I pursuaded my uncle, who also owns a business, to go with Apple (Power Mac G5 1.6GHz) as a solution to his Wintel PC problems. He is REALLY happy, no virii to worry about, no one hacking into his computer (it happened to him a couple of times). He said that learning Mac OS X is different than Windows, but he likes the idea of having a 'Home' directory where everything is stored. He had a lot of PC programs that he liked, I told him to buy the Macinotsh equivalents by the same vendors (Adobe Photoshop Elements, Micro$oft Office X), again, he's happy, or wait for Virtual PC for the G5. The best part of the new Power Mac is that there are no more crashes, no more calling me for help, and everything he needs, CD Burner, external USB memory card reader (for digital camera), external USB floppy disk drive (for older digital camera), new printer and scanner (USB), all work flawlessly and FAST without crashes. Yes, he was little sticker shocked when he purchased the Apple 20 inch Cinema display, but after he used it for a week, he was hooked - ALL THAT SCREEN REAL ESTATE. Also, he loves Safari and Mozilla after I configured them to block POP-UPS. Cudos for Mozilla allowing me to reject images loading from the non-originating server - no more flashy animated GIF advertisements, and best of all, no more trojan horse windows spyware software self-installing.
Saturn? We never went to Saturn, and we never will!. Those "spokes" are just where one of the NASA/JPL project artisits took their work home, and immediately after supper while the parents were cleaning up, little Johnny and Suzie started clicking on tools in GIMP and pressed the mouse button while sliding it across the desk. Johnny and Suzie were just pretending to be like grown-ups. This is kinda/sorta similar to the conspiracy theories that the USA never went to the Moon.
In all seriousness though I can't see the spokes either. And yes, I know that we went to the Moon and Voyagers 1 & 2 were really launched. Just having a little fun being a smart-ass.
Like everyone (and companies) running Linux are going to rush right out and *PAY* for a license. Bullshit! Why doesn't someone like Apple or IBM just *BUY* the rights for Unix, or SCO, fire the assholes who are causing them problems? Nope, take that back. KEEP THOSE ASSHOLES EMPLOYED, in a remote village in Siberia for the next 20 years with the contractual agreement that if they resign from their current positions, they forfeit all their stock options and other perks, and make them pay for the relocation costs to Siberia. Send the lawyers their too.
If I interpret the agreement correctly, then the "Linux" name itself is a dylexic scramble of unix-L and hence requires a name change. Hell, just start firing off lawsuits to all of the individual Linux developers, RIAA-style, for downloading "illegally" operating system source code that *looks like* and *sounds like* UNIX. Hell, I COULD BE A LAWYER if I was cold-hearted and greedy enough to rob people of their intellectual property, and almost forgot, twist the truth enough. Damn, SCO is starting to make Micro$oft *THE BORG* looks like saints. Bastards!
This is a common misconception of people who have never taken a basic biology class.
Actually, my undergraduate chemistry degree is an American Chemical Sosciety certified degree, includes a biochemistry specialization, is one class short of a double major in biology, and includes a math minor. I also have a masters degree in chemistry. Not trying to boast in any way, just pointing out that I'm well educated in the sciences.
My point was, that with a new organism that was 60% hybrid human and pig, and the remaining 40% human, the structural features of its body probably would not look all that human. I would expect to see a significant contribution from the pig genes. Yes, the majority of known genes encode for proteins, but genes governing development and morphological features will eventually be expressed, and whatever results will not look 100% human.
Pigs grown from fetuses into which human stem cells were injected have surprised scientists by having cells in which the DNA from the two species is mixed at the most intimate level.
It is the first time such fused cells have been seen in living creatures. The discovery could have serious implications for xenotransplantation - the use of animal tissue and organs in humans - and even the origin of diseases such as HIV.
The adult pigs that had received human stem cells as fetuses were found to have pig cells, human cells and the hybrid cells in their blood and organs.
"What we found was completely unexpected. We found that the human and pig cells had totally fused in the animals' bodies," said Jeffrey Platt, director of the Mayo Clinic Transplantation Biology Program.
The hybrid cells had both human and pig surface markers. But, most surprisingly, the hybrid cell nuclei were found to have chromosomal DNA that contained both human and pig genes. The researchers found that about 60 per cent of the animals' non-pig cells were hybrids, with the remainder being fully human.
...The injections must be given after the body plan of the fetus has developed, but before the immune system is active. The former ensures the animals look like normal pigs and sheep....
I CANNOT believe that these animals looked like "normal" pigs. If the Pig and Human nuclear DNA mixed, and the animal was 60% percent human, one would think that the animals were more human than pig.
Cloning isn't so bad when compared to an experiment like this gone awry.
For instance, how about if I wanted to search for "my wedding photos?" Neither X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos.""
