4) One of those morons who thinks that the success of the iPod/iTunes is completely unrelated to anything between IBM/Apple or the Mac processor architecture
There has got to be some way to dress up a teenager in a heavy coat, appropriate hat, and teach them to do the "Queen Wave" while doing any number of acrobatic dance moves while a remix of "God Save the Queen" plays.
This is largely one of the reasons that AutoCAD developed the huge market pentetration that it did during the mid to late 80's. You can also argue that this is something that would increase, and not decrease, legitimate music sales, for many of the same reasons.
On the plus side, whatever you might think of CMT technology, the description given demonstrates the opportunity CMT brings for redundancy:
"...the execution of multiple simultaneous tasks - even on a single processor."
"Chip multi-threading (CMT) brings to hardware the concept of multi-threading, similar to software multi-threading..."
"A CMT-enabled processor, similar to software multi-threading..."
"...CMT processors, software threads can be executed simultaneously..."
"...executes many software threads simultaneously within a processor..."
"Executing software threads simultaneously within a single processor..."
I could be wrong, but I get the idea that CMT allows you to perform multiple simultaneous software threads, even within a single processor!
If I RTFA too, do I have a FTA (Fault-Tolerant Article), or am I simply creating a RAIABSF (Redundant Array of Independent Articles and Buzzword Sentence Fragments)?
It might be unclear, but you don't have to rename an existing Genre to do this. At the top of the Genre list (when you're classifying a song) you can choose "None" or "Custom." Custom allows you to create your own name, like ClassicalBrittanySpearsAcid.
In my experience, the software with the most accessible features is the one that is "better." This is true with most everything that is "complicated" with regard to OSX and Macs in general.
For example, Smart Playlists do something complex, but even a non-savvy user can figure them out. The same principle (a "live" file system query) is the basis for Smart Folders in OSX Tiger.
Back to the iPod/iTunes thing.
Want an automatically updated playlist of every James Taylor song from the 70's? Done (wife's playlist). Any song with "love" in the title, that WASN'T sung by George Michael? Done. Rip a new CD, and those lists automatically reflect any songs that match that criteria. How about any song from the "Rock" genre that hasn't been played in the past 15 days? Done. Songs with a rating of **** or higher? Just re-rate them and boom... the higher rated songs are now part of that list. Done.
As for me, it doesn't bother me that it's a proprietary solution at all. I'm much more concerned about whether or not the whole system works. People seem to have accepted the notion of the phone company no longer being in charge of the phone, in large part because the cost benefit of having them manage it wasn't strong enough to justify the cost. For me, the cost benefit of usability and integration between iPod/iTunes/iTMS is high enough to justify the price.
Guess that's why some people buy Apple, and some don't. There's still a certain amount of "geek chic" that is similar to my preference for a manual transmission in my sports cars. "I want to be in control, and ease-of-use & convenience get in my way!"
Whether we want to admit it or not, that drives much of the "advanced user" label. It's why we use C or C++ when VB or Delphi would make more sense and sometimes the reason we build our own PC's instead of buying one off-the-shelf. Same thing with worrying about encoding bit-rate for music that we listen to in a car (where there's less than 70 dB of available dynamic range... if you're lucky) or via earbuds, where ambient noise is even higher. Good luck hearing more than 3-4% of THD in such circumstances.
These are generalizations, I know. However, there's an element of truth to this for most of the advanced users I know in most any discipline.
Tim
P.S. iTunes: rip cd, plug in iPod. No "select library, select album, drag to player." It can auto-sync when it detects the iPod is plugged in. Pretty "creative"... Eh?
As is usually the case, my fingers worked much faster than my brain, and I typed the wrong book title. The actual title is "Football Physics: The Science of the Game."
By far, one of the most entertaining reads of the holiday season (for me) was, "The Physics of Football", by Timothy Gay. As a physics prof @ the University of Nebraska, he determined to align two of his favorite subjects.
The result is very instructive, and covers a HUGE range of topics, including conservation of Warren Sapp's momentum when he hits Doug Flutie! He discusses the flight of a thrown or kicked "oblong spheroid," and even does some statistical analysis of how likely a fan is to participate in "the wave" as it moves through a stadium (or attempts to).
As one of the reviewers on Amazon.com states, "If Timothy Gay doesn't rewrite this book into a high school level physics text he's really missing a bet." I couldn't agree more.
The theology behind this is called "propitiation." It's sort of a deified version of the "whipping boy," who takes our punishment for us.
In OT theology, a devout Jew would present a blood sacrifice to God to satisfy God's justice for the sins committed by that person. In NT theology, Jesus is the "spotless lamb," and is therefore becomes not just A sacrifice, but THE sacrifice.
I've oversimplified it a fair amount, and there are varying viewpoints, but that's reasonably accurate. E-mail MySlashdotUserID@yahoo.com if you want to follow up on it.
