You could make your own, non-pentium compatible architecture and then use Bochs to emulate the pentium and the pentium environment would go faster than the speeds claimed by Dragon.
I bought one also two weeks ago. Then on the first day of macworld, they lowered prices. I called up the Apple store and they happily refunded the difference. Just a tip if you haven't done that already
(thanks to macintouch) A Paris-based Mac reseller's web site has specs for new PowerMac G4 systems:
http://www.clginformatique.com/pages/newsdet.php ?a rticle=NEWSCLG_00009
My condolences go out to the friends and family of the victims of this horrific crime. Attending an east coast college, I have talked with many people who are from the areas where the attacks occured. This has hit close to home. I really have no words to describe what I am feeling.
With that said, I refer you to the excellent salon.com. Their coverage of this event has been extraordinary. I especially hope you read the first-person accounts of the terror. A number: that is difficult to identify with. A person, however, is much different. Remember each one of those thousands was a person, with his/her own life and nothing should be taken for granted.
My condolences go out to the friends and family of the victims of this horrific crime. Attending an east coast college, I have talked with many people who are from the areas where the attacks occured. This has hit close to home. I really have no words to describe what I am feeling.
With that said, I refer you to the excellent salon.com. Their coverage of this event has been extraordinary. I especially hope you read the first-person accounts of the terror. A number: that is difficult to identify with. A person, however, is much different. Remember each one of those thousands was a person, with his/her own life and nothing should be taken for granted.
For those east coasters, there will be a party held in Philadelphia. Check here for details. This link is correct as the one on the main page of linux10.org is broken.
I saw Rushhour 2 yesterday and I agree that it was probably one of the best movies of the summer. The audience was laughing practically the entire time. I never saw Rushhour 1, but after this, I'm gonna go rent the DVD. I came into Rushhour 2 expecting it to be awful due to the very mixed reviews at metacritic.com but I was pleasantly surprised.
Kiss of the Dragon was nothing compared to this movie. Shrek, while I really liked it, is more of a kids movie (even with some of the adult jokes) so it can't be really compared to this movie.
The only negative part is Chris Tucker. He was just annoying for most of the movie. It seemed like he kept repeating the same "joke" over and over: Be annoying and act like you're a tough cop. What kind of cop behaves like he does? Jackie Chan was like Tucker's baby sitter.
I submitted this as a news story and it was rejected and also posted in a previous story about Dmitry.
I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is/was being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.
I recently got my first Windoze box and started putting a few freeware programs on it. Soon I discovered that ads were popping up out of nowhere on my machine. I discovered that one (not sure which one) of the freeware programs installed a piece of software called Savenow which popped up these ads.
Thanks to Savenow, I became suspicious and discovered a piece of software called Adaware (Windoze only) that searches for spyware and deletes it. I really recommend it as it found other spyware too. It is available at http://www.lavasoft.de.
I submitted this as a news story and it was rejected and also posted in a previous story about Dmitry.
I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.
As a solution to both problems, I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.
Ah that brings back memories. When I was little, this used to be my favorite "game" to play. I'd watch all the animations move and play around with all the objects on the screen.
My Power Mac G4 did come with a tutorial but it was really short. It was nowhere near as fun and actually wouldn't run without manually switching resolutions. What person who doesn't know how to click a mouse will know how to do that?
I read a disheartening story yesterday in the NY Times Magazine about an American John Tobin who is being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him.
So I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.
After using Macs for years, I recently built a PC and searched long and hard for a relatively inexpensive case that was as easy to work with as my Powermac G4. If you're looking for color cases, check out colorcases.com. The case I ended up getting, though, was the AT900 case from pccase.com because it was nearly completely screwless. It is not ugly-looking but also not breathtaking like the G4's case. It has a great slideout motherboard tray and drives slide in pretty easily. They also have a black version but I didn't think that it would look good because of the white bezels on the drives. It was a really easy case to work with and it shipped quickly too.
What the heck is going on with Apple's stock? They announce new products and a profit this quarter and their stock promptly drops 4 points. That is not even close to the other weird thing: the drop was linked to Steve Jobs's keynote.
If you take a look at the intraday chart for that day, you can see that the stock started dropping right at the start of the keynote (9:30 AM ET) and stopped dropping about an hour later (I can assume this is when he stopped talking.) The stock pretty much stayed level the rest of the day.
I will never understand the craziness of the stock market.