The true discerning Slashdot geek doesn't have to look for His wedding photos because he NEVER got married in the first place. He spends most of his time at night in poorly lit room, with his choice of poison, either instant [ack] coffee or Mountain Dew, and sleeps during the day, when most attractive women are interacting with the rest of the 'normal' population. When he isn't geeking out compiling and installing the latest Linux kernel, he's working very hard keeping that '76 AMC Gremlin, complete with bondo, fresh primer, and duct tape, in 'just barely get me there' condition. The much more rare, stylish geek, a newcomer to the *NIX world, is a Mac OS X user, like myself, who sips on gourmet coffees or cappuchinos in the morning, clicking on his favorite sites in tabs in Mozilla (The Wall Street Journal, BigCharts.com, Slashdot, CNN, etc...), drives a Saab, BMW, Audi, or Mercedes Benz, who would rather not fuss around wasting time downloading drivers, hacks, and cracks to get peripherals to work properly with his computer. Hell, who has time for tedious mundane tasks? Just open up a terminal session and type:
locate wedding [enter]
assuming you were bright enough to create a directory called 'wedding'.
Or if your ARE a true discerning geek who has serendipitously stumbled upon a LIFE, a WIFE, and a high salaried career, AND upgraded to the prestigious Apple Power Macintosh G5 platform, you may even know the time, date, exposure, and shutter speed data of those wedding photos that you so desperately seek. In that case, you could probably use the grep command and actually look inside the EXIF data of those very photos.
Yeah, it's a bummer that the Windows filesystem doesn't support meta data. I recall a long time ago Apple did something like that, and everyone laughed at them, ridiculed them, wouldn't let it join in the market share games. And now look, the Borg are inventing a new filesystem that uses meta data. Actually, a new filesystem isn't necessary, all that is needed is a program [for Windows] that can look inside files for metadata. Afterall, the Borg want to maintain compatibility with all the virii and worms that exploit gaping security holes.
Any dullard or oaf lacking insight and intelligence, which leads them down the path of confusion, frustration, and self-imprisonment, deserves the anguish he so willingly chose and accepted with the purchase of a Windows machine. Liberate yourself NOW! Buy a Power Macintosh G5 at http://www.apple.com/
I first got hooked on analog watches when I took a vacation to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I visited the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia Pennsylvania. Looking at the detailed construction of American pocket watches from the late 1800's and early 1900's facinated me. THESE are real time pieces, with hard steel gears meshing with softer brass gears, mounted on pinions that are encased by jewels. The balance has tiny screw weights to make the balance "balanced". Most of the gold-plated cases were warrented for 20 or 25 years! These devices were designed to last your lifetime, not designed with built-in obsolescence like today's products. More importantly, they were built by real people with TALANT in engineering, metallurgy, and art. Many of the the movements had very decorative Damaskeening engraved on the plate nickel and stainless steel bridges. Waltam competed fiercely with Damaskeening.
To date, I have several American pocket watches, the oldest made in 1886 and the newest made in 1912. I even managed to find a 17 jewel Waltam Appleton Tracy Railroad pocket watch at an auction for $58 back in 1992. It needed some work, so I took it to a certified master watchmaker to replace the main spring, cleaned it using ultrasonic waves, and lubricated everything again. THIS WATCH KEEPS PERFECT TIME, and it's almost 100 years old!
Now I wear an Orient (subsidiary of Seiko) that has an automatic winding mechanism, has a second hand sweep, tells the day and the date, has a 21-jewel movement, is water resistant to 50 meters, is made of all stainless steel construction, and it only cost me $40 (you have to know where to get them at low cost). I wear THIS watch because I work around NMR instruments ALL DAY and it is unaffected by the superconducting magnets and the 10 Gauss magnetic field. The only thing "wrong" with the watch is that it gains 5 minutes every two weeks, otherwise, I'm VERY happy with THIS cheapo analog watch.
ALL YOUR TIME ARE BELONG TO THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM.
If you're only going to shoot pictures once in a while, just get a cheap 35mm SLR, even a new one will be all right. My parents bought me a Minolta Maxxum 5000 "the first autofocus SLR" accoring to Minolta. It works well, but I would not call it professional by any means. I use it a few times a year. It you want something built like a tank, buy Nikon; you can pass more film through a Nikon than any other camera in that camera class. If Nikon is too expensive, then go with Canon. My parents learned about these details after getting heavily involved with camera equipment, darkroom, special effects, etc... They wished they'd known then what they know now. But in defense of Minolta, my parents have never had one fail or need professional service; they've been good cameras, but they're not *the best*.
Apple places price controls in its sales agreements with third parties. This is why you will NEVER see a sale on Apple products unless ALL the resellers are have the SAME SALE. People often forget, with Apple, you WILL pay a premium for their products. Can't afford them? Well move on then to some other manufacturer. Sure, Apple could lower the price and gain more market share, but it would lose some stature too. It wouldn't be perceived as "elite" or "distinguished" as some people see Apple. It's kind of like owning a BMW or a Mercedes, if you want one, you have to pay for one, if you can't afford it, well, there seems to be no shortage of Chevy Cavaliers, Chevettes, Ford Escorts, Chrysler K-cars, Dodge Neons, AMC Pacers & Gremlins (well, now there might be a shortage of THOSE).
