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So what the heck is an IDE? you give this explination but don't explain these advanced terms.
Technically it would be more correct asking "What is IDE?" instead of using "an IDE", since IDE is a type of hard disk... it's being replaced by SATA these days, but still nice and cheap. IDE descends from RLE hard drives... they were called that because of the "Run-Length Encoding" compression scheme they used to store data more efficiently. The Microsoft / Stacker case is a large part of why the industry left RLE HD's behind and moved to IDE. IDE of course stands for "Integer-Deliminated Encoding", which is a much more advanced storage mechanism that relies on wavelets and sometimes pixlets (But that's an Apple tech).
Moving on... On that what is Java? "It's written in java?" does that have something to do with coffee? You are correct here... "Written in Java" however is grammatically incorrect and should be "Written ON Java". This describes the programming method used to develop the Eclipse IDE hard disk technology. Since wavelet and pixlet compression using Integer-Deliminated Encoding is considered a form of "Extreme Programming", it requires a hefty intake of Java and other energy drinks such as Red Bull or Ballz. Using the new Kabbalah drinks qualifies your development style as "Black Arts" programming. I'm sure you remember seeing various books about Black Magic programming, Voodoo and of course the Linux bible... that's why religious wars about Operating Systems and text editors always come up here.
I could go on about the cult of the Penguin and the art of summoning daemons but I'd like to keep this post short and simple to help educate those who are new to programming.
I'm using OS X and the visual alerts pretty much cover my needs. The only stuff that bugs me is games or training videos with no text layovers. I like how PBS online packages their movies in a QT format with a little checkbox sprite for "subtitles". Hopefully all online movie sales in the future will have this... otherwise I'm gunna hafta sue somebody.;-)
But if you wanna make deaf people go WOW... include a built in voice recognition program that can handle anybody's voice without any training. That way laptops could be used in SOME situations instead of an interpreter... and someday in the future this could be used to auto transcribe TV shows and old movies that never had captions added. But now I'm just getting all Star Trek here.:-)
There IS a system of writing specifically made for the deaf, so that the full range of hand gestures and facial expressions can be conveyed without pictures and videos. (SignWriting) I think it's never going to really catch on though, videophones will kill it.
For a non-English skilled deaf person I'd say a Mac with an iSight and QT Pro would be great, can keep all your personal notes in your own language quickly and easily now. No need to depend on a 2nd language.
P.S. Deaf people LOVE iChat AV... once more of us get G5's, we're finally gonna have a deaf party line! SWEET! P.P.S. Bandwidth upload caps ruin our video performance... quit worrying about pirates and let us USE technology to make life better.
learn from Syndrome. Seriously, check out these quotes from the CEO of Archos:
I do not share the opinion that Apple's design for the iPod is any good. That's because I define great design in terms of fantastic machinery. And if you look inside the iPod's technology, it's quite common and unimpressive. It isn't anything special.
Nothing special? Is that why you say "Apple may have won a battle when it comes to music, but it remains to be seen whether it will win the war against Microsoft." Because you've already given up on that market. But see... you're just too GOOD for that "When Apple hit it big in 2003, we were no longer interested in the music-only category." But if you weren't even interested, then why did you call it a battle?
Yeah... who needs profit when you "continuously ride the wave of technology, so that means we tend to go away from the low end of the mass market." Goodness, who wants to be at the low end of the market... puhlease!
To paraphrase Mirage "Making a "simple" product is not weakness. And disregarding it is not strength!"
Bill Gates spews similar FUD against the iPod... it's too bad he can't allow himself to watch that movie, he could learn something Steve already knows.
I recently bought one of these babies: http://www.tristatecamera.com/LookAtAll-4g7uwbnl-C TAIPCAK-4-0054-0-store.php.html For my wife's iPod Mini... works great, was really cheap, and seems to be pretty similar to what's being blocked right now. I haven't seen the TransPods patent info yet, but is this one allowed since it doesn't sit on a movable tube or is that patent simply for all FM cigarette adaptor chargers? There's GOTTA be prior art on this, if they explicitly patented the idea of an iPod car charger with an FM tuner I can image Apple getting pretty pissed since they want as many iPod compatible products as possible. Yeah, I'd complain to Apple and they'd probably have a nice little chat with DLO about this.
Also uncertain is whether the Intel-based development kits seeded to developers already feature the EDID chip or whether the installation disc contains a less sophisticated installation check that simply seeks out one particular hardware configuration--the one given to developers--and will not install on other configurations.
