... because people are going to be using it for pr0n. Maybe they did it unwittingly, but iPods target people's MP3 collections, while this thing targets porn collections. "Video and digital photos" means "porn downloaded from the web".
Anyone make the connection on how both Windows and OS X have built-in features meant to be used with music, photos, and video that can easily be applied to what people really use the net for? At first glance, it may seem that they are targetting legally bought CDs, digital cameras, and DV cams. However, they also conveniently fit the major uses of the internet which are downloading MP3s, porn images, and porn videos. Can you guess what some people are using the "slideshow" function for?
They should have gone and designed these things to be waterproof. And they should advertise them as "sport" versions that can be used while you are around a swimming pool, when in fact the waterproofing would be so that people can use them in the tub, and so they won't break from accidentally being dropped in the toilet, or from... um... "spillage".:P
I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind these products. These are marketed and designed for use from the point of view people WANT to carry movies and photos around with them.
Maybe people are going to use it for pr0n. Many of these things are going to accidentally be dropped in toilets.
I've noticed that I'm suffering a lot less eye-strain since I switched
That might actually have something to do with switching to LCD from CRT. CRT's can cause eye strain because text displayed on them doesn't have the crisp definition compared to printed text, and it causes your eyes to lose focus and rest at a point further beyond the screen. It is referred to as Computer Vision Syndrome and they even have special computer glasses that are used to move this resting point to where the screen is. The flickering refresh rate of CRT's can cause eye strain as well. I think LCD's reduce the eye strain because of the crisp clarity of the pixels, as well as the fact that there is no refresh rate flicker.
I actually think that anti-aliasing fonts, ClearType, and Quartz text rendering on OS X may actually hinder some of the benefits of switching to LCD, because although they may eliminate the "jaggies" in text characters, they also reduce some of the crisp edges of fonts on LCD displays. But it is probably still better than text on CRT's. Horizontal lines in text using ClearType and Quartz text rendering still have the crisp edges of LCD pixels, so that probably helps keep eye focus.
It was a little weird for the first couple of days, but now I don't even notice the difference
I've noticed the same thing with Quartz rendering in OS X. When it first came out, a lot of people complained about it, saying it was a bad feature. I felt strange using it at first as well, but after a while I found I actually preferred it. Things that don't have it, like Java applets and the Console application, just don't look as good.
I am a psychologist who has been working for Microsoft in different capacities since 1996. In 2000 I completed my PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Texas at Austin studying word recognition and reading acquisition. I joined the ClearType team in 2002 to help get a better scientific understanding of the benefits of ClearType and other reading technologies with the goal of achieving a great on-screen reading experience.
I'm surprised this guy is actually working with ClearType. That is just a simple way of making characters appear better by using sub-pixels to increase character resolution. I would think this type of work would be better applied in optical character recognition, maybe even with cursive handwriting.
Also, Chinese is character-based, not letter-based, so the research would be completely different.
Yes, but could there be a similarity in that reading Chinese involves recognition of strokes the same way that reading in English involves letters? FTA...
Fixations never occur between words, and usually occur just to the left of the middle of a word. Not all words are fixated; short words and particularly function words are frequently skipped.
Perhaps reading Chinese involves focusing on the strokes of the right side of a Chinese character, since they are read right to left, while some characters can be skipped entirely.
When I was on a PC using a Palm V with Palm Desktop, sychronisation was easy and quick. And if something happened to your computer like a hard drive crash, you didn't have to worry because your data was backed up on your Palm. You just had to re-install everything on your computer then hit the sync button, and everything was automatically copied back onto Palm Desktop. It also worked in reverse- if anything happened to your Palm, all you had to do was get a new one and stick it in the cradle, and hit the sync button, and all of your data would be on your new Palm. Easy.
Since I switched to a Powerbook and use iSync, I find it really screws with things. When I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther, I wanted to do a clean install. I thought if I did all that, I could just hit the sync button and everything would be copied back onto my computer just like on a PC. NO! iSync erased all the data I had on the Palm instead. Luckily I had a backup. Some time later, I had data corruption when I tried to turn off FileVault, despite the fact that bug was supposed to be fixed in Panther. It screwed with files randomly all over my home directory, and I'm still going through them one by one to weed out the corrupt files. I haven't even started on the voice recording files that I have accumulated over a span of 2 years. Anyway, after the corruption, I had to re-install everything again. I forgot that the initial sync wipes out the Palm data as it did, and Apple's Backup application somehow screwed up backing up my address book and 5 years worth of calendar data, so I was screwed. Luckily, they were also on my iPod. But instead of just syncing my iPod, I manually mounted it as a firewire drive and copied the calendar and address book data files and restored them. I didn't want to risk the syncing process to wipe out the data on the iPod as well. After all this, I only had lost a month's worth of data (I hadn't synced my iPod with iSync for a month).
