If the reviews aren't there, then the novelty aspect won't get my ticket dollars; they might need to make a virtual audience, too.
Re:Reinforces the video-capable iPod rumours
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I don't think it's going to happen, yet. 60 GB is plenty of room for enough movies to keep you going for an intercontinental flight, but my understanding is that these hard drives are pretty slow, and part of the reason that the battery life is so good on iPods is that the drive is not spinning constantly.
Additionally, nobody really wants to watch a movie on a little iPod screen; that's what all the other mini-video-pods are getting wrong. However, imagine if you could plug an iPod into one of these AV Goggle sets and relax on a plane. That might be pretty awesome.
With a screen, anyone can see what you're watching. With these, nobody knows if you're watching the latest videos of the Enron trials or porn or anything in between...
I hate to nit-pick, and I assume this was just a typo, but anyone who does 48Mhz recording is insane. 48Khz is more like it.
However, I'm not averse to recording at somewhat higher rates; just not 1000 times what's necessary.
Forget nVidia or ATI...
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Does anybody remember the Commodore Vic II chip used in the C-64? 16 beautiful colors, 320x200 (monochrome) or 160x200 (four-color) modes, bitmap, character graphics and up to eight fully independent sprites!
And don't even get me started on the clear, crisp sounds of the SID chip!
Obviously, there are certain guidelines to follow, or it's not science (or cooking), it's just messing around. But as long as you're within those guidelines--for both disciplines--it's important to be as creative as possible.
But the main difference here with cooking is that you don't really need to know WHY something works, just that it work. If 10 minutes in the fridge makes my pie crust flakier, great! I don't care if it's about the dual-bond lipids remaining in a suspension long enough for the proteins to bond...
I'd like to thank Linus, and Richard--This one's for you, Richard!--and the brave guys and gals at CollabNet. And for those of you just getting started, I'd like to say... this trophy is worth more than all the stock options I ever received!
The $25.00 model will only let you listen to half the song. Not the first half or the last half, mind you, but alternating seconds. It's the latest feature built in to the WMA specification.
You want other standards supported? Too bad! Mehdi was quoted as saying, "MP what? Ogg who-bis?"
In a way, they did, but it wasn't like they were investing; they were just MS's biggest customer.
And actually, MS didn't really want them as a customer, initially, because they didn't have an OS to sell them. MS was going to introduce IBM to Gary Kildall, who had a nice little OS called QDOS for 8088-based systems, and while they were going to take a cut or at least get a referral fee, I'm sure, the only reason they actually got into the OS business is the GK flaked.
Yup, you heard me. He went surfing that day. Missed the meeting. Not wanting to sully their reputation based on his flakiness, the MS folks told IBM that they could have something ready quickly, bought QDOS from GK for $25,000.00 and turned it into MS DOS.
And the rest is history. Please note, I'm remembering this from a book I read 15 years ago, so it may not be perfectly accurate, but in broad strokes, I'm pretty sure I've got the picture right.
if Mac OS X runs on emulated generic PPC hardware, what's to stop people from running MacOS X on any number of PPC platforms? What does Apple do to "squash" that sort of activity?
I was just at Graceland, and in his recreation room, Elvis had three TVs, which he apparently watched at the same time after having heard that President Ford did the same thing so he could watch all three network news broadcasts at the same time.
It may not be perfect, but if you ever find yourself on that show, and all you have access to is a phone call to a friend, you better hope that your friend has a fast internet connection on the other end with Google queued up!
Seriously, though, with the libraries being such good competition, this begs the question: are library electronic "card files" available over the internet? If not, why not? I know that when I was at UC Berkeley years ago, you could telnet into their GLADIS and MELVYL systems remotely to do "card" searches...
I like to think of myself as a jaded techie, as are most of us here at/., I assume. But sometimes these little leaps in technology turn into BIG leaps, and it makes me wonder just how far forward we're going to go in my lifetime.
And the good news is that so many of these technologies have as many uses for good as they do for evil!
Apple has apparently patented something called the DWIM interface, as well as a DTRT interface.
DWIM (Do What I Mean) understands that people are sometimes careless, and tries--successfully, according to beta testers--to execute the correct action based on the user's intentions rather than the user's actual input.
DTRT (Do The Right Thing) ignores all intentionality and attempts to do what is correct in a given situation regardless of the user's input.
They have been working on this since the original release of the Mac OS in 1984; this finally explains why they have always released only one-button mice with their systems. Once these features are complete, they will do away with the mouse altogether and release a one-button keyboard.
Children who will never be able to hear Leadbelly playing because someone forgot to convert it from an obsolete format, and now nobody can listen to it with modern equipment.
I realize that artists need some sort of protection, but it's really the entrenched ones who worry about this. A friend of mine is a freelance composer of original music for software, radio, TV and film productions, and he's got samples of his work on his site that he's just giving away. Of course, they are copyrighted and if you wanted to use them in your work or sell them, he needs to get paid, but he's not wrapping them in all sorts of layers of protection to ensure it, since what he really wants to do is attract new customers.
