it appears that your sig indicates the intelligence you vehemently defend to have. a quote from thee:
"Maybe you think the world would be a better place if it were run by the likes of China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Every intelligent person in the world would disagree with you."
I do beleive I have the credentials to call myself intelligent and I do not agree with you. China is currently growing fast in the knowledge area, and need I remind you that the Soviet Union in its socialist days beat the Americans in more than one scientific area? (think man in space, dog in space, sattelite, tokamak, MIR (vs. Skylab)) I do agree that Cuba is not, but it is in financial troubles because of a certain embargo imposed by a certain gov't.
crawl back please, but do so fast. Why is it so difficult to believe good people exist in other countries? Sheesh.
Many governments are unhappy about the current situation, therefore something must be wrong no? Ignoring other people's ideas is what's broken about the internet in its current state. Also cybersquatting is a great problem IMO.
The revenue source of the UN mose certainly lies not within the way it handles its aid. Your Namibia comment does not cut wood either. You are solely responsible for the whereabouts of your credit card number. Also what makes the information classified right now? What prevents me from requesting your address info from a WHOIS server? And what makes America so uniquely capable of handling that data? Have they not constructed a database, for mere mortals to peruse, containing your credit card information, picture, ID number and nutritional preference if ever you travelled by plane? Certainly the "Do not call" database has been managed quite perfectly.
The internet is not 100% American grown (sic). Not by far. Even without the US influence it would still have developed, but in a different way. The US also did not invent atomic bombs, they were there first.
The military argument is moot. The military has its own network for sensitive data. At least ours does. The Syria argument is nonexistent. You know the great thing about the UN? It consists of various countries. Not one country can do as it pleases and thus changes are very well scrutinized before implemented. Not so with the US. The US has been known for changing its mind and doing whatever it fancies (Kyoto, Iraq). Sure, now it more or less works but tomorrow it may not. It may be used more and more as a political tool by the US. Its reluctance to consider alternative control organisations certainly point in that direction. If any country is unstable in its policies it is the US.
And come on, Packet sniffing the US military traffic? any idea how the net works? any idea why it is DECENTRALIZED? And uses switches, hubs and the likes? Because there is no one main router through which all traffic passes! thus packet sniffing is NOT an issue. And Encryption? It appears you have not thought about your arguments.
And your last argument implies your government is not corrupt? Kyoto, Iraq.
It is not the USA's web (CERN anyone? other academic institutions?), and they haven't built it out of the good of their hearts (the US just don't do that). It is apparently not broken but in need of some band aids to keep it going and a polish here and there to keep it shiny. The UN is not a bad place. Sure, You keep whining about the oil for food programme and how they weren't here or there, but in general they've been helping a lot of people around the world for a lot of years. That's more than can be said of the US. I think it's time to cut off the US and let them play in their own sandbox. Build a great wall c.q. dome around the continent so its inherent stupidity and ignorance cannot escape. Of course we'll rescue a few smart people first the way they did when they looted Germany after WW2 of their knowledge.
what makes you think this one's American then? Just because you may have been told that it started out from the DARPAnet doesn't mean similar activities weren't initiated in Geneva (CERN) and both connected somewhere in the middle. Now why don't we just cut you off from the rest of the world and let you screw around on your own continent, satisfied with the idea that you're the only ones there? And define "broken". Sure, your body is still operational were I to break your legs, smash your teeth and pull out your fingernails. But it'd be painful no? Same thing here.
Well that would not work when the train (automatically) has to stop, for someone in a broken-down car on the rails, a nut with suicidal tendencies or livestock. Also these trains would have to be made very light and the track cannot go up or downhill (for lack of braking power/accellerating power). The roof area of a train is not that big either compared to its volume and on cloudy days it would simply stop. Solar cells are also very inefficient and they break quite easily. My hopes are on good energy sources coming available in the late 2050's such as fusion power (go ITER!). Don't hold your breath for windmill parks (too large areas) or solar cells (too expensive AND too large required areas (think of a city!)).
input to 'cat' produces equal amounts of output with 100% efficiency. I've never had any dropped ASCII characters when using cat.
animal rights activists shush, this process apparently involves dead animals, so if they're dead, what will you be doing about it? Will the dead animals benefit from your actions? In any case, many dead animals end up processed for animal food anyway.
