Is this anything but a sales gimmick really? I mean, you can already get cards with DVI and HDCP which means you just need a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to a TV anyway. So now they hope to sell more of these because people who have bought a HDTV might already know the HDMI name and think they need that? Well, i guess the one benefit i can see is that you can save the audio cable, but personally i don't want the audio to go to the TV anyway.
Actually, it IS on the main page, clearly visible.
I wonder if this stunt actually is a benefit to the site or not. I mean, sure it might generate more hits, but how many potential customers will go elsewhere because they are put off by the website? I know i would, a full screenful of text that is largely incomprehensible and that isn't helpful (to the customer) at all, and to make it worse it have so many hyperlinks that it is hard to read because it is so "busy". That doesn't exactly signal professionalism to me, and it is easy to extrapolate that feeling to the company behind the homepage, fair or not.
Yes, there are more options available when you dig into gconf, but even then it is still very limited compared to KDE. (besides, even in KDE not all settings are exposed in the GUI, for some, usually obscure, things you have to edit the config files. But to some people, those "obscure settings" matter)
Yes, but, on a piano, the feedback matters as the force and speed you apply influences the sound (as I'm sure you know), whereas on a computer keyboard, you either press the key or you don't, so the extra feedback is not very useful, unless you got such a crappy keyboard that you can be in doubt whether you pressed the key or not.
I think the old style keyboards should be banned in shared offices, as the noise is annoying, and the added force the typist must exert could maybe increase the risk of RSI?
Well, assuming you want to remain consistant with numbers, it still depends on how you look at it. Numbers are written with the most significant part first. Is the year really the most significant part of a date? Of course it can be if you are planning a long time ahead, but for day to day things, it probably is not. Also if you abbreviate a number you normally get rid of the last part, where as if you abbreviate a date you would often get rid of the year, and maybe even the month.
Another argument for not writing dates with the year first is that you will have to read it backwards to pronounce it. Or at least i would not say that today is 2006 August 2nd.
Of course the americans are not the only ones having weird pronounciation of things, in danish you would pronounce 1234 as "one thousand two hundred and four and thirty"
iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, GarageBand, and iWeb (i'm sure i missed some) are not bundled with the O/S but with the computer. You wont get them if you buy a copy of Mac OS X. So it is Apple the computer manufacturer and not Apple the operating system maker that does the bundling.
Of course this difference is academic to people buying a new system, but it does matter to people upgrading their software.
Much more (technical) information can be found in brewery.org's technical library. There is not just information about water, but the entire brewing process, different ingredients, equipment, and much more
In the first part, though, I'm referring more to web-based services, like I could go and open up some JPG or MID or MP3 or even a rtsp://realmediaplayer.url or whatever those are.. because the file open box isn't going to help me find anything that's referred to on a web server.
Try this, find the thing you want to open in a browser, then drag and drop the object to the location field in the open dialog. (might work just d'n'd'ing it directly to the program) Is it perfect? No, if the image you drag is also a link, it will paste the url of the link instead of the iamge. Alterntively just right click on it in your browser and choose open with.
The cheapest cds i have seen is about 33 cents per disc, wich is slightly more than a tape.
I am not sure about the price on dvds, but in many situations they are waaaaaaaaaaaay too small, slow, and difficult to handle. And i don't think a WORM solution is much good anyway, considering the some tape rotation/recycling is done, else it would take up too much space and by too costly:)
The tapes i am talking about have a capacity of 200Gb uncompressed, and a write speed of 20 Mb per second. And it gets even more interesting once they start shipping LTO III (400 Gb), and later LTO IV (800 Gb).
I do believe that if you are really serious about your backups and want to save historical data, then it is impossible to get around using tapes. That is unless your ammount of data is small enough for cds or dvds to be practical.
Are you going to save old backups? In that case, harddisks aren't convinient.
And yes, that is 40 cents per GB, which is still half price of what the harddrives offers, you don't need many tapes before the price difference gets really noticeable.
Huh? With LTO Ultrium I or II tapes the price per GB is around $0.4, while the price on all the harddrives i can find is at least twice that.
