Has nice smooth zooming where it actually zooms in a picture before loading the next.
Gives you co-ordinates in degees while you're scrolling.
Displays the map in the whole browser, not just 2/3rds like Google Maps.
Allows switching between Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth.
Runs really well in Safari on my IBook G4 1GHz 256MB RAM.
Did you know that during World War II, American, British, German, and Russian soldiers would take a dead enemy's gun because they thought that the enemy's gun was superior?
Did you know that Russia had a massive shortage of gun, such that close to the end of the war only 1 in 3 soldiers was given a gun?
Do you know that of China's 1 million soldiers not all of them are armed? (don't remember the actual percentage)
There's no beauty in it at all!! Have you no consideration for your fellow (wo)man? Don't you know that your kids (and possibly you if you life that long) will be the ones stuck with the reprocussions from all this waste?
Maybe an alien attack, disease which wipes out at least a quarter of the world's population, or some other global event will change our views towards fellow members of our race. I sure hope so.
For people like Maui-X (Cherry OS and X-Stream) who blatantly want to take the creation of others and call it their own to make a bigger profit off of it, without even contributing anything or crediting the original authors. But these kinds of people have always been the scum of the human race. The good thing is that there aren't that many of these kind of people.
The semi-bad thing is that there are a lot of companies who think that if they were to release source code for part of their product or the whole thing, that they wouldn't be able to sell the product and their competitors would be able to use the ideas in their code to create a better product, thereby puttting them out of business. They may or may not be right about losing potential sales by releasing source code.
Look at Apple. They took an open source OS, added a nice GUI and easy to use applications, and their sales of Macintosh computers are up from when the OS was closed source. (This isn't the only reason for sales being up, but it sure didn't cause them to lose sales.)
Businesses need to learn that long-term gains and generosity to the public are better for business than short-term gains and suing the pants off of your customers and competitors.
The only 2 ways that a Windows virus could hurt Mac OS X would be if either:
1) It was written to be cross-platform or
2) It's run in a emulated environment
Number 1 will produce some virri (not many), but number 2 is the one that MIGHT cause some problems. e.g. If a virus like Chernobyl (which pernamentaly destroyed hard drives in systems with DOS on the anniversary of the nuclear disaster) were to be emulated then it would cause problems.
Although with the level of sophistication (or rather lack thereof) of current virri/worms I doubt that we'll see many virri/worms that actually destroy hardware.
I just performed my own study over the past 10 years of my life (mainly from watching TV and browsing the Internet). My results are as follows:
Rich people are more likely to want more and more money. Did anyone ever see a poor person steal/embezle tens or hundreds of millions of dollars?
People who complete high school are more likely to have an impact on the world. How many inventors, peace advocates, leaders, etc. do you know that don't have a high school diploma? Studies are usually paid for by a group with a motive and hence a large amount of them are biased!
When will Humanity learn to use it's potential for good/helping instead of individual/corportate profiteering??
Nevermind the fact that they left off a lot of really good shows (Farscape, DS9, etc.) and put some really good shows behind other crappy ones (Xena?), it's their OPINION of the 50 best Sci-Fi shows yet.
What they really did wrong though, is that over half of the entries were missing air dates, another couple only had the beginning air date. For Doctor Who they didn't even mention that there's a really great new season that just aired. They didn't point out that for e.g. in Earth Final Conflict, William Boone was replaced in the second season and the replacement played for 4 seasons. Some summaries were utterly short (Futurama for one) and others were almost full blown reviews.
[Nitpicking] How much trouble would have been involved in porviding links to the shows' home pages in www.epguides.com or the (evil) www.tv.com. Besides the author could've have gotten most of the information above form those sites really easily. [/Nitpicking]
I'm willing to bet that the author decided to create a list of his top 20-25 Sci-Fi shows and added a few more to not have everybody mad at him for exluding their favourite show. Then he realised that this would take him more than 2 or 3 hours so he decided not to research anything at all, but just o everything from memory.
1) Unlike you (a copyright infringing pirate), google is only going to show excerpts from the books (perfectly legal).
2) Google isn't going to distribute even these excerpts. They will only show it to you if you search for it.