1. iTunes DOES NOT RESTRICT YOU FROM PLAYING YOUR MUSIC ON OTHER MP3 Players. iTunes allows you rip a CD in MP3, AAC (MP4), WAV, and AIFF. The iPod can play ALL OF THESE FORMATS. Most other MP3 players can play MP3 and WAV files (I don't know about AIFF). When YOU make your own digital music files from YOUR CDs, THEY DO NOT CONTAIN DRM. The only songs that contain DRM are the ones YOU PURCHASE from the iTunes Music Store. On my Blue & White Apple Power Macintosh G3, I've been ripping my CDs at 320Kbits/sec, making play lists, and burning to CD ever since iTunes came out. I've never had any difficulty playing those CDs in my car. And more importantly, I've never made any coasters with iTunes.
2. Once you burn your AAC files to CD in AUDIO CD format, they lose all DRM. You can then rip them back into iTunes as MP3 AT THE SAME RATE (128Kbits/sec AAC) that they were when you purchased them from iTMS. The newly acquired MP3s are DRM-FREE and will play in any MP3 player. Obviously, there are NO LIMITATIONS when using iTunes and purchasing content from the iTMS.
3. Microsoft is threatened and therefore scared. They are not going to be able to cash-in on this new market anytime soon. M$ is blowing a lot of hot air to try to suppress the sale of iPods and thereby hinder Apple's profits. It wasn't long ago that a professional audiophile magazine (story listed here on Slashdot, sorry no link) said that the iPod had the best electronics for reproducing digital sound OF ALL the MP3 players on the market. Yup, uh-huh, The Borg are threatened because a truly innovative company offers a decent product at a pretty good price point, not to mention excellent FREE software that could potentially open up the users minds to the possibility of what it would be like if their entire computer ran as smoothly as iTunes software. Just imagine, no more BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
4. Apple is kicking M$ in the teeth with steel-toed boots.
5. If any of us geeks have financial-oriented brains, start buying Apple stock now, because this iTunes Music Store with Audible Books is really going to take off.
WHACK! BANG! Ouch! That hurts! I'll bet DULL never even kissed U. of Texas on the back before the back oriface insertion, to let them know it was coming. There's nothing quite like the feeling of getting SCREWED, especially with cheap commodity PC hardware. And to add salt, vinegar, and isopropyl alcohol into the inury (mustn't allow any infections), the DULL supercomputer has SUPER electricity usage too, and even more power hungry COOLING requirements. Well, we all live and learn. RISC-vectorized computing is the way of the future, not more MEGAHURTS.
Who cares if they discovered it or just got around to naming it...What's it good for? What reactions can I do with it? Can it be used for catalysis? medicinal purposes?
Element 115, Ununpentium, is very useful. Look for yourself:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/element115.htm l
Changing the colors isn't going to stop couterfiters. The US government isn't necessarily fighting counterfiters, it IS fighting technology. I recently read that a University of Toledo Co-Ed was arrested in her dorm room as she was printing MORE counterfit $20's and $50's on her personal computer. Hello! Most places check BIG bills with that special magic marker. She was caught because she gave a $50 to a friend who tried to pay for dinner with it. When the police arrested him, he turn her in. The only way to deter counterfitting is to make the punishment extremely harsh and rank it up there along with terrorism and treason. In a sense, the anti-social neurologically dysfunctional criminal is committing a form of economic treason. They should be sentenced to LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE in a hard labor camp busting rocks in a dungeon, never to see daylight again, with a 40 pound steel ball chained and permanent welded to one of their ankles. And they thought being poor was bad?
Besides, I think the new colored money looks like play money. It looked so much better before, so "business" like, so plain, so drab. Man, it was serious. Now all I think about when I see these new bills is an excerpt from "The Bird Cage" when Robin Williams asks his live-in partner: "What about those? Oh, that, well, one does want a hint of color!"
1. TextEdit
2. BBEdit
3. iTunes
4. iPhoto
5. iCal
6. AddressBook
7. RBrowserLite FTP client
8. Mozilla/Safari
9. X Windows with OpenOffice
10. Q U A K E III A R E N A with a broadband connection.
This depends on the subject material, but the internet and technology are changing the way we acquire information. Personally, I like to use the internet as a library card catalog, to get a list of several sources for material, usually web pages, PDF files, recommendations for books, journals, etc... I prefer to read the material on paper simply because it's much easier; eye strain is reduced by reading smooth fonts as opposed to computer screen fonts. My favorite tools for locating information is Google, Amazon, and Apple's Sherlock internet search program.
When I was studying chemistry in graduate school, my advisor had weekly literature meetings where we discussed current research in Inorganic/Bioinorganic Chemistry. All of the journal articles were acquired through the University Library's access to electronic journals in Adobe PDF format. This was really great for rapidly searching through indepth material quickly, but inefficient for reading the material for long periods of time. All the articles that were relevant for discussion were printed on paper and distributed to the research group. I have to admit that I rarely find a web site that contains free indepth material; usually that can be found in books and journal articles.
