It's a lot more typical to bring 10 or 15 512 MB cards, than a single big card.
Because the flash ones are faster than the HD based cards (meaning you can do 10 frames in succession before the camera slows... compared to 4 or 5 on a Microdrive.
Plus, if you drop or step on your 4 GB card, buh-bye to all your photos. With lots of cards, if you destroy/damage one, you have your other photos.
Really, it's the best thing every for TV watching.
The cable TV companies may run these bullcrap adds about rain killing the signal... in truth in 3 years I've had a pixellated picture a couple times during REALLY hard rainstorms (the ones where you want to stare out the window and say "woot!"). Cable goes out much more often.
I mean, go to the machine of your average "joe user" and look at the system tray. There are usually 10-15 icons in there -- windows media player (9, not 7), real player, quicktime, and a whole ton of other things. It's disgustingly crowded, but they have found a way to download lots of crap that makes the system take 4 minutes to boot up and fill their entire 128 MB of RAM.
So people do go download a bunch of crap that clogs up their systems, so I'd expect they may well have the Google toolbar already installed.
I agree here. In many schools, the teachers ARE the IT department. So we're often talking about 25 year old women who have only ever used computers to write last-minute papers.
Think they can administer a network of 10 computers in a classroom?
Really, In think Linux would be a helluva challenge in education, for example.
Try going jogging with a Karma strapped to your arm.
Riiiiiiiight.
The iPod Mini is not all about price per gigabyte. It's about a good amount of storage (WAY more than a flash player) in a very light package. The iPod itself is a bit heavy still for jogging. Best you can do is put it on your belt and it flops around enough to pull nylon jogging shorts (hello, Dolphin;-) to your ankles, which can get you arrested.
Took me 2 minutes to set up QTSS. Hooked up a firewire camera, plugged it into my PowerBook, reflected it off a QT Streaming Server, and sent it to a friend across the country.
Well... AFP now is runs primarily on TCP/IP. The AppleTalk networking element has been deprecated and is only used if you need to maintain legacy compatibility (that is, with OS 9 or earlier clients).
So it's not AppleTalk filing protocol, because it's not using AppleTalk. Been that was since OS X was introduced, in fact may have been earlier.
Bru from the Tolis group (www.tolisgroup.com) does a great job. Plus, there's a new product called BakBone (www.bakbone.com).
These support numerous tape libraries.
Of course, these days, it's becoming more common to do a full offsite mirror. Xserve RAID is so inexpensive that you're now paying 2x-3x (or more) for the tape system to backup your disk storage, and a full nearline mirror is becoming a more compelling option. At $3/gigabyte for RAID protected storage, people buy 2 or 3 and use 'em to back each other up. It's how the iTunes Music Store is run. No tape.
It's really easy to set up DNS. Turn it on, there, you have DNS.
Of course, the poster talked about allowing zone transfers and recursive queries and said nothing about binding to a particular interface, so you can get DNS up and running really easily, but it might not do much useful:-)
If you know DNS, then the GUI will be helpful (well, if you REALLY know DNS you'll just edit your zone files yourself), but no GUI (not even an OS X GUI) can make DNS setup magically complete and thorough. You still have to know the repercussions and you still have to think through things.
What do you mean? I paid $39 for a boxed copy of RH 9.0. So I'm a paying customer (the fact that you can get it free via download is a GPL/Red Hat problem, not my problem).
Not that much less than $99 or whatever you could get Windows 98 for on discount (or free with your computer).
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It's a lot more typical to bring 10 or 15 512 MB cards, than a single big card.
Because the flash ones are faster than the HD based cards (meaning you can do 10 frames in succession before the camera slows... compared to 4 or 5 on a Microdrive.
Plus, if you drop or step on your 4 GB card, buh-bye to all your photos. With lots of cards, if you destroy/damage one, you have your other photos.
Is he gonna throw this out and replace it with MPEG-4?
Get a bluetooth phone and use it for your modem on her laptop (with bluetooth adapter). Piece of cake on my PowerBook.
I hear it's being ported to the Duke Nukem Forever engine, as nobody's ever seen (lot alone PIRATED) that source code.
Your $50 capture card and your $50 video card aren't going to perform well -- so the device will work like crap.
And you have a DVD burner lying around the house? Nice!
Really, it's the best thing every for TV watching.
The cable TV companies may run these bullcrap adds about rain killing the signal... in truth in 3 years I've had a pixellated picture a couple times during REALLY hard rainstorms (the ones where you want to stare out the window and say "woot!"). Cable goes out much more often.
