I have a DVD burner that, when using Roxio Toast, it offers to burn at the default speed of 64x.
Unfortunately it doesn't actually burn at that speed (it's a 1x DVD-R, DVD-RAM drive) and prevents it from being used with applications that will prepare a disk and burn it automatically (Final Cut Pro) as they assume you want to burn at the fastest speed available, and generally have no settings to tell them otherwise.
True, the drive isn't supported for the Mac, but when I try to put it on a "supported" Windows XP machine, the whole system locks up shortly after startup.
Disabling the catch makes things no safer, only inconvenient as hell. Pumps automatically shut off when the nozzle detects fuel at the spout, usually well before the tank is completely full. This happens with or without a hold latch.
However, that trip only works if the nozzle inserted into the tank. One could still use the catch to make the nozzle spray gas without inserting it into the tank, drive off, and use a sparking device on a remote trigger to ignite it.
Now if they included an optic sensor to ensure that fuel is only dispensed into a (sufficiently) opaque container, then any saboteur would need to bring some electrical tape to cover that sensor. (Such a sensor would at least prevent people trying to wash their car with SuperClean Unleaded.)
You won't stop someone determined to cause havoc, but you could stop the causal pyromaniac prankster just by disabling the hold latch. (There's likely measures to protect against deliberate breaching of the hose as well.)
Just because 7 year olds are programming in an object-oriented language doesn't mean they're doing much more than writing "Hello, world!" It is quite possible to write many programs in an OO language and not know a thing about OO'n.
The point is not to teach them object inheritance from the start but to get them started with a familiar base that they can build upon rather than have them throw out most of everything they've learned about one language and cast them into a new one.
I'm still disappointed that they're not teaching young geeks to count in binary in school anymore. Perhaps we need to start teaching graphics entirely in TI99/4A basic (as that's where I got my first exposure to binary- converting, by hand, 8x8 bitmaps into Hexadecimal for redefining the font).
Nah, teach shape tables for Apple II series computers. Have the students work out how to draw an image using vector plotting moves, convert them into 3-bit binary codes (occasional no-plot moves to 2-bit), put the sequences in a table, convert them to hexadecimal, then back into decimal to be put in a DATA statement to be READ and POKEd into memory.
That will eat up a lot of class time and keep the kids out of mischief for awhile. Especially the debugging of the resulting shape table to find whether they made an error in their vector moves, putting them in the table in the wrong order, used the wrong binary code for a vector direction, a bad binary->hex->decimal conversion, or just a typo in their DATA statements.
Teaching them how to use the *monitor to do the hex-decimal conversion will be later, and even later how to put them into memory directly and BSAVE them to disk to be BLOADed instead of POKEd.
And if there's enough time, maybe then get into raster graphics using & commands to interface with machine code using lookup tables and indirect addressing modes to efficiently locate a location on the 8-field interlaced graphics screen to store bytes. (Whether there is enough time depends on whether or not you started the semester on how to load and save programs to cassette tapes.)
Oh, the memories.... what was this thread about again? Oh, yeah. A pity that ProDOS had a partition size limit of 32 MiB, and that there's also a limit to the number of partitions you can have. That petabyte rack would have a lot of unusable space hooked up to an Apple II (apart from a IIgs which could use HFS). Though maybe... you use a dynamically rewritten partition table so you could address the full capacity in 32 MiB chunks! Though drive 0 in the array would wear out a lot faster than any other.
(Don't sweat the multiple replies, and don't take them personally. Hopefully each one is more generally informative than the last.)
I got my waver at Baja, people, and I can't love it enough. It's phat because I can totally wave it in front of any of the bartenders and like bam I have a drink.
PiB, GiB, MiB (and also KiB) are all 1000. PB, GB, MB, and KB are 1024 due to BINARY!
Thank you, but you got it perfectly backwards.
The "i" comes from the second letter of "binary", as in peta-binary-byte, giga-binary-byte, mega-binary-byte, and kilo-binary-byte, also abbreviated as pebibyte, gibibyte, mebibyte, and kibibyte.
I personally recommend qualifying metric measure with the word "metric", i.e. "3.5 metric GB", or "3.5 GB metric" as well as using the more specific binary names and abbreviations as appropriate to eliminate confusion.
Well when I go to burn a DVD-R in my DVD-R,-RAM drive, Roxio Toast offers me a burn speed of 64x!
Unfortunately I don't have any media capable of recording at that speed nor withstanding the stresses of spinning that fast. And I can only get it to offer that speed on a Mac (on which it is unsupported) as a supported system like Windows XP locks up shortly after startup if it is connected.
There's also the issue of insurance. Insurance becomes a lot more expensive if the company allows employees to work from home as it is not a company-controlled environment that they can make safe. It can end up being a choice between working at work or giving up your insurance.
