I think this is actually a very good point. If you look on the Nullsoft site, you'll notice there is now a "pro" version of winamp available. Given Winamp's history as a totally ad/spyware/cost-free product, this is a little bothersome. I think winamp is great, and it is wonderful if they can make money off of it; but what happens when they only have ad/pay-supported versions?
There should be a good, lean, clean, open source MP3/OGG player for WIN32.
Yes, this is certainly the case - the UW gliders (the original ones by the way) are doing open ocean work in the labrador sea and alaska right now. One of the gliders got stuck in an eddy for several days, and went around in circles trying to fight the current rather than use the current to go out the side of the eddy and then continue south. Some new code had to be sent to the glider, which then made its way out. Writing algorithms for "figuring out how to get from point a to b without an intimate understanding of ocean current prediction" isn't particularly easy.
Want to see gliders tracked in realtime? Look here.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701
Enclosed is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly; the target date for our final decision is June 13. We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted Ph.D's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St. Louis. Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy. but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time.
There are a few good students, however, and we are proud to say that our current graduating major, William Knorpp, won the 1985 Analysis competition and will be undertaking graduate study in philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill next year. Mr. Knorpp's upper level work was mainly accomplished through independent tutorials; and prospective candidate must understand that there will be virtually no opportunity to teach upper-division seminars in philosophy. We also offer a religious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda. The 12 hrs/semester teaching load is devoted mainly to general education courses at the freshman/sophomore level. In another five years, if the general education curriculum is revised as promised, there may be seminars which are to "capstone" the G.E. program.
The academic environment at SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual -- somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting -- and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playfulness, or independence of moral and political thought. Nevertheless. in order to earn promotion and tenure it is necessary to be involved in curriculum development and to sustain an interest in research and publication. It has occurred to me that the best candidate would be someone who has held the Ph.D. for more than two years, has taught at a community college or a rural state institution, and who would like to continue in somewhat the same vein but at a slightly higher level.I will be interviewing at the Central Division Meetings in St. Louis. If you have an questions, you may call me at my office
They're also systems from Alienware and Falcon NW.
These are two companies with serious support, serious reputations, and also serious prices. Try putting together the systems from newegg and you'll find a price difference of 30-40%. That comes out to be a lot more than $200 difference.
"All machines were tested with 1GB of RAM and the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card; the Mac version of the graphics card has a maximum of 128MB of RAM, while the high end for PCs is 256MB."
There is no performance difference in any of those benchmarks between 128mb and 256mb vram. The only thing the 256 will help with is upcoming dx9 titles (which quake 3 is most certainly not).
...why do you think they push the atrac3 standard so hard? It's because they are a major record company too! I doubt if they would want to increase competition in the mp3 player market without requiring the proprietary atrac3, and anyone with enough music to fill up an ipod certainly isn't using legal music...
...you might be interested in is here. It's a pretty funny talk with Apple's Senior VP of Hardware.
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DMN: Now, you're saying it's the first 64-bit desktop machine. But isn't there an Opteron dual-processor machine? It shipped on June 4th. BOXX Technologies shipped it. It has an Opteron 244 in it. Rubinstein: Uh... Akrout: It's not a desktop. DMN: That's a desktop unit. Akrout: It depends on what you call a desktop, now. These... From a full desktop per se, this is the first one. I don't know how you really distinguish the other one as a desktop. DMN: Well, it's a dual processor desktop machine, just like that one. Akrout: It's not 64, then. DMN: Yes, it's a 64-bit machine with two Opteron chips in it. It started shipping June 4th. Akrout: That we'll double check, but in my mind, it wasn't.
"
I'm not sure I agree.
On some levels I think you're right - customizing every little bit is a little absurd. But I've found every mac interface to be a little sluggish, and very unproductive. On my workstation running either linux or XP I can walk over to the computer, place my hands firmly on the keyboard, and in ten seconds I'll be done. The same is not true of the mac interface...and don't even get me started on multitasking.
I'd like at least some control, at least enough to configure the computer to quickly do what I want it to, and not leave any fluff I don't need cluttering the space.
Isn't that pretty low? Pilots can sustain 9G while flying (not very easily, but they can do it), and Colonel John Paul Stapp took 40Gs in a rocket sled in 1951!
I wouldn't be too worried about 10...
The sager also has a modular subwoofer (!!)
My guess is that an extra battery could be put in there pretty easily if you really wanted it..
Sager has really been ahead of the game for a long time. They already have notebooks with the 865 dual ddr chipset and P4 3.2 W/ hyperthreading. They really put my desktop to shame. On sagerforums I saw a thread talking about using raid on their laptops. RAID!!! On a notebook!!! Crazy.
