Why dont people just use the quicktime package format, wasnt it made open years ago and can handle just about any thing, its not codec specific, why re-invent more crap. Extend whats out there and open.
* Use elections for the whole episode, make it a minor event taking 10% of air time. * Court room type episodes are also boring, make it fast, like StarShip troopers. * Fake Reality TV , come-on, its a fad, dont use it to add 'realism' and something to relate to.
The universe after the bing bang may have been a set size (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answe rs/031030b.html) but it grew faster than the speed of light to a massive size, possibly infinite (but why cannot they calculate its real size if it was estimated at X size after Y years after the BB, or is it 5000billion LT wide, but we can only see 15b)
Any way... the real universe is many times larger than what you can simulate with fractals and bigger than all the atoms in your computer.
We need to go back to 1940s population, ie kill 4 billion, but nicely!
Where is the most growth? China/india/middleast, the places where they decided to have 4-10 kids per family just so they can improve farm productivity, or to 'sell the girls' to a wealthy groom.
Maybe some kind of super AIDS/SArs virus developed by the usa/who.
Then again maybe nature might do it for us if there are massive earth quakes/tsunamis and asteroid crashes, and sudden water shortages with spoilt land so that crops fail in huge numbers (eat insects if you cannot find food people!).
I cannot believe that no one has designed a remote control code for true POWER ON, POWER OFF signals, rather than a POWER FLIP signal.
Or they could have at least designed damn hifi stuff to power cycle on a short press, but turn ON, if pressed > 1500ms
Simple design, great results. Now dont get me started on the R-Tard designed chinese brand stuff, tiny play buttons, grrrr dont you guys there know how to design? At least copy Sonys remotes for gods sake. Stop making fricking small play buttons. Oh and stop calling Screen Ratio Change buttons ARC, when you have room to put text "RATIO" there, as you already have buttons called "SOUND" which swap between diff modes. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040607.html
Last time i checked , my clock uses 1 cell AA , it lasts >8 months. Its rechargable in under 2 hrs.
Now we can have better designed electronics for instant ON, that doesnt use grid power, i mean its really simple but no damn electronic engineer will make it, why not!?>!?
1. use a rechargable small cell that recharges when running normally 2. when in standby mode, use a relay to CUT all power, and run off the battery 3. have an optional smart deep sleep mode that will do a timed hard sleep between 2am to 6am, is that so hard to make an option? 4. Like wise, make a sleep during work time option, 8am to 5pm mode. One damn little 3 switch for sleep1/none/sleep2.
Companies should realise that sure for one person, saving 3W * 24hrs * 365days = $2.50 a year, but multiplied by millions of unit sales that equals to a lot of carbon emissions.
Maybe govts should give companies a tax credit if their appliance use ZERO power during standby, not 500mw, but zero. Its not hard to put in a $3 rechargable cell in. Give easy external replacement like a remote control, but at the front of a machine and bingo.
One more grip, those cheap chineese dvd players/setop boxes, I really hate how when you go into standby mode, they 'forget' their current channel/video input/settings selections. So when you turn on again they have to be re-set. Because of this most people now dont turn those machines off ever. Stupid chineese engineers, grrrr. Dont you learn from your competition?
The ones that die when the fans stop spining to cool them down because they get increased friction.
In reference to cheap dvd players that die when get too hot, they should just make them properly shutdown/power off when too hot, not just blow a capacitor.
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I find the sony ericson easy to look up numbers, you can show both name & number, and scroll through instantly. Kxxx series.
Look at linux... its not like we have Linux 3.0 and Linux 4.0 where nothing old works.
Its still linux. 8 year old stuff still compiles mostly, its fluid.
If windows was so great, it would stay at one version XP forever, with unlimited updates forever, SP4 SP21. etc... Just because they are forced by marketing to make a new version is admiting its core is crap and needs a rewrite.
