not ONE word about LOVELY ipod ebooks?
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The eBook, Mark 2
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There is nothing like not having to flip back and forth between one side and the other when reading in bed, let me tell you (you in the know, know what i mean)
I have 10 (TEN) full books on my ipod right NOW. I read on it every day. It uses the note functionality, and, it's absoultely better then paper. (for the record, the 2nd gen ipod nano, and i get HUGE amounts of battery life and it's with me all the time)
That's right, i also have a sharp zaurus (linux pda) , and i prefer the ipod nano. Full books, good backlight, good battery life, and it plays music too. All in my pocket, all the time.
Why do people keep saying that ebook readers are the problem? The problem isn't the readers - it's that there aren't big collections of digitized books (okay - gutenberg, but what i scooped was a russian hosted website with 350+ of the BEST sci-fi/cool books out there)
The point is, i've been reading (for "fun" reading, that is) 100% on the ipod for the past year. Why does sony even matter???
Just sayin'.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? not one word about the ipod??
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The eBook, Mark 2
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I have 10 (TEN) full books on my ipod right NOW. I read on it every day. It uses the note functionality, and, it's absoultely better then paper. (for the record, the 2nd gen ipod nano, and i get HUGE amounts of battery life and it's with me all the time)
That's right, i also have a sharp zaurus (linux pda) , and i prefer the ipod nano. Full books, good backlight, good battery life, and it plays music too. All in my pocket, all the time.
Why do people keep saying that ebook readers are the problem? The problem isn't the readers - it's that there aren't big collections of digitized books (okay - gutenberg, but what i scooped was a russian hosted website with 350+ of the BEST sci-fi/cool books out there)
The point is, i've been reading (for "fun" reading, that is) 100% on the ipod for the past year. Why does sony even matter???
Just sayin'.
Somebody tell Vernor Vinge that quick!
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Ballmer Sounds Off
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because a top-notch sci-fi author needs this sort of breaking slang news as fast as possible!
actually, it is also used in the Wikipedia article for the Cray-2 as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2..."Cray solved this by adding ten smaller computers to the system, allowing them to deal with the slower external storage (disks and tapes) and "squirt" data into memory when the main processor was busy. This solution no longer offered any advantages; memory was large enough that entire data sets could be read into it, but the"....
not defending balmer, but i don't mind the usage. But you guys, you just uh.. keep on squirtin if that's what your thinking about:)
I think (and have... thunk?) that "randomness" on the ipod is actually a secret R&D weapon in the apple ipod toolkit. From a psychological standpoint alone, what is the value of all other mp3 players being truly (read unadjusted psuedo random) and the ipod being a little less.. that is, what if they, say, mark the number of times you don't let a song play through, but skip it in the first 10 seconds? There are powerful means by which they can onboard build a profile and i have three things to say about that:
1) that is a FUN project for a team of engineers to do and, 2) Why wouldn't they for the HUGE hidden psycological impact it could have in differentiating the player 3) It's closed source so you can't actually tell, so the five songs with-no-user-input model wouldn't work. Another might...
Regardless, i wouldn't expect them to miss the importance such a feature would have. The iPod just keeps the vibe going, while the competition keeps playing country-house-ambient-country-house-ambient
Also, the "sound-check" would be a good place to do some quick BPM detection to have like tempo's play. The new settings for more- or less-random in iTunes almost scream "we are doing something tricky"
The startup noise will be as loud as the volume setting you had when you shut the computer down, AND, it no longer ever comes out of the headphone jack at all, at least on my intel macmini. Confirmation: use the nvram -p command to print your "boot-volume"
Old news, yeah, but with the concern hospitals have over a) using technology to reduce doctor errors and efficiency and b) maintaining a clean environment where, frankly, no pda or keyboard or tactile interface is yet clean in the slighest (disposable sleeves for pda, maybe, but stil..
I'd say the neatest thing is in hospitals where a bit of disinfectant on smooth surface is all it takes to keep transmission of shared consoles down - hey, even sliding paper rolls for the purpose. Any way just thought 'gee that's appicable'..
Be polite, supportive, and encouraging. The user should never feel condescended to, blamed, or intimidated.
