While it's true the digital and analog outputs plug into the same hole, they get their signal from different parts of that hole. The optical cable receives light from the bottom of the jack, while, as usual, the analog signal comes from copper connections on the side of the jack.
"To Serve Man" is also the name of a classic episode of
The Twilight Zone where some Big -Headed Aliens "arrive on Earth, and immediately start helping man. They appear totally trustworthy and full of goodwill. This idea is backed up when they leave a book titled "To Serve Man" at the U.N. Michael Chambers, a decoding expert, along with thousands of other people book passage to the Kanamit's home panet. Meanwhile, Michael's assistant Pat is trying to decode the book left by the Kanamits. As Michael is boarding the Kanamit spacecraft, Pat runs up and tells Michael she has finished translating the book - it's a cookbook! Michael tries to escape, but is forced back inside by a Kanamit, and the craft leaves."
(damn I hate having to write callback functions out seperately when they're one liners!)
You don't have to explicitly define functions for callbacks. When you're using
a function that requires a callback function, instead of defining the function
elsewhere, use
create_function() like so:
eg: the function array_filter(input, callback) uses a callback as its second
parameter.
The project has even a feature named Rollback which would permit to go back in time, eliminating these pesky viruses.
This is revolutionary technology! Just think of all the posibilities! But it has potential for abuse, as some science fiction movies have pointed out.
Let's hope it doesn't go so far back as to
un-invent itself . And let's hope the technology doesn't become
it's own grandfather! (ala Fry, not to be confused with Marty McFly)
My ERP box has 8 15kRPM 18GB disks in a RAID10. The usable disk space is only 90GB, but that's enough for our purposes. The ability to potentially survive the failure or four individual drives is also a plus.
actually, you could be fscked after loosing only 2, if it were the right 2
I was thinking the same thing regarding "why doesn't he just google RAID", but your generalizations do not take into account the data types of all users.
if you have more than two hard drives, the way to go is RAID-5
Not necessarily. If you have 4 drives and require exremely fast disk writes and reads (ie, video) and you absolutely can't lose data, RAID5 sucks. You should go with RAID 0+1, because you can have the performance of RAID 0 and 1, without the parity overhead and without a significant slowdown on drive failure.
If you have a problem, you remove the bad drive, replace it and reinitialize the RAID arrive.
When a RAID 5 array loses a disk, performance is severely affected, as each "read" to the missing disk must be calculated by reading the same sector from every disk and caclulating the parity. When you replace the faulty drive, performance will still be terrible untill the entire dataset is rebuilt, which can take hours on BIG/SLOW drives.
You also never touched on the possibility of him having only 2 drives, in which case RAID 1 would be the way to go for data redundancy.
I remeber reading about this in last year's "Coolest Inventions of 2003" located here
Further investigation has also found that a guy registered a pantent for the same tech back in 2002
From the article:
The idea hinges on carefully mimicking background lighting conditions to help render an object invisible, similar to how a chameleon blends in with its surroundings. The rear and front surfaces of an object are covered with a material containing an array of photodetectors and light emitters respectively.
The photodetectors on the rear surface are used to record the intensity and color of a source of illumination behind the object. The light emitters on the front surface then generate light beams that exactly mimic the same measured intensity, color and trajectory. The result is that an observer looking at the front of the object appears to see straight through it.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't think I'm seeing what you're seeing. Will you explain what it is you see when you type localhost?
I get forwarded to localhost.be, which tells me to turn off keyword.enabled in about:config. After doing so, going to localhost gives the messagebox "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost."
I'm suprised no one has mentioned Audible.com. They have a pretty good selection of audio books and programs, but what is really nice is the selection of subscriptions, including daily taped radio programs, weekly magazines, and other goodies.
Books and subsriptions can be bought a la cart, or with their subscription plan "Audible Listener." The $15 listener plan gives you 1 book and 1 subscription per month, while the $20 plan gets you 2 books and 1 subscription
Like other legal digital audio, not everything that is available on regular audiobook format, and there is a DRM that will limit the amount of digital replications you can make, but it does allow you to burn to CD [and re-rip to whatever format you like] and listen on you iPod, provided you use iTunes (windows or mac), as well as some other MP3 players. Oh, you can listen on your computer, too.
