The only thing the electoral college system does is give a disproportionate number of votes to white southerners. I guess this would be considered a troll according to someone else's post and I don't have time to go into semantics (late for physics lab) but step back and you'll see that it's true.
-Zack
While the merger may be progressing slowly on the legal side, the technology is already linked. On my phone bill they show up as the same service and also allow picture messaging with no price penalty. As far as I'm concerned, if their network are interchangeable, they're the same company. Well, the same wireless provider at least.
AT&T/Cingular are the same company so you get to use both networks and have free roaming on T-Mobile. I even managed to send a picture message with no extra charge from Canada so go figure. In general, internet access from them is a penny per KB on the most basic plan and REALLY racks up is you use your phone to get on the internet. My powerbook lets me connect to a dialup ISP using my phone's voice mode so I use that even though it's a lot slower and requires a steady 75% or more of service. I get free nights and weekends and a reasonable amount of minutes for peak hour use (I forget how many but I've never run out.)
Overall, they're a pretty good wireless provider. So far no troubles.
In other news, the RIAA is now lobbying to ban friendship, stating that it has lost over 500 billion dollars in profits in the last month alone. Both major political parties have issued public statements that appear to contain 3-4 pages of dog barking. Ralph Nader issued a 10,000 word rebuttal, filled with outrage but no one seemed to notice. They were too busy watching Celebrity Fear Factor.
Apple's core image and video technology allows you to write your own processing algorithms to be run on the video card. I can imagine something like this being used to process audio in Mac OS X.
Oh, I'd never buy an X-Box, but I WAS looking forward to Halo. Microsoft can do whatever they want but when they aren't just making bad products, but taking away good ones, then I get pissed.
"The NYT has a profile of Peter Molyneux, creator of 'Populous,' 'Black & White,' and the upcoming 'Fable.' In Fable, the moral decisions you make affect the character's appearance, the outcome of the game, and so on.
Ok, cool. I'm a fan of unconventional games...
You get the impression that Molyneux's unconventional approach to game design infuses each of his creations with something more than your average game.
Agreed. His other games are great an unique.
Fable will be released for X-Box on September 14."
WHAT?! Fuck no. I fucking hate the X-Box and I fucking hate Microsoft for everything they've done regarding it. First they buy the only decent Mac developer, Bungee, gut their staff, steal the coolest game I'd seen in a while, RUIN IT, then release it only for their console. Then they run their whole console business at cost to try run all the other companies out of the market. Thank God it didn't catch on as much as it could have in the US and that gamers in other countries totally rejected it. They would have singlehandedly ruined the whole console gaming industry.
What about the Finder's Column view? I mean, not bothering to look is one thing but not clicking a button that's right there the whole time is just lazy.
This is not insightful. The human brain is complex and illogical. It always has been. The crazy pluralization of English is no exception. However, calling people with normal brains that can remember how to pluralize words "hotshots" just shows how out of touch you are with your own humanity.
By the way, octopuses and octopi are both allowed pluralizations of the work octopus.
Funny you mention it, I tried this 4 years ago. It was so much suffering I threw up almost every other day after working out. I managed to lose 40 pounds and I felt great by the end. I even kept if up but somehow my body adapted to this new routine eventually and I slowly gained the weight back. I'm now more physically fit than I've ever been but I can't seem to shock the weight off again.
Maybe I'm just dreaming here, but if this drug turns out not to encourage the growth of cancer cells (currently the main concern and only known side effect), I think it could seriously improve the quality of life of the average person. People don't exercise because it's hard. It's hard because people don't exercise. Quite an unhealthy cycle. However, this treatment, while immensely promising for muscle degenerative diseases, could really help overweight people break their unhealthy cycle.
