Why can't other DVR, set-top box, or any other electronics manufacturer for that matter, clue into this and start designing beautiful and functional UI?
Well, to be fair, Front Row isn't the entire interface for the AppleTV; it's just the front end for the player. iTunes on your "general purpose computer running Windows or MacOS" has all the controls for acquiring the content.
I agree, except that on my iMac (Intel, 2 GB RAM), it is sometimes slow as hell to do what seems to be a simple thing, like enter the "Movies" directory. WTF? It's essentially running ls.
When I first looked at the webcam, I thought the rocket was wobbling. Then I realized it was the camera itself on the stand. Still, it was momentarily unnerving.
They'll probably still launch if the winds are only at ground level. If the nav system can't get it off the ground and stabilized in a little crosswind, they don't deserve to be launching.
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I think the key word here is "integrated." In my experience with Linux (I tried using it exclusively at home for two years, finally giving up and buying a Mac last year), the average distro is over-bloated with software selections and has very little integration. Sure, KDE offers KOffice, and most of their apps are well integrated. But to say that the set of apps that come with a Linux distro are "out of the box" integrated is overstating things at best.
I've never been to Ape Cave, but I've been to Lava River Cave (see link at the bottom of the Ape Cave page), and that's pretty cool. At the end, you have to get down on your hands and knees to crawl through what looks for all the world like a rabbit hole from Alice in Wonderland. You go about six feet or so and it opens out onto a small antechamber, and you can't go any further. But the trip down there is fascinating. There are all sorts of neat features along the way.
I hadn't really thought about lava tubes on the moon. Interesting concept.
Hey, thanks. I hesitate to use the "political changes on Earth" bit too much, as it's been (in my opinion) overused. OTOH, it's probably okay to throw in a budget crisis or something.
I like the tunnel thing. I'm currently working an angle where "someone high up" is asking for mysterious things and not saying why. Yeah, that's an old saw as well, but it's at least something to get the story going.
Sometime back I started writing a short story about a moon base. I have a good setting going (I think), but am having trouble coming up with a compelling plot. It seems timely to get back to writing on it. Any suggestions?
So, now that you've mentioned HBO, how do they get their revenues? Sure, it's easy if all they do is show movies that other people have produced, but HBO, Showtime, etc. are doing a bang-up job of producing their own series like Rome, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, etc. A premium channel package of a half-dozen channels is a $12 add to my satellite bill. If I could get a package where I could pick pieces that I want at the same $12 per month (Discovery Network Channels, $12; Starz Network, $12; The Geek Lineup (Sci-Fi Channel, G4, etc.), $12), and the shows either came without advertising or had interesting advertising in blocks either before or after the show, not during (HBO does this), then I would be a happy consumer. Of course, none of it is really about what we as consumers want, it's about what the content providers are willing to give us. And, so long as we keep eating the pablum, we'll never graduate to solid food.
I was wondering about that myself. Any ideas on how to guard against that?
Realistically, any sort of circulatory system surgery has the potential to knock loose a piece of plaque that can end up in your brain, and this beats the heck out of having a medical snake run up one of your arteries (a friend of mine had heart surgery; they went in through her thigh in a one-inch incision).
Also, on a tether, you could feed the thing power so it could do longer, more complex surgeries.
The video seems to be having some trouble (it cuts out about the time he says "talked to the professionals in the field..."), and I'm not sure what the Yucca Mtn. discussion was about, but... knowing your interest in RTGs, I presume that's what you're referring to. It's possible that with an ultracapacitor/RTG combination, there would be enough cost/benefit for the military to use them. The question is, could you get something powered by an RTG into civilian (police) hands?
The thing that orchestras have that most programmers don't is a program design (the score) that they're working with their peers to develop (play) from. The composer knew what he wanted. Most users don't.
We've got a DirecTV TiVo unit (oldie but goodie). I've never investigated interfacing it with my computer, but we're starting to realize that 35 hours of storage just isn't enough for long-term storage and still catch everything we want to watch, so it's time to figure something out. We hate the remote on the new DirecTV PVR, so don't want to switch. Any idea if there's a way to pull things off of it to my iMac without a whole lot of extra equipment like FireWire TV tuners and the like?
