For what it's worth, living in both LA and SF I almost never hear it refered to as "interstate 5" it is reffered to as either "highway five", or more often, just "the five".
Actually, even more often it is referred to as "what? you mean I HAVE to take the fucking five!?"
1. Send thousands of people to download a huge.avi
2. Make sure your ad for a "great web host" is in plain text at the top of the page.
3. Listen to the collective gasp as your site actually manages to keep up with the downloads (as of 11:20pm pacific)
4. Profit?
Of course the whole thing goes out the window if the server actually does crap out in about 5-6 hours when the east coast get's to work and collectively hits the download link in one giant spasm of excitement at the chance of seeing the %$&%-ing highway 5.
The navy has been using it pretty much constantly for years, with no noticeable mishaps at least in the last 30 years(last one I could find was a release of contaminatd water in 1978).
There is a town not too far from here that has an oil refinery that about every six months has an accident that causes alerts to be broadcast over all news sources. These alerts tell people to stay indoors, keep their wondows closed etc etc. Because of the toxic fumes in the air. This is safe?
The bigger problem with nuclear power is getting rid of the waste products. If someone could figure out a good way to launch those into the sun cheaply nuclear power would probably be the best solution.
As other sources dwindle, nuclear power is going to have to be looked at more and more, regardless of the people's inherent fear of it. We as a society are demanding more and more electricity as time passes.
Billboards (of the giant next-to-the-freeway advert type) are surprisingly low resolution, DPI wise. In fact most can be measured not with DPI but IPD (inches per dot)
Bull
The average file for a bill board prints from 7-21 DPI, low resolution yes, but for an average 30 or 40 sheet billboard (think from 25-35ish feet wide) you will build your file for that at 1/2inch=1', or posibly even 1-1. So the general rule of thumb is at 1" to 1' you build at 300 dpi. So you are talking about a file that is 36" wide at 300 dpi or 10,800 pixels wide, or around 125-150 megabyte file.
However, to make matters worse, they are now using much higher resolution ink jets to print many billboars, as they are starting to put billboards at viewing distance of as little as 3' (think airport walkways & subway stations). So while not wuite as large, you still need about 100 dpi for a 20' billboard, or about 24,000 and a file size of about 750 mb.
There have been occasions where we have used digital photography for outdoor work, but it is either a case where we are comping together a photograph from multiple 11mp shots or blowing it up and it looks kinda soft.
unless of course said hacker's software was written by some one who thought no one could be that dumb...and started at 0000001.
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1. I believe Pixar still gets a cuts these revenues, just not as much as
they would like
2. But only 2, so far this is a company that has yet too miss. I think
this has much less to do with Jobs, than it does their creative staff. If
Disney had been supplying the creative ideas, and Pixar just making the
movies then yeah, it would be bad for Pixar.
3. See above. And, from what I have read (obligatory grain of salt), it
was about future movies, not past. Steve wanted to turn Disney into a
distribution and marketing partner only.
4. This is true, Disney used to be on top. Now, unless the Pixar name is
attached, their movies blow. They had a pretty crappy run too... you
know, only 40 or 50 years as the best.
I personally think that the Steve was being to optimistic in their
dealings with Disney, and they may be hurt in the short term from not
being partnered with Disney anymore...but really only on a merchandising
level. Disney is the best when it comes to cranking out the toys and
other tchotsky that folks buy when they love a character. Their films
will most likely stay above par for some time to come, but I would not be
surprised if my girlfriend doesn't buy as much of their crap.
I am often able to sense eye contact without any sensors at all.
Yeah me too.
However...
What I can't do is record a long series of video and remember the time stamp of when eye contact was made.
Oh, I also can't make an appliance turn on or perform a specific task by looking at it.
(with the notable exception that you can't burn shows to DVD... I'm talking strictly UI and stability)
Just got one of Pioneers Tivo/DVD-R's for christmas. not only will it record to dvd, it simply transfers over the tivo's already compressed info, so a four hour dvd burns in about 30 minutes. As an added bonus the dvd menu's look like tivos menus
To everyone who always says "His endings lack any sort of conclucion."
I have seen the endings of his books as much more ambiguous. There is apparently no "happily ever after" or "the butler did it" in Stephenson's story's. Instead I always get the feeling he is trying to say that this part of the story is over and now life goes on.
i know it is entertainment, and everyone expects a beginning, middle and end. But, until you die, is your life like that?
