*IF* I ever did let my son wear a cape (see article pictures), I certainly wouldn't plaster his picture up on the internet. How bad is that kid going to feel in 10 years when his friends google him and find that picture. Not only will be be labeled a chess geek, but he'll be cape boy forever. Sad.
The problem is that mac os x uses display technology that is not easily accelerated by current graphics cards. A lot of screen drawing is done with vectors and bezier curves that are closer to the type of acceleration that a 3d card provides and not a 2d card. However, until recently, 3d cards weren't easily made to run custom routines. You had to rely on a set of standard calls. The geforce 3 changed this. I'm sure once those drivers mature, os x will really shine. On a side note, I run os x every day on a powerbook G4. While I wouldn't call the us fast, it is very usalbe. 10.1 will only improve on this.
I was using an old mac for a while with ipnetrouter. The software is pretty full featured although I think it costs $50. I eventually got sick of the noise and electricity and ended up moving to a link-sys. Its a pretty decent unit, but does lack some of the features I've seen on the d-link routers that cost about 10-20 less. It also works nicely with my apple airport that serves macs, windows and linux machines in my house. I'm eventually trying to phase out all the ethernet in my house and I'll go wireless. Its a much less cluttered solution.
The 24s will probably be the extra 24 s found on the special edition laser disk. I haven't seen it in years, but as I recall it has something to do with different characters talking about what is the best scene in the movie. I believe they are debating the merrits of the vergins in the castle, with some characters thinking it is no more than a sad attempt to make some "pusy" jokes. Not really all that funny. --------------------------------------
I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. Tivo has flourshied, in part, do to the support of the industry. This has allowed tivo to offer more services at a better price. However, this support has alwasy been based no TIVO not hurting the industry. This is why tivo doens't have a commercial skip. It takes away from advertising that tv networks depend on. I'm sure once tv networks start seeing shows on the net sans ads, things are going to change- TIVO will crack down on the community and a lot of useful stuff will get shut down. No more ethernet hacks, no more shell support, no more non-encrypted mpg data. --------------------------------------
Tivo just did this to me as well. They send some notice about an upgrade including all kinds of details. I didn't think much of it and went ahead with the upgrade. I think they let you opt out, but I'm not totally sure about that. I'm pretty sure there is no way to go back. They ended up adding some really useful features that cut down on remote clicks a lot, however, in the process they introduced some ugly interface items and some other annoying features. I think we can expect a lot more of this --------------------------------------
I just graduated with a computer engineering degree and I struggled with this decision for four years. Basically, my advice is this: Do whatever you think is going to make you the happiest. Computer engineers seem to get paid a bit more out of the gate, but most computer engineering places aren't as fun. The arugement that my professors used was to go into comptuer engineering and you can do computer science or computer engineering when you are done. I don't think that is the best arguement though. If you aren't going to be a computer engineer, you really don't need to know all that stuff. Also, you do learn a lot of computer science on the way to a computer engineering degree, but in my opinion, its not enough. Go with what you love. --------------------------------------
I can't wait until someone writes a vb script that I get though outlook that completly messes up the code inside my P3. Oh wait, I use linux and have an Athlon. Damn, that was close. --------------------------------------
This doesn't sound like it would be very useful. First, you would have to make this for your own personal use so the drivers matched your system. It isn't like they could see these things off the shelf or anything. Secondly, you would have to re-write the cd every time a new driver came out. Thirdly, who plays just a game and then leaves the computer. I'm always surfing or checking my email. With this, I would have to boot up once to play the game, then again after that was all done. Seems like a huge pain to me.... --------------------------------------
I may have missed this in the article, but if your poured some kind of plastic over the ice, let it harden, and then let the ice melt, this could be the coolest thing in the world. You could make anything in plastic. There may be some issues with getting the demensions correct after pooring plastic goo over ice, but I think it could work after some testing. --------------------------------------