I'm not necessarily making a plug for Apple, but the on-screen font smoothing in Mac OS X has made reading indepth material for longer periods easier than what was available several years ago. Of course it helps when you have a 19 inch LCD and can zoom in on the text. I know the Linux crowd has some anti-aliased fonts now, but I don't know if Windows does yet. My PC at work (Windows NT) uses only stick fonts; I HATE it!
and complete EVERYTHING to make it work and find a Taiwanese manufacturer to make it, then sell it on its own website. They'll called it the AMD Store, start the AlchemyTunes online music store (MP3 downloads WITHOUT DRM), and make it a competitor to the iPod. Also, it could come with AlchemyMovie, a built-in camera for making and storing videos, like amature rockets (http://www.gbrocketry.com/). It should come with a wireless internet connection, for hosting a wireless website (damn near impossible to take down if given a cease and desist order). Where are they going to find you? Also, it should come with those little eyeglass montiors and a small Palm-like keyboard, so I can do all my geeking around in the command line on the bus, train, airport shuttle service in the comfort of my own little visual world. Hell, throw in a microphone for speech recognition. Gosh, brain storming about this is fun, man, I could be a gadget-makers "idea" guy.
Seriously though, I think they should market it themselves and get feedback from the Slashdot community. I liked the portable handwarmer post - NO MORE MITTENS!
What you do is start dialing 111-111-1111 and get an error where the operator says "doo-dee-dee, the number you have reached 111-111-1111 is not in service." Record this message and repeat for 2's, 3's, 4's,..., 9's. Then dial any number that starts with anything but 0 but followed by 0's. Record that too. Now, mix and match these recorded numbers into an audio message that IS YOUR telephone number. This way first-time callers who annoy you will think your number is not valid.
The equipment I use is my Apple Power Macintosh with a hookup to the telephone that goes into my microphone line-in port. I digitally record everything, then use iMovie to mix and match the audio tracks into one audio track. If you have a PC with Linux or Windows, I don't know what software you would use, so ask around here to find out.
Just record those three tones that indicate a telephone number is unavailable. That is the first thing my answering machine plays when playing "my message" to the caller. If I recall correctly, these tones are what telemarketers "listen" for to determine if a telephon number is valid or not. Of course, all my friends know to leave a message after grandma bell plays the tones and says "tone tone tone, the number you have reached, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah is no longer in service. Please make a note of it [repeat]".
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If I recall correctly from my Calculus-based Physics 110 course, an electric field cannot exist without a magnetic field which is why we call them ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS.
Read any Biochemistry text book (Voet & Voet is/was a good one) on metabolism and you'll BEGIN to understand the foundation for the work just published. The lower the calories consumed, the less oxidation is taking place in our bodies. This is why junk food, Ho-Hos, Twinkies, bleached white bread, Softbatch cookies, gummy bears & worms, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and basically all modern refined sugars ARE BAD FOR YOU. These "foods" are pure energy and have little if any nutritional value. When these foods are consumed, the sugars enter the blood stream where insulin and sugars combine, enter our cells, and are metabolized. For some people, the sugars are converted to fat for later use. For others (including myself who is hypoglycemic) the sugars are burned immediately. What happens when you burn things? They (the fuels) oxidize, and our cells also sustain some oxidative damage, leading to decreased life span. What should you do to live a long high-quality and healthy life? Don't eat junk food, exercise, eat lots of fish and dark green leafy vegatables, take vitamins, and minimize the stress in your life. Eating beef is one of the fastest ways of getting iron into our bodies for preventing amemia. Taking iron vitamin supplements is very much less efficient since the iron isn't absorbed as well into the body. In beef the iron is bound in hemoglobin (blood). Our digestive enzymes are designed for tearing apart hemogloblin and efficiently extracting the iron from it. In vitamin form, iron is usually a salt and not very soluble in water, hence most of it passes right through the digestive system.
This study is not really surprising at all, but is very useful. It's just that someone finally took the time to do a research project and publish their findings.
The Borg don't need a *search* engine. Everything it touches turns into some very complicated mess just to accomplish a small task. The Borg should just focus on patching all those security holes so virii can't "search" users' hard drives for new victims. Just a friendly reminder that given The Borg's track record of fast "find file" searches on Windows hard drives compared to a "grep" search on Apple's Mac OS X, I don't see M$ breaking into new territory (speed) any time soon. A grep search is nearly infinitely faster than anything The Borg have or develop. Almost forgot, the M$ search will only work from Broken Windows and will cost just $19.95 + Local Tax or three easy payments of $9.95.
This will certainly weaken the security of the banking industry. I've read through many of the slashdot comments on this horrible tale, and no matter what anyone says about safeguards to prevent FREE CASH dispensing from a virus, THIS WILL EVENYUALLY HAPPEN! M$ is notorious for is security holes and patches that introduce new holes. It won't matter that the machine comminucates with a special protocol that isn't even connected to the internet directly, Windows is flawed by design and should be dumped and completely replaced with Linux, Mac OS X, or completely re-written. The history of M$ flaws is substantial evidence enough to support my arguments.
