It was pretty stupid of Dan Brown to use the "Sir Leigh Teabing" anagram for Leigh/Baigent.
It might have actually been an homage. From what I gather in the article, he hadn't read the book when he started but eventually read it. The works of Leigh and Baigent may have been a good research source for something generally discussed among conspiracy theorists. He may not have actually learned about it from their book initially, but included the anagram as a way of acknowledging that they did good research on the topic.
I think it was one of only a few MP3 players that used a hard drive on the market at the time when it first came out. I think the only other well-known one at the time was the Creative Nomad Jukebox.
I have a Tivo and I've gotten the "hit thumbs up for more info" type commercials for about a year now
This isn't even that kind of interactive ad. FTA...
the chain unveiled a new TV ad Thursday that allows viewers to crack a hidden message if they play the spot back slowly on a digital video recorder or VCR
It's a stupid gimmick where they flash something on the screen really quickly, and people have to play it back slowly to see it. "Interactive Commercial Utilizes Tivo Features" sounds like marketing spin to mislead people into thinking the ad works like the ads you've mentioned, or like DVD menus that allow you to navigate through video clips.
That would make more sense than a mobile phone manufactured by Microsoft. They don't make their own computers because they don't want to directly compete with the PC manufacturers that use Windows, but they make the Xbox. If they started making a phone, it would compete with mobile phone manufacturers that use their Pocket PC OS. However, a portable version of a game console that doesn't directly compete with Pocket PC mobile phones would mirror the business model they have going with Windows and the Xbox.
I'd rather have a robust touch-screen coffee table display that I can connect my laptop to.
Well, just in case you were thinking of placing your laptop on top of a coffee table display, never keep a drink on the same surface as a laptop!!! Honestly, it's a horrible accident just waiting to happen, the kind where thousands of dollars just disappear in the blink of an eye, along with all your data.
Desktops are fine. All you replace the keyboard if you accidentally tip a drink over, maybe a mouse. But just understand that laptop keyboards also have an unintended alternative function; as a drain for liquids to thoroughly saturate and damage all the internal components of you're highly priced hardware!
I also tried out something interesting, but it has glitches. With X11->Preferences->Output->Enable the Enter Full Screen menu set, you can actually "ssh -X startkde" and get a KDE desktop. But it doesn't seem complete in some parts, and bits that should be in the taskbar appear in really small windows in the upper left of the screen. The desktop background picture doesn't cover the entire desktop even if you try and fiddle with the desktop settings, and you can see a little of the X11 full-screen background right above the taskbar. Is there a way of fixing this so it works seamlessly?
Thanks for that. I just didn't know how to launch it properly. I've tried a couple of applications and they work great, with the exception of GIMP, however.
I have Mac Mini with OS X, and I have been using it for about a year now. I also have a tower-PC running KDE and Linux.
Just curious, but have you been trying out OS X's implementation of X11 to run applications remotely? I mean with the application running on the Linux box, using your Mini's GUI as a front-end. From what I've read on the net, I was under the impression that X11 on OS X can't handle it, but I'm really not too sure about that. I may have completely misinterpreted what I read. I'm very inexperienced with X servers and I've found all the information confusing.
I have a PowerBook and a Linux box, and I want to use the Linux box as a network appliance, running applications on it through my PowerBook's GUI. However I can't seem to find any clear instructions on the net on how to do so. I have found instructions on how to run KDE on OS X in a fixed-size window. I suppose that would allow KDE on OS X to work as an X server, with remote applications running within the Xnest window. But I would prefer to be able to take advantage of the entire OS X desktop for remote applications rather than have them isolated within a window.
Oh, fucking thank you for that. I just really needed to know that little scientific tidbit. Like the shock sites weren't bad enough, now Slashdot is going to give me nightmares with scientific facts.
This may be a bit off-topic, but since you used the words "Science" and "Philosophy" in your post, check out this ambigram (flash animation). It's from John Langdon's book WordPlay.
Even one person winning against the RIAA would be a good thing.
IANAL but I believe that falls under legal precedence, so once a legal decision is made regarding one case, it is applied to all subsequent cases like it.
Of course, there is much to be said about first page ranking.
Images.Google.cn's page ranking doesn't work well for Tiananmen Square and it works better for Tubgirl. Not as well as plain old Images.Google.com, though. Odd priorities when it comes to what they censor.
