I'm pretty sick this week. Having never used my insurance with a doctor before, I called in.
"Welcome to bla bla... to speak with someone regarding covered facilities press 6"::beep:: "If your Insur-ID begins with a W, press 1"::beep:: "If the W is followed by three numbers and a hyphen or dash, press 1"::beep:: "Please type in your complete Insur-ID. You can enter letters by-"::beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:bee p:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:bee p:beep:beep:: "If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911."::pause:: "Please hold."::pause:: "Due to unusually high call volume [8am saturday], we are experiencing higher-than-usual wait time. Your expected wait time is Two. Minutes. And. Five. Seconds. Please continue to hold."::pause:: "Thanks for using Enormous insurence inc, may I please have your date of birth, Insur-ID...."
That's as verbatim as I can remember it. Seriously. Can you imagine an elderly person trying to do this... up hill, both ways, with a rotary phone, in the snow?
1280x1024 is more than I have on my 12" screen. For someone using their first computer, they might prefer a larger screen with lower resolution, versus a small screen with high resolution.
As for the web cam, it just doesn't fit into the equation imo. Wouldn't it be more useful to have double the (rather small) storage? I can't see what good giving all these kids webcams will do. Perhaps a community webcam or something would be far more practical.
...and if you pay $400, you can get a dell with a 15" screen, and decent storage.
Seriously, 1280x1024 on an 8-inch screen? And a web-cam? What the hell are these guys trying to do? Scare people away from computers? Or, I'm sorry, "children's machines'"?
...is that SGI's least-expesive system costs a nice $9,800. That's for one computer, running windows or linux. Basically a nice PC. Granted, it comes with 2GB ram, and some nice features. But still......and people thought Apple was expensive...
I'm considering either the macmini or the imac (both intel). Which do you think would be faster, given an equal amount of ram? I'll be doing mostly audio work, and some video.
After two divorces from two unfaithful wives, and 20 years of raising two children who might or might not be my genetic progeny, I say - lets just clone ourselves and convert to Stepford wives.
So how is it that adopted children are loved? Or am I mistaken...
Furthermore, do you think that, possibly, your preference for robotic women may have to do with your lack of uhh.. success, in that arena?
Sure, "Buy it now" works just find in a web browser.
Does your web browser have an 8-band graphic EQ? What about full-screen movie playback? Visualizations? Library management? CD Burning? Audio file format conversion? CDDB lookup (sure, there are web frontends for that, but you'd have to manually input the cd's serial number)...
You can make as many backups as you like. When you download a movie or show, you are downloading a quicktime movie file, which you can archive onto DVD's or harddrives or whatever. I archive material I didn't pay for, and I'd certainly at least back this stuff up.
Furthermore, the quality of H.264, coupled with whatever magical anti-aliasing is built into CoreImage and Quicktime - it's not too bad at all. When you consider the 'quality' of standard-definition broadcast TV, this isn't so bad at all. And I'm guessing better things are on the way with this.
I think this is an isolated incident. M-Audio had versions of the Delta-series cards immediately after it was announced Apple was going in this direction.
I think we have to look at this as being completely within its infancy.
Obviously, the quality leaves something to be desired for if you're on anything greater than a 9" screen. And the price isn't fesable to treat it as a replacement for TV. In the same manner, the iTunes Music Store doesn't replace the radio. (Although you could argue that iTunes does...)
Bottom line, ABC is going to see a lot of money from what is basically a technology trial. It'll be a long time though, before that money is greater than what they currently receive from advertisers, etc.
Time will only tell, but the concept is certainly 100000 times better than standard TV. Let's see... 1) on-demand 2) full transport control (can you believe you can't even pause normal tv?!) 3) watch as many times as you want 4) no commercials
I agree with most everything you said, however, a dv deck will easily run as much or more than a dv hard drive solution.
The least expensive DV Deck I could find was $580 and looks about as cheap as a VHS VCR, built by JVC. The most expensive is of course the Panasonic $20k unit that one of the engineers at my studio believes will convert from SD to HD... Dunno about that one.
If you want it portable, you need either another camera (which could act as a DV Deck, depending on how advanced it - Panasonic DVC-30 does it), a DV hard drive, or a computer rig. Avid Free should be enough for the job, I think.
The article talks about disabling the programs that run while you use windows.
init scripts configure your system when it boots. They do not continue running after the login prompt, although they may spawn other services which do - you need to clarify exactly what you would propose disabling. A more valid comparison would be, "How does Debian Linux stack up with all the *daemons* disabled?"
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I'm pretty sick this week. Having never used my insurance with a doctor before, I called in.
::beep:: ::beep:: ::beep:: ::beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:bee p:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:beep:bee p:beep:beep:: ::pause:: ::pause:: ::pause::
"Welcome to bla bla... to speak with someone regarding covered facilities press 6"
"If your Insur-ID begins with a W, press 1"
"If the W is followed by three numbers and a hyphen or dash, press 1"
"Please type in your complete Insur-ID. You can enter letters by-"
"If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911."
"Please hold."
"Due to unusually high call volume [8am saturday], we are experiencing higher-than-usual wait time. Your expected wait time is Two. Minutes. And. Five. Seconds. Please continue to hold."
"Thanks for using Enormous insurence inc, may I please have your date of birth, Insur-ID...."
That's as verbatim as I can remember it. Seriously. Can you imagine an elderly person trying to do this... up hill, both ways, with a rotary phone, in the snow?
You, sir, have never driven a truck with 50 tons of crap on the back.
1280x1024 is more than I have on my 12" screen. For someone using their first computer, they might prefer a larger screen with lower resolution, versus a small screen with high resolution.
