"American's do not fear our government, as the people of other nations have had cause to fear their governments"
People of other nations still have some fear left over after fearing their own government to fear the American goverment as well.
If Americans don't fear their government, they're not paying attention.
-C
Yes Vantage was very cool, as was its predecessor, McSink. I used Vantage/McSink for years, but BBEdit is better supported and by now has lots more features.
Musicians will have to make a living from live performances.
Unfortunately, that's all but impossible. Making a living as a musician is an iffy proposition, at best. Most gigs pay quite poorly and expenses are high. There is a lot of unpaid rehearsal time to put in. Removing any little revenue stream can be disastrous.
You might as well try writing shareware for a living as make a living as a musician.
7. GPS hardware and software w/ downloadable database
8. IR hardware for use as a universal remote control
9. Bluetooth
At the risk of loosing Geek Points, I don't really care if it runs Linux or not, as long as it's a documented & supported platform for application development.
If you mean "how do I see what a link points to without following the link?" then you need to turn on the Status Bar from the View menu. Then a link that you're hovering over is displayed at the bottom of the window.
I don't think of AAC as an obscure codec at all. It's been around for a few years. AAC will soon be pretty common, IMO.
It's an integral part of MPEG4. It sounds much better than MP3. What it does have going against it is a strict licensing policy, at least as tough as MP3.
And they didn't even do a good job of that. In the Treo "review" they say:
"The Treo 180 have all the Treo 270 features except without a color screen. The black and white screen will greatly increase your battery's life if you frequently use your phone."
Even ignoring typos, this is just plain wrong. The color 270 gets significantly better battery life than the B&W 180.
A Universal Remote Control for all our media devices. It's just got to have a Universal Remote Control.
And a logging accelerometer so that you can see what g-forces we were subjected to over the course of our busy days. This would have to be tied into the GPS system.
Perhaps these couild be linked directly to our blogs so that we could present an even clearer picture of who we are to the rest of the world.
Each output device has a "gamut" of colors that it can represent. Ths varies quite a bit between types of devices. The RGB space can represent many colors that are outside of the gamut for a given output device. These colors have to be brought into the gamut without perceptually changing the image. This is a lossy operation.
Bottom line, there is no good "general" CMYK space. There should only be a CMYK for a given output device. For best results, you REALLY need to know about your output device when making CMYK seperations. The popularity of working in CMYK was put forward by companies like SCITEX that made closed loop systems: they manufactured the scanners, the software, as well as the output devices. Working in CMYK came to be perceived as the only professional way to work. I prefer to work in RGB, converting to CMYK only when I'm going to some specific output device.
If you have the Motorola digital cable box, this is a well known problem. Using the IR blasters is problematic, at best. Building an "IR Fort" (a kludge involving taping opaque materials over your IR blaster & TiVo IR receiver) helps somewhat. It at least keeps interference from other IR sources at bay. "I don't have any other IR sources" you say. Well, if you're changing the volume on your TV at the same time TiVo is trying to change channels, you run the risk of a missed channel change. In fact the Moto box is so lame, it sometimes misses changes from its own remote, even without TiVo in the picture.
TiVo has the capability to use serial control of the Motorola box, bypassing all the IR headaches, but they removed this feature from general release with the 3.0 software release, owing to a deal that grants AT&T a period of exclusivity for the AT&T branded TiVo. This fact only emerged after much discussion on the TiVo forum. Many people are really pissed off. To read the whole depressing mess, read the Official Serial Cable Support Request Thread
Yes the glowing keyboard is cool, but it really made me think (in best Wizard of Oz voice):
"Pay no attention to the same old processor speeds
behind the curtain."
And is Safari really going to be open source, or is it just going to be using (and contributing to) the KHTML renderer?
The main problem with trying to use the ball for tracking is that you would only know relative movement. Writing involves a lot of absolute positioning.
The custom paper is cool because the pen knows where it is on the paper at all times.
I can imagine a system with gyros and accelerometers that allows for capturing handwriting without a special surface, but I think that you would have to align the pen with every use.