I'll go out and say it: I'm overweight. And yes, it is my fault. I could get out and exercise a ton, I could eat less, etc, but I find the struggle unrewarding and difficult. In the month of July, I spent most of the month creating a 3D game with another guy my age. He had an average build. As an experiment on top of our research, we decided to try something. He didn't believe me that my being overweight was not a result of my eating more and exercising less than he did. So we equalized our days. We ate all meals together and ate items of equal nutritional value. We also followed identical exercise routines (I can run a few miles no problem, I just don't seem to lose weight unless I run them every day while starving myself). By the end of 3 and a half weeks, I had GAINED 10 pounds and he stayed the same. He was shocked. I was not amused. The routine we settled on was probably was less active than what I do normally to maintain.
I don't want to say I have a slow metabolism or any of those other shitty fat people excuses but I can't help but feel like I was dealt a poor hand by genetics. Muscle is expensive for the body to maintain. If I could have more muscle and have it break down less quickly, it could just help my body eat away at my apparently conserved energy being stored as fat. At the same time, it would make exercising easier by increasing my strength by a third or so. I know I'm interested.
I was going to use AC to reply but I have to say I agree with the parent. I don't agree with all of his language (cowering below letterheads and such), but I do agree that a good deal of people suffering from this are already poor. I say this because the rich are neither seriously hurt monitarily or are treated like dirt by credit card companies (those who ultimately decide who pays for the fraudulent purchases). You try getting Visa to erase that $3000 purchase off your card when you're already struggling just to pay off the interest on your debt to them. Trust me, it's hard.
I agree that if it reqired the PocketPC, it would be stupid, but the PocketPC is just being used for the sake of making the task of recording IR easy with no software voodoo. I think the idea of using an iPod to control a lot of elements in a complex home entertainment setup is very cool and very useful.
Thank you for reading my post. I love how it got modded flamebait at first:)
At the end of the article they offer instructions for a $6 DIY IR adaptor, though I think I'd buy the Griffin device because it's cheap enough and looks slick. I too would like instructions to do this without the PocketPC. I have an Apple Powerbook running Mac OS X with an IR port recognized by the system. I'll see if I can get that to record the sounds and write my own article on doing without the PocketPC.
Jesus fucking christ, people. You're like a bunch of five-year-olds. Huhuhuhuh... let's read the misleading summary and make fun of it!
The hack is to record the IR pulses as sound files and play them back with an IR LED connected to the iPod's headphone port. It's a really smart and cool idea but I guess you guys wouldn't know one of those if it bit you on your collective ass.
The reason the article calls for a Pocket PC is because it can read ifrared signals and pass those to the headphone jack for output. If you just piped the IR port on a computer to the sound out device, you'd have the same solution, minus the Pocket PC. This is NOT like the stupid-ass iPod to iPod transfer "hack" from a while ago. This is an actual neat concept that I'd wish you'd stop shitting all over with your ignorance.
I believe he was referring to the fact that the ZeroConf name was tossed out not once but twice, and the second time, it wasn't used even though the last name had to be discontinued due to legal issues. The name was crying, not the technology.
I know I didn't post within the first 5 minutes so this will probably never get read...
The default browser for Mac OS X, Safari, contains a spellchecker. When all those Mac users post in a forum, just about every post is spellchecked by the system. In Windows, the default browser, Internet Explorer, includes no such spellchecker. I'm using IE on a public terminal right now and there's no way in hell I'm going to paste this post into Word just to spellcheck it. Because Mac users always have an easy spellchecker at their fingertips, they feel more confident in using larger words with more difficult spellings.
Oh, that and the fact the CounterStrike is available for Windows-only. That drags the whole community down at least a grade level.
And remember this: Microsoft is buying PowerMac G5s! Apple's PowerMac G5 is Microsoft's development platform for the XBox2. XBox2 dev kits are literally a PowerMac running a custom Windows NT kernel and an SDK which, oddly enough, bears the Apple logo, implying that they had some hand in this creation.
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The only thing the electoral college system does is give a disproportionate number of votes to white southerners. I guess this would be considered a troll according to someone else's post and I don't have time to go into semantics (late for physics lab) but step back and you'll see that it's true. -Zack
While the merger may be progressing slowly on the legal side, the technology is already linked. On my phone bill they show up as the same service and also allow picture messaging with no price penalty. As far as I'm concerned, if their network are interchangeable, they're the same company. Well, the same wireless provider at least.