Re:please infect a PMG5 and sell it to me cheap!!
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Durn it, the one time I pay more attention to other comments than the FA, and this is what I get! OMG!
please infect a PMG5 and sell it to me cheap!!
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Absolutely! Boot to a CD, do a low-level format, or install a new hard drive, and that great deal you got is really truly a great deal! I wish that someone would sell me an infected dual 1.5GHz PowerMac G5 for cheap. Unfortunately, these sorts of infections--while not impossible on the Mac platform--are far less common, so I doubt that'll happen. *Sigh*.
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Forget about machismo! I'm frickin' lazy, so I program almost exclusively in PERL.
Then you'll remember the scene that could fit what a firewall sounds like: No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
I thought we were talking about Jim Neighbors! Well Gawwwwwly, Sarge!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
If the reviews aren't there, then the novelty aspect won't get my ticket dollars; they might need to make a virtual audience, too.
Additionally, nobody really wants to watch a movie on a little iPod screen; that's what all the other mini-video-pods are getting wrong. However, imagine if you could plug an iPod into one of these AV Goggle sets and relax on a plane. That might be pretty awesome.
With a screen, anyone can see what you're watching. With these, nobody knows if you're watching the latest videos of the Enron trials or porn or anything in between...
I hate to nit-pick, and I assume this was just a typo, but anyone who does 48Mhz recording is insane. 48Khz is more like it.
However, I'm not averse to recording at somewhat higher rates; just not 1000 times what's necessary.
And don't even get me started on the clear, crisp sounds of the SID chip!
Obviously, there are certain guidelines to follow, or it's not science (or cooking), it's just messing around. But as long as you're within those guidelines--for both disciplines--it's important to be as creative as possible.
But the main difference here with cooking is that you don't really need to know WHY something works, just that it work. If 10 minutes in the fridge makes my pie crust flakier, great! I don't care if it's about the dual-bond lipids remaining in a suspension long enough for the proteins to bond...
I'd like to thank Linus, and Richard--This one's for you, Richard!--and the brave guys and gals at CollabNet. And for those of you just getting started, I'd like to say... this trophy is worth more than all the stock options I ever received!
You want other standards supported? Too bad! Mehdi was quoted as saying, "MP what? Ogg who-bis?"
And actually, MS didn't really want them as a customer, initially, because they didn't have an OS to sell them. MS was going to introduce IBM to Gary Kildall, who had a nice little OS called QDOS for 8088-based systems, and while they were going to take a cut or at least get a referral fee, I'm sure, the only reason they actually got into the OS business is the GK flaked.
Yup, you heard me. He went surfing that day. Missed the meeting. Not wanting to sully their reputation based on his flakiness, the MS folks told IBM that they could have something ready quickly, bought QDOS from GK for $25,000.00 and turned it into MS DOS.
And the rest is history. Please note, I'm remembering this from a book I read 15 years ago, so it may not be perfectly accurate, but in broad strokes, I'm pretty sure I've got the picture right.
Seriously, though, with the libraries being such good competition, this begs the question: are library electronic "card files" available over the internet? If not, why not? I know that when I was at UC Berkeley years ago, you could telnet into their GLADIS and MELVYL systems remotely to do "card" searches...
It's only the megacorporation that smells like horse shit.
And the good news is that so many of these technologies have as many uses for good as they do for evil!
DWIM (Do What I Mean) understands that people are sometimes careless, and tries--successfully, according to beta testers--to execute the correct action based on the user's intentions rather than the user's actual input.
DTRT (Do The Right Thing) ignores all intentionality and attempts to do what is correct in a given situation regardless of the user's input.
They have been working on this since the original release of the Mac OS in 1984; this finally explains why they have always released only one-button mice with their systems. Once these features are complete, they will do away with the mouse altogether and release a one-button keyboard.
my pr0n was taking so long to download!
It's just like marijuana legalization. The people missing the most teeth tend not to vote.
I realize that artists need some sort of protection, but it's really the entrenched ones who worry about this. A friend of mine is a freelance composer of original music for software, radio, TV and film productions, and he's got samples of his work on his site that he's just giving away. Of course, they are copyrighted and if you wanted to use them in your work or sell them, he needs to get paid, but he's not wrapping them in all sorts of layers of protection to ensure it, since what he really wants to do is attract new customers.
Durn it, the one time I pay more attention to other comments than the FA, and this is what I get! OMG!
Absolutely! Boot to a CD, do a low-level format, or install a new hard drive, and that great deal you got is really truly a great deal! I wish that someone would sell me an infected dual 1.5GHz PowerMac G5 for cheap. Unfortunately, these sorts of infections--while not impossible on the Mac platform--are far less common, so I doubt that'll happen. *Sigh*.
Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the day!
...but it'll probably be paid in rupees.