republicans for this situation, but it really took both major parties to do it -- Republicans take power from the public and give it to companies, while Liberals give it to government. This really couldn't have been done without both parties working together.
Apparantly Zowie Interactive made a similar toy. It was a pirate ship with serial cable, and moving the pieces around would make your computer respond. Product disappeared without a trace; very little is on the net, and eBay has nothing.
Also apparantly, the company was bought by LEGO, so there may be hope.
These guys have all available info, including a link to the above MIT paper.
I'm not a commie myself, but the GPL really is communist. Marxist, I think: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Fortunately it's not forced communism; you're free to choose whether to participate.
But so many people have chosen the first part, that the second part has become possible.
Shoot, I hate to repost, but it's more appropriate here than in the other topic. I just had a C-64 revival of my own the past week. I wanted to see how fast 1 MHz was, so I wrote a little sin graphing program in BASIC.
It sucked; 7 hours for a bitmap picture.
But my friend was not to be outdone, he went and optimized the thing, getting it down to 74 minutes.
And now he wants to know what program we'll be doing next. =^/
Slow version is on line, I'll put the fast version up soon. (Really! I promise!)
I love my Commodore, but good l0rd was that thing slow. I just benched it with a sin(sqr()) function plotter, and it took 7 hours. Tabulating the sin(sqr()) function got that down to 74 minutes, but it's still sad.
All software sold today is sold as unsuitable for any purpose. It says that, right in the license. So claiming your software is insecure is moot; you didn't buy secure software. You just bought some crap off the shelf and expected it to meet your needs. It didn't; and nobody's surprised.
But this case is even worse than that -- It involves Microsoft's ware, which is known to be insecure. It's in the news every single day. Trusting your corporate secrets to of-the-shelf software is just stupid, doubly so for MS ware.
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To this day, he's only watched about an hour's worth of all those "goodies"
But which hour worth of goodies? This is actually a very efficient way to distribute all the extras, as it lets you chose which extras are worth watching. Much more efficient than having 700 different releases with all the combinations of movies, interview, and extras.
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As far as I can tell, Apple is working with HD makers so that the iPods can be out before the drives are generally released. The iPod price is also very close to the price of the bare drive, so competitors have no room to compete.
Sure, here ya go. As a bonus, this code uses my patented Relay Acceleration Technology (RAT) that performs many times more adds then a normal relay network can handle.
You're welcome.
int timer=0;
byte add(byte a, byte b) {
if(++timer > 100000) {
clickSomeRelays();
timer = 0;
}
return (a+b)
}
And I think the played it badly. If those blanks are intended for copies of that CD, then why didn't they just include 3 copies to begin with? This also would've allowed them to claim triple the sales, and become the nation's biggest artist overnight!
I partly agree. I got the 40GB Zen ($250, nyah) and love it. I agree that requiring a driver is dumb, but I didn't buy the thing to haul files, I bought it to haul music. For that, the driver works extremely well. (Except for the crashing, of course.)
The interface is actually quite good as well. Not the best; the side-mounted buttons are clumsy, and scrolling around takes patience. But every feature I need is there, and almost every feature that's there is something I use. Clicking a song doesn't play the song, because you get a choice: Play Now, Add to Playlist, or Preview. The 'preview' option is especially cool, cuz it lets you look for a song without munging your playlist.
So I suspect the biggest shortcoming in HD players is the missing scroll wheel. If everyone had one, then the iPod advantage would be MUCH smaller.
Name: slashdot2004
Password: slashdot2004
I didn't do it, can't prove anything.
Why would NetBSD run a Lego competition?? Oh wait .. nevermind.
And it's got a 2000 hour litebulb in it, but those things are like 150 watts. How do they get cheese to last 2000 hours under that much heat?
Qube 1 and 2 aren't X86, they use some other chip. But even the X86 Qubes are tricky, cuz they're completely headless - no video chip, and no slot to add one.
It's not really that hard .. as a kid, I saw the Milky Way fairly regularly from my parents' back yard. We were technically just outside the city limits, but there wasn't a street light for miles, so the sky was very dark.
