If you want that, pick up a Mac Mini and a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I'm sure there are DVI to HDMI adapters out there, and you'll still have the ability to use the remote to control your system. The AppleTV is only designed to take content from your computer and put it on your TV. Period.
If I look at my cable bill and how much I actually use it, $2 an episode is a good deal. It's about $15/month and I only watch about 8 hours of TV a month, so it's only a little bit less expensive.
Besides, fidelity doesn't matter if it's crap. Does HD-DVD make the story or acting or script of King Kong or Gigli any better?
Middle class families in the late 19th and early 20th century made sure to have one or more daughters who could play musical instruments for entertainment. They knew a few traditional songs, but most were purchased by mail.
So, no, Edison didn't make music for entertainment possible; the printing press and printed music did.
It's nice that you think your kids aren't getting on the Internet when they're not allowed to. And I'm sure they're also just going out to volunteer at church and not smoking weed behind the 7-11.
College students are masters of getting what they want despite rules and regulations. Some enterprising group of CS students will go around caching web sites or host forums off of their computers (or the CS lab computers) and the word will get out about where folks can go to be "on the internet" between dusk and dawn.
Of course, there's always game systems, iPods, and off-campus wireless networks for people to use.
The best thing to do would be to raise the requirements for classes, thus forcing people to have to study more, and require participation in an extra-curricular activity as a requirement for graduation. Or you could just realize that socialization patterns are changing and deal with it.
The best mechanic I've ever known had an office piled high with paper and four-year-old calendars hanging on the wall. He could rebuild an engine in under a day.
And what I've found with Windows is that people take that pig and say "Well, it works well enough, and all the clothes I bought for it fit, so I don't think I should switch over to a real woman. Besides, I hear that real women are very expensive."
This is precisely why my next car will be a VW Golf TDI, and my wife's next car will be a used Prius. Buying new cars is for suckers who like depreciation.
Dozens of environmentalist blogs have picked apart this "study" and have found it to be lacking. Tworesponses. The gist of it is that they underestimated the Prius' lifespan and overestimated the amount of energy it takes.
And a big red flag for every Slashdot reader is that CNW is a "market research" institute. Do you trust marketdroids to make engineering assessments?
Well then we should all be etching our important documents into sheets of gold-plated titanium, since it's significantly more durable than paper, right?
The current system of nuclear fission is extremely wasteful. Newer systems can avoid the creation of such waste and extract more energy from the fuel provided.
The only real problem with solar power is that it's not widespread enough. More energy hits the surface of the earth in one second than we use in a year. Further developments in solar power, like thin-film panels, will make it cheaper and easier to spread solar power.
If the downward trend holds, renewable forms of electricity will be cheaper than coal or even nuclear power in about fifteen years. And with more people investing in these technologies, it will become cheaper. Saying that there are problems with solar or wind power is like saying there were problems with early cars.
I was watching a lecture by Neil DeGrasse Tyson wherein he made the point that the country that discovered something gets to name it. The Muslim world named most of the stars in the sky. The Greeks named most of the constellations. The US named most of the heaviest elements on the table, so we get names like Californium and Berkelium.
And since we made the Internet, we get to name it. That's why there's.co.uk and not.co.us. And it's also why.gov is the US government and not.gov.us. Just like every postage stamp outside of the UK has to have the country of origin on it because the Brits invented the postage stamp, we get the TLDs because we invented the Internet.
Anyone who doesn't use Windows on a regular basis should do that every year or so, if only for the "there, but for the grace of God..." value.
I just listen to the Security Now podcast. Did you know about the virus-like behavior that simply arose because of a bug in Windows? It's called "Free Public WiFi"
But did they integrate Tomcat with httpd? Of course not. GP is saying that they shouldn't integrate a browser with all the other things they're making.
Ethanol (and the hydrogen pipe-dream to a lesser extent) are more about maintaining our current fuel distribution system than about finding real alternatives. The idea that we need to pipe fuel from distant places is a 19th century concept. Tesla would be disappointed that we're not using electricity to provide energy, and he'd be even more disappointed that we're charging money for it.
Silly Americans and their plastic toys. In Soviet Russia, ve make toys from metal so they do not break. You even make your fighter planes out of plastic! It is a wonder how you von Cold Var.
Are you kidding? Gathering people who want to do cool stuff and giving them the resources is the only thing that's brought about real innovation. Do you think that Da Vinci or Newton would have been as productive as they were if they were under a deadline to do it? Heck, Einstein came up with relativity while he was sitting bored at work!
If I were given all the resources I could want and given 20% of my work week to do something cool, I'd be happier than a pig in slop and put out some really cool stuff. I've got a bunch of great ideas that I'd like to do, but don't have the financial capacity or free time to bring them to reality. If my job allowed it, I'd work on it there because it would add value to their products.
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Sure, if you don't mind kissing a pig.
If you want that, pick up a Mac Mini and a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I'm sure there are DVI to HDMI adapters out there, and you'll still have the ability to use the remote to control your system. The AppleTV is only designed to take content from your computer and put it on your TV. Period.
If I look at my cable bill and how much I actually use it, $2 an episode is a good deal. It's about $15/month and I only watch about 8 hours of TV a month, so it's only a little bit less expensive.