They could just as easily update/replace portions of XP gradually, six monthly. And make sure each other component isnt too tied to others. ie WMP shouldnt need IE7 or something else... it should be detect and use if available.
This whole idea of , lets stop current dev and all new dev is placed into a new 'version' edition is total marketing crap, and old school stuff of the 80s. Modern complex systems should never have a major rebuild, its always small step updates, like real biological evolution.
OSX is basically the same, but again its articially versionized because of just new components added, and the silly side effects like newly compiled made software not working on old OSX's even if they use no new features, thats my biggest pet pieve of OSX. Sometimes its only the result of the installer package, not the code it self which would work fine. If X library is less than version Y, then dont use those features.
Btw does apple make the old OS10.1 and 10.2 upgrades from 10.0 FREE NOW? what about any one left in 10.2 land, do they get a free 10.3 upgrade once 10.4 is widely installed? Having too many versions installed out there should be a worry for them, they should allow all 10.3 machines to upgrade for free. It would surely be cheaper to have no support for pre 10.3 if you provide free upgrades.
I saw a documentary that showed that the Wright bros invented a lot of flying technologies like the twisted propeller and wing aerofoils etc... So basically without them a lot of people couldnt do it, it doesnt matter that someone else may have made a more powerfull rotary engine, since that is really more of a general purpose part.
So it wouldnt take much to get a $120 1ounce GPS ciruit and strap on a ipod with rokbox installed as a guidance computer, make it deliver a 10ounce C4 explosive on impact.
Instant RPG, but using mini jets instead of rocket power, sure its slower, but still fast enough and have a decent range.
So the Pope Says for people to worship god and not technology, but hey... knowing technology can save your damn ass, where just singing crappy tunes to god can get you killed.
Sorry, but Id rather be smart than die in the name of gods crappy music tunes.
Is there a weight sensor on the seat, because say the car rolls off by itself and hits a wall with no one inside it, will the air bags still go off and waste them? or are they smart to know no one is in the car? Hmmmmm!!! or is that a BMW only feature.
Any comments about the decapitated victims of air bags that went off at jogging speed?
I disagree, having two people that are very capable and occasionally using help from core designers isnt costly. $90k * two , and use a graphics artists or other person for a few days out of 12 months. Mobile phone circuit boards are very small these days and can be purchased from the emebedded market. They could easily add mic to the ipod at the bottom, and use those 3rd party GSM boards to make a prototype 'fat' ipod. From there on, its 90% making the software cool and capable. All control of a mobile board is via serial any way.
The dual-band TC35i provides a complete serial to RF modem solution in module form. It is designed for high-volume applications based on data, voice, SMS or fax. Integrate using an external SIM to provide a complete GSM solution. The modem supports data, voice, fax and SMS. The TC35i is pin compatible with its predecessor the TC35. As a truly optimised upgrade, it offers additional features such as the SIM application toolkit and extended AT commands for the industrial environment.
RHapsody, the pre OSX, nextos beta in 1998/9 ran on intel x86, sure it wasnt OSX, but it did run.
They just had to keep coding with in those guidelines, and make sure it ran, and it was no effort really. ie have no hard dependancies on PPC/altivec stuff, make it all modular.
Maybe this 'armageddon' is not man made but the sun does it, after all the Egyptians called their Sun God RA.
And technically, the sun does provide all energy and gravity for us to live off.
So come 2012 the rapture time, high intense radiation, mutants of all species will be made, super humans maybe with special powers.
Maybe half or most of the population will die and not make it past the 'enhancement' but what ever does make it will be uber next gen upgraded like in mutantX.
Are any scientists experimenting with fast evolution using radiation/cosmic rays on small animals/flies?
In australia, you can find premium xbox 360s for $599, and the ps3(60g) is going to go for $999 (even if our currency goes up 10% local resellers will pocket the difference)
By the time the ps3 is released, March/April, everyone will have NO money left, because thats usually the time when people start pumping large amounts of their wages into the CCs that they spent big on the December.
