I agree with the above. Also, you should consider that while you're likely to find Internet cafes in many remote places, opportunities for hooking up your own laptop, or even wireless are much rarer. I drove the Mongol Rally last summer (through eastern europe, russia, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, kyrgyztan and mongolia), and we took an old G3 Pismo powerbook with us for blogging. We quickly realized that it was mostly unnecessary weight, since we could never hook it up, and we didn't get much time to use it in the first place. In the end we broke it, when our car (a little east german Wartburg) got stuck and flooded when trying to cross a river in Mongolia.
My phone provider has been offering that service for a while (a "locate my phone" feature on their web site). When i tried it out, it would have an error of less then 100m in downtown Berlin. They said the service would work much more precise in dense urban areas where there are many cells then out in the countryside. Makes sense.
But that means that the 1000 meters average figure could also be more useful then expected, if you get better approximation in urban areas (where you need it), and just a rough estimate when cruising on the highway.
They're not just doing it to US citizens. They're doing it to everyone. That's not pay-back; that's me-too. AFAIK they *are* only doing it to US citizens, so it's all about pay-back. Though me-too is becoming common around the world as well, I was photographed at the border in Kazahkstan this year as well, and I'm sure they got that idea from the US.
No fuel injection, no electronic brakes, airbags... You wouldn't need fuel injection, an electronic ignition might be sufficient (and was becoming quite common in the 1980s). My 70's car with contact breakers would truely be uneffected, though.
No, it's pretty real, they've made a deal with the OCPC project (One Cow per Child). They give the cow needed to power their laptop! It's a pretty sweet deal, you get a laptop and a cow! Now that's marketing! On a more serious note, OCPC is actually called Send A Cow (http://www.sendacow.org.uk/, they try to aid farmers to support themselves by donating livestock.
Sadly I very much doubt that USB will be able to power a desktop 500gig HD. The summary seemed to be talking about Notebooks. 2.5" HDs can be powered by USB (I have an external 2.5" HD case, which only needs an USB connection).
Too bad Apple never supported it via USB then eh? What with USB being widely more available on say, your friends/parents/co-workers/public computer as opposed to firewire. Not really an issue, given that Macs all came with FireWire for quite a while, and that typical non-Macs wouldn't know how to access a mac-formated Hard disk anyways (yes I know there are ways to do it, but can your friends/parents/co-workers do it?).
How long before something similar could be put to use on a PC, for 3D/CG manipulation? We mac people already have lightsaber functionality built into every notebook! Just run MacSaber, and you'll get this:
It wasn't a problem here (Berlin, Germany), where analog broadcasts had been phased-out about 5 years ago. Nobody really complained, and anyways, a cheap digital receiver can be had for 50 euros. For me it was a welcome push to do away with TV completely, since german TV is crap anyways (even more so then in most other places).
At my last job, I was trying out the new spotlight when Mac OS 10.4 came out. Of course you first try out search engines by entering the word "fuck". It turned out that the large majority of results were source code files from the project we were working on (Seems I have way to little pr0n on my disk):
"This is really fucked up"/"Apple fucked up the implementation of this API"/"No idea why the fuck this works"/etc..
If I watch a TV show live, It's okay. (Even if I don't watch the commercials.) If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay. If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay. If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay. There's a german site, www.onlinetvrecorder.com, which so far managed to avoid lawsuits by using this argumentation. They let you download (for free) anything running on german television, as long as you specifiy that you want it beforehand. By doing that, they argue that the user is doing nothing else then programming a VCR, or in this case designating someone else to do it.
[quote]The reason: the emerging markets of countries such as Brazil, China, India or Russia, which will be responsible of 775 new PCs and laptop computers.[/quote]
[quote]CS3 has about as much resemblance to the initial product as... well, it doesn't have much.[/quote]
I beg to differ. I haven't used 1.0, so i can't speak of that, but I have used Photoshop since 2.0, and I actually think that most of the core features I used most of the time have been there since then, and haven't changed much (or needed to change). Sure, there's a lot of new stuff, some of it very useful, a lot of it feature-bloat (but possible useful for someone else), but I'd say that may basic approach to the program hasn't changed much between 2.0 and CS3. With the possible exception of layers (or where they around back then? I don't recall using those much back in the days).
You don't have to reach to the control key to do a right-click. Just click the trackpad button with two-fingers on the touchpad. Voila, there's your right-click!
[quote]Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.[/quote]
This probably won't lead to comparable numbers - small microcars might be mostly used in citys whereas big cars might rather be used for long distance travel, thus resulting in numbers you can't exactly compare.
Does it work with live performances of music or only with published, UPC'd recordings? It is only supposed to work with published recordings. But I once tested it on a cover version of a johnny cash song, because i wanted to find out who was performing, and it gave me the original song instead. So it might actually detect some live perfomances.
I dunno, but I think someone could come up with a reasonable scheme which could catch many cases of uploading the same content.