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I pursuaded my uncle, who also owns a business, to go with Apple (Power Mac G5 1.6GHz) as a solution to his Wintel PC problems. He is REALLY happy, no virii to worry about, no one hacking into his computer (it happened to him a couple of times). He said that learning Mac OS X is different than Windows, but he likes the idea of having a 'Home' directory where everything is stored. He had a lot of PC programs that he liked, I told him to buy the Macinotsh equivalents by the same vendors (Adobe Photoshop Elements, Micro$oft Office X), again, he's happy, or wait for Virtual PC for the G5. The best part of the new Power Mac is that there are no more crashes, no more calling me for help, and everything he needs, CD Burner, external USB memory card reader (for digital camera), external USB floppy disk drive (for older digital camera), new printer and scanner (USB), all work flawlessly and FAST without crashes. Yes, he was little sticker shocked when he purchased the Apple 20 inch Cinema display, but after he used it for a week, he was hooked - ALL THAT SCREEN REAL ESTATE. Also, he loves Safari and Mozilla after I configured them to block POP-UPS. Cudos for Mozilla allowing me to reject images loading from the non-originating server - no more flashy animated GIF advertisements, and best of all, no more trojan horse windows spyware software self-installing.
Saturn? We never went to Saturn, and we never will!. Those "spokes" are just where one of the NASA/JPL project artisits took their work home, and immediately after supper while the parents were cleaning up, little Johnny and Suzie started clicking on tools in GIMP and pressed the mouse button while sliding it across the desk. Johnny and Suzie were just pretending to be like grown-ups. This is kinda/sorta similar to the conspiracy theories that the USA never went to the Moon.
In all seriousness though I can't see the spokes either. And yes, I know that we went to the Moon and Voyagers 1 & 2 were really launched. Just having a little fun being a smart-ass.
Like everyone (and companies) running Linux are going to rush right out and *PAY* for a license. Bullshit! Why doesn't someone like Apple or IBM just *BUY* the rights for Unix, or SCO, fire the assholes who are causing them problems? Nope, take that back. KEEP THOSE ASSHOLES EMPLOYED, in a remote village in Siberia for the next 20 years with the contractual agreement that if they resign from their current positions, they forfeit all their stock options and other perks, and make them pay for the relocation costs to Siberia. Send the lawyers their too.
If I interpret the agreement correctly, then the "Linux" name itself is a dylexic scramble of unix-L and hence requires a name change. Hell, just start firing off lawsuits to all of the individual Linux developers, RIAA-style, for downloading "illegally" operating system source code that *looks like* and *sounds like* UNIX. Hell, I COULD BE A LAWYER if I was cold-hearted and greedy enough to rob people of their intellectual property, and almost forgot, twist the truth enough. Damn, SCO is starting to make Micro$oft *THE BORG* looks like saints. Bastards!
This is a common misconception of people who have never taken a basic biology class.
Actually, my undergraduate chemistry degree is an American Chemical Sosciety certified degree, includes a biochemistry specialization, is one class short of a double major in biology, and includes a math minor. I also have a masters degree in chemistry. Not trying to boast in any way, just pointing out that I'm well educated in the sciences.
My point was, that with a new organism that was 60% hybrid human and pig, and the remaining 40% human, the structural features of its body probably would not look all that human. I would expect to see a significant contribution from the pig genes. Yes, the majority of known genes encode for proteins, but genes governing development and morphological features will eventually be expressed, and whatever results will not look 100% human.
Pig-human chimeras contain cell surprise...at New Scientist...here:
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...The injections must be given after the body plan of the fetus has developed, but before the immune system is active. The former ensures the animals look like normal pigs and sheep....
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
Pigs grown from fetuses into which human stem cells were injected have surprised scientists by having cells in which the DNA from the two species is mixed at the most intimate level.
It is the first time such fused cells have been seen in living creatures. The discovery could have serious implications for xenotransplantation - the use of animal tissue and organs in humans - and even the origin of diseases such as HIV.
The adult pigs that had received human stem cells as fetuses were found to have pig cells, human cells and the hybrid cells in their blood and organs.
"What we found was completely unexpected. We found that the human and pig cells had totally fused in the animals' bodies," said Jeffrey Platt, director of the Mayo Clinic Transplantation Biology Program.
The hybrid cells had both human and pig surface markers. But, most surprisingly, the hybrid cell nuclei were found to have chromosomal DNA that contained both human and pig genes. The researchers found that about 60 per cent of the animals' non-pig cells were hybrids, with the remainder being fully human.
I CANNOT believe that these animals looked like "normal" pigs. If the Pig and Human nuclear DNA mixed, and the animal was 60% percent human, one would think that the animals were more human than pig.
Cloning isn't so bad when compared to an experiment like this gone awry.
For instance, how about if I wanted to search for "my wedding photos?" Neither X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos.""