I recall a documentary on television- I think it was on the Discovery Channel- about how they are considering these kind of things in emergency medicine. The documentary claimed that doctors were debating how emergency response medical teams immediately give intravenous fluids and blood, because it possibly caused blood clots to break by raising blood pressure, and injuries that would normally start to heal with the clotting process would end up causing more loss of blood and eventually death.
They had statistics that brought into question the steps trauma teams take from the Vietnam and Falkland wars. In the Vietnam war, responses to injuries were very quick, whereas in the Falkland war, they took extremely long. They found that more soldiers with more serious injuries survived during the Falkland war than in Vietnam. Another factor they thought could explain this was the cold temperature the soldiers had to endure during the Falkland war.
In the documentary, one doctor applied cold to help a emergency patient who was in danger of brain damage. I recall it was mentioned that some type of brain cells actually self-destruct around damaged cells, and that this reaction didn't occur at lower temperatures. The patient was a woman who incurred a serious head injury from a horse riding accident. It was claimed that because the doctor decided to keep the woman's body temperature low while they operated on her head injury, she actually recovered without any brain damage. And it was the type of injury that would normally cause brain damage if the patient managed to survive.
I have a different opinion on where the links should be placed in this example. I know, it's just my own perspective, but I'd just like to share it. I think the link should be placed on the word "article". In this case the "sticky widget" sounds like a dashboard widget that can be downloaded from a website. So as I see it, the word "article" should link to the article about it on CNN, and the phrase "sticky widget" should link to the home page for the widget discussed in the article.
The same can be said for any article about technology that has a homepage on the web. The word "article" should link to the discussing article, and the word or phrase describing the technology should link to the homepage for it. It would be more useful for the reader to have both links available in the summary on Slashdot, rather than having to navigate to it from the article linked to. It just feels more intuitive in my opinion. "Article" links to the article, and "sticky widget" links to the sticky widget.
And on the topic of criticism about articles, I don't pay much attention to it. Considering this site coined the term "Slashdot effect", the editors are getting "Slashdotted" constantly with article submissions and must have such an incredible workload to sort through. Measuring the editors' abilities against the collective scrutiny of the massive Slashdot readership is unfair. Pointing out factual errors is fine and actually helpful, but plain old negative criticism is unwarranted unless it is done with really witty and entertaining "(Score:5, Funny)" sarcasm.
Huh? Since when does anyone on/. advocate a closed proprietary system that doesn't interoperate with anyone elses technology.
I think the reason Apple has kept it a closed proprietary system is so they could get as much co-operation from content providers as possible. In other words, they probably did this to kiss the RIAA's ass so they could get the major labels onto the iTMS. By locking out third parties from the whole process of purchasing the music online to listening to it on a portable music player, they are managing to use the latest technology for music, while still working with a recording industry that seems to vehemently resist this technology in favour of an outdated business model. If they opened it up, they would probably have more problems of keeping their content from leaking onto P2P networks and such. It doesn't fulfil technologically-minded practices like the open-source movement, but somehow I think the current recording industry would have never gone along with that anyway. It's kind of like mediation, finding the middle ground between people who want to use the latest gadgets and suits who can't set the clock on a VCR.
And why must they always replace a C with a K? I'm assuming whatever word it's emulating begins with a C. It doesn't lend any credence to your product...it just looks dumb.
It probably has more to do with being able to get a ".com" domain name that hasn't already been registered. The "C" spelling now leads to a yahoo error page, which probably means that they acquired it. But perhaps someone else owned it at the time Konfabulator started out, like those companies that just buy slews domain names that are in the dictionary and sell them off at marked up prices.
Trying to support PVR features is the Media Center's Achilles Heel. I simply cannot believe Microsoft does not have a video store of its own by now, also selling TV shows. When ITMS started to take off that was absolutely the right time to trump Apple and get ahead of them.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Apple probably won't even be considering adding recording capabilities, and will simply give customers the option of acquiring what they wanted to record through the iTMS instead. The problem would be that you couldn't just record any channel, but then again the industry would prefer they actually make royalties from selling shows rather than have people simply record their shows for free, so content providers would probably all flock to provide content through iTMS.
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It was pretty stupid of Dan Brown to use the "Sir Leigh Teabing" anagram for Leigh/Baigent.
It might have actually been an homage. From what I gather in the article, he hadn't read the book when he started but eventually read it. The works of Leigh and Baigent may have been a good research source for something generally discussed among conspiracy theorists. He may not have actually learned about it from their book initially, but included the anagram as a way of acknowledging that they did good research on the topic.