I didn't even have to RTFA to figure that out (yay me, right?). AFAIK, most people who could (would) dediate a serious amount of bandwidth to downloading content quickly would be likely to dedicate a serious slice to uploading, therefore enriching the available bandwith for everyone.
Exactly. I've been struggling to figure out what the draw is to any one of these sites. MySpace evidently started out as a way to promote unsigned bands, which is cool, but, while it still seems to happen, the most important feature of that site looks to be the counter for the number of "friends" you have. I checked out Orkut, thinking that, being part of Google, it would be cool and I would like it. Nope, no luck there. StumbleUpon has a cool hook with its basic feature of URL tracking and sharing, but you can't enter metadata about URLs the way you can on del.icio.us, and the "social" aspects of it seem to be limited to exchanging private messages (yet another e-mail box) and posting to forums linked to some categories of groups, but not others (wtf?). Of course, then there's Slashdot that has lots of news and discussion, but who really uses the Bookmarks system? Did you even know it was there?
All these sites seem to be approaching some sort of end state where they have all the right features, stability and usability. About that time, Microsoft will take notice and put a billion dollars into the coolest looking, feature-rich system that will only work well with IE. It will be based on SharePoint. People will flock to it, except for the hundred thousand or so Slashdot members who will decry it (correctly) for requiring a DNA signature for signing in, and a usage agreement that says anything you post there, including your award-winning photographs, soon-to-be-published books, etc. are the sole property of The Empire. Most teens won't care, because they'll be able to check their latest "friends" counts from their fully-integrated Windows Mobile phone.
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Why can't other DVR, set-top box, or any other electronics manufacturer for that matter, clue into this and start designing beautiful and functional UI?
Well, to be fair, Front Row isn't the entire interface for the AppleTV; it's just the front end for the player. iTunes on your "general purpose computer running Windows or MacOS" has all the controls for acquiring the content.
I agree, except that on my iMac (Intel, 2 GB RAM), it is sometimes slow as hell to do what seems to be a simple thing, like enter the "Movies" directory. WTF? It's essentially running ls.
When I first looked at the webcam, I thought the rocket was wobbling. Then I realized it was the camera itself on the stand. Still, it was momentarily unnerving.
They'll probably still launch if the winds are only at ground level. If the nav system can't get it off the ground and stabilized in a little crosswind, they don't deserve to be launching.
Was it just me, or was anyone else thinking of human trafficking at that point?
It was just you, sorry.
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I think the key word here is "integrated." In my experience with Linux (I tried using it exclusively at home for two years, finally giving up and buying a Mac last year), the average distro is over-bloated with software selections and has very little integration. Sure, KDE offers KOffice, and most of their apps are well integrated. But to say that the set of apps that come with a Linux distro are "out of the box" integrated is overstating things at best.
we're (as far as I know) the first ones to try it in lunar gravity
So, just out of curiosity, how are you replicating that here on Earth?
I've never been to Ape Cave, but I've been to Lava River Cave (see link at the bottom of the Ape Cave page), and that's pretty cool. At the end, you have to get down on your hands and knees to crawl through what looks for all the world like a rabbit hole from Alice in Wonderland. You go about six feet or so and it opens out onto a small antechamber, and you can't go any further. But the trip down there is fascinating. There are all sorts of neat features along the way.
I hadn't really thought about lava tubes on the moon. Interesting concept.
Hey, thanks. I hesitate to use the "political changes on Earth" bit too much, as it's been (in my opinion) overused. OTOH, it's probably okay to throw in a budget crisis or something.
I like the tunnel thing. I'm currently working an angle where "someone high up" is asking for mysterious things and not saying why. Yeah, that's an old saw as well, but it's at least something to get the story going.
Watch this space (har har).
Grrrr.... I updated the publish date and fragged the previous link. Here's the new one.
Note also that your routine bodily functions in a gravity well involve waste products immediately leaving your vicinity upon exit, unlike in zero G.
Sometime back I started writing a short story about a moon base. I have a good setting going (I think), but am having trouble coming up with a compelling plot. It seems timely to get back to writing on it. Any suggestions?
