I suffer from Korean Spam too, not that Inotice on my Hotmail account which always shows over a thousand unread Spams in both inbox and junkmail folders. If only I could filter by language I could kill of the three or four Koreans that get through on my REAL mail accounts each day.
I should fucking well hope MS research is more visible seeing at they're over TEN TIMES the size of Apple and are a SOFTWARE company. Has MS research ever produced anything as good as a Newton MP 2100?? Thought not.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I had 2 Newtons, a 120 and a 2100 (yep, I still use it) and I always found the HWR (both types) to be very good indeed. No joke, I can sit in the back of a cab on a bumpy London street taking notes while on the 'phone without dropping a SINGLE WORD. Personally, I'm very excited to think what should be possible when the Newton's HWR gets 2 Ghz G4s chips to back it up instead of my little StrongARM.
isn't the smallest iBook now rather SMALLER than the eMate 300? Heavier, sure, but a HELL of a lot more capable - including Inkwell when installed - all it really needs is a surface to scribble on - and a modified trackpad (ie much bigger) should suffice.
You're right, of course. The natural conclusion is to wear both headphones and some kind of LCD visor (like an Eye-Trek, perhaps) too. You'll be overcompensating SO MUCH, that you'll probably acquire Superman style senses.
I don't want to sound like your dad, but cycling while listening to music is appallingly dangerous. It's also really motivational if you've got the right music... but that's life I suppose.
I DO generally agree - I don't have an iPod as the cost is too high for me now, but if I was still at Uni I'd snap one up like a shot, as that's when I use to use my Discman a LOT. Where I do listen to music now is at home and in the car, my Pioneer 7400MP is a great machine which allows me to make up "MP3 CDs" using iTunes and thereby have a decent selection of music in my glovebox. I usually get around 6-7 albums per CD, and I can stand to carry around 12 such discs in my car without grief. Maybe a hard disk head unit in the car with Wi-Fi so that I could rip on my Mac and just beam the files across while the car is in the drive would be even better, but until then it works for me.
but the idea of spending £400 or whatever on an iPod is laughable.
Why? A 20Gb iPod can hold a shitload of UNCOMPRESSED music if that's what you want. It a very compact solution even if youu aren't interested in lossy audio compression. Choose AIFF if that's what you want - there's nothing stopping you.
I don't mind paying for a high quality compression tool at all. If my car stereo supported MP3Pro as well as the VBR MP3 that I currently use, I'd go MP3Pro and cram even more of my albums onto my car CDRs. Judging by this listening test, MP3Pro deserves to succeed. Whatever happened to people paying for worthwhile products? I'd far rather pay for MP3Pro than get WMA for "FREE".
It does, if the user is ripping their own CD's. If the ripper they're using does not support MP3Pro (Why should it, if the developers have to pay to support it?)
Why should it? Because it's obviously FUCKING GOOD.
just not true. I bought the lowest-end Sony DVD player a month ago and it plays EVERYTHING, and it's multi-region, too. Yes, CD-R, DVD-R, VDC-R MP3, EVERYTHING.
so what? IMAX projectors use a "rolling loop" design to reduce film stress - telecines use a continuous transport yadda yadda yadda if we're talking about re-equipping for Maxivision48, why not go with a DECENT design, too? It's all nonsense anyway. D-Cinema WILL prevail
64bit PCI would be a plus? You're joking, right? Apple have had 64bit PCI for AT LEAST FOUR YEARS - I have two 64bit cards in my machine right now (an ATTO UL3D and a Digital Voodoo D1 Desktop 64AV). Shit, you'll be asking for Apple to introduce gigabit ethernet on the G4 motherboard next...
nothing is hidden in menus - you must try to understand that the Mac operates as if it has 3, 4 or 5 mouse buttons sometimes - CLICK, CONTROL-CLICK, OPTION-CLICK, COMMAND-CLICK. If you are familiar with Photoshop, you'll know that holding the various modifiers changes the behaviour of your clicking and dragging - this type of behaviour is global in the MacOS. It distinguishes things like a copy from a move etc etc etc - it really is a beautifully considered approach ONCE YOU'RE USED TO IT, if you're conditioned to Windows behaviours, it's bound to seem strange. As it stands, a Windows right click is virtually identical to a MacOS CONTROL-CLICK.