What Google is doing is akin to a library having a limit on how much time you can spend reading a part of a single book before you have to borrow it. They (the theoretical library) aren't going to allow you to use the copy machine or take a book out without signing it out (buying it).
To scan pages quickly and reliably with a USB/firewire webcam without checking if you've got it lined up create stand for the webcam.
1) Grab a metal coat hanger or 2 or 3, some tape (scotch or something similar), pliers and a pair of wire cutters.
2) If you've got a webcam like the standard Logitech (a sphere) then cut off a piece of wire that is a bit shorter than the circumference of the webcam and bend it into a circle. We'll call this the webcam holder. If you have a different shape of webcam or are trying to use a normal camera for this, then create some sort of wire harness for the camera to hold it steady facing down.
3) Figure out (trial and error) how high the webcam has to be off of the table to capture the whole sheet of paper (A4, letter, whatever).
4) Cut 4 pieces of wire that will go from the webcam holder to the corners of the sheet of paper. Make sure that the webcam is centered, thereby making all the pieces the same length. Add 2 or 3 inches to each diagonal piece.
5) Cut 4 pieces to connect the 4 diagonals in a rectangle a bit bigger than the size of the sheet. Add an inch again in length to each side of the rectangle.
6) Attach each of the diagonals to the webcam holder by twisting its end on to the webcam holder.
7) Create the rectangle from the pieces in step 5 by bending the edges to join them.
8) Attach the other ends of the diagonals to the corners of the rectangle (by bending them) to create a rectangular pyramid.
9) Cover the webcam holder with either scotch tape or something similar so it doesn't scratch the camera.
10) Attach the webcam to the webcam holder by using the tape to hold it in place when its centered.
11) Scan away!
BTW The is no "X) Profit!" step because I believe in freely giving knowledge to most of humanity unlike to greedy corporate f@%ks.
You're forgetting that even though Macs cost more they have quite high resale value.
e.g. My iBook G4 1GHz which came out in early 2004, and cost me $1800 CDN (pre tax) in July 2004 is worth around $1100 CDN on ebay and will remain being worth around $1000 CDN for at least another year. Even an iBook G3 with a 600MHz processor is still worth around $600 CDN on ebay. You can't say that about x86 computers.
You can't play songs purchased from iTunes on your Creative MP3 player beause Creative didn't acquire a license to decode Apple's DRM-encoded AAC files from Apple. I don't know if Creative attempted to acquire a license or not.
Remember when Windows 95 used to empty the Recycle Bin almost immediately. Then comes along Windows 98, Me, XP, all of which take at least 1.5 seconds to clear the Recycle Bin. That was one of smallest reasons why I stayed with Windows 95 until I started using Linux in 2001. Now I'm writing this on an iBook G4 on Mac OS X (also has a Debian partition) and have a PII 500 siting next to me doing d/l and file serving tasks.
Why is it that every single MS Windows release requires more and more memory (RAM and HD space), CPU speed, better graphics, etc. even though it doesn't allow us to do that much more (i.e. proper speech recognition ingrained into the OS, partial AI-like ability - sort of like Mac OS X Tiger's Automator, but with at least some intuition)
What's up with all these comments/articles of people supporting 20,000-200,000 users, creating an email system for around 1 million users? Are techies outsourcing their talent to alien races (non-homo sapien) that have no technical knowledge and huge populations OR these techies are creating server farms for spammers OR somebody's been in their mother's basement to long and has visions/delusions of grandeur?
Get a pocketdock from http://www.sendstation.com/. They've got one that has USB 2.0 (Female connector type B) and Firewire 400 (Female connector). Then get retractable USB 2.0 and Firewire cables and you're set to plugin anywhere where there's a USB 1.1, 2.0 or Firewire connection. BTW Remember to reformat your iPod to FAT32 for Windows/Linux/etc. compatibility using the Windows XP iPod Firmware Updater.
It was agreed that Antarctica would remain nutreal/research continent because there isn't anything of value there except lots and lots of ice. Besides who wants to own/control/live on a icy desert.
Mars on the other hand has lost of valuable minerals and could be heated up over time to allow for colonization (oxygen masks would be required for travel between domes).