Yes, it's expensive; it costs hundreds or thousands of dollars...
Is that by the pound, or kilogram?
So, now that you've mentioned HBO, how do they get their revenues? Sure, it's easy if all they do is show movies that other people have produced, but HBO, Showtime, etc. are doing a bang-up job of producing their own series like Rome, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, etc. A premium channel package of a half-dozen channels is a $12 add to my satellite bill. If I could get a package where I could pick pieces that I want at the same $12 per month (Discovery Network Channels, $12; Starz Network, $12; The Geek Lineup (Sci-Fi Channel, G4, etc.), $12), and the shows either came without advertising or had interesting advertising in blocks either before or after the show, not during (HBO does this), then I would be a happy consumer. Of course, none of it is really about what we as consumers want, it's about what the content providers are willing to give us. And, so long as we keep eating the pablum, we'll never graduate to solid food.
I was wondering about that myself. Any ideas on how to guard against that?
Realistically, any sort of circulatory system surgery has the potential to knock loose a piece of plaque that can end up in your brain, and this beats the heck out of having a medical snake run up one of your arteries (a friend of mine had heart surgery; they went in through her thigh in a one-inch incision).
Also, on a tether, you could feed the thing power so it could do longer, more complex surgeries.
The video seems to be having some trouble (it cuts out about the time he says "talked to the professionals in the field..."), and I'm not sure what the Yucca Mtn. discussion was about, but... knowing your interest in RTGs, I presume that's what you're referring to. It's possible that with an ultracapacitor/RTG combination, there would be enough cost/benefit for the military to use them. The question is, could you get something powered by an RTG into civilian (police) hands?
I'm waiting, too.
Well, maybe that's why they changed their name from "Apple Computer, Inc." to "Apple, Inc."
:-( Slashdotted.
The thing that orchestras have that most programmers don't is a program design (the score) that they're working with their peers to develop (play) from. The composer knew what he wanted. Most users don't.
Eh. That's what I was afraid of. I'll just rely on ISOHunt to find torrents for the stuff I want to keep. thx JD
We've got a DirecTV TiVo unit (oldie but goodie). I've never investigated interfacing it with my computer, but we're starting to realize that 35 hours of storage just isn't enough for long-term storage and still catch everything we want to watch, so it's time to figure something out. We hate the remote on the new DirecTV PVR, so don't want to switch. Any idea if there's a way to pull things off of it to my iMac without a whole lot of extra equipment like FireWire TV tuners and the like?
Try again (no trailing slash): http://www.starrotor.com/Engine.htm
I didn't even have to RTFA to figure that out (yay me, right?). AFAIK, most people who could (would) dediate a serious amount of bandwidth to downloading content quickly would be likely to dedicate a serious slice to uploading, therefore enriching the available bandwith for everyone.
Exactly. I've been struggling to figure out what the draw is to any one of these sites. MySpace evidently started out as a way to promote unsigned bands, which is cool, but, while it still seems to happen, the most important feature of that site looks to be the counter for the number of "friends" you have. I checked out Orkut, thinking that, being part of Google, it would be cool and I would like it. Nope, no luck there. StumbleUpon has a cool hook with its basic feature of URL tracking and sharing, but you can't enter metadata about URLs the way you can on del.icio.us, and the "social" aspects of it seem to be limited to exchanging private messages (yet another e-mail box) and posting to forums linked to some categories of groups, but not others (wtf?). Of course, then there's Slashdot that has lots of news and discussion, but who really uses the Bookmarks system? Did you even know it was there?
All these sites seem to be approaching some sort of end state where they have all the right features, stability and usability. About that time, Microsoft will take notice and put a billion dollars into the coolest looking, feature-rich system that will only work well with IE. It will be based on SharePoint. People will flock to it, except for the hundred thousand or so Slashdot members who will decry it (correctly) for requiring a DNA signature for signing in, and a usage agreement that says anything you post there, including your award-winning photographs, soon-to-be-published books, etc. are the sole property of The Empire. Most teens won't care, because they'll be able to check their latest "friends" counts from their fully-integrated Windows Mobile phone.