Well how about DRM then? I don't want to feel blamed for copyi*%#&)@^HS3m..3Fhaffgjdfg THIS IS MASTER CONTROL. You are not a User here Kevin Flynn, now start using Vista, or would you perhaps like it if i started throttling your processes...
although i agree that bandwidth is a good limiting factor i hadn't considered as the major roadblock. I imagine that if it was truly necessary however, Netflix would be shipping/flipping hard drives filled with your movie selections, and not just a DVD.. that is, necessity would have bred such a thing faster.
unless you haven't noticed, the songs that are in the hidden directory USED to be in non-ordered folders, true, but the song titles were right. This means that (and as a set and setting - i'm a sunday muscian and have a bunch of my own music on the ipod) if i lost a file i wanted i could still search for and retrieve it. As of the latest firmware update, NOW IT AIN'T like that. All songs have been renamed to a XXXX alphanumeric code such that, except for filesize, i can't figure out what is what at all. Some of MY music i'd really like back is trapped.
Just a cute litttle apple feature, or the closing alligator jaws of the ipod trap?
Well, if you boil a frog slow enough they'll nary jump an inch to save themselves. You decide.
"How is a JavaScript spreadsheet program "search"?"
- Like they've shown with mail, people like to be able to search spreadsheets too.
If you're wondering what THIS points to, it's that google isn't really profitting in helping you find anything, they profit from having the communicative and buisness discourse of normal society indexed, even if it's only currently scanned to present ads (the rest left as exercise of the reader, yada yada).
Now, oh fellow slashdotters, have a look at this lovely cube, and notice that it's top surface *is a map*. Okay, we here know that scanning from satellites can use techniques such that 'hiding under a tree' is preschool to the powers that be, but have you ever seen an image prove it so extremely viscerally? More lay people could use to see this image!
look at "x-gestures" for osx. it allows any mouse gesture to be applied to any key sequence, app opening/reactivation, apple script, expose, etc. it simply rocks and I WOULDN'T use a desktop computer (read: large screen) without it! having to go all the way to a menu at the top of the screen for every little thing is so 2004.. and when you have things like a straight left/right/up/down gesture tied to a virtual desktop program, it really starts to sizzle. the whole acceloremter anything is not as slick as xgestures, period, but then again, it looks like the last time you searched around was netscape navigator years ago you'd be wise to go give that a shot. dark ages without it.
haha Are we talking about Alphas or osx here?
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sure sounds the same
quality = more money, people. you are all free to drive Yugos if you please.
That aside, my father had an alpha for FreeBSD development, i believe. I used to play Larn on it. before i ever heard the word "final fantasy" Sorry to hear it got sucker punched. (Remember CEO's: If you're not number one, then buy number one and kill it. It's cheaper then investing in R&D.)
my box: 867Mhz Quicksilver G4, 2Meg L3 640 Megs Ram, Many Open Applications, with Uptime > 2 days. There is sufficient free memory to avoid any swapping.
i'm using DIALUP avg 4.0 Kb/sec for both tests.
opening ESPN (what they liked to test in the article), it takes:
OmniWeb 1:32 Seconds.
Mozilla 1:11 Seconds.
BUT, considering that it's dial-up and not highspeed, I think the render-time proportions between the two would shrink to a factor where OmniWeb's other merits become a factor to appreciate.
Observe, I ran them consecutively. They don't share caches so they both loaded from scratch. Being 4:00am on a college dialup means there aren't many fluctuations in network availability. if we imagine then that everything was the same, but run 16 times faster (like a dsl can easily achieve), then the rendering times come out to be
5.75 second for OmniWeb, 4.4375 for Mozilla.
That is not a large difference. Someone up on the thread mentioned that it's really hard to get objective speeds with browsers, but this is a unbiased as i can get. Especially when, did i mention, i'm a 56K warrior.
I think Omni caught up.
Now feel free to blow my little science fair project away...
I know someone else out there HAS to give up to OmniWeb with me. It renders SO beautifully. It's fast. And it really IS written in Cocoa.
I don't care if Mozilla *calls* itself Cocoa --- If i cant use CocoaGestures with it then it ain't, period. I do believe that it's the only browser (haven't used iCab) that lets you do this so far (as all apps really written in cocoa will support).
if you don't kmow what Cocoa Gestures is, download this http://www.bitart.com/CocoaGestures.dmg NOW!
