Just get a firewire harddrive enclosure and a hard drive. Firewire hard drives a pretty close to the same speed as internal ones and you can boot of it without a problem.
The Canon EOS 1D Mark 2 is probably the fastest camera I have heard of for continous shooting. It can burst 40 jpeg shots (20 Raw) before it needs to write them to the memory card. While this is impressive it is also capable of 8.5 frames a second so it could be all gone in just under 5 seconds. This is also a 8.2 mega pixel camera as well so there must be a fair bit of ram in the thing.
http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/eos1dm2/html/specifi ca tions.html
I live in Melbourne Australia, and the state bicycling group is very good at campaigning for bike paths. All the major freeways into the city have bike lanes and many roads have bike lanes down the side.
I ride about 30km to work and if I follow the bike paths I probably ride 1~2km on busy roads, 8km on quiet roads with generous shoulders (eg as wide as a parked car), the rest is on bike paths either along freeways or the river. Of the 20km of bike paths there are 2 road crossings, 1 is a little side street that leads to a golf course and the other has a set of lights. All of the other crossings either go under or over (built as part of the freeway).
On the whole it makes the ride into work an extremely pleasant experience, however these paths didn't just appear over night, it was years of work by the state cycling group (which has over 35,000 members). Now nearly all major road works incorporate the inclusion of cycling lanes.
This is a guy who downloaded a file from Limewire and assumed it was a beta ran it because it looked right. Do you think he is going to check to see who the application was signed by?
I doubt Microsoft is going to force every app that runs to pop up a message saying "this application is not signed and may do nasty things to your computer. blah blah blah" like it does for practically every driver that is out there.
At the end of the day you will always stupid users willing to screw up there machines, just like people sending emails around telling people to run del \*.*/s or rm/* -rf on the command line to speed up there machines.
Isn't the big difference between PCI Express and AGP is that PCI Express give equal bandwidth in both directions. My understanding of AGP is that it is designed for high speed transfers from memory to the card but not the other way round. I can in future people using your high graphics card as a real time effects card for movies etc.
This will become more of an issue when Microsoft puts more & more of the GUI load on the graphics card (similar to what Apple has done with Quartz Extreme).
Well if you catch a clue, I think you will find that the restrictions in place are for 2 reasons:
1) RIAA will not license you to sell music without a DRM system in place. 2) RIAA will not license you to sell music that can have perfect reproduction.
Then you have to pay bandwidth costs on the pipes going in/out of your store. Of course everyone will choose the largest file size possible. It all adds up especially when you are only getting a percentage of the 99 cents.
I am guessing that as soon as they can they want to migrate to a DRM based CD format as well.
I am not sure if it counts as software, but my understanding was that Hotmail was designed/built by an Indian developer (whether he was based in the US i am not sure).
I remember seeing a show about it, where they used him as an example of people breaking through the caste system of India. Right in the middle of the show he sold Hotmail to MS for over 400million if I remember correct.
I am both a.net developer (work) and a mac developer at home for my own projects. On the whole the two frameworks are reasonably similar, and if anything.net is a little more polished and has fewer quirks (for someone with a Java background).
However cocoa has 2 things that make it really shine:
1) Interface builder, to build similar UI's on a PC is very tedious. You want text boxes that expand with the window, tie a text box to one corner, place a button so it is always in the bottom right hand corner of a window. All of these things are a simple click away. No complex code to get all these things moving around.
2) The Document Architecture. The support both frameworks have to build a simple utility style application (only 1 window, the window is the app) is pretty simple. The cocoa frameworks are simply *brilliant* when it comes to a document based architecture. You build the basics, and you get the following for free: open, save, new, recently opened, revert to saved, application automatically associates with its documents, window menus.
With a bit of extra work undo/redo is supported and the ability to support applescript.
In my mind to build all of this into a windows app would take a lot more time. I believe that a MacOSX developer can spend more time concentrating on what there app does rather than the extraneous issues such as a recently opened documents menu and the sort.
This also means that on the Mac when a user opens a application and it saves/opens documents they can be pretty sure that in the file menu the recently opened items list will be right there. For a developer it would take them extra effort to remove this feature.
How would you compete. It would have to be a truly awesome jukebox tool that is better than iTunes. I know there are a few at the same level as iTunes but I have not seen a jukebox/website sales tool that is better.
Alhtough a store that allowed Australian's to spend their money would be good.
We have 2 supermarkets near us, one (the more expensive one) takes about 15~20 seconds for a credit card to be swiped and then about another 10 seconds for the merchant copy to be signed. The the docket is produced which takes another 30 seconds, mainly because it is so long (ads special offers etc).
The other super market, takes about 3~5 seconds for a credit card to be processed (and the swipe machine is better done so when you choose credit it doesn't ask for a pin). Then the docket printer can produce a couple of feet of docket in a second or to.
I am so surprised that all super markets have this system because it makes the end of the shopping experience so much nicer.
