Yes, I assume your referring to the setting labeled 'Widescreen'. Its not what you think it is. Its not a '16:9' vs '4:3' setting. Its a 'Pan&Scan' vs 'Letterbox'. If the video is wider than the standard TV 4:3 aspect ratio and 'Widescreen' is set to 'On' then the iPod will add black bars to the top and bottom of the screen and resize the video so it is entirely visible on the screen, otherwise the video will be zoomed so that the entire screen is filled, cutting off the left and right sides of the video. It does not, however, change the aspect ratio of the output, it is always in a 4:3 format. The setting is poorly named and either 'Letterbox' or 'Zoom' would have been better names.
I think you're mistaken. The iPod + universal dock only displays pictures and video. Otherwise output to the TV is blank. The iPod's interface is not available through the video output. Also there is no way to 'press' the iPod's 'Menu' button with the remote. So you're limited to navigating through the current playlist and have no way to switch playlists with the Apple Remote. I know all of this because I expected what you did, a sweet little media center, and ended up returning the dock after discovering the iPod's interface would not displayed on my TV. The video iPod has no support for 16:9 displays so the picture and video output is annoyingly stretched on a widescreen TV. I could change the settings on my TV, but I prefer an option with native 16:9 support. Front Row provides 16:9 support so I'll probably end up picking up one of these Mac minis, assuming the initial reviews are good.
RTFA before calling someone stupid. She did set it up but Vonage routed her to a recording. Vonage 911 is dangerous as it gives a false sense of security. I know from experience as I A) have Vonage, B) set up my 911 as instructed, C) had to use it. I had to call 4 times before I got through to a person that was located in a local police department. Vonage routed me to the state police dispatcher who was basically useless to help me and then forwarded me three times to the wrong police department. It was two years ago so I'm not sure but I think I gave up and looked up the local PD's number in the phone book.
I would strongly agree. You can get an iPaq h2215 for $250 with Nevo pre-installed. The iPaq h2215 even has an IRDA port that is tuned to the right frequency for optimal IR remote capabilities. So for $250 you get all of the features of the iPronto Pro which retails for $1000.
I'm aware that VirtualPC is an emulator, I meant that demoing Windows on a Mac is something that can be accomplished without writing a line of code. If this is truely not vaporware, I'd want to see an interactive demo of something that hadn't yet been accomplished such as Mac on Windows (though I see, from another poster, that too has been nearly accomplished).
Windows Quake 3 on a Powerbook is still also something that can be done today with VirtualPC. Show me Mac OS X on a Wintel box, that's what hasn't been done.
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Good idea, I hadn't thought of that.
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Have you really thought about focus? Hold your finger out and focus on the wall behind it. Your finger is out of focus. Now focus on your finger and the wall is out of focus. While that blurring effect, known as depth of field, is possible to simulate in a computer, there is no way to tell the computer what to focus on by just using your eye muscles. That's where the illusion would break down. All we need is for someone to invent an eyeball lens scanner that can detect what your eye is focused on. If they do, I CLAIM PRIOR ART!!;-) Unfortunately the physics are even trickier than that. Example, the computer renders a far off mountain. Your screen is only a foot or two away. How do you get your eye to focus on something a "virtual" mile away? Your eye can't. If it tries, the screen (and the picture of the mountain) will get blurry the same way your finger gets blurry when you focus on the far wall.
I thought that this guy had to be full of it, but I happen to have the Be Developer's Guide (ISBN: 1-56592-287-5) on my desk so I looked it up and it's true, though not entirely accurate. On Page 802, in Chapter 5: The Kernel Kit, there is a system info function documented as:
is_computer_on_fire() double is_computer_on_fire(void)
Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. Smoldering doesn't count. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
I just tested this by trying to pass a List to a method that accepts an untyped List and it worked just fine. Do you have a code example of what your friend was trying to do?
To the genius who modded me Flamebait, how is this a flamebait? I love Disney, probably one of the few here. It was an observation that Mission:SPACE is also a centrifuge simulator, but is not interactive. The post sounded like a similar setup, but is interactive. I thought it was cool, I wasn't starting a flame war.