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There is nothing like not having to flip back and forth between one side and the other when reading in bed, let me tell you (you in the know, know what i mean)
I have 10 (TEN) full books on my ipod right NOW. I read on it every day. It uses the note functionality, and, it's absoultely better then paper. (for the record, the 2nd gen ipod nano, and i get HUGE amounts of battery life and it's with me all the time)
That's right, i also have a sharp zaurus (linux pda) , and i prefer the ipod nano. Full books, good backlight, good battery life, and it plays music too. All in my pocket, all the time.
Why do people keep saying that ebook readers are the problem? The problem isn't the readers - it's that there aren't big collections of digitized books (okay - gutenberg, but what i scooped was a russian hosted website with 350+ of the BEST sci-fi/cool books out there)
The point is, i've been reading (for "fun" reading, that is) 100% on the ipod for the past year. Why does sony even matter???
Just sayin'.
I have 10 (TEN) full books on my ipod right NOW. I read on it every day. It uses the note functionality, and, it's absoultely better then paper. (for the record, the 2nd gen ipod nano, and i get HUGE amounts of battery life and it's with me all the time)
That's right, i also have a sharp zaurus (linux pda) , and i prefer the ipod nano. Full books, good backlight, good battery life, and it plays music too. All in my pocket, all the time.
Why do people keep saying that ebook readers are the problem? The problem isn't the readers - it's that there aren't big collections of digitized books (okay - gutenberg, but what i scooped was a russian hosted website with 350+ of the BEST sci-fi/cool books out there)
The point is, i've been reading (for "fun" reading, that is) 100% on the ipod for the past year. Why does sony even matter???
Just sayin'.
because a top-notch sci-fi author needs this sort of breaking slang news as fast as possible!
..."Cray solved this by adding ten smaller computers to the system, allowing them to deal with the slower external storage (disks and tapes) and "squirt" data into memory when the main processor was busy. This solution no longer offered any advantages; memory was large enough that entire data sets could be read into it, but the"....
:)
here's a solid use of it: http://www.verminary.com/cyberpunk/primer.html
actually, it is also used in the Wikipedia article for the Cray-2 as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
not defending balmer, but i don't mind the usage. But you guys, you just uh.. keep on squirtin if that's what your thinking about
I think (and have... thunk?) that "randomness" on the ipod is actually a secret R&D weapon in the apple ipod toolkit. From a psychological standpoint alone, what is the value of all other mp3 players being truly (read unadjusted psuedo random) and the ipod being a little less.. that is, what if they, say, mark the number of times you don't let a song play through, but skip it in the first 10 seconds? There are powerful means by which they can onboard build a profile and i have three things to say about that:
1) that is a FUN project for a team of engineers to do and,
2) Why wouldn't they for the HUGE hidden psycological impact it could have in differentiating the player
3) It's closed source so you can't actually tell, so the five songs with-no-user-input model wouldn't work. Another might...
Regardless, i wouldn't expect them to miss the importance such a feature would have. The iPod just keeps the vibe going, while the competition keeps playing country-house-ambient-country-house-ambient
Also, the "sound-check" would be a good place to do some quick BPM detection to have like tempo's play. The new settings for more- or less-random in iTunes almost scream "we are doing something tricky"
Wouldn't you, if you could?
The startup noise will be as loud as the volume setting you had when you shut the computer down, AND, it no longer ever comes out of the headphone jack at all, at least on my intel macmini. Confirmation: use the nvram -p command to print your "boot-volume"
booyaka!
Old news, yeah, but with the concern hospitals have over a) using technology to reduce doctor errors and efficiency and b) maintaining a clean environment where, frankly, no pda or keyboard or tactile interface is yet clean in the slighest (disposable sleeves for pda, maybe, but stil..
I'd say the neatest thing is in hospitals where a bit of disinfectant on smooth surface is all it takes to keep transmission of shared consoles down - hey, even sliding paper rolls for the purpose. Any way just thought 'gee that's appicable'..
although i agree that bandwidth is a good limiting factor i hadn't considered as the major roadblock. I imagine that if it was truly necessary however, Netflix would be shipping/flipping hard drives filled with your movie selections, and not just a DVD.. that is, necessity would have bred such a thing faster.
Good point tho!
It took 40 years, that shows how much we really need it, i suppose.
