Max/MSP and Pure Data have been doing stuff like this for years. The only thing "unique" here is the fact that they aren't using a mouse, and that's just a bunch of standard Max/MSP and PD externals.
Bleh.
As long as we have to physically interact with electronic devices with some part of our body there will always be buttons, switches, knobs, dials, etc. I think we are much more likely to see digital versions of these types of interface devices becoming widely adopted. Space is certainly a premium, but with any physical object you always have a back side, for example my dad was recently in Holland and his business partner over there drives a car that has the radio controls on the back side of the stearing wheel, exactly where your fingers rest when you drive.
Not to mention forcing the general public to learn a new way to interface, which we all know is difficult, but these devices are going to have to be extremely well made to withstand all the abuse. With the rapidly dropping quality of consumer-level products I'd be quite wary of purchasing something that by it's very nature would have to go through all that.
It doesn't really matter what the Q&A says... Up until a couple months ago I had a cable connection that advertised 128k download speeds and there was rarely a time when I got LESS than 128, often much much faster.
Volvo unveiled this in their safety vehicle about a year ago. It hasn't made it into a non-concept car yet, but this technology seems nearly identical.
This is going to finally bring around some really miniscule systems that actually have expansion slots. Very very cool, now the size limitation to a useful system is going to be the height of the CPU cooler!
gah! yes! now i can finish watching the only anime show i've ever watched, jungle wa itsumo hale nochi guu! excellent!
as far as the difficulty finding torrents goes...
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you just need to find different sites for your specific needs, for example one site that will have a weekly torrent for that tv show like to watch, another site for the latest films, another for your cds... yeah, it takes a bit more work than other p2p programs, but it's worth it to get around the bogus files and slow download times of other p2p programs.
and where do you find these torrent sites? google...
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I absolutely love Windows 2000 Pro, I've never had a problem with it... but it seems that the further along we get I like their OS's less and less. XP sucks, Longhorn seems to build on that so my switch to Linux is innevitable I just hope Adobe (yes, yes... the gimp, I know... I don't like it as much) and Macromedia wise up before I have to make the jump.:)
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I can work fine in linux as a CLI, but I simply didn't/don't know enough about windows managers to fix the error. It had something to do with the taskbar in whatever Redhat's default WM is crashing, the taskbar would disappear, restart, then immediately crash again, a never ending cycle rendering the WM useless.
By the same token, the default Linux system, ext2fs, does not journal at all.
so does the osx version of ext2fs journal?
Why do "next gen" OSs have such GIANT interfaces?
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Apart from this image the new trend of making next generation operating systems which have giant interfaces really worries me. I always felt the advantage of running 1600x1200 (or 3200x1200 in my case) was to have more workspace, not a higher resolution interface. When OSX came out I installed it on my iBooks, then immediately uninstalled it primarily due to it's absolutely intrusive interface (secondarily due to lack of support for the software I was using at that time. My PC recently suffered an HD crash and I couldn't find my Windows 2000 Pro CD so I installed XP (yeah, I tried linux... Redhat to be exact, and the out-of-the-box ceased to function after two reboots), and came across a similar issue... the interface is too big, too audacious, and clamors for attention.
In Vegas the person with the biggest, brightest, flashiest sign will make the most money... but when it comes to OSs small, fast, and unobtrusive is the key, too bad nobody else sees that.
Journaling File System: for those who don't know..
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I didn't know what it was... hopefully this'll be useful for other people.
From whatis.com
A journaling file system is a fault-resilient file system in which data integrity is ensured because updates to directories and bitmaps are constantly written to a serial log on disk before the original disk log is updated. In the event of a system failure, a full journaling filesystem ensures that the data on the disk has been restored to its pre-crash configuration. It also recovers unsaved data and stores it in the location where it would have gone if the computer had not crashed, making it an important feature for mission-critical applications.
Not all operating systems provide the same journaling technology. Windows NT offers a less robust version of the full system. If your Windows NT system crashes, you may not lose the entire disk volume, but you will likely lose all the data that hadn't yet been written to the disk prior to the crash. By the same token, the default Linux system, ext2fs, does not journal at all. That means, a system crash--although infrequent in a Linux environment--can corrupt an entire disk volume.
