Don't think there are much choice here - us non-tech person are simply not capable to place "chipsets used" as one of the shopping criteria for notebooks, unlike cost, style, convinience, stability and reliability that we could handle with ease. Linux is a great OS, as long as I don't have to mess around with all those tecky stuffs and got all the hardware working like it were on Windows, or even better.
It is because we could then gain more knowledge about the internal structure and composition of the earth. These information may help better our predictions for earth quakes, or vocano erruptions, for example, and help save some lifes.
But then, taking things at their face values without asking "why" is not exactly something we would like to classify as intelligent, be it human or non-human.
Now it gets really fun. Turn down the light source. If light is a wave, you expect the same interference pattern, only dimmer. Err, no. What happens is that you start getting a speckled pattern. Eventually, the bands dissolve entirely and you just get a single spot. This proves that light is a particle.
The really fun part is, there was no single spot, even when one get down to a single photon each. Over time, the interference pattern still emerges, as if those photons arrived at a later time "knew" where the previous photon was. See here or here
people keep saying that it is my music to play on any of my equipment. No, you don't own the music on the CDs you bought from a store. So those are not your data. (If they are really yours, why do you have to pay at all??)
When you buy a music CD from a store, you actually pay for the license to enjoy the music in a personal manner and a right to play it on any equipment you like. It does not include, however, the rights to redistribute, rent, or broadcast. It is a license with limits.
Likewise, the music one purchased from iTMS does not give you unlimited rights, too. Because of the price, you can only enjoy the music on selected equipments and with a very restricted freedom of usage. If you don't like these licensing terms, you simply not buy from iTMS, you shall look into buying a CD instead. Yes, it cost much more, but you end up with a much less restrictive license on the songs.
So what's wrong with that (aside form overpricing of CDs)?
# Cooledit for Mac OS? And I mean really as good (or better?) I am DJ, I also make songs myself using the multitrack technology of it; I also want to be able to process my soundfiles with compression and effects wherever needed. Finale, Logic, Reason to name a few, or may be GarageBand? Want some free/shareware? Look here on Apple or Versiontracker
# Instead of Office, Openoffice?
Actually I found Office 2004 quite good, but yes, OpenOffice will do.
# good ssh programs like securecrt? (I love the program, will be tabbed in next version)... It's convenience... /usr/bin/ssh:-)
# good editors like Editplus ? (It just works - always - have an old license and it still works perfect... XCode, Eclipse [sun.com], or the famous BBEdit.
# does it work good with windows sharing (netbios) ? (I know about Samba but sometimes got probs with it - its not exactly point-and-click there unless using Webmin or such..
All built-in, just browse to your Windows PC/server and double click to mount the shared volume, not even need to map a network drive.
# Needs to work 24/7, no overheating issues like my Compaq EVO N1000v laptop (which needs to be issued back to Compaq because of failing parts - 5th time!!) and Compaq finds it normal?
May be don't shut it down?
Just never lock it inside a closed cabinet:-)
# Stuff like Paintshop Pro (Like it more over photoshop ; less bloated and faster)?
I like Photoshop, may be it is bloat, but hey, it is FAST!
# good and easy desktop player like winamp ? (RIP)
iTunes, man, iTunes!
# Can I turn off automatic updates?
Yes, one mouse click away in an obvious place (System Preferences -> Software Update)
# I am accustomed with Slackware, NetBSD and Solaris. Is OS X as maintainable as Slackware? Everything through the prompt using Bash?
Yes and more, there is the Apple Script, a global scripting system to let you control every OS X compliant app, and you can do it via the shell, too.
Now you have one less opponent to worry about taking out your own spywares in your furture OSes.
As usual, history repeats itself: 1. Accquire your opponents (strategically speaking) 2. Let it dies or sitting there doing nothing useful 3. Start offering your own (crappy) spyware removal solution 4. Start incorporating your own spyware 5. The crappy solution will NOT remove your own spyware, however, and people (Dell?) complains. 6. Make the spyware part of your OS and claim it an integrated feature that must not be removed 7. DOJ, Dell, us users can't do a damn thing about it, aside from whining in/.
Very true, indeed, especially here in Hong Kong, where most of the developers aka programmers works 100+ hrs/week and project time lines keep slipping for months.
Just my $0.02.
However, you'd better be very rich to use this service as the tariff is very expensive, and PCMCIA means you are virtually out if you are in favor of light weighted devices such as PDAs or mini-notebooks, and for these devices, battery life alone is already a show stopper, not to mentioned the added weight and size, and if the device will support PCMCIA at all.