Try using a payment service like PayTrust. All of your bills go to them and are scanned in and presented online. At the end of each year they offer to send you a CD with all of the bills for the year. The CD they send is browser-based but has a light Java app that acts as a local web server, allowing you to perform searches and sorting of the data through your browser. I've been using them(actually I started with paymybills.com which was bought out by them) for 4 years now and haven't regretted it once. I just ordered my 2003 CD which includes my 2000, 2001 and 2002 records. About half of my bills are delivered to them electronically now so those are HTML instead of JPEGs.
I still have my first Mac from 1993. It is a Quadra 610 with a RasterOps 24STV video card which has 24-bit graphics and video capture at a whopping 160x120 at 15 frames per second!! The video card only cost an additional $1000 on top of the $2200 computer! It came with Mac OS 7.1, but over the years I've upgraded it to 8.1. With 8MB of RAM and a 25MHz 68040 it was great machine in 1993. It still boots up and the video card can still capture video.
It's the operating systems that would need to change their labels to "GiB" not the hard drive manufacturers. As far as IEC standards, the hard drive manufacturers are correct. The prefix "G" stands for 1 billion or 10^9. It's the prefix "Gi" that operating systems need to start using which stands for 2^30. See the second link in the post to learn more about the binary prefixes.
If it is an average the solver must have solved it in under 17 seconds, half of the time. But maybe your point was the solver's standard deviation wasn't very high so the minimum time wasn't much less than 17 seconds?
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Am I crazy because I read that title as "nine ways to write bad code"?
I'm not a MS-basher, but I think your analogy may be a little off. It would be more like you wore your seatbelt but it unlatched during the accident because of a reason Ford knew about but didn't issue a recall on. Just as Ford issues recalls on faulty parts, MS should issue recalls, oh wait they do and they are called patches! So while I'm on your side that MS did the right thing, this analogy is probably closer.
That still doesn't explain why it is spelt 'jigowatt' in several places on the new DVD. I don't think taking a pot-shot at the author of the novel fixes that.
The "ghoti" example is hilarious! And I concede that giga can be pronounced "giga" or "jiga" but then why is it spelt 'jigowatt' in the novelization of the movie and in the subtitles and "anecdotes" on the new DVD? I believe it is a made up unit of power that resemble a real one.
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Doesn't the same problem apply to the music lockers (Amazon, Google) or even Dropbox? Why single out iCloud?
I remember it as well. It was from Bose. Here's some video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSi6J-QK1lw It hasn't yet been incorporated into any vehicles though.
Yes, I assume your referring to the setting labeled 'Widescreen'. Its not what you think it is. Its not a '16:9' vs '4:3' setting. Its a 'Pan&Scan' vs 'Letterbox'. If the video is wider than the standard TV 4:3 aspect ratio and 'Widescreen' is set to 'On' then the iPod will add black bars to the top and bottom of the screen and resize the video so it is entirely visible on the screen, otherwise the video will be zoomed so that the entire screen is filled, cutting off the left and right sides of the video. It does not, however, change the aspect ratio of the output, it is always in a 4:3 format. The setting is poorly named and either 'Letterbox' or 'Zoom' would have been better names.
I think you're mistaken. The iPod + universal dock only displays pictures and video. Otherwise output to the TV is blank. The iPod's interface is not available through the video output. Also there is no way to 'press' the iPod's 'Menu' button with the remote. So you're limited to navigating through the current playlist and have no way to switch playlists with the Apple Remote. I know all of this because I expected what you did, a sweet little media center, and ended up returning the dock after discovering the iPod's interface would not displayed on my TV. The video iPod has no support for 16:9 displays so the picture and video output is annoyingly stretched on a widescreen TV. I could change the settings on my TV, but I prefer an option with native 16:9 support. Front Row provides 16:9 support so I'll probably end up picking up one of these Mac minis, assuming the initial reviews are good.
RTFA before calling someone stupid. She did set it up but Vonage routed her to a recording. Vonage 911 is dangerous as it gives a false sense of security. I know from experience as I A) have Vonage, B) set up my 911 as instructed, C) had to use it. I had to call 4 times before I got through to a person that was located in a local police department. Vonage routed me to the state police dispatcher who was basically useless to help me and then forwarded me three times to the wrong police department. It was two years ago so I'm not sure but I think I gave up and looked up the local PD's number in the phone book.
I would strongly agree. You can get an iPaq h2215 for $250 with Nevo pre-installed. The iPaq h2215 even has an IRDA port that is tuned to the right frequency for optimal IR remote capabilities. So for $250 you get all of the features of the iPronto Pro which retails for $1000.
