...while the family uses the old black beauty every freaking day for XBMC. Yah, it doesn't handle 720p movies so good... but it has never given me crap about any file format. Ever. Can't wait to try this update. I haven't updated it in years! And it's STILL the best media platform I've ever seen!
Glad to see there's still folks as happy with the ancients as I am.
I've soooo been waiting to see Google start their attack on the mobile world. This looks like it. Android as a platform, for all it's flaws, is coming along, sure. Selling products with pre-paid connections? Not part of their business model.
Getting people connected to the internet everywhere? Through Google products? FOR ONLY THE PRICE OF ADVERTISING TO YOU??
Free 3G connected Google devices are coming. Show me an mp3 that has hammered the conventional big-business music industry and I'll show you a Google phone that completely obsoleted the idea that a cell phone provider charge you ANYTHING.
Ugh, no kidding. I actually felt kind of sick watching the animation. The heat and pressure happening there... Man, so small. We are sooooo small... all of humanity's trials, triumphs, defeats, accomplishments... Not even a cosmic blip.
I recall Neil Tyson making a remark to the effect of how it's difficult to consider the idea of a benevolent deity/god/whatever when the universe is trying so, so badly to kill us. We have such little business existing at all.
As you noted, ISO 9001 document management requirements are quite loose. I had been cheer leading the concept of using a wiki as a DMS in my workplace for the past few years. It never gained much traction, I expect due to a significant lack of understanding of those included in the package selection process. The limit of our corporate IT department's skills is upgrading Lotus Notes every possible time it can in the hopes that SOMEDAY the whale (dead) will actually start to swim... No, seriously, the folks that chose our new DMS wouldn't know the difference between a SQL server and a toaster.
Anyway, the bullet-proof audit trail created by Mediawiki (and any wiki, really) makes satisfying internal and external audits very straightforward. Proper ISO required access restrictions can be delegated using some of the very useful security extensions.
What is a DMS for anyway? Do we really want to be managing documents? or content and information? The "here comes everybody" philosophy has significant implications for traditional document management in the manufacturing world. The typical response of a manufacturing plant to these requirements is to assign all DM duties to too small a group and wonder why the damn thing never gets done. Documents are chronically out of date, nobody even has the soft copies anymore...
But what if the documents/articles could be updated by those who use them? What if everybody was part of the DMS? Page staging with the flagged-revs extension, watchlist email notification to keep maintainers in the loop. A DMS that spreads the load to all it's users instead of monopolizing a few? That's where classical DMS needs to go. Badly.
Yah, Mediawiki sucks for input. But for output? Can't beat it.
Oh, our company chose Intelex over ETQ for our system. I try not to take it personally.
I can still remember watching the cut scene at the end where the antagonist's face/head blows up in bloody detail (pretty facinating for a 12 yr old. Even in 8-bit). *sigh* such satisfaction.
(of COURSE I used a gamegenie to finish it. Bionic Commando was feckin' impossible!)
So, with 'lower IQ' types getting all the tail, doesn't this gives them a superior evolutionary edge? (albeit a little dull:). Considering the time between generations being 17-20yrs compared to say 30yrs (almost double the rate!?) they would pass on more beneficial genetic material to their offspring in shorter time. Would they eventually subdue the 'higher IQ' types with shear numbers?
Does anyone know the status/disposition of heads up display in automobiles? It'd make dangerous things like dialing a phone or watching the in-dash dvd player a little less... well, dangerous.
Apart from the obvious benefits of themeing your display and getting to pretend we're fighter pilots.
Holy crap, an "I work there" situation for ME! Working for a corn refiner, I can tell you that though there is an increasing demand and price for corn due to ethanol plants spinning up, the glut of distillers grain/feed from their spent corn will be putting tremendous downward pressure on the animal-nutrition side of the market. In a wet mill, we depend on our co-products (corn hull, fiber, gluten, spent germ, everything but the starch really) prices rising and falling with the price of corn. Now we're having competition in the feed market from ethanol plants whos business models don't typically include needing to sell their feed. Granted, distillers grain is kind of gnarly (not as finely tuned as a wet mill's products) but typically farmers more interested in lower cost nutrition. And they're going to get it.