"With a one button mouse, you have to control-click to get the popup menu. With two buttons, you just click. Now which is more complicated?"
it's not a matter of which is more complex, it's a matter of comfort, versatility and simplicity. I've ALWYAS preferred the modifier key approach, and I'll never understand why people draw such a large distiction between Apple's approach and the multi-button mouse approach - it's just not that big a deal.
well, the 24P standard is for 1920x1080 @ 24 fps (this is commonly called "2K", although it's obviously a little over 2MP). The shame of it is, the DLP projectors currently deployed in cinemas actually offer (I think) 1440x1024 on their sensors, so what you get on screen is something like 1440x1080 - just three quarters of the original detail. That resample also causes SOME aliasing, although it's not THAT horrendous. Take a look at one of JVC's D-ILA projectors sometime, they might provide a better way forward - they certainly seem superior to MY eyes.
...it may not even get CLOSE to 24fps, unless you've inveted some miraculous mechanism that can move film by one whole frame is no time at all. The "standard" shutter angle is 180degrees, and therefore your normal exposure would be 1/48th sec.
Slashdot Mirror
YOU get a life, at least she's trying to save a life. Fucking prick.
Obtain a prosperous future, money earning power,
and the admiration of all.
Diplomas from prestigious non-accredited
universities based on your present knowledge
and life experience.
No required tests, classes, books, or interviews.
Bachelors, masters, MBA, and doctorate (PhD)
diplomas available in the field of your choice.
No one is turned down.
Confidentiality assured.
CALL NOW to receive your diploma
within days!!!
1 - 2 8 1 - 5 8 7 - 6 1 0 1
or
1 - 6 1 5 - 3 6 6 - 7 8 3 0
Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including
Sundays and holidays.
I suffer from Korean Spam too, not that Inotice on my Hotmail account which always shows over a thousand unread Spams in both inbox and junkmail folders. If only I could filter by language I could kill of the three or four Koreans that get through on my REAL mail accounts each day.
my father has long substituted "square root" for "fuck all". Not an equation per se, but in same ball park.
I should fucking well hope MS research is more visible seeing at they're over TEN TIMES the size of Apple and are a SOFTWARE company. Has MS research ever produced anything as good as a Newton MP 2100?? Thought not.
fuck you
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I had 2 Newtons, a 120 and a 2100 (yep, I still use it) and I always found the HWR (both types) to be very good indeed. No joke, I can sit in the back of a cab on a bumpy London street taking notes while on the 'phone without dropping a SINGLE WORD. Personally, I'm very excited to think what should be possible when the Newton's HWR gets 2 Ghz G4s chips to back it up instead of my little StrongARM.
isn't the smallest iBook now rather SMALLER than the eMate 300? Heavier, sure, but a HELL of a lot more capable - including Inkwell when installed - all it really needs is a surface to scribble on - and a modified trackpad (ie much bigger) should suffice.
err... I thought I heard him say "you know where that comes from" with a big smile. I don't think he actually said "Newton", did he?
how about incomprehensible equations?
You're right, of course. The natural conclusion is to wear both headphones and some kind of LCD visor (like an Eye-Trek, perhaps) too. You'll be overcompensating SO MUCH, that you'll probably acquire Superman style senses.
I don't want to sound like your dad, but cycling while listening to music is appallingly dangerous. It's also really motivational if you've got the right music... but that's life I suppose.
