If you ever had to perform real time processing using Microsoft Windows you would regard the comment as kind. Windows employs a constant blizzard of interupts which makes response times unpredictable at this scale.
Actually the BSOD is the least of the problems, with lags and leads being the primary problem.
Put Knoppix or Slax on a CF card, install on a mini ITX Board (or eventually a nano). The result is a machine with all the functionality necessary for day to day functionality. Get the price down just a bit and you have bubble pack PC which is an impulse buy . While servers will still be needed a complementary linux solution will be better any way.
Remember the Pseudo Network? http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/interne t/1703/index.html (actually it's still there) The founder boasted that he would bury conventional networks shortly just as soon as broadband kicked in (this was 5 years ago). The content was reasonably off kilter, (I loved MANX) but it all crashed with the rest of the dotcoms. While I think a PSPcasting scheme might work, I'm still not seeing the killer app here.
I also have both the DS and the PSP both of which I predominantly use for video playback and hacks. While the PSP is lovely for its display and PSP Video 9 does great transcoding, the memory stick costs are insane, a 1 GB memory stick duo is $149 the cost of the DS. This is compounded by the limited battery life, fragility and size of the PSP. As a result, for any long trip I prefer a DS with a Play Yan video cartridge(get from Lik-Sang). It employs SD-Card memory which is one half the cost of Memory Sticks, has excellent playback quality using 3GPP for transcoding. While the display is smaller it is fine for anime (even w/ subtitles) and TV programs, and a 1 GB sd card will hold 7 hours of video, and the DS has comparible battery time. Also when travelling light, you can slip the module into a GBA SP and have a complete playback system a little larger than a lady's compact. In particular, the Play Yan cartridge incorporates an amplified headphone jack which obviates the need for a headphone adaptor on the SP. In short the DS wins out untill the cost of memory and the PSP itself drops considerably.
Luser CEO attitude re-adjustment tool (LCART)(pat. pend.) and Luser Patent Examiner attitude re-adjustment tool (LPEART) (pat. pend.)
Using this patent as proof that neither innovation has an example of a effectively deployed prior art. I will of course licence such devices to any indivdual as long as he demonstrates a willingness to use them in the field. Items used by the much deserving recipents of adjustment to shield themselves will be punished for the use of circumvention devices to the full extent of the law, followed by further adjustment.
Card is using a strawman argument. Star Trek was not a tremendous sucess because it was perfect but because it better than any Science Fiction at the time on TV. Star Trek was a reasonably hard and reasonably consistent science fiction show when the bulk of contemporary shows were on the level of "Lost in Space". Card argues that we could have had LeGuin, Ellison or Asimov instead of Star Trek. In a perfect world yes, we could have, but in the world we have we were lucky to get Ellison's "City at the Edge of Forever" via Trek however mangled. As for Asimov, two words, "I Robot" staring Will Smith.
Television even more than politics is the art of the possible. In order to make even a halfway decent show actually happen takes a very determined and practical individual to guide a show past the idiots in charge of the networks. There are very few individuals capable of pushing a good idea all the way to a reasonably good show Roddenbery was one, only Whedon and JMS have shown the capability to pull off comparable feats and neither presently has a show on TV.
Trek demonstrated that serious, hard science fiction could make it on television. Star trek also served as the "gateway drug" familarizing a generation with the basic elements of true science fiction.
After Roddenbery's passing Paramount handed his achievement over to B&B who have debased it to the point in which it is no longer relevant. Yes Babylon 5 and Firefly easily outclass Star Trek but they would have not existed without the original Trek series.
When I see an Orson Scott Card inspired TV series which he approves of on TV I'll take his arguements seriously.
Don't underestimate a good opening sequence. A good opening sequence in Anime can estabilish much of the plotline and cast of chartacters while giving a sampler of the animation as well (consider the Sakura Wars TV opening sequence). A great opening sequence will close the deal without having seen anyting else (consider Coboy Bebop or Noir)
Progressive key revocations will essentially splinter device compatibility, making each brand have differing compatibilities. Given that several of the manufacturers are either content producers or tightly coupled with the same, it is possible that if the revocation is contested they might generate media with non-revoked keys.
Even without this outcome, interoperability would become a nightmare. Lack of compatibility would completely throttle widespread adoption.
Lack of a PC based player would be even worse, in that, in my opinion the DVD format largely caught on as a result of use of PC players with a later transition to standalone players after increasing volume made the units affordable.