Despite those problems, I still really like the program. I don't have to drive across town to the library or worry about return dates. Once I buy a book, I own it. And there aren't any contracts, provided you don't go with their "12-month-and-a-free-Muvo-MP3-player" plan.
visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc03/ and fast forward to 1:51:50
"We're at 2GHz today. IBM and Apple are today announcing that within 12 months that we'll be at 3GHz. 3GHz processor clock. That's up 50% within 12 months. And so, believe me, this architecture has legs."
Some people dispute what Jobs meant when he said that. At best, it could mean new 3GHz G5 PowerMacs by late June. Or at worst, it could mean that IBM will release a 3GHz G5 Processor by August 2004, since the G5 PowerMac was slated to ship in August of 2003.
The above is a moot point, anyway. Keeping the UI of an application consistent with the UI of all the other apps on a particular OS is very important if you want to increase the rate of adoption. Media players are an exception because just about every media player fux up the UI to a confusing level.
Take the look and feel of another popular open source media player as an example. When my mac buddies look for a video player capable of playing mpeg-2 (or whatever file-type it is they're having problems with that day) if I point them to VLC, they love it! It looks and feels exactly like any other mac application they use, from the metal UI, to the menu at the top of the screen, to the double-clickable.app bundle and high-res icon. They end up accepting it alot more easily than an application that didn't fit the Mac look and feel. Similarly, when you run VLC in Windows, it LOOKS and FEELS like a windows app, and on linux, it LOOKS and FEELS like a linux app. Hell, on BeOS, it looks and feels like a beos app.
I think it would be a step backwards for FireFox to consolidate on a single theme across all platforms.
I write alot of SQL code, including PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL. By convention, much of these languages use caps lock quite often and I would hate to have to hold down the shift key all day. I imagine people who write assembly for a living also feel the same way
Does it actually have anything stopping you from doing all that? If they are just MP3s then surely you can play them in any computer you want....?? How exactly do you "register" a computer with them anyway? Presumably they are not MP3s and require a proprietry player to read them?!
they are not mp3s. they are in sony's ATRAC format. you register a computer by downloading the software from their website and creating an account. this desktop proprietary, alongside their proprietary portables, is what will not sit well with most users
Permitted Uses: You may play the Connect Downloads an unlimited number of times on up to three (3) personal computers that are registered with the Connect store, including the personal computer on which the Connect Downloads are originally downloaded. Once downloaded to that personal computer, you may transfer the licensed Connect Downloads an unlimited number of times to portable music devices and media (except for WMG's Content, which may be transferred to up to three (3) different portable devices) that read the OpenMG DRM such as the HiMD, the Net MD, and the Memory Stick media. You may not thereafter transfer, copy or export (or the like) such Connect Download from one such device to another, or to any media of any kind without maintaining the OpenMGDRM. In addition, you may also "burn" up to a total of ten (10), (up to five (5) permanent copies of the Connect Downloads in compressed form in the Atrac3 codec encrypted and protected by the OpenMG DRM and up to five (5) Redbook CDs, (except for UMG's content, which may be burned to at least ten (10) Redbook CDs)), to either blank recordable CD-R compact discs or blank recordable CD-RW compact discs (i.e., a physical, non-interactive record configuration that conforms to either (i) in the case of CD-Rs, the so-called "Orange Book Part II" technical specification for "write once" compact discs or (ii) in the case of CD-RWs, the so-called "Orange Book Part III" technical specification for "re-writable" compact discs). Any burning or transferring capabilities of the Connect Downloads are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of the sound recording and underlying musical composition embodied in the Connect Download. Non-Permitted Uses: Any use of the sound recordings as embodied in the Connect Download other than as permitted above is a violation of the copyright in such sound recording under applicable laws, and is prohibited. Except as expressly permitted in the "Permitted Uses" section above, you may not reproduce, distribute or transfer the Connect Downloads, in any format. For example, you may not: (i) transfer the Connect Downloads to anyone else; (ii) register more than 3 computers with the Connect store at any one time; (iii) copy or transfer the Connect Downloads to more than the number of portable music devices expressly permitted in the "Permitted Uses" section above; (iv) "burn" more than ten (10) copies of any particular Connect Download to blank recordable compact disc; or (v) copy or transfer the Connect Downloads to any storage device or blank media not specifically authorized in the "Permitted Uses" section above. In addition, you may not reverse engineer, transcode, decompile, translate, adapt, modify, disassemble or otherwise tamper with the Content, or the software, or circumvent any technology designed to enforce these Limitations on Use. You further agree that you will not attempt to modify the software or the Usage Rules for any reason whatsoever, including for the purpose of disguising or changing ownership of the Content.