You do of course have to buy a fairly expensive tape station before you can use them, but once you got that you also have the benefit of it being much easier to handle IMO. (It is much easier to change a tape than it is to change a disk)
Since when did you become the rest of the world? I for one are *not* happy about mp3's quality. I happen to have my stereo hooked up to my computer, and the difference is big enough for me to try to avoid mp3. The difference is especially noticeable when using a set of decent headphones.
But for people who use the standard plastic speakers or cheap mini stereos, or most car stereo equipment, the difference might be small enough that they can't tell a difference, or that the difference is small enough that they don't care.
I dont know which "modern" system you have, but for me compiling glibc took approximately 15 minutes. (athlon tbird 1333, 512 mb ram)
And no, im not saying this just to nitpick, but to prevent people who are interested to run away because they think it takes way too long time. Of course it did take me most of a day to get a system fully working with X and KDE. (KDE took about the same time as the rest of the system combined)
Obviously germany have a problem then. But i hope other countries will take it more seriously.
I unfortunately can't find any examples, but we have had this law in denmark for quite a while now and i remember reading about some people who were stopped.
Of course we have different issues, like highly inconsistent laws. With email you need to opt-in, with regular mail you can opt-out (by placing a sticker on your mailbox) and on the phone only newspapers and one other type (forgot which) may advertise. A bit strange, but i guess it works.
Yes, what an excelent idea. 60M+ people should install anti-spam software instead of us trying to stop it.
On a related news burglary was just made legal. Everyone should just secure their belongings, but soon everything will contain a tracking device so burglary will cease to be a problem.
Don't just ease the symtoms, it won't make it go away. You have to go find the root of the problem, which in this case is the spam mails.
Either you picked the sparc version or they changed the thank you message or something, because i just got this message:
Thank You! You will receive your FREE copy of the Solaris Operating Environment on a DVD (while quanitities last) and be contacted by our sales organization shortly.
There are things that a computer is designed to do, and that's what it should do, the fact that a user is easily mislead by these protected "cds" isn't the device makers fault imo. Just like I can't blame my puter maker for allowing me to feed 200w into the soundcard, it wasn't built for it, and it's not their responsibility to make sure I don't mess up.
You are of course correct that your soundcard wont survive 200W input, but your example is flawed. If you want to compare playing a copyrighted cd on a cd drive with music you should try something like: If you sing out of tune the microphone and amplifier will blow up. You wouldn't expect this would you? Just as you wouldn't expect scratched cd's to damage your cd drive. There really are no excuses. It is possible that apple will not be liable for the damage in the US, but here (Denmark) they will be forced to cover it within the warrenty period. (the law required a minimum warrenty of 1 year from purchase until 2001, and raised it to 2 years this january)
Someone should hurry to create and patent paper keyboard covers. They would fit right next to the paper toilet seat covers in air planes. I bet they would be a big hit in libraries and other places with public computers. They could even make them in different colors and with different keyboard layouts, that should solve the problems in a multi linqual environments. If this isn't enough then they could add aroma or flavour to it. Who wouldn't like a chocolade flavoured keyboard cover? No? What about a cover smelling like roses?
But this doesnt stop with keyboards, when was the last time you cleaned your remote control huh? Or your stereo, or the interior of your car? Or your light switches? Or your phone? Yes, i see it now, this is all we need to get the world economy back on track.
The solution for the wheel problem is to kill the mouse software before starting the game or run a registry hack (available on the logitech site, well hidden though) which causes some applications to receive wheel events twice.
Well hidden? Its right on their mouse driver download page.
But to save others from going to logitech.com to look for it here is the way to make the change to your registry manually (taken from the readme file):
- Click the "Start" button on the Windows Desktop and select "Run...". - On the Open line, type C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT.EXE and press [ENTER]. - From the Registry Editor screen, double click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. - Double click on SOFTWARE. - Double click on Logitech. - Double click on MouseWare. - Double click on CurrentVersion. - Single click on Technical and information should be displayed on the right side of the Registry Editor screen. - Under the Name column, double click on the "MouseHookDLLEnable" entry and the Edit String Dialogue box should appear. - Modify the Value Data line to read "0", and click the "OK" button - Exit the Registry editor (saving is automatic). - Restart the system.