I'm aware that VirtualPC is an emulator, I meant that demoing Windows on a Mac is something that can be accomplished without writing a line of code. If this is truely not vaporware, I'd want to see an interactive demo of something that hadn't yet been accomplished such as Mac on Windows (though I see, from another poster, that too has been nearly accomplished).
Windows Quake 3 on a Powerbook is still also something that can be done today with VirtualPC. Show me Mac OS X on a Wintel box, that's what hasn't been done.
Good idea, I hadn't thought of that.
Have you really thought about focus? Hold your finger out and focus on the wall behind it. Your finger is out of focus. Now focus on your finger and the wall is out of focus. While that blurring effect, known as depth of field, is possible to simulate in a computer, there is no way to tell the computer what to focus on by just using your eye muscles. That's where the illusion would break down. All we need is for someone to invent an eyeball lens scanner that can detect what your eye is focused on. If they do, I CLAIM PRIOR ART!! ;-) Unfortunately the physics are even trickier than that. Example, the computer renders a far off mountain. Your screen is only a foot or two away. How do you get your eye to focus on something a "virtual" mile away? Your eye can't. If it tries, the screen (and the picture of the mountain) will get blurry the same way your finger gets blurry when you focus on the far wall.
I just tested this by trying to pass a List to a method that accepts an untyped List and it worked just fine. Do you have a code example of what your friend was trying to do?
To the genius who modded me Flamebait, how is this a flamebait? I love Disney, probably one of the few here. It was an observation that Mission:SPACE is also a centrifuge simulator, but is not interactive. The post sounded like a similar setup, but is interactive. I thought it was cool, I wasn't starting a flame war.
Sounds like they took what Disney created for its new ride at Epcot and made it interactive.
Try using a payment service like PayTrust. All of your bills go to them and are scanned in and presented online. At the end of each year they offer to send you a CD with all of the bills for the year. The CD they send is browser-based but has a light Java app that acts as a local web server, allowing you to perform searches and sorting of the data through your browser. I've been using them(actually I started with paymybills.com which was bought out by them) for 4 years now and haven't regretted it once. I just ordered my 2003 CD which includes my 2000, 2001 and 2002 records. About half of my bills are delivered to them electronically now so those are HTML instead of JPEGs.
I still have my first Mac from 1993. It is a Quadra 610 with a RasterOps 24STV video card which has 24-bit graphics and video capture at a whopping 160x120 at 15 frames per second!! The video card only cost an additional $1000 on top of the $2200 computer! It came with Mac OS 7.1, but over the years I've upgraded it to 8.1. With 8MB of RAM and a 25MHz 68040 it was great machine in 1993. It still boots up and the video card can still capture video.
It's the operating systems that would need to change their labels to "GiB" not the hard drive manufacturers. As far as IEC standards, the hard drive manufacturers are correct. The prefix "G" stands for 1 billion or 10^9. It's the prefix "Gi" that operating systems need to start using which stands for 2^30. See the second link in the post to learn more about the binary prefixes.
Everytime I watch that movie that line is like fingernails on a chalkboard because Disneyland opened in 1955.
If it is an average the solver must have solved it in under 17 seconds, half of the time. But maybe your point was the solver's standard deviation wasn't very high so the minimum time wasn't much less than 17 seconds?
Am I crazy because I read that title as "nine ways to write bad code"?
Did you read my comment before posting your derogatory reply? I was in agreement with you and was able to get my point across without name-calling.
I'm not a MS-basher, but I think your analogy may be a little off. It would be more like you wore your seatbelt but it unlatched during the accident because of a reason Ford knew about but didn't issue a recall on. Just as Ford issues recalls on faulty parts, MS should issue recalls, oh wait they do and they are called patches! So while I'm on your side that MS did the right thing, this analogy is probably closer.
Good call, it's not like those Imagineers are going to design it with safety in mind. $500 million? On what planet?
That still doesn't explain why it is spelt 'jigowatt' in several places on the new DVD. I don't think taking a pot-shot at the author of the novel fixes that.
The "ghoti" example is hilarious! And I concede that giga can be pronounced "giga" or "jiga" but then why is it spelt 'jigowatt' in the novelization of the movie and in the subtitles and "anecdotes" on the new DVD? I believe it is a made up unit of power that resemble a real one.