The only problem with the interpretation challenge is they would get around it the same way that porn/spammers get around the authentication checks at some site (eg where they present a skewed picture that is hunman readable but mucked up enough so a machine couldn't read it) is the porn companies set up pages that before you can see the porn you must do a few of these puzzles for the spammer.
Actually Apple gives away (BSD Style license) a code sample for implementing rendevous services. That should mean that anyone can/should implement rendevous if they need network discovery.
Why wouldn't he. They probably write the cost off on tax as well:-) I am surprised that he doesn't have one of there top of the line dual proc workstations, like one of the Precision 650 Workstation.
I wasn't blaming Microsoft, they are just playing in the market with everyone else. Personally I think people will ditch all the PDAs and will move to capable phones. I have a Sony-Ericsson t610 and it meets my needs:
Makes Phone Calls Phone book Task List (with alarms) Calendar (with alarms) Syncs with my Mac
It also has notes and a internet access by I hardly use those at all. There are also games etc but I have only played them once when I first got the phone. The biggest thing for me is that it is small and light and I have it with me nearly always.
I wasn't saying they wouldn't have a market share, just saying that they wouldn't be the dominant choice in that market. From what I have seen most people buying PDA's now are buying PPC. Eg around me there are 2 iPaq, 2 O2 XDA's (PPC Phone) and I have a palm which I don't use because my phone has all the tasks/calendars/notes I need.
The thing is that in terms of PDAs palm is probably the main choice on the Mac, whereas on the PC sadly MS PocketPC is now the main choice.
So palm will end up not being the main choice on either platform.
He is a mac user why should he worry about Linux users getting the short end of the stick compatibility wise. I am sure he comiserates with you (Mac users are used to find this or that device doesn't work perfectly) but he doesn't care because he isn't using Linux.
However this is where the power of open source will really kick some butts. If you are the developer of the device and you build the device open source and use open protocols to sync then it shouldn't be to hard for someone to build a mac/linux/freebsd/whatever sync application for your device. If it is all closed (and it is not like people are going to steal your ideas for syncing devices) then you have to do all the work yourself.
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Just get a firewire harddrive enclosure and a hard drive. Firewire hard drives a pretty close to the same speed as internal ones and you can boot of it without a problem.
The Canon EOS 1D Mark 2 is probably the fastest camera I have heard of for continous shooting. It can burst 40 jpeg shots (20 Raw) before it needs to write them to the memory card. While this is impressive it is also capable of 8.5 frames a second so it could be all gone in just under 5 seconds. This is also a 8.2 mega pixel camera as well so there must be a fair bit of ram in the thing.
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http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/eos1dm2/html/specif
If you read some of the forum posts, he did the case mod and *then* bought the motherboard. I think it was 2~3 months after he did the mod.
I live in Melbourne Australia, and the state bicycling group is very good at campaigning for bike paths. All the major freeways into the city have bike lanes and many roads have bike lanes down the side.
I ride about 30km to work and if I follow the bike paths I probably ride 1~2km on busy roads, 8km on quiet roads with generous shoulders (eg as wide as a parked car), the rest is on bike paths either along freeways or the river. Of the 20km of bike paths there are 2 road crossings, 1 is a little side street that leads to a golf course and the other has a set of lights. All of the other crossings either go under or over (built as part of the freeway).
On the whole it makes the ride into work an extremely pleasant experience, however these paths didn't just appear over night, it was years of work by the state cycling group (which has over 35,000 members). Now nearly all major road works incorporate the inclusion of cycling lanes.
This is a guy who downloaded a file from Limewire and assumed it was a beta ran it because it looked right. Do you think he is going to check to see who the application was signed by?
/s or rm /* -rf on the command line to speed up there machines.
I doubt Microsoft is going to force every app that runs to pop up a message saying "this application is not signed and may do nasty things to your computer. blah blah blah" like it does for practically every driver that is out there.
At the end of the day you will always stupid users willing to screw up there machines, just like people sending emails around telling people to run del \*.*
Isn't the big difference between PCI Express and AGP is that PCI Express give equal bandwidth in both directions. My understanding of AGP is that it is designed for high speed transfers from memory to the card but not the other way round. I can in future people using your high graphics card as a real time effects card for movies etc. This will become more of an issue when Microsoft puts more & more of the GUI load on the graphics card (similar to what Apple has done with Quartz Extreme).
Isn't AGP being replace by one of the next gen PCI specs (PCI-X or some such). Once this happens number of AGP slots will be irrelevant.
Well if you catch a clue, I think you will find that the restrictions in place are for 2 reasons:
1) RIAA will not license you to sell music without a DRM system in place.
2) RIAA will not license you to sell music that can have perfect reproduction.
Then you have to pay bandwidth costs on the pipes going in/out of your store. Of course everyone will choose the largest file size possible. It all adds up especially when you are only getting a percentage of the 99 cents.
I am guessing that as soon as they can they want to migrate to a DRM based CD format as well.
Going back 20 years my guess is that there were people saying the same thing about the Japanese and cars/electronics.
