IE has done this by itself for years...at least as far back as IE 4. Try clicking on a link to a (for instance) Word document...the menu bar will change to add Word's menu items, Word will add its toolbars, and the document will load in the browser window. It'll be fully editable, too...you basically have Word running in an IE window.
Okay, and how am I supposed to type a chinese URL? How could I then ever reach a FTP server in Israel, if it only had a hebrew hostname? (You know, my keyboard doesn't have a single hebrew key on it.)
Character Map (on Win2K, XP, and maybe NT) lets you select Unicode characters (like these: ) and paste them into whatever. I'm not sure how well the address bar would handle them...if it won't accept them directly, there's probably some sort of escape you can use.
(I suppose the other difficulty with selecting characters for Asian languages is that you probably don't have the appropriate fonts installed. Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, etc. are handled with the fonts that get installed by default. Also, since there are so many ideographs associated with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, aren't some of the character codes overloaded with different symbols for each language?)
Grandma doesn't want to have to learn to use cdda2wav, lame, and cdrecord on the command line to "rip, mix, and burn". She'll just buy a Mac or use Windows.
She could use EAC and drop a copy of the LAME DLL into the EAC directory. Tweak a few (relatively simple) settings and you have the best Windows-based ripping/encoding setup—and it's dirt-simple to operate. It'd take no more than a page to describe the installation and setup.
Well, Super-Size means 40 fluid ounces. How many cubit centimeters is an ounce?
"Cubit centimeters?" That's an odd mix of measures.:-) If you meant "cubic centimeters," you have about 29.57 (3785/128) of them per ounce. (IIRC, a cubit would be about 45.72 cm (18*2.54).)
then again, they need to get a few of them off the
road and into my office building, reception's awful
in there.
I wish they'd ratchet down the power on the tower that's maybe 200-300 yards from my office. My phone's service is through AT&T Wireless, but the signal from Verizon's tower swamps it out so badly that when I went across the street for lunch one day (where the only thing between the tower and my phone was a window), my service was cut off completely and the display switched from "AT&T" to "ROAM." I called 611 when it did that and found that the tower that was interfering with my phone belongs to Verizon.
You do not have to give blockbuster your social security number. They ask for it but you don't have to give it to them and they will still give you a card.
The last time I put in for a card at Blockbuster, I left that part of the form empty. They didn't even ask me for it when they went to plug everything into their computer system.
(I haven't rented from them in months...Netflix has a much better selection and is cheaper and more convenient.)
Then again, who knows, they could have tried it and failed so their next option was to call on the P.U.C. to help lynch Sprint of Nevada.
Given how often my DSL line at work goes down, Sprint deserves to be lynched. (At least we also have a cable-modem line that we can use as a backup...)
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the Force."
Here's a site with a PAL > NTSC converter for $59
http://www.xbox-online.net/flash/x6c.htm
(Sorry about it being on a BugBoX website, still at the moment it is the cheapest I've found)
That still wouldn't work as it doesn't put out a proper 29.97 fps NTSC signal...it's some 25 fps variant that I think is used in some South American countries. It converts the color information to something resembling NTSC (they don't say if it uses 3.58 MHz or 4.43 (?) MHz color burst), but the framerate is unaltered.
That said, if you have a video-capture or TV-tuner card in your computer, there's a fair chance you can kick it into PAL mode. The machine on which I'm typing this has a generic four-port Bt878-based capture card; playing with one of the unused ports in GraphEdit, the property page for the capture filter had a couple of options for NTSC, maybe a dozen for PAL, and a few for SECAM. IIRC, the All-In-Wonder Radeon in my home system has some similar options.
It's sad to see Atari's legacy being abused by yet another company who just lives on Atari's fame.
JUST LIVES ON ATARI'S FAME? Infogrames has been around and making bloody great games for nearly 20 years! I had Infogrames games on my old Amstrad CPC464, back in 1986-89!
FWIW, I don't think anybody in the States had even heard of them until a couple of years or so ago. (The first I'd ever heard of them was some DMCA-related bullying on their part that had been posted to/....my initial reaction was "Info-who?") I even spent a few years in Europe in the mid-80s, and don't recall hearing of them then. (Then again, I had a TI-99/4A and an Apple IIe at home and DoDDS put various Atari computers in its schools (though they started buying Apple IIGS systems in '87 or '88). If they weren't publishing for those systems, I wouldn't have had any use for them.)
A modern kid wouldn't be seen dead with some joystick playing old Atari games. $79 dollars extra gets you a modern Game Boy Advance several orders of magnitude more powerful than this.
