See also the Grundig G2000 shortwave radio, which was designed by F. A. Porsche. Although the design is nice, if you are interested in purchasing a shortwave radio I recommend the Grundig YB-300 PE, as it is $20 less, has four more station memories and comes with an AC adaptor.
Just to clarify a bit, the Powerbook G4 supports 10/100/1000 base-T, not just 1000 base-T.
I also said that the Powerbook gets four hours of battery life, even though Apple claims five. I own a Powerbook G4, and four hours is a much closer estimate for real-world use (although you can get 5-6 if you turn the LCD backlight off).
Last but not least, there is another awesome titanium product out there -- the titanium spork!
"The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep."
I suppose the same could go for space ships -- paint one entirely black, and you've got an invisible ship. That would make docking rather hard, though...
Wouldn't this thing have easily pierced through her foot and kept going into the ground with some momentum to spare? I guess she could have been wearing steel-toed boots, but I seriously doubt it. I'm slightly skeptical of this, as it probably should have destroyed her foot.
So, has anybody out there converted their MP3 archive to OGG? How badly did the quality suffer? Are there any other significant pitfalls to watch out for?
Are you Weird Al Yankovic? Or one of his relatives ?
I'm serious, you look a lot like him to me... !:-)
I second this question... To quote Leonard Richardson, Larry Wall has many of the mannerisms of Weird Al Yankovic, and he also had the Weird Al glasses and Hawaiian shirt (and old-school mustache).
Even perl.org mentions this possibility (with pictures)!
You're not the only person this happened to... When I was posting about this software earlier in the same article (6:19 PM EST), the orbitersim.com link worked fine. How odd.
Perhaps the checksums of files could become an integral part of gnutella, so that spoofed files show up as "different" even though the filesize is the same. But, I guess then clients would be hacked to provide spoofed checksums, so then the clients would need to be checksummed...:^)
There was a Space Shuttle simulator for DOS that came out back in 1992... As I remember, it replicated the functionality of most switches in the cockpit well. Perhaps it might be possible to combine the two?
As an aside, I remember switching the "jettison external fuel tank" switch on only a few seconds after takeoff... Not recommended if you want to survive!
"Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks."
"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."
-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN."
-- Alan Perlis
"You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers."
-- Steven Feiner
"An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN."
"FORTRAN is a good example of a language which is easier to parse using ad hoc techniques."
-- D. Gries
[What's good about it? Ed.]
"FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer."
-- A.J. Perlis
"FORTRAN rots the brain."
-- John McQuillin
"FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
"[FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade."
-- T. Cheatham
"It's multiple choice time...
What is FORTRAN?
a: Between thre and fiv tran.
b: What two computers engage in before they interface.
c: Ridiculous."
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I'm going to try to bring my girlfriend to this year's Field Day in Tallahassee... Let's hope she doesn't flee in terror when she notices the ratio is out of whack.:^)
I think Apple should stop production of the Macintosh, and start releasing models named after other apples, such as Golden Delicious or Jonathan. You can never have too much of a good thing, you know.:^)
For a while, I have been telling people that in ten years, we should expect something like 802.11/WiFi beacons on the U.S. interstate system. Cringely's idea is similar, but depends on having cars in your proximity to get a signal.
Something like this would be a boon for online package tracking -- UPS or FedEx could tag boxes with small GPS transponders (Casio can do it in a watch, why can't it be done on a box?). Having a transponder on the box would allow for real-time package plotting against a roadmap. That way, super-important packages get lost much less, as long as they are within range of a freely-accessible wireless network. At the very least, if it drops off the roadmap at a particular location, you would know where to start looking.:^)
I seem to have the RTFM disease this morning... "seq" does indeed support equal width formatting with the '-w' switch. So, to get a count like 01, 02,..., 20, do the following:
seq -w 1 20
Many more "seq" variations are possible... One consultation of "seq --help" reveals all.
Same here... mine is called "countup". I wonder if "seq" supports adding a '0' in front of numbers that are less than 10, though... This is useful when dealing with CDDA tracks (track01.cdda.wav, etc.). Just in case anybody wants/needs this functionality, here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl # # countup.pl - syntax:./countup.pl start end [-cd] #
$start = $ARGV[0];
$end = $ARGV[1];
until ($start == $end+1) {
print ("0") if ((join(',',@ARGV) =~ m|cd|) && ($start < 10));
print ("$start ");
$start++; }
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See also the Grundig G2000 shortwave radio, which was designed by F. A. Porsche. Although the design is nice, if you are interested in purchasing a shortwave radio I recommend the Grundig YB-300 PE, as it is $20 less, has four more station memories and comes with an AC adaptor.
Just to clarify a bit, the Powerbook G4 supports 10/100/1000 base-T, not just 1000 base-T.
I also said that the Powerbook gets four hours of battery life, even though Apple claims five. I own a Powerbook G4, and four hours is a much closer estimate for real-world use (although you can get 5-6 if you turn the LCD backlight off).
Last but not least, there is another awesome titanium product out there -- the titanium spork!