How much do you think they would give me if I wrote them some html for a new web page that doesn't look like a rip off of MacNN. --------------------------------------
Check out my school. I go to Tufts University. It is a great school and they have a good CS dept that has some upper level AI classes. We also have really good physics. Apply to the engineering department b/c liberal arts is a joke in my opinion. It costs a lot of $$$ but the financial aid program seems generous. I pay about what I would pay at a state school and get a much better education. --------------------------------------
the G4 processor, which has a sustained speed of 1 gigaflops and a peak speed of 4 gigaflops. Apple's new systems are available in 400 Mhz, 450 Mhz, 500 Mhz speeds. The 500 Mhz version will include a DVD-RAM drive, which can record several gigs of data to a CD-sized disk. The 400 Mhz system will be priced at $1599, the 450 Mhz system at $2499, the 500 Mhz at $3,499. Apple will be immediately shipping the 400 Mhz system, with the other two systems shipping in a "few weeks." Jobs said that the new systems will ship with a Photoshop plug-in that will recognize the G4 processor. In a head-to-head race against a Pentium III system, the PowerMac G4 handily blew away the Pentium III system, rendering a scene with Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story more than twice as fast as the Pentium machine, which was running at 600 Mhz. The next demo tested memory bandwidth. Again facing the fastest Pentium III currently available, the PowerMac G4 crushed the Pentium system. Next came a QuickTime encoding demo, where the trailer for the James Bond movie was compressed in real time on the PowerMac G4, but took about twice as long on the Pentium system. In fact, the PowerMac G4 could actually compress the James Bond movie and play it back before the Pentium system could encode the clip. A college professor then took the reins to demonstrate the supercomputer capabilities of the G4.He demonstrated the popular SETI@Home project, where a G4 was able to process in 6 hours the same amount of information that a Pentium III could process in 25 hours. To demonstrate encryption speed, a 1000 bit encryption key was decoded on both a G4 and G3, where the G4 was almost seven times faster. Standard cryptography applications run at 3 to 8 times the speed of Pentium III systems, according to the professor. The last demo showed actual data from the Mars Pathfinder mission. A G4 and a Pentium II system set up head-to-head showed the rendering of data from a probe flying through a valley on Mars. The G4 played like a movie, while the Pentium III played more like a slide-show. --------------------------------------
I don't know anything about sv.com but the article seemed like a joke. It was a complete fluff piece. Moira Gunn obviously has no idea what she is talking about. Lucas Film didn't exactly switch to targeting the piraters rather than the isps. They had no choice. The isps just laughed at them. You can't go around threatening other companies like that and expect total cooperation. The funniest line is by far:
But these were no ordinary lawyers. They had a second whole computer system ready to press their case.
Is she kidding me. Thad had another computer with a different ip address. How clever of them. I bet some one got a raise with that idea. And here are some more great treats:
For the `Phantom Menace`, it was a success to have simply stopped the great bulk of the bootleggers.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice.We can stop most of it with a little determination.
Wow, those are some bold statements. The funny thing is that I know a ton of places to get the VCD. In fact, all of the places I know of have not been shut down or aproached by lawyers. And just wait until the new semester starts. This VCD stuff is going to be huge. And I was the industy I'd be really worried. Sure the quality isn't great but it is good enough.
I use the USPS all the time. Priority mail costs 3.25 and is somethng like 2-3 days. You can't beat that. UPS ground is way too expensive. You can't track your package but I never send things that are that important.
I have seen this movie. And guess what? IT SUCKS. In fact it is such a shitty movie that I almost started a web site opposed to its release. It is not at all scary. The acting is good but the plot sucks. The ending is horrible and after an hour and a half of sitting there very painful to watch. After reading this article I was even more angry at them: first for making a crappy movie and secondly for doing lame things like making fake web sites.
I did some work last year on the same technolgy but for electic card. The concepts are really simple and all you really need are some wires and magnets. Our system for cars was going to add something like 300 pounds to the car b/c of all the magnets etc... You'd think the added weight would be too much for a lob top. I guess b/c their voltage requirements are so small (Compared to an electric car) that their magnets are light enough.