If you don't know, NetMD and HiMD are MiniDisc formats from Sony, and Memory Stick is Sonly's proprietary memory format. Oh yeah, and OpenMG is Sony's proprietary DRM software.
I don't know about you, but this doesn't sit well in my stomach.. ...but then again, neither would a big mac and fries:-P
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I beleive he was talking about making it compatible with XCode's built-in "distributed build", which works automatically via Rendevous and doesn't require any mucking around with command lines. (i.e. Just press the "Build" button)
Distributed build
Anyone could guess that bringing multiple processors to bear on a build would make it go much faster, but Xcode lets you act on the obvious solution. With the Rendezvous-enabled distributed build feature it's easy to simply farm out your build by distributing compile workload across idle desktop machines or, better, deploy a dedicated Xserve build farm to do in minutes what would take hours on any single machine.
I'm a happy mac owner, and while the parent is mostly true, I would like to raise a response to his assertion Make a DVD? Insert a disk, arrange the menus, and hit burn. 20 minutes later you're done.
I have an 867Mhz 12 G4 PowerBook with a DVD burner, and an old 1.6GHz Dell P4 with a video capture card.
As it turns out, the process is more like:
1) Import video from camera to Dell in DVD formatted MPEG-2
2) Transfer MPEG-2 files to Mac to throw into iDVD
3) Drag MPEG-2 file to iDVD and read error message: Unsupported File Type
4) try it again, and read the same message
5) search help files and come up with the following docs:
which say MPEG-1 is not supported, and "You can't add MPEG files to an iDVD project because they don't contain standard video tracks.", and "You can add most video or image files supported by QuickTime to your iDVD project."
Given the last quote, and the fact that it's pretty well known that QuickTime, out of the box, doesn't support MPEG-2, I thought that maybe purchasing QT6 MPEG-2 Playback would solve my problem
6) purchase said playback plug-in
7) try importing again. read error message. curse
8) purchase QuickTime Pro, hoping that will solve the problem.
9) curse when it doesn't
10) try importing the video into iMovie to see if that will work
11) curse when it doesn't
12) call AppleCare support and find out that importing MPEG-2 into iDVD is illegal
13) curse
14) shut down Mac OS X out of spite
15) launch Ulead DVD MovieFactory on the Dell which came free with the video capture card
16) Add videos, arrange menus, click next twice, click burn
17) 20 minutes later, you're done.
True story. iDVD doesn't support MPEG-2. this means that if you have MPEG-2 video, you will have to convert it to MOV (which happens real-time at best on an 867MHz powerbook), then import into iDVD, which then in-turn, re-encodes it into MPEG-2 and burns to DVD. With an 867MHz processor and a 1x DVD Burner, this takes several hours. I won't even mention how much hard drive space it takes or that the video is degraded after codec swapping.
I don't know about you, but I find it a little absurd that a program which purportedly burns to DVD will not accept DVD formatted MPEG-2. Maybe I assume too much.
To think I spent $19.99 on QT MPEG-2 support, $29.99 on QTPro, $49.99 on iLife for the newest version of iDVD and all of them together couldn't get the job done reasonably.
