That's all well and good for people who build PC towers. For laptops, though, it's absolutely rediculous to have to carry around an extra cable in my carrying case.
The CART ChampCar World Series has a really nice feature on their website that lets you watch all their races for free. The catch is that they don't put them up until 5 days after the race is brodcast on CBS or SpeedTV, but it's still nice to be able to actually watch the race for those of us without cable. No ads, either.
It's just really cool to see a sport actually doing sometihng for the fans and not just as a cash grab.
Wow, I can't wait for this. I've bought the audio package ($15/year) the last couple of years so I could hear Expos games, which don't get much coverage, even here in Canada (no wonder they're having a hard time staying around, the Toronto-centered Canadian media doesn't even acknoledge their existence)
Anyway, even if they're only around for one more year, it will be great to see a few of their games now and then.
Between this and being the only one to correctly predict that the comet heading to Springfield would harmlessly break up before hitting the groud, methinks that crayon gets jostled around now and then and a little bit of the true Homer intellect seeps through.
AquaPharm are now responsible for the lives of the people who could be cured by an otherwise readily available antibiotic that they are keeping secret.
No better way to shame them then to state simple facts, and expose the consequences of their greed.
Works wonders, until you bring home that extra-observant super smart girl you've been trying to impress so hard. You thought you had it perfectly planned. Then she points out that the spine on your Complete Works of Shakespere collection is unbent.
I see a problem with the corporate linux vendors being too dependent on selling support. Would that make them hesitant to develop a turnkey network distribution that could be set up to keep a school humming with minimal effort?
It will probably take a specialized, targeted distro to really break the Microsoft monopoly in schools.
The way you used to be able to set up a simple AppleTalk network should be the goal for a modern classroom OS.
...a limit on 32000 songs is definitely A Bad Thing, and one which might actually affect whether my next non-laptop computer is going to be an Apple or not.
You know... there are a f fair few other mp3 players available for te Mac OS. No one's forcing you to use iTunes. I certainly hop you're not using only Windows Media Player to listen to your vast collection of music on a windows machine:)
I've been doing some work with OpenDX recently to visualize data collected for some parallel computing projects I've been working on as a grad student. It's an open source visualization toolkit from IBM which runs mainly on unix and Windows (requires an X11 server).
Anyway, they've recently got it running on Mac OS X and is certainly worth checking out along with the software discussed in the article.
I personally love the Snap-back feature built into Safari, where, for example, if you do a google search, go to a result page, go several links deep and realize this isn't what you want, you just click the snap-back button and you're right back to your search results. This goes a long way to reducing my dependence on tabbed browsing, and is probably more intuitive for novice websurfers.
It works in a generic way for all websites, too, not just google, which is great.
Maybe if your audience had any kind of a freakin' life they would have something better to do than all rush to the computer to watch me answer my emails. Ya' gotta admit, that is pretty sad. And I live with Strong Sad, so I know pathetic, believe me.
How are we going to easily identify the scum of the Internet without @aol.com on the email address!
Or those who live in a country without freephone internet access apart from AOL.
Or those who signed on in 1994 and only stick with it because of their email address is widely distributed.
Or those who have 200 mb of email in their Personal Filing Cabinets and don't want to lose it. (The file format changes every release, the "converter" programs hardly work at all.)
Or those who find it convienient to be able to either dial up from just about anywhere internationally, or check their webmail without having to use Yahoo or Hotmail?
Or those who just find it convenient?
Too funnny. I guess you can find an AC to step up and defent just about anything now.
It's bad enough that you will be listening to a sampled version of your guitar, but 250 microseconds delay on your sound is the best case scenario? 1/4 second delay? As a mucisian, even one millisecond of delay is not accepable.
Lunky for you you're ont a mathematician. 250 microseconds = 1/4 millisecond Harely noticeable. Though I think I'll stick to my old setup for now as well.
This guy basically takes way too long to explain that BetaMax had was by far the better product, but then simply states that, despite all of its advantages, VHS is still better because it's more popular.
And he minimizes the difference in image quality between the two formats, wihch is a mistake. BetaMax's image quality was, and is, much better, both initially and especially after multiple passes.
To quote a fellow Farker on this guy: I think I'll go out and purchase a cheap but popular car.
I hope this won't be like newtonquake [orbesence.com].