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*IF* I ever did let my son wear a cape (see article pictures), I certainly wouldn't plaster his picture up on the internet. How bad is that kid going to feel in 10 years when his friends google him and find that picture. Not only will be be labeled a chess geek, but he'll be cape boy forever. Sad.
You are correct. Apple raps AAC with a DRM technology called fair play. Fair play is what should be opened up to other stores/devices.
I'm already using movies I've burned onto dvd-r in my ps2. I got mine last christmas. Every movie I copied worked perfectly.
she only uses it when I'm away on business trips though.
I believe this is meant for the arcade, which would explain the namco connection. See IGN for the details.
The problem is that mac os x uses display technology that is not easily accelerated by current graphics cards. A lot of screen drawing is done with vectors and bezier curves that are closer to the type of acceleration that a 3d card provides and not a 2d card. However, until recently, 3d cards weren't easily made to run custom routines. You had to rely on a set of standard calls. The geforce 3 changed this. I'm sure once those drivers mature, os x will really shine. On a side note, I run os x every day on a powerbook G4. While I wouldn't call the us fast, it is very usalbe. 10.1 will only improve on this.
I was using an old mac for a while with ipnetrouter. The software is pretty full featured although I think it costs $50. I eventually got sick of the noise and electricity and ended up moving to a link-sys. Its a pretty decent unit, but does lack some of the features I've seen on the d-link routers that cost about 10-20 less. It also works nicely with my apple airport that serves macs, windows and linux machines in my house. I'm eventually trying to phase out all the ethernet in my house and I'll go wireless. Its a much less cluttered solution.
Are you serious? Lets recap:
Legislative- make law
judicial- interperate law
executive- enforce law
The attny general is part of the executive brance. The presedent gets to decide what is enforced afterall.
The 24s will probably be the extra 24 s found on the special edition laser disk. I haven't seen it in years, but as I recall it has something to do with different characters talking about what is the best scene in the movie. I believe they are debating the merrits of the vergins in the castle, with some characters thinking it is no more than a sad attempt to make some "pusy" jokes. Not really all that funny.
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I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. Tivo has flourshied, in part, do to the support of the industry. This has allowed tivo to offer more services at a better price. However, this support has alwasy been based no TIVO not hurting the industry. This is why tivo doens't have a commercial skip. It takes away from advertising that tv networks depend on. I'm sure once tv networks start seeing shows on the net sans ads, things are going to change- TIVO will crack down on the community and a lot of useful stuff will get shut down. No more ethernet hacks, no more shell support, no more non-encrypted mpg data.
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Tivo just did this to me as well. They send some notice about an upgrade including all kinds of details. I didn't think much of it and went ahead with the upgrade. I think they let you opt out, but I'm not totally sure about that. I'm pretty sure there is no way to go back. They ended up adding some really useful features that cut down on remote clicks a lot, however, in the process they introduced some ugly interface items and some other annoying features. I think we can expect a lot more of this
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I just graduated with a computer engineering degree and I struggled with this decision for four years. Basically, my advice is this: Do whatever you think is going to make you the happiest. Computer engineers seem to get paid a bit more out of the gate, but most computer engineering places aren't as fun. The arugement that my professors used was to go into comptuer engineering and you can do computer science or computer engineering when you are done. I don't think that is the best arguement though. If you aren't going to be a computer engineer, you really don't need to know all that stuff. Also, you do learn a lot of computer science on the way to a computer engineering degree, but in my opinion, its not enough. Go with what you love.
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I could patent color, and then charge them a licensing fee.
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What about BOB? Oh wait, that was a microsoft product. Some times I have a hard time telling those two apart.
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I can't wait until someone writes a vb script that I get though outlook that completly messes up the code inside my P3. Oh wait, I use linux and have an Athlon. Damn, that was close.
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This doesn't sound like it would be very useful. First, you would have to make this for your own personal use so the drivers matched your system. It isn't like they could see these things off the shelf or anything. Secondly, you would have to re-write the cd every time a new driver came out. Thirdly, who plays just a game and then leaves the computer. I'm always surfing or checking my email. With this, I would have to boot up once to play the game, then again after that was all done. Seems like a huge pain to me....
