I wish that they would bring Picasa to the Mac. Picassa is so smooth and effortless with my 50000 image collection under Bootcamp on my 24" iMac. I bought iViewMediaPro, have tried Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1, and iPhoto, and none of them suit my needs of a quick, intuitive, non-invasive photo viewer / archive manager. Plus, they are all downright SLOW in comparison to Picasa. I would try Aperture, but won't until I can try before I buy.
I wonder if Apple don't want Picasa on the Mac, since it performs so much better, and makes something of a mockery of iPhoto? Anyone disagree with what I'm saying? Am I being unfair on the Apple platform products?
Well, that's certainly a higher density of data than I used in my guestimate! However, you're definitely going to have defects in the paper which would make an impact at that level of density. Maybe some CRC/parity checking, or data redundancy would be good.
-James.
209,715,200,000 bytes... Printed out on 160 column, 66 line paper.
53 bytes per line (3 characters per hex pair), equals 3,498 bytes per page, which means about 60 million pages to print it all out. Alternatively about 2 million Sinclair Microdrive cartridges, or 1.2 million single sided C= 1541 floppies. OK, I better stop there...
I'm sure someone will correct me, but that's a start.
This seems pretty cool. Being from England though, I was a user of the great Compunet network. I wonder if anyone will do a similar thing to bring that network alive again (log on to the live one). Compunet really made an impact on the demo scene with the C64, and must have started the programming careers of quite a few kids (myself included).
It actually ran something orginally called AmigaDOS, but eventually renamed AmigaOS. AmigaDOS was the name of the part that handled, not surprising, the disk subsystems.
Is the MER science operations mailing list (mentioned in the slashdot story) open to the public? Anyone know how I can sign up to it? I could find a Mars Missions list on the JPL site, but couldn't see a MER specific one.
OK, in answer to my own question, it costs about $0.40 to $1.50 (depending on your utility company and the time of day you charge) to fully charge the car.
I see your point, but surely many people drive 50 miles a day. I do 44 a day, and hardly ever use my car after work, so a 50-75 mile range would be fine. The EV1's range and no petrol costs would have been great for me. I wonder how much the leccy would cost to charge it.
Or is it just all the external DLL gunk that these apps rely on it trashed since the user cannot make use of it when minimised? I guess that's it - but I do wonder why notepad would need 2.2MB of external gunk. Does Task Managers 'Mem Usage' column show all memory used by all DLL's used?
So what's going on here? Why does it show so much memory if it's not minimised - I've noticed lots of programs do this (Firefox, for example). Is it screen buffer memory or something like that?
I'd be very wary about replacing my 'T1 style connection' with something that can anonomously bought down by someone sitting in a unmarked van somewhere in my vicinity with an unlicenced radio transmitter. It's one thing for my WiFi network to be bought down (with my wired T1 still up), but to loose everything would be pretty bad.
This bugs me too. However, we can't really condemn them before the 1.0 release, can we?
Saying that - if I were to design those file formats, I would think it would be possible to make the versioning less of a problem. The fact that 'a trivial change to Firefox code can break all themes' seems like a design flaw to me. I can't believe the code for using them is changing that much?
I have to say though - Firefox is amazing! Thanks to everyone concerned for getting it out on time.
Read the article! It's damn inconvienent to wait 2 minutes for a laptop to boot, plus laptops are much bigger than this unit.
It's your choice - if you think you need a cheap laptop more than this device then get one. But I already have a $3000 laptop, and can easily see where a pocket sized, instant-on alternative would be better.
No, just to confuse things, that's still generally MPG. Still at least the UK is making the effort to convert! Unlike one large country I know off...:)
The UK uses both systems. We still use MPH for speed (and miles for distance), but sell petrol in Litres now. We switched from Gallons (UK gals, different from US gals) about 10 years ago.
If you turn the ignition 'part way' off (so that the engine stops - most cars will still loose power steering and brakes. They are generally powered from the engine, and are not electric. Some more modern cars do have electrical power-steering, I think.
Not sure I like this 'soft music' thing. I like the packaging, the physical 'album', and the fact that I can pass my collection down to my kids to play around with. Just like I did with my parents records.
Who knows how long our hard disks/CD-R's/music formats will last?
Anyway, doesn't iTunes/iPod lock me in to Apple? What if I want to get the next Sony player, I can't use my legally purchased CD's on it, right (unless I do something longwinded like burn them to a CD-R, and then re-rip them...)
-James.
One of the main points that Firefox has risen to address is choice. Moz is a fine suite - but wouldn't it be better to split all it's modules out and let people choose what vendors software they use for each function? Love the Moz browser, but want to use a different email client? Why should your system be burdened with Moz's email client if you don't use it? Choice is good.
I also really liked your Firebird points. I didn't like the Firefox flame on the end of the post...
Well, forgive my Astrophysics ignorance too, but I'd imagine that mud is wet dirt, correct? And wet dirt needs water, which is not yet known to exist...
The sky on Mars would be blue, if it weren't for all the dust particles within it. These red dust particles colour the sky with a pink shade. Vikings 1 & 2, Pathfinder and now Spirit have confirmed this.
Slashdot Mirror
mod files started on the Amiga, they are not a '64 thing, you know...
For me, as a programmer, the '64 is a great machine to code for. It's so pure compared to modern complex hardware.
-James.
I wish that they would bring Picasa to the Mac. Picassa is so smooth and effortless with my 50000 image collection under Bootcamp on my 24" iMac. I bought iViewMediaPro, have tried Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1, and iPhoto, and none of them suit my needs of a quick, intuitive, non-invasive photo viewer / archive manager. Plus, they are all downright SLOW in comparison to Picasa. I would try Aperture, but won't until I can try before I buy.