It will be colonized! and within the next 100 years. The question is by whom? (China, India or the corporate world)
We all know that the Ancients collonized the Earth and the Go'uald used humans as slaves all over the Galaxy. Now that the Go'uald are no more, let's finally get the Goverments to admit to the Stargate program, start building Z.P.M.s (zero-point modules) and create city sized shields like they have on Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy. Those things can survive the pressure of the bottom of the ocean for 10,000 years, gigantic hurricanes, nuclear blasts and sustained fire from multiple enemy star ship's energy weapons. They're pretty invulnerable.
Come on Government leaders! You could prevent almost every future natural disaster!!
P.S. If we start terraforming Mars and colonizing it now we could have a second livable planet within around 100 years (heat-wise not oxygen wise)
I started a 3 year Computer Programmer Analyst program at my local community college here in Canada in 2002-2003 (they also had a 2 year Computer Programmer program available).
First year was intro to programming, student success, math, accounting and other BS. Half the people in my class of around 30 shouldn't of have taken programming (their minds weren't analytical and they just counldn't grasp simple programming tasks like how to create a sorting algorythm). Most of the "teachers" either knew less than almost half the class in the TOPIC they were teaching or taught the lessons right out of the textbook. The program was designed to create financial/accounting programmers (not advertised) with no classes for things like embedded programming or game design (VBASIC and JAVA with some C were the only languagues we were going to learn outside of the history of programming). There wasn't a single class that even touched on more advanced topics like trying to get the most out of limited memory or stretching the limits of the computer's graphical ability.
BTW this was Conestoga College in Kitchener which is one of the more technically oriented colleges in Canada. I understand that Universities do have courses mentioned above, but Universities are meant to create teachers, scientists etc. and college are supposed to give you hands-on training for the job market.
Yeah, you're right. Rogers does have the Motorola V551 and the Sony Ericsson T637 both of which have bluetooth capability. Last time I checked Rogers webiste was almost half a year ago and the didn't have any real cell phones w/ BT (not incl. Treo 650 and Blackberry). I have checked the Bell website and store flyers around once a month since I got a Bell 3-year contract a couple months back and Bell doesn't have any yet.
The big 2 cell phone providers are Rogers and Bell (there's others but they're a lot smaller). Neither of them have a cellphone that has bluetooth yet. BTW the Treo 650 and Blackberry devices do have bluetooth but they're just glorified PDAs with cell phone capability that costs an arm and a leg.
I could buy a phone from the US and get it hacked, but why should I lose a warranty and pay a couple hundred dollars when I should be able to get one for FREE or close to it ($99 at most).
How long has bluetooth been an option on cell phones in the US and Europe and yet I still can't get one here.
All I want it is so that I can receive calls on my BT headset and use Sailling Clicker to control my iBook.
To make matters worse Futureshop (owned by BestBuy), advertised a BT headset right beside the non-BT cell phones instead of in the computer section of the weekly flier.
Don't pretend this bill will give police and related investigatory services adaquete skills to prosecute more internet related crime! IT WON'T!! The only thing this bill will do, will be to allow police officers the right to violate our privacy without due cause!
The reason they (law enforcement) aren't able to prosecute child pornographers and other cyber-criminals better and faster has nothing to due with the fact that they can't get at data/communications quickly because they have to get warrants.
They aren't trained properly and not enough resources (manpower and money) is dedicated to finding and convicting cyber-criminals!!
STOP creating laws that have great acronyms, are "for the children", etc. Create laws will allow proper funding and manpower to be given to the agencies/groups that need it and will use it properly!
All 3 DVDs are available on alt.binaries.misc (posted August 12-13), alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries (posted July 21-August 4), and DVD 1 is also available on alt.binaries.dvd (posted July 15-17)
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Has nice smooth zooming where it actually zooms in a picture before loading the next.
Gives you co-ordinates in degees while you're scrolling.
Displays the map in the whole browser, not just 2/3rds like Google Maps.
Allows switching between Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth.
Runs really well in Safari on my IBook G4 1GHz 256MB RAM.
Your friendly local Wikipedia Priest 2nd Class.