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Sony Minidisc Players use this type of jack (Picture here of the optical connector)
While it's true the digital and analog outputs plug into the same hole, they get their signal from different parts of that hole. The optical cable receives light from the bottom of the jack, while, as usual, the analog signal comes from copper connections on the side of the jack.
As I was hitting submit, I was reading the last half of his comment and whacked myself in the face a few times just for good measure. RTFC, I guess..
"To Serve Man" is also the name of a classic episode of The Twilight Zone where some Big -Headed Aliens "arrive on Earth, and immediately start helping man. They appear totally trustworthy and full of goodwill. This idea is backed up when they leave a book titled "To Serve Man" at the U.N. Michael Chambers, a decoding expert, along with thousands of other people book passage to the Kanamit's home panet. Meanwhile, Michael's assistant Pat is trying to decode the book left by the Kanamits. As Michael is boarding the Kanamit spacecraft, Pat runs up and tells Michael she has finished translating the book - it's a cookbook! Michael tries to escape, but is forced back inside by a Kanamit, and the craft leaves."
Convergys has offices all over the world. Not just in Canada and the US.
You don't have to explicitly define functions for callbacks.
When you're using a function that requires a callback function, instead of defining the function elsewhere, use create_function() like so:
eg: the function array_filter(input, callback) uses a callback as its second parameter.
$myArray = array(123, 456, 789, 'abcd', 'defg');
$numerics = array_filter($myArray, 'mycallback');
function mycallback($value) {
if(is_numeric($value))
return $value*2;
else return NULL;
}
using create_function(), you could replace the above with:
$myArray = array(123, 456, 789, 'abcd', 'defg');
$numerics = array_filter($myArray, create_function('$value', ' if(is_numeric($value)) return $value*2 else return FALSE'));
You also never touched on the possibility of him having only 2 drives, in which case RAID 1 would be the way to go for data redundancy.
ahh, I see :) I thought you meant something that was literally cute, like the mozilla dinosaur and the firefox, er, fox dancing a la hampster-dance. ha
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't think I'm seeing what you're seeing. Will you explain what it is you see when you type localhost?
I get forwarded to localhost.be, which tells me to turn off keyword.enabled in about:config. After doing so, going to localhost gives the messagebox "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost."
Am I missing something?
I'm suprised no one has mentioned Audible.com. They have a pretty good selection of audio books and programs, but what is really nice is the selection of subscriptions, including daily taped radio programs, weekly magazines, and other goodies.
Books and subsriptions can be bought a la cart, or with their subscription plan "Audible Listener." The $15 listener plan gives you 1 book and 1 subscription per month, while the $20 plan gets you 2 books and 1 subscription
Like other legal digital audio, not everything that is available on regular audiobook format, and there is a DRM that will limit the amount of digital replications you can make, but it does allow you to burn to CD [and re-rip to whatever format you like] and listen on you iPod, provided you use iTunes (windows or mac), as well as some other MP3 players. Oh, you can listen on your computer, too.
Despite those problems, I still really like the program. I don't have to drive across town to the library or worry about return dates. Once I buy a book, I own it. And there aren't any contracts, provided you don't go with their "12-month-and-a-free-Muvo-MP3-player" plan.
Check it out, you may like it.
June 23, 2003
visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc03/ and fast forward to 1:51:50
"We're at 2GHz today. IBM and Apple are today announcing that within 12 months that we'll be at 3GHz. 3GHz processor clock. That's up 50% within 12 months. And so, believe me, this architecture has legs."
Some people dispute what Jobs meant when he said that. At best, it could mean new 3GHz G5 PowerMacs by late June. Or at worst, it could mean that IBM will release a 3GHz G5 Processor by August 2004, since the G5 PowerMac was slated to ship in August of 2003.
I don't see other popular media players using the standard windows UI. Do you?