The Play-Yan cartridge from Nintendo (presently japanse market, available from Lik-Sang) produces much better video than the MovieAdvance module and incorporates an amplified earphone adapter (indispensable when used with the SP). It takes SD cards and will hold a full movie in 512M or so. It also plays MP3s directly at good quality. Finally the cartridge only sticks out less than a centimeter from the GBA. Very fussy about conversion software but if 3GPP can read the input file it can generate an appropriate output file.
While the Play-Yan has spectacular quality on the DS display it really becomes a killer app on the SP in that it provides a complete video player with the same form factor as the SP. If Nintendo has any sense it should release an english version as soon as possible possibly with an SP bundle.
The Movie Advance is larger but takes CF cards and incorporates ebook, NES emulation and photo viewing as well as a lower grade (but easier to encode) video player and music player.
I use a PVR (SageTV) and I skip stupid ads, but I back up and watch interesting ads (my favorite is the Pedigree "We're for dogs" ad). The lesson is that ads can prosper if they are creative and interesting. On the other hand, deliberately annoying ads should die a horrible death.
I've had a SageTV PC for the past 2 years which includes all of the functionality just coming to tivo now. I can freely burn dvds of my content, transcode the content to GBA Movie Player format and watch on a gameboy (fantastic!). I can look at photos, listen to MP3s, and watch dvds. I can watch contnet with any mpeg player (WinDVD, VLC, Power DVD). My universal remote works with it and it can switch my cable box. No subscription, free EPG.
i really can't see how Tivo can beat that or mythTV
Lik-Sang has a GBA Movie Player module for $24 which reads text files off of CF cards. Use old CF cards for cheap. Get a mini-winder charger (Lik-Sang) (8 mins of hand cranking generates 30 min of operation) and either a Game Boy SP for ~$59 used (smaller than a wallet easy to hide) or a refurbished GameBoy advance ~$35 (nearly disposable). Toss in a magnifier (they do work) and you have a portable human powered library.
I agree. In fact, selling these laptops in the developed world at a reasonable markup ($150-200) would be critical to the enterprise. It's like the solar/hand crank radios, they sell at a considerable markup in developed countries which subsidizes the cost of the radios in the developing world. The effect of sales in the developed world would allow for an early ramp up in production and help in capitilization of the plan. Secondly, a commercial market for the units would serve as a check on the tendency of such systems to become designs built by committee. Finally, there are considerable portions of the US which could use cheap laptops such as Appalachia and other poor areas.
Not only do the fighting characters fight for good and noble causes, many of the characters don't fight at all.
In Stellvia of the Universe the threat of the supernova shockwave leads to the 'Great Mission' in which all of humanity unites to save the solar system from the 'Second Wave' of supernova debris. War is such a distant memory that many people are unclear on the concept. Our heroine (and her girlfriends) prevail and saves the earth and later the solar system via superior programing, piloting, systems integration and telefactoring skills. Now that's a geek godess.
In Ah! My Goddess the godesses never strictly fight but rather have to finesse the various problems that they face,even when the structure of reality is on the line as in the movie.
I'd also reccomend Ground Defense Force Mao Chan in which little girls incapacitate really cute aliens (with a blindingly funny subtext of intraservice rivalry). Or You're Under Arrest the Movie in which our heroines defeat the terrorists without a shot fired (including one battle in which they defeat armed terrorists with a paintball arsenal and some quick thinking).
Even fighting shows involving girls such as the excellent 'Sakura Wars' and 'Inuyasha' focus much more on personal interaction.
In addition, good Anime involving strong women tend to focus on teamwork, friendship, loyalty, perserverance aganst all odds and fairness. In addition, the shows promote a balanced view in which nominal villains are misunderstood and often co-opted into the good fight.
Re:Strawman, strawman, strawman
on
Mac mini Dissection
·
· Score: 2, Informative
nice but the trick is: (and I have done this) 1.Get a VIA EPIA mini-ITX (or shortly a nano) 2.Put it in a Cubid case 3.Boot off of SLAX or Knoppix It just works! (in linux!) The real competition for the mini are the mini or nano ITX boxen, they have everything but wireless integrated (if you need wireless just stuff in a USB key style adapter) with a full set of drivers on a single disk for windows and full kernel support for linux. and they are a lot cheaper
Slashdot Mirror
If you ever had to perform real time processing using Microsoft Windows you would regard the comment as kind. Windows employs a constant blizzard of interupts which makes response times unpredictable at this scale.
Actually the BSOD is the least of the problems, with lags and leads being the primary problem.
Put Knoppix or Slax on a CF card, install on a mini ITX Board (or eventually a nano). The result is a machine with all the functionality necessary for day to day functionality. Get the price down just a bit and you have bubble pack PC which is an impulse buy . While servers will still be needed a complementary linux solution will be better any way.