Did you know that during World War II, American, British, German, and Russian soldiers would take a dead enemy's gun because they thought that the enemy's gun was superior?
Did you know that Russia had a massive shortage of gun, such that close to the end of the war only 1 in 3 soldiers was given a gun?
Do you know that of China's 1 million soldiers not all of them are armed? (don't remember the actual percentage)
Remember: Assumptions are DANGEROUS!
There's no beauty in it at all!! Have you no consideration for your fellow (wo)man? Don't you know that your kids (and possibly you if you life that long) will be the ones stuck with the reprocussions from all this waste?
Maybe an alien attack, disease which wipes out at least a quarter of the world's population, or some other global event will change our views towards fellow members of our race. I sure hope so.
For people like Maui-X (Cherry OS and X-Stream) who blatantly want to take the creation of others and call it their own to make a bigger profit off of it, without even contributing anything or crediting the original authors. But these kinds of people have always been the scum of the human race. The good thing is that there aren't that many of these kind of people.
The semi-bad thing is that there are a lot of companies who think that if they were to release source code for part of their product or the whole thing, that they wouldn't be able to sell the product and their competitors would be able to use the ideas in their code to create a better product, thereby puttting them out of business. They may or may not be right about losing potential sales by releasing source code.
Look at Apple. They took an open source OS, added a nice GUI and easy to use applications, and their sales of Macintosh computers are up from when the OS was closed source. (This isn't the only reason for sales being up, but it sure didn't cause them to lose sales.)
Businesses need to learn that long-term gains and generosity to the public are better for business than short-term gains and suing the pants off of your customers and competitors.
The only 2 ways that a Windows virus could hurt Mac OS X would be if either:
1) It was written to be cross-platform or
2) It's run in a emulated environment
Number 1 will produce some virri (not many), but number 2 is the one that MIGHT cause some problems. e.g. If a virus like Chernobyl (which pernamentaly destroyed hard drives in systems with DOS on the anniversary of the nuclear disaster) were to be emulated then it would cause problems.
Although with the level of sophistication (or rather lack thereof) of current virri/worms I doubt that we'll see many virri/worms that actually destroy hardware.
I just performed my own study over the past 10 years of my life (mainly from watching TV and browsing the Internet). My results are as follows:
Rich people are more likely to want more and more money. Did anyone ever see a poor person steal/embezle tens or hundreds of millions of dollars?
People who complete high school are more likely to have an impact on the world. How many inventors, peace advocates, leaders, etc. do you know that don't have a high school diploma?
Studies are usually paid for by a group with a motive and hence a large amount of them are biased!
When will Humanity learn to use it's potential for good/helping instead of individual/corportate profiteering??
Nevermind the fact that they left off a lot of really good shows (Farscape, DS9, etc.) and put some really good shows behind other crappy ones (Xena?), it's their OPINION of the 50 best Sci-Fi shows yet.
What they really did wrong though, is that over half of the entries were missing air dates, another couple only had the beginning air date. For Doctor Who they didn't even mention that there's a really great new season that just aired. They didn't point out that for e.g. in Earth Final Conflict, William Boone was replaced in the second season and the replacement played for 4 seasons. Some summaries were utterly short (Futurama for one) and others were almost full blown reviews.
[Nitpicking] How much trouble would have been involved in porviding links to the shows' home pages in www.epguides.com or the (evil) www.tv.com. Besides the author could've have gotten most of the information above form those sites really easily. [/Nitpicking]
I'm willing to bet that the author decided to create a list of his top 20-25 Sci-Fi shows and added a few more to not have everybody mad at him for exluding their favourite show. Then he realised that this would take him more than 2 or 3 hours so he decided not to research anything at all, but just o everything from memory.
PILOT: Oh, crap! Hijackers.
COPILOT: Switch on the computer control.
PILOT: (flips switch)
COMUPTER: (Marvin): I feel so depressed.
1) Unlike you (a copyright infringing pirate), google is only going to show excerpts from the books (perfectly legal).
2) Google isn't going to distribute even these excerpts. They will only show it to you if you search for it.