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I may have missed this in the article, but if your poured some kind of plastic over the ice, let it harden, and then let the ice melt, this could be the coolest thing in the world. You could make anything in plastic. There may be some issues with getting the demensions correct after pooring plastic goo over ice, but I think it could work after some testing.
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How much do you think they would give me if I wrote them some html for a new web page that doesn't look like a rip off of MacNN.
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Check out my school. I go to Tufts University. It is a great school and they have a good CS dept that has some upper level AI classes. We also have really good physics. Apply to the engineering department b/c liberal arts is a joke in my opinion. It costs a lot of $$$ but the financial aid program seems generous. I pay about what I would pay at a state school and get a much better education.
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the G4 processor, which has a sustained speed of 1 gigaflops and a peak speed of 4 gigaflops.
Apple's new systems are available in 400 Mhz, 450 Mhz, 500 Mhz speeds. The 500 Mhz version will include a DVD-RAM drive, which can record several gigs of data to a CD-sized disk.
The 400 Mhz system will be priced at $1599, the 450 Mhz system at $2499, the 500 Mhz at $3,499.
Apple will be immediately shipping the 400 Mhz system, with the other two systems shipping in a "few weeks."
Jobs said that the new systems will ship with a Photoshop plug-in that will recognize the G4 processor.
In a head-to-head race against a Pentium III system, the PowerMac G4 handily blew away the Pentium III system, rendering a scene with Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story more than twice as fast as the Pentium machine, which was running at 600 Mhz.
The next demo tested memory bandwidth. Again facing the fastest Pentium III currently available, the PowerMac G4 crushed the Pentium system.
Next came a QuickTime encoding demo, where the trailer for the James Bond movie was compressed in real time on the PowerMac G4, but took about twice as long on the Pentium system. In fact, the PowerMac G4 could actually compress the James Bond movie and play it back before the Pentium system could encode the clip.
A college professor then took the reins to demonstrate the supercomputer capabilities of the G4.He demonstrated the popular SETI@Home project, where a G4 was able to process in 6 hours the same amount of information that a Pentium III could process in 25 hours.
To demonstrate encryption speed, a 1000 bit encryption key was decoded on both a G4 and G3, where the G4 was almost seven times faster. Standard cryptography applications run at 3 to 8 times the speed of Pentium III systems, according to the professor.
The last demo showed actual data from the Mars Pathfinder mission. A G4 and a Pentium II system set up head-to-head showed the rendering of data from a probe flying through a valley on Mars. The G4 played like a movie, while the Pentium III played more like a slide-show.
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But these were no ordinary lawyers. They had a second whole computer system ready to press their case.
Is she kidding me. Thad had another computer with a different ip address. How clever of them. I bet some one got a raise with that idea. And here are some more great treats:
For the `Phantom Menace`, it was a success to have simply stopped the great bulk of the bootleggers.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice.We can stop most of it with a little determination.
Wow, those are some bold statements. The funny thing is that I know a ton of places to get the VCD. In fact, all of the places I know of have not been shut down or aproached by lawyers. And just wait until the new semester starts. This VCD stuff is going to be huge. And I was the industy I'd be really worried. Sure the quality isn't great but it is good enough.
I use the USPS all the time. Priority mail costs 3.25 and is somethng like 2-3 days. You can't beat that. UPS ground is way too expensive. You can't track your package but I never send things that are that important.
I have seen this movie. And guess what? IT SUCKS. In fact it is such a shitty movie that I almost started a web site opposed to its release. It is not at all scary. The acting is good but the plot sucks. The ending is horrible and after an hour and a half of sitting there very painful to watch. After reading this article I was even more angry at them: first for making a crappy movie and secondly for doing lame things like making fake web sites.
I did some work last year on the same technolgy but for electic card. The concepts are really simple and all you really need are some wires and magnets. Our system for cars was going to add something like 300 pounds to the car b/c of all the magnets etc... You'd think the added weight would be too much for a lob top. I guess b/c their voltage requirements are so small (Compared to an electric car) that their magnets are light enough.