Don't forget about the new options for the iPod Shuffle to fill the thing up with random songs from your library. Actually, I'm hoping that it can also fill with random music from a playlist as well, but since mine hasn't shipped yet, I dunno.
And those $400 5 Mpl cameras weren't available in 1997 when Cassini was launched.
Good point. I got a digital camera for my college granduation in 1997 and it was a Casio 320x200 with no flash or anything and wouldn't take pics worth a squat in low light conditions. And, I'm sure that technology was well behind what NASA/ESA would be using. If you look at the Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) specs for things used aboard the ISS & Shuttle, it is stable equipment which means by consumer standards, outdated junk. I'm sure the same would go for components as well, like CCDs.
Keep the lighting conditions in mind: the Sun is MUCH dimmer out there, even without such a thick, cloudy atmosphere to dim it further. And no, maybe they didn't have a much better camera: there might be severe bandwidth and weight limitations involved.
It does make you wonder, though. Huygens was pretty big, and you've got to figure, you can buy a tiny 5 megapixel digital pocket camera for around $400. It will adjust to ISO 400 and with some exposure compensation, take pretty good pictures in very limited evening light here on Earth. Considering the science benefit that even a single 5 megapixel image of "Earth" quality standards would give a scientist, it makes you wonder why the photos are usually of poor quality. I'm not sure that weight is the issue, but it could be the uplink bandwidth.
At any rate, this is still friggin' amazing. Sure, we're now used to seeing pictures from Mars. But consider how far away Saturn is, and that we landing something on one of its moons and sent back pictures! When I saw the picture of the surface, it really put it in perspective. We're actually there, and we're exploring! While the pics of Saturn from Cassini sent are cool and all, they aren't much more than what Hubble can do. But pictures from the surface of a moon that is a billion miles a way- what an accomplishment. Way to go, NASA & ESA.
I'm double posting this just because someone should see it and mod you up, because you are 100% correct even though you didn't have a source to cite.
This is from a Crucial response on RAM differences between Apple specific RAM & normal, mainstream RAM:
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CT372707 is specifically for the Apple iBook (G4 1.2GHz) as standard
parts CT6464X265 can sometimes be incompatible. This is due to a change
in the JEDEC standards.
Apples with standard memory will sometimes give the error "Bad memory"
or "kernal panic". The memory however is not faulty.
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This is from a Crucial response on RAM differences between Apple specific RAM & normal, mainstream RAM: --- CT372707 is specifically for the Apple iBook (G4 1.2GHz) as standard parts CT6464X265 can sometimes be incompatible. This is due to a change in the JEDEC standards.
Apples with standard memory will sometimes give the error "Bad memory" or "kernal panic". The memory however is not faulty. --- While that doesn't completely answer the question for me, it does give *some* insight.
because if it's that important to you, you could always go buy a Windows box.
amen.
...Or you don't have to buy anything at all. Or, you could start your own company and offer an alternative. Or, find a small company that already does, and support it. Or, find an open source project and support it.
Or, a person could just quit whining, and be glad that courts of law are not defining what products he is allowed to buy or what products a given company is allowed to produce or how they work. Is that REALLY what people want? A judge regulating innovation and defining what standards are legal or illegal?
Or, do we want to let courts and judges do their job- making sure we're all free to start companies, innovate, sell products, and as consumers buy whatever we want and make our own decisions- and ultimately let the free market decide what is superior?
The music industry will not allow Apple or anyone else to sell digital music online without DRM.
Exactly... and if you want to eliminate FairPlay from the mix because it is proprietary, then you'd be left with only WMA. At any rate, I don't know what part of inventing the iTMS and the iPod is illegal. I think the person who filed the law suit would probably be in favor of placing the UN in charge of DRM schemes.
This has just gotten ridiculous. What next, people suing fast food restaurants because they are making people fat?
Well, in part this is where Apple stores come in handy. At least people can see the quality first hand.
The exact reason why Apple needs retail stores is the same reason that Gateway/Dell/etc. do not. The other vendors are just selling deal-of-the-day hardware in a box. (That being said though, Dell doesn't make such a bad machine- I have one and it may not be anything super special but it is quiet with decent grade hardware.)
Don't underestimate how important Apple might view this computer for their business.
Well, slashdot thought the iPod would be a flop and the iPod mini would be a tremendous failure... so if that is predictive of anything, this thing ought to be a huge success.
Panther runs on my iBook G4 and on my girlfriend's iBook G3. Some say Panther is more optimized than Jaguar, so it actually runs better on slightly slower hardware.
But I decided to compare it against Walmart's stuff.
