I gues it was a smart move for the iPOd to work with Windows and Macs?
Works great on my Linux box BTW. Whew. Good thing too, girlfriend would think I was giving her a line of poop trying to explai why she's got to get me a different gift.
For much much cheaper, you could get an AMD motherbaord that supports Cool 'n Quiet: the CPU is underclocked to 800Mhz for things like web surfing and watching DVD's. There's also an option to have all the fan stop if the case is cool enough.
But from where Im standing, its not just nvideas fault, both sides are posturing...
Posturing? The kernel devolpers? Two way street? It's been said before on the LKML that Linus will not help out the compaines who are interested in providing only closed source drivers, 'cause they don't help him out, and ther rest of the gang, with specs. Sounds more like a one way street is you ask me. Compaines bemoaning the lack of cooperation from Linus while clinging to their NDA's and "third party trade secret" arguments.
I'll stick with Intel and VIA for now, thank you very much.
Why can I not get a black iPod without the U2 add ons? Why does the black iPod have a blue backlight? A deep red or amber would more appropriate and easier on the eyes. Whats with blue LEDs and blue blacklight these days?
Personal Opinion: U2? Ugggh. Who listens to that pop band anyways. They should make a Led Zeppelin iPod engraved with a lemon being squeezed on the back.
It's like trying to put monetary value on a Van Gogh or a Matisse. The Linux kernel is truly priceless. You could never get that kind of collaboration even with the most highly paid software engineers, beacuse they don't do it for money, neither did Van Gogh.
I does excactrly what I was hoping it would do for me: Print out the lab reports that are only available for downlaod from the college's (a CUNY school)chemistry department website. They are only available in.doc format, and Abiword would choke on even the simplest lab tables. OpenOffice handles the tables, charts and equations fine.
Thank You OO, you saved me numerous trips to the overcrowded computer lab!
P.S. I'm sure Abiword would have worked if the.doc was properly documented as some sort of standard. Here's wishing that.swx becomes ISO!
If you want to experience some amazing sound without the inconvenience of paying $100 for rare vinyl and only being able to play it a handful of times before it starts to wear down, there are some pretty simple things you can do. You also don't need to spend thousands of dollars on hardware to get something far better than you likely have at the moment.
fud
You can get vinyl at equal cost, if not cheaper than most CDs anyday. Play a handful of times? Again FUD. A vinyl disc played on a properly setup turntable will give you more plays than any current spec'd CD. Vinyl is also more stable than polycarbonate. Ever hear of CD rot? As Bob Irwin (of Sundazed Records) said "In a hundred thoudand years they'll find a CD and probably won't know what to do with it. If they find a vinyl record, they'll be able to play it with a pine needle.
Get a pair of good headphones. Headphones have much better bang-for-the-buck than speakers
FUD. Headphones don't give you a realistic 3D soundstage like a properly set-up pair of speakers will. When one wears headphones, the soudstage is split into 3 distinct areas: Left Ear, Right Ear, and right in the middle of your head. That's hardly natural UNLESS you listen to Binaural recorded media.
Properly postioned speakers in a decent sized room give you a Stereo image (from the greek word meaning solid/rigid).
The sounstage on my B&w speakers wraps around the speakers in a very convinicing re-creation of the original evennt. I cab close my eyes and point to different intruments as they are playing. My speakers are setup as follows: Audio Physic On properly recorded material I can't hear sound coming from the speakers at all. The soudstage is just behind them and wraps around them and a few feet beyond.
NO pair of headphones comes even close in this respect. Bang-for-the buck I think not.
Wrong. Even an R.N. with an associates degree gets paid very well, and the career possibilities are many. You get paid more for every specialty certification you obtain (peds intensive care, newbow intensic care, etc.).
You could also get your masters in nursing and open up your own prcatice (only a case review with a affiliated MD for new pateints is required in most states)as an NP (nurse practitioner) which is on par as being an MD (but anybody who has ever been taken care by an NP will tell you the care can be superior to that of an MD).
Here in New Yokr City, R.N.s make buku bucks and work 3 days a week. You could pick up as much OT as you like, there's plenty of it. Did you know that some visiting nurses can make 65 dollars an hour, which is on par with what some ER docs make?