Remember the Pseudo Network? http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/interne t/1703/index.html (actually it's still there) The founder boasted that he would bury conventional networks shortly just as soon as broadband kicked in (this was 5 years ago). The content was reasonably off kilter, (I loved MANX) but it all crashed with the rest of the dotcoms. While I think a PSPcasting scheme might work, I'm still not seeing the killer app here.
Determining the relative speed of chordic Baudot and Stenotype methods, in particular Baudot code was intended as a acceleration of Morse
I also have both the DS and the PSP both of which I predominantly use for video playback and hacks. While the PSP is lovely for its display and PSP Video 9 does great transcoding, the memory stick costs are insane, a 1 GB memory stick duo is $149 the cost of the DS. This is compounded by the limited battery life, fragility and size of the PSP. As a result, for any long trip I prefer a DS with a Play Yan video cartridge(get from Lik-Sang). It employs SD-Card memory which is one half the cost of Memory Sticks, has excellent playback quality using 3GPP for transcoding. While the display is smaller it is fine for anime (even w/ subtitles) and TV programs, and a 1 GB sd card will hold 7 hours of video, and the DS has comparible battery time.
Also when travelling light, you can slip the module into a GBA SP and have a complete playback system a little larger than a lady's compact. In particular, the Play Yan cartridge incorporates an amplified headphone jack which obviates the need for a headphone adaptor on the SP.
In short the DS wins out untill the cost of memory and the PSP itself drops considerably.
Luser CEO attitude re-adjustment tool (LCART)(pat. pend.)
and
Luser Patent Examiner attitude re-adjustment tool (LPEART) (pat. pend.)
Using this patent as proof that neither innovation has an example of a effectively deployed prior art. I will of course licence such devices to any indivdual as long as he demonstrates a willingness to use them in the field.
Items used by the much deserving recipents of adjustment to shield themselves will be punished for the use of circumvention devices to the full extent of the law, followed by further adjustment.
Card is using a strawman argument. Star Trek was not a tremendous sucess because it was perfect but because it better than any Science Fiction at the time on TV. Star Trek was a reasonably hard and reasonably consistent science fiction show when the bulk of contemporary shows were on the level of "Lost in Space". Card argues that we could have had LeGuin, Ellison or Asimov instead of Star Trek. In a perfect world yes, we could have, but in the world we have we were lucky to get Ellison's "City at the Edge of Forever" via Trek however mangled. As for Asimov, two words, "I Robot" staring Will Smith.
Television even more than politics is the art of the possible. In order to make even a halfway decent show actually happen takes a very determined and practical individual to guide a show past the idiots in charge of the networks. There are very few individuals capable of pushing a good idea all the way to a reasonably good show Roddenbery was one, only Whedon and JMS have shown the capability to pull off comparable feats and neither presently has a show on TV.
Trek demonstrated that serious, hard science fiction could make it on television. Star trek also served as the "gateway drug" familarizing a generation with the basic elements of true science fiction.
After Roddenbery's passing Paramount handed his achievement over to B&B who have debased it to the point in which it is no longer relevant. Yes Babylon 5 and Firefly easily outclass Star Trek but they would have not existed without the original Trek series.
When I see an Orson Scott Card inspired TV series which he approves of on TV I'll take his arguements seriously.
Don't underestimate a good opening sequence. A good opening sequence in Anime can estabilish much of the plotline and cast of chartacters while giving a sampler of the animation as well (consider the Sakura Wars TV opening sequence). A great opening sequence will close the deal without having seen anyting else (consider Coboy Bebop or Noir)
It's Jar-Jar and the Ewoks Fun Hour!
Progressive key revocations will essentially splinter device compatibility, making each brand have differing compatibilities. Given that several of the manufacturers are either content producers or tightly coupled with the same, it is possible that if the revocation is contested they might generate media with non-revoked keys.
Even without this outcome, interoperability would become a nightmare. Lack of compatibility would completely throttle widespread adoption.
Lack of a PC based player would be even worse, in that, in my opinion the DVD format largely caught on as a result of use of PC players with a later transition to standalone players after increasing volume made the units affordable.
The Play-Yan cartridge from Nintendo (presently japanse market, available from Lik-Sang) produces much better video than the MovieAdvance module and incorporates an amplified earphone adapter (indispensable when used with the SP). It takes SD cards and will hold a full movie in 512M or so. It also plays MP3s directly at good quality. Finally the cartridge only sticks out less than a centimeter from the GBA. Very fussy about conversion software but if 3GPP can read the input file it can generate an appropriate output file.