The iPod was slightly successful before iTMS.
I think it was one of only a few MP3 players that used a hard drive on the market at the time when it first came out. I think the only other well-known one at the time was the Creative Nomad Jukebox.
I don't know personally, but according to Wikipedia it happens.
I have a Tivo and I've gotten the "hit thumbs up for more info" type commercials for about a year now
This isn't even that kind of interactive ad. FTA...It's a stupid gimmick where they flash something on the screen really quickly, and people have to play it back slowly to see it. "Interactive Commercial Utilizes Tivo Features" sounds like marketing spin to mislead people into thinking the ad works like the ads you've mentioned, or like DVD menus that allow you to navigate through video clips.
No digg. :P
he told me it was for a MS handheld game console
That would make more sense than a mobile phone manufactured by Microsoft. They don't make their own computers because they don't want to directly compete with the PC manufacturers that use Windows, but they make the Xbox. If they started making a phone, it would compete with mobile phone manufacturers that use their Pocket PC OS. However, a portable version of a game console that doesn't directly compete with Pocket PC mobile phones would mirror the business model they have going with Windows and the Xbox.
You mean like this?
I'd rather have a robust touch-screen coffee table display that I can connect my laptop to.
Well, just in case you were thinking of placing your laptop on top of a coffee table display, never keep a drink on the same surface as a laptop!!! Honestly, it's a horrible accident just waiting to happen, the kind where thousands of dollars just disappear in the blink of an eye, along with all your data.
Desktops are fine. All you replace the keyboard if you accidentally tip a drink over, maybe a mouse. But just understand that laptop keyboards also have an unintended alternative function; as a drain for liquids to thoroughly saturate and damage all the internal components of you're highly priced hardware!
I also tried out something interesting, but it has glitches. With X11->Preferences->Output->Enable the Enter Full Screen menu set, you can actually "ssh -X startkde" and get a KDE desktop. But it doesn't seem complete in some parts, and bits that should be in the taskbar appear in really small windows in the upper left of the screen. The desktop background picture doesn't cover the entire desktop even if you try and fiddle with the desktop settings, and you can see a little of the X11 full-screen background right above the taskbar. Is there a way of fixing this so it works seamlessly?
Thanks for that. I just didn't know how to launch it properly. I've tried a couple of applications and they work great, with the exception of GIMP, however.
I have Mac Mini with OS X, and I have been using it for about a year now. I also have a tower-PC running KDE and Linux.
Just curious, but have you been trying out OS X's implementation of X11 to run applications remotely? I mean with the application running on the Linux box, using your Mini's GUI as a front-end. From what I've read on the net, I was under the impression that X11 on OS X can't handle it, but I'm really not too sure about that. I may have completely misinterpreted what I read. I'm very inexperienced with X servers and I've found all the information confusing.
I have a PowerBook and a Linux box, and I want to use the Linux box as a network appliance, running applications on it through my PowerBook's GUI. However I can't seem to find any clear instructions on the net on how to do so. I have found instructions on how to run KDE on OS X in a fixed-size window. I suppose that would allow KDE on OS X to work as an X server, with remote applications running within the Xnest window. But I would prefer to be able to take advantage of the entire OS X desktop for remote applications rather than have them isolated within a window.
your toothbrush has flecks of feces on it
Oh, fucking thank you for that. I just really needed to know that little scientific tidbit. Like the shock sites weren't bad enough, now Slashdot is going to give me nightmares with scientific facts.
Boxers or briefs?
This may be a bit off-topic, but since you used the words "Science" and "Philosophy" in your post, check out this ambigram (flash animation). It's from John Langdon's book WordPlay.
then I apologize profusely for jumping down his throat
Well, so long as you didn't lay eggs in his stomach and guide him to your nest waiting for them to hatch.
Heh, it would be awesome, but where would the batteries go?
Take a guess.
Even one person winning against the RIAA would be a good thing.
IANAL but I believe that falls under legal precedence, so once a legal decision is made regarding one case, it is applied to all subsequent cases like it.
Of course, there is much to be said about first page ranking.
Images.Google.cn's page ranking doesn't work well for Tiananmen Square and it works better for Tubgirl. Not as well as plain old Images.Google.com, though. Odd priorities when it comes to what they censor.
I don't understand. How can you use a ruler improperly?
