Sorry, I was unaware of GTKPod (nice of you to mention it 8-P ). A little while ago, the IPod was only supported via linux through a fairly aquard mechanism which involved running windows software under Wine. Additionally, the old Ipods didn't have the ability to generate their own playlists, the database issue was a major hangup.
Price wise, the Neuros is no worse than the ipod, and while the hard-disk backpack version is larger, it does substantially more (including the possiblity of hardware upgrades). The big selling point for me is the built in FM Transmitter. A close second is the (beta) Linux support. The Ipod has neither of these. Although several of the (relatively) cheaper Archos Jukebox devices have offered good GNU/Linux support for some time now (because they are fundamentally external harddisks).
Not that everyone cares, but a major selling point for the OGG/Vorbis format is that it is an open standard (MP3 is not). Want to learn more (or about the other projects by the same people/groups) check out their website.
If you really haven't seen and worked with it, they have really cleaned it up from the last version (2000).
Cannot, no version of Outlook is avalible for GNU/Linux. My work is GNU/Linux, Digital(now HP) Unix, and VAX, at home I have 2 Redhat 9 machines, and one Mandrake 9.1 machine.
On a sidenote, nearly all MS software has this problem, and some of it costs substantially more than a whole computer.
I wonder how long it will take before one of the defendants claims that the since the members of RIAA didn't defend their copyright for 5 years, they are invalid.
The five most important words in the above quote are '...I can build my own system.'
You can buy a functional PC for $300(Walmart/northgate.com etc.). A good one for $600(cyberpowerinc.com,accubyte.com etc.). You typically pay more if you build your own since you are buying premium parts. The other major difference between PC's (esspecially build your own) and Macs is that you can make really weird casses for PCs. Check out micro-itx.com for some examples. In the recent past, almost all computers have been "fast enough" for office/email/webbrowsing/home music/video playback. I've had a lot of fun building a low power consuption PC (fanless) for my home entertainment center. Because Apple requires that you buy their hardware, you end up with restricted applications, just as when you use their (or Microsoft's) operating system(s) you have restricted control/choice over your environment. That is enough for some of us to stay away from their products.
Read the rest of the article. He goes on to talk about the dual processor performance. Also, for many applications, even on dual processor machines, single processor performance is key. Very few applications (certainly very few desktop applications) are designed (or even can be designed) to take advantage of multiple processors.
However, speeds of processors asside, if you want the Mac, buy the Mac, if you want a Windows machine, buy a windows machine. If you don't want to pay either the Apple Tax or the Microsoft Tax, buy a machine without an operating system and install GNU/Linux or BSD.
IBM has done some fantastic things with it's line/version of the PowerPC processors. While they are expensive, their Mini-Computers (Deep Blue etc.) are really amazing, especially when compaired to other computers made at the same time. However, these are intended for applications very, very different from what a typical Mac G5 would be doing.
Anyway, if Apple's use of the 970 processors are anywhere as sophisticated as IBM's the Mac G5s will kick butt.
As to the relative speed compaired to a INTEL/AMD/VIA based PC. When they are first shipped I'ld expect the Mac G5's to be about 25-30% faster. However, I'm pretty sure that AMD and INTEL have been holding back realising newer, faster processors and trying to make some money on their current offerings. So, when there is a faster processor out there, both AMD and INTEL will rapidly release much faster/more sophisticated processors. I'ld also be very curious about the relative speed/power consumption of all the different processors 600Mhz Eden and 1Ghz Transmeta are the top two (currently).
Unfortunately, despite what CS majors say, there are lots of people who can write programs. During the early days of computers, there were not a lot of programmers. Now there are. The number of programming jobs have not increased at the same rate. Therefore, the supply has increased while the demand has not. The salaries of programmers should go down. The way for a programmer who was able to demand three times average salary in the early ninties to keep the same income is to work three times as much. Sorry, that's economics.
Wal-mart's entry won't kill of NetFlix. Wal-mart is known for filtering out possibly offensive material from CD's and DVD's that they sell. There have actually been some CD's with two versions, the one with the bad language, and the one sold at Wal-Mart. I really doubt that Wal-mart will rent anything that isn't perceived to be family friendly (Porn, Anime, European cinema).
I think that this is common in the printing/publishing world. When I goto have a poster printed (or anything else printed professionally), they always ask for it in postscript, encapsulated postscript, or pdf (or ai). I think this is because a good chunk of the publishing world relies on Adobe's products.
In kind of other news, Physical Review has now started to accept MS Word documents for publication (used to be only revtex).
While I don't have direct experience with the online education system, my wife got her Masters from a program which offered both a Face to Face and an online classes. While we were local, she was required to take some of her courses in the online format due to lack of students in the face to face versions. I think that she learned about the same amount in the online and the face to face classes.
Basically, in addition to the book, the sylibus, and the final exam, an online class should provide you with work (which you are supposedly motivated to do) and rapid responces to your work. Therefore allowing you to quickly learn by example and understand your mistakes. If you are able to motivate yourself, and already know enough about the subject to find your mistakes, you would be better off simply buying a book.