There's also a hint that it will come out on DVD, in that there's a page where you can request to be informed about its release. They don't do this for every title.
You'll also be voting for this release; we'll let the studio know how many customers are waiting for this title.
So consider it as a petition for its commercial release and sign up.
They're just renaming it again. The new name will consist entirely of characters from an obscure font containing only symbols that have no pronounceable names to make sure no one will be able to talk about it.
what the hell does an OS need with a bleeding edge graphics card?
The same thing God needs with a starship?
Volumetric desktops. Instead of just having a flat desktop, it would be laid out in space, extending the window on top of a window in a way other than which one was drawn last. Being able to rotate windows in space and have related tasks arranged in spacial locality. Your desktop will no longer be drawn; it will be rendered.
But then, your wallpaper will be mapped onto an all-encompassing sphere at distance infinity. Though you may be able to choose the shape of your universe, which will be nice for those who want a pattern of crossing yellow lines in a grid on black for that ST:TNG holodeck feel.
Seriously, they've been working on such things for awhile. Except they've been rooting them in mundane concepts like art museums or items on a plane extending to infinity. IMO they should stick to a formless void and let the user create his own rules for object behavior. Provide a few simple relational behaviors the user can use and open up a way to easily create new ones.
What I find interesting is the dual wired and wireless networking requirement. That's an "and" in there, not an "or". Sounds like they want drive-by license verification, turning wardriving to their advantage. No need for audit raids anymore; they could just fly over entire campuses.
Those postings don't start with the exhortation, "If you agree with any of this, feel free to repost it in the future." This is a hallmark of a chain letter, and will result it is immortality beyond its useful life.
At least the others have some chance at originality. Stale copies of this will be copied verbatum over and over again. Counter your apologists post for post and link to the master FAQ which is maintained separately. Maintain your revision control so you can deliver a consistent message before someone corrupts it and gets their version more screen-play making your group look foolish.
I don't want to have to wade through a propaganda war. Unfortunately it has already begun.
(I am not commenting on the merits of either side.)
What it properly is is Redundant and Troll. Any IP thread, particularly under YRO, gets this injected into it. Sometimes repeatedly.
It is abuse of the system; such things should be kept in the original poster's Journal linked to in supporters' signatures, so those interested can follow the evolving discussion. Maybe even devoting a website to it and submitting it as its own story. Posting it to every YRO discussion fragments the discussion, pollutes the forum, and makes your intended audience turn a deaf ear.
I support free speech, but not by whatever amplification is available.
I'm still running 6.2, and from what I hear from IT, I will never get upgraded because the company needs someone running the old OS to do testing for bugs for customers who won't be upgrading either.
Fast enough with the Stop button and going to File:Edit Page in Mozilla gets the content without the redirection.
But they're providing a valuable service, and they deserve to be compensated. If you don't want to pay for it by letting them display their banner ads, then you don't get to use their site.
They get compensated by their advertisers, not me. I am not obligated to provide value to their advertisers.
That said, if my browser would let me choose what advertisements I'd let through, in my approved contexts (big ads in the middle of news stories for example to be pushed to the side for example), then I'd let them through. In the meantime, if an ad interferes with my enjoyment of the web, say by forcing the content of a page to exceed the horizontal bounds of my window, I'll employ whatever means necessary to maintain my browsing enjoyment.
And pretty soon those means are going to include recompilation of my browser to add site-specific HTML and CSS-rule suppression to get them to behave. I don't like having to have a stylesheet rule of div { border: 1px groove white; } just to stop Apple's website from positioning content off the left edge of the browser window where I cannot scroll to it.
No, transparency includes all ranges from totally transparent to not entirely opaque. Translucency is more properly used when light but not details are carried through. A translucent floating image would scatter or effectively blur the content behind the image making it unreadable.
A tinted window is still transparent, but the windows in public restrooms are generally translucent.
Did Google approach the competitors saying, "People searching for AXA seem to want what you sell. Want to buy AdWords placement?" or are they approaching Google saying, "We want to buy placement with the AdWord AXA; sell it to us," exploiting Google's ignorance of the trademark?
It is the trademark holder's duty to rigorously defend their trademark, not Google's. But whom is the infringer in this case? That may be what they're trying to determine.
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I have a DVD burner that, when using Roxio Toast, it offers to burn at the default speed of 64x.
Unfortunately it doesn't actually burn at that speed (it's a 1x DVD-R, DVD-RAM drive) and prevents it from being used with applications that will prepare a disk and burn it automatically (Final Cut Pro) as they assume you want to burn at the fastest speed available, and generally have no settings to tell them otherwise.
True, the drive isn't supported for the Mac, but when I try to put it on a "supported" Windows XP machine, the whole system locks up shortly after startup.