What you can't see on paper though is how God-awful cheap the WalMart boxes are. I've ordered several over the years- a couple of years ago they weren't bad. But the most recent purchase was basically an unusable machine. The case was about as thick as one of those aluminum pie plates. The power supply and CPU fans were so incredibly loud that they caused headaches. The CPU was about 1/4 of an inch from the power supply with the CPU fan installed, so it was also making a roaring sound from sucking air off a flat surface. All I salvaged was the motherboard, HD, and CD ROM drive. I threw away the rest of the brand new components.
I bring this up because I would have never thought about an economy PC having problems in these areas, until I actually bought one. I'm 101% sure that an Apple econo-box will be a class act though when it comes to case quality and sound.
I would buy one to put on my desk at work to prove they would interact with our network
Oh, my iBook interacts with the corporate network just great. BUT, it also leaves friggin.ds_store files everywhere over the network! And, it is pretty obvious in a tech environment where everyone is showing hidden files.
This is probably my biggest complaint with OSX. It sounds trivial until you realize the trail you're leaving- it really makes a mess especially on production filesystems. Find some other place to store the info, Apple! There are even apps out there that specifically delete these files for you. That is how bad the problem is for some.
They're on my boycott list. I see them just as bad as microsoft at this point, but then again I see most large companies in this same way. What can I say, corporate america is not my fancy.
And if I don't like something, I refuse to use it in any way, shape, or form.
So basically, you own no automobile, no PC, basically no manufactured goods at all. You must live in a dirt hut and eat food you grow behind your hut using your own irrigation system since the local utilities company is also corporate America (and you don't like them, and when you don't like something you refuse to use it.) Additionally, you've never taken medication, never used electricity (damn utilities)... in fact, you've never done much of anything other than sit in your dirt hut and grow food and eat it, right? Certainly couldn't leave time to have any interest in something made by a big evil company, like say a PS2 or NES.
Or let me guess- you're just like John Kerry. You verbally trash SUV's, and then when it turns up that you own one, you say it isn't yours, it belongs to your family. You indulge in all these things that have improved or made life more pleasurable, and then crucify them out the side of your mouth. Or maybe, you'll call them a "necessary evil", right? The big bad man has created a world where you can't survive without going against your morals and buying, using, and enjoying these products.
Tell me, what type of work do you do? Well, actually I guess there isn't time for working, being that you're tied up growing your own food. Honestly, there are places in this world that people like you can live the way you say you want to live. There are places where corporation isn't in the vocabulary and there have never been any advances beyond the dirt hut. On paper, most countries in Africa seem to be exactly what you are after.
huge problem of only being able to view the picture from directly ahead
This is why I hate the laptop based frame projects. They will always have a substandard display- #1, laptops are designed to be viewed from a very specfic angle, and #2, folks will typically used older, even more crappy laptops for such a project.
I made a micro ITX based frame using a very nice samsung open frame LCD kit. Much nicer than a laptop based frame.
It's that it's a nasty scheme to harvest contacts for junk mail, telemarketing, etc.
Well put. Whether it is "legit" or not is a secondary concern. I don't put much respect towards people who run around spending all their time spamming themselves and friends to get things for free.
I mean, Christ-o-Mighty, We're talking 250-300 bucks here people. Get a job and earn it the old fashioned way. If true wealth were created merely by sending emails to people or by participating in some other pyramid scheme, everybody would be rich and nobody would work again (unfortunately, it would also mean that money grows on trees.) Also, it is an iPod... we're not talking about going to these extremes to feed a family. People are doing it to get a gadget that they can clearly live without.
This is similar to the people who continually sign up for store credit cards to get discounts or "free" gifts. Apparently, they either don't understand or don't care how their credit score is derived. I know people who live their whole lives trying to get freebies. If they spent half that effort improving themselves, I'm sure they'd get a raise, better job, or something.
Yet, despite the fact that I sweated and toiled one weekend to help a neighbour install a chain link fence, he just sat there with his new snowblower while watching me bust my ass shovelling my driveway when he could have done it in about 5 minutes.
Oh well, people are a bunch of asses. That's why we invented money.
Unfortunately, even inside close circles of family and friends, shit occasionally happens. I'd never recommend doing anything of large financial scale with family or friends without having a written contract. Part of the problem is people interpret things differently or have different expectations. You might make a handshake deal to rent a condo you own to a family member for $500 a month. Sounds good, huh? Well, what does this include? For how long? What happens if the condo association dues go up? Can you raise the rate? What if said family member loses his job? Is he expecting you to let the rent slide for 6 months or a year? If the place is dirty when he finally moves out and needs new carpet and paint, who pays?