On top of all that you said, the suposed reason for gas taxes is to support the highway infrastructure. Road use is just about proportional to the fourth power of a vehicle's axle weight. This means that my wife's 240DL, which weights about 2500 lbs and has two axles, is doing about 1/167th the damage as a 9000lb. Expedition or other monstrous vehicle. That is a huge subsidy to the SUV owner. SUVs are already getting a subsidy under the gas tax system, because they burn about 3 times as much fuel as a smaller car, but weight much more.
point is, if they go with a milage based system, the darn well better take vehicle weight into consideration.
There already is endless copyright. Remember that the Disney corporation got the copyrights extended so that Mickey Mouse wouldn't enter public domain. As a consequence, nothing published by anyone who died after Walt Disney is in public domain (unless put their by the copyright owner).
Perhaps a better way of dealing with copyright's lasting into perpetuity would be to require that the only one who can extend the copyright would be the ORIGINAL author. This would prevent something created by Walt Disney from being constantly renewed by the Disney Corporation. Like that law would ever pass.
The USS Yorktown, has been disabled several times by windows networking errors. Basically, Microsoft doesn't make products that are up to Military Specifications.
And for only 4.5 million USD. If only I had that much.
Seriously, that thing would make one hell of a house. You could just more it up to a dock. Barge on the Seine my butt. I want an aircraft carrier in New York Harbor.
On second thought that would make one hell of a target for terrorists. Better put it somewhere in New Jersey.
Not that I doubt the reporter for CSM tried to understand the explaination given to him by the scientists, but Black Holes are a prediction of General Relativity which is only applicable to very large masses and very large distances. At the very small scale at which the LHC operates, General Relativity, and therefore black holes, would not play a part. What the LHC will do, however, is produce matter with a similar energy density to a black hole, not black holes.
The reason why creating matter that dense is useful is so that they can observe interactions between particles which are ussually confined.
Physical access to machines. In all modern operating systems you can reset the root password, if you know what you're doing during a re-boot. Ergo, there is no need to have a back door.
I hate to say it, but only an idiot would counterfit any currency. Wired magazine had an article on this a couple of years ago. The pennalties for counterfitting in the USA is $250,000 AND 25 years in prision per offence. An offence is making, or trying to pass a counterfit note. It is also pretty easy to get caught, since most clerks have pens which can detect fake notes.
As for the technical aspects. Take a look at the "big head" notes. Their is microprinting on the lower left side of the portrait. This microprinting is so fine, that light reflecting off of them scatters making it impossible to make a clear copy. In addition, there is multi-colored ink on one of the 5/10/20/50/100 numbers in the corners. And there is that pesky watermark. Oh, and ink from inkjets runs like there is no tommorow. A sweatty person couldn't pass those notes.
All in all, the penalties for counterfitting and the risk of getting caught are too high.
Unfortunately, there is a whole host of issues to be overcome with compressed air cars. I think that there is currently one "manufacturer" that is trying to push them. On closer inspection, that company looks like a patent-holding company looking to liscense their technology to others rather than take any risks themselves. The main problem with compressed air vehicles is that they will loose power as the compressed air charge runs out. I for one want a vehicle that will always behave the same.
The problem with having lots of battery exchanges would be having lots of batteries. Which have lots of heavy metals, and are probably worse for the environment than gassoline. What is needed is a fuel cell vehicle with a medium that can be changed or refilled, possibly in liquid form.
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Sorry, I was unaware of GTKPod (nice of you to mention it 8-P ). A little while ago, the IPod was only supported via linux through a fairly aquard mechanism which involved running windows software under Wine. Additionally, the old Ipods didn't have the ability to generate their own playlists, the database issue was a major hangup.
Price wise, the Neuros is no worse than the ipod, and while the hard-disk backpack version is larger, it does substantially more (including the possiblity of hardware upgrades). The big selling point for me is the built in FM Transmitter. A close second is the (beta) Linux support. The Ipod has neither of these. Although several of the (relatively) cheaper Archos Jukebox devices have offered good GNU/Linux support for some time now (because they are fundamentally external harddisks).
Not that everyone cares, but a major selling point for the OGG/Vorbis format is that it is an open standard (MP3 is not). Want to learn more (or about the other projects by the same people/groups) check out their website.
Cannot, no version of Outlook is avalible for GNU/Linux. My work is GNU/Linux, Digital(now HP) Unix, and VAX, at home I have 2 Redhat 9 machines, and one Mandrake 9.1 machine.
On a sidenote, nearly all MS software has this problem, and some of it costs substantially more than a whole computer.
I wonder how long it will take before one of the defendants claims that the since the members of RIAA didn't defend their copyright for 5 years, they are invalid.