Wait... I thought the difference b/t 1080i and 1080p (all the i's and p's really) wasn't the resolution but the way the information was written to the screen? Sure one's writing only half the information per screen... refresh, or whatever we'll call it, but don't you still get the full detail? From what I can tell, 1080p just means more video 'bandwidth' hardware for basically the same picture. Isn't that why interlacing was considered so wizard when first invented?
This makes me think back to how mp3's were a disruptive technology because they solved such a huge problem at the time (disk space). As for ever migrating to a 'better' format, well, something with advantages as distinct as the jump from say, wav to mp3, would need to be presented (or something close). Remember ditching floppies for cdr? Man, amazing improvement! Migrating from cd to dvd? ok, neato. From dvd to blueray/hddvd?... *yawn*.
Here's a nifty little link. This asset management company has been playing the peak oil tune for some time now and have been making a lot of people a lot of money (if you don't count their energy fund THIS year, and sorry, you can only invest in them if you're Canadian or have 250K to start with). They keep their eye on the news and are able to refute just about every point suggesting we are NOT facing an energy crisis with fossel fuels on the whole. Some interesting stuff in their monthly "markets at a glance" letters. I'm considering leveraging a decent investment with them, especially considering oil prices at the moment. Interestingly enough, even when gasoline was 1.50/L at the pumps (is now 0.75ish), people complained like crazy. Did they stop buying gas? stop traveling? NO! The last hurricane season demonstrated that we WILL pay more for fuel to quite an extent before we scale back our usage.
I'd personally like to get on the other side of that money before it goes up for good.
procinema 800 eh? Thanks. I'm assuming you are happy with it? I'm still trying to get comfortable with the 'ooo you'll be facing bulb replacements' idea associated with projector ownership. I'm wondering if those grounds are over-stated...
What kind of projector do you have? (i'm shopping).
I'm beginning to think this is the ideal setup. I stopped 'watching TV' a couple of years ago. Until the mainstream media delivery networks (cable/satellite) can provide me with content-on-demand (like my network storage can) I see little reason to be tied to show times and commercials (though, I realize DVRs are making inroads here).
Ask Slashdot: What is the deal with an HD 46" LCD screen having a native resolution of 1366 x 768? I would love it if someone could explaing this to me. Why can my 19" lcd monitor do way better than that? In monitor land, the bigger the LCD gets, higher resolutions become supported (right?). I would've thought we'd be looking at 3000x950 pixel wide screens and stuff by now. I suppose getting all that video data to the display would be a hardward challenge, but I seem end up staring at new 50" HD TVs thinking "doesn't my 1983 CRT have better pixel density than this?".
Just train the cat to unplug your modem every few minutes!
Interestingly enough, I just moved (my very first house!) and my phone line seems to be of the utter-shite quality. The result? I seem to have a new IP address every 5 min or so. Now my only worry is that this will draw MORE attention (I'm already a sympatico subscriber. Yikes!).
It might be time to check out the local ISPs... I've found out that dynamic dns isn't THAT dynamic
AH HA! That's what they want you to THINK! The site is really configured such that Sergei can open the damn and destroy all evidence just before the MPAA raids his personal collection of dvd rips.
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...while the family uses the old black beauty every freaking day for XBMC. Yah, it doesn't handle 720p movies so good... but it has never given me crap about any file format. Ever. Can't wait to try this update. I haven't updated it in years! And it's STILL the best media platform I've ever seen! Glad to see there's still folks as happy with the ancients as I am.
I've soooo been waiting to see Google start their attack on the mobile world. This looks like it. Android as a platform, for all it's flaws, is coming along, sure. Selling products with pre-paid connections? Not part of their business model.
