There will always be folks who don't like the idea of uploading music to an iPod and then manually moving the iPod to their stereo system.
Now this would be a cool feature: iTunes already has the ability to share out music, right? What if Apple came up with a piece of stereo equipment similar to the article that acted as a client to iTunes? Hook it up to your network and to your stereo, enter the (optional) iTunes password, and voila! music.
It eliminates the need to move the iPod back and forth each time you rip a new CD, anyways.
They certainly got me. I'm sitting in front of my work computer, happily listening to my _entire_ music collection with my new iPod. After downloading iTunes and reading some reviews/specs on the iPod, I went out and bought a 20gb one. I was looking for an mp3 player, and the idea of being able to store 20 gigs of music was what helped me make my decision:) Couldn't be happier.
And this is coming from somebody that hasn't touched an apple for > seven years.
I'll bite - the numpad is used as a second arrow pad. It's useful in old-school games where you and your friend play on the same computer and you both want arrow keys. 7/9/1/3 are sometimes diagonal arrow keys, as well.
Well, you must take into account the percent of.net and.com sites that ARE english. My guess would be above 95% - I would assume that other countries that speak other languages would use the appropriate country code (.ru for russia, for example). But you make a good point - I'm sure there ARE plenty of.com and.net sites that aren't in english.
You know, I wouldn't really have THAT much of a problem if verisign at least served up the page with a 404 status error in the header. However, their sitefinder gives out the normal "200: ok" status on bad domains, which seems to me like a serious problem - I can see this breaking existing apps.
For some reason, everyone at my office uses YIM. I think the reason is because Yahoo! has an "enterprise" version of their messenger, and it has some cool features like a directory of all the employees that have corporate YIM names and encrypted chatting and such.
I'm not too impressed with the software myself, however.
Following those standards might sound great theoretically and all, but the fact is that in the real world how your intended audience sees your webpage is heavily influenced by what browser they're using and how that browser thinks different tags and css codes should be applied. In a perfect world, all browsers would follow the same standard and all webpages would be completly cross-browser-compatible, but we all know that's not what happens:(
In the end, I (and many other web developers) would pick the code that works in the most browsers over the code that perfectly follow the standards (according to how I interpret those standards, of course).
I'd never bothered to go out and find a different browser than IE before. However, after looking around the mozilla site for a bit, I found firebird. I haven't even tried mozilla 1.5 yet, but I did just download firebird - and let me tell you, 1.35 minutes later, I love it. I feel kind of stupid for not doing this earlier.
From now on, I'm going to make sure that the sites I design are firebird-compliant. Along that line, are there any good places to look for mozilla/mozilla firebird's CSS2 compliance?
I'll try mozilla 1.5 here soon, too. Mozilla - you may have just found yourself a convert.
Looks like systems working with more than ones and zeros would just need a way to encode these different values with different strengths of signals (as opposed to off=0, on=1). Something like no voltage=0, 1/3 voltage = 1, 2/3 voldage = 2 and 3/3 voldage=4. Seems like a very good way to wrap more information in the same signal/clock, but how would the logic work? How would and/or/xor work?
My mind is too used to binary:) But I'd be willing to learn..
Whereas previously, Microsoft has let third party clients connect, they now require a license for doing so. They still encourage clients to connect to their network, so with any luck, we can work something out. If not, people may find a way to connect anyway, but the legalities of this are pretty obvious. Key words: "Intellectual Property" and "DMCA."
Well, the surveryor has been out there for about 6 years. I bet they've started to run out of locations that they planned on imaging - maybe our guess for interesting places to take pictures of is just as good as theirs now.
I was just watching a show on the history channel about the space race. I find it rather sad that so far humanities greatest achievements in space have come from a "no, we're better than YOU!" argument between a couple countries. Now that that's over, I guess space just isn't as important to a lot of people.
I, however, would much rather my tax dollars go to more funding for space programs. On the other hand, I don't actually care much if another country has a better space program than mine; I'd much rather read about something that has to do with space, be it American or Russian or Chinese or whatever.
Not if they were anything like the ones here! Old, fat martians with their butts hanging out of the bathing suits they really shouldn't be allowed to wear wouldn't go over well with the public.
I'm not sure I understand how the sun being behind the camera could have much to do with any light that would obscure the stars. I can certainly understand how it could reflect off of a celestial body (Mars, in this case) and overwhelm the camera, but not if the light is shooting straight past the lens..
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There will always be folks who don't like the idea of uploading music to an iPod and then manually moving the iPod to their stereo system.
Now this would be a cool feature: iTunes already has the ability to share out music, right? What if Apple came up with a piece of stereo equipment similar to the article that acted as a client to iTunes? Hook it up to your network and to your stereo, enter the (optional) iTunes password, and voila! music.
It eliminates the need to move the iPod back and forth each time you rip a new CD, anyways.
jesus christ, get a fucking life.