However, XFS, a journaling file system from Silicon Graphics, became a part of the open-source community in 1999 and, therefore, has had important implications for Linux developers, who previously lacked such insurance features. Capable of recovering from most unexpected interruptions in less than a second, XFS epitomizes the high-performance journaling filesystem of the future.
The earliest journaling file systems, created in the mid-1980s, included Veritas, Tolerant, and IBM's JFS. With increasing demands being placed on file systems to support terabytes of data, thousands upon thousands of files per directory and 64-bit capability, it is expected that interest will continue to grow in high-performance journaling file systems like XFS.
My universities campus is heated entirely by steam. Among other things, all the internet, security, and power cables run through these tunnels as well. Not many people, other than campus police, the steam plant workers, and a couple bums have been down there.
This is a very common thing in Washington, especially in Issaquah. I'm not sure if I've visted this location, but I went to one like it in the same area... they had a little courtyard type deal with a little cafe, a couple restaurants, a grocery store, and a video rental place. There is also complete excersize and sports facilites, a community garden, a large playground, etc. The tie-in with Microsoft only makes sense... nearly everyone that lives there is somehow involved with them.
There is a difference between a proof and proving something. A proof is something which shows evidence in favor of a belief, in most cases when somebody says they have "proven" something it means that they have made something fact.
After reading the headline, the combination of these two things is like starting a company that sells fireworks and flamethrowers... but after reading the article it actually makes a good deal of sense.
One of the aspects that scientists have been trying to understand in development of hair follicles, tooth buds, mammary glands and lungs is how these various transduction pathways work together,? said Fuchs.
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Max/MSP and Pure Data have been doing stuff like this for years. The only thing "unique" here is the fact that they aren't using a mouse, and that's just a bunch of standard Max/MSP and PD externals. Bleh.
I think human interaction with computers going to roughly maintain it's current size and form until it's possible to internalize the computer.
As long as we have to physically interact with electronic devices with some part of our body there will always be buttons, switches, knobs, dials, etc. I think we are much more likely to see digital versions of these types of interface devices becoming widely adopted. Space is certainly a premium, but with any physical object you always have a back side, for example my dad was recently in Holland and his business partner over there drives a car that has the radio controls on the back side of the stearing wheel, exactly where your fingers rest when you drive.
Not to mention forcing the general public to learn a new way to interface, which we all know is difficult, but these devices are going to have to be extremely well made to withstand all the abuse. With the rapidly dropping quality of consumer-level products I'd be quite wary of purchasing something that by it's very nature would have to go through all that.
It doesn't really matter what the Q&A says... Up until a couple months ago I had a cable connection that advertised 128k download speeds and there was rarely a time when I got LESS than 128, often much much faster.
Volvo unveiled this in their safety vehicle about a year ago. It hasn't made it into a non-concept car yet, but this technology seems nearly identical.
This is going to finally bring around some really miniscule systems that actually have expansion slots. Very very cool, now the size limitation to a useful system is going to be the height of the CPU cooler!
Every other client logs except AIM... DeadAIM, AIM+, MyIM
Problem solved.
It's a Jungle in Here by Medeski Martin & Wood
Feed Me Weird Things by Squarepusher
...if the crackers taste any good or not.
gah! yes! now i can finish watching the only anime show i've ever watched, jungle wa itsumo hale nochi guu! excellent!
you just need to find different sites for your specific needs, for example one site that will have a weekly torrent for that tv show like to watch, another site for the latest films, another for your cds... yeah, it takes a bit more work than other p2p programs, but it's worth it to get around the bogus files and slow download times of other p2p programs. and where do you find these torrent sites? google...
