The video cards have VGA connectors on them, they always have. They also have the ADC connector, which is what you need to plug in an apple monitor (it is a spec that ibm made a while ago). Of course, there are boxes you can buy to plug the monitor into machines that have DVII on them also (almost all shipping geforce3 cards have them, IIRC)
He actually talked about using Cocoa / OpenStep to rapidly develop a program so he could quickly and easily map the VRAM for the PSX game he was working on, instead of having to use paper and pencil. He talks about rapid application development, that leaves one with a complete program, not a hobbled together mess of copied code. He then goes on to talk about how he loaded in some of the C++ based graphics code related to the game they were using, so he could load the textures and arrange them as if his application was a PSX.
What the article is talking about is how to use OS X / cocoa to develop back end applications for game development. OS X can also run maya and lightwave, so you got 3D rendering stuff down also. One can also spend more time using OS X to get the over all look of a game finished (UI, networking, etc.) a lot faster (and cheaper) because of Cocoa, and then after finalizing the game behavior, porting it to the more expensive and timely operating systems, such as windows.
Which appears to have the same internal storage area as a mini-mid tower case. The PSU is located over where the processor would be on most motherbaords. Also it appears that the PSU they sell isn't the spiffy kind that are liquid cool-able, but just normal fan based. I don't know about the noise level of the case, but it looks like it is something (poorly) directed towards over clockers.
According to the register, the new iMac does have a fan, but apple claims it only produces 25DBs, and shouldn't be louder than the hard drive. Now of course if the same fan will be as quite a year from now is a question. But yes, apple machines are almost always insanely quite, the current line of powermac G4's produced "too much noise" for some people (around 30dbs total or something), but i think if I plopped them down next to a standard PC laptop, they would realize how little noise their machine is making.
My powerbook is pretty much silent when the drive spins down, I think the bearings are starting to rub, since the drive has started to make a barely audible whine sometimes. But I need to get a new drive anyway. The IBM 38 gig with fluid bearings is supposedly dead silent. The only noise i hear usually with my computer is just my fingers on the keyboard.
I didn't realize until I started putting together my own PC machine how loud those suckers get.
info about the iMac and fan:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/index.ht ml
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I was thinking of it more like Apple and Sony work out a way to seamlessly integrate their periphs. Sony sells their digital cameras with a big Apple sticker on the box, or something of that nature.
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Apple acknowledged the rumor sites. Maybe it is feeding them not full correct information. Something like the iWalk from Apple is a very big thing indeed, but as it has been mentioned before, Apple claims the keynote "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond."
Look at all the more probable rumors right now: LCD iMac, PowerMac G5, iWalk, possible iBook updates, continual server / big iron rumors. Friend and I were talking about it last night. What if Apple released a bunch of stuff. All of the above (but a not lame version of the iWalk) along with a co-branded items from Sony. Here is the scenario: iWalk type thing is a $250 PDA with color screen, firewire, built in wireless (802.11b card capped at 2mbits, for power saving), 64 megs of ram. Can be jacked into an iPod and use it for storage. iPod price drops to $350. Now for $600 you can get the most kick ass pda/mp3 player on the market, and they work seamlessly with each other. Sony has a digital camera out with firewire on it, that works fine with the iWalk/iPod. Apple has been talking about the "digital hub" design for a while now, they could in one great keynote, announce all the key component blocks and unite them.
Apple has been hinting towards the digital hub setup, but most of the time saying this is what you can also use ____ for. But now they could say "here is a complete digital hub / lifestyle solution" that works seamlessly. tv components with firewire / wireless, PDAs that can control them, etc. Apple doesn't make all of them, apple just co brands them.
Whatever is going to be announced the 7th is going to be big. the tru7th will be revealed. I'm just glad I have planned to visit the Apple store near by the 12th and play with whatever has been announced (as they should have the new toys out to play with by then).
Damn straight. Of course I think they should atleast license it or something of that nature. but IIRC correctly, they officially changed their name to Boi-ngo (or was that their last album of new music, not counting farewell?) so technically, it wouldn't be infringement or anything. Hell maybe it took so long for this to happen cause dayton is a huge boingo fan, and was waiting for the rights on the name to expire or something (been 6+ years now).....
