Like the person below mentioned, I was referring to battery life. Presumably with a small device, we want a small battery. Using an embedded processor or several custon-designed ASICs and pumping a color LCD to constantly refresh, decoding the sound, etc. would be very energy-intensive as opposed to simply decoding MP3/etc. Further, who is even to say what we would be able to watch on it - I doubt DVDs. It could be a porto-porno-player, but not much else.
If it did play DVDs, i.e., a walkman with a display, it wouldn't be any better than one of those flip-top dvd players, which aren't as good as iBooks though similarly priced.
The solutionn is already there, and anything smaller would be walking backwards.
Apple is about giving a good experience. Watching movies on an iPod is not really a good experience - massive storage requirements, pressure to have a large display on a small device, the need for battery life. Why make a video device that you can only watch one video on? I would rather them foray into consumer electronics, selling a Tivo-like device that if you subscribe to.mac you get the channel listings, or something like that. Not a video iPod....
Sure, perhaps the play-by-play may on the outside seem annoying, but really it is just an opener for a forum discussion. I like reading about people's experiences with the updates before I apply them. I suppose I am a nerd, and that would be news for me, thus preserving the/. mission. Otherwise they would have to drop news about BSD, Linux, etc. update annoucements too...
Rebooting is required to load the drivers into kernel space. Say you have an unsupported drive - to save memory and not cause trouble burning is disabled in finder, etc. We want to detect our newly supported drive and then we can enable such things - could probably do it on the fly, but it's always good to reboot if one's ego can handle it.
Then again, if you use it so much that the "please buy me" message annoys you, you may wish to consider paying for it. I did that and it does wonders at getting rid of the message.
Good insight - I suppose I was just considering the cheap thrill at showing that it can be trivially halved, but no doubt if one is looking at base pairs alone they could probably compress it by a factor of eight. But the other poster was correct in observing that there is a plethora of other meta-information that goes along with it, such as what the various base pairs code for. Then again, if we wanted to be all GATTACA, they would probably do the simple compressed file (seemingly of a third of a gig) and the hardware would would decode it and calculate the meta-information for my insurance company.
Actually a DNA sequence is only about 3GB for a human - you're anime DVDs might take more space, at least until you compress them. Then again, DNA should be fairly trivial to compress highly. Let Z = CA, Y = TG,.....
I'm currently taking a course called Religions of Star Trek- beat that:) A teaspoon of sugar makes the medicine go down. It's offered at Muhlenberg College. The course description:
REL 111 Topics in Religion: Religions of Star Trek
This course explores major themes in the study of religion using Star Trek as a primary source, along with more traditional, written texts. Selected excerpts from the original series, the Next Generation series, Deep Space Nine and Voyager will be viewed and discussed. Star Trek will be presented as a media forum for public debate on changing attitudes towards the role of religion in our culture over the past thirty years. It has presented constructions of meaning and value across cultures, highlighting themes fundamental to our understanding of religions. These themes include: the nature of the divine, the role of myth and ritual, evolution in both the spiritual and biological sense, the role of technology in our understanding of religious systems, attitudes toward "other" religions, and the transformative power of religious experience.
Meets general academic requirement R.
Apple releases a portable and sleek MP3 player for (an admittedly ovepriced) 400 bucks and it is "lame," whist HP releases a shitty computer in a smaller box and Taco is all "I totally need a review model."
Taco, you are a fuck. You've let your little media conglomerate go to your head. Be a journalist or an evangelist, but don't be both... it doesn't become you.
The freely available Ada IDE is actually one of the best I have used (at least for the price range). I don't have the exact URL of the distributions ite, but you can get at it from http://home.trouwweb.nl/Jerry/compilers.html - do note that there are NOT expensive licensing options in order to use Ada. gnatmake is free under *nix, the above named IDE takes care of Win32, and there is a Mac version kicking around somewhere too, but MacOS X has gnatmake too, so all bases are covered.