Last time I checked, physics still applied to this universe, and Nuclear Power plants still produced nuclear waste.
;)
I wonder why they some small "village" in Alaska - perhaps this technology isn't as safe as they might like us to think?
hahaha.. thanks. if I had mod points, you'd get 'em. Funniest thing I've read all day.
They certainly got me. I'm sitting in front of my work computer, happily listening to my _entire_ music collection with my new iPod. After downloading iTunes and reading some reviews/specs on the iPod, I went out and bought a 20gb one. I was looking for an mp3 player, and the idea of being able to store 20 gigs of music was what helped me make my decision :) Couldn't be happier.
And this is coming from somebody that hasn't touched an apple for > seven years.
Props to you, apple.
I would like to know as well.
I'll bite - the numpad is used as a second arrow pad. It's useful in old-school games where you and your friend play on the same computer and you both want arrow keys. 7/9/1/3 are sometimes diagonal arrow keys, as well.
Well, you must take into account the percent of .net and .com sites that ARE english. My guess would be above 95% - I would assume that other countries that speak other languages would use the appropriate country code (.ru for russia, for example). But you make a good point - I'm sure there ARE plenty of .com and .net sites that aren't in english.
You know, I wouldn't really have THAT much of a problem if verisign at least served up the page with a 404 status error in the header. However, their sitefinder gives out the normal "200: ok" status on bad domains, which seems to me like a serious problem - I can see this breaking existing apps.
I'm not usually a fan of this kind of stuff, but oh god! do I love monty python.
I guess I'll just wait a bit for the probable flood of holy grail quotes/jests.
deltree C: \y
For some reason, everyone at my office uses YIM. I think the reason is because Yahoo! has an "enterprise" version of their messenger, and it has some cool features like a directory of all the employees that have corporate YIM names and encrypted chatting and such.
I'm not too impressed with the software myself, however.
Following those standards might sound great theoretically and all, but the fact is that in the real world how your intended audience sees your webpage is heavily influenced by what browser they're using and how that browser thinks different tags and css codes should be applied. In a perfect world, all browsers would follow the same standard and all webpages would be completly cross-browser-compatible, but we all know that's not what happens :(
In the end, I (and many other web developers) would pick the code that works in the most browsers over the code that perfectly follow the standards (according to how I interpret those standards, of course).
Not really - mis-capitalization will break most (if not all) javascript interpreters, so details like that are actually rather important.
welcome :)
I'd never bothered to go out and find a different browser than IE before. However, after looking around the mozilla site for a bit, I found firebird. I haven't even tried mozilla 1.5 yet, but I did just download firebird - and let me tell you, 1.35 minutes later, I love it. I feel kind of stupid for not doing this earlier.
From now on, I'm going to make sure that the sites I design are firebird-compliant. Along that line, are there any good places to look for mozilla/mozilla firebird's CSS2 compliance?
I'll try mozilla 1.5 here soon, too. Mozilla - you may have just found yourself a convert.
Could cd's use the same logic? scatter the beam = 0, scatter half the beam=1, bounce the whole beam back=2?
because my binary-oriented mind doesn't like the thought of a base-3 system :P 4 makes a little more sense.
err, I meant 3/3 voltage=3
Looks like systems working with more than ones and zeros would just need a way to encode these different values with different strengths of signals (as opposed to off=0, on=1). Something like no voltage=0, 1/3 voltage = 1, 2/3 voldage = 2 and 3/3 voldage=4. Seems like a very good way to wrap more information in the same signal/clock, but how would the logic work? How would and/or/xor work?
:) But I'd be willing to learn..
My mind is too used to binary
Sounds like a good idea.
Whereas previously, Microsoft has let third party clients connect, they now require a license for doing so. They still encourage clients to connect to their network, so with any luck, we can work something out. If not, people may find a way to connect anyway, but the legalities of this are pretty obvious. Key words: "Intellectual Property" and "DMCA."
Maybe not.Well, the surveryor has been out there for about 6 years. I bet they've started to run out of locations that they planned on imaging - maybe our guess for interesting places to take pictures of is just as good as theirs now.
I was just watching a show on the history channel about the space race. I find it rather sad that so far humanities greatest achievements in space have come from a "no, we're better than YOU!" argument between a couple countries. Now that that's over, I guess space just isn't as important to a lot of people.
I, however, would much rather my tax dollars go to more funding for space programs. On the other hand, I don't actually care much if another country has a better space program than mine; I'd much rather read about something that has to do with space, be it American or Russian or Chinese or whatever.
Not if they were anything like the ones here! Old, fat martians with their butts hanging out of the bathing suits they really shouldn't be allowed to wear wouldn't go over well with the public.
I'm not sure I understand how the sun being behind the camera could have much to do with any light that would obscure the stars. I can certainly understand how it could reflect off of a celestial body (Mars, in this case) and overwhelm the camera, but not if the light is shooting straight past the lens..