I can see the same thing happening with this as what happened with DeCSS. People will start mirroring this file all over the internet. Microsoft will sue everyone who posts the file under the DMCA and also anyone who knows someone who posted the file. The people who made this will get a ton of publicity and it will make MS look even stupider. I wonder if anyone will get this tatooed on themselves or sing it on an MP3. This is gonna turn into a huge mess for MS.
The imacs and soon-to-be-discontinued G4 cube are all fanless and nearly silent except for the hard drive. And if you hug one (don't you just want to?) they are so warm and cuddly! Hot enough to burn
I saw AI this afternoon. (SPOILERS)
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Yes I saw AI this afternoon. Combine pinnochio with bicentennial man, close encounters, and an oedipus complex and you've got yourself this movie.
There are 2 things that I will mainly comment on: the ending and the plot holes. How many endings were there to this movie anyway? It could have ended when he reaches Manhatten and finds his creator. It could have ended after he jumps into the ocean. It could have ended, albeit sadly, during the 2000 years he spent watching "the blue fairy." How many themes was Speilberg/Kubrik really supposed to bring out in this thing?
The plot holes are many. What the heck happened to his father? His mother is all he talks about. It is so oedipal, it's rediculous. The movie even ends with his mother and him in bed. He calls his mother "Mommy" after he is imprinted and completely ignores the father. He pays more attention to his mean brother. Wouldn't his programmers make it so he was imprinted to 2 people? Thus his father becomes a static character that is quite flat. David calls his father "Henry" the whole movie.
David breaks easily from a little spinach and yet he lasts 2000 years frozen in the water. He dives into water twice and that doesn't hurt his circuits at all. Also how, exactly, are the robots powered? This is a small issue because this is sci-fi and you have to suspend your belief but come on!
Also, when his creator tells him to wait while he rounds up the people, he never hears from "the creator" again. Why isn't there a big search for David?
Why do they bother leading David to New York anyway? Who would expect that he would steal a helicopter and make his way to a particular building in the abondoned Manhatten. If you're gonna lead him somewhere, lead him someplace easily accesible at least.
The last thing is with the aliens. I can't believe that David is the only "living" remnant of humans. If one robot survived, couldn't others? Sure I could suspend my belief that aliens came to study Earth in the future. But how would they detect him anyway. They went directly to him like they knew he was there. And they can bring somebody back but for only one day and only once. How stupid is that? Exactly one day. No more, no less. So some law of nature depends on when somebody goes to sleep? Crazy.
Other than that allusion to the poem, why would anyone fly a ship that everyone could see and run away from? That giant balloon was so bright that the robots could run away from it. There is a full moon 2-3 days per month. I think somebody would get the idea that it wasn't a moon if it was 10x as big as a real one anyway.
Little things: What engineer thought a 3-wheeled car would work? 4 wheels is the most efficient and stable design. 3 wheels looks cool and futuristic though. Also, if half the world has been engulfed, what is David's family doing living in such a luxurious and large house? Wouldn't there be space limits?
I suppose it does takes more than a little talent for a little kid to hold an entire audience's attention for 2.5 hours.
Yes, it is something you will want to see but it will never have any replay value. I won't buy the DVD. I can suspend my belief for a lot of it but there are just so many things wrong with that movie.
IANAL but I thought that you could not trademark an acronym. AIM can stand for so many things, that their argument holds no water. (even when ignoring that the GAIM has been using the same name for two years) Off the top of my head, the alliance between Apple, IBM and Motorola was called the AIM alliance well before AOL Instant Messenger came out.