Wireless is essential for laptops. Apperantly Apple is taking a loss in selling these laptops (I read charging $300 per iBook somewhere else in the posts). The point of a wireless laptop is that instead of having to move kids to a classroom to use computers, a teacher could check out a portable lab, a rack of 15 ibooks or something, and wheel them into the class, hand them out, and do an assignment.
MacOS X would allow for multiuser boot options and the kids couldn't screw up machines.
It takes a lot to physically break an iBook. I know, I spent the last two years of highschool at a school that traveled around the country. We stuck a linux box and an airport basestation with a crossover in the back of the school bus, along with 6 iBooks, and spent 7 weeks driving around mexico. No major breaks, which is freaking impressive after I saw some of the falls they took and such.
So yes, it is worth it. If the school doesn't screw up with the implementation of it. Most kids in school are really freaking smart, if you know how to approach them and get them engaged. Laptops are tools. To paraphase Jobs himself from a few years back "no amount of technology or money will fix the state of education in this country" or something like that. Apple is providing some tools that will make a different form of education possible, which is partially the reason I think they did it.
Halo is freaking awesome, imagine marathon with almost unlimited amount of time to spend refining the rough edges and such.
Also, remember the mac version isn't directly made by MS, but will be ported by a company setup (i believe) with help by both MS and Apple, it was how Steve Jobs was kept from calling a bloodhunt on gates. I'm guessing you have a Mac since, well, you've played marathon quite a lot.
I will never buy an xbox, i will buy halo, so bungie can continue to make great games (if they don't manage to sell their games, the MS will want to "change" their structure).
That is why I still think the Dragon K7V+ is the best of the bundle. All the decent reviews I have found of the boards (and from browsing user reviews on various online merchants) the boards are rocket solid, preform great, and have gobs of goodies. It is still ~$140ish for the board, but for building a "quality" system, it really is a good value (hoping to be able to afford one soon). And it isn't too bad to look at either.
Also, if you look at the actual numbers, the difference in the boards statistics was around.2 or so, from fastest to slowest. All of the boards are performing obscenely fast, yet tom doesn't seem to pay attention to his own graphs or statistics.
the 5 fastest boards for Lame MP3 encoding all have times of 178 secs. No decimal points included. "The nforce boards come out on top" yeah they really are when the slowest KT266A board has a time of 179 seconds.
Or for another fun bunch of numbers, look at the flask mpeg encoding. The "fastest" fps is 21.51 (nForce board) and then there are 6 boards following it, all at 21.25 FPS. According to Tom the nForce boards "Pummeled" the competition.
Just some funny statistics stuff i noticed. Of course, Tom isn't lying per say, but it would be more impressive if he did an analysis based on cost etc. Like best board for a $600 system, $900 system, $1300 system.
but Marathon by far has a more interesting page, background, history, etc. that people are still going over. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
This friday was the 7th anniversary of it's demo release. A few months after Doom was released. Pathways into darkness, their previous game was out in 93 or so. With marathon bungie brought in tons of stuff to FPS also. Like mlook, rocket jumping, easy netplay (voice over lan also...), and awesome graphics. And to top it off, people are still playing it, porting it, and working on it (with a lot more success compared to what i have see for doom recently).
Check it out, then play halo for a bit at a compusa or something, and drool.
I realize this may sound kind of trivial, but how hard would it be to control the playback of the iPod from iTunes. As in iTunes just provides the interface on your computer, but the decoding of the mp3s takes place on the dedicated hardware. It would be a nice way to reduce CPU load, (yeah, i know, it may be trivial, but it would be a cool hack).
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One thing I would like point out is that sony isn't even touching the real spec of firewire. All of their machines have 4 pin connectors on them. They are missing the crucial 2 other pins which provide things like power. Sony isn't / wasnt or doesn't know how to gear i.Link towards other applications besides using it for video transfer it seems. It pretty much means if you don't go out and by a powered Firewire hub to provide the voltage for you, all your firewire / i.link devices connected to a sony box are going to require their own power source. Not a big deal for big hard drives and CDRWs, but things like the iPod, they shot themselves in the foot.