I think it would be about time to have a world map colored green and red wherever governments/officials have respectively adopted or not adopted open document formats.
Who is in? I thought China, some states in the US and some Scandinavian countries, parts of Germany...
What greenpeace is saying is that they'd have used the 10b for windmills now (actually they didn't count the service costs over the years), where it'd supply 7.5 million households with energy (bbc source). Now consider the fact that this 10b is coming from virtually any big country in the world and it is poo in comparison with other projects. 7.5 million people is not quite a dent of the world population either. The real fuss (and that it has been for the past 10 years (an bigger design was proposed years ago)), was that Japan wanted to become the center of fusion research, but so did Europe. After years of debate by Worldwide comissions and comittees (which together must have cost more than 10b over the years).
I for one am glad this research is to be set in France. Actually, my teacher in nuclear fusion was none less than prof. Cardozo, head of the european research team. Trust me, I'm proud:).
Now, I must point out that I haven't kept up-to-date with this techniligy, but wouldn't it be cool if all this wireless tech would automatically create a network with its surrounding similar wimax devices? Does it do this already? sort of like, forming ad hoc networks, pathways through other people's wireless equipment to the nearest internet link? Or is this just a dream..
most stupid construction ever. I'm ashamed to call him a student. This is no more than a construction to waste water. He could have ripped a few radiators from a garbage belt to greatly increase the cooling surface (not, as he suggests, pumping more water through it). Also he does not consider the energy it takes to make ice water, and absolutely doesn't consider that that energy is dissipated in his student house. I wonder if this guy had any thermodynamics lesson at all. Hell, you can even get more thermodyn. from Irregular Webcomic (www.irregularwebcomic.com).
I seriously doubt it was planned, considering Apple's desire to only publish something when it's 100% finished. Expect lawsuits to ensue, and heads to roll. In my opinion, these people (read: the ones shamelessly distributing development software) ruin that which they have.
They may think they're doing it for the good of Apple, but in the endd, if the development 10.4_X86 has many bugs and crashes often, the X86 version is going to be reviewed in a bad light by "normal" (read: non-mac-fanatical) sites and journals.
You do mess with your air flow this way.
and it is shit ugly. the two bolts that is.
It appears that people and manufacturers are not taking a proper air flow into consideration anymore. standard pc's are now riddled with fans blowing in all directions.
People should take a lesson from the sun E450 type machines for instance. although they are huge beasts, the air flows from front to back, is guided neatly past all 4 processors (which do not have fans of themselves) and passes out the (3) powersupplies.
Temperatures can be monitored from inlet to cpus to PSU's like this , and there is nothing obstructing the air flow. ever. excellent design.
Apple does the same in their powermacs, but this man either forgot or thought 200W (100W per proc) would be easy to dissipate.
Well, true 3d is something we'd all want, I agree with you there. but there are other ways of displaying dimensions, for instance by using perspective and shading.
The airplane scenario does not hold, since current displays in control towers have been shown to be adequate. yes, it is cool to have a 3d image of the skies above, but you'd constantly have to move around the screen to see where it is in all three dimensions.
I have also found that displaying a molecule can be done sufficiently well, by rotating the molecule or by using stereoscopic views.
I seriously doubt that 3d displays will make a serious contribution in hospitals soon, since the images gathered by the equipment are too high in resolution to show and contain too much information in most cases to show in 3d (i.e. an artery blockage is too small to see on a 25 cm rotating display showing a cerebral MR angiography). Especially since the transprarency/depth cannot be set and thus too many arteries will be seen, distracting from that which is important.
What I'd give serious money for is automated highlighting of regions of interest in medical imaging. look at, for instance at the ph.d. thesis of Bart van Ginneken, 2001, Utrecht University.
for the same price as one 25 cm 3d display, you can have 4 powermac g5's with dual 30" displays. that's 8 massive displays for the price of one 25 cm goldfish bowl..
In order to make it appealing they'd have to produce it for about 400 $ methinks. and connect it to a telephone:) B.
which was based on an even nicer quicktime ad available here.
there are also more movies available there.
also look for an anime music video at animemusicvideos for a movie called "AMV Hell". They have a nice clip in that short movie using the ellenfeiss commercial.
it is like a million voices all cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
possibly heart attacks.