I've also had problems with entering data in Address Book on OS X. The Palm only accepts the address if it is labelled as a "home" address, even if it is a business. I found this out the hard way when I was late for a dental appointment, hopped in a cab, then found the address wasn't in my Palm. I had to borrow the cabbie's mobile phone to call for the proper address. I thought I had entered the address, and found out later that it hadn't been copied over because it was labelled as a "business" address.
So basically, what I look for is easy, seamless integration between the PDA and computer, without any of these devastating quirks that you have to find out on your own by accident.
Just curious- I vaguely recall something about light polarisation that had to do with rotating it... something about sending light through a filter that rotates the polarity 90 degrees, yet if you do it a second time, it rotates it only 45 degrees when you think it should rotate it 90 degrees again... I think that's how it went, but I forget the details. Do you have any idea what it is called? It is one of those experiments that show the strange nature of light light the double-slit experiment and quantum entanglement.
Alice encrypts her message with the key coded into her balls. Then Bob can decrypt it by using the opposite of the key coded on his balls.
I'm sorry, I know it's juvenile, but that bit just made me laugh. I get what you basically mean though, it's the secured encryption that uses the quantum entanglement, not the message transmission.
Could quantum entanglement be used to communicate data through a signal this way? If quantum entanglement is truly instantaneous and can happen at any distance, can it be used to communicate with a distant planet in real-time, rather than having to wait for a signal to travel for years?
It's common to read something on this site that is intellectual. It's rare to see something that is emotional. A Hollywood Walk of Fame Star doesn't even begin to describe what an icon Scotty is, not just for trekkies, but for science. In decades to come, when quantum teleportation technology is developed more and more, it will undoubtedly be referred to as "beaming". And if ever the technology develops from transporting subatomic and atomic particles to the point that an entire person can be teleported, the news will be broken to the world with images of James Doohan operating a transporter. I bet he never thought that a simple casting audition would land him a place in history.
The EyeTV 500 is another TV tuner for the Mac from Elgato. Elgato.com seems to be down at the moment, so I can't check out their site. I think they have more than one version- I think there's one for terrestrial broadcast, and another for satellite.
Man, I don't know why everyone continues to say that the iPod is the only mp3 player with a good UI. I own a Creative Nomad MX, and you'd have to be next to retarded not to be able to operate it.
Yes, but you can be next to retarded and still operate the iPod UI.
Also, back when I bought my Actius 150, the Japanese lineup was called "Möbius" -- had the one-sided loop as the wallpaper and everything. Can we assume that "Mebius" is a translation error?
Googling for "sharp mebius" got about 35,200 results, while "sharp mobius" got only 15 results, and "sharp möbius" didn't get any. Maybe it was a trademark dispute and they changed the name to get by it. The actual name they would be using for the Japanese market would be in Japanese, anyway. Perhaps the Japanese name actually means "Möbius" and they intentionally mistranslate it into "Mebius" to avoid trademark disputes. And maybe that's why they renamed it for the US market as well.
Aha! I just found out something- this is the homepage of the Mebius. When you translate the Japanese webpage title in Sherlock (Mac OS X) from Japanese to English, the result is "Mobius: Sharp". They do intentionally mistranslate it!
Many Diebold ATM systems are unpactched Windows XP installs with a internet connection and no firewall.
Unpatched, using the internet, andno firewalls?!? Are they fucking mad? Someone may have already written a worm that hacks into these machines and just gives them all the money! Magnetic stripe cards could be duplicated and passwords keylogged, and sent over the internet! That's pathetic!!!
I've personally never heard of them, and I'm sure most others haven't either, so why should I trust them?
There have been many articles on Slashdot about Diebold for over a year. You must be new here (no pun intended). A lot of Slashdot's audience, estimated at around half a million readers a day, have heard of it.
Well, in their defence (?), the thing *does* cost $1900 already.
I think the reason it cost more was because of it's miniaturisation rather than the screen size. A slightly larger screen with the same horizontal and vertical resolution (not dpi) shouldn't cost much more. In fact, it probably may cost less, because pixel density may cost more. They should have made the monitor lid thicker to put whatever electronics are in the bezel behind the screen.
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... because people are going to be using it for pr0n . Maybe they did it unwittingly, but iPods target people's MP3 collections, while this thing targets porn collections. "Video and digital photos" means "porn downloaded from the web".
