What's even scarier are the Christian colleges in the south using myspace to expell students who do not necessarily live up to or agree with their college's hyper-conservative model.
It's sick and disgusting that practices like these are still allowed in the US. Nobody should have to hide who they are. A college expulsion these days is like having a criminal record.
I've always found the/etc/ to be the funniest part of that path.
This is one of the telltale remaints of the BSD-derived TCP/IP stack that NT/XP uses.
Although the stack itself has been heavily modified, using/etc/ as the location for the hosts file still remains, along with other little hints -- ftp.exe is almost identical to the BSD FTP utility. BSD also gets properly credited in the XP copyright notice
This is pretty normal operating procedure from what I understand.
Everybody wins. The studio gets free props, and Apple gets free advertising. If anything, it works out better for apple, as they get free advertising.
That said, I think that apple products get chosen by the set designers simply because they're the most stylish/fashionible. If you want a futuristic, high-tech set (ie. 24), Apple's the way to go. It's their job to make the set look good.
Seriously. Even though I use iTunes for most of my music listening, I keep a copy of Winamp lying around. It can play virtually every format under the sun, and do just about anything through its plugin interface. It's one of the few "pluggable" apps that was done right the first time around.
The instant loading times and tiny memory footprint (even on old machines) are nice too. iTunes is nice, but I can't help but think of how unnecessarily bloated it is considering how limited its functionality is compared to winamp. But still.... you just can't compete with the iTunes UI.
Friendster -- Mostly Dead. Don't know of anyone who still uses it
Facebook -- Most (virtually all) college kids. Not just restricted to the frat boys/meatheads. (Although it did start out in the Ivy League, so I can see how it initially got that reputation....)
Myspace -- Highschoolers, creeps, and musicians (The free music is probably the only redeeming thing about the site). Kinda scary that I get propositioned for sex on my almost completely blank profile with no picture.
Evite -- 20-30-something singles looking to socialize. The service most likely to be used by the cast of 'Friends'.
there were dozens of other mildly successful photography communities before flickr came along, many of which covered the social networking aspect of flickr much better.
flickr simply has the best mix of community and design out there, hence its success among pro photographers and occasional shutterbugs alike.
facebook is another example. It's basically a well-designed myspace for college kids with proper privacy features. It took hold in a market where dozens of other sites had failed miserably. The design's clean, the site's never been slow to memory (despite exponential growth). Because of this, it is far more prevalent than Myspace among college kids. At my medium-sized state school, I'd estimate that about 90%+ of the student body uses facebook regularly. It's that popular. It's preferred over myspace because it's fast, usable, and not creepy.
will help reduce environmental pollution compared to the existing electric and diesel engines
hold on a sec.... Electric train engines produce pollution? How is that possible?
Granted, a fair amount of power is lost in the transmission lines, but given that they're run at such a high voltage to begin with, that shouldn't be a huge issue (P=I^2*R). Is more power lost in the transmission process than the process necessary to manufacture and produce all this hydrogen and oxygen?
Fuel Cells are nifty as an energy storage medium, but for trains, they seem wholly inappropriate, especially when electric trains eliminate the need for a storage medium at all (and in a country as densly populated as Japan, this shouldn't be an issue at all)
I've got one of the early versions that were the first to support VNC.
It works fine for me. My only complaints are that it's less responsive than a Win32 Tight/UltraVNC server.
Likewise, I occasionally have problems with the VNCServer hanging, and have to SSH in and terminate the process. I understand this bug was fixed in subsequent versions, however.
Given their track record with these sort of things, this probe is going to make a perfect soft 3-point landing, remaining perfectly intact and unscratched.
If NASA wants this thing to work, they'll build another copy of Beagle-2 and point it at the moon.
This is more likely than not the motiviation behind this move.
Even if google doesn't need this guy, you can be assured that Yahoo, Microsoft, and co. DO need this guy, and the fact that he may very well indeed positively contribute to Google's search algorithms makes it a good choice for google to hire this guy. In short, the risks associated with not hiring him are far too great.
I for one am glad that Google is finally acquring technologies relating to their original business model rather than their string of oddball acquisitions lately...
This is my laptop case. It keeps my laptop snug and padded while it's in my backpack, or when I'm toting it from place to place.