.app bundle and high-res icon. They end up accepting it alot more easily than an application that didn't fit the Mac look and feel. Similarly, when you run VLC in Windows, it LOOKS and FEELS like a windows app, and on linux, it LOOKS and FEELS like a linux app. Hell, on BeOS, it looks and feels like a beos app.
The above is a moot point, anyway. Keeping the UI of an application consistent with the UI of all the other apps on a particular OS is very important if you want to increase the rate of adoption. Media players are an exception because just about every media player fux up the UI to a confusing level.
Take the look and feel of another popular open source media player as an example. When my mac buddies look for a video player capable of playing mpeg-2 (or whatever file-type it is they're having problems with that day) if I point them to VLC, they love it! It looks and feels exactly like any other mac application they use, from the metal UI, to the menu at the top of the screen, to the double-clickable
I think it would be a step backwards for FireFox to consolidate on a single theme across all platforms.
I write alot of SQL code, including PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL. By convention, much of these languages use caps lock quite often and I would hate to have to hold down the shift key all day. I imagine people who write assembly for a living also feel the same way
Check it, from connect.com's EULA: (emphasis mine)
If you don't know, NetMD and HiMD are MiniDisc formats from Sony, and Memory Stick is Sonly's proprietary memory format. Oh yeah, and OpenMG is Sony's proprietary DRM software.
I don't know about you, but this doesn't sit well in my stomach..
...but then again, neither would a big mac and fries
Microsoft, Amazon, et. al. are way ahead of you... They're called DUPES
*bu-dum-ching*
I can just see it. Every election year, God holds this thing over our heads and says "Don't fuck up"
We've seen Toutatis before:
:)
1989, 1992, 2004
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/solar/eng/toutatis.htm
Oh! it looks like this headline will come every four years... just enough time for people to forget
Check it out
$800,000 / $30,170,000,000 = .00002651640703
how's that for BG's $0.02 :-P
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From Apple
I have an 867Mhz 12 G4 PowerBook with a DVD burner, and an old 1.6GHz Dell P4 with a video capture card.
As it turns out, the process is more like:
1) Import video from camera to Dell in DVD formatted MPEG-2
2) Transfer MPEG-2 files to Mac to throw into iDVD
3) Drag MPEG-2 file to iDVD and read error message: Unsupported File Type
4) try it again, and read the same message
5) search help files and come up with the following docs:
Unsupported movie and graphic formats
Movie and graphic formats that work with iDVD
which say MPEG-1 is not supported, and "You can't add MPEG files to an iDVD project because they don't contain standard video tracks.", and "You can add most video or image files supported by QuickTime to your iDVD project."
Given the last quote, and the fact that it's pretty well known that QuickTime, out of the box, doesn't support MPEG-2, I thought that maybe purchasing QT6 MPEG-2 Playback would solve my problem
6) purchase said playback plug-in
7) try importing again. read error message. curse
8) purchase QuickTime Pro, hoping that will solve the problem.
9) curse when it doesn't
10) try importing the video into iMovie to see if that will work
11) curse when it doesn't
12) call AppleCare support and find out that importing MPEG-2 into iDVD is illegal
13) curse
14) shut down Mac OS X out of spite
15) launch Ulead DVD MovieFactory on the Dell which came free with the video capture card
16) Add videos, arrange menus, click next twice, click burn
17) 20 minutes later, you're done.
True story. iDVD doesn't support MPEG-2. this means that if you have MPEG-2 video, you will have to convert it to MOV (which happens real-time at best on an 867MHz powerbook), then import into iDVD, which then in-turn, re-encodes it into MPEG-2 and burns to DVD. With an 867MHz processor and a 1x DVD Burner, this takes several hours. I won't even mention how much hard drive space it takes or that the video is degraded after codec swapping.
I don't know about you, but I find it a little absurd that a program which purportedly burns to DVD will not accept DVD formatted MPEG-2. Maybe I assume too much.
To think I spent $19.99 on QT MPEG-2 support, $29.99 on QTPro, $49.99 on iLife for the newest version of iDVD and all of them together couldn't get the job done reasonably.
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