'Immediately after the Big Bang some 13 billion years ago, equal amounts of matter and antimatter formed. Much of it quickly acted to annihilate the other, but for little-understood reasons, a bit more matter than antimatter survived, providing the universe with the planets, stars and galaxies visible today.'
Actually, that quote is not from the Fermilab press release. It's from this Chicago Tribune article which is a little more down-to-earth for us non-physicists.
A relevant link here is ScummVM, an OSS project to make these games compatible with all modern systems. If you own the original disks, you can use ScummVM to play Sam & Max natively on Linux, Mac OS X, even your PDA.
As of right now, the Mac version of Virtual PC is still retail. Any thoughts if they might give out the Mac version too? My intuition says no. Although it's a big name in their isolated Mac division, Virtual PC is the entire product category on the Mac platform. They have no VMWare with which to compete in this arena.
The irony of the whole thing is that M$ bought VPC off Connectix just so they could finish porting it to x86 and use their branding/marketing/FUD to make big bucks. Now they're giving it away, too. Sounds very much like Microsoft's category-conquest tactics: acquire, rip off, and undersell the competition.
the 10560x10560 format will probably get professional digital camera users drooling.
Megapixels are nice, but I would trade high-res for a high-quality lens any day of the week. For example, NASA's Spirit rover took those stunning photos (that we all drooled over) with only a one-megapixel image sensor.
All your competitor needs to do is bury a jammer in the front lawn. Presto: complete network blackout. Thousands of dollars in lost productivity until someone finds out what the heck happened.
Any IT admin knows that a catastrophic network failure is bad for job security.
... if people can't get past the name. "Wii" is going to alienate droves of potential gamers who find the name an insult. Wake up, Nintendo: you're shooting yourself in the foot.
There are many reasons for Apple to switch to processors used in cellular phones:
-Already proven in the market
-Easy to mass produce
-ARM architecture similar to PortalPlayer's
-Lowest power consumption in consumer electronics
-Flexibility with supply line
-Industry hookups due to the ROKR
-Samsung (RTFA) makes cellphones
-Apple only makes their own northbridges, contracts out all other ASICs
The list goes on and on. There has also been some speculation that Apple is planning a wireless communication feature in future iPods. Maybe Apple is looking to diversify their featureset. Could we see a PDA-killer soon?
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I've ventured into the realm of DJing much over the past few years. I do dances for my church and raves for my friends, and I've found, for practical purposes, that the computer beats the pants off a traditional system.
My amateur rig is a laptop running Traktor DJ Studio and a visualizer called G-Force. Traktor DJ is leaps and bounds ahead of any pro DJ software out there. It's a commercial package with anything a DJ or amateur could ever want. Beatmatching, streaming, looping, it's all there. It will even help you "work up" to a level of mastery until you go out and buy real turntables. G-Force is a great shareware app that will give a set-it-and-forget-it light show with nothing but an ordinary projector.
Finally, here's some advice from when I first started. Learning "how to DJ" involves three things you must master. First, learn the equipment, which isn't too tough if you're already an ubergeek. Second, get familiar with a whole spectrum of music, which can be hard if your tastes are polarized against genres like rap or country. Last, and most importantly, you must refine your skills to "work a crowd" and respond to your audience's tastes. Developing that charisma is by far the most challenging aspect of becoming a DJ.
[shameless plug] For more tips, I set up a pseudo-DJ tutorial at my website. [/shameless plug]
Good luck.
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A relevant link here is ScummVM, an OSS project to make these games compatible with all modern systems. If you own the original disks, you can use ScummVM to play Sam & Max natively on Linux, Mac OS X, even your PDA.
I thought the headline read US Intelligence Chiefs Urge Eating Of Spy Rules. That certainly keeps things secret!
As of right now, the Mac version of Virtual PC is still retail. Any thoughts if they might give out the Mac version too? My intuition says no. Although it's a big name in their isolated Mac division, Virtual PC is the entire product category on the Mac platform. They have no VMWare with which to compete in this arena.
The irony of the whole thing is that M$ bought VPC off Connectix just so they could finish porting it to x86 and use their branding/marketing/FUD to make big bucks. Now they're giving it away, too. Sounds very much like Microsoft's category-conquest tactics: acquire, rip off, and undersell the competition.
I hope it doesn't crash!
All your competitor needs to do is bury a jammer in the front lawn. Presto: complete network blackout. Thousands of dollars in lost productivity until someone finds out what the heck happened. Any IT admin knows that a catastrophic network failure is bad for job security.
Embedding software into softwear...
... if people can't get past the name. "Wii" is going to alienate droves of potential gamers who find the name an insult. Wake up, Nintendo: you're shooting yourself in the foot.
There are many reasons for Apple to switch to processors used in cellular phones: -Already proven in the market -Easy to mass produce -ARM architecture similar to PortalPlayer's -Lowest power consumption in consumer electronics -Flexibility with supply line -Industry hookups due to the ROKR -Samsung (RTFA) makes cellphones -Apple only makes their own northbridges, contracts out all other ASICs The list goes on and on. There has also been some speculation that Apple is planning a wireless communication feature in future iPods. Maybe Apple is looking to diversify their featureset. Could we see a PDA-killer soon?
My amateur rig is a laptop running Traktor DJ Studio and a visualizer called G-Force. Traktor DJ is leaps and bounds ahead of any pro DJ software out there. It's a commercial package with anything a DJ or amateur could ever want. Beatmatching, streaming, looping, it's all there. It will even help you "work up" to a level of mastery until you go out and buy real turntables. G-Force is a great shareware app that will give a set-it-and-forget-it light show with nothing but an ordinary projector.
Finally, here's some advice from when I first started. Learning "how to DJ" involves three things you must master. First, learn the equipment, which isn't too tough if you're already an ubergeek. Second, get familiar with a whole spectrum of music, which can be hard if your tastes are polarized against genres like rap or country. Last, and most importantly, you must refine your skills to "work a crowd" and respond to your audience's tastes. Developing that charisma is by far the most challenging aspect of becoming a DJ.
[shameless plug] For more tips, I set up a pseudo-DJ tutorial at my website. [/shameless plug] Good luck.
Here's a PDF detailing the "EURiOn constellation": http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf