I thought I remembered hearing, a few years ago, something about AM radio going digital starting sometime around October 2002. The original plan, as laid out by the in this news brief (and that's DRM as in "Digital Radio Mondiale", not the DRM we all know and hate) from the Digital AM Radio development Consotium, called for digital AM broadcast to start in 2001. Whenever digital AM does start (if it hasn't already), there may well be an AM renaissance, with many AM stations getting back to musical programming. The only other thing I remember right now is that I believe there are going to be multiple digital channels layered in with the analog broadcast, to give a quality of sound never heard before over free broadcast.
Despite the fact that these new palm handhelds may be kind of lame from the technology perspective, they do have a (somewhat) hip and flash look to them--especially so for the zire. I don't know... maybe metal surfaces and simplicity of form are just "in" right now, but it caught my I.D. eye, at least.
I know that it was I.D. firm Lunar Design who were responsible for the m100 series palm devices as well as the m500 series, but I haven't seen anything yet about who's name is in the corner of this upcoming crop's ideation. Anybody heard anything?
So what is Apple's plan for all this horsepower? It seems that the current 7450/7455 G4 chips have more than enough "under the hood" to comfortable kick the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator around, not to mention the iApps, and everybody's favorite Final Cut Pro. So this news begs the question: where does the GPUL fit in to Apple's master plan?
Perhaps, just perhaps, has Apple something up their sleeve? Like a purchase of Alias|Wavefront to go along with their other recent acquisitions, and fully stack the high-end graphics deck? Or maybe pro-E has finally gotten their act together and is releasing a Mac client? Or are there going to be some new Xserves based on this chip, and maybe we'll actually see some type of installed base start to grow in the Apple-branded server market.
Who knows... but as big as this news is (for Apple-heads, at least), the upcoming developements this GPUL (potentially) foreshadows loom much larger.
Someone claimed to have found a similar phenomenon off the coast of Florida, around where the fabled "Bermuda Triangle" was supposed to be. Theory went: every now and then, seismic activity would crack the methane crystal, releasing some methane gas in the process. This now-liberated methane bubble would rise to the surface, and everything was cool if its path toward the atmosphere was free of obstacles like boats or planes... however, on the off-chance that a ship might be passing right by where the methane was surfacing, that ship would become unable to maintain buoyancy--as it now rested on a bubble of gas instead of a blanket of seawater--and would go down. Same thing for the planes: if the methane bubble, which has become more of a loose cloud now that it's free of the ocean, happens to be in the path of an airplane, that plane will dramatically lose almost all lift from its wings (since they're made to be working lift from normal air, which is much heavier than methane), and it, too, hits the sea. Weird.
...but their hipocracy gets, at times, a bit hard to swallow. This document speaks, rightly so, to the "simplistic-beauty-through-UI-consistency" factor of Mac OS X, thanks to the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. And, it should be noted, I've got no beef whatsoever with the Aqua HIG as a concept, nor (for the most part) as far as the execution of that concept is concerned. However, did anybody else notice the glaring absence of any iApp from this Switch Document?
The iApps (iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes) come together like Voltron to form the ease-of-use flagship of the iMac/Mac OS X/"Digital Lifestyle" movement. And do the iApps even remotely follow the Aqua HIG? Hell no!
Apple dedicates a whole subsection to this point: "Avoid Custom Controls." However, each of the iApps contains, in the app package contents, its own.rsrc file full of bitmaps defining very, very custom interfaces! Sure, all the buttons are still Aqua, but they've got this goofy "brushed metal".pict texture and they toss the button placement guidelines out the window.
Just like Apple created all sorts of "special exceptions" to the rules of the Carbon layer for Finder.app, they seem to have written a myriad errata to the Aqua HIG pertaining to developing an iApp (but kept this updated copy of the Aqua HIG for themselves).
Again, I should say that I would love to see Apple succeed with their "Switch" campaign... but for once I'd like to see some practicing to go with the preaching!
I mean, come on! It's fscking MSnbc. Did we really expect something like "Linux is actually everything it's cracked up to be... as a matter of fact, Microsoft, our parent company, might as well shut its doors; they're cooked."
