That is a very interesting point. I saw the laptops with the media players on the side of them, plenty while I was traveling over the holidays, but it hadn't occurred to me that those people probably had to shut their OS down to listen to music in that fashion. If, in fact, you must shut down your OS to use those buttons, which I assume you do, then that feature is built on a weakness, and that weakness is Window's lack of stability over long periods of time. I suppose it's only really worth while if you make use of hibernate. And then, it'd have to have a very impressive interface to fit in such a small area on the side of the laptop. To be sure, it is a neat feature, but if it were put on a Mac which frequently have uptimes of a month or so I don't think me or the people I know who own Mac laptops would have any time to use it, and since the UI almost definitely suffers insurmountably when compared with an iPod or even a Dell DJ, the feature seems like a novelty.
By the way, I'd love to hear back from somebody if this isn't the case and you actually can put your laptop to sleep and still use the media player, or if the media player has some über amazing UI for that tiny LCD.
I love my Mac, don't get me wrong, but I'm such a fanboy that I'll let uncool shit slide. I recall that Apple's old slogan for.Mac was "Free for life" or some such. I had a mac.com address back then... Then it all the sudden wasn't free anymore. Whiskey, tango, foxtrot... I'd certainly like to have it free again, even for just the multi-mac syncing and e-mail. I don't need any non-php, non-mysql, non-ssh webhost or anti-virus or all the other bells and whistles, whatever they are these days.
Since Knoppix is Debian based, it could be representing Debian in the tests. Frankly I've had better luck with Knoppix than Debian when it comes to hardware support, but mostly that's on newer hardware. At any rate, we all know it's no myth.
Taking no consideration of whether there was any merit to what the student said in the blog, it seems to me that the students at Marquette have all the freedom that anybody else has to say what they will. However, just as anybody else does, they have to deal with any retaliatory action from the party they are attacking. In this case those people happen to be authority figures in a non-democratic institution. The reaction of the school could be considered rash, but it could also be considered as a lesson in PR. Professionals, dentists and doctors, do have reputations to keep up as well as relationships and rapport with clients and business partners. This whole ordeal is a lesson in how rapport is valuable and how you should carefully choose what you say to the general public, even if it is on your personal time.
Don't worry about him. He's the FP guy in your thread who starts a barrage of redundant replies to his ignorant post. I'd definitely disregard his post and move on to looking for the replies with true wit and humor.
Plus, I thought your comment had a flair of classic journalism. It would've fit on El Reg nicely, but not likely here on/..
Perhaps this man should tackle the problems concerning the editorial process of mainstream sites which are syndicated around the globe. I mean, seriously, don't the editors have a spell checker? Hello cmd-;
This made me think of that chapter in "Beyond the Mind's Eye" where the plants shoot their seeds from one planet to another. What a kick ass set of movies Miramar did, The Mind's Eye series.
The thing that always gets me about iPod vs other media players is that the other things that try to compete are players, and relating to music, and now movies, it stops at that. Farther up this thread I saw a link to Rockbox, which is a cool looking media player with games and recording and stuff. One of the features it lists is the ability to delete and rename files. This is the most obvious place where it steps out of direct competition with the iPod, and further inspection shows that really not many other players do directly compete with the iPod. The iPod is an extension of a music database, iTunes. It keeps track of statistical data about your music, such as the play count, rating count, last play time, date added, etc.. Drag-and-drop players do not offer this functionality. You can't just plug in your Rockbox player to your computer and have it automatically sync any songs that were added recently, songs that are rated high, remove songs that have been rated low on the portable player itself, etc.. iTunes does that because of the fact that it's a database. I know that not a lot of people want that, they want drag-and-drop, but that is not the iPod and so those devices do not directly compete with it. Unless you're including the database features of the iPod, you're not giving it an appropriate comparison to other portable media players. The iPod is a portable extension of iTunes. A satellite.
I honestly don't see why the Grandparent was modded as a troll. Whoever modded him down clearly missed the humor in the Linux typo, Lunix, which actually is an OS: Little Unix. On top of that, it was probably an obscure reference to the humorous article Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?.
I think I know what your problem is with the 2405FPW. The ghosting is easily visible if you're using the VGA / DSUB interface and you're running at native (1920x1200) resolution; you should only use the DVI interface at that high a resolution. I did a comparison between the two interfaces to my ATi Radeon 9500 Pro and found that 1920x1200 with VGA/DSUB ghosted/trembled/blurred. DVI is rock solid.