...but do they have Pitfall! for GBA? Didn't think so. (Then again, this gadget doesn't have it either...think I'll hang onto the Sears Tele-Games (rebadged six-switch 2600) I snagged off of eBay last year.)
perhaps i'm wrong on this, but wouldnt using the desktop be rather resource intensive? i would think servers would not want to waste resources pushing out graphics if they wernt necessary.
Worse than your Dual Athlon 2000MP+ w/ 11 fans to cool it down.
I have a dual Athlon MP (1900+) next to me right now...it only has 5 fans (2 processors, P/S, rear case, and front case (front case fan blows over the HD too)) and isn't that noisy. (The air coming out of the power supply is fairly warm, but I've noticed the same with other dual-processor boxen.)
hell, for that matter, the small 4-cylinder horizontally opposed air cooled engine that Ferdinand Porsche designed in 1910 for an airplane, later used in the VW KDF-Wagen (Nazi jeep), VW beetle (best selling car in automotive history), Porsche 356, and Porsche 912, and dune-buggies everywhere, is in use today in the Predator unmanned drone. (that version of the engine is called the Rotax 912).
Another aviation application is here...you can convert a Beetle engine to power an ultralight. (The conversion knocks it down to a 2-cylinder configuration.)
If you read the literature from Maxtor, who designed this standard, even they will admit that the maximum transfer rate will only occur on a read from cache - and the biggest cache on an IDE drive is a whopping 8 MB. So congrats on sustaining that maximum transfer rate for all of 60 ms. After that you're back to reading from disk.
When you also factor in what types of apps would benefit most from a higher sustained transfer rate (video editing, for instance) and the sizes of the files involved (I have the most recent Enterprise on my hard drive right now as a 27GB Huffyuv-compressed AVI at 2/3 D1), the cache becomes even less relevant.
In addition, HD designers are not easily going to overcome the fact that it takes a while to move the head from the inside to the outside of the platter.
They haven't exactly been making much progress here, either. Compare the seek-time specs for the Seagate ST15150W, one of the first 7200rpm hard drives, to the Western Digital WD1200JB, one of the most advanced IDE hard drives currently available. The ST15150W (Barracuda 4) has been around for years, but it still boasts faster track-to-track, full-stroke, and average seek times. IME, while the sustained data rate from the 'Cudas isn't that impressive (I measured about 6 or 7 MB/s from them once), it'll still deliver better small-file and medium-file performance than many newer drives...especially IDE drives, and especially if you have lots of scattered accesses going at once.
If you have the money for SCSI or Fibre Channel, you can get faster seek times with current products (the ST336752LW boasts a 4-ms average seek time and a full-stroke seek time faster than other drives' average seek time...being a 15krpm drive also doesn't hurt:-) ). Migrating this kind of performance into desktop IDE hard drives would make more of a difference than ATA133.
Actually no. My life is not structured such a way as to allow me to schedule my appointments and events around a television studio's lineup, so I don't watch TV.
Neither is my life...that's why I have a TiVo. In addition to watching what I want when I want, I can cut a "1-hour" show down to 40-45 minutes. Before TiVo, I had a pair of VCRs doing the job (still use one of 'em to deal with scheduling conflicts...Enterprise and That 80s Show are on at the same time, for instance). At home, I haven't watched live TV in years.
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IE has done this by itself for years...at least as far back as IE 4. Try clicking on a link to a (for instance) Word document...the menu bar will change to add Word's menu items, Word will add its toolbars, and the document will load in the browser window. It'll be fully editable, too...you basically have Word running in an IE window.
Since Mozilla stores its links in an HTML file, why not just set up a link in IE to that file? Click a link on the page and you'll go there.
Character Map (on Win2K, XP, and maybe NT) lets you select Unicode characters (like these: ) and paste them into whatever. I'm not sure how well the address bar would handle them...if it won't accept them directly, there's probably some sort of escape you can use.
(I suppose the other difficulty with selecting characters for Asian languages is that you probably don't have the appropriate fonts installed. Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, etc. are handled with the fonts that get installed by default. Also, since there are so many ideographs associated with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, aren't some of the character codes overloaded with different symbols for each language?)
She could use EAC and drop a copy of the LAME DLL into the EAC directory. Tweak a few (relatively simple) settings and you have the best Windows-based ripping/encoding setup—and it's dirt-simple to operate. It'd take no more than a page to describe the installation and setup.
One of the links they provided was for info on Google's new Find Anything service...check it out.