I think the 2nd option is more likely. It's exactly what Apple has been doing with OS X for years. When you buy a Mac you get an install CD which is exactly like any other except each model comes with a "supported hardware" check as it installs. The eMac install will not work on a Mac mini, nor the iBook install on a Powerbook, etc... They all have a list of chipsets / CPU's and other hardware built in that they use to identify which system it's running on. (That is, assuming you don't have OF as these x86 Macs won't) All Apple has to do is keep doing what they've always done and you're pretty much locked into Apple hardware, I suspect they'll simply include drivers for their own chipsets and motherboards and tada... everyone is already locked out. There's no need to add extra hardware components simply to identify it as a Mac when Apple is the only one using a certain Mobo.
I've seen someone mention this before on Slashdot in some similar situation. IANAL but it basically seems to prevent someone from sitting around and allowing patent or copyright infringement until the infringer is generating a decent amount of income THEN suing them. Perhaps someone who really is a lawyer could fill in a little here. Would it apply in this case? If so it's a word all Slashdotters should know.:-)
Kinda have to interact to get those photons flowing into our eyes... necessarily if we can SEE anything in the past we are stealing some light from them. At the minimum we'd have to cast a shadow of some sort. Kinda bizarre if there's 2 black eyeballs floating around, but that are only visible from one side.
Unless we send a device that floats around and is like a piece of paper that absorbs light on one side and sends a copy of it out the other... actually it'd have to do that on both sides simultaneously. Hmmm... still pretty impossible-ish.
I found on the Wired article a link to Richard Feynman's talk on nano-tech back in the 50's. I've found it very interesting, although there's a few terms I'm unfamiliar with, I guess it's just 50's style lingo but here goes: When talking about possibly miniaturizing a car Feynman says:
What would be the utility of such machines? Who knows? Of course, a small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don't go that far.
I'm really not familiar with that usage of the word "Christian", what exactly was he saying there? I know "Catholic" can mean all embracing or universal, but have never heard of another usage for "Christian" except the religion. He's not really saying "Since we're Christians we aren't interested in making cars for bugs" right? That doesn't make any sense. So what's it mean?
Let's speculate about a future labor union, let's call it "Linux". Now let's talk about the actions of a few individuals whom the the general Open Source movement definitely does NOT approve of. A few idiots DOS attack SCO and Enderle describes it as:
In a coordinated combination of attacks which included a broad DOS attack on Sys-Con and an e-mail attack on Sys-Con's advertisers, Linux effectively made good on a threat that is beyond even Microsoft's reach, and often beyond the U.S. government's reach. That threat is putting your company out of business if the desired result is not achieved.
This man is steeped in FUD and misinformation. Perhaps the Linux guys get why all the Apple fans hate this dude with a passion. And ya know what... he thrives on anger and hate-mail. The man does nothing but troll for readers and me... I guess I've fed the troll. D'oh.
Weren't the LISA's the ones that wouldn't sell so they actually buried their whole stock of them in some unknown place in the desert? It's been a long time, wonder who knows the location.
From what I read the ATI 4.5.1 drivers will also let you do the screen rotates, might give that a try if you're still stuck. I was looking for a way to do it in the terminal, but no luck so far. Hope that helps.
Heheh... mine got stuck too, took a few quits and re-starts of the Sys Prefs to get the option to pop up again, just keep at it with that option key and eventually you'll see it again. I still think this is a GREAT prank.:-D
Furthermore, God's creator would Herself be complex, and therefore would also require a creator, who would also require a creator of His own, who would.... anyway, you get the idea.
I'm just guessing here but it's probably related to Quartz 2D and lack of VRAM. Your system might be shuttling several copies of the windows onto the videocard while doing the Expose effect instead of leaving them all in RAM while doing some of the effects on the CPU as it did in Panther.
Notice in the Panther shot there's a bit of Quartz 2D done in RAM before the result is shuttled off to the video card. I can't explain this near as well as the MAN.
Quick apologies on that other post of mine, I followed the wrong link after reading your comment. Went to https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/khtml-devel/2004-Ju ly/001068.html instead of the blog post you had there. Clearly you weren't ignoring anything, and Apple DOES need to improve this.
So did you just ignore Hyatt's reply to that post and the subsequent discussion they had or do you honestly believe that Apple is intentionally abusing the GPL and making life hard for them?