As for the web cam, it just doesn't fit into the equation imo. Wouldn't it be more useful to have double the (rather small) storage? I can't see what good giving all these kids webcams will do. Perhaps a community webcam or something would be far more practical.
The same technology that is going into these laptops, likely nothing more than low-voltage input inverters, could be applied to any situation.
I just don't see anything so great about a 400mhz cpu and how much storage?
...and if you pay $400, you can get a dell with a 15" screen, and decent storage.
Seriously, 1280x1024 on an 8-inch screen? And a web-cam? What the hell are these guys trying to do? Scare people away from computers? Or, I'm sorry, "children's machines'"?
Darn straight!
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(that's home term in some solaris versions)
You know what's odd about this -- that's roughly $10/battery.
I saw we buy one and part it out on ebay...
...is that SGI's least-expesive system costs a nice $9,800. That's for one computer, running windows or linux. Basically a nice PC. Granted, it comes with 2GB ram, and some nice features. But still... ...and people thought Apple was expensive...
I'm considering either the macmini or the imac (both intel). Which do you think would be faster, given an equal amount of ram? I'll be doing mostly audio work, and some video.
Thanks!
After two divorces from two unfaithful wives, and 20 years of raising two children who might or might not be my genetic progeny, I say - lets just clone ourselves and convert to Stepford wives.
So how is it that adopted children are loved? Or am I mistaken...
Furthermore, do you think that, possibly, your preference for robotic women may have to do with your lack of uhh.. success, in that arena?
I could not agree more. Thankyou for saying it.
If you're using Stuffit to unzip, you will not experience this problem. The file will not load - quick time player will attempt to open it, and fail.
Big woop.
Sure, "Buy it now" works just find in a web browser.
Does your web browser have an 8-band graphic EQ? What about full-screen movie playback? Visualizations? Library management? CD Burning? Audio file format conversion? CDDB lookup (sure, there are web frontends for that, but you'd have to manually input the cd's serial number)...
iTunes is a lot more than a "web browser".
Subject says it all.
Lots of jobs in the area want people experienced in Oracle. And if I can try it out for free on my own network, then I'm all set!
Thanks Oracle
Of course, that doesn't mean I can't enjoy MySQL for anything worth shaking a stick at...
Well, you're both wrong on one thing.
You can make as many backups as you like. When you download a movie or show, you are downloading a quicktime movie file, which you can archive onto DVD's or harddrives or whatever. I archive material I didn't pay for, and I'd certainly at least back this stuff up.
Furthermore, the quality of H.264, coupled with whatever magical anti-aliasing is built into CoreImage and Quicktime - it's not too bad at all. When you consider the 'quality' of standard-definition broadcast TV, this isn't so bad at all. And I'm guessing better things are on the way with this.
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I think this is an isolated incident. M-Audio had versions of the Delta-series cards immediately after it was announced Apple was going in this direction.
I think we have to look at this as being completely within its infancy.
Obviously, the quality leaves something to be desired for if you're on anything greater than a 9" screen. And the price isn't fesable to treat it as a replacement for TV. In the same manner, the iTunes Music Store doesn't replace the radio. (Although you could argue that iTunes does...)
Bottom line, ABC is going to see a lot of money from what is basically a technology trial. It'll be a long time though, before that money is greater than what they currently receive from advertisers, etc.
Time will only tell, but the concept is certainly 100000 times better than standard TV. Let's see...
1) on-demand
2) full transport control (can you believe you can't even pause normal tv?!)
3) watch as many times as you want
4) no commercials
So... yeah... Good things on the way.
You are correct for the moment, but once this catches on, people will realize it is a better, more enjoyable method of entertainment.
:D
Forget tivo. This is it.
As far as I'm concerned, the modern day affiliate station is a simple load-balancing device.
The funeral for tivo will be held tomorrow evening, 2100 hours, at 1, infinity loop, Cupertino, CA.
Affiliate stations: BE AFRAID
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the core of Be supported user/group file permissions.
It should also be noted, that 'file permissions' are extremely antiquated in today's world.
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I agree with most everything you said, however, a dv deck will easily run as much or more than a dv hard drive solution.
The least expensive DV Deck I could find was $580 and looks about as cheap as a VHS VCR, built by JVC. The most expensive is of course the Panasonic $20k unit that one of the engineers at my studio believes will convert from SD to HD... Dunno about that one.
If you want it portable, you need either another camera (which could act as a DV Deck, depending on how advanced it - Panasonic DVC-30 does it), a DV hard drive, or a computer rig. Avid Free should be enough for the job, I think.
Thats completely invalid.
The article talks about disabling the programs that run while you use windows.
init scripts configure your system when it boots. They do not continue running after the login prompt, although they may spawn other services which do - you need to clarify exactly what you would propose disabling. A more valid comparison would be, "How does Debian Linux stack up with all the *daemons* disabled?"
break this down:
.864 Hours Downtime. (Thats 51 minutes, 50.4 seconds. What a lie, but anyway...)
99.99 percent uptime:
n / 365 = 99.99 / 100
99.99 * 365 = 36,496.35
36,496.35 / 100 = 364.964
365 - 364.964 = 0.036 days downtime or:
0.036 * 24 / 1 =
Now, had that 99.99% been 99%, you would be looking at 3.65 days downtime.
And for the record, here are the downtimes for the various VoIP Providers, in simple terms (of those listed in the article):
Vonage 99.4% - 2.19 days
Industry Average 96.9% - 11.315 days
pots standard 99.9% - 0.365 days
lowest rated 94.8% - 18.98 days
So yeah, for 911, forget it. Come to think of it, how does the downtime rate for your isp, let alone voip provider?