Actually, the killer app for the iPhone will most certainly be proper integration of the phone and phone book. I can't believe that it hasn't been done correctly until now. I have a piece-of-sh*t motorola razr and can't even get my dozen contacts information in without a problem. The freaking thing is saying that one individual's name and number are already in, so it won't let me add it again. Unfortunately the name doesn't show up in my contact list, but it shows up as caller ID when he calls me up. I will *run* to get an iPhone once those come out.
Well, realistically, I'll wait three months to let others work out the bugs for me.:-)
All CBS has to do to make money off this is have advertising in a corner of the screen or just have regular commercial interruptions as usual. Some people will skip the commercials, just like how they do it with VCR tapes, but if the commercials are engaging enough, people will forget. Having a scrolling line of text commercials at the bottom of the screen works as well (remember, since this is not a TV screen, the video can still be 16:9 or 4:3 and still have a small bar at the bottom of the screen with the text commercials without impeding on the video.)
Married with Children ran for 10 years. Pretty good for a half-hour comedy. If that's considered killing something off early, then what they did with Firefly is like a first trimester abortion.
So your advice is... change your religion? (Hinduism seems pretty good on the reincarnation/Karma deal.)
The question is: Why do you hate what you do? Is it something in what you do (does everyone in your field for X number of years hate it), or is it in you (are you never satisfied)? If the former, get out while you still have a soul. Try teaching or a lateral move in the field. If the later, try changing your outlook on life (and your religion may be part of it).
While I am sure that both Aero and Aqua are using the GPU for rendering effects, why does Vista need such a high-powered video card compared to the video cards that Macs come with (people post that Aqua has reasonable performance on G4 macs, which aren't what you can call the latest hardware).
Considering the situation in the U.S., I'd rather increase my moral responsibility to the rest of the world. If we improve the standard of living in the rest of the world, maybe they will not depend on the U.S. in the future and maybe they will be more productive?
If you are looking for a DVD player that will play those.avi files you download off the internet, you must try the Phillips DVP 5140. The thing is Phillips' gift to mankind. It plays DIVX & Ultra DIVX files. It plays both NTSC and PAL format videos (DVDs or VCDs). With a code you can get from the product page on amazon.com (look at the user reviews for the product on amazon.com) you can make it region free with a simple code.
I bought one for my dad and one for myself, and recommend it to many others.
Well, in five years ReactOS is hopefully going to be at 1.0. By that point it will be able to install & run MSOffice 2K. That will be the death knell for MS in a lot of small businesses.
Considering how many cars have an ipod interface as an option, it isn't conceivable that voice recognition can be used to operate the phone when it is in the ipod dock of a car. Or to use the ipod interface of the car to operate the phone. (The Lexus touch screen is incredibly good to operate a motorola razr, by the way.)
Frankly, I wouldn't follow any links from this article. Last time I looked at the goatse.cx image was about 5 years ago, and it is still burned in my head. I can't go through that trauma again.
Getting back to photo manipulation and the hypothetical grandmom, what about using face recognition to correctly tag each person in each picture? Or scan all pictures of a person and (based on the composite) get rid of any redeye automatically, with the proper iris color. How about when a picture is taken, automatically instead take 1000 photos within a second and use them to create a composite so there is no blurring or motion artifact?
Lots of things possible when the horsepower is there.
For answers to specific questions, there is nothing better than google. Often, it leads me to one of the forums. I can't remember the last time it sent me to any actual documentation.
Requiring sudo to install or remove an application is necessary, since you are modifying stuff that is outside your/home directory. Interestingly enough, if you type a second sudo command within a certain time period, it doesn't ask for a password again. (It's something like 1-2 minutes).
The problem with windows vista (I guess - I never used it) is that it *doesn't* ask for the password every time it does something. Sometimes it asks for password. Other times it just warns you that it may do something damaging and ask for permission. And it doesn't seem to remember the response for any amount of time. So you may try to move a file from one area of the disk to another and get asked twice (or more, I don't know) if it's okay or not.
sudo is *so* much nicer once you use it. And synaptic is so many light years beyond Windows Update that you don't even realize that they are supposed to do the same thing (keep the system software up to date).
