Look, I have seen a lot of comments to the effect that building a self-recharging vehicle that will run forever cannot be done. Well, Tilley has done it. I could not be more certain. Why? Because they have a web site. Go there now. You will soon see that they are completely credible, just like everything else on the web.
What was that called? It had River Phoenix in it, if I remember correctly. They had some kind of magical alien circuit design that would allow them to generate a force field or something and they used that to surround a ship, right?
I am also one of those people. My experience with the iBook is that it can efficiently sleep for days at a time. I used to shut it down when away from power sources for a day or so. Then I tried leaving it on and it hardly drained the battery at all. Try it! I would never reboot if it weren't for Software Updates that force me to every now and then. Otherwise, it is unneccessary.
This is interesting. I wonder if people really miss the Happy Mac icon that much. True, this technique could be used to make any number of boot images. But it was certainly never developed until 10.2, when Happy Mac was removed. I find myself not missing it much at all. It only displays when I reboot, and that seldom happens. Current uptime is 10 days...
If this thing really has nothing to do with Apple, and they did not license the buttons, then I hope Apple cleans their clocks. The buttons add a very misleading appearance to their website, and I suspect most reasonable people would think this is intentional. Just because it is neat looking and expensive doesn't mean it is Apple, after all. Apple worked hard to build a brand their products.
Why do people think that it is possible to make bits uncopyable? Have we not been over this before? Has this changed since the last time we went over it? I am not even going to bother reading the article for this 'technology.' A design for digital copy protection is like a design for a perpetual motion machine - It may be interesting to look at, but you know from the start it is impossible to build.
My broadband connection just is not very good. There are many restrictions on how I use it. I cannot run servers, for instance, or even have a static ip. Downtime of a few random daylight hours a week is not unusual. Recently my bill was increased by $5, to a total of $45 per month. No increase in quality of service accompanied this price hike.
I will not name my service provider, but it is a major one and is currently being investigated by the SEC.
I remember an old Robert Cringely column in which he said that a new technology will replace an old one (or win, or something like that), if it is either ten times better, or one-tenth as expensive. And sure enough, this article explains that the cost of a three-minute long distance call went down to 6 cents (I assume they converted from yen) from 68 cents. I'm not saying Cringely is always right, but this theory of his seems to apply in this situation.
Human actors will always be cheaper in much the same way a pick and shovel laborer will always be individually cheaper than a backhoe. However, there is no rate at which such laborers can compete with backhoes - usually. The backhoe is able to work much more efficiently moving large amount of earth. But human labor is still necessary in some situations, such as small projects or projects the machine cannot reach.
Does this comparison make any sense? If it does, I think the CG technology means there will be far fewer professional actors in the future. Not that there are an enormous number now.
Is this really a science article? No, it's a 'Games' article. I have been trying to filter those, but I see they are getting through anyway under the guise of being a different topic. This is not the first time this has happened. Give me a break - Some of us do not care about games at all.
I like the idea of a significant number of processors in the PC market that are not made by the two chip giants AMD and Intel. This stems partially from concerns about things like the pentium's processor serial number now - and future possibilities like palladium. I also appreciate that, thanks to the G4, Intel can no longer claim clock speeds are the only meaningful chip performance measurement.
I hope that this project includes all the literary classics. They seem to have an infinite amount of storage space, so this should not be a problem for them. I would hesitate to offer my own personal comment to the far future, as I am currently faced with so many worthwhile thoughts from the past which are truly worthy of preservation.
Sure, China has the largest potential market in the world for virtually any kind of product. They do have many people, but those people are going to have to acquire some disposable income before the potential market is realized for most of the things we want to sell them.
See my post above for my opinion on the near futility of this. I have tried the nubus-pmac stuff also, using a variety of different kernel configurations, and both YDL and mklinux. My success rate was a stunning zero percent with a couple of different machines, both 6100 compatibles. By failure I mean the machines never made it past the bootloader. Admittedly, these models did not use the 601 processor, but as pointed out below someplace the real problem is the wacky bus. I wish you good luck and success with this endeavor but I must offer this cautionary tale.