This bluray crap is just a joke, look.... go to any torrent site, and you can already get 4-7 ps3 games, all under 8gig.
So much for this "GAMES REQUIRE BLURAY" crap.
The only reason backward compat sux is because MS switched from Nvidia to ATI, now if MS just paid that $30 per 360 for an aditional Nvidia original chip in each box you would have 100% backward compat since emulating the pentium would be a snap. I agree thats MSs biggest failures is to kill the original xbox. They still could have made a small xbox and cheap to all the 3rd world/cheaper nations. NOTE to MS: its still worth growing your cheaper pregen base so that they can be a future updater. Sony has at least that right with the ps2 still going strong.
Dude, I want to sue you because you might have caused me to miss a lucrative business deal in 2012. (Butterfly effect). I potentially could have made $12 million dollars, but I havent so I want that money back.
Oh btw, if I record analogue radio using a 96khz digital card, and downsample to 44khz, would that be ok?
People did it in the 80s, no one cried foul then. Besides, britney doesnt need more money so she can go out partying with Lindsay!!
Slashdot Mirror
Why not just telnet/ssh in and do a wget -r2 * and then tar.bz2 it then email it to gmail from there.
But on the other hand, it would be nice if slashdot offered a 'one file' download of todays stuff with 1 level view of the comments.
Its all text/html, should compress really nicely, under 100k. Add another 25kb for adds. Pdf maybe. An offline deliver would be nice.
Why dont people just use the quicktime package format, wasnt it made open years ago and can handle just about any thing, its not
codec specific, why re-invent more crap. Extend whats out there and open.
I just hate episodes that...
* Use elections for the whole episode, make it a minor event taking 10% of air time.
* Court room type episodes are also boring, make it fast, like StarShip troopers.
* Fake Reality TV , come-on, its a fad, dont use it to add 'realism' and something to relate to.
The universe after the bing bang may have been a set size (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answe rs/031030b.html)
but it grew faster than the speed of light to a massive size, possibly infinite (but why cannot they calculate its real size if it was
estimated at X size after Y years after the BB, or is it 5000billion LT wide, but we can only see 15b)
Any way... the real universe is many times larger than what you can simulate with fractals and bigger than all the atoms
in your computer.
We need to go back to 1940s population, ie kill 4 billion, but nicely!
Where is the most growth? China/india/middleast, the places where they decided to have 4-10 kids per family just so they can improve
farm productivity, or to 'sell the girls' to a wealthy groom.
Maybe some kind of super AIDS/SArs virus developed by the usa/who.
Then again maybe nature might do it for us if there are massive earth quakes/tsunamis and asteroid crashes, and sudden water shortages with spoilt
land so that crops fail in huge numbers (eat insects if you cannot find food people!).
My CFLs never flicker, they are warm coloured and look like normal lights.
I say screw edison/ge bulbs. Its time they should be put to death.
Next stage is perhaps 6-12 white LEDs, which dont have a good life time as CFL btw, and on a LUX/Watt level are not as good.
I cannot believe that no one has designed a remote control code for true POWER ON, POWER OFF signals, rather than a POWER FLIP signal.
Or they could have at least designed damn hifi stuff to power cycle on a short press, but turn ON, if pressed > 1500ms
Simple design, great results. Now dont get me started on the R-Tard designed chinese brand stuff, tiny play buttons, grrrr dont
you guys there know how to design? At least copy Sonys remotes for gods sake. Stop making fricking small play buttons. Oh and
stop calling Screen Ratio Change buttons ARC, when you have room to put text "RATIO" there, as you already have buttons called "SOUND" which
swap between diff modes. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040607.html
Last time i checked , my clock uses 1 cell AA , it lasts >8 months. Its rechargable in under 2 hrs.
Now we can have better designed electronics for instant ON, that doesnt use grid power, i mean its really simple but no damn
electronic engineer will make it, why not!?>!?