Where does it say it runs a custom version of os x? I dug through all their available information I could find, and it said nothing of the sort. Most of these mp3 players have a custom OS running on them, and while they could be using a mach kernel, I don't see apple as being so stubborn to think that it would be the best approach for a $400 device, that probably has a smaller than g3 risc chip. Maybe strongARM 133s or something, like what they used in the newtons (hey it could be where some of the newton people got put to work, cool!).
What I like about it is you can boot firewire macs off the drive, so you tech support people out there could justify it to your bosses, if you give up ~500 megs of music space, to throw a system folder and some recovery tools on the sucker. (considering that a similar drive is the same price, they may actually go for it also).
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Ok, listen the 1.8" drive apple is using in the damn iPod is $400 by itself (to purchase it in a firewire enclosure). The sucker has 32 megs of ram to load music then spin down the drive (which is something I was waiting for someone to start putting in their MP3 players).
It uses Firewire to transfer files and recharge. It can be used as a portable hard drive.
Apple is trying to add value to their current product base. Wow, all of a sudden all those machines apple just sold in the last 2 years are now able to interface with currently the coolest MP3 player ever. That is very significant for an "average joe user" trust me. So you don't like it, or don't want to spend money on it, big freaking deal, but I doubt Apple is going to lose big on this, and in a few months apple with probably announce a cheaper one, and put a 20 gig model in the $400 ones place. If the drives get there.
This is by far the coolest MP3 player out there. And yes, it is upgradable, so people can get Ogg working on it. And It is sturdy, if you have seen how much effort it takes to break one of the first ibooks, and usualy by break, it was a screen that broke, apple knows how to consumer harden their stuff. This thing will rock.
The later into the series, they usually get more diverse aliens, but there are a lot of humaniods, not as close as star trek, where it really is most ly facial makeup changes. I don't know if anyone can find the actual article, but i remember reading somewhere some theories that pretty much said that other intelligent life out there has a good chance of being humanoid because of some basic ideas of convergent evolution (like how in australia there are species which look similar to ones in north america, but have a very different ancestry). I also think they threw in the humans with ink thing because at the beginning they didn't have a lot of money, so they probably spent a lot of their money on the big puppets (pilot, rygel, d'argo's costume, etc.) and were left with enough money for body paint and sparkly things.
But it works.
Chiana is hot. I am still unconvinced that andromeda is better (it's more of a hercules in space thing).
When you get around to trying 10.1 take a look at omniweb. I use it for most surfing (a few pages it just chokes on, but those are ones with auto forwarders, etc.) and it handles viewing a 400+ post story at level 2 nested quite fine. and if it does take a while, i go do something else =) Now only if i can get it to run in multiple instances (so while one page renders, it doesn't totally kill the entire app).
There is firenet here:
http://www.unibrain.com/products/ieee-1394/firen et.htm
They also make a "fireserver" which is a hardware box you can plug a bunch of machines into over firewire to share it's volumes. I am guessing in the AV world, where lots of people are working on huge image / data files, the speed of data access is crucial. I know that Apple's towers really won't be able to push the gigabit ether's speed limit till OS X, so AFP over firewire may be the only solution for shared video editing on the cheap. (If you consider the price of a fast server with a raid, gigabit ethernet, and the routing hardware).
What are you talking about? I still cannot believe this has happened, it was surreal when I first heard of it and it still is this semi morphic concept in my head trying to imagine what the impact must have been. Everytime I was able to see a photo or watch a video it became more and more real. This helps me from forgetting. Until I am able to visit the site myself, these images will have to do.
There is work in non verbal / non reading communication. It has been around for a while.
In the early 80's they had visual training programs for cashiers. It used a lot of tree spanning and pretty much evaled and adopted itself to the learning styles of the person using it.
The idea is you can now mix interactivity and images together, to provide more information than a written word. Computers are powerful enough to do these sort of things now, and the PS2 would be perfect for such a thing. Cheap, and able to do some real graphics (so people can figure out what it is they are looking at). You get the power of the information age without forcing everyone to have learn a written language.
