Exactly. I'm on a few invitation-only trackers, and none of the clients can get away with upping faked up/down ratios for any effective amount of time.
What about bandwidth? VoIP starts at around 30kB for a modestly decent signal. 50kB for solid, better than any phone, 90kB you're talking mid-nineties motorola single-cel along the ocean (no interference from the mainland, low mid-tones, breathy audio)... Dialup? Never.
What did you say, it sounded like crackle, burp, hiss? Oh, my email client was polling the mail server, oops. That's exactly what happens with a dsl connection and VoIP set to 30kB. At 90kB on a twice-as-fat pipe, it's stunning, not a landline on Earth can touch it. Been on them for years now, never going back to copper.
And even 24 bucks and change for a very limited N.American service blows. Vonage is $29 with unlimited 50-state/all of Canada coverage, factor in 2 cents a minute to most western european countries, and this is just another stupid move on the part of AOL. They're probably looking at the 'stupid' market, oh, I mean newbies, and they'll employ the same over-billing that Sprint wrote into their code, AND the same impossible-to-cancel that AOL already 'owns'.
People that give those aol assholes money, deserve everything that happens from then on.
Open in Tabs. Make a bookmark folder of the websites you want to be open when you sit down and start browsing. When opening that folder the Bookmarks menu, use the last entry -- "Open In Tabs" -- and go get your coffee. When you come back, the browser is ready: All the sites are nicley pre-loaded in tabs.
That's a very cool feature, no doubt. In OmhiWeb you don't even have to open the actual Bookmark Favorite icon to select the "Open in Tabs". Simply double-clicking the icon opens all of them, down the tab drawer. I'm on Omni now, and for all I know the same thing happens in Firefox. I do that every morning, double-click one folder icon in the browser's bar, get my coffee, and there's Slashdot, my Bank, two news orgs, and a to do list from a localhost file...nifty.
Not that it probably matters, here much, but the OSX version needs even more work than the other versions. Unless it's able to open a bookmark from the main menu without having a browser window open yet? Is it doing that over in PC World? Not over here.
I don't imagine the PC guys have to worry about.pkg issues, either, like the fact that your Search additions ( a truly great extensible item to replace those ubiquitous 'Google'-ized, search windows) get over-written in an update to the browser because the user-added items are cached in the.pkg instead of in the User profile. (which would make 100% more sense, there being exactly zero logic to the status quo). The.pkg is what gets clobbered in an update. Oops.
And the 'speed' thing? Hmmm, it isn't as fast as Safari or Camino, and none of them are as fast as IE in the OS 9 environment (running in the emulated "Classic', to boot).
And 'footprint' ? Oops, 25 MB on OSX, vs. 2.2 for Safari, and even the old slug, Opera, only weighs in at 9.6...if they aren't careful it'll be the 'free' Opera, before long, heheh.
I use it half the time too, and was raving about it in other forums (Mac-related) for a few months. But my 'other' browser is OmniWeb, and yeah it costs money, but it's only a handful of tweaks from having worked-out versions of Firefox's coolest Extensions built-in. (Omni's ad blocking is clunky, and the search customization is equally cumbersome, compared to the real ease of Firefox's utilities. Omni is still the 'alternative' browser on the Mac, as far as I can see.
One of the greatest aspects of Firefox, to me, is its huge base of support and development. I don't use VPC, or even my classified/net-isolated PC at work, for any web-related stuff, at all, so the fact that Firefox is 'way better than IE on Windows' means zero to me.
But I do hope it spreads like fucking wildfire, if only to rock the sloppy Web designers and Front Page users into getting on board with some standards. With IE under assault, Front Page in decline, and Oracle (pray to God) liquidating PeopleSoft, well, Hell, the Web's starting to smell slightly better already.
... If they were to keep thier standards of living simular to what they had in college till all thier student loans were paid off and just save any extra and keep thier outgo (especially long term outgo such as house payments) down below what others at the same income level are doing they...