It's small, distinctive, stylish, and does exactly, and only what it's intended to do. Carries my laptop and the power cord.
What's even nicer is that apart from the shape, nobody would ever guess it's a laptop sleeve.
And apart from that, the people who run the company are amazing people. Shortly after I ordered mine, I got mine, I got an email from the company informing me that they were running 2-3 days behind schedule because they ran out of material, and that they'd rush mail it to me once they got more in stock. Once I got it (ahead of schedule), inside the bag was a hand-written card addressed to me apologizing for the short delay. Very professional, and uber-friendly.
Xenix was a pretty terrible form of Unix. Microsoft had plenty of other reasons for dropping it, and I for one have no problem with their final decision to axe the product, regardless of their motivation behind it.
Speaking of college, my roommates and I are dedicated to the N64. One of us owns a gamecube.
In the college demographic, I'd say that there a ridiculous number of N64s, a fair number of gamecubes, and a handful of XBoxes that are only used to play Halo.
Face it. Nintendo's cheap, and they've got the games that are the most fun to play in a large group. Super Smash Bros is the ultimate party game. Mario Kart 64 is elegant in its simplicity and replayability.
A lot of that has to do not only with Mach, but simply with the fact that up until recently, a lot of OSX applications (specifically, those built on Carbon) were not multithreaded. In other words, if one bit of the application hangs or times out, the application and everything that depends on it goes to hell.
This is why BeOS appeared to be lightning fast on even slow machines. Even the smallest tasks were executed independently, and bottlenecks were hardly noticiable.
Apple's doing a good job making everything work, and Cocoa is definitely a step in the right direction, but apple really needs to kill all of the single-threaded applications they've got now. The Finder is the most prolific and outrageous example of this, and anybody who's ever lost a network connection while a network share was mounted knows what I'm talking about (the system virtually hangs for 45 seconds until the connection times out. awful. simply awful)
The only way that war becomes "fair" is if both sides incur the same 'cost' of the war
FAIR, who the hell wants war to be fair?!?? Anyone actually going to war wants it to be as unfair, as brutal, and as lopsided as possible. War is not a fucking soccer match.
EXACTLY! Once you reach a certain point, it all becomes imperialism, and when there's very little human or financial cost to that war, the general public sees no reason not to go to war. This was the mindset we had going into Iraq. It would be quick, not many American soldiers would die, and the costs would be relatively low. We're on our way to making that a reality, and once we do, any enemey of the United States would be insane to attack the military, and instead is forced to resort to attacking civillians instead.
It appals me how little regard we've given to the deaths on the other side in Iraq, or any recent conflict for that matter. "We're killing Terrorists/Nazis/VietCong -- that's clearly a good thing."
Guess what? Terrorists are people too, and if it weren't for our ass-backward policies, they wouldn't be terrorists at all.
If you provoke someone to the point where they pull a gun on you, and you then them in self-defense, it's still murder.
The more money we have to pay and the more lives we have to put at stake in order to go to war, the less likely it is that we actually do go to war.
The only way that war becomes "fair" is if both sides incur the same 'cost' of the war (monetary, soldier deaths, civilian deaths, etc.). If 33,773 American soldiers or civillians died because of our involvement there, we'd be pulling our troops out as fast as we possibly could.
With this, we're spending less money and putting fewer lives at risk to kill a proportionally higher number of foreign militants. At what point does war become a targeted genocide? We're putting our enemies in a position where their only method of directing their anger twoard us is by targeting civillians in suicide attacks. This scares the hell out of me.
Not necessarily. If you have a good media core, you can build lots of excellent applications on it, and open it up to 3rd party developers to do the same.
Apple's done this with Quicktime and more recently, Core Image. Final Cut, iMovie, iTunes, Quicktime Player, Preview, and iPhoto are all merely shells on top of these amazingly powerful libraries.
(Note to windows users: Please don't compare Quicktime on mac to Quicktime on Windows. Quicktime on mac is actually optimized for the platform, and is used by virtually every multimedia application that runs natively in OS X simply because there's no reason not to.)
This is why you need good core media libraries. Windows is sorely lacking in this department. I have serious doubts that the XBox team can scrape things together in time, and selecting people from that department seems just a tad desparate to me.