AOL Instant Messenger , Abductory Inductive Mechanism , Abrams Integrated Management , Abridged Index Medicus , Accunet Information Manager (AT&T) , Accuracy In Media , Acquisition Information Management , Action Item Master , Active Inert Missile , Ada Interactive Monitor , Adaptive Internetwork Management (Ungerman Bass) , Administrators In Medicine , Advanced Idea Mechanics , Advanced Industrial Management , Advanced Informatics in Medicine , Advanced Information Management , Advanced Integrated Multiplex , Advanced Integration Module (Cisco) , Advanced Inventory Management (Telco Research) , Advanced Isolation Methods , Advanced ISR Management , "Adventures In Ministry, Inc. ", Aeronautical Information Manual , "Aether Intelligent Messaging (Aether Systems, Inc.) ", Africa Inland Mission , African Index Medicus , AFSATCOM IEMATS Microprocessor , Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (legal organization) , Air Inflation Module , Air Intercept Missile , Airborne Intercept Missile , Airlift Import Manager , Airman Information Manual , Alarm Indication Message (Lucent) , Alarm Interface Module (Telabs) , Alternate Input Method (OS/2) , Alternative Investment Market , Ambulatory Information Management Association , American Indian Movement , American Institute of Management , Amplitude Inter-Modulation distortion , Analog Input Module , Antenna Interface Module , "Apple, IBM and Motorola ", Application and Interface Module (Com21 cable modem) , Application Interpreted Model , Armored-Infantry-Mechanized , Army Information Management , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (journal) , Artificial Intelligence Markets , ASAS Interface Module , Asian Institute of Management (Manila) , Associate In Management , Associate In Ministry , Association for Information Management , Association for Integrative Medicine , Association for Interactive Media , Association française pour les applications de l'Informatique à la Médecine , ATC Initiatives & Measures , ATM Internet Mode , ATM Inverse Multiplexer (ATMF) , Auroral Ionospheric Mapper , Australian Institute of Management , Authoring Instructional Material , Authorizing Instructional Media , Automated Information Management , Automated In-line Mailer , Automated Inserting Machine , Automatic Identification Manufacturers , Automatic Insert Machine , and Automatic Interrupting Motor-operated
There is a more complete review of the show at macworld.com
Here are my favorite hacks:
Some guy hacked an Apple one button mouse to make it two button. Here's a picture. Here is the relevant passage from the article:
He hands over a familiar-looking Apple ADB bar-of-soap style mouse. It's a little shiny, of course, but it looks perfectly ordinary, right down to its two buttons.
Two buttons? Yes, two buttons. Josh happened along the specs for the off-the-shelf chip that drove the Apple ADB mouse, and noted an unused pin labeled SW1. SW0 is the signal line for the mouse button...did this mean that this thing had unexploited two-button support all along?
In the end, all it took was putting in a second switch and running its two leads here and here. No re-engineering or re-design necessary. Only marginally more difficult than making toast. Of course he had to write a special mouse driver so the Mac could recognize the surplus button, but it works.
Now that's a hack.
Here's another intersting quote about John Warnock, CEO of Adobe:
And most importantly in this venue, he proved himself a hacker. His presentation software? Adobe Acrobat. Naturally, he'd stick to an Adobe product over Microsoft PowerPoint. But Acrobat doesn't really have any built-in niceties as a presentation tool. No problem...John wrote Distiller code that automatically processes a folder of data into an organized presentation. He also uses Acrobat as his format of choice for storing his collection of digital photos...again, powered by Distiller code.
The revelation of his use of Distiller came during the Q&A that followed, and invited a question: if you're unsatisfied with Microsoft PowerPoint, why not put out a new version of Persuasion, the presentation app Adobe stopped supporting a few years ago? Basically, because that requires an investment of not-considerable money and resources, and it's impossible to compete with a piece of software which Microsoft -- for all intents and purposes -- gives away.
Then why not release Persuasion's code as open-source, so someone else can update it? Not a bad idea, John mused...
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You could make your own, non-pentium compatible architecture and then use Bochs to emulate the pentium and the pentium environment would go faster than the speeds claimed by Dragon.
1. Pick up phone and order pizza
2. Eat pizza
3. there is no step 3!
I bought an iBook two weeks ago
I bought one also two weeks ago. Then on the first day of macworld, they lowered prices. I called up the Apple store and they happily refunded the difference. Just a tip if you haven't done that already
(thanks to macintouch) A Paris-based Mac reseller's web site has specs for new PowerMac G4 systems:p ?a rticle=NEWSCLG_00009
http://www.clginformatique.com/pages/newsdet.ph
M9541LL/A
1.2GHz
256 MB DDR RAM
60GB HD
nVidia MX2 32mb
CDRW
Ethernet
M9571LL/A
1.4GHz
512 MB DDR RAM
80 GB HD
nVidia MX2 32mb
DVD-CDRW
Ethernet
Built-In Airport
M9591LL/A
1.4GHz Dual-Processor
1GB DDR RAM
120 GB HD
nVidia MX2 64mb
DVD-CDRW SuperDrive
Ethernet
Built-in Airport
Wow they almost doubled every spec.
My condolences go out to the friends and family of the victims of this horrific crime. Attending an east coast college, I have talked with many people who are from the areas where the attacks occured. This has hit close to home. I really have no words to describe what I am feeling.
With that said, I refer you to the excellent salon.com. Their coverage of this event has been extraordinary. I especially hope you read the first-person accounts of the terror. A number: that is difficult to identify with. A person, however, is much different. Remember each one of those thousands was a person, with his/her own life and nothing should be taken for granted.