I'll quote a little bit for you here: Incremental patches for large features like HTML editing would have been fairly pointless. I'd argue that even merging it now in its current state would be of little benefit.
That's kind of true huh? Working on new features for their next release, it wouldn't really make much sense to send them all the new bugs he's made until it's production quality wouldn't you say?
I know bashing Apple is popular given their current popularity which many find repulsive, but they actually are good citizens when it comes to GPL code. Do they release as frequently as we'd like? No, but timeframe of releases isn't covered under the GPL. They've gotten better, and will continue to improve.
Here's my favorite quote: I've been talking with Peter Glakowsky and... he has a Newton MessagePad 2000. And it works. Very, very cool.
I truly hope he's being sarcastic or... SOMETHING. Anything but admitting he never even gave them a look back in 1997. Of course it still works, of course it's very very cool. Is he finally reconsidering all those years of Apple bashing?
Wrong. This holds to the idea that "only whites can deal with whites", "only Asians with Asians", etc. A sort of apartheid when dealing with customers!
Kind of the like race matching you see on TV when reporters interview someone. I can just imagine in the studio "Okay, who's gonna interview so and so?" "Oh wait, but she's black/asian, we'd better send a black/asian so they'll 'click". You start to notice the minority interviewers that only seem to pop up when someone of the same race is around. There's gotta be a word for that.
Interesting story, the only thing I'd add is don't pretend it's an accident. You're the parent here, set the right example by being honest with the kid about the problem. You said he's smart, so I don't think he'll fall for the "Whoops, and accident" excuse. What would keep you from simply re-installing it? Oh... are you going to lose the CD too? You're gonna snowball that way.
Nothing wrong with setting a few rules around the house, the kid's gotta get used to them cuz the world is full of them.
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So what the heck is an IDE? you give this explination but don't explain these advanced terms.
Technically it would be more correct asking "What is IDE?" instead of using "an IDE", since IDE is a type of hard disk... it's being replaced by SATA these days, but still nice and cheap. IDE descends from RLE hard drives... they were called that because of the "Run-Length Encoding" compression scheme they used to store data more efficiently. The Microsoft / Stacker case is a large part of why the industry left RLE HD's behind and moved to IDE. IDE of course stands for "Integer-Deliminated Encoding", which is a much more advanced storage mechanism that relies on wavelets and sometimes pixlets (But that's an Apple tech).
Moving on...
On that what is Java? "It's written in java?" does that have something to do with coffee?
You are correct here... "Written in Java" however is grammatically incorrect and should be "Written ON Java". This describes the programming method used to develop the Eclipse IDE hard disk technology. Since wavelet and pixlet compression using Integer-Deliminated Encoding is considered a form of "Extreme Programming", it requires a hefty intake of Java and other energy drinks such as Red Bull or Ballz. Using the new Kabbalah drinks qualifies your development style as "Black Arts" programming. I'm sure you remember seeing various books about Black Magic programming, Voodoo and of course the Linux bible... that's why religious wars about Operating Systems and text editors always come up here.
I could go on about the cult of the Penguin and the art of summoning daemons but I'd like to keep this post short and simple to help educate those who are new to programming.
I'm using OS X and the visual alerts pretty much cover my needs. The only stuff that bugs me is games or training videos with no text layovers. I like how PBS online packages their movies in a QT format with a little checkbox sprite for "subtitles". Hopefully all online movie sales in the future will have this... otherwise I'm gunna hafta sue somebody. ;-)
:-)
But if you wanna make deaf people go WOW... include a built in voice recognition program that can handle anybody's voice without any training. That way laptops could be used in SOME situations instead of an interpreter... and someday in the future this could be used to auto transcribe TV shows and old movies that never had captions added. But now I'm just getting all Star Trek here.
There IS a system of writing specifically made for the deaf, so that the full range of hand gestures and facial expressions can be conveyed without pictures and videos. (SignWriting) I think it's never going to really catch on though, videophones will kill it.
For a non-English skilled deaf person I'd say a Mac with an iSight and QT Pro would be great, can keep all your personal notes in your own language quickly and easily now. No need to depend on a 2nd language.
P.S. Deaf people LOVE iChat AV... once more of us get G5's, we're finally gonna have a deaf party line! SWEET!