But seriously, I'd just have put the G5 behind some soundproofing walls and run virtual pc on them. VPC suffices for most scientific programs that would not run under a unix environment.
One of the causes of this behavior could be that there are a lot of people who started using email not too long ago. Therefore, spam was there when they started emailing, and they don't complain about it because it is no change.
A simile here would be people who always lived near an airport tend to complain less about the airport than the people who just moved to that region. Thus, a change in the behavior of a user environment is more likely to be a cause for complaints than something that has always been there. We do not complain about the high death toll caused by traffic anymore, do we? they did in the past!
>(can't the phone and headset do this without a Mac involved?)
Well no. Most phones will only connect to one device. The trouble therefore is that it can connect to a computer, which will be able to control the phone (i.e. phone rings, computer displays name, number and photo, allowing the user to pick up, hang up or other), but the computer doesn't have the option yet to patch the call through to the bluetooth headset.
In order to use a bluetooth headset, the use of the computer has to be circumvented. which is a shame in my opinion.
> I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever had a version 3.141592?
actually that would be 3.141593 since if you round off pi (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939931 058) it would be closer to 3.141593 than 3.141592 given the 6 as the eight number.
B.
I hear that it incorporates some more bluetooth capabilities, allowing to patch the phone call through to your BT headset. Can't wait until the next version of BluePhoneElite and Salling Clicker after the release of 10.4.
B.
Well, nice as having access to all music you'll ever want is, I would severely miss the reliability and ease of use of my iPod. And considering the fact that my music collection is now so extensive that I rarely buy music (or download it for that matter) anymore, I think yet another subscription to my already complicated monthly payments is just not worth it by far.
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it appears that your sig indicates the intelligence you vehemently defend to have. a quote from thee:
"Maybe you think the world would be a better place if it were run by the likes of China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Every intelligent person in the world would disagree with you."
I do beleive I have the credentials to call myself intelligent and I do not agree with you. China is currently growing fast in the knowledge area, and need I remind you that the Soviet Union in its socialist days beat the Americans in more than one scientific area? (think man in space, dog in space, sattelite, tokamak, MIR (vs. Skylab))
I do agree that Cuba is not, but it is in financial troubles because of a certain embargo imposed by a certain gov't.
crawl back please, but do so fast. Why is it so difficult to believe good people exist in other countries? Sheesh.
Many governments are unhappy about the current situation, therefore something must be wrong no? Ignoring other people's ideas is what's broken about the internet in its current state. Also cybersquatting is a great problem IMO.
The revenue source of the UN mose certainly lies not within the way it handles its aid. Your Namibia comment does not cut wood either. You are solely responsible for the whereabouts of your credit card number. Also what makes the information classified right now? What prevents me from requesting your address info from a WHOIS server? And what makes America so uniquely capable of handling that data? Have they not constructed a database, for mere mortals to peruse, containing your credit card information, picture, ID number and nutritional preference if ever you travelled by plane? Certainly the "Do not call" database has been managed quite perfectly.
The internet is not 100% American grown (sic). Not by far. Even without the US influence it would still have developed, but in a different way. The US also did not invent atomic bombs, they were there first.
The military argument is moot. The military has its own network for sensitive data. At least ours does.
The Syria argument is nonexistent. You know the great thing about the UN? It consists of various countries. Not one country can do as it pleases and thus changes are very well scrutinized before implemented.
Not so with the US. The US has been known for changing its mind and doing whatever it fancies (Kyoto, Iraq). Sure, now it more or less works but tomorrow it may not. It may be used more and more as a political tool by the US. Its reluctance to consider alternative control organisations certainly point in that direction. If any country is unstable in its policies it is the US.
And come on, Packet sniffing the US military traffic? any idea how the net works? any idea why it is DECENTRALIZED? And uses switches, hubs and the likes? Because there is no one main router through which all traffic passes! thus packet sniffing is NOT an issue. And Encryption? It appears you have not thought about your arguments.
And your last argument implies your government is not corrupt? Kyoto, Iraq.
B.