Getting people connected to the internet everywhere? Through Google products? FOR ONLY THE PRICE OF ADVERTISING TO YOU??
Free 3G connected Google devices are coming. Show me an mp3 that has hammered the conventional big-business music industry and I'll show you a Google phone that completely obsoleted the idea that a cell phone provider charge you ANYTHING.
Ugh, no kidding. I actually felt kind of sick watching the animation. The heat and pressure happening there... Man, so small. We are sooooo small... all of humanity's trials, triumphs, defeats, accomplishments... Not even a cosmic blip.
I recall Neil Tyson making a remark to the effect of how it's difficult to consider the idea of a benevolent deity/god/whatever when the universe is trying so, so badly to kill us. We have such little business existing at all.
Well... back to watching Jackass.
Took me 5 minutes to gain control long enough to post this. *sniff* You made my week.
As you noted, ISO 9001 document management requirements are quite loose. I had been cheer leading the concept of using a wiki as a DMS in my workplace for the past few years. It never gained much traction, I expect due to a significant lack of understanding of those included in the package selection process. The limit of our corporate IT department's skills is upgrading Lotus Notes every possible time it can in the hopes that SOMEDAY the whale (dead) will actually start to swim... No, seriously, the folks that chose our new DMS wouldn't know the difference between a SQL server and a toaster.
Anyway, the bullet-proof audit trail created by Mediawiki (and any wiki, really) makes satisfying internal and external audits very straightforward. Proper ISO required access restrictions can be delegated using some of the very useful security extensions.
What is a DMS for anyway? Do we really want to be managing documents? or content and information? The "here comes everybody" philosophy has significant implications for traditional document management in the manufacturing world. The typical response of a manufacturing plant to these requirements is to assign all DM duties to too small a group and wonder why the damn thing never gets done. Documents are chronically out of date, nobody even has the soft copies anymore...
But what if the documents/articles could be updated by those who use them? What if everybody was part of the DMS? Page staging with the flagged-revs extension, watchlist email notification to keep maintainers in the loop. A DMS that spreads the load to all it's users instead of monopolizing a few? That's where classical DMS needs to go. Badly.
Yah, Mediawiki sucks for input. But for output? Can't beat it.
Oh, our company chose Intelex over ETQ for our system. I try not to take it personally.
Call me when someone finds a way to mount 22" rims on it.
that the upright version has THIRTY SIX buttons for each player!
I can still remember watching the cut scene at the end where the antagonist's face/head blows up in bloody detail (pretty facinating for a 12 yr old. Even in 8-bit). *sigh* such satisfaction.
(of COURSE I used a gamegenie to finish it. Bionic Commando was feckin' impossible!)
How many more revisions before USB catches up with HDMI? (~10 Gbit/s?) Though not a big fan of USB, I DO like standardized components.
So, with 'lower IQ' types getting all the tail, doesn't this gives them a superior evolutionary edge? (albeit a little dull :). Considering the time between generations being 17-20yrs compared to say 30yrs (almost double the rate!?) they would pass on more beneficial genetic material to their offspring in shorter time. Would they eventually subdue the 'higher IQ' types with shear numbers?
Does anyone know the status/disposition of heads up display in automobiles? It'd make dangerous things like dialing a phone or watching the in-dash dvd player a little less... well, dangerous.
Apart from the obvious benefits of themeing your display and getting to pretend we're fighter pilots.
The entire Net Neutrality issue needs to be in the public view-space.
Which is *exactly* why it won't be seen there.
Holy crap, an "I work there" situation for ME!