No kidding. I remember a guy, with a bullhorn, walking down the central corridor in one big bldg of Columbia Records' west coast HQ, one afternoon, and announcing, "everybody on the south side of the office, please clear out yer desks, now." Okay, it was only 700 guys, but it was the eighties. Not as polite as what AOL is doing, either.
I'm no fan of AOL, but the newbs had to have somewhere to go. And AOL did let Netscape/Mozilla go off to do its thing,unlike the sort of thing that MS, Apple, Adobe, and many others have done as a matter of 'biz as usual'...
As for job prospects? Hey, they're mostly Republicans, right? So, what's the prob? Their guys are in charge, fossil fuels are still 'cool', and there's shitloads of coal mines down there round the PA, VA, border areas... heheh, have fun guys!:=)
The major problem I see is how to store, index, and search when you have a lot of ebooks from many different publishers. For example there are no standard filename formats to include author and title information,
That's where html, plain text, etc, loses it. The answer? XML. Meta-data for Title, Author,Subject, Comments, etc, and a user-selected CSS. Almost zero 'footprint'.The meta data allows you to forget about a separate database, and the CSS is available across all books, all publishers.
Forget html, thats all about bold, italic, which font... etc. Ever seen a web page where someone thought orange prose on a purple background was 'smart'? User-selected CSS to avoid that, and XML to focus on content location/management.Cross-platform, low CPU needs. Simple.
What? I make a living reading text on monitors, and do the same thing at home. Matter of fact i spend 8 hours a day reading pdfs, and rtf versions of OCR'd text so that i can re-purpose the material into SGML-based Interactive Elec Media.
And you know what? People who think LCDs are up to snuff are delusional. I can read 96 fucking hours on my Mac with a plain old LaCie electron monitor (22") at home, and no eye strain, no headaches, zip. And at work it's back to a Compaq w/Samsung monitor, and yeah,not as nice as home, but my 50,000 pages are almost done.
The guy who said tech manuals are better on screen/electronic, was spot-on right. Period. No ands, ifs, or buts. And with Acrobat 6 pro i can find anything in a friggin' hurry. Way easier to 'compare' electonic text with a pdf on split screen or dual monitors than having to refocus the depth of field thing to read print near a screen.
I'm on a military project so here's a little paper vs. electronic tidbit for ya: The amount of technical manuals that are REQUIRED to be on board an aircraft carrier are responsible for four inches of water displacement at sea. And when i'm done, the whole fucking boat will have their stuff on one fucking CD.An emergency troubleshoot will be completed before they'd even be able to locate the right storage area for the paper 'books'. End of fucking story.
Remember GIGO? Garbage In, Garbage Out? Same deal with a person's eyes. Quit using that cheap-ass PC razor-thin margin monitor bullshit, and get down to some serious-assed work and pleasurable reading.
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Your wife, your best friend, and you all sound like dillholes.
No shit!
I know this will get modded as rude or trollish or whatever...but come on... the whole crew, not just the palm pilot bunch in their bathtubs... but the lolly-gaggers who have time to soak in dirty water and read... these days? Maybe dillholes isn't the appropriate word, but, no wonder the foreigners hate us.
.78 to 1.00 is almost the same? Whoa, if you win a US million dollar lottery, let me be the first to trade you a million Aussie for it, okay? I could use the 220 Grand.
Yeah, the Tokyo land value/comparison is accurate, or was. The 'kicker' though, was all the billions and billions in loans that the biggest banks in Japan made, using borrowers' real estate 'value' as collateral.
When the real estate market collapsed (so to speak), the banks hit the tank. They still haven't come fully to terms with the non-performing debt, 15+ years after the fact.