In fact, contract or no contract, I've often found it better NOT to do business with friends. I know of too many cases where it has ruined relationships that I assure you were originally rock-solid.
That said, there is nothing wrong with friends helping friends on occasion as long as there are no expectations. This is what friendship is all about.
However, I don't think the real question is whether a plane is BRS equipped. From a physics standpoint, a BRS equipped plane isn't any different from any other plane with a little extra cargo.
This isn't like an airbags or no airbags argument- the driver of a car has no control over the airbag deployment once they are enabled. This is a pilot decision argument. Will a pilot use this facility prematurely or when it isn't actually necessary, just because it is there? Who knows- it depends on the pilot.
I guess one could very well have the same discussion about ejection seats. The difference of course is that an F-14 pilot is among the best trained in the world, where as a Cessna 172 pilot might only have 60 hours of training. But, note that it isn't the presence of the ejection seat that changes the dynamics of the discussion- it is solely pilot training and decision making.
Expensive, but very professional looking and a blast to build. I started off with the "I'll do it cheap" mentality, but it started going so well that I threw out the idea of being frugile. Now it is literally a centerpiece of my living room and something every guest raves about, instead of an old frame that has some burnt out components in it that only geeks will appreciate.
A note to those interested: your display will absolutely make or break this project. I lucked out- got a samsung display kit with great specs off ebay. Also, I ended up changing over to Damn SMall Linux. Works great and boots super fast.
At least if you have an iBook, you can get up to 6 hours battery life. For my purposes, this is usually enough, when I factor out takeoffs, landings, time spent sleeping, eating, and reading or some other low-tech time consumption method.
Of course, I've also never been a person who can watch movies continuously, one after the other after the other.
I thought I heard that theKompany was in bad financial shape a while back. Seems like I read where they had developers who hadn't been paid in a while, that kind of thing (hopefully I'm wrong.) They make a decent line of software for the Zaurus, which is how I came to know about them.
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Don't forget about the new options for the iPod Shuffle to fill the thing up with random songs from your library. Actually, I'm hoping that it can also fill with random music from a playlist as well, but since mine hasn't shipped yet, I dunno.
And those $400 5 Mpl cameras weren't available in 1997 when Cassini was launched.
Good point. I got a digital camera for my college granduation in 1997 and it was a Casio 320x200 with no flash or anything and wouldn't take pics worth a squat in low light conditions. And, I'm sure that technology was well behind what NASA/ESA would be using. If you look at the Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) specs for things used aboard the ISS & Shuttle, it is stable equipment which means by consumer standards, outdated junk. I'm sure the same would go for components as well, like CCDs.
Keep the lighting conditions in mind: the Sun is MUCH dimmer out there, even without such a thick, cloudy atmosphere to dim it further. And no, maybe they didn't have a much better camera: there might be severe bandwidth and weight limitations involved.
It does make you wonder, though. Huygens was pretty big, and you've got to figure, you can buy a tiny 5 megapixel digital pocket camera for around $400. It will adjust to ISO 400 and with some exposure compensation, take pretty good pictures in very limited evening light here on Earth. Considering the science benefit that even a single 5 megapixel image of "Earth" quality standards would give a scientist, it makes you wonder why the photos are usually of poor quality. I'm not sure that weight is the issue, but it could be the uplink bandwidth.
At any rate, this is still friggin' amazing. Sure, we're now used to seeing pictures from Mars. But consider how far away Saturn is, and that we landing something on one of its moons and sent back pictures! When I saw the picture of the surface, it really put it in perspective. We're actually there, and we're exploring! While the pics of Saturn from Cassini sent are cool and all, they aren't much more than what Hubble can do. But pictures from the surface of a moon that is a billion miles a way- what an accomplishment. Way to go, NASA & ESA.
I'm double posting this just because someone should see it and mod you up, because you are 100% correct even though you didn't have a source to cite. This is from a Crucial response on RAM differences between Apple specific RAM & normal, mainstream RAM: --- CT372707 is specifically for the Apple iBook (G4 1.2GHz) as standard parts CT6464X265 can sometimes be incompatible. This is due to a change in the JEDEC standards. Apples with standard memory will sometimes give the error "Bad memory" or "kernal panic". The memory however is not faulty. ---
This is from a Crucial response on RAM differences between Apple specific RAM & normal, mainstream RAM:
---
CT372707 is specifically for the Apple iBook (G4 1.2GHz) as standard
parts CT6464X265 can sometimes be incompatible. This is due to a change
in the JEDEC standards.