"Now, books in 3pt font! Rush to Best Buy for yours today!"
unless you haven't noticed, the songs that are in the hidden directory USED to be in non-ordered folders, true, but the song titles were right. This means that (and as a set and setting - i'm a sunday muscian and have a bunch of my own music on the ipod) if i lost a file i wanted i could still search for and retrieve it. As of the latest firmware update, NOW IT AIN'T like that. All songs have been renamed to a XXXX alphanumeric code such that, except for filesize, i can't figure out what is what at all. Some of MY music i'd really like back is trapped.
Just a cute litttle apple feature, or the closing alligator jaws of the ipod trap?
Well, if you boil a frog slow enough they'll nary jump an inch to save themselves. You decide.
Meh.
System-wide application level event notification framework.. Growl Homepage Just a tip!
"How is a beta Jabber server "search"?"
- you search for people
"How is a JavaScript map client "search"?"
- you search for directions
"How is a JavaScript spreadsheet program "search"?"
- Like they've shown with mail, people like to be able to search spreadsheets too.
If you're wondering what THIS points to, it's that google isn't really profitting in helping you find anything, they profit from having the communicative and buisness discourse of normal society indexed, even if it's only currently scanned to present ads (the rest left as exercise of the reader, yada yada).
c'mon.
Look at this url, from their "the Archimedes Palimpsest" Page (off of the home page of TFA): http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/images/imaging _g5.gif
Now, oh fellow slashdotters, have a look at this lovely cube, and notice that it's top surface *is a map*. Okay, we here know that scanning from satellites can use techniques such that 'hiding under a tree' is preschool to the powers that be, but have you ever seen an image prove it so extremely viscerally? More lay people could use to see this image!
look at "x-gestures" for osx. it allows any mouse gesture to be applied to any key sequence, app opening/reactivation, apple script, expose, etc. it simply rocks and I WOULDN'T use a desktop computer (read: large screen) without it! having to go all the way to a menu at the top of the screen for every little thing is so 2004.. and when you have things like a straight left/right/up/down gesture tied to a virtual desktop program, it really starts to sizzle. the whole acceloremter anything is not as slick as xgestures, period, but then again, it looks like the last time you searched around was netscape navigator years ago you'd be wise to go give that a shot. dark ages without it.
sure sounds the same
quality = more money, people. you are all free to drive Yugos if you please.
That aside, my father had an alpha for FreeBSD development, i believe. I used to play Larn on it. before i ever heard the word "final fantasy" Sorry to hear it got sucker punched. (Remember CEO's: If you're not number one, then buy number one and kill it. It's cheaper then investing in R&D.)
shucks.
my box:
867Mhz Quicksilver G4, 2Meg L3
640 Megs Ram,
Many Open Applications, with Uptime > 2 days.
There is sufficient free memory to avoid any
swapping.
i'm using DIALUP avg 4.0 Kb/sec for both tests.
opening ESPN (what they liked to test in the article), it takes:
OmniWeb
1:32 Seconds.
Mozilla
1:11 Seconds.
BUT, considering that it's dial-up and not highspeed, I think the render-time proportions between the two would shrink to a factor where OmniWeb's other merits become a factor to appreciate.
Observe, I ran them consecutively. They don't share caches so they both loaded from scratch. Being 4:00am on a college dialup means there aren't many fluctuations in network availability.
if we imagine then that everything was the same, but run 16 times faster (like a dsl can easily achieve), then the rendering times come out to be
5.75 second for OmniWeb,
4.4375 for Mozilla.
That is not a large difference. Someone up on the thread mentioned that it's really hard to get objective speeds with browsers, but this is a unbiased as i can get. Especially when, did i mention, i'm a 56K warrior.
I think Omni caught up.
Now feel free to blow my little science fair project away...
regards, jamesr.
I know someone else out there HAS to give up to OmniWeb with me. It renders SO beautifully. It's fast. And it really IS written in Cocoa.
I don't care if Mozilla *calls* itself Cocoa --- If i cant use CocoaGestures with it then it ain't, period. I do believe that it's the only browser (haven't used iCab) that lets you do this so far (as all apps really written in cocoa will support).
if you don't kmow what Cocoa Gestures is, download this http://www.bitart.com/CocoaGestures.dmg NOW!
and you'll thank me.