Really? I could never get it to work, and that was not from lack of trying. My advice to anyone trying to get linux running on a nubus machine is to give up and save yourself hours of trouble. I would be pleased to be refuted, but my opinion is that mklinux is mostly a dead project and there is not really much else out there for nubus. For me mklinux was nothing like YDL on non-nubus apple hardware.
The whole problem with demanding that the cable companies do anything is that they are a monopoly in many areas. I do not like ridiculous policies such as the 'pay for each extra client IP' either, but there is nothing I can do about it. Except maybe buy one of those little broadband routers with a built-in switch, which I did. Still, that does not solve most of the other problems you mentioned.
The idea that all machine interfaces can be simplified to the point where they are intuitive enough for any untrained human to use seems questionable to me. The problem is, computers as tools allow abstract tasks to be performed that were not even possible before they existed. They aid humans not only in performing such tasks, but present ways of thinking about tasks that was not possible before. This may or may not have any equivalent at the level of hand gestures or speech. The machines may force us to adapt to some degree, but I would like to point out that at this time humans are vastly more adaptable than even the most sophisticated information technology.
How many countries do you suppose have or will honor an extradition treaty with a country whose strongman president Robert Mugabe (and all of his staff) is currently banned from traveling in the United States (and also the European Union if I remember correctly)? Especially in a ridiculous case like this...
The EU and the US have also invoked trade sanctions against this country. Clearly, everyone has great respect for it and its 'laws.'
As an organist I believe the motions made when typing are far more important than the configuration of the keyboard itself. There is a subtle difference between actively or passively dropping the fingers into a key. The first causes strain, especially when coupled with a grasping motion, which tends to 'lock up' the hand. The correct motion to make is to first lift the finger slightly and then allow it drop passively into the key. I learned this as keyboard technique for the organ, but I have found it applicable to typing as well.
With all that said, I switched to dvorak several months ago. This reduced my strain even further and I would heartily recommend it to anyone who has perhaps a month or so when they will not need to type heavily.
Final thought - Remember, if the motion you are making hurts, don't make it anymore. Conform to your hands, do not try to force them to conform to the keyboard, which is a very unnatural device...
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Look, I have seen a lot of comments to the effect that building a self-recharging vehicle that will run forever cannot be done. Well, Tilley has done it. I could not be more certain. Why? Because they have a web site. Go there now. You will soon see that they are completely credible, just like everything else on the web.
What was that called? It had River Phoenix in it, if I remember correctly. They had some kind of magical alien circuit design that would allow them to generate a force field or something and they used that to surround a ship, right?
I am also one of those people. My experience with the iBook is that it can efficiently sleep for days at a time. I used to shut it down when away from power sources for a day or so. Then I tried leaving it on and it hardly drained the battery at all. Try it! I would never reboot if it weren't for Software Updates that force me to every now and then. Otherwise, it is unneccessary.
This is interesting. I wonder if people really miss the Happy Mac icon that much. True, this technique could be used to make any number of boot images. But it was certainly never developed until 10.2, when Happy Mac was removed. I find myself not missing it much at all. It only displays when I reboot, and that seldom happens. Current uptime is 10 days...
Looks like I spoke too soon then.
If this thing really has nothing to do with Apple, and they did not license the buttons, then I hope Apple cleans their clocks. The buttons add a very misleading appearance to their website, and I suspect most reasonable people would think this is intentional. Just because it is neat looking and expensive doesn't mean it is Apple, after all. Apple worked hard to build a brand their products.
Why do people think that it is possible to make bits uncopyable? Have we not been over this before? Has this changed since the last time we went over it? I am not even going to bother reading the article for this 'technology.' A design for digital copy protection is like a design for a perpetual motion machine - It may be interesting to look at, but you know from the start it is impossible to build.
My broadband connection just is not very good. There are many restrictions on how I use it. I cannot run servers, for instance, or even have a static ip. Downtime of a few random daylight hours a week is not unusual. Recently my bill was increased by $5, to a total of $45 per month. No increase in quality of service accompanied this price hike. I will not name my service provider, but it is a major one and is currently being investigated by the SEC.
I remember an old Robert Cringely column in which he said that a new technology will replace an old one (or win, or something like that), if it is either ten times better, or one-tenth as expensive. And sure enough, this article explains that the cost of a three-minute long distance call went down to 6 cents (I assume they converted from yen) from 68 cents. I'm not saying Cringely is always right, but this theory of his seems to apply in this situation.