Besides, fidelity doesn't matter if it's crap. Does HD-DVD make the story or acting or script of King Kong or Gigli any better?
There's an iPod Video dock that has an S-Video out in addition to the line out. I've used it a bunch of times to watch videos on my TV.
Middle class families in the late 19th and early 20th century made sure to have one or more daughters who could play musical instruments for entertainment. They knew a few traditional songs, but most were purchased by mail.
So, no, Edison didn't make music for entertainment possible; the printing press and printed music did.
That's very true. My parents have a first-gen Prius they bought in 2000 for ~$21,000 and seven years later it's only depreciated about $5,000.
It's nice that you think your kids aren't getting on the Internet when they're not allowed to. And I'm sure they're also just going out to volunteer at church and not smoking weed behind the 7-11.
College students are masters of getting what they want despite rules and regulations. Some enterprising group of CS students will go around caching web sites or host forums off of their computers (or the CS lab computers) and the word will get out about where folks can go to be "on the internet" between dusk and dawn.
Of course, there's always game systems, iPods, and off-campus wireless networks for people to use.
The best thing to do would be to raise the requirements for classes, thus forcing people to have to study more, and require participation in an extra-curricular activity as a requirement for graduation. Or you could just realize that socialization patterns are changing and deal with it.
The best mechanic I've ever known had an office piled high with paper and four-year-old calendars hanging on the wall. He could rebuild an engine in under a day.
And what I've found with Windows is that people take that pig and say "Well, it works well enough, and all the clothes I bought for it fit, so I don't think I should switch over to a real woman. Besides, I hear that real women are very expensive."
This is precisely why my next car will be a VW Golf TDI, and my wife's next car will be a used Prius. Buying new cars is for suckers who like depreciation.
Dozens of environmentalist blogs have picked apart this "study" and have found it to be lacking. Two responses. The gist of it is that they underestimated the Prius' lifespan and overestimated the amount of energy it takes.
And a big red flag for every Slashdot reader is that CNW is a "market research" institute. Do you trust marketdroids to make engineering assessments?
Well then we should all be etching our important documents into sheets of gold-plated titanium, since it's significantly more durable than paper, right?
The current system of nuclear fission is extremely wasteful. Newer systems can avoid the creation of such waste and extract more energy from the fuel provided.
The only real problem with solar power is that it's not widespread enough. More energy hits the surface of the earth in one second than we use in a year. Further developments in solar power, like thin-film panels, will make it cheaper and easier to spread solar power.
If the downward trend holds, renewable forms of electricity will be cheaper than coal or even nuclear power in about fifteen years. And with more people investing in these technologies, it will become cheaper. Saying that there are problems with solar or wind power is like saying there were problems with early cars.
I was watching a lecture by Neil DeGrasse Tyson wherein he made the point that the country that discovered something gets to name it. The Muslim world named most of the stars in the sky. The Greeks named most of the constellations. The US named most of the heaviest elements on the table, so we get names like Californium and Berkelium.
And since we made the Internet, we get to name it. That's why there's .co.uk and not .co.us. And it's also why .gov is the US government and not .gov.us. Just like every postage stamp outside of the UK has to have the country of origin on it because the Brits invented the postage stamp, we get the TLDs because we invented the Internet.
I just listen to the Security Now podcast. Did you know about the virus-like behavior that simply arose because of a bug in Windows? It's called "Free Public WiFi"
So you'll take ugly Swing apps and merge them with ugly XUL apps?
That'll compete well against other operating systems.
But did they integrate Tomcat with httpd? Of course not. GP is saying that they shouldn't integrate a browser with all the other things they're making.
Ethanol (and the hydrogen pipe-dream to a lesser extent) are more about maintaining our current fuel distribution system than about finding real alternatives. The idea that we need to pipe fuel from distant places is a 19th century concept. Tesla would be disappointed that we're not using electricity to provide energy, and he'd be even more disappointed that we're charging money for it.
<Professor Frink Voice>Well I'm sure you could, theoretically, NOT *flavin* launch a data center into space. *Muhaivin*</Professor Frink Voice>
That would work, if you didn't mind 14 days of downtime due to a solar power outtage.
If you want solar powered servers, I'd stick them at a Lagrange point (L4 or L5). Stable with an unimpeded view of the sun.
Silly Americans and their plastic toys. In Soviet Russia, ve make toys from metal so they do not break. You even make your fighter planes out of plastic! It is a wonder how you von Cold Var.
Actually, LiveJournal's cornered the market on emo kids. MySpace is more about the people who give the emo kids wedgies.
I think she and the other contest winners should be put into a forced breeding program. We need more genes like hers in the pool.
Are you kidding? Gathering people who want to do cool stuff and giving them the resources is the only thing that's brought about real innovation. Do you think that Da Vinci or Newton would have been as productive as they were if they were under a deadline to do it? Heck, Einstein came up with relativity while he was sitting bored at work!
If I were given all the resources I could want and given 20% of my work week to do something cool, I'd be happier than a pig in slop and put out some really cool stuff. I've got a bunch of great ideas that I'd like to do, but don't have the financial capacity or free time to bring them to reality. If my job allowed it, I'd work on it there because it would add value to their products.