So I'm not too impressed with the Way itself, but the sheer quantity of stars up there still takes me by surprise. Between any two stars, no matter how faint, you can always find another star.
But what's depressing is that all these stars are burning their energy simultaneously. In only a few dozen billion years, it'll all be gone.
It's called "magneto optical". Currently tops out around 6 GB on a 5.25" disk. Your 32 GB wish is not currently viable; the best we can do is the 25 GB Blu-Ray.
Monitors refresh as fast as the card tells them to. Many cards (and monitors) can go to 200 Hz, though the resolution may be limited.
Look into the loan terms of your 401k .. usually you get to keep the interest you pay. It might be worth shifting more of your mortgage to your own 401k.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a penguin.
They're just like bio viruses - they'll go as far as necessary to live, but the successful ones will stop before they kill the host.
You're thinking too big. Particles can have "quantum reactions" and "atomic reactions". (If there're terms for those, I dunno what they are.) If your particle is in superposition, a quantum reaction will leave it there, but won't tell you what happened. An atomic reaction will tell you what happened, but also collapse your particle to one state or another.
It has nothing to do with consciousness; merely putting the particle in a situation that requires it to choose a state will cause the wave function to collapse. The insight that QM brings is that particles won't choose a state until they absolutely have to.
And a cat can never be in a true superposition; all his atoms have already been collapsed. He will in fact be either dead or alive, you just won't know it.
That was apparantly posted in sarcasm, but this is exactly the thing I can't figure out. People keep suggesting new ways to make electronic voting secure and verifiable, but that's never been the problem. The paper trail is itself is the problem that electronic voting is meant to solve. You can't dictate leaders if you can't control the vote. The paper system is too hard to control, hence this new digital system.
Between proprietary gadgets that are hard to verify, and the DMCA which makes it illegal to verify, we're well on our way to a full dictatorship. It's too hard to force the populace to vote your way (especially under our constitution), so they've had to be much more devious about it.
(Wait, let me adjust my tinfoil.)
You might want to blame republicans for this situation, but it really took both major parties to do it -- Republicans take power from the public and give it to companies, while Liberals give it to government. This really couldn't have been done without both parties working together.
Who cares about the gadgets, just show me the leather bikinis.
Apparantly Zowie Interactive made a similar toy. It was a pirate ship with serial cable, and moving the pieces around would make your computer respond. Product disappeared without a trace; very little is on the net, and eBay has nothing.
Also apparantly, the company was bought by LEGO, so there may be hope.
These guys have all available info, including a link to the above MIT paper.
I'm not a commie myself, but the GPL really is communist. Marxist, I think: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Fortunately it's not forced communism; you're free to choose whether to participate.
But so many people have chosen the first part, that the second part has become possible.
-B
Shoot, I hate to repost, but it's more appropriate here than in the other topic. I just had a C-64 revival of my own the past week. I wanted to see how fast 1 MHz was, so I wrote a little sin graphing program in BASIC.
It sucked; 7 hours for a bitmap picture.
But my friend was not to be outdone, he went and optimized the thing, getting it down to 74 minutes.
And now he wants to know what program we'll be doing next. =^/
Slow version is on line, I'll put the fast version up soon. (Really! I promise!)
-B
I love my Commodore, but good l0rd was that thing slow. I just benched it with a sin(sqr()) function plotter, and it took 7 hours. Tabulating the sin(sqr()) function got that down to 74 minutes, but it's still sad.
You can see the picture and slow source code here: please slashdot me
I'll update with the fast code shortly.
All software sold today is sold as unsuitable for any purpose. It says that, right in the license. So claiming your software is insecure is moot; you didn't buy secure software. You just bought some crap off the shelf and expected it to meet your needs. It didn't; and nobody's surprised.
But this case is even worse than that -- It involves Microsoft's ware, which is known to be insecure. It's in the news every single day. Trusting your corporate secrets to of-the-shelf software is just stupid, doubly so for MS ware.