P.P.S. Bandwidth upload caps ruin our video performance... quit worrying about pirates and let us USE technology to make life better.
learn from Syndrome. Seriously, check out these quotes from the CEO of Archos :
I do not share the opinion that Apple's design for the iPod is any good. That's because I define great design in terms of fantastic machinery. And if you look inside the iPod's technology, it's quite common and unimpressive. It isn't anything special.
Nothing special? Is that why you say "Apple may have won a battle when it comes to music, but it remains to be seen whether it will win the war against Microsoft." Because you've already given up on that market. But see... you're just too GOOD for that "When Apple hit it big in 2003, we were no longer interested in the music-only category." But if you weren't even interested, then why did you call it a battle?
Yeah... who needs profit when you "continuously ride the wave of technology, so that means we tend to go away from the low end of the mass market." Goodness, who wants to be at the low end of the market... puhlease!
To paraphrase Mirage "Making a "simple" product is not weakness. And disregarding it is not strength!"
Bill Gates spews similar FUD against the iPod... it's too bad he can't allow himself to watch that movie, he could learn something Steve already knows.
I recently bought one of these babies :C TAIPCAK-4-0054-0-store.php.html
http://www.tristatecamera.com/LookAtAll-4g7uwbnl-
For my wife's iPod Mini... works great, was really cheap, and seems to be pretty similar to what's being blocked right now. I haven't seen the TransPods patent info yet, but is this one allowed since it doesn't sit on a movable tube or is that patent simply for all FM cigarette adaptor chargers? There's GOTTA be prior art on this, if they explicitly patented the idea of an iPod car charger with an FM tuner I can image Apple getting pretty pissed since they want as many iPod compatible products as possible. Yeah, I'd complain to Apple and they'd probably have a nice little chat with DLO about this.
Also uncertain is whether the Intel-based development kits seeded to developers already feature the EDID chip or whether the installation disc contains a less sophisticated installation check that simply seeks out one particular hardware configuration--the one given to developers--and will not install on other configurations.
I think the 2nd option is more likely. It's exactly what Apple has been doing with OS X for years. When you buy a Mac you get an install CD which is exactly like any other except each model comes with a "supported hardware" check as it installs. The eMac install will not work on a Mac mini, nor the iBook install on a Powerbook, etc... They all have a list of chipsets / CPU's and other hardware built in that they use to identify which system it's running on. (That is, assuming you don't have OF as these x86 Macs won't) All Apple has to do is keep doing what they've always done and you're pretty much locked into Apple hardware, I suspect they'll simply include drivers for their own chipsets and motherboards and tada... everyone is already locked out. There's no need to add extra hardware components simply to identify it as a Mac when Apple is the only one using a certain Mobo.
-Don.
Hey I love making fun of rich spoiled brats like everyone else, but Britney simply didn't say that.
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http://www.gawker.com/news/media/us-weekly/liftin
I've seen someone mention this before on Slashdot in some similar situation. IANAL but it basically seems to prevent someone from sitting around and allowing patent or copyright infringement until the infringer is generating a decent amount of income THEN suing them. Perhaps someone who really is a lawyer could fill in a little here. Would it apply in this case? If so it's a word all Slashdotters should know. :-)
-Don.
Kinda have to interact to get those photons flowing into our eyes... necessarily if we can SEE anything in the past we are stealing some light from them. At the minimum we'd have to cast a shadow of some sort. Kinda bizarre if there's 2 black eyeballs floating around, but that are only visible from one side.
Unless we send a device that floats around and is like a piece of paper that absorbs light on one side and sends a copy of it out the other... actually it'd have to do that on both sides simultaneously. Hmmm... still pretty impossible-ish.
Maybe... but nothing prevents you from going back and kissing your mom. :-}
I found on the Wired article a link to Richard Feynman's talk on nano-tech back in the 50's. I've found it very interesting, although there's a few terms I'm unfamiliar with, I guess it's just 50's style lingo but here goes: When talking about possibly miniaturizing a car Feynman says :
What would be the utility of such machines? Who knows? Of course, a small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don't go that far.
I'm really not familiar with that usage of the word "Christian", what exactly was he saying there? I know "Catholic" can mean all embracing or universal, but have never heard of another usage for "Christian" except the religion. He's not really saying "Since we're Christians we aren't interested in making cars for bugs" right? That doesn't make any sense. So what's it mean?
-Don.