Just give them time. IE7 totally broke the website at one of the places I work. To the point where they have in bold fonts that they don't support IE7 and don't want any users to update to it. (They lock down windowsupdate on their PCs, but allow logons from home. Apparently only from Win2K and XP.)
Yes, look at the benchmarks. But (unfortunately) benchmarks only typically look at a few cards, and not the entire lineup. How much faster are these than my NVidia 6200?
Is there a site that lists every single NVidia card in the various form factors (AGP8x, PCI-E, etc.), and run the same benchmarks on them? Why can't they do this as part of their naming scheme? (ie: a 6600 being an average of 10% faster than a 6000 on a combination of all the benchmarks).
I'm okay with breaking a bad law or two (or even a good law, given my recent speeding ticket...). I'm just stating that since we are talking about colleges here: these are the places where people used to demonstrate to stand up for what they believe in, not just break laws in private. Where are the demonstrations against the RIAA/MPAA?
True. I can't believe that people here are actually condoning breaking the law. Many people at colleges are downloading songs illegally. The number is up for debate.
What should be done is change the law and boycott the RIAA/MPAA. Why aren't we seeing more demonstrations on college campuses?
I've been running Fiesty (Ubuntu 7.04) nightlies for the last 6-8 weeks or so. Edgy never worked on my desktop (hand on shutdown or reboot-I forget which). Fiesty is a dream to work with compared to Dapper (6.06). Automatic installation of nvidia drivers with updates with new kernel versions. Automatic installation of codecs when you try to play a media file. Everything just works.
Now I'm just looking for an easy way to rip DVDs to iPod video format and sync them to my iPod. (Amarok works great with the iPod otherwise, even syncing cover art.)
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Actually, the killer app for the iPhone will most certainly be proper integration of the phone and phone book. I can't believe that it hasn't been done correctly until now. I have a piece-of-sh*t motorola razr and can't even get my dozen contacts information in without a problem. The freaking thing is saying that one individual's name and number are already in, so it won't let me add it again. Unfortunately the name doesn't show up in my contact list, but it shows up as caller ID when he calls me up. I will *run* to get an iPhone once those come out.
:-)
Well, realistically, I'll wait three months to let others work out the bugs for me.
One of the networks is starting to get it.
All CBS has to do to make money off this is have advertising in a corner of the screen or just have regular commercial interruptions as usual. Some people will skip the commercials, just like how they do it with VCR tapes, but if the commercials are engaging enough, people will forget. Having a scrolling line of text commercials at the bottom of the screen works as well (remember, since this is not a TV screen, the video can still be 16:9 or 4:3 and still have a small bar at the bottom of the screen with the text commercials without impeding on the video.)
Married with Children ran for 10 years. Pretty good for a half-hour comedy. If that's considered killing something off early, then what they did with Firefly is like a first trimester abortion.
I am unclear why envy is needed at all in Ubuntu Fiesty. Doesn't it already contain nvidia and ati drivers?
So your advice is... change your religion? (Hinduism seems pretty good on the reincarnation/Karma deal.)
The question is: Why do you hate what you do? Is it something in what you do (does everyone in your field for X number of years hate it), or is it in you (are you never satisfied)? If the former, get out while you still have a soul. Try teaching or a lateral move in the field. If the later, try changing your outlook on life (and your religion may be part of it).
While I am sure that both Aero and Aqua are using the GPU for rendering effects, why does Vista need such a high-powered video card compared to the video cards that Macs come with (people post that Aqua has reasonable performance on G4 macs, which aren't what you can call the latest hardware).
Considering the situation in the U.S., I'd rather increase my moral responsibility to the rest of the world. If we improve the standard of living in the rest of the world, maybe they will not depend on the U.S. in the future and maybe they will be more productive?
If you are looking for a DVD player that will play those .avi files you download off the internet, you must try the Phillips DVP 5140. The thing is Phillips' gift to mankind. It plays DIVX & Ultra DIVX files. It plays both NTSC and PAL format videos (DVDs or VCDs). With a code you can get from the product page on amazon.com (look at the user reviews for the product on amazon.com) you can make it region free with a simple code.