My configuration is that I'm gaming on my Dell 9100 with VGA, and pretty much everything else on my G5 with DVI. I switched the Dell to DVI on your recommendation. It didn't stop the ghosting, though it's possible there might not be as much. I can still see it well. (The test I'm doing is starting a new HL2 game in ravenholm and walking towards the tree while looking up at the sky. You will see a light or dark shadow trail the limbs.) On top of that, my HUD is now messed up so that my primary ammo is rendered almost completely outside of a box that is about 2/5 the way down from the top of the screen, as well as my "aux power" messages. Pretty disappointing, though I wonder if the render problems would be caused by any DVI monitor, or perhaps any DVI at that resolution. It's doubtful that they're specific to this model of monitor, at any rate. So, yeah, changing to DVI has not helped me out here. On top of that, this is my 2nd 2405FPW. My first had an irritating high-pitched squeel like an old analog display with a bad capacitor or something.
If you're going 20" or 23" might I recommend at least considering the Dell 2005FPW (20") and 2405FPW (24").
Bad recommendation on the 2405FPW. I recently got a sweet deal on a 9100 and a 2405FPW, so I sold my 2005FPW. Now I regret it. The 2405FPW is terrible quality, probably the worst quality LCD I've ever seen, other than pixel count. Honestly, I've never seen ghosting so bad, and the color saturation sucks. On top of that, it comes with a built-in 5-port USB 2.0 hub and a media card reader, and it would actually be useful if I didn't have to worry about it causing my G5 to kernel panic. Seriously, the *first* time I've ever seen my G5 kernel panic was when switching inputs on the 2405FPW. When you turn the monitor off, the hub turns off too. When the display goes to sleep? Yeah, the USB Hub turns off. That means don't bother mounting USB disks like iPods or USB thumb drives, or anything in those media slots. The 2005FPW, however, was a *fantastic* monitor. It has great color saturation, brightness, and no ghosting. I didn't test the USB ports on it, but then again, it only had 2 (I think) USB ports, and no media card slots. All in all, I'm seriously considering selling this 2405FPW POS and buying another 2005FPW or an Apple display. 2405FPW sucks, IMHO, if you're a gamer, photographer or graphic designer, or want to use those USB ports and media slots on a Mac.
When you reach level 10 they begin to deliver your greasy doses of death right to the table at which you are now stuck behind. By level 20 they'll be dumping your food into that gaping orifice you call a mouth.
It definitely is an interesting point that they are not losing money if you download something you would never have paid for in the first place. What I find is even more interesting is that other businesses might be losing money too. For instance, I never really rent movies and rarely go see them in theaters. However, I do buy books and read them. So, if I download a movie and watch it instead of going to the book store, the book publishers are actually the ones losing money, not the movie industry.
It's definitely a logical falicy to think that because somebody is downloading digital media without paying for it that the owner of that media the only one who has a potential loss of profit.
Another interesting point about the "stolen" digital information is software. When I was a kid I could never have paid for Photoshop or Cakewalk Pro or Cool Edit, but I downloaded them and used them anyways. My parents weren't well off and couldn't afford to pay for them, and the school I went to had no multimedia labs or anything of that sort. (That all came the year after I graduated.) So, essentially, Adobe Twelve Tone and Syntrillium sponsored my education, but the lawmakers would say that I "stole" my education.
Those videos totally look like something out of a b-rate movie, but dammit they're realy! Sooooo cool.:)
Props to Carmack's webserver for withstanding the/. effect. *knocks on wood*
The choice was probably about cost...
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Choice 1) Pay (a likely non-existent) legal team huge amounts of cash to come up with a new license that is legally sound in all of the respects that need to be accounted for in their position.
It's pretty ironic they tell you to contact Apple to suggest they find and implement a solution to a problem that does not exist on Apple's own OS. What's makes it really funny is that the limitation is not due to Apple hiding the methods on how to do it, or just being stingy in providing cross-platform support, it's just the broken state of the MS operating system experience.
Of course if multiple copies from different sources are all damaged, you probably have bigger problems than getting your "important" data back.
That's not necessarily true. Optical media scratches easily and it's possible that within a few years you might end up with a large scratch across an important chunk of information, something that parity errors won't fix. I'm speaking from experience here, and it would be great to know a way to recover large chunks of information from two damaged sets.
You mentioning RAR did give me an idea though, and that would be to chunk up the archive, then any damaged parts of it could possibly be recovered from other discs... Hmmm.... It'd be nice if something could just mount both cd's and use them both like a redundant array though.
That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.:) Very very cool... Now if they only had it for OS X. But oh, I could store an encrypted DMG file in that free-space noise! 3-layer dual-platform plausible deniability encryption. Hell yeah. Then I'll ROT-13 it just for good measure.