Copy protection would pretty much give you expiring demos of a cd, or a song, or two songs. This is some of Scott's worries: getting people interested in the new stuff. I just paid $10 for a year of ad-free sluggy. Why? because I love the comic and I know what I am getting. But my friend who just started reading it doesnt want to yet, because she hasn't gotten into it enough yet. I doubt she would have wanted to take a look if she had to pay $10 up front.
Someone talked about an idea of networks, like keenspace/spot: you pay $3 and you can view any comic on the website. Of course this is centralizing all of the comics / art on one person / entity, which may be a bad thing. Then you need multiple accounts on different servers. Then you get into underground trading systems for people who STILL don't want to pay.
How could someone to get freenet (i mean in the conceptual form) adapted to work as the storage place for a comic. First, it drops the expense of the artist. The big stuff isn't stored on their server, its on freenet. The comic is pulled from freenet and shown on the main page. People can volunteer to be a host node, they set how many people they are willing to connect, and they get a discount (if they want) from the micropayments. It should also be faster, since the comic could be pulled from the node closest to the viewer.
Billing would have to be worked out, something like paypal. I like the idea of putting $20 in a calling card-esque type thing, but have it be in a "standard digital currency" ie my 300 credits from micropay are worth 300 credits at tinyworth. So now when a viewer goes to look at a comic, it grabs 1/10 of a credit for that day. no matter how long i visit. The artist gets the credits after the service charge, and he can then have them converted into currency of choice, or just use them to buy something at a place that takes such credits (cryptonomicon's banana example).
If for some random reason this inspires, please note that it was this that did.
like myself, you can just hope onto something like hotline and download all the episodes ever made. They are usually all in.rm, 30 megs a peice, pretty decent quality for crap, but its good enough to catch up on missed episodes (like all of this season that i missed).
Hell, there is even a guy who doesn't make you click banners or anything to download, you just have to wait in queue.
First i thought of about the dvds: higher quality episodes. I won't be able to fit a season to a cd anymore, but i could make my own vcd's of 2-3 shows etc.
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The video cards have VGA connectors on them, they always have. They also have the ADC connector, which is what you need to plug in an apple monitor (it is a spec that ibm made a while ago). Of course, there are boxes you can buy to plug the monitor into machines that have DVII on them also (almost all shipping geforce3 cards have them, IIRC)
He actually talked about using Cocoa / OpenStep to rapidly develop a program so he could quickly and easily map the VRAM for the PSX game he was working on, instead of having to use paper and pencil. He talks about rapid application development, that leaves one with a complete program, not a hobbled together mess of copied code. He then goes on to talk about how he loaded in some of the C++ based graphics code related to the game they were using, so he could load the textures and arrange them as if his application was a PSX.
What the article is talking about is how to use OS X / cocoa to develop back end applications for game development. OS X can also run maya and lightwave, so you got 3D rendering stuff down also. One can also spend more time using OS X to get the over all look of a game finished (UI, networking, etc.) a lot faster (and cheaper) because of Cocoa, and then after finalizing the game behavior, porting it to the more expensive and timely operating systems, such as windows.
Which appears to have the same internal storage area as a mini-mid tower case. The PSU is located over where the processor would be on most motherbaords. Also it appears that the PSU they sell isn't the spiffy kind that are liquid cool-able, but just normal fan based. I don't know about the noise level of the case, but it looks like it is something (poorly) directed towards over clockers.
According to the register, the new iMac does have a fan, but apple claims it only produces 25DBs, and shouldn't be louder than the hard drive. Now of course if the same fan will be as quite a year from now is a question. But yes, apple machines are almost always insanely quite, the current line of powermac G4's produced "too much noise" for some people (around 30dbs total or something), but i think if I plopped them down next to a standard PC laptop, they would realize how little noise their machine is making.
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My powerbook is pretty much silent when the drive spins down, I think the bearings are starting to rub, since the drive has started to make a barely audible whine sometimes. But I need to get a new drive anyway. The IBM 38 gig with fluid bearings is supposedly dead silent. The only noise i hear usually with my computer is just my fingers on the keyboard.
