The reason for the 8 -> 14 bit encoding is to make sure that long runs of 0's do not exist. If they did, the laser would be unable to follow the track accurately.
if the Cable company would just provide enough bandwidth all all users could go at thier full speed
then they'd quickly go bust. Bandwidth costs money. The cable companys survive by overselling their bandwidth. Yes, they screwed up when they didn't foresee people actually making use of the "unlimited" bandwidth. However, demanding it now isn't going to do anyone any good. At least with ADSL, you are told what the contention ratio is. We've got a 2/256 uncontended ADSL line in the office, and it's blazingly fast thankyouverymuch. It costs GBP340 per month, which is less than half the cost of the 256/256 leased line it replaced.
"Uncapping" a modem refers simply to removing a speed limit implemented in the modem. It cannot remove speed limits imposed upstream, or monthly download limits. In fact, you'll just speed towards those limits even quicker!
I almost always park in reverse, unless it's a space I can drive all the way through and has plenty of space either side.
Advantages are:
You can drive out forwards. Face it, you have to either reverse in or reverse out, and it's a lot easier to drive out forwards as you can see oncoming traffic and there's less worry of turning into the cars either side of you.
You can use your mirrors to place the car perfectly. I never understand people who have to lean over and look behind; you just can't see as well. With properly adjusted mirrors, you can see exactly how close the side of your car is to any obstacles. My parking space at work is about four inches wider than my car at the back, but I can slot it straight in every time
I'm impressed by the Italian method - just park diagonally across two or more spaces, that way noone can park close to you and you'll have plenty of room to get your shopping in.
Apple Sales is in love with the Dock. You can't go into an Apple store without seeing it splayed across the bottom of the screen, in the very configuration least conducive to computing on a Macintosh. Why? Because it's sexy and it sells. It makes that bright, shiny new Apple look simple, approachable, and beautiful. It makes for a great demo.
The problem does not lie with the Dock itself?if it makes a great demo, leave it in?but with Apple's apparent belief that it is a complete solution. The Dock is akin to a brightly-colored set of children's blocks, ideal for your first words?dog, cat, run, Spot, run?but not too effective for displaying the contents of War and Peace.
Contrary to my previously-held position, I no longer believe Apple should get rid of the Dock. It's just too pretty there in the store, and it does help set Mac apart from the more utilitarian appearance of Windows (although Windows grows more attractive with every release). You want that in sales. You want a visibly-apparent manifestation of the personality of the underlying technology. That's why automakers spend milliions making the outside of the car project an image of what's underneath the skin.
A certain class of Apple users?those who check their email once or twice a week and sometimes need to print an attached photo?may need nothing more than the Dock.
The rest of us need more powerful tools, so,
Apple, leave the Dock as the smashing demo it is, but also supply some serious, information-dense tools. You have the talent and wherewithal to make such tools as attractive as the Dock if only you will cease seeing this one single object as a complete solution.
Apple has made a few improvements to the Dock in the last three years. Items no longer jump around seemingly at random, although the size of the Dock continues to "wheeze" in and out without user control.. Items alsoi act like buttons, so clicking anywhere within their confines will open them. Apple also quickly gave us the ability to turn off magnification, a major improvement in day-to-day usability.
The other good news is that independent solutions now exist for getting around every limitation of the Dock. Read Make Your Mac a Monster Machine to learn how to turn your Mac into a high-productivity, but still fun workhorse. Meanwhile, here are eight continuing problems with the Dock, plus a new one, a decided lack of color. Most of these are inherent, and the solution is more and varied tools. A few can be directly addressed by design tweaks.
9.
The Dock is big and clumsy
The Dock by default sucks up around 70 pixels square minimum, more than four times as much vertical space as either the Windows task bar or the Macintosh menu bar. (Yes, you can set it much smaller, but then you make it progressively more difficult to identify an icon without "scrubbing" the screen with your mouse to reveal its label.) Couple that with Apple's move to 16:9 wide screens (read: short screens), and you have a real problem. For good measure, add in the Dock's habit of floating on top of working windows, and you have little choice but to hide it.
8.