I'd NEVER go back.
I mean, go to the machine of your average "joe user" and look at the system tray. There are usually 10-15 icons in there -- windows media player (9, not 7), real player, quicktime, and a whole ton of other things. It's disgustingly crowded, but they have found a way to download lots of crap that makes the system take 4 minutes to boot up and fill their entire 128 MB of RAM.
So people do go download a bunch of crap that clogs up their systems, so I'd expect they may well have the Google toolbar already installed.
As I said, double-blind tests have shown listeners CANNOT tell the difference between MP3 and lossless audio at high (> 256 Kbps) bit rates.
But maybe you have the golden ears, the one person in the nation who can actually tell.
I salute you, dog boy!
Good God it's not even launched yet.
REALLY, you think fiddling with a v 0.95 of Linux is what a teacher's going to want to do?
Not to mention, none of the computers in the classroom will run ANY of the apps they want to run (which run on the Mac and now on PCs).
C'mon. You're not thinking like a teacher, you have a Linux hammer and think everything looks like a nail.
Yep, a lot of their stuff is slightly more up-tempo and uplifting than music from The Smiths.
I like some of it, but they have entire albums of boring "blah."
Genius, you can just email them the code on the cap. All you have to do is read it and type it in.
I agree here. In many schools, the teachers ARE the IT department. So we're often talking about 25 year old women who have only ever used computers to write last-minute papers.
Think they can administer a network of 10 computers in a classroom?
Really, In think Linux would be a helluva challenge in education, for example.
But how could he not have tested an iPod for comparison by now?
The last remaining link to the caveman people?
Double blind tests have shown that high bit rate MP3s (and AAC) are undistingishable to the human ear from uncompressed audio.
Are you a dog or something?
Try going jogging with a Karma strapped to your arm.
;-) to your ankles, which can get you arrested.
Riiiiiiiight.
The iPod Mini is not all about price per gigabyte. It's about a good amount of storage (WAY more than a flash player) in a very light package. The iPod itself is a bit heavy still for jogging. Best you can do is put it on your belt and it flops around enough to pull nylon jogging shorts (hello, Dolphin
Ever hear of a laptop? WTF? Get yourself an iBook.
I just found ROTK boring. Not sure exactly what of it was worthy, but the cinematography.
I read the books, and I just felt it was... tiring and long. Shoulda kept it under 3 hours.
Took me 2 minutes to set up QTSS. Hooked up a firewire camera, plugged it into my PowerBook, reflected it off a QT Streaming Server, and sent it to a friend across the country.
Really. 2 minutes.
"By far more of a pain in the ass?" Hmmm.
Well... AFP now is runs primarily on TCP/IP. The AppleTalk networking element has been deprecated and is only used if you need to maintain legacy compatibility (that is, with OS 9 or earlier clients).
So it's not AppleTalk filing protocol, because it's not using AppleTalk. Been that was since OS X was introduced, in fact may have been earlier.
Bru from the Tolis group (www.tolisgroup.com) does a great job. Plus, there's a new product called BakBone (www.bakbone.com).
These support numerous tape libraries.
Of course, these days, it's becoming more common to do a full offsite mirror. Xserve RAID is so inexpensive that you're now paying 2x-3x (or more) for the tape system to backup your disk storage, and a full nearline mirror is becoming a more compelling option. At $3/gigabyte for RAID protected storage, people buy 2 or 3 and use 'em to back each other up. It's how the iTunes Music Store is run. No tape.
It's really easy to set up DNS. Turn it on, there, you have DNS.
:-)
Of course, the poster talked about allowing zone transfers and recursive queries and said nothing about binding to a particular interface, so you can get DNS up and running really easily, but it might not do much useful
If you know DNS, then the GUI will be helpful (well, if you REALLY know DNS you'll just edit your zone files yourself), but no GUI (not even an OS X GUI) can make DNS setup magically complete and thorough. You still have to know the repercussions and you still have to think through things.
Meh. That bug was fixed in 10.3.1.
So you say this without ever hearing one?
WTF?
It's rated at 39 decibels under normal operation. The fans are usually running around 200 rpm (normal is like 3000 rpm). It's very quiet.
What do you mean? I paid $39 for a boxed copy of RH 9.0. So I'm a paying customer (the fact that you can get it free via download is a GPL/Red Hat problem, not my problem).
Not that much less than $99 or whatever you could get Windows 98 for on discount (or free with your computer).
And it's designed for exactly this type of use case (dual CPU, no CD ROM, only 1 HD capacity, no video card).