I DO generally agree - I don't have an iPod as the cost is too high for me now, but if I was still at Uni I'd snap one up like a shot, as that's when I use to use my Discman a LOT. Where I do listen to music now is at home and in the car, my Pioneer 7400MP is a great machine which allows me to make up "MP3 CDs" using iTunes and thereby have a decent selection of music in my glovebox. I usually get around 6-7 albums per CD, and I can stand to carry around 12 such discs in my car without grief. Maybe a hard disk head unit in the car with Wi-Fi so that I could rip on my Mac and just beam the files across while the car is in the drive would be even better, but until then it works for me.
but the idea of spending £400 or whatever on an iPod is laughable.
Why? A 20Gb iPod can hold a shitload of UNCOMPRESSED music if that's what you want. It a very compact solution even if youu aren't interested in lossy audio compression. Choose AIFF if that's what you want - there's nothing stopping you.
I don't mind paying for a high quality compression tool at all. If my car stereo supported MP3Pro as well as the VBR MP3 that I currently use, I'd go MP3Pro and cram even more of my albums onto my car CDRs. Judging by this listening test, MP3Pro deserves to succeed. Whatever happened to people paying for worthwhile products? I'd far rather pay for MP3Pro than get WMA for "FREE".
It does, if the user is ripping their own CD's. If the ripper they're using does not support MP3Pro (Why should it, if the developers have to pay to support it?)
Why should it? Because it's obviously FUCKING GOOD.
just not true. I bought the lowest-end Sony DVD player a month ago and it plays EVERYTHING, and it's multi-region, too. Yes, CD-R, DVD-R, VDC-R MP3, EVERYTHING.
so what? IMAX projectors use a "rolling loop" design to reduce film stress - telecines use a continuous transport yadda yadda yadda if we're talking about re-equipping for Maxivision48, why not go with a DECENT design, too? It's all nonsense anyway. D-Cinema WILL prevail
JPEG2000 is FULLY supported by QuickTime 6.
64bit PCI would be a plus? You're joking, right? Apple have had 64bit PCI for AT LEAST FOUR YEARS - I have two 64bit cards in my machine right now (an ATTO UL3D and a Digital Voodoo D1 Desktop 64AV). Shit, you'll be asking for Apple to introduce gigabit ethernet on the G4 motherboard next...
nothing is hidden in menus - you must try to understand that the Mac operates as if it has 3, 4 or 5 mouse buttons sometimes - CLICK, CONTROL-CLICK, OPTION-CLICK, COMMAND-CLICK. If you are familiar with Photoshop, you'll know that holding the various modifiers changes the behaviour of your clicking and dragging - this type of behaviour is global in the MacOS. It distinguishes things like a copy from a move etc etc etc - it really is a beautifully considered approach ONCE YOU'RE USED TO IT, if you're conditioned to Windows behaviours, it's bound to seem strange. As it stands, a Windows right click is virtually identical to a MacOS CONTROL-CLICK.
"With a one button mouse, you have to control-click to get the popup menu. With two buttons, you just click. Now which is more complicated?"
it's not a matter of which is more complex, it's a matter of comfort, versatility and simplicity. I've ALWYAS preferred the modifier key approach, and I'll never understand why people draw such a large distiction between Apple's approach and the multi-button mouse approach - it's just not that big a deal.
let's hope so, I'm itching to buy something brutal from Apple
well, the 24P standard is for 1920x1080 @ 24 fps (this is commonly called "2K", although it's obviously a little over 2MP). The shame of it is, the DLP projectors currently deployed in cinemas actually offer (I think) 1440x1024 on their sensors, so what you get on screen is something like 1440x1080 - just three quarters of the original detail. That resample also causes SOME aliasing, although it's not THAT horrendous. Take a look at one of JVC's D-ILA projectors sometime, they might provide a better way forward - they certainly seem superior to MY eyes.
...it may not even get CLOSE to 24fps, unless you've inveted some miraculous mechanism that can move film by one whole frame is no time at all. The "standard" shutter angle is 180degrees, and therefore your normal exposure would be 1/48th sec.