WiMP is a shitty media core. It's slow, crashy, and sucks at rendering video. Winamp had a beautiful, ridiculously lightweight media core (Winamp5 Lite is about 1mb). VLC is also relatively lightweight, extremely powerful, and is supported on every platform imaginable. Any developer who uses the WiMP libraries is a fool.
In order for a modern OS to be successful, you need a strong set of multimedia libraries built-in. OSX has it. Linux now has it. Windows doesn't.
Hard-drive prices aren't falling nearly as fast as they were a few years ago.
The price of flash, on the other hand, is in a total free-fall. We're paying a lot less than $50/gb right now. 10 years ago we were paying close to $50/mb.
You also have the issue that laptop drives tend to be pretty small due to space and heat restrictions. The biggest laptop HD I've seen is 120gb, and drives that big are rare and expensive. If you could get a speedy solid-state 60gb drive for about $300, the market for it would be huge
And yet, every radio DJ in the country shouts out their myspace address and the sheeple have a collective orgasm over the site.
<smack>I think that may be because their tastes in web design are reflective of their poor musical choices </smack>
I think we're in the midst of a widespread epidemic of tone-deafness among radio DJs and high-schoolers over the past 5 years. We've seen someofthebestdamnmusiceverproduced in the past few years, and it gets hardly any airplay on the radio. Thanks to the internet, however, these bands are actually able to enjoy a huge degree of commercial success. File sharing may hurt the top 40 artists, but it gives a huge advantage to artists that would have never otherwise had a chance to succeed.
Oh, true. Whenever I make a new design, I'll usually create a mock-up in Photoshop firsthand.
I then slice out the graphic elements that can't be recreated with CSS, and print out the mock-up on a big 11x17 sheet, and tack it up next to my screen, and then make a CSS layout to produce the same effect.
There was a time when it was consdiered a good idea by mant to almost exclusively use photoshop slices to create a design.
Someday, I pray to god that we'll have a decent WYSIWIG CSS/Layout editor so that we can prototype and design visually. I don't get why we haven't been able to do this properly yet. CSSEdit is the only thing I've used that even comes close.
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What's even scarier are the Christian colleges in the south using myspace to expell students who do not necessarily live up to or agree with their college's hyper-conservative model.
It's sick and disgusting that practices like these are still allowed in the US. Nobody should have to hide who they are. A college expulsion these days is like having a criminal record.
I've always found the /etc/ to be the funniest part of that path.
/etc/ as the location for the hosts file still remains, along with other little hints -- ftp.exe is almost identical to the BSD FTP utility. BSD also gets properly credited in the XP copyright notice
This is one of the telltale remaints of the BSD-derived TCP/IP stack that NT/XP uses.
Although the stack itself has been heavily modified, using
This is pretty normal operating procedure from what I understand.
Everybody wins. The studio gets free props, and Apple gets free advertising. If anything, it works out better for apple, as they get free advertising.
That said, I think that apple products get chosen by the set designers simply because they're the most stylish/fashionible. If you want a futuristic, high-tech set (ie. 24), Apple's the way to go. It's their job to make the set look good.
Sounds a lot like Winamp.
Seriously. Even though I use iTunes for most of my music listening, I keep a copy of Winamp lying around. It can play virtually every format under the sun, and do just about anything through its plugin interface. It's one of the few "pluggable" apps that was done right the first time around.
The instant loading times and tiny memory footprint (even on old machines) are nice too. iTunes is nice, but I can't help but think of how unnecessarily bloated it is considering how limited its functionality is compared to winamp. But still.... you just can't compete with the iTunes UI.
We'll have to wait two days on that one....
Friendster -- Mostly Dead. Don't know of anyone who still uses it
Facebook -- Most (virtually all) college kids. Not just restricted to the frat boys/meatheads. (Although it did start out in the Ivy League, so I can see how it initially got that reputation....)
Myspace -- Highschoolers, creeps, and musicians (The free music is probably the only redeeming thing about the site). Kinda scary that I get propositioned for sex on my almost completely blank profile with no picture.
Evite -- 20-30-something singles looking to socialize. The service most likely to be used by the cast of 'Friends'.