It is not the USA's web (CERN anyone? other academic institutions?), and they haven't built it out of the good of their hearts (the US just don't do that). It is apparently not broken but in need of some band aids to keep it going and a polish here and there to keep it shiny.
The UN is not a bad place. Sure, You keep whining about the oil for food programme and how they weren't here or there, but in general they've been helping a lot of people around the world for a lot of years. That's more than can be said of the US.
I think it's time to cut off the US and let them play in their own sandbox. Build a great wall c.q. dome around the continent so its inherent stupidity and ignorance cannot escape. Of course we'll rescue a few smart people first the way they did when they looted Germany after WW2 of their knowledge.
B.
what makes you think this one's American then? Just because you may have been told that it started out from the DARPAnet doesn't mean similar activities weren't initiated in Geneva (CERN) and both connected somewhere in the middle. Now why don't we just cut you off from the rest of the world and let you screw around on your own continent, satisfied with the idea that you're the only ones there?
And define "broken". Sure, your body is still operational were I to break your legs, smash your teeth and pull out your fingernails. But it'd be painful no? Same thing here.
B.
Well that would not work when the train (automatically) has to stop, for someone in a broken-down car on the rails, a nut with suicidal tendencies or livestock. Also these trains would have to be made very light and the track cannot go up or downhill (for lack of braking power/accellerating power). The roof area of a train is not that big either compared to its volume and on cloudy days it would simply stop. Solar cells are also very inefficient and they break quite easily.
My hopes are on good energy sources coming available in the late 2050's such as fusion power (go ITER!). Don't hold your breath for windmill parks (too large areas) or solar cells (too expensive AND too large required areas (think of a city!)).
B.
input to 'cat' produces equal amounts of output with 100% efficiency. I've never had any dropped ASCII characters when using cat.
animal rights activists shush, this process apparently involves dead animals, so if they're dead, what will you be doing about it? Will the dead animals benefit from your actions?
In any case, many dead animals end up processed for animal food anyway.
B.
I think it would be about time to have a world map colored green and red wherever governments/officials have respectively adopted or not adopted open document formats.
...
Who is in? I thought China, some states in the US and some Scandinavian countries, parts of Germany
What greenpeace is saying is that they'd have used the 10b for windmills now (actually they didn't count the service costs over the years), where it'd supply 7.5 million households with energy (bbc source).
:).
Now consider the fact that this 10b is coming from virtually any big country in the world and it is poo in comparison with other projects. 7.5 million people is not quite a dent of the world population either.
The real fuss (and that it has been for the past 10 years (an bigger design was proposed years ago)), was that Japan wanted to become the center of fusion research, but so did Europe. After years of debate by Worldwide comissions and comittees (which together must have cost more than 10b over the years).
I for one am glad this research is to be set in France. Actually, my teacher in nuclear fusion was none less than prof. Cardozo, head of the european research team. Trust me, I'm proud
b.
Now, I must point out that I haven't kept up-to-date with this techniligy, but wouldn't it be cool if all this wireless tech would automatically create a network with its surrounding similar wimax devices?
Does it do this already? sort of like, forming ad hoc networks, pathways through other people's wireless equipment to the nearest internet link?
Or is this just a dream..
B.
most stupid construction ever. I'm ashamed to call him a student.
This is no more than a construction to waste water. He could have ripped a few radiators from a garbage belt to greatly increase the cooling surface (not, as he suggests, pumping more water through it). Also he does not consider the energy it takes to make ice water, and absolutely doesn't consider that that energy is dissipated in his student house.
I wonder if this guy had any thermodynamics lesson at all. Hell, you can even get more thermodyn. from Irregular Webcomic (www.irregularwebcomic.com).
sheesh.
B. (graduating chem.eng. student)
damn.
went down too fast to mirror. must be quicker than its shadow, that server.
good one there, didn't think of that immediately.
:)
I had the case in the back of my mind when writing it, where details leaked of the mac mini specs.
I guess I should think more
B.
I seriously doubt it was planned, considering Apple's desire to only publish something when it's 100% finished. Expect lawsuits to ensue, and heads to roll.
In my opinion, these people (read: the ones shamelessly distributing development software) ruin that which they have.