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Is this anything but a sales gimmick really? I mean, you can already get cards with DVI and HDCP which means you just need a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to a TV anyway. So now they hope to sell more of these because people who have bought a HDTV might already know the HDMI name and think they need that? Well, i guess the one benefit i can see is that you can save the audio cable, but personally i don't want the audio to go to the TV anyway.
Actually, it IS on the main page, clearly visible.
I wonder if this stunt actually is a benefit to the site or not. I mean, sure it might generate more hits, but how many potential customers will go elsewhere because they are put off by the website? I know i would, a full screenful of text that is largely incomprehensible and that isn't helpful (to the customer) at all, and to make it worse it have so many hyperlinks that it is hard to read because it is so "busy". That doesn't exactly signal professionalism to me, and it is easy to extrapolate that feeling to the company behind the homepage, fair or not.
Yes, there are more options available when you dig into gconf, but even then it is still very limited compared to KDE. (besides, even in KDE not all settings are exposed in the GUI, for some, usually obscure, things you have to edit the config files. But to some people, those "obscure settings" matter)
Yes, but, on a piano, the feedback matters as the force and speed you apply influences the sound (as I'm sure you know), whereas on a computer keyboard, you either press the key or you don't, so the extra feedback is not very useful, unless you got such a crappy keyboard that you can be in doubt whether you pressed the key or not.
I think the old style keyboards should be banned in shared offices, as the noise is annoying, and the added force the typist must exert could maybe increase the risk of RSI?
Now if that algoritm could be tweaked to also detect duplicate slashdot stories, then we would have a winner.
Well, assuming you want to remain consistant with numbers, it still depends on how you look at it. Numbers are written with the most significant part first. Is the year really the most significant part of a date? Of course it can be if you are planning a long time ahead, but for day to day things, it probably is not. Also if you abbreviate a number you normally get rid of the last part, where as if you abbreviate a date you would often get rid of the year, and maybe even the month.
Another argument for not writing dates with the year first is that you will have to read it backwards to pronounce it. Or at least i would not say that today is 2006 August 2nd.
Of course the americans are not the only ones having weird pronounciation of things, in danish you would pronounce 1234 as "one thousand two hundred and four and thirty"
iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, GarageBand, and iWeb (i'm sure i missed some) are not bundled with the O/S but with the computer. You wont get them if you buy a copy of Mac OS X. So it is Apple the computer manufacturer and not Apple the operating system maker that does the bundling.
Of course this difference is academic to people buying a new system, but it does matter to people upgrading their software.
Smaller than a nano? It is 11 mm thicker than the nano, or about 2.6 times as thick.
Even more info can be found on Home Brew Digest.
Try using aptitude instead of apt-get. It can uninstall packages that was installed as a dependency. It is basically apt-get++ :-)
In the first part, though, I'm referring more to web-based services, like I could go and open up some JPG or MID or MP3 or even a rtsp://realmediaplayer.url or whatever those are.. because the file open box isn't going to help me find anything that's referred to on a web server.
Try this, find the thing you want to open in a browser, then drag and drop the object to the location field in the open dialog. (might work just d'n'd'ing it directly to the program) Is it perfect? No, if the image you drag is also a link, it will paste the url of the link instead of the iamge. Alterntively just right click on it in your browser and choose open with.
The cheapest cds i have seen is about 33 cents per disc, wich is slightly more than a tape.
:)
I am not sure about the price on dvds, but in many situations they are waaaaaaaaaaaay too small, slow, and difficult to handle. And i don't think a WORM solution is much good anyway, considering the some tape rotation/recycling is done, else it would take up too much space and by too costly
The tapes i am talking about have a capacity of 200Gb uncompressed, and a write speed of 20 Mb per second. And it gets even more interesting once they start shipping LTO III (400 Gb), and later LTO IV (800 Gb).