I absolutely love Windows 2000 Pro, I've never had a problem with it... but it seems that the further along we get I like their OS's less and less. XP sucks, Longhorn seems to build on that so my switch to Linux is innevitable I just hope Adobe (yes, yes... the gimp, I know... I don't like it as much) and Macromedia wise up before I have to make the jump. :)
I can work fine in linux as a CLI, but I simply didn't/don't know enough about windows managers to fix the error. It had something to do with the taskbar in whatever Redhat's default WM is crashing, the taskbar would disappear, restart, then immediately crash again, a never ending cycle rendering the WM useless.
from whatis.com:
By the same token, the default Linux system, ext2fs, does not journal at all.
so does the osx version of ext2fs journal?
Apart from this image the new trend of making next generation operating systems which have giant interfaces really worries me. I always felt the advantage of running 1600x1200 (or 3200x1200 in my case) was to have more workspace, not a higher resolution interface. When OSX came out I installed it on my iBooks, then immediately uninstalled it primarily due to it's absolutely intrusive interface (secondarily due to lack of support for the software I was using at that time. My PC recently suffered an HD crash and I couldn't find my Windows 2000 Pro CD so I installed XP (yeah, I tried linux... Redhat to be exact, and the out-of-the-box ceased to function after two reboots), and came across a similar issue... the interface is too big, too audacious, and clamors for attention.
In Vegas the person with the biggest, brightest, flashiest sign will make the most money... but when it comes to OSs small, fast, and unobtrusive is the key, too bad nobody else sees that.
I didn't know what it was... hopefully this'll be useful for other people.
From whatis.com
A journaling file system is a fault-resilient file system in which data integrity is ensured because updates to directories and bitmaps are constantly written to a serial log on disk before the original disk log is updated. In the event of a system failure, a full journaling filesystem ensures that the data on the disk has been restored to its pre-crash configuration. It also recovers unsaved data and stores it in the location where it would have gone if the computer had not crashed, making it an important feature for mission-critical applications.
Not all operating systems provide the same journaling technology. Windows NT offers a less robust version of the full system. If your Windows NT system crashes, you may not lose the entire disk volume, but you will likely lose all the data that hadn't yet been written to the disk prior to the crash. By the same token, the default Linux system, ext2fs, does not journal at all. That means, a system crash--although infrequent in a Linux environment--can corrupt an entire disk volume.
However, XFS, a journaling file system from Silicon Graphics, became a part of the open-source community in 1999 and, therefore, has had important implications for Linux developers, who previously lacked such insurance features. Capable of recovering from most unexpected interruptions in less than a second, XFS epitomizes the high-performance journaling filesystem of the future.
The earliest journaling file systems, created in the mid-1980s, included Veritas, Tolerant, and IBM's JFS. With increasing demands being placed on file systems to support terabytes of data, thousands upon thousands of files per directory and 64-bit capability, it is expected that interest will continue to grow in high-performance journaling file systems like XFS.
Feel free to pick this up from me...
Does that picture remind anyone else of drug paraphenalia? Looks like some sort of hookah, maybe a small bong on the left...
My universities campus is heated entirely by steam. Among other things, all the internet, security, and power cables run through these tunnels as well. Not many people, other than campus police, the steam plant workers, and a couple bums have been down there.
This is a very common thing in Washington, especially in Issaquah. I'm not sure if I've visted this location, but I went to one like it in the same area... they had a little courtyard type deal with a little cafe, a couple restaurants, a grocery store, and a video rental place. There is also complete excersize and sports facilites, a community garden, a large playground, etc. The tie-in with Microsoft only makes sense... nearly everyone that lives there is somehow involved with them.
There is a difference between a proof and proving something. A proof is something which shows evidence in favor of a belief, in most cases when somebody says they have "proven" something it means that they have made something fact.
After reading the headline, the combination of these two things is like starting a company that sells fireworks and flamethrowers... but after reading the article it actually makes a good deal of sense.
They'll be working on their own issues ;-)
One of the aspects that scientists have been trying to understand in development of hair follicles, tooth buds, mammary glands and lungs is how these various transduction pathways work together,? said Fuchs.
-- how do you like THEM apples?
don't you mean how do you like them melons?
Black jelly beans are my favorite...
Can you present a brief argument that you believe should raise the interest level of the general public in the need for cryptography?