The true discerning Slashdot geek doesn't have to look for His wedding photos because he NEVER got married in the first place. He spends most of his time at night in poorly lit room, with his choice of poison, either instant [ack] coffee or Mountain Dew, and sleeps during the day, when most attractive women are interacting with the rest of the 'normal' population. When he isn't geeking out compiling and installing the latest Linux kernel, he's working very hard keeping that '76 AMC Gremlin, complete with bondo, fresh primer, and duct tape, in 'just barely get me there' condition. The much more rare, stylish geek, a newcomer to the *NIX world, is a Mac OS X user, like myself, who sips on gourmet coffees or cappuchinos in the morning, clicking on his favorite sites in tabs in Mozilla (The Wall Street Journal, BigCharts.com, Slashdot, CNN, etc...), drives a Saab, BMW, Audi, or Mercedes Benz, who would rather not fuss around wasting time downloading drivers, hacks, and cracks to get peripherals to work properly with his computer. Hell, who has time for tedious mundane tasks? Just open up a terminal session and type:
locate wedding [enter]
assuming you were bright enough to create a directory called 'wedding'.
Or if your ARE a true discerning geek who has serendipitously stumbled upon a LIFE, a WIFE, and a high salaried career, AND upgraded to the prestigious Apple Power Macintosh G5 platform, you may even know the time, date, exposure, and shutter speed data of those wedding photos that you so desperately seek. In that case, you could probably use the grep command and actually look inside the EXIF data of those very photos.
Yeah, it's a bummer that the Windows filesystem doesn't support meta data. I recall a long time ago Apple did something like that, and everyone laughed at them, ridiculed them, wouldn't let it join in the market share games. And now look, the Borg are inventing a new filesystem that uses meta data. Actually, a new filesystem isn't necessary, all that is needed is a program [for Windows] that can look inside files for metadata. Afterall, the Borg want to maintain compatibility with all the virii and worms that exploit gaping security holes.
Any dullard or oaf lacking insight and intelligence, which leads them down the path of confusion, frustration, and self-imprisonment, deserves the anguish he so willingly chose and accepted with the purchase of a Windows machine. Liberate yourself NOW! Buy a Power Macintosh G5 at http://www.apple.com/
ALL YOUR META DATA ARE BELONG TO GREP!
I first got hooked on analog watches when I took a vacation to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I visited the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia Pennsylvania. Looking at the detailed construction of American pocket watches from the late 1800's and early 1900's facinated me. THESE are real time pieces, with hard steel gears meshing with softer brass gears, mounted on pinions that are encased by jewels. The balance has tiny screw weights to make the balance "balanced". Most of the gold-plated cases were warrented for 20 or 25 years! These devices were designed to last your lifetime, not designed with built-in obsolescence like today's products. More importantly, they were built by real people with TALANT in engineering, metallurgy, and art. Many of the the movements had very decorative Damaskeening engraved on the plate nickel and stainless steel bridges. Waltam competed fiercely with Damaskeening.
To date, I have several American pocket watches, the oldest made in 1886 and the newest made in 1912. I even managed to find a 17 jewel Waltam Appleton Tracy Railroad pocket watch at an auction for $58 back in 1992. It needed some work, so I took it to a certified master watchmaker to replace the main spring, cleaned it using ultrasonic waves, and lubricated everything again. THIS WATCH KEEPS PERFECT TIME, and it's almost 100 years old!
Now I wear an Orient (subsidiary of Seiko) that has an automatic winding mechanism, has a second hand sweep, tells the day and the date, has a 21-jewel movement, is water resistant to 50 meters, is made of all stainless steel construction, and it only cost me $40 (you have to know where to get them at low cost). I wear THIS watch because I work around NMR instruments ALL DAY and it is unaffected by the superconducting magnets and the 10 Gauss magnetic field. The only thing "wrong" with the watch is that it gains 5 minutes every two weeks, otherwise, I'm VERY happy with THIS cheapo analog watch.
ALL YOUR TIME ARE BELONG TO THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM.
If you're only going to shoot pictures once in a while, just get a cheap 35mm SLR, even a new one will be all right. My parents bought me a Minolta Maxxum 5000 "the first autofocus SLR" accoring to Minolta. It works well, but I would not call it professional by any means. I use it a few times a year. It you want something built like a tank, buy Nikon; you can pass more film through a Nikon than any other camera in that camera class. If Nikon is too expensive, then go with Canon. My parents learned about these details after getting heavily involved with camera equipment, darkroom, special effects, etc... They wished they'd known then what they know now. But in defense of Minolta, my parents have never had one fail or need professional service; they've been good cameras, but they're not *the best*.
ALL YOUR PICTURE ARE BELONG TO OUR EYE.
Apple places price controls in its sales agreements with third parties. This is why you will NEVER see a sale on Apple products unless ALL the resellers are have the SAME SALE. People often forget, with Apple, you WILL pay a premium for their products. Can't afford them? Well move on then to some other manufacturer. Sure, Apple could lower the price and gain more market share, but it would lose some stature too. It wouldn't be perceived as "elite" or "distinguished" as some people see Apple. It's kind of like owning a BMW or a Mercedes, if you want one, you have to pay for one, if you can't afford it, well, there seems to be no shortage of Chevy Cavaliers, Chevettes, Ford Escorts, Chrysler K-cars, Dodge Neons, AMC Pacers & Gremlins (well, now there might be a shortage of THOSE).