Umm.. why not? Looks damn cool to me, unless it's a hoax, but it looks legit, and the Newton 2000 was certainly powerful enough to handle this kind of thing.
You don't have to patch your kernel or upgrade X-windows to watch dvd's or videos using Linux. Just install a modern Linux distribution like RedHat or SuSe, download a couple rpms, install them and you're set. Many people have written guides to playing dvd's and videos from a freshly installed RedHat
Many of us own laptops that don't play nice with linux. Anyway, here's how you are supposed to play a DVD:
1. Insert disc. 2. Make sure you don't burn your popcorn.
If I brought home a hardware DV DVD player, set it up on top of my TV, plugged it in and turned it on to find a command prompt and no way to play movies without me going out on the Internet, finding the proper program, in the proper packaging format, compiled for the proper architecture, installing it, then realizing my video hardware isn't configured properly. Having to upgrade my X-windows, and subsequently patch my 'kernel' with some kind of library.. and so on and so on. Well, the girl I brought home to watch a movie with me will have gone off to find something more interesting to do long ago. And said video player would have been thrown out the window.
When I can buy a computer with linux on it and have stuff just work, I'll say it has a chance of being useful for someone rather than a giant time-sucking virus.
A guy I used to work with (word up, Glen) put sometihng like this together wihle he was doing a master's in CS here at UNB. He rigged up his exercise bike so that as he pedalled it would move him forward and backwards, and he just has a mouse by the handlebars to take care of any other input (turning, shooting, etc)
Definitly the best use of an exercise bike I've ever heard of, but I still prefer the kind that you can use as transportation.
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Did you learn to type to use the computer?
Just like we all learned to type, on a QWERTY keyboard, which was designed to slow typists down so they didn't jam the early mechanical typewriters. Yet another example of designing for the machine and not the human. I'd say you've proven his point quite nicely.
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... oh right, those towers"?
TWIN TOWERS
Did anybody else read this and think "since when was that a documentary
That's all well and good for people who build PC towers. For laptops, though, it's absolutely rediculous to have to carry around an extra cable in my carrying case.
The CART ChampCar World Series has a really nice feature on their website that lets you watch all their races for free. The catch is that they don't put them up until 5 days after the race is brodcast on CBS or SpeedTV, but it's still nice to be able to actually watch the race for those of us without cable. No ads, either.
It's just really cool to see a sport actually doing sometihng for the fans and not just as a cash grab.
Wow, I can't wait for this. I've bought the audio package ($15/year) the last couple of years so I could hear Expos games, which don't get much coverage, even here in Canada (no wonder they're having a hard time staying around, the Toronto-centered Canadian media doesn't even acknoledge their existence)
Anyway, even if they're only around for one more year, it will be great to see a few of their games now and then.
Between this and being the only one to correctly predict that the comet heading to Springfield would harmlessly break up before hitting the groud, methinks that crayon gets jostled around now and then and a little bit of the true Homer intellect seeps through.
AquaPharm are now responsible for the lives of the people who could be cured by an otherwise readily available antibiotic that they are keeping secret.
No better way to shame them then to state simple facts, and expose the consequences of their greed.
Works wonders, until you bring home that extra-observant super smart girl you've been trying to impress so hard. You thought you had it perfectly planned. Then she points out that the spine on your Complete Works of Shakespere collection is unbent.
on a more serious note is cloning the way to win? doubtful - how about innovating making it better rather than just cloning
The cloning thing worked for MS...
I see a problem with the corporate linux vendors being too dependent on selling support. Would that make them hesitant to develop a turnkey network distribution that could be set up to keep a school humming with minimal effort?
It will probably take a specialized, targeted distro to really break the Microsoft monopoly in schools.
The way you used to be able to set up a simple AppleTalk network should be the goal for a modern classroom OS.
Of course, this correlation is based on an increased taste for pork products and heart disease... might not be strictly genetic.
...a limit on 32000 songs is definitely A Bad Thing, and one which might actually affect whether my next non-laptop computer is going to be an Apple or not.
:)
You know... there are a f fair few other mp3 players available for te Mac OS. No one's forcing you to use iTunes. I certainly hop you're not using only Windows Media Player to listen to your vast collection of music on a windows machine
If we suddenly see NASA people making a lot of big purchases with their credit cards, we'll know.