I know this is comparing apples to oranges (or something like that), but here goes:
BestBuy price: $2,399
Apple's price: $2,499
BestBuy size: 1.2 x 10 x 13.9"
Apple's size: 1.0 x 9.5 x 13.4"
BestBuy weight: 6.4 pounds
Apple's weight: 5.4 pounds
BestBuy case: Silver-magnesium
Apple's case: Titanium
BestBuy battery life: 3 hours 15 minutes
Apple's battery life: 4 hours (realistically)
BestBuy CPU: 2GHz Pentium 4-M
Apple's CPU: 667MHz PowerPC G4
BestBuy RAM: 512MB DDR SDRAM
Apple's RAM: 256MB SDRAM
BestBuy HD: 40GB hard drive
Apple's HD: 30GB IBM hard drive
BestBuy wireless: Integrated 802.11b
Apple's wireless: 802.11b ready
Bestbuy video card: Unknown
Apple's video card: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32MB
Bestbuy video out: S-Video-out
Apple's video out: DVI/VGA/S-video
Bestbuy Ethernet: Probably 10/100 Apple's Ethernet: Gigabit Ethernet
Bestbuy external ports: 2 Firewire, 2 USB
Apple's external ports: 1 Firewire, 2 USB
Shared items:
BestBuy and Apple LCD: 15.2-inch LCD, 1280x854 max
Bestbuy and Apple's modem: 56k
BestBuy and Apple optical: CD-RW/DVD drive
The obligatory Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance quote:
"The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not entirely an improvement. Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep."
So, if I were listening to GNU Radio, and somebody asked what I was listening to, would I say "I'm listening to GNU/Radio"?
I suppose the same could go for space ships -- paint one entirely black, and you've got an invisible ship. That would make docking rather hard, though...
...under unstable and it has only let me down once or twice. Luckily it never hosed my machine beyond repair.
Wouldn't this thing have easily pierced through her foot and kept going into the ground with some momentum to spare? I guess she could have been wearing steel-toed boots, but I seriously doubt it. I'm slightly skeptical of this, as it probably should have destroyed her foot.
So, has anybody out there converted their MP3 archive to OGG? How badly did the quality suffer? Are there any other significant pitfalls to watch out for?
I second this question... To quote Leonard Richardson, Larry Wall has many of the mannerisms of Weird Al Yankovic, and he also had the Weird Al glasses and Hawaiian shirt (and old-school mustache).
Even perl.org mentions this possibility (with pictures)!
You're not the only person this happened to... When I was posting about this software earlier in the same article (6:19 PM EST), the orbitersim.com link worked fine. How odd.
Here is some more potential software for it. Here is even more.
Perhaps the checksums of files could become an integral part of gnutella, so that spoofed files show up as "different" even though the filesize is the same. But, I guess then clients would be hacked to provide spoofed checksums, so then the clients would need to be checksummed... :^)
There was a Space Shuttle simulator for DOS that came out back in 1992... As I remember, it replicated the functionality of most switches in the cockpit well. Perhaps it might be possible to combine the two?
As an aside, I remember switching the "jettison external fuel tank" switch on only a few seconds after takeoff... Not recommended if you want to survive!
OK, I couldn't resist... Here are the rest:
"Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks."
"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."
-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN."
-- Alan Perlis
"You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers."
-- Steven Feiner
"An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN."
"FORTRAN is a good example of a language
which is easier to parse using ad hoc techniques."
-- D. Gries
[What's good about it? Ed.]
"FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer."
-- A.J. Perlis
"FORTRAN rots the brain."
-- John McQuillin
"FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
"[FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade."
-- T. Cheatham
"It's multiple choice time...
What is FORTRAN?
a: Between thre and fiv tran.
b: What two computers engage in before they interface.
c: Ridiculous."
"On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN."
"A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard."
- The current Apple Macintosh line will be cancelled.
- New Apple computers, such as the Golden Delicious and Granny Smith will be unveiled.
What do you think?
Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp. are preparing to sue individual song swappers... I'm curious how this will be done.
You might need to update your sig soon...
I'm going to try to bring my girlfriend to this year's Field Day in Tallahassee... Let's hope she doesn't flee in terror when she notices the ratio is out of whack. :^)
I think Apple should stop production of the Macintosh, and start releasing models named after other apples, such as Golden Delicious or Jonathan. You can never have too much of a good thing, you know. :^)
For a while, I have been telling people that in ten years, we should expect something like 802.11/WiFi beacons on the U.S. interstate system. Cringely's idea is similar, but depends on having cars in your proximity to get a signal.
:^)
Something like this would be a boon for online package tracking -- UPS or FedEx could tag boxes with small GPS transponders (Casio can do it in a watch, why can't it be done on a box?). Having a transponder on the box would allow for real-time package plotting against a roadmap. That way, super-important packages get lost much less, as long as they are within range of a freely-accessible wireless network. At the very least, if it drops off the roadmap at a particular location, you would know where to start looking.
I seem to have the RTFM disease this morning... "seq" does indeed support equal width formatting with the '-w' switch. So, to get a count like 01, 02, ..., 20, do the following:
seq -w 1 20
Many more "seq" variations are possible... One consultation of "seq --help" reveals all.
Same here... mine is called "countup". I wonder if "seq" supports adding a '0' in front of numbers that are less than 10, though... This is useful when dealing with CDDA tracks (track01.cdda.wav, etc.). Just in case anybody wants/needs this functionality, here it is:
./countup.pl start end [-cd]
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# countup.pl - syntax:
#
$start = $ARGV[0];
$end = $ARGV[1];
until ($start == $end+1)
{
print ("0") if ((join(',',@ARGV) =~ m|cd|) && ($start < 10));
print ("$start ");
$start++;
}
Andrew Tannenbaum put it best with, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."