Anyone make the connection on how both Windows and OS X have built-in features meant to be used with music, photos, and video that can easily be applied to what people really use the net for? At first glance, it may seem that they are targetting legally bought CDs, digital cameras, and DV cams. However, they also conveniently fit the major uses of the internet which are downloading MP3s, porn images, and porn videos. Can you guess what some people are using the "slideshow" function for?
They should have gone and designed these things to be waterproof. And they should advertise them as "sport" versions that can be used while you are around a swimming pool, when in fact the waterproofing would be so that people can use them in the tub, and so they won't break from accidentally being dropped in the toilet, or from... um... "spillage". :P
I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind these products. These are marketed and designed for use from the point of view people WANT to carry movies and photos around with them.
Maybe people are going to use it for pr0n. Many of these things are going to accidentally be dropped in toilets.
My cousin has a powerbook and he hooks it up to the tv all the time, so I'm assuming the powerbook can do the same. Anyone can verify?
Powerbooks have S-Video ports built in. A short cable is included that turns the S-Video into an RCA port.
I believe that "ultra-fast" is a technical term.
I think you're thinking of the "Hi-Speed" label for USB.
Thanks for the effort :)
"But teacher, Slashdot ate my homework"
I got it confused with Japanese, then, at least the way the direction book pages go.
I've noticed that I'm suffering a lot less eye-strain since I switched
That might actually have something to do with switching to LCD from CRT. CRT's can cause eye strain because text displayed on them doesn't have the crisp definition compared to printed text, and it causes your eyes to lose focus and rest at a point further beyond the screen. It is referred to as Computer Vision Syndrome and they even have special computer glasses that are used to move this resting point to where the screen is. The flickering refresh rate of CRT's can cause eye strain as well. I think LCD's reduce the eye strain because of the crisp clarity of the pixels, as well as the fact that there is no refresh rate flicker.
I actually think that anti-aliasing fonts, ClearType, and Quartz text rendering on OS X may actually hinder some of the benefits of switching to LCD, because although they may eliminate the "jaggies" in text characters, they also reduce some of the crisp edges of fonts on LCD displays. But it is probably still better than text on CRT's. Horizontal lines in text using ClearType and Quartz text rendering still have the crisp edges of LCD pixels, so that probably helps keep eye focus.
It was a little weird for the first couple of days, but now I don't even notice the difference
I've noticed the same thing with Quartz rendering in OS X. When it first came out, a lot of people complained about it, saying it was a bad feature. I felt strange using it at first as well, but after a while I found I actually preferred it. Things that don't have it, like Java applets and the Console application, just don't look as good.
I'm surprised this guy is actually working with ClearType. That is just a simple way of making characters appear better by using sub-pixels to increase character resolution. I would think this type of work would be better applied in optical character recognition, maybe even with cursive handwriting.
Also, Chinese is character-based, not letter-based, so the research would be completely different.
Yes, but could there be a similarity in that reading Chinese involves recognition of strokes the same way that reading in English involves letters? FTA...
Perhaps reading Chinese involves focusing on the strokes of the right side of a Chinese character, since they are read right to left, while some characters can be skipped entirely.
When I was on a PC using a Palm V with Palm Desktop, sychronisation was easy and quick. And if something happened to your computer like a hard drive crash, you didn't have to worry because your data was backed up on your Palm. You just had to re-install everything on your computer then hit the sync button, and everything was automatically copied back onto Palm Desktop. It also worked in reverse- if anything happened to your Palm, all you had to do was get a new one and stick it in the cradle, and hit the sync button, and all of your data would be on your new Palm. Easy.
Since I switched to a Powerbook and use iSync, I find it really screws with things. When I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther, I wanted to do a clean install. I thought if I did all that, I could just hit the sync button and everything would be copied back onto my computer just like on a PC. NO! iSync erased all the data I had on the Palm instead. Luckily I had a backup. Some time later, I had data corruption when I tried to turn off FileVault, despite the fact that bug was supposed to be fixed in Panther. It screwed with files randomly all over my home directory, and I'm still going through them one by one to weed out the corrupt files. I haven't even started on the voice recording files that I have accumulated over a span of 2 years. Anyway, after the corruption, I had to re-install everything again. I forgot that the initial sync wipes out the Palm data as it did, and Apple's Backup application somehow screwed up backing up my address book and 5 years worth of calendar data, so I was screwed. Luckily, they were also on my iPod. But instead of just syncing my iPod, I manually mounted it as a firewire drive and copied the calendar and address book data files and restored them. I didn't want to risk the syncing process to wipe out the data on the iPod as well. After all this, I only had lost a month's worth of data (I hadn't synced my iPod with iSync for a month).
