It was originally an Air Force project. When video of the first test was shown at ConFrancisco in 1993, it was said that if it ever got transferred to NASA they'd kill it.
NASA was threatened by the Delta Clipper. A ground crew of 3 instead of 15,000? We can't have that! A NASA employee failed to connect the landing gear hydraulic line for one of the tests shortly after NASA took over the project.
These days NASA is more of a jobs program than a space program.
Each APU is essentially a very fast CPU optimized for moving data streams and calculations. Cell was designed to chew on large amounts of similar data very, very fast. It isn't a general purpose core like the POWER or Intel cores found in Xbox 360 or the original Xbox (or your PC for that matter).
So, how long before someone ports SETI@home for this?
I don't want to make it hard to sue, but I do want barratry (The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.) prosecuted more often.
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Sony has made TiVo boxes before. Sony's chairman was onstage at the MacWorld Expo keynote. Perhaps there is a planned Apple-Sony-TiVo box that they weren't quite ready to reveal at the show.
Simplest case, a Sony-made companion box for the Mac Mini, call it MacTiVo. Firewire to the Mac Mini, full set of A/V connections to your other A/V components.
More complex, and less likely. A Sony-made Mac Mini Plus - Tivo & Macintosh features all in one box.
Far fetched. Mac Mini Super - TiVo & Macintosh features all in one box plus docking for your iPod with video transfer to the iPod.
An HDTV DirecTiVo is $800-$1000 nowadays. A smoothly integrated MacTivo capable of HDTV priced at $400-$500 would sell like...like...like iPods!
You can get that now with the Garmin iQue 3600. You don't even need to enter an address. Flip up the GPS antenna, lock on, search for "pizza" and it will show all pizza joints sorted by distance from you.
Step 1: Look at the size of the stations shown in the article or the animation.
Step 2: Look at the size of the typical shopping center parking lot, or the size of a typical commuter rail parking garage.
At certain times of the day you are going to need a lot more cars leaving one of these stations than you have arriving. At other times of the day you are going to have a lot more cars arriving at a station. You either need very large stations at some locations, or you need empty cars moving around all the time, or you need one or more large storage/maintenance areas with an efficient dispatch system.
Word sucks. I can't count the number of times I've had minor (styles all messed up) or major (loss of major portions of document or even entire document) corruption of Word files.
I do not use Word at home and I avoid as much as possible at work. There are lots of alternative word processors or text editors.
On the other hand, what alternatives are there for spreadsheets? I'm looking for a spreadsheet that is:
Mac & PC compatible (or even just Mac compatible for use at home).
Can use the R1C1 reference style instead of the A1 reference style. (Open Office didn't do this in the last version I tried a month or two ago.)
Does not require X-windows.
Supports tabbed worksheets.
Supports line and scatter graphs.
There are lots of alternatives to Word. I haven't found any alternatives to Excel that satisfy the criteria above. I'd love to remove all Micro$oft software from my machine, but until someone comes up with a good alternative to Excel, I'm stuck.
A recent FCC regulation requires all cable companies to provide a Firewire-enabled cable box to any customer who asks. Macosxhints and avsforum have some pages on this and how to hook your Mac up to record TV (and even HDTV) with nothing but a Firewire cable, the set top box (or TV with firewire) and some free software.
"In an article from LA Weekly, it would appear the RIAA has taken their fight to the streets. Wearing jackets with "RIAA" emblazoned upon them, they have taken to busting street vendors in an FBI fashion for selling bootleg CDs and DVDs.
"Temporal order is an important element of how a work unfolds dynamically over time, an important factor underlying the aesthetic effect. Random shuffle pretty much flushes that down the toilet."
On the other hand, you can set the iPod and iTunes to shuffle by Album. All of the songs on the album are played in order, then it jumps to another random album.
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It was originally an Air Force project. When video of the first test was shown at ConFrancisco in 1993, it was said that if it ever got transferred to NASA they'd kill it.