1. iTunes DOES NOT RESTRICT YOU FROM PLAYING YOUR MUSIC ON OTHER MP3 Players. iTunes allows you rip a CD in MP3, AAC (MP4), WAV, and AIFF. The iPod can play ALL OF THESE FORMATS. Most other MP3 players can play MP3 and WAV files (I don't know about AIFF). When YOU make your own digital music files from YOUR CDs, THEY DO NOT CONTAIN DRM. The only songs that contain DRM are the ones YOU PURCHASE from the iTunes Music Store. On my Blue & White Apple Power Macintosh G3, I've been ripping my CDs at 320Kbits/sec, making play lists, and burning to CD ever since iTunes came out. I've never had any difficulty playing those CDs in my car. And more importantly, I've never made any coasters with iTunes.
2. Once you burn your AAC files to CD in AUDIO CD format, they lose all DRM. You can then rip them back into iTunes as MP3 AT THE SAME RATE (128Kbits/sec AAC) that they were when you purchased them from iTMS. The newly acquired MP3s are DRM-FREE and will play in any MP3 player. Obviously, there are NO LIMITATIONS when using iTunes and purchasing content from the iTMS.
3. Microsoft is threatened and therefore scared. They are not going to be able to cash-in on this new market anytime soon. M$ is blowing a lot of hot air to try to suppress the sale of iPods and thereby hinder Apple's profits. It wasn't long ago that a professional audiophile magazine (story listed here on Slashdot, sorry no link) said that the iPod had the best electronics for reproducing digital sound OF ALL the MP3 players on the market. Yup, uh-huh, The Borg are threatened because a truly innovative company offers a decent product at a pretty good price point, not to mention excellent FREE software that could potentially open up the users minds to the possibility of what it would be like if their entire computer ran as smoothly as iTunes software. Just imagine, no more BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
4. Apple is kicking M$ in the teeth with steel-toed boots.
5. If any of us geeks have financial-oriented brains, start buying Apple stock now, because this iTunes Music Store with Audible Books is really going to take off.
Thank you, thank you. I really appreciate it when people REALLY understand my arguments and even laugh at them.
WHACK! BANG! Ouch! That hurts! I'll bet DULL never even kissed U. of Texas on the back before the back oriface insertion, to let them know it was coming. There's nothing quite like the feeling of getting SCREWED, especially with cheap commodity PC hardware. And to add salt, vinegar, and isopropyl alcohol into the inury (mustn't allow any infections), the DULL supercomputer has SUPER electricity usage too, and even more power hungry COOLING requirements. Well, we all live and learn. RISC-vectorized computing is the way of the future, not more MEGAHURTS.
Who cares if they discovered it or just got around to naming it...What's it good for? What reactions can I do with it? Can it be used for catalysis? medicinal purposes?
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Element 115, Ununpentium, is very useful. Look for yourself:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/element115.ht
Changing the colors isn't going to stop couterfiters. The US government isn't necessarily fighting counterfiters, it IS fighting technology. I recently read that a University of Toledo Co-Ed was arrested in her dorm room as she was printing MORE counterfit $20's and $50's on her personal computer. Hello! Most places check BIG bills with that special magic marker. She was caught because she gave a $50 to a friend who tried to pay for dinner with it. When the police arrested him, he turn her in. The only way to deter counterfitting is to make the punishment extremely harsh and rank it up there along with terrorism and treason. In a sense, the anti-social neurologically dysfunctional criminal is committing a form of economic treason. They should be sentenced to LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE in a hard labor camp busting rocks in a dungeon, never to see daylight again, with a 40 pound steel ball chained and permanent welded to one of their ankles. And they thought being poor was bad?
Besides, I think the new colored money looks like play money. It looked so much better before, so "business" like, so plain, so drab. Man, it was serious. Now all I think about when I see these new bills is an excerpt from "The Bird Cage" when Robin Williams asks his live-in partner: "What about those? Oh, that, well, one does want a hint of color!"
1. TextEdit
2. BBEdit
3. iTunes
4. iPhoto
5. iCal
6. AddressBook
7. RBrowserLite FTP client
8. Mozilla/Safari
9. X Windows with OpenOffice
10. Q U A K E III A R E N A with a broadband connection.
This depends on the subject material, but the internet and technology are changing the way we acquire information. Personally, I like to use the internet as a library card catalog, to get a list of several sources for material, usually web pages, PDF files, recommendations for books, journals, etc... I prefer to read the material on paper simply because it's much easier; eye strain is reduced by reading smooth fonts as opposed to computer screen fonts. My favorite tools for locating information is Google, Amazon, and Apple's Sherlock internet search program.
When I was studying chemistry in graduate school, my advisor had weekly literature meetings where we discussed current research in Inorganic/Bioinorganic Chemistry. All of the journal articles were acquired through the University Library's access to electronic journals in Adobe PDF format. This was really great for rapidly searching through indepth material quickly, but inefficient for reading the material for long periods of time. All the articles that were relevant for discussion were printed on paper and distributed to the research group. I have to admit that I rarely find a web site that contains free indepth material; usually that can be found in books and journal articles.