Actually, in the case of audio and MIDI programs, there are many things that you can't do without going to the hardware.
For example, Apple hasn't supported any MIDI IO since they pulled the plug on MIDI Manager in the early nineties. Any software that wanted to do MIDI IO needed to use some third party drivers which reprogrammed the serial chips to the peculiarities of MIDI (e.g. OMS, FreeMIDI).
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"American's do not fear our government, as the people of other nations have had cause to fear their governments" People of other nations still have some fear left over after fearing their own government to fear the American goverment as well. If Americans don't fear their government, they're not paying attention. -C
Yes Vantage was very cool, as was its predecessor, McSink. I used Vantage/McSink for years, but BBEdit is better supported and by now has lots more features.
Unfortunately, that's all but impossible. Making a living as a musician is an iffy proposition, at best. Most gigs pay quite poorly and expenses are high. There is a lot of unpaid rehearsal time to put in. Removing any little revenue stream can be disastrous.
You might as well try writing shareware for a living as make a living as a musician.
7. GPS hardware and software w/ downloadable database
8. IR hardware for use as a universal remote control
9. Bluetooth
At the risk of loosing Geek Points, I don't really care if it runs Linux or not, as long as it's a documented & supported platform for application development.
They may still sound awful, but not just because they're B&O design.
The name Velcro is a contraction of "velour" and "crochet". The loop side is the "vel", and the hook side is the "cro".
If you mean "how do I see what a link points to without following the link?" then you need to turn on the Status Bar from the View menu. Then a link that you're hovering over is displayed at the bottom of the window.
It's an integral part of MPEG4. It sounds much better than MP3. What it does have going against it is a strict licensing policy, at least as tough as MP3.
"The Treo 180 have all the Treo 270 features except without a color screen. The black and white screen will greatly increase your battery's life if you frequently use your phone."
Even ignoring typos, this is just plain wrong. The color 270 gets significantly better battery life than the B&W 180.
Sigh.
And a logging accelerometer so that you can see what g-forces we were subjected to over the course of our busy days. This would have to be tied into the GPS system.
Perhaps these couild be linked directly to our blogs so that we could present an even clearer picture of who we are to the rest of the world.
(/smirk)
Chris
Bottom line, there is no good "general" CMYK space. There should only be a CMYK for a given output device. For best results, you REALLY need to know about your output device when making CMYK seperations. The popularity of working in CMYK was put forward by companies like SCITEX that made closed loop systems: they manufactured the scanners, the software, as well as the output devices. Working in CMYK came to be perceived as the only professional way to work. I prefer to work in RGB, converting to CMYK only when I'm going to some specific output device.
TiVo has the capability to use serial control of the Motorola box, bypassing all the IR headaches, but they removed this feature from general release with the 3.0 software release, owing to a deal that grants AT&T a period of exclusivity for the AT&T branded TiVo. This fact only emerged after much discussion on the TiVo forum. Many people are really pissed off. To read the whole depressing mess, read the Official Serial Cable Support Request Thread
Yes the glowing keyboard is cool, but it really made me think (in best Wizard of Oz voice): "Pay no attention to the same old processor speeds behind the curtain." And is Safari really going to be open source, or is it just going to be using (and contributing to) the KHTML renderer?
The main problem with trying to use the ball for tracking is that you would only know relative movement. Writing involves a lot of absolute positioning. The custom paper is cool because the pen knows where it is on the paper at all times. I can imagine a system with gyros and accelerometers that allows for capturing handwriting without a special surface, but I think that you would have to align the pen with every use.
Actually, in the case of audio and MIDI programs, there are many things that you can't do without going to the hardware.
For example, Apple hasn't supported any MIDI IO since they pulled the plug on MIDI Manager in the early nineties. Any software that wanted to do MIDI IO needed to use some third party drivers which reprogrammed the serial chips to the peculiarities of MIDI (e.g. OMS, FreeMIDI).
Where did you see this? All I've seen is an upgrade for people who purchace machines after 7/17/2002.
The Polyphonic sound generation is from the Beatnik Audio Engine.
Disclaimer: I work for Beatnik.