I am not sure if it counts as software, but my understanding was that Hotmail was designed/built by an Indian developer (whether he was based in the US i am not sure).
I remember seeing a show about it, where they used him as an example of people breaking through the caste system of India. Right in the middle of the show he sold Hotmail to MS for over 400million if I remember correct.
Gives new meaning to the computing phrase "garbage in, garbage out"
I must admit I hadn't seen them, have a look at the way it works in Cocoa which is still a step ahead.
I am both a .net developer (work) and a mac developer at home for my own projects. On the whole the two frameworks are reasonably similar, and if anything .net is a little more polished and has fewer quirks (for someone with a Java background).
However cocoa has 2 things that make it really shine:
1) Interface builder, to build similar UI's on a PC is very tedious. You want text boxes that expand with the window, tie a text box to one corner, place a button so it is always in the bottom right hand corner of a window. All of these things are a simple click away. No complex code to get all these things moving around.
2) The Document Architecture. The support both frameworks have to build a simple utility style application (only 1 window, the window is the app) is pretty simple. The cocoa frameworks are simply *brilliant* when it comes to a document based architecture. You build the basics, and you get the following for free: open, save, new, recently opened, revert to saved, application automatically associates with its documents, window menus.
With a bit of extra work undo/redo is supported and the ability to support applescript.
In my mind to build all of this into a windows app would take a lot more time. I believe that a MacOSX developer can spend more time concentrating on what there app does rather than the extraneous issues such as a recently opened documents menu and the sort.
This also means that on the Mac when a user opens a application and it saves/opens documents they can be pretty sure that in the file menu the recently opened items list will be right there. For a developer it would take them extra effort to remove this feature.
the users are paying for the newsletter, so not only have they 'opted' to receive it your future income depends on it.
How would you compete. It would have to be a truly awesome jukebox tool that is better than iTunes. I know there are a few at the same level as iTunes but I have not seen a jukebox/website sales tool that is better.
Alhtough a store that allowed Australian's to spend their money would be good.
We have 2 supermarkets near us, one (the more expensive one) takes about 15~20 seconds for a credit card to be swiped and then about another 10 seconds for the merchant copy to be signed. The the docket is produced which takes another 30 seconds, mainly because it is so long (ads special offers etc).
The other super market, takes about 3~5 seconds for a credit card to be processed (and the swipe machine is better done so when you choose credit it doesn't ask for a pin). Then the docket printer can produce a couple of feet of docket in a second or to.
I am so surprised that all super markets have this system because it makes the end of the shopping experience so much nicer.
The only problem with the interpretation challenge is they would get around it the same way that porn/spammers get around the authentication checks at some site (eg where they present a skewed picture that is hunman readable but mucked up enough so a machine couldn't read it) is the porn companies set up pages that before you can see the porn you must do a few of these puzzles for the spammer.
/. a couple of weeks ago.
This was on
Actually Apple gives away (BSD Style license) a code sample for implementing rendevous services. That should mean that anyone can/should implement rendevous if they need network discovery.
Why wouldn't he. They probably write the cost off on tax as well :-) I am surprised that he doesn't have one of there top of the line dual proc workstations, like one of the Precision 650 Workstation.
Well I did the same, although I use a mix of Mozilla and Firefox, it was only when both of those didn't work that I tried the evil one.
You have just shown yourself to be an IE user! The menu only works in IE, here is the page:
s px /corp/michael/en/computers?c=us&l=en&s=cor p
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.a
I wasn't blaming Microsoft, they are just playing in the market with everyone else. Personally I think people will ditch all the PDAs and will move to capable phones. I have a Sony-Ericsson t610 and it meets my needs:
Makes Phone Calls
Phone book
Task List (with alarms)
Calendar (with alarms)
Syncs with my Mac
It also has notes and a internet access by I hardly use those at all. There are also games etc but I have only played them once when I first got the phone. The biggest thing for me is that it is small and light and I have it with me nearly always.
I wasn't saying they wouldn't have a market share, just saying that they wouldn't be the dominant choice in that market. From what I have seen most people buying PDA's now are buying PPC. Eg around me there are 2 iPaq, 2 O2 XDA's (PPC Phone) and I have a palm which I don't use because my phone has all the tasks/calendars/notes I need.
The thing is that in terms of PDAs palm is probably the main choice on the Mac, whereas on the PC sadly MS PocketPC is now the main choice. So palm will end up not being the main choice on either platform.
He is a mac user why should he worry about Linux users getting the short end of the stick compatibility wise. I am sure he comiserates with you (Mac users are used to find this or that device doesn't work perfectly) but he doesn't care because he isn't using Linux.
However this is where the power of open source will really kick some butts. If you are the developer of the device and you build the device open source and use open protocols to sync then it shouldn't be to hard for someone to build a mac/linux/freebsd/whatever sync application for your device. If it is all closed (and it is not like people are going to steal your ideas for syncing devices) then you have to do all the work yourself.