The volunteers needed a certain mental elasticity.
You can say that again... I'm not altogether sure if I could muster the self-control needed to remain in one stationary position for three entire months. Remember tornado drills in school? I had the damnedest time keeping still, hunched over with my hands protecting my neck--and that was only for what, five or ten minutes? And these volunteers aren't even astronauts... so they don't even have "the right stuff" going for them! They're just postmen, builders, teachers and whatnot! What a bunch of crazy bastards.
...but around here they call it "Blue Cross Blue Shield" -- still, a rose is a rose, and I find my healthcare being auctioned off to the highest bidder rather routinely.
At the rate the web has been growing, how long do you think it will be before Google is actually indexing 1.0*10100 pages at a time? How long would it take, under the current setup, to perform a string search of that much web space? How do you plan on growing the tech so that such hefty tasks won't daunt the pigeon flock (for that matter, how many pigeons will it take to search through an index containing 1.0*10100 items?)
...as to what exactly Google does with the concepts it receives through the various Google-tech contests held. Have these ideas been made good use of? Do we see any of this in the Google we use every day? What about the ones that didn't win, do we see any of them?
Who wants to see nude photos of Steffi Graf, anyway? Between this and the whole David Hasselhoff thing, I'd have to say that the Germans are weird as hell.
We'd better watch out... if we've now got terraformers, the next thing you know someone will have kept placing alien monoliths straight onto one protozoa until, lo and behold, "Protozoa have gone sentient!" Now we just have to wait for all those damn nanotech protozoa cities to blast off into orbit...
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I particular like the light-green sections of their spectrum chart; but I've got to wonder, just how much amateur satelite activity is going on?
I thought I remembered hearing, a few years ago, something about AM radio going digital starting sometime around October 2002. The original plan, as laid out by the in this news brief (and that's DRM as in "Digital Radio Mondiale", not the DRM we all know and hate) from the Digital AM Radio development Consotium, called for digital AM broadcast to start in 2001. Whenever digital AM does start (if it hasn't already), there may well be an AM renaissance, with many AM stations getting back to musical programming. The only other thing I remember right now is that I believe there are going to be multiple digital channels layered in with the analog broadcast, to give a quality of sound never heard before over free broadcast.
Despite the fact that these new palm handhelds may be kind of lame from the technology perspective, they do have a (somewhat) hip and flash look to them--especially so for the zire. I don't know... maybe metal surfaces and simplicity of form are just "in" right now, but it caught my I.D. eye, at least.
I know that it was I.D. firm Lunar Design who were responsible for the m100 series palm devices as well as the m500 series, but I haven't seen anything yet about who's name is in the corner of this upcoming crop's ideation. Anybody heard anything?
So what is Apple's plan for all this horsepower? It seems that the current 7450/7455 G4 chips have more than enough "under the hood" to comfortable kick the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator around, not to mention the iApps, and everybody's favorite Final Cut Pro. So this news begs the question: where does the GPUL fit in to Apple's master plan?
Perhaps, just perhaps, has Apple something up their sleeve? Like a purchase of Alias|Wavefront to go along with their other recent acquisitions, and fully stack the high-end graphics deck? Or maybe pro-E has finally gotten their act together and is releasing a Mac client? Or are there going to be some new Xserves based on this chip, and maybe we'll actually see some type of installed base start to grow in the Apple-branded server market.
Who knows... but as big as this news is (for Apple-heads, at least), the upcoming developements this GPUL (potentially) foreshadows loom much larger.
...not just "News-Observer"
You may, however, feel free to call it the "News & Fishwrap"
Someone claimed to have found a similar phenomenon off the coast of Florida, around where the fabled "Bermuda Triangle" was supposed to be. Theory went: every now and then, seismic activity would crack the methane crystal, releasing some methane gas in the process. This now-liberated methane bubble would rise to the surface, and everything was cool if its path toward the atmosphere was free of obstacles like boats or planes... however, on the off-chance that a ship might be passing right by where the methane was surfacing, that ship would become unable to maintain buoyancy--as it now rested on a bubble of gas instead of a blanket of seawater--and would go down. Same thing for the planes: if the methane bubble, which has become more of a loose cloud now that it's free of the ocean, happens to be in the path of an airplane, that plane will dramatically lose almost all lift from its wings (since they're made to be working lift from normal air, which is much heavier than methane), and it, too, hits the sea. Weird.
