A 'community of people who want to workout' can be very helpful to stay motivated and encourage each other. It can be be much easier to stick to an activity if you feel part of a group doing that activity. I'd be willing to bet there are people living near you who run as a group for that reason.
Facemasks are largely effective in preventing many infections, though, mainly because they limit the amount that people touch their faces. Germ transmission is cut down significantly if hands are kept away from the skin and orifices of the face.
This would be terrific for showing that bittorrent is worthwile for small and large business models in which legal content is served. In Canada, one major cable ISP, Shaw, uses traffic shaping to heavily throttle bittorrent since they see it as a tool for pirates, but more mainstream uses of bittorrent would put pressure on Shaw to ease up on the throttling.
Bird deaths may be overrated, but bat deaths have been shown to be a concern, as noted in a Scientific American article. At least 400 red bats died in a 44 turbine wind energy center in West Virginia during the bat's migration period last year. The bats seemed to have died by flying into the turning blades, though the exact cause for that is still under study. Scientists are trying to come up with a solution, but meanwhile this is threatening construction of other wind turbines in the area.
Actually Taiwan is getting into the media game soon, which should drive down prices. The Japanese company MKM is the only one making media right now.
Read about it at digitimes.
The camera sitting at the extreme of the low megapixel, high quality spectrum is the Sigma SD10, which is the only camera to use Foveon's x3 sensors to capture three colors per pixel. This results in a very high quality image, even though the total pixel output is ~3.4 megapixels. I would like to see some of the other major players put out cameras with Foveon's tech. With competition, we might see further refinement of the design.
Those post-its remind me of a scene from the movie "Bruce Almighty" about an hour into the film. Bruce decides to 'hear' all the prayers in post-it note form and the result puts James and Damon to shame. It's interesting how striking a common office/household item can be when displayed in large quantities like that.
Publicly burn any Apple hardware you own Mac/Ipod/etc. Try to do this en masse, and call your local news station.
I hereby volunteer to be the organizer for a massive event of apple destruction. Please send any Apple hardware (and accessories... don't forget accessories) to me and I will personally supervise its elimination.
I'm not sure I'd like to walk with methanol in my pocket. Hell, one whiff and you're blind... not sure even if it's allowed in a plane.
Though it can be dangerous including causing retinal toxicity, ethanol comes far from blinding you with one whiff. You can read the World Health Organization's health and safety info for methanol here.
There's been a lot of talk to the effect that Apple is not likely to abandon the catchy-sounding "OS X" name. ("O S X I" doesn't sound as cool as "O S X"....)
On the contrary, "O S X I", obviously pronounced "Oh, Sexy" sounds very cool indeed.
What I find ironic is my microsoft mouse has better driver support on my mac running os x than on my pc running windows. On my mac, I can configure any of the buttons to perform any action including running scripts and have those actions vary depending on which application I am currently running. This provides me with a very powerful tool in any program for which I wish to program it. Of course, microsoft didn't write such sterling drivers on their own. They relied on the author of usb overdrive, which is a great general tool for programming usb mice, trackballs, gamepads, and the like. I just wish their was a comparable program/drivers available for windows.
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The DDR400 being used in the 1.8 & 2.0 machines is apparently not that great (typical of Apple!)
Actually, Apple is using very nice samsung memory (with a lifetime warranty in the g5s. And if you click on the picture in that link, you'll see that those are samsung chips on a samsung PCB, which is the same RAM corsair, OCZ, and even mushkin has often used to get outstanding overclockable memory. These manufacturers just test the memory (if you're lucky) and cover it up with a heatspreader, which will void your warranty if you remove it to see what's underneath.
I don't know about you, but when I pronounce the letter 'H', I pronounce it with the extended "A" vowel sound along with 'ch' as an ending. So it ends up sounding like "A-ch"
thinksecret, which is usually pretty reliable, has an article about upcoming ipods due at the end of the month. I would wait until then if I was currently in the market for an mp3 player.
Also, for those with ipods now, here's a link for buying a replacement battery for $49. Useful if your battery is starting to show some wear.
This sets us up for disaster in 20 years...If President Bush the 3rd angers China and they set 200 top computer professionals at making mischief, the damage could be real.