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
I thought you might be interested in this tidbit- the textbooks that I bought in Europe during my junior year abroad (cheaper!) are not supposed to be exported to the US- for example, I have a paperback copy of Tannenbaum's networking book that I got for roughly 30 dollars US- the book sells for 90 US at my bookstore. Theoretically, it could be seized at customs! Hmm...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
While slightly biased (as a PDP++ user) I find that it really is the best tool for the job, though for doing small networks it can be a pain, for the "real thing" it can't be beat, both in speed and in refinement of the interface. Randall O'Reilly, the author, has released a new book which would serve as an undergraduate/graduate text that has experiments in it which revolve around using PDP++ - they provide good practice. Currently, though, I don't think that the documentation is too stellar, so I agree it might be a bit tough.
SNNS, the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator is pretty okay too, and like PDP++, is available for several platforms - http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/
Other than those, my mind is drawing a blank. Good luck!
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
It seems that the new sig is automatically inserted over the old one, because all of my past posts have the new sig. That seems like quite a bit of processor overhead- I can only hope that it is a one time update of the database rather than scanning through all of the info files involved in each and every post... phew. Seems like a useless feature to me...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
What good is a supafast processor if it drops to half speed when doing anything useful? Is this how Intel is getting the faster pentiums out the door? I'm quite happy with my G4, thank you very much...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
You know, this would have been a super spiffy prank if the "firm" quickly replaced their page with a mirror of goatse.cx - that is what any nobel person would have done at least:)
To bad April Fool's was last week...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
As much as I would like to see the source code for the software that runs our missle defense systems and the schematics for making nuclear missles, which heck, my tax dollars paid for, I don't think it's gonna happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly -- thank you for manning the fort.
Like the person below mentioned, I was referring to battery life. Presumably with a small device, we want a small battery. Using an embedded processor or several custon-designed ASICs and pumping a color LCD to constantly refresh, decoding the sound, etc. would be very energy-intensive as opposed to simply decoding MP3/etc. Further, who is even to say what we would be able to watch on it - I doubt DVDs. It could be a porto-porno-player, but not much else.
If it did play DVDs, i.e., a walkman with a display, it wouldn't be any better than one of those flip-top dvd players, which aren't as good as iBooks though similarly priced.
The solutionn is already there, and anything smaller would be walking backwards.
Apple is about giving a good experience. Watching movies on an iPod is not really a good experience - massive storage requirements, pressure to have a large display on a small device, the need for battery life. Why make a video device that you can only watch one video on? I would rather them foray into consumer electronics, selling a Tivo-like device that if you subscribe to .mac you get the channel listings, or something like that. Not a video iPod....
It was Edsger Dijkstra who said that.
Sure, perhaps the play-by-play may on the outside seem annoying, but really it is just an opener for a forum discussion. I like reading about people's experiences with the updates before I apply them. I suppose I am a nerd, and that would be news for me, thus preserving the /. mission. Otherwise they would have to drop news about BSD, Linux, etc. update annoucements too...
Rebooting is required to load the drivers into kernel space. Say you have an unsupported drive - to save memory and not cause trouble burning is disabled in finder, etc. We want to detect our newly supported drive and then we can enable such things - could probably do it on the fly, but it's always good to reboot if one's ego can handle it.
Customers see how reliable the POS is
I thought Windows was the P.O.S.
Then again, if you use it so much that the "please buy me" message annoys you, you may wish to consider paying for it. I did that and it does wonders at getting rid of the message.
The best things in life ARE NOT free.
Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is.
It sounds like Lucas is trying to avoid the fandom menace.
Sometime's I just kill me.
I made a grammar error (you're instead of your) - it must be that my compressed DNA didn't unzip properly.
CATcoyboynealGTTA....
Good insight - I suppose I was just considering the cheap thrill at showing that it can be trivially halved, but no doubt if one is looking at base pairs alone they could probably compress it by a factor of eight. But the other poster was correct in observing that there is a plethora of other meta-information that goes along with it, such as what the various base pairs code for. Then again, if we wanted to be all GATTACA, they would probably do the simple compressed file (seemingly of a third of a gig) and the hardware would would decode it and calculate the meta-information for my insurance company.
Actually a DNA sequence is only about 3GB for a human - you're anime DVDs might take more space, at least until you compress them. Then again, DNA should be fairly trivial to compress highly. Let Z = CA, Y = TG, .....
I'm currently taking a course called Religions of Star Trek- beat that :) A teaspoon of sugar makes the medicine go down. It's offered at Muhlenberg College. The course description:
Description:
REL 111 Topics in Religion: Religions of Star Trek
This course explores major themes in the study of religion using Star Trek as a primary source, along with more traditional, written texts. Selected excerpts from the original series, the Next Generation series, Deep Space Nine and Voyager will be viewed and discussed. Star Trek will be presented as a media forum for public debate on changing attitudes towards the role of religion in our culture over the past thirty years. It has presented constructions of meaning and value across cultures, highlighting themes fundamental to our understanding of religions. These themes include: the nature of the divine, the role of myth and ritual, evolution in both the spiritual and biological sense, the role of technology in our understanding of religious systems, attitudes toward "other" religions, and the transformative power of religious experience.
Meets general academic requirement R.
Apple releases a portable and sleek MP3 player for (an admittedly ovepriced) 400 bucks and it is "lame," whist HP releases a shitty computer in a smaller box and Taco is all "I totally need a review model."
Taco, you are a fuck. You've let your little media conglomerate go to your head. Be a journalist or an evangelist, but don't be both... it doesn't become you.
The freely available Ada IDE is actually one of the best I have used (at least for the price range). I don't have the exact URL of the distributions ite, but you can get at it from http://home.trouwweb.nl/Jerry/compilers.html - do note that there are NOT expensive licensing options in order to use Ada. gnatmake is free under *nix, the above named IDE takes care of Win32, and there is a Mac version kicking around somewhere too, but MacOS X has gnatmake too, so all bases are covered.
--
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
I thought you might be interested in this tidbit- the textbooks that I bought in Europe during my junior year abroad (cheaper!) are not supposed to be exported to the US- for example, I have a paperback copy of Tannenbaum's networking book that I got for roughly 30 dollars US- the book sells for 90 US at my bookstore. Theoretically, it could be seized at customs! Hmm...
--
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
While slightly biased (as a PDP++ user) I find that it really is the best tool for the job, though for doing small networks it can be a pain, for the "real thing" it can't be beat, both in speed and in refinement of the interface. Randall O'Reilly, the author, has released a new book which would serve as an undergraduate/graduate text that has experiments in it which revolve around using PDP++ - they provide good practice. Currently, though, I don't think that the documentation is too stellar, so I agree it might be a bit tough. SNNS, the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator is pretty okay too, and like PDP++, is available for several platforms - http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/ Other than those, my mind is drawing a blank. Good luck!
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
It used to say "if life hands you lemon's, make lemonade; if life hands you limes, well, your fscked."
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
It seems that the new sig is automatically inserted over the old one, because all of my past posts have the new sig. That seems like quite a bit of processor overhead- I can only hope that it is a one time update of the database rather than scanning through all of the info files involved in each and every post... phew. Seems like a useless feature to me...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
You know, I hadn't considered that option. Now I need a new sig...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
forgot to mention... no fan :)
/., he would say
If Nixon were on
"I am not a troll."
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
What good is a supafast processor if it drops to half speed when doing anything useful? Is this how Intel is getting the faster pentiums out the door? I'm quite happy with my G4, thank you very much...
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
and yes, I spelled noble wrong.
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
You know, this would have been a super spiffy prank if the "firm" quickly replaced their page with a mirror of goatse.cx - that is what any nobel person would have done at least :)
To bad April Fool's was last week...
--
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
As much as I would like to see the source code for the software that runs our missle defense systems and the schematics for making nuclear missles, which heck, my tax dollars paid for, I don't think it's gonna happen.