Just in case anyone doesn't know, here are instructions on how to use one properly.
I recall a documentary on television- I think it was on the Discovery Channel- about how they are considering these kind of things in emergency medicine. The documentary claimed that doctors were debating how emergency response medical teams immediately give intravenous fluids and blood, because it possibly caused blood clots to break by raising blood pressure, and injuries that would normally start to heal with the clotting process would end up causing more loss of blood and eventually death.
They had statistics that brought into question the steps trauma teams take from the Vietnam and Falkland wars. In the Vietnam war, responses to injuries were very quick, whereas in the Falkland war, they took extremely long. They found that more soldiers with more serious injuries survived during the Falkland war than in Vietnam. Another factor they thought could explain this was the cold temperature the soldiers had to endure during the Falkland war.
In the documentary, one doctor applied cold to help a emergency patient who was in danger of brain damage. I recall it was mentioned that some type of brain cells actually self-destruct around damaged cells, and that this reaction didn't occur at lower temperatures. The patient was a woman who incurred a serious head injury from a horse riding accident. It was claimed that because the doctor decided to keep the woman's body temperature low while they operated on her head injury, she actually recovered without any brain damage. And it was the type of injury that would normally cause brain damage if the patient managed to survive.
I have a different opinion on where the links should be placed in this example. I know, it's just my own perspective, but I'd just like to share it. I think the link should be placed on the word "article". In this case the "sticky widget" sounds like a dashboard widget that can be downloaded from a website. So as I see it, the word "article" should link to the article about it on CNN, and the phrase "sticky widget" should link to the home page for the widget discussed in the article.
The same can be said for any article about technology that has a homepage on the web. The word "article" should link to the discussing article, and the word or phrase describing the technology should link to the homepage for it. It would be more useful for the reader to have both links available in the summary on Slashdot, rather than having to navigate to it from the article linked to. It just feels more intuitive in my opinion. "Article" links to the article, and "sticky widget" links to the sticky widget.
And on the topic of criticism about articles, I don't pay much attention to it. Considering this site coined the term "Slashdot effect", the editors are getting "Slashdotted" constantly with article submissions and must have such an incredible workload to sort through. Measuring the editors' abilities against the collective scrutiny of the massive Slashdot readership is unfair. Pointing out factual errors is fine and actually helpful, but plain old negative criticism is unwarranted unless it is done with really witty and entertaining "(Score:5, Funny)" sarcasm.
And you will either need to use an computer using AtomChip Hardware or a Phantom Game Console to access it.
Beats me. I was just speculating why they would have misspelled it with a K rather than use a C.
Huh? Since when does anyone on /. advocate a closed proprietary system that doesn't interoperate with anyone elses technology.
I think the reason Apple has kept it a closed proprietary system is so they could get as much co-operation from content providers as possible. In other words, they probably did this to kiss the RIAA's ass so they could get the major labels onto the iTMS. By locking out third parties from the whole process of purchasing the music online to listening to it on a portable music player, they are managing to use the latest technology for music, while still working with a recording industry that seems to vehemently resist this technology in favour of an outdated business model. If they opened it up, they would probably have more problems of keeping their content from leaking onto P2P networks and such. It doesn't fulfil technologically-minded practices like the open-source movement, but somehow I think the current recording industry would have never gone along with that anyway. It's kind of like mediation, finding the middle ground between people who want to use the latest gadgets and suits who can't set the clock on a VCR.
And why must they always replace a C with a K? I'm assuming whatever word it's emulating begins with a C. It doesn't lend any credence to your product...it just looks dumb.
It probably has more to do with being able to get a ".com" domain name that hasn't already been registered. The "C" spelling now leads to a yahoo error page, which probably means that they acquired it. But perhaps someone else owned it at the time Konfabulator started out, like those companies that just buy slews domain names that are in the dictionary and sell them off at marked up prices.
Trying to support PVR features is the Media Center's Achilles Heel. I simply cannot believe Microsoft does not have a video store of its own by now, also selling TV shows. When ITMS started to take off that was absolutely the right time to trump Apple and get ahead of them.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Apple probably won't even be considering adding recording capabilities, and will simply give customers the option of acquiring what they wanted to record through the iTMS instead. The problem would be that you couldn't just record any channel, but then again the industry would prefer they actually make royalties from selling shows rather than have people simply record their shows for free, so content providers would probably all flock to provide content through iTMS.