Not always. flickr is a good example
there were dozens of other mildly successful photography communities before flickr came along, many of which covered the social networking aspect of flickr much better.
flickr simply has the best mix of community and design out there, hence its success among pro photographers and occasional shutterbugs alike.
facebook is another example. It's basically a well-designed myspace for college kids with proper privacy features. It took hold in a market where dozens of other sites had failed miserably. The design's clean, the site's never been slow to memory (despite exponential growth). Because of this, it is far more prevalent than Myspace among college kids. At my medium-sized state school, I'd estimate that about 90%+ of the student body uses facebook regularly. It's that popular. It's preferred over myspace because it's fast, usable, and not creepy.
This is easily every mac user's worst nightmare.
Turning on your shiny new iMac to see it boot into windows no matter what you do.... the horror!
hold on a sec.... Electric train engines produce pollution? How is that possible?
Granted, a fair amount of power is lost in the transmission lines, but given that they're run at such a high voltage to begin with, that shouldn't be a huge issue (P=I^2*R). Is more power lost in the transmission process than the process necessary to manufacture and produce all this hydrogen and oxygen?
Fuel Cells are nifty as an energy storage medium, but for trains, they seem wholly inappropriate, especially when electric trains eliminate the need for a storage medium at all (and in a country as densly populated as Japan, this shouldn't be an issue at all)
I've got one of the early versions that were the first to support VNC.
It works fine for me. My only complaints are that it's less responsive than a Win32 Tight/UltraVNC server.
Likewise, I occasionally have problems with the VNCServer hanging, and have to SSH in and terminate the process. I understand this bug was fixed in subsequent versions, however.
Given their track record with these sort of things, this probe is going to make a perfect soft 3-point landing, remaining perfectly intact and unscratched.
If NASA wants this thing to work, they'll build another copy of Beagle-2 and point it at the moon.
Mod parent up.
This is more likely than not the motiviation behind this move.
Even if google doesn't need this guy, you can be assured that Yahoo, Microsoft, and co. DO need this guy, and the fact that he may very well indeed positively contribute to Google's search algorithms makes it a good choice for google to hire this guy. In short, the risks associated with not hiring him are far too great.
I for one am glad that Google is finally acquring technologies relating to their original business model rather than their string of oddball acquisitions lately...
This is my laptop case. It keeps my laptop snug and padded while it's in my backpack, or when I'm toting it from place to place.
It's small, distinctive, stylish, and does exactly, and only what it's intended to do. Carries my laptop and the power cord.
What's even nicer is that apart from the shape, nobody would ever guess it's a laptop sleeve.
And apart from that, the people who run the company are amazing people. Shortly after I ordered mine, I got mine, I got an email from the company informing me that they were running 2-3 days behind schedule because they ran out of material, and that they'd rush mail it to me once they got more in stock. Once I got it (ahead of schedule), inside the bag was a hand-written card addressed to me apologizing for the short delay. Very professional, and uber-friendly.
Xenix was a pretty terrible form of Unix. Microsoft had plenty of other reasons for dropping it, and I for one have no problem with their final decision to axe the product, regardless of their motivation behind it.
Speaking of college, my roommates and I are dedicated to the N64. One of us owns a gamecube.
In the college demographic, I'd say that there a ridiculous number of N64s, a fair number of gamecubes, and a handful of XBoxes that are only used to play Halo.
Face it. Nintendo's cheap, and they've got the games that are the most fun to play in a large group. Super Smash Bros is the ultimate party game. Mario Kart 64 is elegant in its simplicity and replayability.
A lot of that has to do not only with Mach, but simply with the fact that up until recently, a lot of OSX applications (specifically, those built on Carbon) were not multithreaded. In other words, if one bit of the application hangs or times out, the application and everything that depends on it goes to hell.
This is why BeOS appeared to be lightning fast on even slow machines. Even the smallest tasks were executed independently, and bottlenecks were hardly noticiable.
Apple's doing a good job making everything work, and Cocoa is definitely a step in the right direction, but apple really needs to kill all of the single-threaded applications they've got now. The Finder is the most prolific and outrageous example of this, and anybody who's ever lost a network connection while a network share was mounted knows what I'm talking about (the system virtually hangs for 45 seconds until the connection times out. awful. simply awful)
Otherwise, I love OSX.
EXACTLY! Once you reach a certain point, it all becomes imperialism, and when there's very little human or financial cost to that war, the general public sees no reason not to go to war. This was the mindset we had going into Iraq. It would be quick, not many American soldiers would die, and the costs would be relatively low. We're on our way to making that a reality, and once we do, any enemey of the United States would be insane to attack the military, and instead is forced to resort to attacking civillians instead.