I wonder if Apple don't want Picasa on the Mac, since it performs so much better, and makes something of a mockery of iPhoto? Anyone disagree with what I'm saying? Am I being unfair on the Apple platform products?
-James.
Well, that's certainly a higher density of data than I used in my guestimate! However, you're definitely going to have defects in the paper which would make an impact at that level of density. Maybe some CRC/parity checking, or data redundancy would be good. -James.
OK, well someone had to do it...
200 GB drive?
209,715,200,000 bytes... Printed out on 160 column, 66 line paper.
53 bytes per line (3 characters per hex pair), equals 3,498 bytes per page, which means about 60 million pages to print it all out. Alternatively about 2 million Sinclair Microdrive cartridges, or 1.2 million single sided C= 1541 floppies. OK, I better stop there...
I'm sure someone will correct me, but that's a start.
-James.
This seems pretty cool. Being from England though, I was a user of the great Compunet network. I wonder if anyone will do a similar thing to bring that network alive again (log on to the live one). Compunet really made an impact on the demo scene with the C64, and must have started the programming careers of quite a few kids (myself included).
-James.
It actually ran something orginally called AmigaDOS, but eventually renamed AmigaOS. AmigaDOS was the name of the part that handled, not surprising, the disk subsystems.
Here's a very good description : http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-108.html
-James.
Is the MER science operations mailing list (mentioned in the slashdot story) open to the public? Anyone know how I can sign up to it? I could find a Mars Missions list on the JPL site, but couldn't see a MER specific one.
Thanks,
-James.
www.virtualaerodrome.com
What about pi time?
03:14:16
-James.
OK, in answer to my own question, it costs about $0.40 to $1.50 (depending on your utility company and the time of day you charge) to fully charge the car.
Source : http://ev1-club.power.net/ev1faq/faq6.htm
-James.
I see your point, but surely many people drive 50 miles a day. I do 44 a day, and hardly ever use my car after work, so a 50-75 mile range would be fine. The EV1's range and no petrol costs would have been great for me. I wonder how much the leccy would cost to charge it.
-James.
Or is it just all the external DLL gunk that these apps rely on it trashed since the user cannot make use of it when minimised? I guess that's it - but I do wonder why notepad would need 2.2MB of external gunk. Does Task Managers 'Mem Usage' column show all memory used by all DLL's used?
-James.
So what's going on here? Why does it show so much memory if it's not minimised - I've noticed lots of programs do this (Firefox, for example). Is it screen buffer memory or something like that?
-James.
I can't believe the attitude here. This must be the MTV generation (of which I am supposedly one of).
Almost immediately they get them, you've got three delicious images from a new world, and you're complaining?!
Crazy.
The whole them/us thing is also rediculous. People upset me. This science malarky is great, however...
I'd be very wary about replacing my 'T1 style connection' with something that can anonomously bought down by someone sitting in a unmarked van somewhere in my vicinity with an unlicenced radio transmitter. It's one thing for my WiFi network to be bought down (with my wired T1 still up), but to loose everything would be pretty bad.
Or am I thinking wrongly here?
-James.
This bugs me too. However, we can't really condemn them before the 1.0 release, can we?
Saying that - if I were to design those file formats, I would think it would be possible to make the versioning less of a problem. The fact that 'a trivial change to Firefox code can break all themes' seems like a design flaw to me. I can't believe the code for using them is changing that much?
I have to say though - Firefox is amazing! Thanks to everyone concerned for getting it out on time.
Cheers,
-James.
Read the article! It's damn inconvienent to wait 2 minutes for a laptop to boot, plus laptops are much bigger than this unit.
It's your choice - if you think you need a cheap laptop more than this device then get one. But I already have a $3000 laptop, and can easily see where a pocket sized, instant-on alternative would be better.
-James.
No, just to confuse things, that's still generally MPG. Still at least the UK is making the effort to convert! Unlike one large country I know off... :)
-James.
The UK uses both systems. We still use MPH for speed (and miles for distance), but sell petrol in Litres now. We switched from Gallons (UK gals, different from US gals) about 10 years ago.
Temperature is generally metric.
-James.
If you turn the ignition 'part way' off (so that the engine stops - most cars will still loose power steering and brakes. They are generally powered from the engine, and are not electric. Some more modern cars do have electrical power-steering, I think.
-James.
Not sure I like this 'soft music' thing. I like the packaging, the physical 'album', and the fact that I can pass my collection down to my kids to play around with. Just like I did with my parents records. Who knows how long our hard disks/CD-R's/music formats will last? Anyway, doesn't iTunes/iPod lock me in to Apple? What if I want to get the next Sony player, I can't use my legally purchased CD's on it, right (unless I do something longwinded like burn them to a CD-R, and then re-rip them...) -James.
One of the main points that Firefox has risen to address is choice. Moz is a fine suite - but wouldn't it be better to split all it's modules out and let people choose what vendors software they use for each function? Love the Moz browser, but want to use a different email client? Why should your system be burdened with Moz's email client if you don't use it? Choice is good.
I also really liked your Firebird points. I didn't like the Firefox flame on the end of the post...
-James.
Sorry, correct link here.
-James.
MER1 and MER2 do have microscope imaging devices :
f t_ instru_mi.html
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecra
-James.
Well, forgive my Astrophysics ignorance too, but I'd imagine that mud is wet dirt, correct? And wet dirt needs water, which is not yet known to exist...
That's my take on it, anyway.
-James.
The sky on Mars would be blue, if it weren't for all the dust particles within it. These red dust particles colour the sky with a pink shade. Vikings 1 & 2, Pathfinder and now Spirit have confirmed this.
e /c limate_history/sky_color1.html
http://calspace.ucsd.edu/marsnow/library/scienc
-James.