...but their hipocracy gets, at times, a bit hard to swallow. This document speaks, rightly so, to the "simplistic-beauty-through-UI-consistency" factor of Mac OS X, thanks to the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. And, it should be noted, I've got no beef whatsoever with the Aqua HIG as a concept, nor (for the most part) as far as the execution of that concept is concerned. However, did anybody else notice the glaring absence of any iApp from this Switch Document?
.rsrc file full of bitmaps defining very, very custom interfaces! Sure, all the buttons are still Aqua, but they've got this goofy "brushed metal" .pict texture and they toss the button placement guidelines out the window.
The iApps (iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes) come together like Voltron to form the ease-of-use flagship of the iMac/Mac OS X/"Digital Lifestyle" movement. And do the iApps even remotely follow the Aqua HIG? Hell no!
Apple dedicates a whole subsection to this point: "Avoid Custom Controls." However, each of the iApps contains, in the app package contents, its own
Just like Apple created all sorts of "special exceptions" to the rules of the Carbon layer for Finder.app, they seem to have written a myriad errata to the Aqua HIG pertaining to developing an iApp (but kept this updated copy of the Aqua HIG for themselves).
Again, I should say that I would love to see Apple succeed with their "Switch" campaign... but for once I'd like to see some practicing to go with the preaching!
...my plans of acquiring warez copies of all that JVC software have been completely foiled!
Isn't that Rassilon's tomb in the Death Zone on Gallifrey?
Silent Bob may well be technically inclined for such a venture, but Jay? I remember this quote distinctly: "What the fuck is the internet?"
I mean, come on! It's fscking MSnbc. Did we really expect something like "Linux is actually everything it's cracked up to be... as a matter of fact, Microsoft, our parent company, might as well shut its doors; they're cooked."
The volunteers needed a certain mental elasticity.
You can say that again... I'm not altogether sure if I could muster the self-control needed to remain in one stationary position for three entire months. Remember tornado drills in school? I had the damnedest time keeping still, hunched over with my hands protecting my neck--and that was only for what, five or ten minutes? And these volunteers aren't even astronauts... so they don't even have "the right stuff" going for them! They're just postmen, builders, teachers and whatnot! What a bunch of crazy bastards.
...but around here they call it "Blue Cross Blue Shield" -- still, a rose is a rose, and I find my healthcare being auctioned off to the highest bidder rather routinely.
1. A robot may not score on his team's own goal, or, through inaction, allow his team's goal to be scored upon.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by coaches except where such orders would conflict the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own field position as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
At the rate the web has been growing, how long do you think it will be before Google is actually indexing 1.0*10100 pages at a time? How long would it take, under the current setup, to perform a string search of that much web space? How do you plan on growing the tech so that such hefty tasks won't daunt the pigeon flock (for that matter, how many pigeons will it take to search through an index containing 1.0*10100 items?)
...as to what exactly Google does with the concepts it receives through the various Google-tech contests held. Have these ideas been made good use of? Do we see any of this in the Google we use every day? What about the ones that didn't win, do we see any of them?
Who wants to see nude photos of Steffi Graf, anyway? Between this and the whole David Hasselhoff thing, I'd have to say that the Germans are weird as hell.
We'd better watch out... if we've now got terraformers, the next thing you know someone will have kept placing alien monoliths straight onto one protozoa until, lo and behold, "Protozoa have gone sentient!" Now we just have to wait for all those damn nanotech protozoa cities to blast off into orbit...
...Microsoft defending their newest product to come to market: the Microsoft Personal Computer
Apple seems to have utilized XML in a rather remarkable fashion in OS X... makes all those annoying .plist's quite easy to understand.