I didn't realize until I started putting together my own PC machine how loud those suckers get.
info about the iMac and fan:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/index.h
I was thinking of it more like Apple and Sony work out a way to seamlessly integrate their periphs. Sony sells their digital cameras with a big Apple sticker on the box, or something of that nature.
Apple acknowledged the rumor sites. Maybe it is feeding them not full correct information. Something like the iWalk from Apple is a very big thing indeed, but as it has been mentioned before, Apple claims the keynote "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond."
Look at all the more probable rumors right now: LCD iMac, PowerMac G5, iWalk, possible iBook updates, continual server / big iron rumors. Friend and I were talking about it last night. What if Apple released a bunch of stuff. All of the above (but a not lame version of the iWalk) along with a co-branded items from Sony. Here is the scenario: iWalk type thing is a $250 PDA with color screen, firewire, built in wireless (802.11b card capped at 2mbits, for power saving), 64 megs of ram. Can be jacked into an iPod and use it for storage. iPod price drops to $350. Now for $600 you can get the most kick ass pda/mp3 player on the market, and they work seamlessly with each other. Sony has a digital camera out with firewire on it, that works fine with the iWalk/iPod. Apple has been talking about the "digital hub" design for a while now, they could in one great keynote, announce all the key component blocks and unite them.
Apple has been hinting towards the digital hub setup, but most of the time saying this is what you can also use ____ for. But now they could say "here is a complete digital hub / lifestyle solution" that works seamlessly. tv components with firewire / wireless, PDAs that can control them, etc. Apple doesn't make all of them, apple just co brands them.
Whatever is going to be announced the 7th is going to be big. the tru7th will be revealed. I'm just glad I have planned to visit the Apple store near by the 12th and play with whatever has been announced (as they should have the new toys out to play with by then).
Damn straight. Of course I think they should atleast license it or something of that nature. but IIRC correctly, they officially changed their name to Boi-ngo (or was that their last album of new music, not counting farewell?) so technically, it wouldn't be infringement or anything. Hell maybe it took so long for this to happen cause dayton is a huge boingo fan, and was waiting for the rights on the name to expire or something (been 6+ years now).....
Wireless is essential for laptops. Apperantly Apple is taking a loss in selling these laptops (I read charging $300 per iBook somewhere else in the posts). The point of a wireless laptop is that instead of having to move kids to a classroom to use computers, a teacher could check out a portable lab, a rack of 15 ibooks or something, and wheel them into the class, hand them out, and do an assignment.
MacOS X would allow for multiuser boot options and the kids couldn't screw up machines.
It takes a lot to physically break an iBook. I know, I spent the last two years of highschool at a school that traveled around the country. We stuck a linux box and an airport basestation with a crossover in the back of the school bus, along with 6 iBooks, and spent 7 weeks driving around mexico. No major breaks, which is freaking impressive after I saw some of the falls they took and such.
So yes, it is worth it. If the school doesn't screw up with the implementation of it. Most kids in school are really freaking smart, if you know how to approach them and get them engaged. Laptops are tools. To paraphase Jobs himself from a few years back "no amount of technology or money will fix the state of education in this country" or something like that. Apple is providing some tools that will make a different form of education possible, which is partially the reason I think they did it.
Don't give up so easily.
Halo is freaking awesome, imagine marathon with almost unlimited amount of time to spend refining the rough edges and such.
Also, remember the mac version isn't directly made by MS, but will be ported by a company setup (i believe) with help by both MS and Apple, it was how Steve Jobs was kept from calling a bloodhunt on gates. I'm guessing you have a Mac since, well, you've played marathon quite a lot.
I will never buy an xbox, i will buy halo, so bungie can continue to make great games (if they don't manage to sell their games, the MS will want to "change" their structure).
That is why I still think the Dragon K7V+ is the best of the bundle. All the decent reviews I have found of the boards (and from browsing user reviews on various online merchants) the boards are rocket solid, preform great, and have gobs of goodies. It is still ~$140ish for the board, but for building a "quality" system, it really is a good value (hoping to be able to afford one soon). And it isn't too bad to look at either.