AT&T/Cingular are the same company so you get to use both networks and have free roaming on T-Mobile. I even managed to send a picture message with no extra charge from Canada so go figure. In general, internet access from them is a penny per KB on the most basic plan and REALLY racks up is you use your phone to get on the internet. My powerbook lets me connect to a dialup ISP using my phone's voice mode so I use that even though it's a lot slower and requires a steady 75% or more of service. I get free nights and weekends and a reasonable amount of minutes for peak hour use (I forget how many but I've never run out.)
Overall, they're a pretty good wireless provider. So far no troubles.
In other news, the RIAA is now lobbying to ban friendship, stating that it has lost over 500 billion dollars in profits in the last month alone. Both major political parties have issued public statements that appear to contain 3-4 pages of dog barking. Ralph Nader issued a 10,000 word rebuttal, filled with outrage but no one seemed to notice. They were too busy watching Celebrity Fear Factor.
Apple's core image and video technology allows you to write your own processing algorithms to be run on the video card. I can imagine something like this being used to process audio in Mac OS X.
Oh, I'd never buy an X-Box, but I WAS looking forward to Halo. Microsoft can do whatever they want but when they aren't just making bad products, but taking away good ones, then I get pissed.
"The NYT has a profile of Peter Molyneux, creator of 'Populous,' 'Black & White,' and the upcoming 'Fable.' In Fable, the moral decisions you make affect the character's appearance, the outcome of the game, and so on.
Ok, cool. I'm a fan of unconventional games...
You get the impression that Molyneux's unconventional approach to game design infuses each of his creations with something more than your average game.
Agreed. His other games are great an unique.
Fable will be released for X-Box on September 14."
WHAT?! Fuck no. I fucking hate the X-Box and I fucking hate Microsoft for everything they've done regarding it. First they buy the only decent Mac developer, Bungee, gut their staff, steal the coolest game I'd seen in a while, RUIN IT, then release it only for their console. Then they run their whole console business at cost to try run all the other companies out of the market. Thank God it didn't catch on as much as it could have in the US and that gamers in other countries totally rejected it. They would have singlehandedly ruined the whole console gaming industry.
Heh, "slapping my monkey around." Ok, now you're just asking for it, especially at slashdot.
RBrowserLite is a stellar freeware FTP client.
What about the Finder's Column view? I mean, not bothering to look is one thing but not clicking a button that's right there the whole time is just lazy.
This is not insightful. The human brain is complex and illogical. It always has been. The crazy pluralization of English is no exception. However, calling people with normal brains that can remember how to pluralize words "hotshots" just shows how out of touch you are with your own humanity. By the way, octopuses and octopi are both allowed pluralizations of the work octopus.
Throw off the chains of opression, Komrades!
I have mod points but there was no "+1 you-made-me-sad-but-I-can't-possibly-be-mad-at-you -for-bringing-this-up" moderation option.
Funny you mention it, I tried this 4 years ago. It was so much suffering I threw up almost every other day after working out. I managed to lose 40 pounds and I felt great by the end. I even kept if up but somehow my body adapted to this new routine eventually and I slowly gained the weight back. I'm now more physically fit than I've ever been but I can't seem to shock the weight off again.
Maybe I'm just dreaming here, but if this drug turns out not to encourage the growth of cancer cells (currently the main concern and only known side effect), I think it could seriously improve the quality of life of the average person. People don't exercise because it's hard. It's hard because people don't exercise. Quite an unhealthy cycle. However, this treatment, while immensely promising for muscle degenerative diseases, could really help overweight people break their unhealthy cycle.