(Smiley captioning for the humor-impaired: sed "s/out./out. :-)/g")
Considering that it's a gathering site for people who seek to inflict more Flash on the 'net, it serves 'em right. :-)
"Cubit centimeters?" That's an odd mix of measures. :-) If you meant "cubic centimeters," you have about 29.57 (3785/128) of them per ounce. (IIRC, a cubit would be about 45.72 cm (18*2.54).)
I wish they'd ratchet down the power on the tower that's maybe 200-300 yards from my office. My phone's service is through AT&T Wireless, but the signal from Verizon's tower swamps it out so badly that when I went across the street for lunch one day (where the only thing between the tower and my phone was a window), my service was cut off completely and the display switched from "AT&T" to "ROAM." I called 611 when it did that and found that the tower that was interfering with my phone belongs to Verizon.
He's just been dealt with in metamod.
Fscked-Over Rebuilt Dodge
Besides, nobody takes trains anymore...the rail system is pretty much only used for cargo. (Amtrak discontinued service here years ago.)
The last time I put in for a card at Blockbuster, I left that part of the form empty. They didn't even ask me for it when they went to plug everything into their computer system.
(I haven't rented from them in months...Netflix has a much better selection and is cheaper and more convenient.)
Given how often my DSL line at work goes down, Sprint deserves to be lynched. (At least we also have a cable-modem line that we can use as a backup...)
You missed the rest of the line:
"What's our vector, Victor?"
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the Force."
That still wouldn't work as it doesn't put out a proper 29.97 fps NTSC signal...it's some 25 fps variant that I think is used in some South American countries. It converts the color information to something resembling NTSC (they don't say if it uses 3.58 MHz or 4.43 (?) MHz color burst), but the framerate is unaltered.
That said, if you have a video-capture or TV-tuner card in your computer, there's a fair chance you can kick it into PAL mode. The machine on which I'm typing this has a generic four-port Bt878-based capture card; playing with one of the unused ports in GraphEdit, the property page for the capture filter had a couple of options for NTSC, maybe a dozen for PAL, and a few for SECAM. IIRC, the All-In-Wonder Radeon in my home system has some similar options.
FWIW, I don't think anybody in the States had even heard of them until a couple of years or so ago. (The first I'd ever heard of them was some DMCA-related bullying on their part that had been posted to /. ...my initial reaction was "Info-who?") I even spent a few years in Europe in the mid-80s, and don't recall hearing of them then. (Then again, I had a TI-99/4A and an Apple IIe at home and DoDDS put various Atari computers in its schools (though they started buying Apple IIGS systems in '87 or '88). If they weren't publishing for those systems, I wouldn't have had any use for them.)
Don't try telling that to these people...
I have a dual Athlon MP (1900+) next to me right now...it only has 5 fans (2 processors, P/S, rear case, and front case (front case fan blows over the HD too)) and isn't that noisy. (The air coming out of the power supply is fairly warm, but I've noticed the same with other dual-processor boxen.)
Another aviation application is here...you can convert a Beetle engine to power an ultralight. (The conversion knocks it down to a 2-cylinder configuration.)
When you also factor in what types of apps would benefit most from a higher sustained transfer rate (video editing, for instance) and the sizes of the files involved (I have the most recent Enterprise on my hard drive right now as a 27GB Huffyuv-compressed AVI at 2/3 D1), the cache becomes even less relevant.
They haven't exactly been making much progress here, either. Compare the seek-time specs for the Seagate ST15150W, one of the first 7200rpm hard drives, to the Western Digital WD1200JB, one of the most advanced IDE hard drives currently available. The ST15150W (Barracuda 4) has been around for years, but it still boasts faster track-to-track, full-stroke, and average seek times. IME, while the sustained data rate from the 'Cudas isn't that impressive (I measured about 6 or 7 MB/s from them once), it'll still deliver better small-file and medium-file performance than many newer drives...especially IDE drives, and especially if you have lots of scattered accesses going at once.
If you have the money for SCSI or Fibre Channel, you can get faster seek times with current products (the ST336752LW boasts a 4-ms average seek time and a full-stroke seek time faster than other drives' average seek time...being a 15krpm drive also doesn't hurt :-) ). Migrating this kind of performance into desktop IDE hard drives would make more of a difference than ATA133.
Neither is my life...that's why I have a TiVo. In addition to watching what I want when I want, I can cut a "1-hour" show down to 40-45 minutes. Before TiVo, I had a pair of VCRs doing the job (still use one of 'em to deal with scheduling conflicts...Enterprise and That 80s Show are on at the same time, for instance). At home, I haven't watched live TV in years.
Even geographical names can do that:
"Scotch? It was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad."
Do the Commies take over Russia again at some point in the future? :-)