Also, if you look at the actual numbers, the difference in the boards statistics was around .2 or so, from fastest to slowest. All of the boards are performing obscenely fast, yet tom doesn't seem to pay attention to his own graphs or statistics.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q4/0111
the 5 fastest boards for Lame MP3 encoding all have times of 178 secs. No decimal points included. "The nforce boards come out on top" yeah they really are when the slowest KT266A board has a time of 179 seconds.
Or for another fun bunch of numbers, look at the flask mpeg encoding. The "fastest" fps is 21.51 (nForce board) and then there are 6 boards following it, all at 21.25 FPS. According to Tom the nForce boards "Pummeled" the competition.
Just some funny statistics stuff i noticed. Of course, Tom isn't lying per say, but it would be more impressive if he did an analysis based on cost etc. Like best board for a $600 system, $900 system, $1300 system.
Oh, you mean like a yellowdog BriQ.
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http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/briQ
but Marathon by far has a more interesting page, background, history, etc. that people are still going over. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
This friday was the 7th anniversary of it's demo release. A few months after Doom was released. Pathways into darkness, their previous game was out in 93 or so. With marathon bungie brought in tons of stuff to FPS also. Like mlook, rocket jumping, easy netplay (voice over lan also...), and awesome graphics. And to top it off, people are still playing it, porting it, and working on it (with a lot more success compared to what i have see for doom recently).
Check it out, then play halo for a bit at a compusa or something, and drool.
I realize this may sound kind of trivial, but how hard would it be to control the playback of the iPod from iTunes. As in iTunes just provides the interface on your computer, but the decoding of the mp3s takes place on the dedicated hardware. It would be a nice way to reduce CPU load, (yeah, i know, it may be trivial, but it would be a cool hack).
One thing I would like point out is that sony isn't even touching the real spec of firewire. All of their machines have 4 pin connectors on them. They are missing the crucial 2 other pins which provide things like power. Sony isn't / wasnt or doesn't know how to gear i.Link towards other applications besides using it for video transfer it seems. It pretty much means if you don't go out and by a powered Firewire hub to provide the voltage for you, all your firewire / i.link devices connected to a sony box are going to require their own power source. Not a big deal for big hard drives and CDRWs, but things like the iPod, they shot themselves in the foot.
Where does it say it runs a custom version of os x? I dug through all their available information I could find, and it said nothing of the sort. Most of these mp3 players have a custom OS running on them, and while they could be using a mach kernel, I don't see apple as being so stubborn to think that it would be the best approach for a $400 device, that probably has a smaller than g3 risc chip. Maybe strongARM 133s or something, like what they used in the newtons (hey it could be where some of the newton people got put to work, cool!).
What I like about it is you can boot firewire macs off the drive, so you tech support people out there could justify it to your bosses, if you give up ~500 megs of music space, to throw a system folder and some recovery tools on the sucker. (considering that a similar drive is the same price, they may actually go for it also).
Ok, listen the 1.8" drive apple is using in the damn iPod is $400 by itself (to purchase it in a firewire enclosure). The sucker has 32 megs of ram to load music then spin down the drive (which is something I was waiting for someone to start putting in their MP3 players).
It uses Firewire to transfer files and recharge. It can be used as a portable hard drive.
Apple is trying to add value to their current product base. Wow, all of a sudden all those machines apple just sold in the last 2 years are now able to interface with currently the coolest MP3 player ever. That is very significant for an "average joe user" trust me. So you don't like it, or don't want to spend money on it, big freaking deal, but I doubt Apple is going to lose big on this, and in a few months apple with probably announce a cheaper one, and put a 20 gig model in the $400 ones place. If the drives get there.
This is by far the coolest MP3 player out there. And yes, it is upgradable, so people can get Ogg working on it. And It is sturdy, if you have seen how much effort it takes to break one of the first ibooks, and usualy by break, it was a screen that broke, apple knows how to consumer harden their stuff. This thing will rock.
The later into the series, they usually get more diverse aliens, but there are a lot of humaniods, not as close as star trek, where it really is most ly facial makeup changes. I don't know if anyone can find the actual article, but i remember reading somewhere some theories that pretty much said that other intelligent life out there has a good chance of being humanoid because of some basic ideas of convergent evolution (like how in australia there are species which look similar to ones in north america, but have a very different ancestry). I also think they threw in the humans with ink thing because at the beginning they didn't have a lot of money, so they probably spent a lot of their money on the big puppets (pilot, rygel, d'argo's costume, etc.) and were left with enough money for body paint and sparkly things.
