Huh? All streaming players support this to some extent, you just switch the buffering time to be very low, or zero. Are you sure you're not getting confused with very fast streaming, over a LAN?
No. I've been playing around with QT6's "Instant On" streaming all morning. It's very impressive. It isn't just a case of having a low buffer time. Try it, you might be impressed too.
I definately DON'T get a loading message. Running Mac OS X 10.1.4 with QT6. Go to the "Instant On" sample page here. The streams play instantly and you can instantly skip to any part of the stream. Very impressive. Especially because I'm testing on a very congested RoadRunner cable modem...
Yeah I thought so too. I just loved that scene with the New Yorkers on the bridge throwing down junk at the Green Goblin to distract him from beating up Spidey. "You mess with him and you mess with us!".
As plot devices go that's up there with destroying an Alien battle fleet with a PowerMac and Word Macro Virus
Does anyone want a $2000+ OSX rackmount with IDE drives? I'd guess they'd have done better with a more modest sub-$1000 rackmount. They should have marketted it as a rackmount for the rest of us (like they did with the iMac). Cheap, well built, easy to maintain.
" It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke". Then why prolong the damn thing so long? A couple of choice funnies would have been more than enough. Talk about laying it on with a trowel.
Me too... My specialist told me that the rigid contacts dont actually flatten the cornea as such (which is what I thought too) but rather combine with the cornea and the tear fluid inbetween to act as a sort of super-cornea
Luckily I dont contact lenses at all yet (the cone caused by the KC is below the center of my cornea and so doesn't affect my vision yet).
I've got the same condition the article submitter has. With KC the treatments are either rigid contact lenses or cornea replacement surgery. Obviously the former is preferable to the later. (I actually got lucky and dont need any treatment yet). Glasses wont do a thing and you'll end up changing your prescription every other month.
Lots of good information (including a great forum) at www.kcenter.org but of course take everything you read online with a pinch of salt
I was diagnosed with KC less than a month ago by my optician. He told me that I'd need to get fitted with rigid gas-permeable contact lenses.
Anyway I decided to get a second opinion and managed to see an opthomoligist later that week - apparently not everyone with KC needs treatment. The 'bulge' in my cornea is currently below my field of vision and that I don't need any contact lenses or anything
Things might change (and I can't rub my eyes in fear of affecting things) so I need to get my eyes checked up on even more regularly in case my situation changes.
Guess i got lucky. Anyways - if you haven't already - get a second opinion - you might be lucky too
What the hell does NASA think its doing? Didn't it get the message: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa...". I think heeding the warnings of kilometre long black monoliths is a very very good idea.
"started out rocky and dangerous due to the influence of the communist party". Yeah. That must have been a real set back. Could be why they didn't put up the first satelite into orbit or put the first man into space or have the longest continually manned space station.
"The N1 rocket, picture courtesy Edwin N Cameron, former US Department of Defense Analyst/Instructor". Guess this DoD analyst has been supplementing his income a little.
They still make fanless CRT iMacs. They're selling them way below the price of the new Luxo Mac ($800+). I'd imagine schools still want the old iMac so I'd guess Apple is going to be selling the old iMac for quite some time
My wife has the new iMac and although the fan is a lot quieter than a desktop Mac's fan it is still quite noisy. My wife hasn't really noticed it so it can't be too bad though.
I'd be really surprised if Apple Remote Desktop did anything other than send 'raw bitmaps' across the network. Considering the range of GUI applications the user can run on his machine there wouldn't be a viable 'vector' based protocol (you'd need something that could cope with Cocoa, Carbon (in both varieties), Classic and even Java).
They might have done something clever and used the built-in Cocoa Distributed Objects (which rock btw) and just proxy your GUI widgets off of another computer. That would keep the bandwidth costs down for Aqua. But considering all the real apps (IE, Office, Adobe *) are all Carbon apps anyway there wouldn't be much to gain.
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Huh? All streaming players support this to some extent, you just switch the buffering time to be very low, or zero. Are you sure you're not getting confused with very fast streaming, over a LAN?
No. I've been playing around with QT6's "Instant On" streaming all morning. It's very impressive. It isn't just a case of having a low buffer time. Try it, you might be impressed too.
I definately DON'T get a loading message. Running Mac OS X 10.1.4 with QT6. Go to the "Instant On" sample page here. The streams play instantly and you can instantly skip to any part of the stream. Very impressive. Especially because I'm testing on a very congested RoadRunner cable modem...
By Wednesday those guys over at HardOCP will get it water-cooled and overclocked to 4*10^95 gigahertz...