Working for a corn refiner, I can tell you that though there is an increasing demand and price for corn due to ethanol plants spinning up, the glut of distillers grain/feed from their spent corn will be putting tremendous downward pressure on the animal-nutrition side of the market. In a wet mill, we depend on our co-products (corn hull, fiber, gluten, spent germ, everything but the starch really) prices rising and falling with the price of corn. Now we're having competition in the feed market from ethanol plants whos business models don't typically include needing to sell their feed. Granted, distillers grain is kind of gnarly (not as finely tuned as a wet mill's products) but typically farmers more interested in lower cost nutrition. And they're going to get it.
Wait... I thought the difference b/t 1080i and 1080p (all the i's and p's really) wasn't the resolution but the way the information was written to the screen? Sure one's writing only half the information per screen... refresh, or whatever we'll call it, but don't you still get the full detail? From what I can tell, 1080p just means more video 'bandwidth' hardware for basically the same picture. Isn't that why interlacing was considered so wizard when first invented?
Wikipedia has begun tagging all external links on its site "nofollow"
Dude! it's called 'Labeling' now.
This makes me think back to how mp3's were a disruptive technology because they solved such a huge problem at the time (disk space). As for ever migrating to a 'better' format, well, something with advantages as distinct as the jump from say, wav to mp3, would need to be presented (or something close). Remember ditching floppies for cdr? Man, amazing improvement! Migrating from cd to dvd? ok, neato. From dvd to blueray/hddvd?... *yawn*.
Here's a nifty little link. This asset management company has been playing the peak oil tune for some time now and have been making a lot of people a lot of money (if you don't count their energy fund THIS year, and sorry, you can only invest in them if you're Canadian or have 250K to start with). They keep their eye on the news and are able to refute just about every point suggesting we are NOT facing an energy crisis with fossel fuels on the whole. Some interesting stuff in their monthly "markets at a glance" letters. I'm considering leveraging a decent investment with them, especially considering oil prices at the moment. Interestingly enough, even when gasoline was 1.50/L at the pumps (is now 0.75ish), people complained like crazy. Did they stop buying gas? stop traveling? NO! The last hurricane season demonstrated that we WILL pay more for fuel to quite an extent before we scale back our usage.
I'd personally like to get on the other side of that money before it goes up for good.
I wait all day for threads like these.
heh heh.. ZING!!
procinema 800 eh? Thanks. I'm assuming you are happy with it?
I'm still trying to get comfortable with the 'ooo you'll be facing bulb replacements' idea associated with projector ownership. I'm wondering if those grounds are over-stated...
What kind of projector do you have? (i'm shopping).
I'm beginning to think this is the ideal setup. I stopped 'watching TV' a couple of years ago. Until the mainstream media delivery networks (cable/satellite) can provide me with content-on-demand (like my network storage can) I see little reason to be tied to show times and commercials (though, I realize DVRs are making inroads here).
Ask Slashdot: What is the deal with an HD 46" LCD screen having a native resolution of 1366 x 768? I would love it if someone could explaing this to me. Why can my 19" lcd monitor do way better than that? In monitor land, the bigger the LCD gets, higher resolutions become supported (right?). I would've thought we'd be looking at 3000x950 pixel wide screens and stuff by now. I suppose getting all that video data to the display would be a hardward challenge, but I seem end up staring at new 50" HD TVs thinking "doesn't my 1983 CRT have better pixel density than this?".
I forget who i am...
Panel televisions really seem to lock you into a
*head explodes*
Just train the cat to unplug your modem every few minutes!
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Interestingly enough, I just moved (my very first house!) and my phone line seems to be of the utter-shite quality. The result? I seem to have a new IP address every 5 min or so. Now my only worry is that this will draw MORE attention (I'm already a sympatico subscriber. Yikes!)
It might be time to check out the local ISPs... I've found out that dynamic dns isn't THAT dynamic
When asked to comment, Adam Sandler's response was recorded as...
"FACKING, SHIT!!"
AH HA! That's what they want you to THINK! The site is really configured such that Sergei can open the damn and destroy all evidence just before the MPAA raids his personal collection of dvd rips.
Heh, until one hits the main air supply.
At night.