You can buy a functional PC for $300(Walmart/northgate.com etc.). A good one for $600(cyberpowerinc.com,accubyte.com etc.). You typically pay more if you build your own since you are buying premium parts. The other major difference between PC's (esspecially build your own) and Macs is that you can make really weird casses for PCs. Check out micro-itx.com for some examples. In the recent past, almost all computers have been "fast enough" for office/email/webbrowsing/home music/video playback. I've had a lot of fun building a low power consuption PC (fanless) for my home entertainment center. Because Apple requires that you buy their hardware, you end up with restricted applications, just as when you use their (or Microsoft's) operating system(s) you have restricted control/choice over your environment. That is enough for some of us to stay away from their products.
However, speeds of processors asside, if you want the Mac, buy the Mac, if you want a Windows machine, buy a windows machine. If you don't want to pay either the Apple Tax or the Microsoft Tax, buy a machine without an operating system and install GNU/Linux or BSD.
Anyway, if Apple's use of the 970 processors are anywhere as sophisticated as IBM's the Mac G5s will kick butt.
As to the relative speed compaired to a INTEL/AMD/VIA based PC. When they are first shipped I'ld expect the Mac G5's to be about 25-30% faster. However, I'm pretty sure that AMD and INTEL have been holding back realising newer, faster processors and trying to make some money on their current offerings. So, when there is a faster processor out there, both AMD and INTEL will rapidly release much faster/more sophisticated processors. I'ld also be very curious about the relative speed/power consumption of all the different processors 600Mhz Eden and 1Ghz Transmeta are the top two (currently).
Unfortunately, despite what CS majors say, there are lots of people who can write programs. During the early days of computers, there were not a lot of programmers. Now there are. The number of programming jobs have not increased at the same rate. Therefore, the supply has increased while the demand has not. The salaries of programmers should go down. The way for a programmer who was able to demand three times average salary in the early ninties to keep the same income is to work three times as much. Sorry, that's economics.
Wal-mart's entry won't kill of NetFlix. Wal-mart is known for filtering out possibly offensive material from CD's and DVD's that they sell. There have actually been some CD's with two versions, the one with the bad language, and the one sold at Wal-Mart. I really doubt that Wal-mart will rent anything that isn't perceived to be family friendly (Porn, Anime, European cinema).
In kind of other news, Physical Review has now started to accept MS Word documents for publication (used to be only revtex).
Basically, in addition to the book, the sylibus, and the final exam, an online class should provide you with work (which you are supposedly motivated to do) and rapid responces to your work. Therefore allowing you to quickly learn by example and understand your mistakes. If you are able to motivate yourself, and already know enough about the subject to find your mistakes, you would be better off simply buying a book.
point is, if they go with a milage based system, the darn well better take vehicle weight into consideration.
There already is endless copyright. Remember that the Disney corporation got the copyrights extended so that Mickey Mouse wouldn't enter public domain. As a consequence, nothing published by anyone who died after Walt Disney is in public domain (unless put their by the copyright owner).
Perhaps a better way of dealing with copyright's lasting into perpetuity would be to require that the only one who can extend the copyright would be the ORIGINAL author. This would prevent something created by Walt Disney from being constantly renewed by the Disney Corporation. Like that law would ever pass.
The USS Yorktown, has been disabled several times by windows networking errors. Basically, Microsoft doesn't make products that are up to Military Specifications.
Seriously, that thing would make one hell of a house. You could just more it up to a dock. Barge on the Seine my butt. I want an aircraft carrier in New York Harbor.
On second thought that would make one hell of a target for terrorists. Better put it somewhere in New Jersey.
While it is fiction, it does seem to deal with a large chunk (and more) of this conversation.
The reason why creating matter that dense is useful is so that they can observe interactions between particles which are ussually confined.
Physical access to machines. In all modern operating systems you can reset the root password, if you know what you're doing during a re-boot. Ergo, there is no need to have a back door.
As for the technical aspects. Take a look at the "big head" notes. Their is microprinting on the lower left side of the portrait. This microprinting is so fine, that light reflecting off of them scatters making it impossible to make a clear copy. In addition, there is multi-colored ink on one of the 5/10/20/50/100 numbers in the corners. And there is that pesky watermark. Oh, and ink from inkjets runs like there is no tommorow. A sweatty person couldn't pass those notes.
All in all, the penalties for counterfitting and the risk of getting caught are too high.
Guess that brings a whole new meaning to MANhattin.
Personally I'ld rather have 60 600Mhz Eden Mini-ITX's going.
Unfortunately, there is a whole host of issues to be overcome with compressed air cars. I think that there is currently one "manufacturer" that is trying to push them. On closer inspection, that company looks like a patent-holding company looking to liscense their technology to others rather than take any risks themselves. The main problem with compressed air vehicles is that they will loose power as the compressed air charge runs out. I for one want a vehicle that will always behave the same.
The problem with having lots of battery exchanges would be having lots of batteries. Which have lots of heavy metals, and are probably worse for the environment than gassoline. What is needed is a fuel cell vehicle with a medium that can be changed or refilled, possibly in liquid form.