My condolences go out to the friends and family of the victims of this horrific crime. Attending an east coast college, I have talked with many people who are from the areas where the attacks occured. This has hit close to home. I really have no words to describe what I am feeling.
With that said, I refer you to the excellent salon.com. Their coverage of this event has been extraordinary. I especially hope you read the first-person accounts of the terror. A number: that is difficult to identify with. A person, however, is much different. Remember each one of those thousands was a person, with his/her own life and nothing should be taken for granted.
For those east coasters, there will be a party held in Philadelphia. Check here for details. This link is correct as the one on the main page of linux10.org is broken.
here- I got this through the one built in to Mozilla.
What exactly did they do with the Mac part of the G4?
Get adaware. It'll get rid of that stuff. (the spyware and gatorware not windows)
I saw Rushhour 2 yesterday and I agree that it was probably one of the best movies of the summer. The audience was laughing practically the entire time. I never saw Rushhour 1, but after this, I'm gonna go rent the DVD. I came into Rushhour 2 expecting it to be awful due to the very mixed reviews at metacritic.com but I was pleasantly surprised.
Kiss of the Dragon was nothing compared to this movie. Shrek, while I really liked it, is more of a kids movie (even with some of the adult jokes) so it can't be really compared to this movie.
The only negative part is Chris Tucker. He was just annoying for most of the movie. It seemed like he kept repeating the same "joke" over and over: Be annoying and act like you're a tough cop. What kind of cop behaves like he does? Jackie Chan was like Tucker's baby sitter.
I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is/was being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.
Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.
Thanks to Savenow, I became suspicious and discovered a piece of software called Adaware (Windoze only) that searches for spyware and deletes it. I really recommend it as it found other spyware too. It is available at http://www.lavasoft.de.
I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.
As a solution to both problems, I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.
Ah that brings back memories. When I was little, this used to be my favorite "game" to play. I'd watch all the animations move and play around with all the objects on the screen.
My Power Mac G4 did come with a tutorial but it was really short. It was nowhere near as fun and actually wouldn't run without manually switching resolutions. What person who doesn't know how to click a mouse will know how to do that?
So I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.
I read about this yesterday on the BBC. A much better article.
After using Macs for years, I recently built a PC and searched long and hard for a relatively inexpensive case that was as easy to work with as my Powermac G4. If you're looking for color cases, check out colorcases.com. The case I ended up getting, though, was the AT900 case from pccase.com because it was nearly completely screwless. It is not ugly-looking but also not breathtaking like the G4's case. It has a great slideout motherboard tray and drives slide in pretty easily. They also have a black version but I didn't think that it would look good because of the white bezels on the drives. It was a really easy case to work with and it shipped quickly too.
What the heck is going on with Apple's stock? They announce new products and a profit this quarter and their stock promptly drops 4 points. That is not even close to the other weird thing: the drop was linked to Steve Jobs's keynote.
If you take a look at the intraday chart for that day, you can see that the stock started dropping right at the start of the keynote (9:30 AM ET) and stopped dropping about an hour later (I can assume this is when he stopped talking.) The stock pretty much stayed level the rest of the day.
I will never understand the craziness of the stock market.
On a similar note, check out a Salon article on MS's bullying tactics on poor schools: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/10/micro soft_school/print.html
You missed it. They're David's own descendants, not aliens.
Apparently, I wasn't the only one who thought that the beings at the end of the movie were aliens. Check out this review which panned the film: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 001/06/29/DD239232.DTL&type=movies
The imacs and soon-to-be-discontinued G4 cube are all fanless and nearly silent except for the hard drive. And if you hug one (don't you just want to?) they are so warm and cuddly! Hot enough to burn
Yes I saw AI this afternoon. Combine pinnochio with bicentennial man, close encounters, and an oedipus complex and you've got yourself this movie.
There are 2 things that I will mainly comment on: the ending and the plot holes. How many endings were there to this movie anyway? It could have ended when he reaches Manhatten and finds his creator. It could have ended after he jumps into the ocean. It could have ended, albeit sadly, during the 2000 years he spent watching "the blue fairy." How many themes was Speilberg/Kubrik really supposed to bring out in this thing?
