There is nothing wrong with me or my iBook. I'm not some odd-ball, there are heaps of other people who are dissapointed with the speed of OS X on slower machines. Google can prove that.
You find the speed OK? Good for you....Really, I mean that. I wish I felt the same way. I don't like being unsatisfied with my iBook.
I think we need a new terminology: a super-downgrade. This is when you upgrade you computer so much, that you are in effect, downgrading a newer, superior computer width parts of an old one.
My last upgrade was a super-downgrade, my next probably will to. I end up keeping the modem, mouse, keyboard.
I think you could be on the right subject. I guess they must be talking about either the drug or cooking equiptment because I'll be damned if I've ever heard of POTS before.
Could someone please enlighten us as to what POTS is since the/. editors are too incompetent?
... I seriously want to know why people have moved away from TNR.
It's horrible to read on-screen because it's a serifed font. Even if it is designed with the screen in mind, it's still harder to read than a sans-serif font.
As for the look. It's been used so much that is just boring to a lot of people (BTW for some reason that hasn't happened to Verdana yet).
It also needs a much higher res display (like the new sony one). And needs to be much thinner to be usefull to me. Unless it fits comfortably in my pocket, I'm not interested.
So you want to stick with Windows 2000? Ok, then how about using Mozilla for your internet experience? It's better (read: more practical) than IE in various ways.
I have mozilla on my win2k box. As much as I admire it, and always use it for testing purposes. It will never by my default browser at the moment. I just can't stand the GUI. In IE, I only have one bar with all my controls. I like it that way. It's clean looking and maximises the space for the webpage.
It's a pitty that no one has done the equivilant of Chimera for the windows paltform (taking a good browser engine and adding a good UI).
Open Office not do what you need it to? Fine, then file a bug report with the team (wishlist bugs are great too) and move on and try the next release some time in the future.
Ha. Unless you like to wait around for months I wouldn't suggest that. I'm still waiting for a bug to get fixed in Mozilla for OS X. Time ran out so I've had to completly re-write a peice of code for a project I'm doing. I don't have the time to wait around untill a particular bug is fixed.
The only reason this happens is because people aren't used to it yet. I don't own a printer. And I only ever print out invoices (thanks mum). The only paper I have on my desks are from clients or people at work.
I manage just fine. I hate paper*, it's a pain to find, sort, store, edit. Reading is 50/50 since displays have a bit to go before they're as good as print. But apart from that I much prefer electronic.
* Being a graphic designer/web developer, I do like print. But I think it's something to be used sparingly on 'special' things, like books, art etc. Not for e-mail and most other documentation. That's just a waste IMHO.
It look like they have bolted a whole lot of equiptment to an average RC car chassis.
It would be interesting to take one those cars (with the electronics still on for weight fairness etc), install some RC gear, and see who's faster.
I suspect that the human would still be the better driver/faster at the moment. Also, a human driver can navigate traffic. These guys look like they might have a hard time in a race with other cars;)
Don't forget to keep refreshing their frontpage. You wouldn't want to miss out on the latest news. Something important might get posted any second and you'd never know!
By the sounds of it that robot only had to perform one task. I think your missing the point of this robot.
This NASA robot seem to be intedned for quite a few differnt tasks. And they also said that was meant to be used in a human environment. So they have to design it to use human tools.
...Unless they custom design humans to work in a robots environment instead;)
Oh yeah. You could always design the environment to suit both humans and robots. But in space, the has serious drawbacks.
A new set of articulating eyes has been built for Robonaut. The pointing system directs two pairs of eyes, independently verging them for tracking humans and objects. Each pair includes a large camera with computer controlled zoom, focus and iris adjustments, as well as a smaller camera to provide peripheral vision. The system has been assembled, and integrated with the brainstem for pointing control and calibration. The next step will be integration with the visual cortex, and then insertion of the system into the robot's helmet, replacing the old cameras.
Don't forget about the time it would take to track down and re-copy the 10,000 or so corrupt floppies. Fun fun fun...
I had to copy ~1000 floppies to CD once. It was not a nice experience--tedious, slow, and boring. It took me about a week to do it (a real week, including sleeping eating, play etc. Not a straight week....thank goodness).
Acctualy....I find those mice to be a pain when I'm dragging something and have to perform the ol' lift-and-reposition-the-mouse maneuver when I reach the end of the mousepad/table/whatever.
Most mice you just lift and hold the button. That's not as easy with the Apple mice (ever wondered what those little tab things on each side were for?...So you have something to hold on to).