I'm not necessarily making a plug for Apple, but the on-screen font smoothing in Mac OS X has made reading indepth material for longer periods easier than what was available several years ago. Of course it helps when you have a 19 inch LCD and can zoom in on the text. I know the Linux crowd has some anti-aliased fonts now, but I don't know if Windows does yet. My PC at work (Windows NT) uses only stick fonts; I HATE it!
Now it would be REALLY cool if the guy could build-in some robotics and have it walk around a little.
and complete EVERYTHING to make it work and find a Taiwanese manufacturer to make it, then sell it on its own website. They'll called it the AMD Store, start the AlchemyTunes online music store (MP3 downloads WITHOUT DRM), and make it a competitor to the iPod. Also, it could come with AlchemyMovie, a built-in camera for making and storing videos, like amature rockets (http://www.gbrocketry.com/). It should come with a wireless internet connection, for hosting a wireless website (damn near impossible to take down if given a cease and desist order). Where are they going to find you? Also, it should come with those little eyeglass montiors and a small Palm-like keyboard, so I can do all my geeking around in the command line on the bus, train, airport shuttle service in the comfort of my own little visual world. Hell, throw in a microphone for speech recognition. Gosh, brain storming about this is fun, man, I could be a gadget-makers "idea" guy.
Seriously though, I think they should market it themselves and get feedback from the Slashdot community. I liked the portable handwarmer post - NO MORE MITTENS!
What you do is start dialing 111-111-1111 and get an error where the operator says "doo-dee-dee, the number you have reached 111-111-1111 is not in service." Record this message and repeat for 2's, 3's, 4's,..., 9's. Then dial any number that starts with anything but 0 but followed by 0's. Record that too. Now, mix and match these recorded numbers into an audio message that IS YOUR telephone number. This way first-time callers who annoy you will think your number is not valid.
The equipment I use is my Apple Power Macintosh with a hookup to the telephone that goes into my microphone line-in port. I digitally record everything, then use iMovie to mix and match the audio tracks into one audio track. If you have a PC with Linux or Windows, I don't know what software you would use, so ask around here to find out.
Hope this helps.
Just record those three tones that indicate a telephone number is unavailable. That is the first thing my answering machine plays when playing "my message" to the caller. If I recall correctly, these tones are what telemarketers "listen" for to determine if a telephon number is valid or not. Of course, all my friends know to leave a message after grandma bell plays the tones and says "tone tone tone, the number you have reached, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah is no longer in service. Please make a note of it [repeat]".
Works every time!
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If I recall correctly from my Calculus-based Physics 110 course, an electric field cannot exist without a magnetic field which is why we call them ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS.
Read any Biochemistry text book (Voet & Voet is/was a good one) on metabolism and you'll BEGIN to understand the foundation for the work just published. The lower the calories consumed, the less oxidation is taking place in our bodies. This is why junk food, Ho-Hos, Twinkies, bleached white bread, Softbatch cookies, gummy bears & worms, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and basically all modern refined sugars ARE BAD FOR YOU. These "foods" are pure energy and have little if any nutritional value. When these foods are consumed, the sugars enter the blood stream where insulin and sugars combine, enter our cells, and are metabolized. For some people, the sugars are converted to fat for later use. For others (including myself who is hypoglycemic) the sugars are burned immediately. What happens when you burn things? They (the fuels) oxidize, and our cells also sustain some oxidative damage, leading to decreased life span. What should you do to live a long high-quality and healthy life? Don't eat junk food, exercise, eat lots of fish and dark green leafy vegatables, take vitamins, and minimize the stress in your life. Eating beef is one of the fastest ways of getting iron into our bodies for preventing amemia. Taking iron vitamin supplements is very much less efficient since the iron isn't absorbed as well into the body. In beef the iron is bound in hemoglobin (blood). Our digestive enzymes are designed for tearing apart hemogloblin and efficiently extracting the iron from it. In vitamin form, iron is usually a salt and not very soluble in water, hence most of it passes right through the digestive system.
This study is not really surprising at all, but is very useful. It's just that someone finally took the time to do a research project and publish their findings.
The Borg don't need a *search* engine. Everything it touches turns into some very complicated mess just to accomplish a small task. The Borg should just focus on patching all those security holes so virii can't "search" users' hard drives for new victims. Just a friendly reminder that given The Borg's track record of fast "find file" searches on Windows hard drives compared to a "grep" search on Apple's Mac OS X, I don't see M$ breaking into new territory (speed) any time soon. A grep search is nearly infinitely faster than anything The Borg have or develop. Almost forgot, the M$ search will only work from Broken Windows and will cost just $19.95 + Local Tax or three easy payments of $9.95.
This will certainly weaken the security of the banking industry. I've read through many of the slashdot comments on this horrible tale, and no matter what anyone says about safeguards to prevent FREE CASH dispensing from a virus, THIS WILL EVENYUALLY HAPPEN! M$ is notorious for is security holes and patches that introduce new holes. It won't matter that the machine comminucates with a special protocol that isn't even connected to the internet directly, Windows is flawed by design and should be dumped and completely replaced with Linux, Mac OS X, or completely re-written. The history of M$ flaws is substantial evidence enough to support my arguments.