A lot of the folks borrowed money to buy more real estate in Japan, Hawaii and the continental US, driving prices higher in those markets also, but those markets held steady. Yet when the Japanese market tanked, borrowers had no choice but to sell freshly-bought and/or developed property in the US, under 'duress'. (to satisfy a banking version of a 'margin call' when the loan/collateral ratio had become too skewed). When the 'now-nearly-worthless' is forcing sales, the 'sales' are of worthy items, but the mass sale of those items leads to their collective prices dropping, like dominoes. That's a classic 'crash'.
A friend picked up a hotel on Maui, for 12 million cash, that had been built one year previously... with 185 million in 'borrowed' cash... ouch. If you see a Japanese dude in one of these cardboard boxes, who knows, it might be a former real estate 'Baron'.
Cardboard can be made quite dense. I believe it has been said, by brighter engineering types than myself, that cardboard would be an ideal replacement for steel on suspension bridges, and other structures, due to its superior strength and flexibility.
Sheesh, you could send fake-ass "Invoices" for 'Services Rendered' and get back a much higher number of payments. I guess even the mooches aren't falling for the SCO scam.
What do *I* use? Win XP, win2k... I measure my reboot times in months as well. Also before you go 'but your not patching?' I can say the same about your linux box if you have years of uptime. Also not ALL patches require a reboot.
Not sure how it works in the Linux/Windows worlds, but in OSX even the patches, etc, that *require* a system reboot can be installed without a reoot by restaring the subsystems that were affected by the 'patch'. There's plenty of Mac servers and workstations (not to mention my Powerbook), that are 'up-to-date', yet don't go through the reboot process to remain so.
Why would anyone carry around a DSLR or SLR when they can have a single device which serves as a communicator, a information holder, and a full-service camera?
one word: Lenses
not enough words? Phone interruptions in a 'shoot', [with 'set to vibrate' being even dumber]
If everyone could use a pro-line Leica, with the Zeiss (or, rather, Summicron lenses) for a weekend, they'd puke when looking at their digital "camera's" output
I have an idea: Instant Messenger pop-ups in the viewfinder!!!
No, you're not alone. I go back a ways, but for purposes of this topic, ten years'll do: A Motorola flip phone with 'security' [a little 'beep' that signified your actual 'cell' was not adjacent to any other active 'cell']-- cell meaning the circuit, not the 'thing'. It was a privacy feature. What a great phone. Had a 250 dollar a month plan with 3000 daytime minutes, and evenings started at 5pm, days started at 8am. A bit pricey. Great coverage [Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Eastern seaboard to Miami... clear as a bell [no pun intended, but it was AT&T/Cantel]. Made some clients a small fortune in Motorola stock too, mid-nineties. When the Star-tac [you know the 'mini'] was released by Motorola, I knew it was the beginning of the end. And it was. Phones in the US suck, networks in the US suck... and..well, never mind. And yeah I'm a Yank, and have the no-Medical coverage/full-time salaried job to prove it.
wow, i had a bad day on this topic, first i mentioned the Command-key for QuickTime full-screen, and only realized later that i've been on Pro forever, and forgot about the screen sizing bit, and now this, the no clamshell-external monitor bit on iBooks... heheh, what next? don't answer, i'll think of something:=)
Actually, I like the Cut/Paste feature on Windows too, especially since the hierarchy is so flat over there. On a Mac, you can have multiple Finder windows open (with 6 external drives here, it's a must to just Command-N to open another directory tree, i.e. 'Finder' window), easily, and you just Command-drag the file to wherever you want it. That's a 'mv' instead of copy/paste.
I do however miss:...The ability to turn off the laptop screen and use merely the external monitor
The only thing you need is an external keyboard for that. Put the laptop in "Sleep" mode ['blue' Apple menu], close the lid on the 'book, press any key on external keyboard... there's your external-monitor-only.
OTOH, my cat had fun with my powerbook keyboard and I am going to be out $120 to replace it grey-market and violate my warranty at the same time.
You might want to give that a re-think. Unless your warranty isn't worth a $10 difference in grey market vs. Apple Authorized price.
