On starting emacs, I was presented with: "Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)"
This sequence acts as a backspace key and has no effect on emacs itself other than to delete the random sentences it seems to have filled its default buffer with. Neat trick!
I realize you are probably just trolling, but this doesn't make much sense. In most applications, C-h acts as a backspace key. However in emacs, it acts as the help key prefix. Pressing C-h will not delete characters unless you first redefine it in your.emacs to do something else. So you were obviously pressing something other than C-h. Perhaps you were pressing backspace, mistakenly believing that it was sending C-h, when it was not...
It also seems to have a friendly menu at the top which cannot be reached by any key combination.
I agree. I'm sick of all this recent BS about how bad MP3 is. I think it's blown out of proportion. I find 256kbps to be indistinguishable from the original CD in every case I've heard, and 192kbps indistinguishable in 99% of all cases (I originally ripped my 200+ CD collection at 192kbps). The thing I notice more than lost high end, is that that complex pieces sometimes sounds "muddy". However, I have noticed on some occasions where I hear this muddiness, that if I go and listen to the original, I hear it there as well. But I never noticed it in casual listening of the CD before, only when I was listening for imperfections in the MP3s. If you are listening for imperfections because you think MP3s are lower quality, you are more likely to find them.
Though I do find it funny that in the late 80's there was all that crap about the ink they use on CD's eating through the CD and rendering unplayable within seven years. Even made the mainstream media. Turned out to be utter garbage, surprise surprise. I've got CD's that are 20 years old and still play just fine. I actually have one CD which I bought used which had that happen. No idea what may have been done to it before I bought it that may have caused it, or if it was a manufacturing defect. But it did get worse over time. It was not completely unplayable last I checked, but it sounded like a very scratchy (but not skipping) record.
The Xbox360 runs a version of Windows. The Xbox360 is PPC-based. Therefore, Windows runs on PPC. Maybe not a standard desktop version you could buy, but Microsoft could probably be persuaded to give a test version to a major vendor if they thought it would be a worthwhile project.
A year or two ago I would have agreed with you. But now, there are quite a few players with AAC compatibility. Even my phone plays AACs. As it becomes more common, MP3 compatibility is going to be less and less of an issue for people. If the Apple store ever becomes entirely DRM-free, it will be a pretty good source for music for a lot of people with non-iPod players.
The funny part about this discussion is that this is much more descriptive than simply G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17, which doesn't seem to be causing any major backlash...
If asshat companies abuse DRM technology and sufficiently annoy consumers then the market will put those asshat companies in their place by rejecting the technology. Remember DivX DVD's? Yeah, that worked great for regular DVD's too...so far as the DRM was easy enough to crack that noone really cared what the companies making them thought.
Even when travelling around cities I know, I like to take random roads I've never taken before to find shortcuts. After playing computer games like GTA3 (which has a mini-map with an arrow telling you which direction to take, but not a GPS telling you exactly which road to take) and Test Drive Unlimited (which has a GPS feature which highlights the best roads), then I can confirm that I don't bother trying to remember the roads at all when using the GPS.. I like to take random roads too, and GPS is great for finding your way back to major streets after you get lost taking random roads. It's also useful if you want to know if a random road goes through, or ends in half a mile, or if you've been driving parallel to the road your destination is on and have gone too far.
I also find I remember roads just fine when I drive on them later without GPS. I think when playing a video game I would probably be more concerned with other parts of the game than navigation.
Sony kind of did this years ago, not sure if they still do I don't think so. Every Sony remote I've ever used mostly consists of a large number of tiny, identically shaped buttons.
Fedora 8 won't install in graphical mode on my system, and the text mode installer results in a different install than the graphical installer (you have to go turn on things like GDM, NetworkManager, and the graphical boot screen). That's funny...On Fedoray 7, I did a text mode install, as I have always done, and rebooted, and upon booting with the graphical boot screen, was presented with the the GDM login prompt. I haven't installed Fedora 8 yet, but it's unlikely they took those features out. There is really very little difference between an install in graphical and text mode.
Ubuntu has officially-packaged binary NV drivers. Fedora doesn't have them because it is a 100% free software/open source distribution. To some, this is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
I'm unfamiliar with the VIC20 9VAC power supply of which you speak, but the C64 and C128 had 9VAC output on the power supply as well (in addition to 5VDC). 9VAC was needed to drive the SID chip used in 90% of them.