Well, considering that this is by no means "Sci-Fi" as it typically is used, apparently not. This is a novel about people making their way in the world as it was. Not necessarily as it was imagined to be. Their situations are made up, but it would be much better described as historical fiction, than anything else. As all of the main characters are consistently caught up in the world affairs of the late 1600's.
In many cases an author being labled sci-fi is nothing more than marketing to his past audience. This book would fit much better on the normal fiction shelves than sandwiched in between the latest Space Opera or Swords and Sorceror's epic.
I don't think that the geek factor has lessoned at all, I just think that it has shifted focus. his past books were definitely aimed at the typical modern geek. Computers/Sci-Fi/Nanotech/etc. Whereas this is more for the type of geek who wants to just "know stuff", especially historical.
I have read both books now with my laptop sitting nect to me, so I can research some concept he has mentioned in passing, or to fact check something he mentiones in detail for truth.
The conclusion I have come to, he gets the overall correct, and makes up the fine points.
My Point was that any way you look at it, you are not getting your laptop back with some silly script. If they take out the hard drive, they are taking out where the script resides.
So does this mean that your laptop is set to auto log-in?
Anyone who get's their hands on your laptop can just access your info with no safeguards? If so, then keep nothing on your laptop.
OR,
You could go into Open Firmware, set a password so as the machine can not be booted from a CD or firewire drive (without the pw of course), set a decent password for your log in, and the forget about worrying whether your laptop gets stolen. Because the only way that some form of script is going to work for you is if they can log in.
Accept your loss, curse the vile stinking theives and move on.
I would rather lose my laptop than have anyone be able to get at my data.
Starting in the summer, alpine will have an addition for their decks that will allow you to connect an iPod, and control it through the head unit. Not available yet, and it will require an alpine head unit with what they refer to as an "AI Port".
How many years before the server/desktop OS becomes irrelevant?
Hopefully very many, especially if it means I have to rely on an outside source for my computers OS. I like the fact that I have one computer that has never been attached to a network, let alone the internet.
The apps make the platform valuable, not the OS.
Actually, the combination makes the paltform valuable to me. I would be lost with out many of the apps I use regularly, and I would just as annoyed to not have an OS I liked resident on the computer that let me manage all of those apps and files I am creating.
There are solutions that are getting close, such as RPM and APT...
I think one hurdle Linux deveopers need to get past is their naming. Acronyms, abreviations, and random letter groupings culled from what the app does is not "user friendly".
"huh? Where is the install wizard?"
"oh, well you use RPM to get it."
"wha? What does how fast my motor is going have to do with installing my Video watcher thing?"
...many users are already switching to Firefox and Thunderbird among other things.
Maybe because they are names. And they come with a nice clickable installer. If they were called fbrsr and mrd, and required a full build from source on Windows, how much do you think their user base would grow?
I am relatively computer literate, but if I have a choice between something that needs building from source, and a nice installer, well, computer savvy or not, I am also lazy.
I remember the 2 million number as well, not sure about the other stuff though...whatever it is I won't be buying one any time in the near future that's for sure.
I'm sure for the right price though, you could buy one second hand.
I am not sure, I remember reading about some guy that bought it used, and he had to go through the same approval process. I would guess that the current owners feel the same way as Ferrari does, and have no problem whith making someone jump through the same hoops. When you are up in that range of cars, the amount of money is not so much the issue anymore, as what the perceived value is. The Enzo has one hell of a perceived value, above and beyond the dollar amount due to it's scaricity and the rigors of even owning one.
I wish iTunes could tell you when it was having trouble reading a scratched CD, though.
There is a pretty good way around this, but it seems to slow down importing by about 25%.
Go to Preferences->Importing, and check "Use error correction". This has worked for me on a some pretty scratched up disks. Even allowed me to get around a CD that had DRM on it. (on a mac, haven't tried that on my PC yet).
Depends on your car. A few years ago CycleWorld magazine tested a high end sport bike (I think it was a GSXR 750 not positive) against a Corvette. The Corvette won in every catagory except acceleration, both from a stop and roll on. Most race track's speed records are held by the race car equivalent of a go-kart, called a Shifter Cart, they can beat NASCAR car's around the track. It isn't just power to weight, it is how much of that power can be imparted to the road. So the two square inches on each tire of a motorcycle can not compete with the 8-10 square inches of a car. The car can then use more of it's power on the ground.