And I want to get a dual G5 2.5ghz as one of the cameras I use for weddings generates 80mb files which does take a little while to load on the powerbook:)
Using the single drive inside the Powerbooks is okay, but to really speed up the file transfers, go for a Firewire 800 external. I did just that [a LaCie 125 gig for about $149, plugged into the PC Cardbus slot on a Ti-667, using an Orange dual-800 card]. The data absolutely flies in and out of it.
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No, you're right, BUT, it's a huge percentage of the demographic that marketers/advertisers and companies are after. Numbers are fun, aren't they?
Exactly. I'm on a few invitation-only trackers, and none of the clients can get away with upping faked up/down ratios for any effective amount of time.
...no mention of the bearded sour cream in my fridge?
What about bandwidth? VoIP starts at around 30kB for a modestly decent signal. 50kB for solid, better than any phone, 90kB you're talking mid-nineties motorola single-cel along the ocean (no interference from the mainland, low mid-tones, breathy audio)... Dialup? Never.
What did you say, it sounded like crackle, burp, hiss? Oh, my email client was polling the mail server, oops. That's exactly what happens with a dsl connection and VoIP set to 30kB. At 90kB on a twice-as-fat pipe, it's stunning, not a landline on Earth can touch it. Been on them for years now, never going back to copper.
And even 24 bucks and change for a very limited N.American service blows. Vonage is $29 with unlimited 50-state/all of Canada coverage, factor in 2 cents a minute to most western european countries, and this is just another stupid move on the part of AOL. They're probably looking at the 'stupid' market, oh, I mean newbies, and they'll employ the same over-billing that Sprint wrote into their code, AND the same impossible-to-cancel that AOL already 'owns'.
People that give those aol assholes money, deserve everything that happens from then on.
That's a very cool feature, no doubt. In OmhiWeb you don't even have to open the actual Bookmark Favorite icon to select the "Open in Tabs". Simply double-clicking the icon opens all of them, down the tab drawer. I'm on Omni now, and for all I know the same thing happens in Firefox. I do that every morning, double-click one folder icon in the browser's bar, get my coffee, and there's Slashdot, my Bank, two news orgs, and a to do list from a localhost file...nifty.
Not that it probably matters, here much, but the OSX version needs even more work than the other versions. Unless it's able to open a bookmark from the main menu without having a browser window open yet? Is it doing that over in PC World? Not over here.
I don't imagine the PC guys have to worry about .pkg issues, either, like the fact that your Search additions ( a truly great extensible item to replace those ubiquitous 'Google'-ized, search windows) get over-written in an update to the browser because the user-added items are cached in the .pkg instead of in the User profile. (which would make 100% more sense, there being exactly zero logic to the status quo). The .pkg is what gets clobbered in an update. Oops.
And the 'speed' thing? Hmmm, it isn't as fast as Safari or Camino, and none of them are as fast as IE in the OS 9 environment (running in the emulated "Classic', to boot).
And 'footprint' ? Oops, 25 MB on OSX, vs. 2.2 for Safari, and even the old slug, Opera, only weighs in at 9.6...if they aren't careful it'll be the 'free' Opera, before long, heheh.
I use it half the time too, and was raving about it in other forums (Mac-related) for a few months. But my 'other' browser is OmniWeb, and yeah it costs money, but it's only a handful of tweaks from having worked-out versions of Firefox's coolest Extensions built-in. (Omni's ad blocking is clunky, and the search customization is equally cumbersome, compared to the real ease of Firefox's utilities. Omni is still the 'alternative' browser on the Mac, as far as I can see.
One of the greatest aspects of Firefox, to me, is its huge base of support and development. I don't use VPC, or even my classified/net-isolated PC at work, for any web-related stuff, at all, so the fact that Firefox is 'way better than IE on Windows' means zero to me.
But I do hope it spreads like fucking wildfire, if only to rock the sloppy Web designers and Front Page users into getting on board with some standards. With IE under assault, Front Page in decline, and Oracle (pray to God) liquidating PeopleSoft, well, Hell, the Web's starting to smell slightly better already.