Yay! I'm so looking forward to watching HDTV programs on my DS's 256×192 screen! \o/ All while talking on the phone! http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/21/1451209 Even better. Now when you're in Japan watching TV on your mobile phone (a fairly common feature there), you'll be able to make calls on your DS!
DBW throttle has been around for quite some time. It started appearing on some high end cars in the mid 90's, and filtered down to cheaper cars in recent years. If you bought a new Honda in the last few years, you have a DBW throttle. I'm sure it's used to some extent by most other manufacturers now as well since it allows for more precise emissions control when the computer can ignore driver input at will.:) An interesting newer tech is to eliminate the throttle entirely, and use variable valve timing to modulate airflow into the engine. BMW was the only one doing this on engines >1L last time I checked.
Mercedes introduced a DBW braking system several years ago, but there were a lot of complaints about lack of braking feel. I think they stopped using it a couple of years ago. I believe it also had a hydraulic backup of some sort in case of an electronics failure.
Sounds right to me. I use ssh on my Zaurus via bluetooth to my phone on AT&T while on the train. On most of the trip, I'm on HSPDA and everything is great. But there are a few spots where it drops down to UMTS or EDGE, and then latency is awful...makes me wish for my old Sprint PCS TDMA dialup connection.;)
Many amiga users used the "MagicMenu" commodity. That moved the menus to "underneath the mouse pointer", the only place closer than the top of the screen by "Fitt's law";-). Yep. I used something similar called SiliconMenus back in the 1.3 days and just stuck with it.
It's little touches like that that made the Amiga GUI, not the Mac's, the closest to perfect of that era. Though there have been improvements since then, it doesn't hold up too badly now either. I just hooked my old A3000 up a month or so ago, as I tend to do once every few years and after using it for about 15 minutes, it always feels like going home again. (And I've been running the same desktop on Linux for nearly 10 years now, when I first switched from the Amiga.) On the other hand, whenever I use Windows, it always feels clunky, even though I spent a few years using it for 8 hours a day at work... There are certainly many modern things missing, but it's a very well done interface.
I considered mentioning that, but I figured everyone had heard that one by now.;) I wouldn't be surprised if screen real estate played into it as well as it was probably more a consideration then. Especially on the Amiga, where the primary resolution was 640x200, you don't want to waste a whole lot of vertical screen space with menus.
One which DragonflyBSD is taking up. Probably because Matt Dillon, the head of the DragonflyBSD project, used to be a big Amiga guy. He wrote the most popular (and possibly only) free C compiler for the Amiga. (Of course, GCC was ported several years later, and may be more popular now.)
Hell, the Mac still is stuck with it's one menu windowing environment that hearkens back to the days of only being able to have one active application at a time. Pathetic! It's funny you mention that, because the Amiga used a single menu bar across the top of the screen that was shared by all applications as well. Unlike the Mac, it requires a right mouse click to activate. It's a good way to save screen space rather than wasting real estate on every single window with a menu bar that does nothing until it's clicked.
The Toro iMow is a rebranded unit from Friendly Robotics. By the way, these are by no means a new thing. A friend of mine boguht one about 5 years ago and loved it. It looks like they have gotten signficantly more expensive since then, though.
Linux does little better, as above with the old download/compile scheme for legacy support. The kicker is that most other distributions of Linux don't even do that well. A user with Fedora Core 7 will still need to hunt down a different ISO for each and every nuance of processor I like how a "different architecture" is now a "nuance of a processor".
By the way, there are only 3 versions of Fedora. i386, x86_64, and PPC. So Leopard only has Fedora beat by 1 edition.
Decent hardware RAID, if you can get it, is the preferable way to go because the parent poster talked about dynamically resizing your arrays on the fly in order to take advantage of new disk space. Hardware RAID is much better at doing that. I believe Linux supports resizing software raid5 arrays as of 2.6.20. Note that you may still to have to unmount your filesystems to grow it, no matter whether you use a hardware or software array.