"given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years ago"
What exactly was the bad aftermath of that? That the two biggest superpowers put much of their effort into scientific exploration? IMHO it's better to worry about the other guy getting to the moon first than about whether your botoxed forehead is taut enough to deflect bullets...
YES! I happen to have one lying around in my pile'o pre-pentium class stuff. 701c IIRC. Anyways, that thing is still the best design laptop package I've ever seen. Popout keyboards definitely need to make a comeback, and with this LCD deal you could make a full size 15" (or at least a wide aspect ratio) lcd pop out as well.
Actually I'm most interested in the benchmarks, because with apple that tends to be telling of how confident they are with their product.
If apple thinks it has to be dishonest in order to sell computers, I'm not sure I want to spend 130 for an upgrade to 10.3 either:-/
...at 1.8GHz it would probably actually be cheaper than the P4.
Not that we'll ever see an opteron system from dell though.
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That makes zero sense. SINGLE 1.8GHz 2399 DUAL 2GHz 2999 =only 600 bucks to get an extra processor and boost both of their clock speeds by 200? Also includes the cost of a dual cpu motherboard...and probably more base RAM etc... Just doesn't sound like apple to be handing that kind of upgrade out so cheap; I wouldn't take any stock in that rumor.
...make a really long song, divided into 15 chapters, and charge more for it. No big deal. Frankly I think the "art" is an excuse to sell a 16 song CD with only one or two decent tracks on it.
...going to question the source of the screenshots?
"yeah, it was only up for a few seconds" is a pretty easy claim to make...
I'm not saying it wasn't real, I'm just saying we shouldn't assume that these sources are 100% accurate. For example:
This mirror, which is supposedly a verbatim mirror that was just saved off of apples site, has its images hosted at different locations. Everything but the little G5 bullet point section is hosted on one server, while the bullets are hosted on this guy's page.
That's not to say Jobs won't announce it monday (or at least soon), just pointing out that we can't treat this as "proof" because some guy says he took a screenshot.
...like the "made entirely with off-the-shelf software" comment is more of an excuse than a "cool" factor thing. Watching the trailer I find the story interesting, some of the environment pretty, but the characters terribly animated. This is where the off-the-shelf deal comes in. All that says is that they didn't have the dough to deal with motion capture, and it shows in the character movements.
"NVidia vient de changer la dénomination de ses cartes à base de NV 35. Ce ne sera pas Geforce 6800 et 6800 Ultra mais 5900 et 5900 Ultra. Ce revirement est purement commercial. En effet, il y avait un hiatus trop important avec les autres produits de la gamme (5200 à 5600) qui aurait pu laisser entendre que ces produits sont dépassés."...I think that passage is probably talking about a Geforce 6800!?! Makes me question the credibility of this site just a little.:-/
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Name one chip manufacturer that doesn't do both of these things...
I think this is actually a very good point. If you look on the Nullsoft site, you'll notice there is now a "pro" version of winamp available. Given Winamp's history as a totally ad/spyware/cost-free product, this is a little bothersome. I think winamp is great, and it is wonderful if they can make money off of it; but what happens when they only have ad/pay-supported versions? There should be a good, lean, clean, open source MP3/OGG player for WIN32.
Yes, this is certainly the case - the UW gliders (the original ones by the way) are doing open ocean work in the labrador sea and alaska right now. One of the gliders got stuck in an eddy for several days, and went around in circles trying to fight the current rather than use the current to go out the side of the eddy and then continue south. Some new code had to be sent to the glider, which then made its way out. Writing algorithms for "figuring out how to get from point a to b without an intimate understanding of ocean current prediction" isn't particularly easy. Want to see gliders tracked in realtime? Look here.
(From a snopes.com case)
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701
Enclosed is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly; the target date for our final decision is June 13. We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted Ph.D's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St. Louis. Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy. but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time.
There are a few good students, however, and we are proud to say that our current graduating major, William Knorpp, won the 1985 Analysis competition and will be undertaking graduate study in philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill next year. Mr. Knorpp's upper level work was mainly accomplished through independent tutorials; and prospective candidate must understand that there will be virtually no opportunity to teach upper-division seminars in philosophy. We also offer a religious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda. The 12 hrs/semester teaching load is devoted mainly to general education courses at the freshman/sophomore level. In another five years, if the general education curriculum is revised as promised, there may be seminars which are to "capstone" the G.E. program.
The academic environment at SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual -- somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting -- and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playfulness, or independence of moral and political thought. Nevertheless. in order to earn promotion and tenure it is necessary to be involved in curriculum development and to sustain an interest in research and publication. It has occurred to me that the best candidate would be someone who has held the Ph.D. for more than two years, has taught at a community college or a rural state institution, and who would like to continue in somewhat the same vein but at a slightly higher level.I will be interviewing at the Central Division Meetings in St. Louis. If you have an questions, you may call me at my office
Is that why quake 3 was released simultaneously for Mac and PC? Properly ported code is simply code. I'm assuming they use a mac compiler...