As with any piece of technology, they will get smaller, cost less, and consume less power. Remember, this is only the first generation of 3G data cards, you can be sure there will be more (and hopefully better) to come.
the transluency effect doesn't look quite right to me.
You can see from one of the screen shot the hour hand of the background xclock having exactly the same dark green color over the spots where two transluency windows overlapped and where only one transluency window is on top of it.
May be the calculations stopped at the first level?
Can't seems to find it from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash, nor from other mirrors.
The most updated version is still 2.05b, not even the patch to 3.0 is available...
The human eye is especially sensitive at wavelength of 550nm, that is Green light and that's why for the same power output (watt), the green LED appears much brighter and has a much higher luminous intensity (unit in cd or mcd) than blue or red LED.
who would want a machine merely running on 2 x 6GHz CPUs with only a TB of storage by the year of 2007?
Moore's law predicts approx. double every 18 months, nowadays we are looking at avg 2~4GHz CPUs, so by 2007, it should be avg. 8~16GHz.
800GB harddisks shall have the price of today's 200GB.
But then, what is that pair of 16GHz CPUs doing during that whole 1 minute boot? Trying to detect non-existance plug and play hardware? Scanning and analysing your harddisk for traces of evidents of using privated MS software/childpron/linux distros? Uploading your My Documents folder to the MS CRM server for analysis for better-customer-support? Waiting to get authorization-to-use(tm) from the forever-under-DDOS Microsoft server?
My notebooks, my desktops/towers all equipped with both wired and wireless (802.11g) networking, and my PDA is 802.11b. Do I use both? You bet. 802.11g doesn't allow me to broadcast video streams at full DV resolution to the other part of my house, but wireless is convinience when relocatiing a piece of hardware while maintaining connectivity, albiet much slower. Notebooks and PDA can't go without wireless LAN, I am afraid.
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Don't think there are much choice here - us non-tech person are simply not capable to place "chipsets used" as one of the shopping criteria for notebooks, unlike cost, style, convinience, stability and reliability that we could handle with ease. Linux is a great OS, as long as I don't have to mess around with all those tecky stuffs and got all the hardware working like it were on Windows, or even better.
... the meaning of "invention" and "innovation"
remember that little pocket on your jean at your right hand side?
Thanks Steve, it just works(tm)!
It is because we could then gain more knowledge about the internal structure and composition of the earth. These information may help better our predictions for earth quakes, or vocano erruptions, for example, and help save some lifes.
In China, nuclear weapons declare You! Sorry, can't help it :-)
But then, taking things at their face values without asking "why" is not exactly something we would like to classify as intelligent, be it human or non-human.
The really fun part is, there was no single spot, even when one get down to a single photon each. Over time, the interference pattern still emerges, as if those photons arrived at a later time "knew" where the previous photon was.
See here or here
Quite intersting, and indeed some school of thoughts see the Universe as a gigantic computational engine.
Try "richard feynman" in Amazon.com Books.
- You will have interference for the one whose slit results you have observed, and not for the others (as you didn't observe the results).
YES for the others as you didn't read the slit records. So whatever you did, you interfered the whole experiment setup, not just one of them.- (as long as you are careful to destroy the other slit records after)
Once you have observed the interference records, all the slit records have become useless. Besides, how do you know which two to destroy?When you buy a music CD from a store, you actually pay for the license to enjoy the music in a personal manner and a right to play it on any equipment you like. It does not include, however, the rights to redistribute, rent, or broadcast. It is a license with limits.
Likewise, the music one purchased from iTMS does not give you unlimited rights, too. Because of the price, you can only enjoy the music on selected equipments and with a very restricted freedom of usage. If you don't like these licensing terms, you simply not buy from iTMS, you shall look into buying a CD instead. Yes, it cost much more, but you end up with a much less restrictive license on the songs.
So what's wrong with that (aside form overpricing of CDs)?
In case you didn't notice, there are two extra USB ports on every Apple USB keyboard.
Better though, use Bluetooth.
# Cooledit for Mac OS? And I mean really as good (or better?) I am DJ, I also make songs myself using the multitrack technology of it; I also want to be able to process my soundfiles with compression and effects wherever needed.
Finale, Logic, Reason to name a few, or may be GarageBand? Want some free/shareware? Look here on Apple or Versiontracker
# Instead of Office, Openoffice?
Actually I found Office 2004 quite good, but yes, OpenOffice will do.
# good ssh programs like securecrt? (I love the program, will be tabbed in next version)... It's convenience ...
/usr/bin/ssh :-)
# good editors like Editplus ? (It just works - always - have an old license and it still works perfect...
XCode, Eclipse [sun.com], or the famous BBEdit.