1. use a rechargable small cell that recharges when running normally
2. when in standby mode, use a relay to CUT all power, and run off the battery
3. have an optional smart deep sleep mode that will do a timed hard sleep between 2am to 6am, is that so hard to make an option?
4. Like wise, make a sleep during work time option, 8am to 5pm mode. One damn little 3 switch for sleep1/none/sleep2.
Companies should realise that sure for one person, saving 3W * 24hrs * 365days = $2.50 a year, but multiplied by millions of unit sales
that equals to a lot of carbon emissions.
Maybe govts should give companies a tax credit if their appliance use ZERO power during standby, not 500mw, but zero. Its not hard
to put in a $3 rechargable cell in. Give easy external replacement like a remote control, but at the front of a machine and bingo.
One more grip, those cheap chineese dvd players/setop boxes, I really hate how when you go into standby mode, they 'forget' their current channel/video input/settings
selections. So when you turn on again they have to be re-set. Because of this most people now dont turn those machines off ever. Stupid chineese engineers, grrrr. Dont you
learn from your competition?
The ones that die when the fans stop spining to cool them down because they get increased friction.
In reference to cheap dvd players that die when get too hot, they should just make them properly shutdown/power off when too hot, not
just blow a capacitor.
I find the sony ericson easy to look up numbers, you can show both name & number, and scroll through instantly. Kxxx series.
Yeah , why $200 for an xray, when its free at the airport?
... big deal. Its a cost input, doesnt mean you have to recoup the cost with in 12months.
So the machine cost $450,000
Why not buy in bulk then supply the whole country with 5000 machines.
Look at linux... its not like we have Linux 3.0 and Linux 4.0 where nothing old works.
Its still linux. 8 year old stuff still compiles mostly, its fluid.
If windows was so great, it would stay at one version XP forever, with unlimited updates forever, SP4 SP21. etc...
Just because they are forced by marketing to make a new version is admiting its core is crap and needs a rewrite.
They could just as easily update/replace portions of XP gradually, six monthly. And make sure each other component isnt
too tied to others. ie WMP shouldnt need IE7 or something else... it should be detect and use if available.
This whole idea of , lets stop current dev and all new dev is placed into a new 'version' edition is total marketing crap, and
old school stuff of the 80s. Modern complex systems should never have a major rebuild, its always small step updates, like real
biological evolution.
OSX is basically the same, but again its articially versionized because of just new components added, and the silly side effects like
newly compiled made software not working on old OSX's even if they use no new features, thats my biggest pet pieve of OSX. Sometimes
its only the result of the installer package, not the code it self which would work fine. If X library is less than version Y, then dont use
those features.
Btw does apple make the old OS10.1 and 10.2 upgrades from 10.0 FREE NOW? what about any one left in 10.2 land, do they get a free 10.3 upgrade
once 10.4 is widely installed? Having too many versions installed out there should be a worry for them, they should allow all 10.3 machines to upgrade
for free. It would surely be cheaper to have no support for pre 10.3 if you provide free upgrades.
I saw a documentary that showed that the Wright bros invented a lot of flying technologies like the twisted propeller and wing aerofoils etc...
So basically without them a lot of people couldnt do it, it doesnt matter that someone else may have made a more powerfull rotary engine, since that
is really more of a general purpose part.
So it wouldnt take much to get a $120 1ounce GPS ciruit and strap on a ipod with rokbox installed as a guidance computer, make it deliver a 10ounce C4 explosive on impact.
Instant RPG, but using mini jets instead of rocket power, sure its slower, but still fast enough and have a decent range.
All at 1/100th the cost of a military contractor.
So the Pope Says for people to worship god and not technology, but hey...
knowing technology can save your damn ass, where just singing crappy tunes to god can get you killed.
Sorry, but Id rather be smart than die in the name of gods crappy music tunes.
Flashing white to black for 24hrs might fix it, try it.