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Apple isn't a hardware company. Apple isn't a software company. Apple is a computer systems company.
Hope you realise that there is a minumum annual $15,000 licening fee. No many small developers could pay that.
You find the speed OK? Good for you....Really, I mean that. I wish I felt the same way. I don't like being unsatisfied with my iBook.
Hmmm... RATM aren't really RATM without Zack and Tom together.
I have a 600Mhz iBook with 384MB RAM. iPhoto isn't exactly snappy.
2 words: Time zone.
Hey, it's 7 in the morning, mkay?
Uhhhh... WSC standards?
My last upgrade was a super-downgrade, my next probably will to. I end up keeping the modem, mouse, keyboard.
Could someone please enlighten us as to what POTS is since the /. editors are too incompetent?
Thanks.
It's horrible to read on-screen because it's a serifed font. Even if it is designed with the screen in mind, it's still harder to read than a sans-serif font.
As for the look. It's been used so much that is just boring to a lot of people (BTW for some reason that hasn't happened to Verdana yet).
It also needs a much higher res display (like the new sony one). And needs to be much thinner to be usefull to me. Unless it fits comfortably in my pocket, I'm not interested.
Yes it would. Welcome to net journalism. So much for the web being a multimedia resource. I think it's mostly just lazyness.
...And cellphones.
Maybe a few years ago. But not now. I have CSS sites that work fine in Mozilla and IE6, then fall apart in IE5 for Mac.
When I installed Win2k (several times on different computers) I only needed 1 CD, rebooted 2 times max, and never had to swap the CD once.
RedHat? Two words: Package dependancies. After installing it 2 or so times. I gave up and just pick one of the preset installations.
As for the total time it takes to install. Who cares? It's only something you should be doing once in a blue moon.
I have mozilla on my win2k box. As much as I admire it, and always use it for testing purposes. It will never by my default browser at the moment. I just can't stand the GUI. In IE, I only have one bar with all my controls. I like it that way. It's clean looking and maximises the space for the webpage.
It's a pitty that no one has done the equivilant of Chimera for the windows paltform (taking a good browser engine and adding a good UI).
Open Office not do what you need it to? Fine, then file a bug report with the team (wishlist bugs are great too) and move on and try the next release some time in the future.
Ha. Unless you like to wait around for months I wouldn't suggest that. I'm still waiting for a bug to get fixed in Mozilla for OS X. Time ran out so I've had to completly re-write a peice of code for a project I'm doing. I don't have the time to wait around untill a particular bug is fixed.
The only paper I have on my desks are from clients or people at work.
I manage just fine. I hate paper*, it's a pain to find, sort, store, edit. Reading is 50/50 since displays have a bit to go before they're as good as print. But apart from that I much prefer electronic.
* Being a graphic designer/web developer, I do like print. But I think it's something to be used sparingly on 'special' things, like books, art etc. Not for e-mail and most other documentation. That's just a waste IMHO.
It would be interesting to take one those cars (with the electronics still on for weight fairness etc), install some RC gear, and see who's faster.
I suspect that the human would still be the better driver/faster at the moment. Also, a human driver can navigate traffic. These guys look like they might have a hard time in a race with other cars ;)
Shouldn't that be the splashdot effect?
Don't forget to keep refreshing their frontpage. You wouldn't want to miss out on the latest news. Something important might get posted any second and you'd never know!
This NASA robot seem to be intedned for quite a few differnt tasks. And they also said that was meant to be used in a human environment. So they have to design it to use human tools.
Oh yeah. You could always design the environment to suit both humans and robots. But in space, the has serious drawbacks.
A new set of articulating eyes has been built for Robonaut. The pointing system directs two pairs of eyes, independently verging them for tracking humans and objects. Each pair includes a large camera with computer controlled zoom, focus and iris adjustments, as well as a smaller camera to provide peripheral vision. The system has been assembled, and integrated with the brainstem for pointing control and calibration. The next step will be integration with the visual cortex, and then insertion of the system into the robot's helmet, replacing the old cameras.
Please....Read the artical first
I had to copy ~1000 floppies to CD once. It was not a nice experience--tedious, slow, and boring. It took me about a week to do it (a real week, including sleeping eating, play etc. Not a straight week....thank goodness).
Most mice you just lift and hold the button. That's not as easy with the Apple mice (ever wondered what those little tab things on each side were for?...So you have something to hold on to).