But it works.
Chiana is hot. I am still unconvinced that andromeda is better (it's more of a hercules in space thing).
When you get around to trying 10.1 take a look at omniweb. I use it for most surfing (a few pages it just chokes on, but those are ones with auto forwarders, etc.) and it handles viewing a 400+ post story at level 2 nested quite fine. and if it does take a while, i go do something else =) Now only if i can get it to run in multiple instances (so while one page renders, it doesn't totally kill the entire app).
There is firenet here:n et .htm
http://www.unibrain.com/products/ieee-1394/fire
They also make a "fireserver" which is a hardware box you can plug a bunch of machines into over firewire to share it's volumes. I am guessing in the AV world, where lots of people are working on huge image / data files, the speed of data access is crucial. I know that Apple's towers really won't be able to push the gigabit ether's speed limit till OS X, so AFP over firewire may be the only solution for shared video editing on the cheap. (If you consider the price of a fast server with a raid, gigabit ethernet, and the routing hardware).
And firewire is damn spiffy also.
What are you talking about? I still cannot believe this has happened, it was surreal when I first heard of it and it still is this semi morphic concept in my head trying to imagine what the impact must have been. Everytime I was able to see a photo or watch a video it became more and more real. This helps me from forgetting. Until I am able to visit the site myself, these images will have to do.
There is work in non verbal / non reading communication. It has been around for a while.
In the early 80's they had visual training programs for cashiers. It used a lot of tree spanning and pretty much evaled and adopted itself to the learning styles of the person using it.
The idea is you can now mix interactivity and images together, to provide more information than a written word. Computers are powerful enough to do these sort of things now, and the PS2 would be perfect for such a thing. Cheap, and able to do some real graphics (so people can figure out what it is they are looking at). You get the power of the information age without forcing everyone to have learn a written language.
...is another tank.
Was another tank
Was a helicopter
Is an A-10 Warthog
Copy protection would pretty much give you expiring demos of a cd, or a song, or two songs. This is some of Scott's worries: getting people interested in the new stuff. I just paid $10 for a year of ad-free sluggy. Why? because I love the comic and I know what I am getting. But my friend who just started reading it doesnt want to yet, because she hasn't gotten into it enough yet. I doubt she would have wanted to take a look if she had to pay $10 up front.
Someone talked about an idea of networks, like keenspace/spot: you pay $3 and you can view any comic on the website. Of course this is centralizing all of the comics / art on one person / entity, which may be a bad thing. Then you need multiple accounts on different servers. Then you get into underground trading systems for people who STILL don't want to pay.
How could someone to get freenet (i mean in the conceptual form) adapted to work as the storage place for a comic. First, it drops the expense of the artist. The big stuff isn't stored on their server, its on freenet. The comic is pulled from freenet and shown on the main page. People can volunteer to be a host node, they set how many people they are willing to connect, and they get a discount (if they want) from the micropayments. It should also be faster, since the comic could be pulled from the node closest to the viewer.
Billing would have to be worked out, something like paypal. I like the idea of putting $20 in a calling card-esque type thing, but have it be in a "standard digital currency" ie my 300 credits from micropay are worth 300 credits at tinyworth. So now when a viewer goes to look at a comic, it grabs 1/10 of a credit for that day. no matter how long i visit. The artist gets the credits after the service charge, and he can then have them converted into currency of choice, or just use them to buy something at a place that takes such credits (cryptonomicon's banana example).
If for some random reason this inspires, please note that it was this that did.
like myself, you can just hope onto something like hotline and download all the episodes ever made. They are usually all in .rm, 30 megs a peice, pretty decent quality for crap, but its good enough to catch up on missed episodes (like all of this season that i missed).
Hell, there is even a guy who doesn't make you click banners or anything to download, you just have to wait in queue.
First i thought of about the dvds: higher quality episodes. I won't be able to fit a season to a cd anymore, but i could make my own vcd's of 2-3 shows etc.