Is there a weight sensor on the seat, because say the car rolls off by itself and hits a wall with no one inside it, will the air bags
still go off and waste them? or are they smart to know no one is in the car? Hmmmmm!!! or is that a BMW only feature.
Any comments about the decapitated victims of air bags that went off at jogging speed?
I disagree, having two people that are very capable and occasionally using help from core designers isnt costly. $90k * two , and use a graphics artists or other person for a few days out of 12 months.
/ 61 here is very cheap.
Mobile phone circuit boards are very small these days and can be purchased from the emebedded market. They could easily add mic to the ipod at the bottom, and use those
3rd party GSM boards to make a prototype 'fat' ipod. From there on, its 90% making the software cool and capable. All control of a mobile board is via serial any way.
Something like a Siemens Module http://www.wivia.com/product_info.php/products_id
The dual-band TC35i provides a complete serial to RF modem solution in module form. It is designed for high-volume applications based on data, voice, SMS or fax. Integrate using an external SIM to provide a complete GSM solution. The modem supports data, voice, fax and SMS.
The TC35i is pin compatible with its predecessor the TC35. As a truly optimised upgrade, it offers additional features such as the SIM application toolkit and extended AT commands for the industrial environment.
RHapsody, the pre OSX, nextos beta in 1998/9 ran on intel x86, sure it wasnt OSX, but it did run.
They just had to keep coding with in those guidelines, and make sure it ran, and it was no effort really. ie have no hard dependancies on
PPC/altivec stuff, make it all modular.
Maybe this 'armageddon' is not man made but the sun does it, after all the Egyptians called their Sun God RA.
And technically, the sun does provide all energy and gravity for us to live off.
So come 2012 the rapture time, high intense radiation, mutants of all species will be made, super humans maybe with special powers.
Maybe half or most of the population will die and not make it past the 'enhancement' but what ever does make it will
be uber next gen upgraded like in mutantX.
Are any scientists experimenting with fast evolution using radiation/cosmic rays on small animals/flies?
I mean seriously, who cares if people copy music, the drug addict looser musos will always make music.
Are the artists totally in bed with columbian drug lords? or is it because they generate such massive
amounts of legal money making ventures its ok?
Get a clue judges, the people Pro (C) are the same people that are Pro Drugs and Cocaine!
In australia, you can find premium xbox 360s for $599, and the ps3(60g) is going to go for $999 (even if our currency goes up 10% local resellers will pocket the difference)
By the time the ps3 is released, March/April, everyone will have NO money left, because thats usually the time when people start pumping large amounts
of their wages into the CCs that they spent big on the December.
Dude, stop posting on behalf of sony.
This bluray crap is just a joke, look.... go to any torrent site, and you can already get 4-7 ps3 games, all under 8gig.
So much for this "GAMES REQUIRE BLURAY" crap.
The only reason backward compat sux is because MS switched from Nvidia to ATI, now if MS just paid that $30 per 360 for an aditional
Nvidia original chip in each box you would have 100% backward compat since emulating the pentium would be a snap. I agree thats MSs
biggest failures is to kill the original xbox. They still could have made a small xbox and cheap to all the 3rd world/cheaper nations.
NOTE to MS: its still worth growing your cheaper pregen base so that they can be a future updater. Sony has at least that right
with the ps2 still going strong.
When was the last time you saw parents charged of GTA when their idiot 15yo kid steals a car? NEVER!!!
Get a clue Mr coke smoking music exec.
And I hope more people wont listen to music so that your sales drop 90%.
Dude, I want to sue you because you might have caused me to miss a lucrative business deal
in 2012. (Butterfly effect). I potentially could have made $12 million dollars, but I havent so
I want that money back.
Oh btw, if I record analogue radio using a 96khz digital card, and downsample to 44khz, would that be ok?
People did it in the 80s, no one cried foul then. Besides, britney doesnt need more money so she can
go out partying with Lindsay!!