I do believe that if you are really serious about your backups and want to save historical data, then it is impossible to get around using tapes. That is unless your ammount of data is small enough for cds or dvds to be practical.
It totally depends on what you want to do too.
Are you going to save old backups? In that case, harddisks aren't convinient.
And yes, that is 40 cents per GB, which is still half price of what the harddrives offers, you don't need many tapes before the price difference gets really noticeable.
I'm sure Microsoft wishes it would stay there...
Huh? With LTO Ultrium I or II tapes the price per GB is around $0.4, while the price on all the harddrives i can find is at least twice that.
You do of course have to buy a fairly expensive tape station before you can use them, but once you got that you also have the benefit of it being much easier to handle IMO. (It is much easier to change a tape than it is to change a disk)
Since when did you become the rest of the world? I for one are *not* happy about mp3's quality. I happen to have my stereo hooked up to my computer, and the difference is big enough for me to try to avoid mp3. The difference is especially noticeable when using a set of decent headphones.
But for people who use the standard plastic speakers or cheap mini stereos, or most car stereo equipment, the difference might be small enough that they can't tell a difference, or that the difference is small enough that they don't care.
That is correct. Though you should of course make sure that you optimize the code for the target platform, and not for the build machine.
I dont know which "modern" system you have, but for me compiling glibc took approximately 15 minutes. (athlon tbird 1333, 512 mb ram)
And no, im not saying this just to nitpick, but to prevent people who are interested to run away because they think it takes way too long time. Of course it did take me most of a day to get a system fully working with X and KDE. (KDE took about the same time as the rest of the system combined)
Obviously germany have a problem then. But i hope other countries will take it more seriously.
I unfortunately can't find any examples, but we have had this law in denmark for quite a while now and i remember reading about some people who were stopped.
Of course we have different issues, like highly inconsistent laws. With email you need to opt-in, with regular mail you can opt-out (by placing a sticker on your mailbox) and on the phone only newspapers and one other type (forgot which) may advertise. A bit strange, but i guess it works.
Yes, what an excelent idea. 60M+ people should install anti-spam software instead of us trying to stop it.
On a related news burglary was just made legal. Everyone should just secure their belongings, but soon everything will contain a tracking device so burglary will cease to be a problem.
Don't just ease the symtoms, it won't make it go away. You have to go find the root of the problem, which in this case is the spam mails.
Either you picked the sparc version or they changed the thank you message or something, because i just got this message:
Thank You! You will receive your FREE copy of the Solaris Operating Environment on a DVD (while quanitities last) and be contacted by our sales organization shortly.
No number in there...
While not dedicated to coding style alone it is a good read. It is fairly short (~260 pages), it is well written, and it covers a lot of topics.
If you want more details:
Title: The Practice of Programming
By: Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
ISBN: 0-201-61586-X
Printed Price: $24.95 US
You are of course correct that your soundcard wont survive 200W input, but your example is flawed. If you want to compare playing a copyrighted cd on a cd drive with music you should try something like: If you sing out of tune the microphone and amplifier will blow up. You wouldn't expect this would you? Just as you wouldn't expect scratched cd's to damage your cd drive. There really are no excuses. It is possible that apple will not be liable for the damage in the US, but here (Denmark) they will be forced to cover it within the warrenty period. (the law required a minimum warrenty of 1 year from purchase until 2001, and raised it to 2 years this january)
Someone should hurry to create and patent paper keyboard covers. They would fit right next to the paper toilet seat covers in air planes. I bet they would be a big hit in libraries and other places with public computers. They could even make them in different colors and with different keyboard layouts, that should solve the problems in a multi linqual environments. If this isn't enough then they could add aroma or flavour to it. Who wouldn't like a chocolade flavoured keyboard cover? No? What about a cover smelling like roses?
But this doesnt stop with keyboards, when was the last time you cleaned your remote control huh? Or your stereo, or the interior of your car? Or your light switches? Or your phone? Yes, i see it now, this is all we need to get the world economy back on track.
Well hidden? Its right on their mouse driver download page.
But to save others from going to logitech.com to look for it here is the way to make the change to your registry manually (taken from the readme file):