Apples with standard memory will sometimes give the error "Bad memory"
or "kernal panic". The memory however is not faulty.
---
While that doesn't completely answer the question for me, it does give *some* insight.
because if it's that important to you, you could always go buy a Windows box.
...Or you don't have to buy anything at all. Or, you could start your own company and offer an alternative. Or, find a small company that already does, and support it. Or, find an open source project and support it.
amen.
Or, a person could just quit whining, and be glad that courts of law are not defining what products he is allowed to buy or what products a given company is allowed to produce or how they work. Is that REALLY what people want? A judge regulating innovation and defining what standards are legal or illegal?
Or, do we want to let courts and judges do their job- making sure we're all free to start companies, innovate, sell products, and as consumers buy whatever we want and make our own decisions- and ultimately let the free market decide what is superior?
The music industry will not allow Apple or anyone else to sell digital music online without DRM.
Exactly... and if you want to eliminate FairPlay from the mix because it is proprietary, then you'd be left with only WMA. At any rate, I don't know what part of inventing the iTMS and the iPod is illegal. I think the person who filed the law suit would probably be in favor of placing the UN in charge of DRM schemes.
This has just gotten ridiculous. What next, people suing fast food restaurants because they are making people fat?
Nah, they just need a space station linebacker. Perhaps Terry Tate, office linebacker, has a brother or something in need of work.
Well, in part this is where Apple stores come in handy. At least people can see the quality first hand.
The exact reason why Apple needs retail stores is the same reason that Gateway/Dell/etc. do not. The other vendors are just selling deal-of-the-day hardware in a box. (That being said though, Dell doesn't make such a bad machine- I have one and it may not be anything super special but it is quiet with decent grade hardware.)
Under Macintosh OSX .DS_Store holds the information which controls the way a folder will be opened
Don't underestimate how important Apple might view this computer for their business.
Well, slashdot thought the iPod would be a flop and the iPod mini would be a tremendous failure... so if that is predictive of anything, this thing ought to be a huge success.
Panther runs on my iBook G4 and on my girlfriend's iBook G3. Some say Panther is more optimized than Jaguar, so it actually runs better on slightly slower hardware.
But I decided to compare it against Walmart's stuff.
What you can't see on paper though is how God-awful cheap the WalMart boxes are. I've ordered several over the years- a couple of years ago they weren't bad. But the most recent purchase was basically an unusable machine. The case was about as thick as one of those aluminum pie plates. The power supply and CPU fans were so incredibly loud that they caused headaches. The CPU was about 1/4 of an inch from the power supply with the CPU fan installed, so it was also making a roaring sound from sucking air off a flat surface. All I salvaged was the motherboard, HD, and CD ROM drive. I threw away the rest of the brand new components.
I bring this up because I would have never thought about an economy PC having problems in these areas, until I actually bought one. I'm 101% sure that an Apple econo-box will be a class act though when it comes to case quality and sound.
I was thinking the same thing. Just like iTMS is designed to boost iPod sales, so might be a new cheaper Mac.
I would buy one to put on my desk at work to prove they would interact with our network
.ds_store files everywhere over the network! And, it is pretty obvious in a tech environment where everyone is showing hidden files.
Oh, my iBook interacts with the corporate network just great. BUT, it also leaves friggin
This is probably my biggest complaint with OSX. It sounds trivial until you realize the trail you're leaving- it really makes a mess especially on production filesystems. Find some other place to store the info, Apple! There are even apps out there that specifically delete these files for you. That is how bad the problem is for some.
They're on my boycott list. I see them just as bad as microsoft at this point, but then again I see most large companies in this same way. What can I say, corporate america is not my fancy.
And if I don't like something, I refuse to use it in any way, shape, or form.
So basically, you own no automobile, no PC, basically no manufactured goods at all. You must live in a dirt hut and eat food you grow behind your hut using your own irrigation system since the local utilities company is also corporate America (and you don't like them, and when you don't like something you refuse to use it.) Additionally, you've never taken medication, never used electricity (damn utilities)... in fact, you've never done much of anything other than sit in your dirt hut and grow food and eat it, right? Certainly couldn't leave time to have any interest in something made by a big evil company, like say a PS2 or NES.
Or let me guess- you're just like John Kerry. You verbally trash SUV's, and then when it turns up that you own one, you say it isn't yours, it belongs to your family. You indulge in all these things that have improved or made life more pleasurable, and then crucify them out the side of your mouth. Or maybe, you'll call them a "necessary evil", right? The big bad man has created a world where you can't survive without going against your morals and buying, using, and enjoying these products.