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On starting emacs, I was presented with:
"Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)"
This sequence acts as a backspace key and has no effect on emacs itself other than to delete the random sentences it seems to have filled its default buffer with. Neat trick!
I realize you are probably just trolling, but this doesn't make much sense. In most applications, C-h acts as a backspace key. However in emacs, it acts as the help key prefix. Pressing C-h will not delete characters unless you first redefine it in your .emacs to do something else. So you were obviously pressing something other than C-h. Perhaps you were pressing backspace, mistakenly believing that it was sending C-h, when it was not...
It also seems to have a friendly menu at the top which cannot be reached by any key combination.
Try F11.
The Xbox360 runs a version of Windows. The Xbox360 is PPC-based. Therefore, Windows runs on PPC. Maybe not a standard desktop version you could buy, but Microsoft could probably be persuaded to give a test version to a major vendor if they thought it would be a worthwhile project.
A year or two ago I would have agreed with you. But now, there are quite a few players with AAC compatibility. Even my phone plays AACs. As it becomes more common, MP3 compatibility is going to be less and less of an issue for people. If the Apple store ever becomes entirely DRM-free, it will be a pretty good source for music for a lot of people with non-iPod players.
The funny part about this discussion is that this is much more descriptive than simply G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17, which doesn't seem to be causing any major backlash...
I also find I remember roads just fine when I drive on them later without GPS. I think when playing a video game I would probably be more concerned with other parts of the game than navigation.
Be sure and check out this video review of how the Pleo responds to torture...
http://dvice.com/archives/2007/12/pleo_post.php?p=1&cat=undefined
I'm unfamiliar with the VIC20 9VAC power supply of which you speak, but the C64 and C128 had 9VAC output on the power supply as well (in addition to 5VDC). 9VAC was needed to drive the SID chip used in 90% of them.
DBW throttle has been around for quite some time. It started appearing on some high end cars in the mid 90's, and filtered down to cheaper cars in recent years. If you bought a new Honda in the last few years, you have a DBW throttle. I'm sure it's used to some extent by most other manufacturers now as well since it allows for more precise emissions control when the computer can ignore driver input at will. :) An interesting newer tech is to eliminate the throttle entirely, and use variable valve timing to modulate airflow into the engine. BMW was the only one doing this on engines >1L last time I checked.
Mercedes introduced a DBW braking system several years ago, but there were a lot of complaints about lack of braking feel. I think they stopped using it a couple of years ago. I believe it also had a hydraulic backup of some sort in case of an electronics failure.
Sounds right to me. I use ssh on my Zaurus via bluetooth to my phone on AT&T while on the train. On most of the trip, I'm on HSPDA and everything is great. But there are a few spots where it drops down to UMTS or EDGE, and then latency is awful...makes me wish for my old Sprint PCS TDMA dialup connection. ;)
I considered mentioning that, but I figured everyone had heard that one by now. ;) I wouldn't be surprised if screen real estate played into it as well as it was probably more a consideration then. Especially on the Amiga, where the primary resolution was 640x200, you don't want to waste a whole lot of vertical screen space with menus.
One which DragonflyBSD is taking up. Probably because Matt Dillon, the head of the DragonflyBSD project, used to be a big Amiga guy. He wrote the most popular (and possibly only) free C compiler for the Amiga. (Of course, GCC was ported several years later, and may be more popular now.)
The ST ran GEM (which was also available on the PC). It did not come close.
The hardware did have many similarities...however, this discussion isn't really about the hardware.
The Toro iMow is a rebranded unit from Friendly Robotics. By the way, these are by no means a new thing. A friend of mine boguht one about 5 years ago and loved it. It looks like they have gotten signficantly more expensive since then, though.
http://friendlyrobotics.com/
So basically, Apple confirmed that it did not confirm ZFS in Leopard.
Also, they have no comment on what that other guy said.
By the way, there are only 3 versions of Fedora. i386, x86_64, and PPC. So Leopard only has Fedora beat by 1 edition.
Woz is Insanely Great.
The problem with low end color lasers is they appear to be following the inkjet ink model for toner cartridges.
Printer - $250
Full replacement toner set - $321 (from the same site, I didn't shop around)
When I looked a few months ago, the cheapest color lasers I could find where you didn't pay $50+/cart were in the $400-500 range.