I've wondered if the issue of airspace would enter into the discussion. That is, are the satellites in question over US airspace, and if not, can they fall under US jurisdiction? This was the crux of the problem in Arthur Clarke's short story, "I Remember Babylon," where a country hostile to the US determined to destroy the US from within, by cleverly mixing propaganda ("news") with live bullfights, explicit programming, and so on.
I've got one of the G4 20G units, and keep it clipped to my right hip while working out, jogging, and so on. No skips.
I've considered getting one of the new armbands for the full-size units, just because it would be easier to hit the correct button on my bicep than on my hip. I would expect (kinematically speaking) that there would be less vertical shock at the upper arm than on the waistband of jogging shorts.
Or, perhaps Kerry has a personal conviction (opposed to abortion) that he does not believe is enforceable (via the current law). For instance, my belief is that "life begins at conception." However, legislating my belief entails investigating every in-utero death as a potential murder or act of negligence, in the same way that we would investigate the death of a 6 month-old.
One example would be my sisters, both of whom miscarried several times. Those events were emotionally tramatic enough without having a cop interrogating them about the circumstances (assuming that anyone would have known to do so).
I personally feel that mothers who smoke or abuse drugs during pregnancy are guilty of child abuse. However, I'm well aware that pushing for legislation along these lines is both financially infeasible, and likely to create some situations that I'm not comfortable with.
My moral views frequently represent positions that cannot be practically legislated. Maybe this is what Kerry thinks too. It doesn't mean it's a case of him being a liar, or even a bad Catholic, any more than my pragmatism is a sign of me waffling, or being a "bad Baptist." (However, I'm sure some would disagree with the last assessment.)
Asssuming that you're opposed to abortion, are you prepared to put my sisters, and thousands like her, into the situation I've described? Are you willing to throw the funds into the legislation that it entails? I'm not, and if that makes me a "bad Baptist," then so be it.
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Oh well... another casualty of the lack of a +1 Sarcasm moderation option.
4) One of those morons who thinks that the success of the iPod/iTunes is completely unrelated to anything between IBM/Apple or the Mac processor architecture
How naive for him to think that.
Tim
There has got to be some way to dress up a teenager in a heavy coat, appropriate hat, and teach them to do the "Queen Wave" while doing any number of acrobatic dance moves while a remix of "God Save the Queen" plays.
The mind boggles...
Tim
This is largely one of the reasons that AutoCAD developed the huge market pentetration that it did during the mid to late 80's. You can also argue that this is something that would increase, and not decrease, legitimate music sales, for many of the same reasons.
Tim
As long as it doesn't say, "Posted: The 3rd planet is scheduled for demolition due to plans for an intergalactic bypass..."
As long as there's WiFi there, who cares how cold it is?
Tim
Uhm... I... uh... was trying to be funny.
Clearly, the tongue needs to go deeper into the cheek. (I hate it when this happens!)
Tim
On the plus side, whatever you might think of CMT technology, the description given demonstrates the opportunity CMT brings for redundancy:
"...the execution of multiple simultaneous tasks - even on a single processor."
"Chip multi-threading (CMT) brings to hardware the concept of multi-threading, similar to software multi-threading..."
"A CMT-enabled processor, similar to software multi-threading..."
"...CMT processors, software threads can be executed simultaneously..."
"...executes many software threads simultaneously within a processor..."
"Executing software threads simultaneously within a single processor..."
I could be wrong, but I get the idea that CMT allows you to perform multiple simultaneous software threads, even within a single processor!
If I RTFA too, do I have a FTA (Fault-Tolerant Article), or am I simply creating a RAIABSF (Redundant Array of Independent Articles and Buzzword Sentence Fragments)?
Tim
Eminem?
or
Not is Google?
Evil is Microsoft?
Good is Google?
Be careful about ascribing to malice what can more easily be ascribed to apathy, ignorance, or simple ineptitude. (I'm paraphrasing... I know.)
In short, you're giving America (both the country, the gov't, and individuals) credit for a great deal more organizational competence than we deserve.
Tim
Hmm... every Commodores song?
Tim
It might be unclear, but you don't have to rename an existing Genre to do this. At the top of the Genre list (when you're classifying a song) you can choose "None" or "Custom." Custom allows you to create your own name, like ClassicalBrittanySpearsAcid.
Boom.
Tim
LOL... sorry. Didn't get that from Steve. Probably picked it up from watching Madden on too many Sunday afternoons.
:-D
I guess I should have said "blammo," or something even less hip than I already am.
Tim
In my experience, the software with the most accessible features is the one that is "better." This is true with most everything that is "complicated" with regard to OSX and Macs in general.
For example, Smart Playlists do something complex, but even a non-savvy user can figure them out. The same principle (a "live" file system query) is the basis for Smart Folders in OSX Tiger.
Back to the iPod/iTunes thing.