I've also had problems with entering data in Address Book on OS X. The Palm only accepts the address if it is labelled as a "home" address, even if it is a business. I found this out the hard way when I was late for a dental appointment, hopped in a cab, then found the address wasn't in my Palm. I had to borrow the cabbie's mobile phone to call for the proper address. I thought I had entered the address, and found out later that it hadn't been copied over because it was labelled as a "business" address.
So basically, what I look for is easy, seamless integration between the PDA and computer, without any of these devastating quirks that you have to find out on your own by accident.
Just curious- I vaguely recall something about light polarisation that had to do with rotating it... something about sending light through a filter that rotates the polarity 90 degrees, yet if you do it a second time, it rotates it only 45 degrees when you think it should rotate it 90 degrees again... I think that's how it went, but I forget the details. Do you have any idea what it is called? It is one of those experiments that show the strange nature of light light the double-slit experiment and quantum entanglement.
Alice encrypts her message with the key coded into her balls. Then Bob can decrypt it by using the opposite of the key coded on his balls.
I'm sorry, I know it's juvenile, but that bit just made me laugh. I get what you basically mean though, it's the secured encryption that uses the quantum entanglement, not the message transmission.
there is no way to actually send information via these effects
But isn't that what they do with quantum cryptography?
Could quantum entanglement be used to communicate data through a signal this way? If quantum entanglement is truly instantaneous and can happen at any distance, can it be used to communicate with a distant planet in real-time, rather than having to wait for a signal to travel for years?
... so we can launch her out into space! Not in the direction of the signal, but rather into the sun! :P
... because he was reading Slashdot? :P
It's common to read something on this site that is intellectual. It's rare to see something that is emotional. A Hollywood Walk of Fame Star doesn't even begin to describe what an icon Scotty is, not just for trekkies, but for science. In decades to come, when quantum teleportation technology is developed more and more, it will undoubtedly be referred to as "beaming". And if ever the technology develops from transporting subatomic and atomic particles to the point that an entire person can be teleported, the news will be broken to the world with images of James Doohan operating a transporter. I bet he never thought that a simple casting audition would land him a place in history.
The EyeTV 500 is another TV tuner for the Mac from Elgato. Elgato.com seems to be down at the moment, so I can't check out their site. I think they have more than one version- I think there's one for terrestrial broadcast, and another for satellite.
Man, I don't know why everyone continues to say that the iPod is the only mp3 player with a good UI. I own a Creative Nomad MX, and you'd have to be next to retarded not to be able to operate it.
Yes, but you can be next to retarded and still operate the iPod UI.
Also, back when I bought my Actius 150, the Japanese lineup was called "Möbius" -- had the one-sided loop as the wallpaper and everything. Can we assume that "Mebius" is a translation error?
Googling for "sharp mebius" got about 35,200 results, while "sharp mobius" got only 15 results, and "sharp möbius" didn't get any. Maybe it was a trademark dispute and they changed the name to get by it. The actual name they would be using for the Japanese market would be in Japanese, anyway. Perhaps the Japanese name actually means "Möbius" and they intentionally mistranslate it into "Mebius" to avoid trademark disputes. And maybe that's why they renamed it for the US market as well.
Aha! I just found out something- this is the homepage of the Mebius. When you translate the Japanese webpage title in Sherlock (Mac OS X) from Japanese to English, the result is "Mobius: Sharp". They do intentionally mistranslate it!
Many Diebold ATM systems are unpactched Windows XP installs with a internet connection and no firewall.
Unpatched, using the internet, and no firewalls?!? Are they fucking mad? Someone may have already written a worm that hacks into these machines and just gives them all the money! Magnetic stripe cards could be duplicated and passwords keylogged, and sent over the internet! That's pathetic!!!I've personally never heard of them, and I'm sure most others haven't either, so why should I trust them?
There have been many articles on Slashdot about Diebold for over a year. You must be new here (no pun intended). A lot of Slashdot's audience, estimated at around half a million readers a day, have heard of it.
Well, in their defence (?), the thing *does* cost $1900 already.
I think the reason it cost more was because of it's miniaturisation rather than the screen size. A slightly larger screen with the same horizontal and vertical resolution (not dpi) shouldn't cost much more. In fact, it probably may cost less, because pixel density may cost more. They should have made the monitor lid thicker to put whatever electronics are in the bezel behind the screen.How do you propose a geek go about staging a coup de corp?
By telling them the about how to get the best porn online during a binge drinking session. He'll be a hero.
WE NEED MORE GEEKS IN MANAGEMENT.
With the outsourcing of IT jobs, there would be no problem with the availability of IT personnel for management positions.
NOW GET BACK TO WRITING YOUR MBA!!!