The downside? Being an R.N. in a metropolitan hospital is, in my view, one of the most stressfull professions one can undertake. And I say this a Paramedic in NYC with 10 years experience.
BTW, the hospital that I work at is always short ER nurses.
Yeah.... I guess there's no sense of adventure left in polluting this planet anymore and less in cleaning up the mess industrialized man has left on this planet.
Now we can look forward to the "adventure" in polluting space and the other planets.
Shit, while were at it, let's build more space antenas to find those alien life forms, because lord knows that even my own co-workes can't get along.
I've gotten in the habit of wanting something to read when I do number 2.
One day I coudn't find anything interesting within reach and had already memorized not only the ingridients to my shampoo and conditioner, but the location of their corporate headquarter too. I pulled out a 25ft CAT 5 cable, one end into the switch, and the other end into my thinkpad X22 3Lb laptop.
How about a ball wthin a ball? Kind of like a hamaster ball within a hamster ball. You could roll it slowly to a new location, with the inner ball always staying level to the horizon.
Secondary idea: Build the whole thing on big tank tracks. It ould aslo be moved slowy when needed.
Small, fast, light and with spellcheck. Will let you save as.doc also, which lets me print out all my papers at school wheer they only have windos and mac boxes.
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I gues it was a smart move for the iPOd to work with Windows and Macs?
Works great on my Linux box BTW. Whew. Good thing too, girlfriend would think I was giving her a line of poop trying to explai why she's got to get me a different gift.
A bit too little, a bit too late for Intel.
For much much cheaper, you could get an AMD motherbaord that supports Cool 'n Quiet: the CPU is underclocked to 800Mhz for things like web surfing and watching DVD's. There's also an option to have all the fan stop if the case is cool enough.
For a list of supported motherbaords clickhere
For the price of the Pentium M CPU alone, you could get a faster motherboard, a mid range AMD 64 bit COU and maybe some ram.
But from where Im standing, its not just nvideas fault, both sides are posturing...
Posturing? The kernel devolpers? Two way street? It's been said before on the LKML that Linus will not help out the compaines who are interested in providing only closed source drivers, 'cause they don't help him out, and ther rest of the gang, with specs. Sounds more like a one way street is you ask me. Compaines bemoaning the lack of cooperation from Linus while clinging to their NDA's and "third party trade secret" arguments.
I'll stick with Intel and VIA for now, thank you very much.
But are there any software bugs?
Some people here will still praise Google as if it were Jesus no matter what they do.
In the field, it's known as the Mother Of All Bombs.
True Story
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Why can I not get a black iPod without the U2 add ons? Why does the black iPod have a blue backlight? A deep red or amber would more appropriate and easier on the eyes. Whats with blue LEDs and blue blacklight these days?
Personal Opinion: U2? Ugggh. Who listens to that pop band anyways. They should make a Led Zeppelin iPod engraved with a lemon being squeezed on the back.
It's like trying to put monetary value on a Van Gogh or a Matisse. The Linux kernel is truly priceless. You could never get that kind of collaboration even with the most highly paid software engineers, beacuse they don't do it for money, neither did Van Gogh.
I does excactrly what I was hoping it would do for me: Print out the lab reports that are only available for downlaod from the college's (a CUNY school)chemistry department website. They are only available in .doc format, and Abiword would choke on even the simplest lab tables. OpenOffice handles the tables, charts and equations fine.
.doc was properly documented as some sort of standard. Here's wishing that .swx becomes ISO!
Thank You OO, you saved me numerous trips to the overcrowded computer lab!
P.S. I'm sure Abiword would have worked if the
In the grand scheme of things, niether is IE ;) AT least with OPera you know what your'e getting.
Tell me about it, they're all IDE and no SCSI!
Whaaaa? No Nazi name calling? I thought thay only took the month of August off!
I think you mean solid state versus tube amplifiers. Acoustic amplifiers are analog devices by nature, just like speakers, an
just like your ears.
Digital doesn't play into it.