What Google is doing is akin to a library having a limit on how much time you can spend reading a part of a single book before you have to borrow it. They (the theoretical library) aren't going to allow you to use the copy machine or take a book out without signing it out (buying it).
To scan pages quickly and reliably with a USB/firewire webcam without checking if you've got it lined up create stand for the webcam.
1) Grab a metal coat hanger or 2 or 3, some tape (scotch or something similar), pliers and a pair of wire cutters.
2) If you've got a webcam like the standard Logitech (a sphere) then cut off a piece of wire that is a bit shorter than the circumference of the webcam and bend it into a circle. We'll call this the webcam holder. If you have a different shape of webcam or are trying to use a normal camera for this, then create some sort of wire harness for the camera to hold it steady facing down.
3) Figure out (trial and error) how high the webcam has to be off of the table to capture the whole sheet of paper (A4, letter, whatever).
4) Cut 4 pieces of wire that will go from the webcam holder to the corners of the sheet of paper. Make sure that the webcam is centered, thereby making all the pieces the same length. Add 2 or 3 inches to each diagonal piece.
5) Cut 4 pieces to connect the 4 diagonals in a rectangle a bit bigger than the size of the sheet. Add an inch again in length to each side of the rectangle.
6) Attach each of the diagonals to the webcam holder by twisting its end on to the webcam holder.
7) Create the rectangle from the pieces in step 5 by bending the edges to join them.
8) Attach the other ends of the diagonals to the corners of the rectangle (by bending them) to create a rectangular pyramid.
9) Cover the webcam holder with either scotch tape or something similar so it doesn't scratch the camera.
10) Attach the webcam to the webcam holder by using the tape to hold it in place when its centered.
11) Scan away!
BTW The is no "X) Profit!" step because I believe in freely giving knowledge to most of humanity unlike to greedy corporate f@%ks.
You're forgetting that even though Macs cost more they have quite high resale value.
e.g. My iBook G4 1GHz which came out in early 2004, and cost me $1800 CDN (pre tax) in July 2004 is worth around $1100 CDN on ebay and will remain being worth around $1000 CDN for at least another year. Even an iBook G3 with a 600MHz processor is still worth around $600 CDN on ebay. You can't say that about x86 computers.
BTW This is even more true about desktops.
You can't play songs purchased from iTunes on your Creative MP3 player beause Creative didn't acquire a license to decode Apple's DRM-encoded AAC files from Apple. I don't know if Creative attempted to acquire a license or not.
n dard.html) are can be licensed by anybody.
Normal unencoded AAC files are a standard (MPEG-4 AAC standard http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mpeg4aac/sta
BTW. The MPEG-4 AAC standard was created by Dolby, as was the AC3 standard used on every DVD with audio.
Remember when Windows 95 used to empty the Recycle Bin almost immediately. Then comes along Windows 98, Me, XP, all of which take at least 1.5 seconds to clear the Recycle Bin. That was one of smallest reasons why I stayed with Windows 95 until I started using Linux in 2001. Now I'm writing this on an iBook G4 on Mac OS X (also has a Debian partition) and have a PII 500 siting next to me doing d/l and file serving tasks.
Why is it that every single MS Windows release requires more and more memory (RAM and HD space), CPU speed, better graphics, etc. even though it doesn't allow us to do that much more (i.e. proper speech recognition ingrained into the OS, partial AI-like ability - sort of like Mac OS X Tiger's Automator, but with at least some intuition)
What's up with all these comments/articles of people supporting 20,000-200,000 users, creating an email system for around 1 million users? Are techies outsourcing their talent to alien races (non-homo sapien) that have no technical knowledge and huge populations OR these techies are creating server farms for spammers OR somebody's been in their mother's basement to long and has visions/delusions of grandeur?
Get a pocketdock from http://www.sendstation.com/. They've got one that has USB 2.0 (Female connector type B) and Firewire 400 (Female connector). Then get retractable USB 2.0 and Firewire cables and you're set to plugin anywhere where there's a USB 1.1, 2.0 or Firewire connection. BTW Remember to reformat your iPod to FAT32 for Windows/Linux/etc. compatibility using the Windows XP iPod Firmware Updater.