However if you are trying to get away from someone at a standstill, then yeah, a bike, but if you want to be "fast" then get a good sport's car.
Surprisingly, the gas-hybred models were rated up there with SUV's for least customer satisfaction when it came to fuel efficiency. Mostly this had to do with the fact that people's real world experiences were much less than stated. As an example. You live in a hilly town? Expect the gas engine to kick in when ever you are trying to get to the top of the hill, and it is not particularly offset by the following down hill.
Don't get the wrong idea, they get great mileage compared to most cars, just not as good as people expect.
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ummm, i think that should read:
"a bunch of people working together to make a profit"
but otherwise, spot on with the rest.
For what it's worth, living in both LA and SF I almost never hear it refered to as "interstate 5" it is reffered to as either "highway five", or more often, just "the five".
Actually, even more often it is referred to as "what? you mean I HAVE to take the fucking five!?"
Instead he would have created it from snapshots of the trip someone else took he downloaded off of google images.
In the time it took to preview, correct some stupid spelling mistakes and then hit submit. My download crapped out, and now I can't connect again.
Guess I should have left step three as ????
That will teach me to proof read.
1. Send thousands of people to download a huge .avi
2. Make sure your ad for a "great web host" is in plain text at the top of the page.
3. Listen to the collective gasp as your site actually manages to keep up with the downloads (as of 11:20pm pacific)
4. Profit?
Of course the whole thing goes out the window if the server actually does crap out in about 5-6 hours when the east coast get's to work and collectively hits the download link in one giant spasm of excitement at the chance of seeing the %$&%-ing highway 5.
weee?
The navy has been using it pretty much constantly for years, with no noticeable mishaps at least in the last 30 years(last one I could find was a release of contaminatd water in 1978).
There is a town not too far from here that has an oil refinery that about every six months has an accident that causes alerts to be broadcast over all news sources. These alerts tell people to stay indoors, keep their wondows closed etc etc. Because of the toxic fumes in the air. This is safe?
The bigger problem with nuclear power is getting rid of the waste products. If someone could figure out a good way to launch those into the sun cheaply nuclear power would probably be the best solution.
As other sources dwindle, nuclear power is going to have to be looked at more and more, regardless of the people's inherent fear of it. We as a society are demanding more and more electricity as time passes.
Bull
The average file for a bill board prints from 7-21 DPI, low resolution yes, but for an average 30 or 40 sheet billboard (think from 25-35ish feet wide) you will build your file for that at 1/2inch=1', or posibly even 1-1. So the general rule of thumb is at 1" to 1' you build at 300 dpi. So you are talking about a file that is 36" wide at 300 dpi or 10,800 pixels wide, or around 125-150 megabyte file.
However, to make matters worse, they are now using much higher resolution ink jets to print many billboars, as they are starting to put billboards at viewing distance of as little as 3' (think airport walkways & subway stations). So while not wuite as large, you still need about 100 dpi for a 20' billboard, or about 24,000 and a file size of about 750 mb.
There have been occasions where we have used digital photography for outdoor work, but it is either a case where we are comping together a photograph from multiple 11mp shots or blowing it up and it looks kinda soft.
unless of course said hacker's software was written by some one who thought no one could be that dumb...and started at 0000001.
2. But only 2, so far this is a company that has yet too miss. I think this has much less to do with Jobs, than it does their creative staff. If Disney had been supplying the creative ideas, and Pixar just making the movies then yeah, it would be bad for Pixar.
3. See above. And, from what I have read (obligatory grain of salt), it was about future movies, not past. Steve wanted to turn Disney into a distribution and marketing partner only.
4. This is true, Disney used to be on top. Now, unless the Pixar name is attached, their movies blow. They had a pretty crappy run too... you know, only 40 or 50 years as the best.
I personally think that the Steve was being to optimistic in their dealings with Disney, and they may be hurt in the short term from not being partnered with Disney anymore...but really only on a merchandising level. Disney is the best when it comes to cranking out the toys and other tchotsky that folks buy when they love a character. Their films will most likely stay above par for some time to come, but I would not be surprised if my girlfriend doesn't buy as much of their crap.
Yeah me too.
However...
What I can't do is record a long series of video and remember the time stamp of when eye contact was made.