Identical icons look identical
This was originally entitled "Identical pictures look identical." I pointed out that the Dock's use of thumnails in small sizes made all normal text documents look pretty much alike. Apple has now dumped thumbnails in return for identical icons. My original advice still holds: "We need information on data types, file sizes (as represented by the thickness of the icon), age, etc." They've now given us data type. We need more?any attribute that can help differentiate one object from another.
The better solution to this and many of these other limitations is to supplant the Dock with additional objects that are designed for representing groups of non-application objects, so that people aren't even attempting to put folders and documents in this already overloaded single object.
(Legos, that's right I called them Legos! One Lego, Two Legos, Red Legos, Blue Legos)
One piece of Lego, two bits of Lego, red broken bits of Lego.
Lego is the material, not the product.
As has been said in these hallowed pages many times, giving voters receipts allows votes to be bought i.e. "I'll break your legs unless you prove you voted for x"
"When I defend what we do, I talk about free speech,"
His right to free speech ends where my right to privacy begins. He's not free to come and yell through my letterbox, and he's not free to yell in my inbox.
Clean-room recovery should be possible. Remove the platters from the drive, place in read assembly, read data.
Of course, anyone not backing up the critical data from their laptops should be shot on SysAdmin Stress Relief Day anyway.
I look after a few small businesses, and use SmoothWall a lot. They often have an old box sitting around I can use, they can all afford the 180 for the commercial version, and keeping on top of patching it is a point and click operation which takes seconds.
The higher end products (SmoothTunnel for VPNs, SmoothConnect for traffic shaping) are also great value for money.
I've only had to use their support once, for an odd VPN problem, and they fixed it professionally and quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
/digs out notes/
So it is. Show's what I learnt in that course...
The reason for the 8 -> 14 bit encoding is to make sure that long runs of 0's do not exist. If they did, the laser would be unable to follow the track accurately.
I think the original quote had something missing.
The mean age of 69 to 71 year-olds in Japan is approaching 70
www.google.com/palm
Alright, so there's a very crappy looking 1.2kb logo instead of Google, but it's close.
Damn, to think I had mod points earlier!
It is indeed a miracle! How the heck did you get Remote Desktop installed on Windows 98?
Erm... how many times do they have to say "animated film"?
At least with ADSL, you are told what the contention ratio is. We've got a 2/256 uncontended ADSL line in the office, and it's blazingly fast thankyouverymuch. It costs GBP340 per month, which is less than half the cost of the 256/256 leased line it replaced.
"Uncapping" a modem refers simply to removing a speed limit implemented in the modem. It cannot remove speed limits imposed upstream, or monthly download limits. In fact, you'll just speed towards those limits even quicker!
But plain old ring tones are unique! If it's just a plain *ring ring*, chances are it's my phone.
Then again, if I'm in a public place, the phone is on vibrate anyway.
No, it doesn't.
Methinks you're missing the meaning.
Darl: Were you impacted by MyDoom?
Student: No, I use Linux.
that would explain the observables we're seeing
They haven't had enough weed yet to start seeing the unobservables.
You don't judge longitudinal distance, but wing mirrors are far better for judging lateral distance e.g. how close am I to the car on the left?
However, I know people who simply cannot relate the position of their car to the view in their mirrors.
Also, should a user choose the same password as you're using for your admin user, they get elevated privileges.
Advantages are:
- You can drive out forwards. Face it, you have to either reverse in or reverse out, and it's a lot easier to drive out forwards as you can see oncoming traffic and there's less worry of turning into the cars either side of you.
- You can use your mirrors to place the car perfectly. I never understand people who have to lean over and look behind; you just can't see as well. With properly adjusted mirrors, you can see exactly how close the side of your car is to any obstacles. My parking space at work is about four inches wider than my car at the back, but I can slot it straight in every time
I'm impressed by the Italian method - just park diagonally across two or more spaces, that way noone can park close to you and you'll have plenty of room to get your shopping in.Apple Sales is in love with the Dock. You can't go into an Apple store without seeing it splayed across the bottom of the screen, in the very configuration least conducive to computing on a Macintosh. Why? Because it's sexy and it sells. It makes that bright, shiny new Apple look simple, approachable, and beautiful. It makes for a great demo.