Tell me, what type of work do you do? Well, actually I guess there isn't time for working, being that you're tied up growing your own food. Honestly, there are places in this world that people like you can live the way you say you want to live. There are places where corporation isn't in the vocabulary and there have never been any advances beyond the dirt hut. On paper, most countries in Africa seem to be exactly what you are after.
huge problem of only being able to view the picture from directly ahead
This is why I hate the laptop based frame projects. They will always have a substandard display- #1, laptops are designed to be viewed from a very specfic angle, and #2, folks will typically used older, even more crappy laptops for such a project.
I made a micro ITX based frame using a very nice samsung open frame LCD kit. Much nicer than a laptop based frame.
Lesson #2: If you loan a man money and you never see him again, that's money well spent.
At first I laughed at that because it was funny. A couple minutes later, and I'm actually taking it seriously!
It's that it's a nasty scheme to harvest contacts for junk mail, telemarketing, etc.
Well put. Whether it is "legit" or not is a secondary concern. I don't put much respect towards people who run around spending all their time spamming themselves and friends to get things for free.
I mean, Christ-o-Mighty, We're talking 250-300 bucks here people. Get a job and earn it the old fashioned way. If true wealth were created merely by sending emails to people or by participating in some other pyramid scheme, everybody would be rich and nobody would work again (unfortunately, it would also mean that money grows on trees.) Also, it is an iPod... we're not talking about going to these extremes to feed a family. People are doing it to get a gadget that they can clearly live without.
This is similar to the people who continually sign up for store credit cards to get discounts or "free" gifts. Apparently, they either don't understand or don't care how their credit score is derived. I know people who live their whole lives trying to get freebies. If they spent half that effort improving themselves, I'm sure they'd get a raise, better job, or something.
The problem is, every pyramid scheme breaks at some point. There is a finite number of people in the world.
Yet, despite the fact that I sweated and toiled one weekend to help a neighbour install a chain link fence, he just sat there with his new snowblower while watching me bust my ass shovelling my driveway when he could have done it in about 5 minutes.
Oh well, people are a bunch of asses. That's why we invented money.
Unfortunately, even inside close circles of family and friends, shit occasionally happens. I'd never recommend doing anything of large financial scale with family or friends without having a written contract. Part of the problem is people interpret things differently or have different expectations. You might make a handshake deal to rent a condo you own to a family member for $500 a month. Sounds good, huh? Well, what does this include? For how long? What happens if the condo association dues go up? Can you raise the rate? What if said family member loses his job? Is he expecting you to let the rent slide for 6 months or a year? If the place is dirty when he finally moves out and needs new carpet and paint, who pays?
In fact, contract or no contract, I've often found it better NOT to do business with friends. I know of too many cases where it has ruined relationships that I assure you were originally rock-solid.
That said, there is nothing wrong with friends helping friends on occasion as long as there are no expectations. This is what friendship is all about.
Overall, good post and I understand your points.
However, I don't think the real question is whether a plane is BRS equipped. From a physics standpoint, a BRS equipped plane isn't any different from any other plane with a little extra cargo.
This isn't like an airbags or no airbags argument- the driver of a car has no control over the airbag deployment once they are enabled. This is a pilot decision argument. Will a pilot use this facility prematurely or when it isn't actually necessary, just because it is there? Who knows- it depends on the pilot.
I guess one could very well have the same discussion about ejection seats. The difference of course is that an F-14 pilot is among the best trained in the world, where as a Cessna 172 pilot might only have 60 hours of training. But, note that it isn't the presence of the ejection seat that changes the dynamics of the discussion- it is solely pilot training and decision making.
The one I built.
Expensive, but very professional looking and a blast to build. I started off with the "I'll do it cheap" mentality, but it started going so well that I threw out the idea of being frugile. Now it is literally a centerpiece of my living room and something every guest raves about, instead of an old frame that has some burnt out components in it that only geeks will appreciate.
A note to those interested: your display will absolutely make or break this project. I lucked out- got a samsung display kit with great specs off ebay. Also, I ended up changing over to Damn SMall Linux. Works great and boots super fast.
At least if you have an iBook, you can get up to 6 hours battery life. For my purposes, this is usually enough, when I factor out takeoffs, landings, time spent sleeping, eating, and reading or some other low-tech time consumption method.
Of course, I've also never been a person who can watch movies continuously, one after the other after the other.
I thought I heard that theKompany was in bad financial shape a while back. Seems like I read where they had developers who hadn't been paid in a while, that kind of thing (hopefully I'm wrong.) They make a decent line of software for the Zaurus, which is how I came to know about them.