Human actors will always be cheaper in much the same way a pick and shovel laborer will always be individually cheaper than a backhoe. However, there is no rate at which such laborers can compete with backhoes - usually. The backhoe is able to work much more efficiently moving large amount of earth. But human labor is still necessary in some situations, such as small projects or projects the machine cannot reach. Does this comparison make any sense? If it does, I think the CG technology means there will be far fewer professional actors in the future. Not that there are an enormous number now.
Is this really a science article? No, it's a 'Games' article. I have been trying to filter those, but I see they are getting through anyway under the guise of being a different topic. This is not the first time this has happened. Give me a break - Some of us do not care about games at all.
I like the idea of a significant number of processors in the PC market that are not made by the two chip giants AMD and Intel. This stems partially from concerns about things like the pentium's processor serial number now - and future possibilities like palladium. I also appreciate that, thanks to the G4, Intel can no longer claim clock speeds are the only meaningful chip performance measurement.
I hope that this project includes all the literary classics. They seem to have an infinite amount of storage space, so this should not be a problem for them. I would hesitate to offer my own personal comment to the far future, as I am currently faced with so many worthwhile thoughts from the past which are truly worthy of preservation.
Sure, China has the largest potential market in the world for virtually any kind of product. They do have many people, but those people are going to have to acquire some disposable income before the potential market is realized for most of the things we want to sell them.
See my post above for my opinion on the near futility of this. I have tried the nubus-pmac stuff also, using a variety of different kernel configurations, and both YDL and mklinux. My success rate was a stunning zero percent with a couple of different machines, both 6100 compatibles. By failure I mean the machines never made it past the bootloader. Admittedly, these models did not use the 601 processor, but as pointed out below someplace the real problem is the wacky bus. I wish you good luck and success with this endeavor but I must offer this cautionary tale.
Really? I could never get it to work, and that was not from lack of trying. My advice to anyone trying to get linux running on a nubus machine is to give up and save yourself hours of trouble. I would be pleased to be refuted, but my opinion is that mklinux is mostly a dead project and there is not really much else out there for nubus. For me mklinux was nothing like YDL on non-nubus apple hardware.
The whole problem with demanding that the cable companies do anything is that they are a monopoly in many areas. I do not like ridiculous policies such as the 'pay for each extra client IP' either, but there is nothing I can do about it. Except maybe buy one of those little broadband routers with a built-in switch, which I did. Still, that does not solve most of the other problems you mentioned.
The idea that all machine interfaces can be simplified to the point where they are intuitive enough for any untrained human to use seems questionable to me. The problem is, computers as tools allow abstract tasks to be performed that were not even possible before they existed. They aid humans not only in performing such tasks, but present ways of thinking about tasks that was not possible before. This may or may not have any equivalent at the level of hand gestures or speech. The machines may force us to adapt to some degree, but I would like to point out that at this time humans are vastly more adaptable than even the most sophisticated information technology.
The setup (on a StrongARM system) is well suited for PDA (iPAQ) or wearable environments as well."
But can it turn a cell phone into a PDA?
How many countries do you suppose have or will honor an extradition treaty with a country whose strongman president Robert Mugabe (and all of his staff) is currently banned from traveling in the United States (and also the European Union if I remember correctly)? Especially in a ridiculous case like this... The EU and the US have also invoked trade sanctions against this country. Clearly, everyone has great respect for it and its 'laws.'
As an organist I believe the motions made when typing are far more important than the configuration of the keyboard itself. There is a subtle difference between actively or passively dropping the fingers into a key. The first causes strain, especially when coupled with a grasping motion, which tends to 'lock up' the hand. The correct motion to make is to first lift the finger slightly and then allow it drop passively into the key. I learned this as keyboard technique for the organ, but I have found it applicable to typing as well.
With all that said, I switched to dvorak several months ago. This reduced my strain even further and I would heartily recommend it to anyone who has perhaps a month or so when they will not need to type heavily.
Final thought - Remember, if the motion you are making hurts, don't make it anymore. Conform to your hands, do not try to force them to conform to the keyboard, which is a very unnatural device...