I've been doing some work with OpenDX recently to visualize data collected for some parallel computing projects I've been working on as a grad student. It's an open source visualization toolkit from IBM which runs mainly on unix and Windows (requires an X11 server).
Anyway, they've recently got it running on Mac OS X and is certainly worth checking out along with the software discussed in the article.
I personally love the Snap-back feature built into Safari, where, for example, if you do a google search, go to a result page, go several links deep and realize this isn't what you want, you just click the snap-back button and you're right back to your search results. This goes a long way to reducing my dependence on tabbed browsing, and is probably more intuitive for novice websurfers.
It works in a generic way for all websites, too, not just google, which is great.
Dear Website,
Maybe if your audience had any kind of a freakin' life they would have something better to do than all rush to the computer to watch me answer my emails. Ya' gotta admit, that is pretty sad. And I live with Strong Sad, so I know pathetic, believe me.
Sincerely,
Strong Bad
How are we going to easily identify the scum of the Internet without @aol.com on the email address!
Or those who live in a country without freephone internet access apart from AOL.
Or those who signed on in 1994 and only stick with it because of their email address is widely distributed.
Or those who have 200 mb of email in their Personal Filing Cabinets and don't want to lose it. (The file format changes every release, the "converter" programs hardly work at all.)
Or those who find it convienient to be able to either dial up from just about anywhere internationally, or check their webmail without having to use Yahoo or Hotmail?
Or those who just find it convenient?
Too funnny. I guess you can find an AC to step up and defent just about anything now.
It's bad enough that you will be listening to a sampled version of your guitar, but 250 microseconds delay on your sound is the best case scenario? 1/4 second delay? As a mucisian, even one millisecond of delay is not accepable.
Lunky for you you're ont a mathematician. 250 microseconds = 1/4 millisecond Harely noticeable. Though I think I'll stick to my old setup for now as well.
... But I'd be much more worried about Raiders fans.
This guy basically takes way too long to explain that BetaMax had was by far the better product, but then simply states that, despite all of its advantages, VHS is still better because it's more popular.
And he minimizes the difference in image quality between the two formats, wihch is a mistake. BetaMax's image quality was, and is, much better, both initially and especially after multiple passes.
To quote a fellow Farker on this guy: I think I'll go out and purchase a cheap but popular car.
I hope this won't be like newtonquake [orbesence.com].
:(
Umm.. why not? Looks damn cool to me, unless it's a hoax, but it looks legit, and the Newton 2000 was certainly powerful enough to handle this kind of thing.
I wish my old messagepad still worked..
You don't have to patch your kernel or upgrade X-windows to watch dvd's or videos using Linux. Just install a modern Linux distribution like RedHat or SuSe, download a couple rpms, install them and you're set. Many people have written guides to playing dvd's and videos from a freshly installed RedHat
Many of us own laptops that don't play nice with linux. Anyway, here's how you are supposed to play a DVD:
1. Insert disc.
2. Make sure you don't burn your popcorn.
If I brought home a hardware DV DVD player, set it up on top of my TV, plugged it in and turned it on to find a command prompt and no way to play movies without me going out on the Internet, finding the proper program, in the proper packaging format, compiled for the proper architecture, installing it, then realizing my video hardware isn't configured properly. Having to upgrade my X-windows, and subsequently patch my 'kernel' with some kind of library.. and so on and so on. Well, the girl I brought home to watch a movie with me will have gone off to find something more interesting to do long ago. And said video player would have been thrown out the window.
When I can buy a computer with linux on it and have stuff just work, I'll say it has a chance of being useful for someone rather than a giant time-sucking virus.
Until then, I'll use a Mac.
Makes you wonder why Intel thought to build a fab in Israel of all places. Talk about risk management.
A guy I used to work with (word up, Glen) put sometihng like this together wihle he was doing a master's in CS here at UNB. He rigged up his exercise bike so that as he pedalled it would move him forward and backwards, and he just has a mouse by the handlebars to take care of any other input (turning, shooting, etc)
Definitly the best use of an exercise bike I've ever heard of, but I still prefer the kind that you can use as transportation.
Did you learn to type to use the computer?
Just like we all learned to type, on a QWERTY keyboard, which was designed to slow typists down so they didn't jam the early mechanical typewriters. Yet another example of designing for the machine and not the human. I'd say you've proven his point quite nicely.