Oh, I also can't make an appliance turn on or perform a specific task by looking at it.
But yeah, I can tell if someone is looking at me.
Just got one of Pioneers Tivo/DVD-R's for christmas. not only will it record to dvd, it simply transfers over the tivo's already compressed info, so a four hour dvd burns in about 30 minutes. As an added bonus the dvd menu's look like tivos menus
I have seen the endings of his books as much more ambiguous. There is apparently no "happily ever after" or "the butler did it" in Stephenson's story's. Instead I always get the feeling he is trying to say that this part of the story is over and now life goes on.
i know it is entertainment, and everyone expects a beginning, middle and end. But, until you die, is your life like that?
In many cases an author being labled sci-fi is nothing more than marketing to his past audience. This book would fit much better on the normal fiction shelves than sandwiched in between the latest Space Opera or Swords and Sorceror's epic.
I have read both books now with my laptop sitting nect to me, so I can research some concept he has mentioned in passing, or to fact check something he mentiones in detail for truth.
The conclusion I have come to, he gets the overall correct, and makes up the fine points.
Checkout the annotations for Quicksilver
This is based on a real person. He states that it is one of those "too wierd to make up" type things.
My Point was that any way you look at it, you are not getting your laptop back with some silly script. If they take out the hard drive, they are taking out where the script resides.
So does this mean that your laptop is set to auto log-in?
Anyone who get's their hands on your laptop can just access your info with no safeguards? If so, then keep nothing on your laptop.
OR,
You could go into Open Firmware, set a password so as the machine can not be booted from a CD or firewire drive (without the pw of course), set a decent password for your log in, and the forget about worrying whether your laptop gets stolen. Because the only way that some form of script is going to work for you is if they can log in. Accept your loss, curse the vile stinking theives and move on.
I would rather lose my laptop than have anyone be able to get at my data.
A link to the press release from CES.
Hopefully very many, especially if it means I have to rely on an outside source for my computers OS. I like the fact that I have one computer that has never been attached to a network, let alone the internet.
The apps make the platform valuable, not the OS.
Actually, the combination makes the paltform valuable to me. I would be lost with out many of the apps I use regularly, and I would just as annoyed to not have an OS I liked resident on the computer that let me manage all of those apps and files I am creating.
I think one hurdle Linux deveopers need to get past is their naming. Acronyms, abreviations, and random letter groupings culled from what the app does is not "user friendly".
"huh? Where is the install wizard?"
"oh, well you use RPM to get it."
"wha? What does how fast my motor is going have to do with installing my Video watcher thing?"
Maybe because they are names. And they come with a nice clickable installer. If they were called fbrsr and mrd, and required a full build from source on Windows, how much do you think their user base would grow?
I am relatively computer literate, but if I have a choice between something that needs building from source, and a nice installer, well, computer savvy or not, I am also lazy.
I remember the 2 million number as well, not sure about the other stuff though...whatever it is I won't be buying one any time in the near future that's for sure.
I am not sure, I remember reading about some guy that bought it used, and he had to go through the same approval process. I would guess that the current owners feel the same way as Ferrari does, and have no problem whith making someone jump through the same hoops. When you are up in that range of cars, the amount of money is not so much the issue anymore, as what the perceived value is. The Enzo has one hell of a perceived value, above and beyond the dollar amount due to it's scaricity and the rigors of even owning one.
There is a pretty good way around this, but it seems to slow down importing by about 25%.
Go to Preferences->Importing, and check "Use error correction". This has worked for me on a some pretty scratched up disks. Even allowed me to get around a CD that had DRM on it. (on a mac, haven't tried that on my PC yet).
Depends on your car. A few years ago CycleWorld magazine tested a high end sport bike (I think it was a GSXR 750 not positive) against a Corvette. The Corvette won in every catagory except acceleration, both from a stop and roll on. Most race track's speed records are held by the race car equivalent of a go-kart, called a Shifter Cart, they can beat NASCAR car's around the track. It isn't just power to weight, it is how much of that power can be imparted to the road. So the two square inches on each tire of a motorcycle can not compete with the 8-10 square inches of a car. The car can then use more of it's power on the ground.
However if you are trying to get away from someone at a standstill, then yeah, a bike, but if you want to be "fast" then get a good sport's car.
Don't get the wrong idea, they get great mileage compared to most cars, just not as good as people expect.