They're also systems from Alienware and Falcon NW. These are two companies with serious support, serious reputations, and also serious prices. Try putting together the systems from newegg and you'll find a price difference of 30-40%. That comes out to be a lot more than $200 difference.
...why do you think they push the atrac3 standard so hard? It's because they are a major record company too! I doubt if they would want to increase competition in the mp3 player market without requiring the proprietary atrac3, and anyone with enough music to fill up an ipod certainly isn't using legal music...
got hacked yesterday too, crazy :)
see http://www.realgn.com for more info.
I'm not sure I agree. On some levels I think you're right - customizing every little bit is a little absurd. But I've found every mac interface to be a little sluggish, and very unproductive. On my workstation running either linux or XP I can walk over to the computer, place my hands firmly on the keyboard, and in ten seconds I'll be done. The same is not true of the mac interface...and don't even get me started on multitasking. I'd like at least some control, at least enough to configure the computer to quickly do what I want it to, and not leave any fluff I don't need cluttering the space.
Isn't that pretty low? Pilots can sustain 9G while flying (not very easily, but they can do it), and Colonel John Paul Stapp took 40Gs in a rocket sled in 1951! I wouldn't be too worried about 10...
The sager also has a modular subwoofer (!!) My guess is that an extra battery could be put in there pretty easily if you really wanted it.. Sager has really been ahead of the game for a long time. They already have notebooks with the 865 dual ddr chipset and P4 3.2 W/ hyperthreading. They really put my desktop to shame. On sagerforums I saw a thread talking about using raid on their laptops. RAID!!! On a notebook!!! Crazy.
"given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years ago" What exactly was the bad aftermath of that? That the two biggest superpowers put much of their effort into scientific exploration? IMHO it's better to worry about the other guy getting to the moon first than about whether your botoxed forehead is taut enough to deflect bullets...
YES! I happen to have one lying around in my pile'o pre-pentium class stuff. 701c IIRC. Anyways, that thing is still the best design laptop package I've ever seen. Popout keyboards definitely need to make a comeback, and with this LCD deal you could make a full size 15" (or at least a wide aspect ratio) lcd pop out as well.
Actually I'm most interested in the benchmarks, because with apple that tends to be telling of how confident they are with their product. If apple thinks it has to be dishonest in order to sell computers, I'm not sure I want to spend 130 for an upgrade to 10.3 either :-/
...at 1.8GHz it would probably actually be cheaper than the P4. Not that we'll ever see an opteron system from dell though.
The key being the "$4000 Dell machine they tested".
That makes zero sense.
SINGLE 1.8GHz 2399
DUAL 2GHz 2999
=only 600 bucks to get an extra processor and boost both of their clock speeds by 200? Also includes the cost of a dual cpu motherboard...and probably more base RAM etc... Just doesn't sound like apple to be handing that kind of upgrade out so cheap; I wouldn't take any stock in that rumor.
...make a really long song, divided into 15 chapters, and charge more for it. No big deal. Frankly I think the "art" is an excuse to sell a 16 song CD with only one or two decent tracks on it.
...going to question the source of the screenshots? "yeah, it was only up for a few seconds" is a pretty easy claim to make... I'm not saying it wasn't real, I'm just saying we shouldn't assume that these sources are 100% accurate. For example: This mirror, which is supposedly a verbatim mirror that was just saved off of apples site, has its images hosted at different locations. Everything but the little G5 bullet point section is hosted on one server, while the bullets are hosted on this guy's page. That's not to say Jobs won't announce it monday (or at least soon), just pointing out that we can't treat this as "proof" because some guy says he took a screenshot.
...ZZZ had an article on this a few months back.
Actually I did have that in mind ;) Seriously.
...like the "made entirely with off-the-shelf software" comment is more of an excuse than a "cool" factor thing. Watching the trailer I find the story interesting, some of the environment pretty, but the characters terribly animated. This is where the off-the-shelf deal comes in. All that says is that they didn't have the dough to deal with motion capture, and it shows in the character movements.
"NVidia vient de changer la dénomination de ses cartes à base de NV 35. Ce ne sera pas Geforce 6800 et 6800 Ultra mais 5900 et 5900 Ultra. Ce revirement est purement commercial. En effet, il y avait un hiatus trop important avec les autres produits de la gamme (5200 à 5600) qui aurait pu laisser entendre que ces produits sont dépassés." ...I think that passage is probably talking about a Geforce 6800!?! Makes me question the credibility of this site just a little. :-/