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That is a very interesting point. I saw the laptops with the media players on the side of them, plenty while I was traveling over the holidays, but it hadn't occurred to me that those people probably had to shut their OS down to listen to music in that fashion. If, in fact, you must shut down your OS to use those buttons, which I assume you do, then that feature is built on a weakness, and that weakness is Window's lack of stability over long periods of time. I suppose it's only really worth while if you make use of hibernate. And then, it'd have to have a very impressive interface to fit in such a small area on the side of the laptop. To be sure, it is a neat feature, but if it were put on a Mac which frequently have uptimes of a month or so I don't think me or the people I know who own Mac laptops would have any time to use it, and since the UI almost definitely suffers insurmountably when compared with an iPod or even a Dell DJ, the feature seems like a novelty.
By the way, I'd love to hear back from somebody if this isn't the case and you actually can put your laptop to sleep and still use the media player, or if the media player has some über amazing UI for that tiny LCD.
I love my Mac, don't get me wrong, but I'm such a fanboy that I'll let uncool shit slide. I recall that Apple's old slogan for .Mac was "Free for life" or some such. I had a mac.com address back then... Then it all the sudden wasn't free anymore. Whiskey, tango, foxtrot... I'd certainly like to have it free again, even for just the multi-mac syncing and e-mail. I don't need any non-php, non-mysql, non-ssh webhost or anti-virus or all the other bells and whistles, whatever they are these days.
Since Knoppix is Debian based, it could be representing Debian in the tests. Frankly I've had better luck with Knoppix than Debian when it comes to hardware support, but mostly that's on newer hardware. At any rate, we all know it's no myth.
Taking no consideration of whether there was any merit to what the student said in the blog, it seems to me that the students at Marquette have all the freedom that anybody else has to say what they will. However, just as anybody else does, they have to deal with any retaliatory action from the party they are attacking. In this case those people happen to be authority figures in a non-democratic institution. The reaction of the school could be considered rash, but it could also be considered as a lesson in PR. Professionals, dentists and doctors, do have reputations to keep up as well as relationships and rapport with clients and business partners. This whole ordeal is a lesson in how rapport is valuable and how you should carefully choose what you say to the general public, even if it is on your personal time.
Don't worry about him. He's the FP guy in your thread who starts a barrage of redundant replies to his ignorant post. I'd definitely disregard his post and move on to looking for the replies with true wit and humor.
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Plus, I thought your comment had a flair of classic journalism. It would've fit on El Reg nicely, but not likely here on
I took off the word ending so it's just "accost" and the page you linked to came up with some translations.
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What Would Harrison Ford Do?
When the CEO of the company I work for goes to China or Taiwan, he tells everybody back here in California to reach him via Skype.
Perhaps this man should tackle the problems concerning the editorial process of mainstream sites which are syndicated around the globe. I mean, seriously, don't the editors have a spell checker? Hello cmd-;
This made me think of that chapter in "Beyond the Mind's Eye" where the plants shoot their seeds from one planet to another. What a kick ass set of movies Miramar did, The Mind's Eye series.
Of course.
The thing that always gets me about iPod vs other media players is that the other things that try to compete are players, and relating to music, and now movies, it stops at that. Farther up this thread I saw a link to Rockbox, which is a cool looking media player with games and recording and stuff. One of the features it lists is the ability to delete and rename files. This is the most obvious place where it steps out of direct competition with the iPod, and further inspection shows that really not many other players do directly compete with the iPod. The iPod is an extension of a music database, iTunes. It keeps track of statistical data about your music, such as the play count, rating count, last play time, date added, etc.. Drag-and-drop players do not offer this functionality. You can't just plug in your Rockbox player to your computer and have it automatically sync any songs that were added recently, songs that are rated high, remove songs that have been rated low on the portable player itself, etc.. iTunes does that because of the fact that it's a database. I know that not a lot of people want that, they want drag-and-drop, but that is not the iPod and so those devices do not directly compete with it. Unless you're including the database features of the iPod, you're not giving it an appropriate comparison to other portable media players. The iPod is a portable extension of iTunes. A satellite.
I honestly don't see why the Grandparent was modded as a troll. Whoever modded him down clearly missed the humor in the Linux typo, Lunix, which actually is an OS: Little Unix. On top of that, it was probably an obscure reference to the humorous article Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?.