...would be Japanese people. :=)
No kidding. I remember a guy, with a bullhorn, walking down the central corridor in one big bldg of Columbia Records' west coast HQ, one afternoon, and announcing, "everybody on the south side of the office, please clear out yer desks, now." Okay, it was only 700 guys, but it was the eighties. Not as polite as what AOL is doing, either.
I'm no fan of AOL, but the newbs had to have somewhere to go. And AOL did let Netscape/Mozilla go off to do its thing,unlike the sort of thing that MS, Apple, Adobe, and many others have done as a matter of 'biz as usual'...
As for job prospects? Hey, they're mostly Republicans, right? So, what's the prob? Their guys are in charge, fossil fuels are still 'cool', and there's shitloads of coal mines down there round the PA, VA, border areas... heheh, have fun guys! :=)
That's where html, plain text, etc, loses it. The answer? XML. Meta-data for Title, Author,Subject, Comments, etc, and a user-selected CSS. Almost zero 'footprint'.The meta data allows you to forget about a separate database, and the CSS is available across all books, all publishers.
Forget html, thats all about bold, italic, which font... etc. Ever seen a web page where someone thought orange prose on a purple background was 'smart'? User-selected CSS to avoid that, and XML to focus on content location/management.Cross-platform, low CPU needs. Simple.
What? I make a living reading text on monitors, and do the same thing at home. Matter of fact i spend 8 hours a day reading pdfs, and rtf versions of OCR'd text so that i can re-purpose the material into SGML-based Interactive Elec Media.
And you know what? People who think LCDs are up to snuff are delusional. I can read 96 fucking hours on my Mac with a plain old LaCie electron monitor (22") at home, and no eye strain, no headaches, zip. And at work it's back to a Compaq w/Samsung monitor, and yeah,not as nice as home, but my 50,000 pages are almost done.
The guy who said tech manuals are better on screen/electronic, was spot-on right. Period. No ands, ifs, or buts. And with Acrobat 6 pro i can find anything in a friggin' hurry. Way easier to 'compare' electonic text with a pdf on split screen or dual monitors than having to refocus the depth of field thing to read print near a screen.
I'm on a military project so here's a little paper vs. electronic tidbit for ya: The amount of technical manuals that are REQUIRED to be on board an aircraft carrier are responsible for four inches of water displacement at sea. And when i'm done, the whole fucking boat will have their stuff on one fucking CD.An emergency troubleshoot will be completed before they'd even be able to locate the right storage area for the paper 'books'. End of fucking story.
Remember GIGO? Garbage In, Garbage Out? Same deal with a person's eyes. Quit using that cheap-ass PC razor-thin margin monitor bullshit, and get down to some serious-assed work and pleasurable reading.
No shit!
I know this will get modded as rude or trollish or whatever...but come on... the whole crew, not just the palm pilot bunch in their bathtubs... but the lolly-gaggers who have time to soak in dirty water and read... these days? Maybe dillholes isn't the appropriate word, but, no wonder the foreigners hate us.
.78 to 1.00 is almost the same? Whoa, if you win a US million dollar lottery, let me be the first to trade you a million Aussie for it, okay? I could use the 220 Grand.
Yeah, the Tokyo land value/comparison is accurate, or was. The 'kicker' though, was all the billions and billions in loans that the biggest banks in Japan made, using borrowers' real estate 'value' as collateral.
When the real estate market collapsed (so to speak), the banks hit the tank. They still haven't come fully to terms with the non-performing debt, 15+ years after the fact.
A lot of the folks borrowed money to buy more real estate in Japan, Hawaii and the continental US, driving prices higher in those markets also, but those markets held steady. Yet when the Japanese market tanked, borrowers had no choice but to sell freshly-bought and/or developed property in the US, under 'duress'. (to satisfy a banking version of a 'margin call' when the loan/collateral ratio had become too skewed). When the 'now-nearly-worthless' is forcing sales, the 'sales' are of worthy items, but the mass sale of those items leads to their collective prices dropping, like dominoes. That's a classic 'crash'.