Let's speculate about a future labor union, let's call it "Linux". Now let's talk about the actions of a few individuals whom the the general Open Source movement definitely does NOT approve of. A few idiots DOS attack SCO and Enderle describes it as :
In a coordinated combination of attacks which included a broad DOS attack on Sys-Con and an e-mail attack on Sys-Con's advertisers, Linux effectively made good on a threat that is beyond even Microsoft's reach, and often beyond the U.S. government's reach. That threat is putting your company out of business if the desired result is not achieved.
This man is steeped in FUD and misinformation. Perhaps the Linux guys get why all the Apple fans hate this dude with a passion. And ya know what... he thrives on anger and hate-mail. The man does nothing but troll for readers and me... I guess I've fed the troll. D'oh.
That's not intelligence, that's wisdom.
Weren't the LISA's the ones that wouldn't sell so they actually buried their whole stock of them in some unknown place in the desert? It's been a long time, wonder who knows the location.
From what I read the ATI 4.5.1 drivers will also let you do the screen rotates, might give that a try if you're still stuck. I was looking for a way to do it in the terminal, but no luck so far. Hope that helps.
Heheh... mine got stuck too, took a few quits and re-starts of the Sys Prefs to get the option to pop up again, just keep at it with that option key and eventually you'll see it again. I still think this is a GREAT prank. :-D
God is complex, therefore God requires a creator.
.... anyway, you get the idea.
Furthermore, God's creator would Herself be complex, and therefore would also require a creator, who would also require a creator of His own, who would
That's exactly what Mormons believe.
I'm just guessing here but it's probably related to Quartz 2D and lack of VRAM. Your system might be shuttling several copies of the windows onto the videocard while doing the Expose effect instead of leaving them all in RAM while doing some of the effects on the CPU as it did in Panther.
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Check out these pics.
http://ars.ord.cachenetworks.com/images/tiger/qua
Notice in the Panther shot there's a bit of Quartz 2D done in RAM before the result is shuttled off to the video card. I can't explain this near as well as the MAN.
Check "The devils in the details" here http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars
-Don.
Quick apologies on that other post of mine, I followed the wrong link after reading your comment. Went to https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/khtml-devel/2004-Ju ly/001068.html instead of the blog post you had there. Clearly you weren't ignoring anything, and Apple DOES need to improve this.
So did you just ignore Hyatt's reply to that post and the subsequent discussion they had or do you honestly believe that Apple is intentionally abusing the GPL and making life hard for them?
:
I'll quote a little bit for you here
Incremental patches for large features like HTML editing would have been fairly pointless. I'd argue that even merging it now in its current state would be of little benefit.
That's kind of true huh? Working on new features for their next release, it wouldn't really make much sense to send them all the new bugs he's made until it's production quality wouldn't you say?
I know bashing Apple is popular given their current popularity which many find repulsive, but they actually are good citizens when it comes to GPL code. Do they release as frequently as we'd like? No, but timeframe of releases isn't covered under the GPL. They've gotten better, and will continue to improve.
Heheh... mostest funliest reply.
Is their editor drunk or is this standard British English?
:-)
The Wandering Spider is one of the world's most deadliest spiders
Is this called a "double positive"?
Here's my favorite quote : ... he has a Newton MessagePad 2000. And it works. Very, very cool.
I've been talking with Peter Glakowsky and
I truly hope he's being sarcastic or... SOMETHING. Anything but admitting he never even gave them a look back in 1997. Of course it still works, of course it's very very cool. Is he finally reconsidering all those years of Apple bashing?
Intelligent as a 4 year old? Wow... teach it Go.
Wrong. This holds to the idea that "only whites can deal with whites", "only Asians with Asians", etc. A sort of apartheid when dealing with customers!
Kind of the like race matching you see on TV when reporters interview someone. I can just imagine in the studio "Okay, who's gonna interview so and so?" "Oh wait, but she's black/asian, we'd better send a black/asian so they'll 'click". You start to notice the minority interviewers that only seem to pop up when someone of the same race is around. There's gotta be a word for that.
Interesting story, the only thing I'd add is don't pretend it's an accident. You're the parent here, set the right example by being honest with the kid about the problem. You said he's smart, so I don't think he'll fall for the "Whoops, and accident" excuse. What would keep you from simply re-installing it? Oh... are you going to lose the CD too? You're gonna snowball that way.
:-)
Nothing wrong with setting a few rules around the house, the kid's gotta get used to them cuz the world is full of them.
None of my business though... have a nice day.