My configuration is that I'm gaming on my Dell 9100 with VGA, and pretty much everything else on my G5 with DVI. I switched the Dell to DVI on your recommendation. It didn't stop the ghosting, though it's possible there might not be as much. I can still see it well. (The test I'm doing is starting a new HL2 game in ravenholm and walking towards the tree while looking up at the sky. You will see a light or dark shadow trail the limbs.) On top of that, my HUD is now messed up so that my primary ammo is rendered almost completely outside of a box that is about 2/5 the way down from the top of the screen, as well as my "aux power" messages. Pretty disappointing, though I wonder if the render problems would be caused by any DVI monitor, or perhaps any DVI at that resolution. It's doubtful that they're specific to this model of monitor, at any rate. So, yeah, changing to DVI has not helped me out here. On top of that, this is my 2nd 2405FPW. My first had an irritating high-pitched squeel like an old analog display with a bad capacitor or something.
Bad recommendation on the 2405FPW. I recently got a sweet deal on a 9100 and a 2405FPW, so I sold my 2005FPW. Now I regret it. The 2405FPW is terrible quality, probably the worst quality LCD I've ever seen, other than pixel count. Honestly, I've never seen ghosting so bad, and the color saturation sucks. On top of that, it comes with a built-in 5-port USB 2.0 hub and a media card reader, and it would actually be useful if I didn't have to worry about it causing my G5 to kernel panic. Seriously, the *first* time I've ever seen my G5 kernel panic was when switching inputs on the 2405FPW. When you turn the monitor off, the hub turns off too. When the display goes to sleep? Yeah, the USB Hub turns off. That means don't bother mounting USB disks like iPods or USB thumb drives, or anything in those media slots. The 2005FPW, however, was a *fantastic* monitor. It has great color saturation, brightness, and no ghosting. I didn't test the USB ports on it, but then again, it only had 2 (I think) USB ports, and no media card slots. All in all, I'm seriously considering selling this 2405FPW POS and buying another 2005FPW or an Apple display. 2405FPW sucks, IMHO, if you're a gamer, photographer or graphic designer, or want to use those USB ports and media slots on a Mac.
When you reach level 10 they begin to deliver your greasy doses of death right to the table at which you are now stuck behind. By level 20 they'll be dumping your food into that gaping orifice you call a mouth.
If I had modpoints... It is interesting, and really I have to say that from the other country's perspective, we certainly have been slacking.
It definitely is an interesting point that they are not losing money if you download something you would never have paid for in the first place. What I find is even more interesting is that other businesses might be losing money too. For instance, I never really rent movies and rarely go see them in theaters. However, I do buy books and read them. So, if I download a movie and watch it instead of going to the book store, the book publishers are actually the ones losing money, not the movie industry.
It's definitely a logical falicy to think that because somebody is downloading digital media without paying for it that the owner of that media the only one who has a potential loss of profit.
Another interesting point about the "stolen" digital information is software. When I was a kid I could never have paid for Photoshop or Cakewalk Pro or Cool Edit, but I downloaded them and used them anyways. My parents weren't well off and couldn't afford to pay for them, and the school I went to had no multimedia labs or anything of that sort. (That all came the year after I graduated.) So, essentially, Adobe Twelve Tone and Syntrillium sponsored my education, but the lawmakers would say that I "stole" my education.
Those videos totally look like something out of a b-rate movie, but dammit they're realy! Sooooo cool. :)
/. effect. *knocks on wood*
Props to Carmack's webserver for withstanding the
Choice 1) Pay (a likely non-existent) legal team huge amounts of cash to come up with a new license that is legally sound in all of the respects that need to be accounted for in their position.
Choice 2) Close source code.
Seems to make sense to me...
It's pretty ironic they tell you to contact Apple to suggest they find and implement a solution to a problem that does not exist on Apple's own OS. What's makes it really funny is that the limitation is not due to Apple hiding the methods on how to do it, or just being stingy in providing cross-platform support, it's just the broken state of the MS operating system experience.
That's not necessarily true. Optical media scratches easily and it's possible that within a few years you might end up with a large scratch across an important chunk of information, something that parity errors won't fix. I'm speaking from experience here, and it would be great to know a way to recover large chunks of information from two damaged sets.
You mentioning RAR did give me an idea though, and that would be to chunk up the archive, then any damaged parts of it could possibly be recovered from other discs... Hmmm.... It'd be nice if something could just mount both cd's and use them both like a redundant array though.
That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. :) Very very cool... Now if they only had it for OS X. But oh, I could store an encrypted DMG file in that free-space noise! 3-layer dual-platform plausible deniability encryption. Hell yeah. Then I'll ROT-13 it just for good measure.
How many insurgents does it take to change the lighbulb? Anybody? Anybody?
Or sell your USB 2.0 flash-drive and get a cheap USB 1.1 flash-drive. From my experience, Memorex are the slowest.