Didn't Jesus walk on water? I think perhaps you mean Moses.
Actually everyone saw this. Spiderman was playing at almost every damn cinema in the country. AotC wasn't.
It didn't come down to how many bums on seats, it came down to how many seats were available
Wait a week or two, from what I hear the screens showing Spiderman are pretty much empty right now while Star Wars is still packed to the gills.
Yeah I thought so too. I just loved that scene with the New Yorkers on the bridge throwing down junk at the Green Goblin to distract him from beating up Spidey. "You mess with him and you mess with us!".
As plot devices go that's up there with destroying an Alien battle fleet with a PowerMac and Word Macro Virus
Does anyone want a $2000+ OSX rackmount with IDE drives? I'd guess they'd have done better with a more modest sub-$1000 rackmount. They should have marketted it as a rackmount for the rest of us (like they did with the iMac). Cheap, well built, easy to maintain.
Pentium 200 MHz, 32MB RAM, no more than 120MB HD Space, DirectX 8 Compatible 16MB Video Card, CD ROM, DirectX 8 compatible Sound System, Mouse
I'm screwed! I've got way more than 120MB HD Space! Going to have to install more stuff to make less room for it.
" It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke". Then why prolong the damn thing so long? A couple of choice funnies would have been more than enough. Talk about laying it on with a trowel.
"requires a bunch of preparation just to prepare". Yeah that's what sucks about preparation all right.
Me too... My specialist told me that the rigid contacts dont actually flatten the cornea as such (which is what I thought too) but rather combine with the cornea and the tear fluid inbetween to act as a sort of super-cornea
Luckily I dont contact lenses at all yet (the cone caused by the KC is below the center of my cornea and so doesn't affect my vision yet).
I've got the same condition the article submitter has. With KC the treatments are either rigid contact lenses or cornea replacement surgery. Obviously the former is preferable to the later. (I actually got lucky and dont need any treatment yet). Glasses wont do a thing and you'll end up changing your prescription every other month.
Lots of good information (including a great forum) at www.kcenter.org but of course take everything you read online with a pinch of salt
I was diagnosed with KC less than a month ago by my optician. He told me that I'd need to get fitted with rigid gas-permeable contact lenses.
Anyway I decided to get a second opinion and managed to see an opthomoligist later that week - apparently not everyone with KC needs treatment. The 'bulge' in my cornea is currently below my field of vision and that I don't need any contact lenses or anything
Things might change (and I can't rub my eyes in fear of affecting things) so I need to get my eyes checked up on even more regularly in case my situation changes.
Guess i got lucky. Anyways - if you haven't already - get a second opinion - you might be lucky too
What the hell does NASA think its doing? Didn't it get the message: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa...". I think heeding the warnings of kilometre long black monoliths is a very very good idea.
"started out rocky and dangerous due to the influence of the communist party". Yeah. That must have been a real set back. Could be why they didn't put up the first satelite into orbit or put the first man into space or have the longest continually manned space station.
"The N1 rocket, picture courtesy Edwin N Cameron, former US Department of Defense Analyst/Instructor". Guess this DoD analyst has been supplementing his income a little.
...as a laser entertainer...
What's the point of a laser entertainer? I thought all lasers were pretty much excited all the time anyway
Um I seem to remember that you can send a reverse-line feed to line printers. Do that then print a line of garbage a few dozen times...
Yeah because the person who decided that 'the force' is caused by having a bad case of the mitochondrians should be renowned for his originality
Mesir want some deathsticks?
"Unless you pay your shareware fee this harddrive will stop working after 333 hours."
"You too can have a body like mine."
They still make fanless CRT iMacs. They're selling them way below the price of the new Luxo Mac ($800+). I'd imagine schools still want the old iMac so I'd guess Apple is going to be selling the old iMac for quite some time
My wife has the new iMac and although the fan is a lot quieter than a desktop Mac's fan it is still quite noisy. My wife hasn't really noticed it so it can't be too bad though.
I'd be really surprised if Apple Remote Desktop did anything other than send 'raw bitmaps' across the network. Considering the range of GUI applications the user can run on his machine there wouldn't be a viable 'vector' based protocol (you'd need something that could cope with Cocoa, Carbon (in both varieties), Classic and even Java).
They might have done something clever and used the built-in Cocoa Distributed Objects (which rock btw) and just proxy your GUI widgets off of another computer. That would keep the bandwidth costs down for Aqua. But considering all the real apps (IE, Office, Adobe *) are all Carbon apps anyway there wouldn't be much to gain.
Oh please, what crap. My old 300MHz tangerine ibook copes fine with Mac OS X.