The problem does not lie with the Dock itself?if it makes a great demo, leave it in?but with Apple's apparent belief that it is a complete solution. The Dock is akin to a brightly-colored set of children's blocks, ideal for your first words?dog, cat, run, Spot, run?but not too effective for displaying the contents of War and Peace.
Contrary to my previously-held position, I no longer believe Apple should get rid of the Dock. It's just too pretty there in the store, and it does help set Mac apart from the more utilitarian appearance of Windows (although Windows grows more attractive with every release). You want that in sales. You want a visibly-apparent manifestation of the personality of the underlying technology. That's why automakers spend milliions making the outside of the car project an image of what's underneath the skin.
A certain class of Apple users?those who check their email once or twice a week and sometimes need to print an attached photo?may need nothing more than the Dock.
The rest of us need more powerful tools, so, Apple, leave the Dock as the smashing demo it is, but also supply some serious, information-dense tools. You have the talent and wherewithal to make such tools as attractive as the Dock if only you will cease seeing this one single object as a complete solution.
Apple has made a few improvements to the Dock in the last three years. Items no longer jump around seemingly at random, although the size of the Dock continues to "wheeze" in and out without user control.. Items alsoi act like buttons, so clicking anywhere within their confines will open them. Apple also quickly gave us the ability to turn off magnification, a major improvement in day-to-day usability.
The other good news is that independent solutions now exist for getting around every limitation of the Dock. Read Make Your Mac a Monster Machine to learn how to turn your Mac into a high-productivity, but still fun workhorse. Meanwhile, here are eight continuing problems with the Dock, plus a new one, a decided lack of color. Most of these are inherent, and the solution is more and varied tools. A few can be directly addressed by design tweaks.
9. The Dock is big and clumsy
The Dock by default sucks up around 70 pixels square minimum, more than four times as much vertical space as either the Windows task bar or the Macintosh menu bar. (Yes, you can set it much smaller, but then you make it progressively more difficult to identify an icon without "scrubbing" the screen with your mouse to reveal its label.) Couple that with Apple's move to 16:9 wide screens (read: short screens), and you have a real problem. For good measure, add in the Dock's habit of floating on top of working windows, and you have little choice but to hide it.
8. Identical icons look identical
This was originally entitled "Identical pictures look identical." I pointed out that the Dock's use of thumnails in small sizes made all normal text documents look pretty much alike. Apple has now dumped thumbnails in return for identical icons. My original advice still holds: "We need information on data types, file sizes (as represented by the thickness of the icon), age, etc." They've now given us data type. We need more?any attribute that can help differentiate one object from another.
The better solution to this and many of these other limitations is to supplant the Dock with additional objects that are designed for representing groups of non-application objects, so that people aren't even attempting to put folders and documents in this already overloaded single object.
(Legos, that's right I called them Legos! One Lego, Two Legos, Red Legos, Blue Legos) One piece of Lego, two bits of Lego, red broken bits of Lego. Lego is the material, not the product.
I wonder if the plastic guage will fit in a 1 year-old's throat...
As has been said in these hallowed pages many times, giving voters receipts allows votes to be bought i.e. "I'll break your legs unless you prove you voted for x"
Because simply throwing ten times the number of people at a problem does not solve it ten times faster. You're a manager aren't you?
"When I defend what we do, I talk about free speech," His right to free speech ends where my right to privacy begins. He's not free to come and yell through my letterbox, and he's not free to yell in my inbox.
Clean-room recovery should be possible. Remove the platters from the drive, place in read assembly, read data. Of course, anyone not backing up the critical data from their laptops should be shot on SysAdmin Stress Relief Day anyway.
I look after a few small businesses, and use SmoothWall a lot. They often have an old box sitting around I can use, they can all afford the 180 for the commercial version, and keeping on top of patching it is a point and click operation which takes seconds.
The higher end products (SmoothTunnel for VPNs, SmoothConnect for traffic shaping) are also great value for money.
I've only had to use their support once, for an odd VPN problem, and they fixed it professionally and quickly.