Want an automatically updated playlist of every James Taylor song from the 70's? Done (wife's playlist). Any song with "love" in the title, that WASN'T sung by George Michael? Done. Rip a new CD, and those lists automatically reflect any songs that match that criteria. How about any song from the "Rock" genre that hasn't been played in the past 15 days? Done. Songs with a rating of **** or higher? Just re-rate them and boom... the higher rated songs are now part of that list. Done.
As for me, it doesn't bother me that it's a proprietary solution at all. I'm much more concerned about whether or not the whole system works. People seem to have accepted the notion of the phone company no longer being in charge of the phone, in large part because the cost benefit of having them manage it wasn't strong enough to justify the cost. For me, the cost benefit of usability and integration between iPod/iTunes/iTMS is high enough to justify the price.
Guess that's why some people buy Apple, and some don't. There's still a certain amount of "geek chic" that is similar to my preference for a manual transmission in my sports cars. "I want to be in control, and ease-of-use & convenience get in my way!"
Whether we want to admit it or not, that drives much of the "advanced user" label. It's why we use C or C++ when VB or Delphi would make more sense and sometimes the reason we build our own PC's instead of buying one off-the-shelf. Same thing with worrying about encoding bit-rate for music that we listen to in a car (where there's less than 70 dB of available dynamic range... if you're lucky) or via earbuds, where ambient noise is even higher. Good luck hearing more than 3-4% of THD in such circumstances.
These are generalizations, I know. However, there's an element of truth to this for most of the advanced users I know in most any discipline.
Tim
P.S. iTunes: rip cd, plug in iPod. No "select library, select album, drag to player." It can auto-sync when it detects the iPod is plugged in. Pretty "creative"... Eh?
As is usually the case, my fingers worked much faster than my brain, and I typed the wrong book title. The actual title is "Football Physics: The Science of the Game."
The link to Amazon is correct.
Tim
The result is very instructive, and covers a HUGE range of topics, including conservation of Warren Sapp's momentum when he hits Doug Flutie! He discusses the flight of a thrown or kicked "oblong spheroid," and even does some statistical analysis of how likely a fan is to participate in "the wave" as it moves through a stadium (or attempts to).
As one of the reviewers on Amazon.com states, "If Timothy Gay doesn't rewrite this book into a high school level physics text he's really missing a bet." I couldn't agree more.
Tim
The theology behind this is called "propitiation." It's sort of a deified version of the "whipping boy," who takes our punishment for us.
In OT theology, a devout Jew would present a blood sacrifice to God to satisfy God's justice for the sins committed by that person. In NT theology, Jesus is the "spotless lamb," and is therefore becomes not just A sacrifice, but THE sacrifice.
I've oversimplified it a fair amount, and there are varying viewpoints, but that's reasonably accurate. E-mail MySlashdotUserID@yahoo.com if you want to follow up on it.
Tim
I've wondered if the issue of airspace would enter into the discussion. That is, are the satellites in question over US airspace, and if not, can they fall under US jurisdiction? This was the crux of the problem in Arthur Clarke's short story, "I Remember Babylon," where a country hostile to the US determined to destroy the US from within, by cleverly mixing propaganda ("news") with live bullfights, explicit programming, and so on.
Tim
I've got one of the G4 20G units, and keep it clipped to my right hip while working out, jogging, and so on. No skips.
I've considered getting one of the new armbands for the full-size units, just because it would be easier to hit the correct button on my bicep than on my hip. I would expect (kinematically speaking) that there would be less vertical shock at the upper arm than on the waistband of jogging shorts.
Tim
...Bill Gates recent MRI scans. They were off the charts.
At first, I thought it was due to exceptionally high intelligence. Now we know "the rest of the story."
Dr. Tim
Why not just the WHITE album? They wouldn't have to bother with new paint.
Tim
Tim
Or, perhaps Kerry has a personal conviction (opposed to abortion) that he does not believe is enforceable (via the current law). For instance, my belief is that "life begins at conception." However, legislating my belief entails investigating every in-utero death as a potential murder or act of negligence, in the same way that we would investigate the death of a 6 month-old.
One example would be my sisters, both of whom miscarried several times. Those events were emotionally tramatic enough without having a cop interrogating them about the circumstances (assuming that anyone would have known to do so).
I personally feel that mothers who smoke or abuse drugs during pregnancy are guilty of child abuse. However, I'm well aware that pushing for legislation along these lines is both financially infeasible, and likely to create some situations that I'm not comfortable with.
My moral views frequently represent positions that cannot be practically legislated. Maybe this is what Kerry thinks too. It doesn't mean it's a case of him being a liar, or even a bad Catholic, any more than my pragmatism is a sign of me waffling, or being a "bad Baptist." (However, I'm sure some would disagree with the last assessment.)
Asssuming that you're opposed to abortion, are you prepared to put my sisters, and thousands like her, into the situation I've described? Are you willing to throw the funds into the legislation that it entails? I'm not, and if that makes me a "bad Baptist," then so be it.
Tim