Au contraire, the danger is here! Did you know that hackers can now blow up your computer from afar
On a desktop, this doesn't make that huge of a difference, but when you fill a room full of these rackmounts, the electricity savings quickly being to add up. Then you can figure in cooling costs. Lower power consumption results in less generated heat and far lower cooling bills.
The idea behind bleem was pretty cool. Instead of emulating the hardware, like Connectix Virtual Game Station (which incidentally required a hack of the ROM and gave Sony fodder for going after Connectix legally), Bleem took a look at the hard ware instructions as they were generated in the game and decided what instructions could best accomplish the same end on the PC. This allowed for much more streamlined code without the normal performance hit you typically see with emulated hardware.
Bleem provided no anti-piracy protection (again, unlike Connectix VGS). They argued that the actual Playstation hardware was nominally difficult to hack. That if people wanted to pirate games, they were going to do it regardless of the protection they could offer. This is true, of course: try typing 'modchip' in your favorite search engine and you'll come up with nearly as many hits as 'porn'.
I find it a little strange how Bleem did an about face in this regard when they shipped their Playstation emulator for Dreamcast. They have released Bleemcast packs that work with Gran Turismo 2 ($6), Metal Gear Solid ($10), and Tekken 3 ($9). None of these will work with a copied playstation disc. Moreover, their protection is good enough that the krackers that release a pirated version of almost every Dreamcast game have been unable to krack these Bleem discs. I think it likely they would have sold more of these if they had allowed for copied games to play. They certainly would have had a larger market, not to mention the time they would have saved in not creating an iron-clad protection for the discs.
I agree with others who have said that this is a logical time for bleem to make an exit. Playstation's hardware was old when they first began, allowing them to emulate a very popular product with then-current hardware. I'd like to see them come out with something that allows x-box games to play on a PC, but i'm not holding my breath.
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If something happens all the time, it does not mean there is nothing nefarious about it. Quite the contrary.
A 'community of people who want to workout' can be very helpful to stay motivated and encourage each other. It can be be much easier to stick to an activity if you feel part of a group doing that activity. I'd be willing to bet there are people living near you who run as a group for that reason.
Facemasks are largely effective in preventing many infections, though, mainly because they limit the amount that people touch their faces. Germ transmission is cut down significantly if hands are kept away from the skin and orifices of the face.
The official detailed info and specs for the xbox 360 can be found at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm/ and http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/peripheralsfacts heet.htm/
This would be terrific for showing that bittorrent is worthwile for small and large business models in which legal content is served. In Canada, one major cable ISP, Shaw, uses traffic shaping to heavily throttle bittorrent since they see it as a tool for pirates, but more mainstream uses of bittorrent would put pressure on Shaw to ease up on the throttling.
Bird deaths may be overrated, but bat deaths have been shown to be a concern, as noted in a Scientific American article. At least 400 red bats died in a 44 turbine wind energy center in West Virginia during the bat's migration period last year. The bats seemed to have died by flying into the turning blades, though the exact cause for that is still under study. Scientists are trying to come up with a solution, but meanwhile this is threatening construction of other wind turbines in the area.
Actually Taiwan is getting into the media game soon, which should drive down prices. The Japanese company MKM is the only one making media right now. Read about it at digitimes.
The camera sitting at the extreme of the low megapixel, high quality spectrum is the Sigma SD10, which is the only camera to use Foveon's x3 sensors to capture three colors per pixel. This results in a very high quality image, even though the total pixel output is ~3.4 megapixels. I would like to see some of the other major players put out cameras with Foveon's tech. With competition, we might see further refinement of the design.
Here's a comprehensive review of Sigma's camera.
Those post-its remind me of a scene from the movie "Bruce Almighty" about an hour into the film. Bruce decides to 'hear' all the prayers in post-it note form and the result puts James and Damon to shame. It's interesting how striking a common office/household item can be when displayed in large quantities like that.
Publicly burn any Apple hardware you own Mac/Ipod/etc. Try to do this en masse, and call your local news station.
I hereby volunteer to be the organizer for a massive event of apple destruction. Please send any Apple hardware (and accessories... don't forget accessories) to me and I will personally supervise its elimination.
I'm not sure I'd like to walk with methanol in my pocket. Hell, one whiff and you're blind... not sure even if it's allowed in a plane.
Though it can be dangerous including causing retinal toxicity, ethanol comes far from blinding you with one whiff. You can read the World Health Organization's health and safety info for methanol here.