I'll go out and say it: I'm overweight. And yes, it is my fault. I could get out and exercise a ton, I could eat less, etc, but I find the struggle unrewarding and difficult. In the month of July, I spent most of the month creating a 3D game with another guy my age. He had an average build. As an experiment on top of our research, we decided to try something. He didn't believe me that my being overweight was not a result of my eating more and exercising less than he did. So we equalized our days. We ate all meals together and ate items of equal nutritional value. We also followed identical exercise routines (I can run a few miles no problem, I just don't seem to lose weight unless I run them every day while starving myself). By the end of 3 and a half weeks, I had GAINED 10 pounds and he stayed the same. He was shocked. I was not amused. The routine we settled on was probably was less active than what I do normally to maintain.
I don't want to say I have a slow metabolism or any of those other shitty fat people excuses but I can't help but feel like I was dealt a poor hand by genetics. Muscle is expensive for the body to maintain. If I could have more muscle and have it break down less quickly, it could just help my body eat away at my apparently conserved energy being stored as fat. At the same time, it would make exercising easier by increasing my strength by a third or so. I know I'm interested.
VirtualPC used little endian mode to speed up x86 emulation. That's why G5s can't run VPC until the next version comes out.
I was going to use AC to reply but I have to say I agree with the parent. I don't agree with all of his language (cowering below letterheads and such), but I do agree that a good deal of people suffering from this are already poor. I say this because the rich are neither seriously hurt monitarily or are treated like dirt by credit card companies (those who ultimately decide who pays for the fraudulent purchases). You try getting Visa to erase that $3000 purchase off your card when you're already struggling just to pay off the interest on your debt to them. Trust me, it's hard.
I did explain that you don't need the Pocket PC. I also said that if you did, then it would be very lame.
I agree that if it reqired the PocketPC, it would be stupid, but the PocketPC is just being used for the sake of making the task of recording IR easy with no software voodoo. I think the idea of using an iPod to control a lot of elements in a complex home entertainment setup is very cool and very useful.
Thank you for reading my post. I love how it got modded flamebait at first :)
At the end of the article they offer instructions for a $6 DIY IR adaptor, though I think I'd buy the Griffin device because it's cheap enough and looks slick. I too would like instructions to do this without the PocketPC. I have an Apple Powerbook running Mac OS X with an IR port recognized by the system. I'll see if I can get that to record the sounds and write my own article on doing without the PocketPC.
Jesus fucking christ, people. You're like a bunch of five-year-olds. Huhuhuhuh... let's read the misleading summary and make fun of it!
The hack is to record the IR pulses as sound files and play them back with an IR LED connected to the iPod's headphone port. It's a really smart and cool idea but I guess you guys wouldn't know one of those if it bit you on your collective ass.
The reason the article calls for a Pocket PC is because it can read ifrared signals and pass those to the headphone jack for output. If you just piped the IR port on a computer to the sound out device, you'd have the same solution, minus the Pocket PC. This is NOT like the stupid-ass iPod to iPod transfer "hack" from a while ago. This is an actual neat concept that I'd wish you'd stop shitting all over with your ignorance.
Thank you.
I believe he was referring to the fact that the ZeroConf name was tossed out not once but twice, and the second time, it wasn't used even though the last name had to be discontinued due to legal issues. The name was crying, not the technology.
I know I didn't post within the first 5 minutes so this will probably never get read...
The default browser for Mac OS X, Safari, contains a spellchecker. When all those Mac users post in a forum, just about every post is spellchecked by the system. In Windows, the default browser, Internet Explorer, includes no such spellchecker. I'm using IE on a public terminal right now and there's no way in hell I'm going to paste this post into Word just to spellcheck it. Because Mac users always have an easy spellchecker at their fingertips, they feel more confident in using larger words with more difficult spellings.
Oh, that and the fact the CounterStrike is available for Windows-only. That drags the whole community down at least a grade level.
And remember this: Microsoft is buying PowerMac G5s! Apple's PowerMac G5 is Microsoft's development platform for the XBox2. XBox2 dev kits are literally a PowerMac running a custom Windows NT kernel and an SDK which, oddly enough, bears the Apple logo, implying that they had some hand in this creation.
I heard he wrote this great malloc implementation...