It appals me how little regard we've given to the deaths on the other side in Iraq, or any recent conflict for that matter. "We're killing Terrorists/Nazis/VietCong -- that's clearly a good thing."
Guess what? Terrorists are people too, and if it weren't for our ass-backward policies, they wouldn't be terrorists at all.
If you provoke someone to the point where they pull a gun on you, and you then them in self-defense, it's still murder.
I don't like this trend at all.
The more money we have to pay and the more lives we have to put at stake in order to go to war, the less likely it is that we actually do go to war.
The only way that war becomes "fair" is if both sides incur the same 'cost' of the war (monetary, soldier deaths, civilian deaths, etc.). If 33,773 American soldiers or civillians died because of our involvement there, we'd be pulling our troops out as fast as we possibly could.
With this, we're spending less money and putting fewer lives at risk to kill a proportionally higher number of foreign militants. At what point does war become a targeted genocide? We're putting our enemies in a position where their only method of directing their anger twoard us is by targeting civillians in suicide attacks. This scares the hell out of me.
Not necessarily. If you have a good media core, you can build lots of excellent applications on it, and open it up to 3rd party developers to do the same.
Apple's done this with Quicktime and more recently, Core Image. Final Cut, iMovie, iTunes, Quicktime Player, Preview, and iPhoto are all merely shells on top of these amazingly powerful libraries.
(Note to windows users: Please don't compare Quicktime on mac to Quicktime on Windows. Quicktime on mac is actually optimized for the platform, and is used by virtually every multimedia application that runs natively in OS X simply because there's no reason not to.)
This is why you need good core media libraries. Windows is sorely lacking in this department. I have serious doubts that the XBox team can scrape things together in time, and selecting people from that department seems just a tad desparate to me.
WiMP is a shitty media core. It's slow, crashy, and sucks at rendering video. Winamp had a beautiful, ridiculously lightweight media core (Winamp5 Lite is about 1mb). VLC is also relatively lightweight, extremely powerful, and is supported on every platform imaginable. Any developer who uses the WiMP libraries is a fool.
In order for a modern OS to be successful, you need a strong set of multimedia libraries built-in. OSX has it. Linux now has it. Windows doesn't.
I understand that CPUs and GPUs have dramatically different roles.
However, how difficult would it be to write an operating system that offloaded floating point operations to the GPU, and everything else to the CPU.
Seems like that would be making the most efficent use of available resources..... (then again, isn't that the idea of the Cell processor?)
Hard-drive prices aren't falling nearly as fast as they were a few years ago.
The price of flash, on the other hand, is in a total free-fall. We're paying a lot less than $50/gb right now. 10 years ago we were paying close to $50/mb.
You also have the issue that laptop drives tend to be pretty small due to space and heat restrictions. The biggest laptop HD I've seen is 120gb, and drives that big are rare and expensive. If you could get a speedy solid-state 60gb drive for about $300, the market for it would be huge
Olbigatory link to a much bigger list.
And yet, every radio DJ in the country shouts out their myspace address and the sheeple have a collective orgasm over the site.
<smack>I think that may be because their tastes in web design are reflective of their poor musical choices </smack>
I think we're in the midst of a widespread epidemic of tone-deafness among radio DJs and high-schoolers over the past 5 years. We've seen some of the best damn music ever produced in the past few years, and it gets hardly any airplay on the radio. Thanks to the internet, however, these bands are actually able to enjoy a huge degree of commercial success. File sharing may hurt the top 40 artists, but it gives a huge advantage to artists that would have never otherwise had a chance to succeed.
Oh, true. Whenever I make a new design, I'll usually create a mock-up in Photoshop firsthand.
I then slice out the graphic elements that can't be recreated with CSS, and print out the mock-up on a big 11x17 sheet, and tack it up next to my screen, and then make a CSS layout to produce the same effect.
There was a time when it was consdiered a good idea by mant to almost exclusively use photoshop slices to create a design.
Someday, I pray to god that we'll have a decent WYSIWIG CSS/Layout editor so that we can prototype and design visually. I don't get why we haven't been able to do this properly yet. CSSEdit is the only thing I've used that even comes close.