A friend picked up a hotel on Maui, for 12 million cash, that had been built one year previously... with 185 million in 'borrowed' cash... ouch. If you see a Japanese dude in one of these cardboard boxes, who knows, it might be a former real estate 'Baron'.
Cardboard can be made quite dense. I believe it has been said, by brighter engineering types than myself, that cardboard would be an ideal replacement for steel on suspension bridges, and other structures, due to its superior strength and flexibility.
Out of how many, again?
Sheesh, you could send fake-ass "Invoices" for 'Services Rendered' and get back a much higher number of payments. I guess even the mooches aren't falling for the SCO scam.
Not sure how it works in the Linux/Windows worlds, but in OSX even the patches, etc, that *require* a system reboot can be installed without a reoot by restaring the subsystems that were affected by the 'patch'. There's plenty of Mac servers and workstations (not to mention my Powerbook), that are 'up-to-date', yet don't go through the reboot process to remain so.
one word: Lenses
not enough words? Phone interruptions in a 'shoot', [with 'set to vibrate' being even dumber]
If everyone could use a pro-line Leica, with the Zeiss (or, rather, Summicron lenses) for a weekend, they'd puke when looking at their digital "camera's" output
I have an idea: Instant Messenger pop-ups in the viewfinder!!!
No, you're not alone. I go back a ways, but for purposes of this topic, ten years'll do: A Motorola flip phone with 'security' [a little 'beep' that signified your actual 'cell' was not adjacent to any other active 'cell']-- cell meaning the circuit, not the 'thing'. It was a privacy feature. What a great phone. Had a 250 dollar a month plan with 3000 daytime minutes, and evenings started at 5pm, days started at 8am. A bit pricey. Great coverage [Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Eastern seaboard to Miami... clear as a bell [no pun intended, but it was AT&T/Cantel]. Made some clients a small fortune in Motorola stock too, mid-nineties. When the Star-tac [you know the 'mini'] was released by Motorola, I knew it was the beginning of the end. And it was. Phones in the US suck, networks in the US suck... and..well, never mind. And yeah I'm a Yank, and have the no-Medical coverage/full-time salaried job to prove it.
wow, i had a bad day on this topic, first i mentioned the Command-key for QuickTime full-screen, and only realized later that i've been on Pro forever, and forgot about the screen sizing bit, and now this, the no clamshell-external monitor bit on iBooks... heheh, what next? don't answer, i'll think of something :=)
Actually, I like the Cut/Paste feature on Windows too, especially since the hierarchy is so flat over there. On a Mac, you can have multiple Finder windows open (with 6 external drives here, it's a must to just Command-N to open another directory tree, i.e. 'Finder' window), easily, and you just Command-drag the file to wherever you want it. That's a 'mv' instead of copy/paste.
I do however miss:...The ability to turn off the laptop screen and use merely the external monitor The only thing you need is an external keyboard for that. Put the laptop in "Sleep" mode ['blue' Apple menu], close the lid on the 'book, press any key on external keyboard... there's your external-monitor-only.
OTOH, my cat had fun with my powerbook keyboard and I am going to be out $120 to replace it grey-market and violate my warranty at the same time. You might want to give that a re-think. Unless your warranty isn't worth a $10 difference in grey market vs. Apple Authorized price.
QuickTime -->FullScreen = Command-F in QT. [Movie menu]
Using the single drive inside the Powerbooks is okay, but to really speed up the file transfers, go for a Firewire 800 external. I did just that [a LaCie 125 gig for about $149, plugged into the PC Cardbus slot on a Ti-667, using an Orange dual-800 card]. The data absolutely flies in and out of it.
yeah, but.... you only have to run about 50 - 60 miles per hour to keep the turbines going on the little 'jet'.