NASA was threatened by the Delta Clipper. A ground crew of 3 instead of 15,000? We can't have that! A NASA employee failed to connect the landing gear hydraulic line for one of the tests shortly after NASA took over the project.
These days NASA is more of a jobs program than a space program.
Linus vs. RMS
That's when dual monitors come in handy.
When was the last time Apple built their computers? I thought assembly was outsourced years ago.
Maybe it's Steve's reaction from the early days when they called the Macintosh a toy?
Climate change could be the indirect cause.
Climate change could have driven human migrations, and the humans could have eaten the megafauna.
I don't want to make it hard to sue, but I do want barratry (The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.) prosecuted more often.
And ah'll pull three more.
Sony has made TiVo boxes before. Sony's chairman was onstage at the MacWorld Expo keynote. Perhaps there is a planned Apple-Sony-TiVo box that they weren't quite ready to reveal at the show.
Simplest case, a Sony-made companion box for the Mac Mini, call it MacTiVo. Firewire to the Mac Mini, full set of A/V connections to your other A/V components.
More complex, and less likely. A Sony-made Mac Mini Plus - Tivo & Macintosh features all in one box.
Far fetched. Mac Mini Super - TiVo & Macintosh features all in one box plus docking for your iPod with video transfer to the iPod.
An HDTV DirecTiVo is $800-$1000 nowadays. A smoothly integrated MacTivo capable of HDTV priced at $400-$500 would sell like...like...like iPods!
You can get that now with the Garmin iQue 3600. You don't even need to enter an address. Flip up the GPS antenna, lock on, search for "pizza" and it will show all pizza joints sorted by distance from you.
There was one exception. They had the Mac LC III, a fairly good low cost Mac for its time.
No, it'll just be "customer pick up".
1b. New Madrid fault lets loose. Midwest buildings tumble down.
Don't you mean the 3D-DVD vs the UV-Ray format war, or is that 2 generations down the road?
Step 1: Look at the size of the stations shown in the article or the animation.
Step 2: Look at the size of the typical shopping center parking lot, or the size of a typical commuter rail parking garage.
At certain times of the day you are going to need a lot more cars leaving one of these stations than you have arriving. At other times of the day you are going to have a lot more cars arriving at a station. You either need very large stations at some locations, or you need empty cars moving around all the time, or you need one or more large storage/maintenance areas with an efficient dispatch system.
Because I work with some wide spreadsheets and find formula references like "R[-5]C[75]" easier to use than "BZ14".
I don't like spreadsheets where the formula changes every cell when it doesn't have to. In a fill right, BZ14 becomes CA14, CB14...
R[-5]C[75] stays the same.
Word sucks. I can't count the number of times I've had minor (styles all messed up) or major (loss of major portions of document or even entire document) corruption of Word files.
I do not use Word at home and I avoid as much as possible at work. There are lots of alternative word processors or text editors.
On the other hand, what alternatives are there for spreadsheets? I'm looking for a spreadsheet that is:
There are lots of alternatives to Word. I haven't found any alternatives to Excel that satisfy the criteria above. I'd love to remove all Micro$oft software from my machine, but until someone comes up with a good alternative to Excel, I'm stuck.
A recent FCC regulation requires all cable companies to provide a Firewire-enabled cable box to any customer who asks. Macosxhints and avsforum have some pages on this and how to hook your Mac up to record TV (and even HDTV) with nothing but a Firewire cable, the set top box (or TV with firewire) and some free software.
See this page or this page for more information.
My father's encyclopedia described Uranium as "a useless white metal."
Make that WWI.
Depends on your definition of a stable orbit. No orbit outside one of the L5 points is truly stable.
You can now use other playlists as criteria for a Smart Playlist. Create one playlist that is a combination of several other playlists.
From the article,
On the other hand, you can set the iPod and iTunes to shuffle by Album. All of the songs on the album are played in order, then it jumps to another random album.