If you want to experience some amazing sound without the inconvenience of paying $100 for rare vinyl and only being able to play it a handful of times before it starts to wear down, there are some pretty simple things you can do. You also don't need to spend thousands of dollars on hardware to get something far better than you likely have at the moment.
fud
You can get vinyl at equal cost, if not cheaper than most CDs anyday. Play a handful of times? Again FUD. A vinyl disc played
on a properly setup turntable will give you more plays than any current spec'd CD. Vinyl is also more stable than polycarbonate. Ever hear of CD rot? As Bob Irwin (of Sundazed Records) said "In a hundred thoudand years they'll find a CD and probably won't know what to do with it. If they find a vinyl record, they'll be able to play it with a pine needle.
Get a pair of good headphones. Headphones have much better bang-for-the-buck than speakers
FUD. Headphones don't give you a realistic 3D soundstage like a properly set-up pair of speakers will. When one wears headphones, the soudstage is split into 3 distinct areas: Left Ear, Right Ear, and right in the middle of your head. That's hardly natural UNLESS you listen to Binaural recorded media.
Properly postioned speakers in a decent sized room give you a Stereo image (from the greek word meaning solid/rigid).
The sounstage on my B&w speakers wraps around the speakers in a very convinicing re-creation of the original evennt. I cab close my eyes and point to different intruments as they are playing. My speakers are setup as follows: Audio Physic On properly recorded material I can't hear sound coming from the speakers at all. The soudstage is just behind them and wraps around them and a few feet beyond.
NO pair of headphones comes even close in this respect. Bang-for-the buck I think not.
Wrong. Even an R.N. with an associates degree gets paid very well, and the career possibilities are many. You get paid more for every specialty certification you obtain (peds intensive care, newbow intensic care, etc.).
You could also get your masters in nursing and open up your own prcatice (only a case review with a affiliated MD for new pateints is required in most states)as an NP (nurse practitioner) which is on par as being an MD (but anybody who has ever been taken care by an NP will tell you the care can be superior to that of an MD).
Here in New Yokr City, R.N.s make buku bucks and work 3 days a week. You could pick up as much OT as you like, there's plenty of it. Did you know that some visiting nurses can make 65 dollars an hour, which is on par with what some ER docs make?
The downside? Being an R.N. in a metropolitan hospital is, in my view, one of the most stressfull professions one can undertake. And I say this a Paramedic in NYC with 10 years experience.
BTW, the hospital that I work at is always short ER nurses.
niko9 AEMT-P
Or you could just sell your house, buy a van, then proceed to live in a van down by the river...er..never mind!
"Let this be a lesson in complacency."
Thank you mother hen!
Do me a favor and report technology news. If I wanted sensationalism, I would have picked up a copy of the New York Post.
Thanks,
A slashdot reader
It depends. This might be just the thing if you were a musophiliac :p
Muahahahah!
Yeah.... I guess there's no sense of adventure left in polluting this planet anymore and less in cleaning up the mess industrialized man has left on this planet.
Now we can look forward to the "adventure" in polluting space and the other planets.
Shit, while were at it, let's build more space antenas to find those alien life forms, because lord knows that even my own co-workes can't get along.
I've gotten in the habit of wanting something to read when I do number 2.
One day I coudn't find anything interesting within reach and had already memorized not only the ingridients to my shampoo and conditioner, but the location of their corporate headquarter too. I pulled out a 25ft CAT 5 cable, one end into the switch, and the other end into my thinkpad X22 3Lb laptop.
It was a good poop, and I learned alot that day.
Nick
Among the paramedics at work they are known as Fourbucks, on acount of their prices. ;P
How about a ball wthin a ball? Kind of like a hamaster ball within a hamster ball. You could roll it slowly to a new location, with the inner ball always staying level to the horizon.
Secondary idea: Build the whole thing on big tank tracks. It ould aslo be moved slowy when needed.
But do you still need Mac software to adjust the monitor's settings?
Can I use this monitor with my Linux box?
Or maybe those grad students should just make Lyx's GUI more intuitive for the home/office user.
Once they understand what a documnet processor really does, I thinkthey'll be enlightened.
Have you tried Abiword?
.doc also, which lets me print out all my papers at school wheer they only have windos and mac boxes.
Small, fast, light and with spellcheck. Will let you save as