The plot holes are many. What the heck happened to his father? His mother is all he talks about. It is so oedipal, it's rediculous. The movie even ends with his mother and him in bed. He calls his mother "Mommy" after he is imprinted and completely ignores the father. He pays more attention to his mean brother. Wouldn't his programmers make it so he was imprinted to 2 people? Thus his father becomes a static character that is quite flat. David calls his father "Henry" the whole movie.
David breaks easily from a little spinach and yet he lasts 2000 years frozen in the water. He dives into water twice and that doesn't hurt his circuits at all. Also how, exactly, are the robots powered? This is a small issue because this is sci-fi and you have to suspend your belief but come on!
Also, when his creator tells him to wait while he rounds up the people, he never hears from "the creator" again. Why isn't there a big search for David?
Why do they bother leading David to New York anyway? Who would expect that he would steal a helicopter and make his way to a particular building in the abondoned Manhatten. If you're gonna lead him somewhere, lead him someplace easily accesible at least.
The last thing is with the aliens. I can't believe that David is the only "living" remnant of humans. If one robot survived, couldn't others? Sure I could suspend my belief that aliens came to study Earth in the future. But how would they detect him anyway. They went directly to him like they knew he was there. And they can bring somebody back but for only one day and only once. How stupid is that? Exactly one day. No more, no less. So some law of nature depends on when somebody goes to sleep? Crazy.
Other than that allusion to the poem, why would anyone fly a ship that everyone could see and run away from? That giant balloon was so bright that the robots could run away from it. There is a full moon 2-3 days per month. I think somebody would get the idea that it wasn't a moon if it was 10x as big as a real one anyway.
Little things: What engineer thought a 3-wheeled car would work? 4 wheels is the most efficient and stable design. 3 wheels looks cool and futuristic though. Also, if half the world has been engulfed, what is David's family doing living in such a luxurious and large house? Wouldn't there be space limits?
I suppose it does takes more than a little talent for a little kid to hold an entire audience's attention for 2.5 hours.
Yes, it is something you will want to see but it will never have any replay value. I won't buy the DVD. I can suspend my belief for a lot of it but there are just so many things wrong with that movie.
Here is the list from the Acronym Finder:
AOL Instant Messenger , Abductory Inductive Mechanism , Abrams Integrated Management , Abridged Index Medicus , Accunet Information Manager (AT&T) , Accuracy In Media , Acquisition Information Management , Action Item Master , Active Inert Missile , Ada Interactive Monitor , Adaptive Internetwork Management (Ungerman Bass) , Administrators In Medicine , Advanced Idea Mechanics , Advanced Industrial Management , Advanced Informatics in Medicine , Advanced Information Management , Advanced Integrated Multiplex , Advanced Integration Module (Cisco) , Advanced Inventory Management (Telco Research) , Advanced Isolation Methods , Advanced ISR Management , "Adventures In Ministry, Inc. ", Aeronautical Information Manual , "Aether Intelligent Messaging (Aether Systems, Inc.) ", Africa Inland Mission , African Index Medicus , AFSATCOM IEMATS Microprocessor , Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (legal organization) , Air Inflation Module , Air Intercept Missile , Airborne Intercept Missile , Airlift Import Manager , Airman Information Manual , Alarm Indication Message (Lucent) , Alarm Interface Module (Telabs) , Alternate Input Method (OS/2) , Alternative Investment Market , Ambulatory Information Management Association , American Indian Movement , American Institute of Management , Amplitude Inter-Modulation distortion , Analog Input Module , Antenna Interface Module , "Apple, IBM and Motorola ", Application and Interface Module (Com21 cable modem) , Application Interpreted Model , Armored-Infantry-Mechanized , Army Information Management , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (journal) , Artificial Intelligence Markets , ASAS Interface Module , Asian Institute of Management (Manila) , Associate In Management , Associate In Ministry , Association for Information Management , Association for Integrative Medicine , Association for Interactive Media , Association française pour les applications de l'Informatique à la Médecine , ATC Initiatives & Measures , ATM Internet Mode , ATM Inverse Multiplexer (ATMF) , Auroral Ionospheric Mapper , Australian Institute of Management , Authoring Instructional Material , Authorizing Instructional Media , Automated Information Management , Automated In-line Mailer , Automated Inserting Machine , Automatic Identification Manufacturers , Automatic Insert Machine , and Automatic Interrupting Motor-operated
Here are my favorite hacks:
Some guy hacked an Apple one button mouse to make it two button. Here's a picture. Here is the relevant passage from the article:
Now that's a hack.
Here's another intersting quote about John Warnock, CEO of Adobe:
There was a big opensource sermon also.