There's been a lot of talk to the effect that Apple is not likely to abandon the catchy-sounding "OS X" name. ("O S X I" doesn't sound as cool as "O S X"....)
On the contrary, "O S X I", obviously pronounced "Oh, Sexy" sounds very cool indeed.
Really? What a concidence! I've run 18 miles (cumulatively) in the last 14 months or so without any problems either!
What I find ironic is my microsoft mouse has better driver support on my mac running os x than on my pc running windows. On my mac, I can configure any of the buttons to perform any action including running scripts and have those actions vary depending on which application I am currently running. This provides me with a very powerful tool in any program for which I wish to program it. Of course, microsoft didn't write such sterling drivers on their own. They relied on the author of usb overdrive, which is a great general tool for programming usb mice, trackballs, gamepads, and the like. I just wish their was a comparable program/drivers available for windows.
The DDR400 being used in the 1.8 & 2.0 machines is apparently not that great (typical of Apple!)
Actually, Apple is using very nice samsung memory (with a lifetime warranty in the g5s. And if you click on the picture in that link, you'll see that those are samsung chips on a samsung PCB, which is the same RAM corsair, OCZ, and even mushkin has often used to get outstanding overclockable memory. These manufacturers just test the memory (if you're lucky) and cover it up with a heatspreader, which will void your warranty if you remove it to see what's underneath.
I don't know about you, but when I pronounce the letter 'H', I pronounce it with the extended "A" vowel sound along with 'ch' as an ending. So it ends up sounding like "A-ch"
ergo, an HTML browser sounds proper to my ears.
thinksecret, which is usually pretty reliable, has an article about upcoming ipods due at the end of the month. I would wait until then if I was currently in the market for an mp3 player.
Also, for those with ipods now, here's a link for buying a replacement battery for $49. Useful if your battery is starting to show some wear.
maybe you'd like to look at the conveniently located FAQ page, just a click away from the article.
This sets us up for disaster in 20 years...If President Bush the 3rd angers China and they set 200 top computer professionals at making mischief, the damage could be real.
Au contraire, the danger is here! Did you know that hackers can now blow up your computer from afar
Actually, Koreas is the #1 country in the world when it comes to broadband internet usage
This, of course, will become an instant favorite of bank robbers in coastal cities everywhere.
Last time i checked maneuver was spelled maneuver, not manuver.
;)
I suppose this is how open source should behave... Working our way to an error free slashdot!
This may not be immediately obvious, but the low power requirements of the g4 chip can provide a big advantage here.
From apple's site: Typical continuous power: 125W (single-processor system); 175W (dual processor system).
On a desktop, this doesn't make that huge of a difference, but when you fill a room full of these rackmounts, the electricity savings quickly being to add up. Then you can figure in cooling costs. Lower power consumption results in less generated heat and far lower cooling bills.
The idea behind bleem was pretty cool. Instead of emulating the hardware, like Connectix Virtual Game Station (which incidentally required a hack of the ROM and gave Sony fodder for going after Connectix legally), Bleem took a look at the hard ware instructions as they were generated in the game and decided what instructions could best accomplish the same end on the PC. This allowed for much more streamlined code without the normal performance hit you typically see with emulated hardware.
Bleem provided no anti-piracy protection (again, unlike Connectix VGS). They argued that the actual Playstation hardware was nominally difficult to hack. That if people wanted to pirate games, they were going to do it regardless of the protection they could offer. This is true, of course: try typing 'modchip' in your favorite search engine and you'll come up with nearly as many hits as 'porn'.
I find it a little strange how Bleem did an about face in this regard when they shipped their Playstation emulator for Dreamcast. They have released Bleemcast packs that work with Gran Turismo 2 ($6), Metal Gear Solid ($10), and Tekken 3 ($9). None of these will work with a copied playstation disc. Moreover, their protection is good enough that the krackers that release a pirated version of almost every Dreamcast game have been unable to krack these Bleem discs. I think it likely they would have sold more of these if they had allowed for copied games to play. They certainly would have had a larger market, not to mention the time they would have saved in not creating an iron-clad protection for the discs.
I agree with others who have said that this is a logical time for bleem to make an exit. Playstation's hardware was old when they first began, allowing them to emulate a very popular product with then-current hardware. I'd like to see them come out with something that allows x-box games to play on a PC, but i'm not holding my breath.