:-)
I bought one for my dad and one for myself, and recommend it to many others.
Available for $50 at Walmart, by the way.
Well, in five years ReactOS is hopefully going to be at 1.0. By that point it will be able to install & run MSOffice 2K. That will be the death knell for MS in a lot of small businesses.
Don't you have to add the cost of the hard drive in there somewhere?
Considering how many cars have an ipod interface as an option, it isn't conceivable that voice recognition can be used to operate the phone when it is in the ipod dock of a car. Or to use the ipod interface of the car to operate the phone. (The Lexus touch screen is incredibly good to operate a motorola razr, by the way.)
Frankly, I wouldn't follow any links from this article. Last time I looked at the goatse.cx image was about 5 years ago, and it is still burned in my head. I can't go through that trauma again.
Getting back to photo manipulation and the hypothetical grandmom, what about using face recognition to correctly tag each person in each picture? Or scan all pictures of a person and (based on the composite) get rid of any redeye automatically, with the proper iris color. How about when a picture is taken, automatically instead take 1000 photos within a second and use them to create a composite so there is no blurring or motion artifact?
Lots of things possible when the horsepower is there.
For answers to specific questions, there is nothing better than google. Often, it leads me to one of the forums. I can't remember the last time it sent me to any actual documentation.
Requiring sudo to install or remove an application is necessary, since you are modifying stuff that is outside your /home directory. Interestingly enough, if you type a second sudo command within a certain time period, it doesn't ask for a password again. (It's something like 1-2 minutes).
The problem with windows vista (I guess - I never used it) is that it *doesn't* ask for the password every time it does something. Sometimes it asks for password. Other times it just warns you that it may do something damaging and ask for permission. And it doesn't seem to remember the response for any amount of time. So you may try to move a file from one area of the disk to another and get asked twice (or more, I don't know) if it's okay or not.
sudo is *so* much nicer once you use it. And synaptic is so many light years beyond Windows Update that you don't even realize that they are supposed to do the same thing (keep the system software up to date).
Just give them time. IE7 totally broke the website at one of the places I work. To the point where they have in bold fonts that they don't support IE7 and don't want any users to update to it. (They lock down windowsupdate on their PCs, but allow logons from home. Apparently only from Win2K and XP.)
Where I work, people are scratching it off their new machines and installing XP.
So, do they use a knife to scratch it off the hard drive? They may not be the ones you want modifying their own systems.
Thanks. Looks like a great tool.
Yes, look at the benchmarks. But (unfortunately) benchmarks only typically look at a few cards, and not the entire lineup. How much faster are these than my NVidia 6200?
Is there a site that lists every single NVidia card in the various form factors (AGP8x, PCI-E, etc.), and run the same benchmarks on them? Why can't they do this as part of their naming scheme? (ie: a 6600 being an average of 10% faster than a 6000 on a combination of all the benchmarks).
I would love a game like M.U.L.E. for linux.
I'm okay with breaking a bad law or two (or even a good law, given my recent speeding ticket...). I'm just stating that since we are talking about colleges here: these are the places where people used to demonstrate to stand up for what they believe in, not just break laws in private. Where are the demonstrations against the RIAA/MPAA?
True. I can't believe that people here are actually condoning breaking the law. Many people at colleges are downloading songs illegally. The number is up for debate.
What should be done is change the law and boycott the RIAA/MPAA. Why aren't we seeing more demonstrations on college campuses?
And it doesn't play on MSWindows & WinDVD. I don't want to pay to update my copy of winDVD, so I kind of shrugged it off for now.
I figure someone's got a way I can copy it and get rid of the new copy protection so that I can view it on my computer?
So much for Office 2K then, right. :-(
I've been running Fiesty (Ubuntu 7.04) nightlies for the last 6-8 weeks or so. Edgy never worked on my desktop (hand on shutdown or reboot-I forget which). Fiesty is a dream to work with compared to Dapper (6.06). Automatic installation of nvidia drivers with updates with new kernel versions. Automatic installation of codecs when you try to play a media file. Everything just works.
Now I'm just looking for an easy way to rip DVDs to iPod video format and sync them to my iPod. (Amarok works great with the iPod otherwise, even syncing cover art.)