# does it work good with windows sharing (netbios) ? (I know about Samba but sometimes got probs with it - its not exactly point-and-click there unless using Webmin or such ..
All built-in, just browse to your Windows PC/server and double click to mount the shared volume, not even need to map a network drive.
# Needs to work 24/7, no overheating issues like my Compaq EVO N1000v laptop (which needs to be issued back to Compaq because of failing parts - 5th time!!) and Compaq finds it normal? :-)
May be don't shut it down?
Just never lock it inside a closed cabinet
# Stuff like Paintshop Pro (Like it more over photoshop ; less bloated and faster)?
I like Photoshop, may be it is bloat, but hey, it is FAST!
# good and easy desktop player like winamp ? (RIP)
iTunes, man, iTunes!
# Can I turn off automatic updates?
Yes, one mouse click away in an obvious place (System Preferences -> Software Update)
# I am accustomed with Slackware, NetBSD and Solaris. Is OS X as maintainable as Slackware? Everything through the prompt using Bash?
Yes and more, there is the Apple Script, a global scripting system to let you control every OS X compliant app, and you can do it via the shell, too.
Now you have one less opponent to worry about taking out your own spywares in your furture OSes.
/.
As usual, history repeats itself:
1. Accquire your opponents (strategically speaking)
2. Let it dies or sitting there doing nothing useful
3. Start offering your own (crappy) spyware removal solution
4. Start incorporating your own spyware
5. The crappy solution will NOT remove your own spyware, however, and people (Dell?) complains.
6. Make the spyware part of your OS and claim it an integrated feature that must not be removed
7. DOJ, Dell, us users can't do a damn thing about it, aside from whining in
QED
this is like China was in her 80's...
Just curious, does that mean very soon, the government could legally pass this information to RIAA/MPAA without any nay say from the colleges?
Very true, indeed, especially here in Hong Kong, where most of the developers aka programmers works 100+ hrs/week and project time lines keep slipping for months. Just my $0.02.
Nextel, or insert any dialup wireless boardband service here, is that you can use this card and have 384kbps downlink speed in Australia, Demark, Japan (yes, Japan), Hong Kong, UK, Sweden, Ireland, Isarel, Italy, and Austria except, well, US of A...
However, you'd better be very rich to use this service as the tariff is very expensive, and PCMCIA means you are virtually out if you are in favor of light weighted devices such as PDAs or mini-notebooks, and for these devices, battery life alone is already a show stopper, not to mentioned the added weight and size, and if the device will support PCMCIA at all.
As with any piece of technology, they will get smaller, cost less, and consume less power. Remember, this is only the first generation of 3G data cards, you can be sure there will be more (and hopefully better) to come.
the transluency effect doesn't look quite right to me.
You can see from one of the screen shot the hour hand of the background xclock having exactly the same dark green color over the spots where two transluency windows overlapped and where only one transluency window is on top of it.
May be the calculations stopped at the first level?
Can't seems to find it from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash, nor from other mirrors.
The most updated version is still 2.05b, not even the patch to 3.0 is available...
The human eye is especially sensitive at wavelength of 550nm, that is Green light and that's why for the same power output (watt), the green LED appears much brighter and has a much higher luminous intensity (unit in cd or mcd) than blue or red LED.
This is, too, controversy, as whether space-time has its own physical existance is still not entirely clear.
because of earth's magnetic field
now we have strong evidence supporting that all Dinosaurs have pacemaker implant...
no, it is the atmosphere that protects us from the harmful solar radiation, not the earth's magnetic field.
Now of course, if the Torjan uses unlink...
Moore's law predicts approx. double every 18 months, nowadays we are looking at avg 2~4GHz CPUs, so by 2007, it should be avg. 8~16GHz.
800GB harddisks shall have the price of today's 200GB.
But then, what is that pair of 16GHz CPUs doing during that whole 1 minute boot? Trying to detect non-existance plug and play hardware? Scanning and analysing your harddisk for traces of evidents of using privated MS software/childpron/linux distros? Uploading your My Documents folder to the MS CRM server for analysis for better-customer-support? Waiting to get authorization-to-use(tm) from the forever-under-DDOS Microsoft server?
My notebooks, my desktops/towers all equipped with both wired and wireless (802.11g) networking, and my PDA is 802.11b. Do I use both? You bet. 802.11g doesn't allow me to broadcast video streams at full DV resolution to the other part of my house, but wireless is convinience when relocatiing a piece of hardware while maintaining connectivity, albiet much slower. Notebooks and PDA can't go without wireless LAN, I am afraid.