It was agreed that Antarctica would remain nutreal/research continent because there isn't anything of value there except lots and lots of ice. Besides who wants to own/control/live on a icy desert. Mars on the other hand has lost of valuable minerals and could be heated up over time to allow for colonization (oxygen masks would be required for travel between domes). It will be colonized! and within the next 100 years. The question is by whom? (China, India or the corporate world)
We all know that the Ancients collonized the Earth and the Go'uald used humans as slaves all over the Galaxy. Now that the Go'uald are no more, let's finally get the Goverments to admit to the Stargate program, start building Z.P.M.s (zero-point modules) and create city sized shields like they have on Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy. Those things can survive the pressure of the bottom of the ocean for 10,000 years, gigantic hurricanes, nuclear blasts and sustained fire from multiple enemy star ship's energy weapons. They're pretty invulnerable.
Come on Government leaders! You could prevent almost every future natural disaster!!
P.S. If we start terraforming Mars and colonizing it now we could have a second livable planet within around 100 years (heat-wise not oxygen wise)
Use rafts and small private boats/yahts.
I ran Windows 95 with 8 MB of RAM on a P90 and Warcraft 2 and Command and Conquer (the original) ran quite well on that system.
I started a 3 year Computer Programmer Analyst program at my local community college here in Canada in 2002-2003 (they also had a 2 year Computer Programmer program available).
First year was intro to programming, student success, math, accounting and other BS. Half the people in my class of around 30 shouldn't of have taken programming (their minds weren't analytical and they just counldn't grasp simple programming tasks like how to create a sorting algorythm). Most of the "teachers" either knew less than almost half the class in the TOPIC they were teaching or taught the lessons right out of the textbook. The program was designed to create financial/accounting programmers (not advertised) with no classes for things like embedded programming or game design (VBASIC and JAVA with some C were the only languagues we were going to learn outside of the history of programming). There wasn't a single class that even touched on more advanced topics like trying to get the most out of limited memory or stretching the limits of the computer's graphical ability.
BTW this was Conestoga College in Kitchener which is one of the more technically oriented colleges in Canada. I understand that Universities do have courses mentioned above, but Universities are meant to create teachers, scientists etc. and college are supposed to give you hands-on training for the job market.
Yeah, you're right. Rogers does have the Motorola V551 and the Sony Ericsson T637 both of which have bluetooth capability. Last time I checked Rogers webiste was almost half a year ago and the didn't have any real cell phones w/ BT (not incl. Treo 650 and Blackberry). I have checked the Bell website and store flyers around once a month since I got a Bell 3-year contract a couple months back and Bell doesn't have any yet.
The big 2 cell phone providers are Rogers and Bell (there's others but they're a lot smaller). Neither of them have a cellphone that has bluetooth yet. BTW the Treo 650 and Blackberry devices do have bluetooth but they're just glorified PDAs with cell phone capability that costs an arm and a leg.
I could buy a phone from the US and get it hacked, but why should I lose a warranty and pay a couple hundred dollars when I should be able to get one for FREE or close to it ($99 at most).
How long has bluetooth been an option on cell phones in the US and Europe and yet I still can't get one here.
All I want it is so that I can receive calls on my BT headset and use Sailling Clicker to control my iBook.
To make matters worse
Futureshop (owned by BestBuy), advertised a BT headset right beside the non-BT cell phones instead of in the computer section of the weekly flier.
Don't pretend this bill will give police and related investigatory services adaquete skills to prosecute more internet related crime! IT WON'T!! The only thing this bill will do, will be to allow police officers the right to violate our privacy without due cause!
The reason they (law enforcement) aren't able to prosecute child pornographers and other cyber-criminals better and faster has nothing to due with the fact that they can't get at data/communications quickly because they have to get warrants.
They aren't trained properly and not enough resources (manpower and money) is dedicated to finding and convicting cyber-criminals!!
STOP creating laws that have great acronyms, are "for the children", etc. Create laws will allow proper funding and manpower to be given to the agencies/groups that need it and will use it properly!
All 3 DVDs are available on alt.binaries.misc (posted August 12-13), alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries (posted July 21-August 4), and DVD 1 is also available on alt.binaries.dvd (posted July 15-17)