Disabling the catch makes things no safer, only inconvenient as hell. Pumps automatically shut off when the nozzle detects fuel at the spout, usually well before the tank is completely full. This happens with or without a hold latch.
However, that trip only works if the nozzle inserted into the tank. One could still use the catch to make the nozzle spray gas without inserting it into the tank, drive off, and use a sparking device on a remote trigger to ignite it.
Now if they included an optic sensor to ensure that fuel is only dispensed into a (sufficiently) opaque container, then any saboteur would need to bring some electrical tape to cover that sensor. (Such a sensor would at least prevent people trying to wash their car with SuperClean Unleaded.)
You won't stop someone determined to cause havoc, but you could stop the causal pyromaniac prankster just by disabling the hold latch. (There's likely measures to protect against deliberate breaching of the hose as well.)
Just because 7 year olds are programming in an object-oriented language doesn't mean they're doing much more than writing "Hello, world!" It is quite possible to write many programs in an OO language and not know a thing about OO'n.
The point is not to teach them object inheritance from the start but to get them started with a familiar base that they can build upon rather than have them throw out most of everything they've learned about one language and cast them into a new one.
I'm still disappointed that they're not teaching young geeks to count in binary in school anymore. Perhaps we need to start teaching graphics entirely in TI99/4A basic (as that's where I got my first exposure to binary- converting, by hand, 8x8 bitmaps into Hexadecimal for redefining the font).
Nah, teach shape tables for Apple II series computers. Have the students work out how to draw an image using vector plotting moves, convert them into 3-bit binary codes (occasional no-plot moves to 2-bit), put the sequences in a table, convert them to hexadecimal, then back into decimal to be put in a DATA statement to be READ and POKEd into memory.
That will eat up a lot of class time and keep the kids out of mischief for awhile. Especially the debugging of the resulting shape table to find whether they made an error in their vector moves, putting them in the table in the wrong order, used the wrong binary code for a vector direction, a bad binary->hex->decimal conversion, or just a typo in their DATA statements.
Teaching them how to use the *monitor to do the hex-decimal conversion will be later, and even later how to put them into memory directly and BSAVE them to disk to be BLOADed instead of POKEd.
And if there's enough time, maybe then get into raster graphics using & commands to interface with machine code using lookup tables and indirect addressing modes to efficiently locate a location on the 8-field interlaced graphics screen to store bytes. (Whether there is enough time depends on whether or not you started the semester on how to load and save programs to cassette tapes.)
Oh, the memories.... what was this thread about again? Oh, yeah. A pity that ProDOS had a partition size limit of 32 MiB, and that there's also a limit to the number of partitions you can have. That petabyte rack would have a lot of unusable space hooked up to an Apple II (apart from a IIgs which could use HFS). Though maybe... you use a dynamically rewritten partition table so you could address the full capacity in 32 MiB chunks! Though drive 0 in the array would wear out a lot faster than any other.
(Don't sweat the multiple replies, and don't take them personally. Hopefully each one is more generally informative than the last.)
I got my waver at Baja, people, and I can't love it enough. It's phat because I can totally wave it in front of any of the bartenders and like bam I have a drink.
"You don't need to see my indentification."
So, about $1.3M (10 racks)
And if you can afford that, I really don't think you'd want to back it up to CD-Rs.
PiB, GiB, MiB (and also KiB) are all 1000. PB, GB, MB, and KB are 1024 due to BINARY!
Thank you, but you got it perfectly backwards.
The "i" comes from the second letter of "binary", as in peta-binary-byte, giga-binary-byte, mega-binary-byte, and kilo-binary-byte, also abbreviated as pebibyte, gibibyte, mebibyte, and kibibyte.
Read the Wiki and the references there.
I personally recommend qualifying metric measure with the word "metric", i.e. "3.5 metric GB", or "3.5 GB metric" as well as using the more specific binary names and abbreviations as appropriate to eliminate confusion.
Well when I go to burn a DVD-R in my DVD-R,-RAM drive, Roxio Toast offers me a burn speed of 64x!
Unfortunately I don't have any media capable of recording at that speed nor withstanding the stresses of spinning that fast. And I can only get it to offer that speed on a Mac (on which it is unsupported) as a supported system like Windows XP locks up shortly after startup if it is connected.
Automated? Hell no. This would be perfect for the next computer game playing adapted to real life!
Who's up for a game of Tapper?
There's also the issue of insurance. Insurance becomes a lot more expensive if the company allows employees to work from home as it is not a company-controlled environment that they can make safe. It can end up being a choice between working at work or giving up your insurance.
Any chance the henchman's name is actually Enzo Matrix?