While the Play-Yan has spectacular quality on the DS display it really becomes a killer app on the SP in that it provides a complete video player with the same form factor as the SP. If Nintendo has any sense it should release an english version as soon as possible possibly with an SP bundle.
The Movie Advance is larger but takes CF cards and incorporates ebook, NES emulation and photo viewing as well as a lower grade (but easier to encode) video player and music player.
...to us
Just like Miroku's! Gotta work on the containment bracelet 'tho
The g4 cube died a horrible death but the SFF PC improved and flourished
The Scientifc knoppix packace Quantian has a LiveDVD version which works beautifully, allowing for a shovelfull of scientific and numerical programs
Actually the objective of the MPAA is to set online prices at 50! cents since 50!=3.04140932e64 which is their concept of a fair price
I use a PVR (SageTV) and I skip stupid ads, but I back up and watch interesting ads (my favorite is the Pedigree "We're for dogs" ad). The lesson is that ads can prosper if they are creative and interesting. On the other hand, deliberately annoying ads should die a horrible death.
I've had a SageTV PC for the past 2 years which includes all of the functionality just coming to tivo now. I can freely burn dvds of my content, transcode the content to GBA Movie Player format and watch on a gameboy (fantastic!). I can look at photos, listen to MP3s, and watch dvds. I can watch contnet with any mpeg player (WinDVD, VLC, Power DVD). My universal remote works with it and it can switch my cable box. No subscription, free EPG.
i really can't see how Tivo can beat that or mythTV
Lik-Sang has a GBA Movie Player module for $24 which reads text files off of CF cards. Use old CF cards for cheap. Get a mini-winder charger (Lik-Sang) (8 mins of hand cranking generates 30 min of operation) and either a Game Boy SP for ~$59 used (smaller than a wallet easy to hide) or a refurbished GameBoy advance ~$35 (nearly disposable). Toss in a magnifier (they do work) and you have a portable human powered library.
I.E. "The banners of The King of Hell advance"
I agree. In fact, selling these laptops in the developed world at a reasonable markup ($150-200) would be critical to the enterprise. It's like the solar/hand crank radios, they sell at a considerable markup in developed countries which subsidizes the cost of the radios in the developing world. The effect of sales in the developed world would allow for an early ramp up in production and help in capitilization of the plan. Secondly, a commercial market for the units would serve as a check on the tendency of such systems to become designs built by committee. Finally, there are considerable portions of the US which could use cheap laptops such as Appalachia and other poor areas.
The money would be better spent taking out contracts on B&B
Three words: G-On Riders
Hell will freeze over before a dub occurs of that one.
Also there is the Atricities of dubbing, compare Kiki's Delivery service with the dub script or worse yet the Fox dub of Totoro
Not only do the fighting characters fight for good and noble causes, many of the characters don't fight at all.
In Stellvia of the Universe the threat of the supernova shockwave leads to the 'Great Mission' in which all of humanity unites to save the solar system from the 'Second Wave' of supernova debris. War is such a distant memory that many people are unclear on the concept. Our heroine (and her girlfriends) prevail and saves the earth and later the solar system via superior programing, piloting, systems integration and telefactoring skills. Now that's a geek godess.
In Ah! My Goddess the godesses never strictly fight but rather have to finesse the various problems that they face,even when the structure of reality is on the line as in the movie.
I'd also reccomend Ground Defense Force Mao Chan in which little girls incapacitate really cute aliens (with a blindingly funny subtext of intraservice rivalry). Or You're Under Arrest the Movie in which our heroines defeat the terrorists without a shot fired (including one battle in which they defeat armed terrorists with a paintball arsenal and some quick thinking).
Even fighting shows involving girls such as the excellent 'Sakura Wars' and 'Inuyasha' focus much more on personal interaction.
In addition, good Anime involving strong women tend to focus on teamwork, friendship, loyalty, perserverance aganst all odds and fairness. In addition, the shows promote a balanced view in which nominal villains are misunderstood and often co-opted into the good fight.
nice but the trick is: (and I have done this)
1.Get a VIA EPIA mini-ITX (or shortly a nano)
2.Put it in a Cubid case
3.Boot off of SLAX or Knoppix
It just works!
(in linux!)
The real competition for the mini are the mini or nano ITX boxen, they have everything but wireless integrated (if you need wireless just stuff in a USB key style adapter) with a full set of drivers on a single disk for windows and full kernel support for linux. and they are a lot cheaper