My cell provider offers this service where I call a number, leave it connected for 30 seconds, and it will reply with an SMS with the artist and name of the song which is currently playing. It works extremely well, even in crowded bars with lots of noises, and it requires only a 30 second clip. It's quite impressive. But then again, nobody actively tries to fool this thing to gain some advantage.
I always figured that:-) and;-) where much more common in Europe then in the states, which have always used:) and;). But I also percieved a decline in using the hyphen in recent years.
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I agree with the above. Also, you should consider that while you're likely to find Internet cafes in many remote places, opportunities for hooking up your own laptop, or even wireless are much rarer. I drove the Mongol Rally last summer (through eastern europe, russia, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, kyrgyztan and mongolia), and we took an old G3 Pismo powerbook with us for blogging. We quickly realized that it was mostly unnecessary weight, since we could never hook it up, and we didn't get much time to use it in the first place. In the end we broke it, when our car (a little east german Wartburg) got stuck and flooded when trying to cross a river in Mongolia.
In case anyone wants to read about it or see the pictures: http://www.wartburg-tourists.de/
in my counrty, circles spin counter-clockwise. So, right gets me out of them.
I think it has to do with the Coriolis Effect.
My phone provider has been offering that service for a while (a "locate my phone" feature on their web site). When i tried it out, it would have an error of less then 100m in downtown Berlin. They said the service would work much more precise in dense urban areas where there are many cells then out in the countryside. Makes sense.
But that means that the 1000 meters average figure could also be more useful then expected, if you get better approximation in urban areas (where you need it), and just a rough estimate when cruising on the highway.
Well, car analogies about yugo engines in mercedes' aside, if she insists, why not just install windows?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3358627.stm
I just did a traceroute from Germany to Australia, and it didn't go via the US. Just one hop in Singapore.
Isn't that exactly what PS is like (at least on my mac)? Or is there some subtle humour i didn't get?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK4AonfnFaM
It wasn't a problem here (Berlin, Germany), where analog broadcasts had been phased-out about 5 years ago. Nobody really complained, and anyways, a cheap digital receiver can be had for 50 euros. For me it was a welcome push to do away with TV completely, since german TV is crap anyways (even more so then in most other places).
At my last job, I was trying out the new spotlight when Mac OS 10.4 came out. Of course you first try out search engines by entering the word "fuck". It turned out that the large majority of results were source code files from the project we were working on (Seems I have way to little pr0n on my disk):
"This is really fucked up"/"Apple fucked up the implementation of this API"/"No idea why the fuck this works"/etc..
If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay. There's a german site, www.onlinetvrecorder.com, which so far managed to avoid lawsuits by using this argumentation. They let you download (for free) anything running on german television, as long as you specifiy that you want it beforehand. By doing that, they argue that the user is doing nothing else then programming a VCR, or in this case designating someone else to do it.
[quote]The reason: the emerging markets of countries such as Brazil, China, India or Russia, which will be responsible of 775 new PCs and laptop computers.[/quote]
So there are 999,999,225 PCs right now?
[quote]CS3 has about as much resemblance to the initial product as ... well, it doesn't have much.[/quote]
I beg to differ. I haven't used 1.0, so i can't speak of that, but I have used Photoshop since 2.0, and I actually think that most of the core features I used most of the time have been there since then, and haven't changed much (or needed to change). Sure, there's a lot of new stuff, some of it very useful, a lot of it feature-bloat (but possible useful for someone else), but I'd say that may basic approach to the program hasn't changed much between 2.0 and CS3. With the possible exception of layers (or where they around back then? I don't recall using those much back in the days).
Errr I mean OMG Ewoks!!!
Err OMG Robo-Rescue Bears...
You don't have to reach to the control key to do a right-click. Just click the trackpad button with two-fingers on the touchpad. Voila, there's your right-click!
And while we're at it, don't forget the iBrator:
r ator.html
http://www.flamingmailbox.com/maccomedy/movies/ib
[quote]Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.[/quote]
This probably won't lead to comparable numbers - small microcars might be mostly used in citys whereas big cars might rather be used for long distance travel, thus resulting in numbers you can't exactly compare.
But here's a consumer-built site which does what you propose (in German):
http://www.spritmonitor.de/
Audio fingerprinting is a lot more advanced right now than video fingerprinting; it's much easier to do it with audio.
Well, only fingerprinting the audio track would still suffice to get rid of pirated south park episodes.
I dunno, but I think someone could come up with a reasonable scheme which could catch many cases of uploading the same content.
My cell provider offers this service where I call a number, leave it connected for 30 seconds, and it will reply with an SMS with the artist and name of the song which is currently playing. It works extremely well, even in crowded bars with lots of noises, and it requires only a 30 second clip. It's quite impressive.
But then again, nobody actively tries to fool this thing to gain some advantage.
I always figured that :-) and ;-) where much more common in Europe then in the states, which have always used :) and ;). But I also percieved a decline in using the hyphen in recent years.
:)
Ahh, the americanization of our culture again