They're just renaming it again. The new name will consist entirely of characters from an obscure font containing only symbols that have no pronounceable names to make sure no one will be able to talk about it.
what the hell does an OS need with a bleeding edge graphics card?
The same thing God needs with a starship?
Volumetric desktops. Instead of just having a flat desktop, it would be laid out in space, extending the window on top of a window in a way other than which one was drawn last. Being able to rotate windows in space and have related tasks arranged in spacial locality. Your desktop will no longer be drawn; it will be rendered.
But then, your wallpaper will be mapped onto an all-encompassing sphere at distance infinity. Though you may be able to choose the shape of your universe, which will be nice for those who want a pattern of crossing yellow lines in a grid on black for that ST:TNG holodeck feel.
Seriously, they've been working on such things for awhile. Except they've been rooting them in mundane concepts like art museums or items on a plane extending to infinity. IMO they should stick to a formless void and let the user create his own rules for object behavior. Provide a few simple relational behaviors the user can use and open up a way to easily create new ones.
What I find interesting is the dual wired and wireless networking requirement. That's an "and" in there, not an "or". Sounds like they want drive-by license verification, turning wardriving to their advantage. No need for audit raids anymore; they could just fly over entire campuses.
This is the same Belkin that has browser redirection to ads built into their soho routers?
And just what is wrong with welcome datacomp ads built into consumer devices?
Those postings don't start with the exhortation, "If you agree with any of this, feel free to repost it in the future." This is a hallmark of a chain letter, and will result it is immortality beyond its useful life.
At least the others have some chance at originality. Stale copies of this will be copied verbatum over and over again. Counter your apologists post for post and link to the master FAQ which is maintained separately. Maintain your revision control so you can deliver a consistent message before someone corrupts it and gets their version more screen-play making your group look foolish.
I don't want to have to wade through a propaganda war. Unfortunately it has already begun.
(I am not commenting on the merits of either side.)
What it properly is is Redundant and Troll. Any IP thread, particularly under YRO, gets this injected into it. Sometimes repeatedly.
It is abuse of the system; such things should be kept in the original poster's Journal linked to in supporters' signatures, so those interested can follow the evolving discussion. Maybe even devoting a website to it and submitting it as its own story. Posting it to every YRO discussion fragments the discussion, pollutes the forum, and makes your intended audience turn a deaf ear.
I support free speech, but not by whatever amplification is available.
thanks to the capitalist business model (ugh... never thought i'd say that...), people will buy the better product.
You forget about the capitalist legal model where they also buy the laws that make the better, unencumbered product illegal to possess.
I'm still running 6.2, and from what I hear from IT, I will never get upgraded because the company needs someone running the old OS to do testing for bugs for customers who won't be upgrading either.
Can't even install any Mozilla newer than 1.3.
A lot of my spam seems to originate from OptinRealBig, and all of that share of spam is to the address only disclosed in the whois database.
Harvesting addresses for spam is a violation of the terms of service for whois.
It seems the Cadre's plans are proceeding apace. Bright Sky's ahead, Tova.
Fast enough with the Stop button and going to File:Edit Page in Mozilla gets the content without the redirection.
But they're providing a valuable service, and they deserve to be compensated. If you don't want to pay for it by letting them display their banner ads, then you don't get to use their site.
They get compensated by their advertisers, not me. I am not obligated to provide value to their advertisers.
That said, if my browser would let me choose what advertisements I'd let through, in my approved contexts (big ads in the middle of news stories for example to be pushed to the side for example), then I'd let them through. In the meantime, if an ad interferes with my enjoyment of the web, say by forcing the content of a page to exceed the horizontal bounds of my window, I'll employ whatever means necessary to maintain my browsing enjoyment.
And pretty soon those means are going to include recompilation of my browser to add site-specific HTML and CSS-rule suppression to get them to behave. I don't like having to have a stylesheet rule of div { border: 1px groove white; } just to stop Apple's website from positioning content off the left edge of the browser window where I cannot scroll to it.
No, transparency includes all ranges from totally transparent to not entirely opaque. Translucency is more properly used when light but not details are carried through. A translucent floating image would scatter or effectively blur the content behind the image making it unreadable.
A tinted window is still transparent, but the windows in public restrooms are generally translucent.
It describes that point when the show takes a dramatic turn downward....
There is a website devoted to the concept. They define it as that point when the show is at its peak, but it seems to be used as I defined it above.
Sounds much like climbing Kilimanjaro then: most of it's up until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.
Did Google approach the competitors saying, "People searching for AXA seem to want what you sell. Want to buy AdWords placement?" or are they approaching Google saying, "We want to buy placement with the AdWord AXA; sell it to us," exploiting Google's ignorance of the trademark?
It is the trademark holder's duty to rigorously defend their trademark, not Google's. But whom is the infringer in this case? That may be what they're trying to determine.