They may think they're doing it for the good of Apple, but in the endd, if the development 10.4_X86 has many bugs and crashes often, the X86 version is going to be reviewed in a bad light by "normal" (read: non-mac-fanatical) sites and journals.
grr.
B.
You do mess with your air flow this way. and it is shit ugly. the two bolts that is.
It appears that people and manufacturers are not taking a proper air flow into consideration anymore. standard pc's are now riddled with fans blowing in all directions.
People should take a lesson from the sun E450 type machines for instance. although they are huge beasts, the air flows from front to back, is guided neatly past all 4 processors (which do not have fans of themselves) and passes out the (3) powersupplies.
Temperatures can be monitored from inlet to cpus to PSU's like this , and there is nothing obstructing the air flow. ever. excellent design.
Apple does the same in their powermacs, but this man either forgot or thought 200W (100W per proc) would be easy to dissipate.
Well, true 3d is something we'd all want, I agree with you there. but there are other ways of displaying dimensions, for instance by using perspective and shading.
The airplane scenario does not hold, since current displays in control towers have been shown to be adequate. yes, it is cool to have a 3d image of the skies above, but you'd constantly have to move around the screen to see where it is in all three dimensions.
I have also found that displaying a molecule can be done sufficiently well, by rotating the molecule or by using stereoscopic views.
I seriously doubt that 3d displays will make a serious contribution in hospitals soon, since the images gathered by the equipment are too high in resolution to show and contain too much information in most cases to show in 3d (i.e. an artery blockage is too small to see on a 25 cm rotating display showing a cerebral MR angiography). Especially since the transprarency/depth cannot be set and thus too many arteries will be seen, distracting from that which is important.
What I'd give serious money for is automated highlighting of regions of interest in medical imaging. look at, for instance at the ph.d. thesis of Bart van Ginneken, 2001, Utrecht University.
B.
for the same price as one 25 cm 3d display, you can have 4 powermac g5's with dual 30" displays. that's 8 massive displays for the price of one 25 cm goldfish bowl..
:)
In order to make it appealing they'd have to produce it for about 400 $ methinks. and connect it to a telephone
B.
Why can microsoft not go 'Oh yes, you may have ruled against us as an EU court, but your laws do not apply where we are located. Ask GW.'
B.
which was based on an even nicer quicktime ad available here. there are also more movies available there.
also look for an anime music video at animemusicvideos for a movie called "AMV Hell". They have a nice clip in that short movie using the ellenfeiss commercial.
it is like a million voices all cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
possibly heart attacks.
But seriously, I'd just have put the G5 behind some soundproofing walls and run virtual pc on them. VPC suffices for most scientific programs that would not run under a unix environment.
B.
One of the causes of this behavior could be that there are a lot of people who started using email not too long ago.
Therefore, spam was there when they started emailing, and they don't complain about it because it is no change.
A simile here would be people who always lived near an airport tend to complain less about the airport than the people who just moved to that region. Thus, a change in the behavior of a user environment is more likely to be a cause for complaints than something that has always been there.
We do not complain about the high death toll caused by traffic anymore, do we? they did in the past!
B.
they should have turned it around. google for cab drivers that will show them where potential customers are :).
B.
>(can't the phone and headset do this without a Mac involved?)
Well no. Most phones will only connect to one device. The trouble therefore is that it can connect to a computer, which will be able to control the phone (i.e. phone rings, computer displays name, number and photo, allowing the user to pick up, hang up or other), but the computer doesn't have the option yet to patch the call through to the bluetooth headset.
In order to use a bluetooth headset, the use of the computer has to be circumvented. which is a shame in my opinion.
B.
> I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever had a version 3.141592? actually that would be 3.141593 since if you round off pi (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939931 058) it would be closer to 3.141593 than 3.141592 given the 6 as the eight number.
B.
I hear that it incorporates some more bluetooth capabilities, allowing to patch the phone call through to your BT headset. Can't wait until the next version of BluePhoneElite and Salling Clicker after the release of 10.4. B.
Well, nice as having access to all music you'll ever want is, I would severely miss the reliability and ease of use of my iPod. And considering the fact that my music collection is now so extensive that I rarely buy music (or download it for that matter) anymore, I think yet another subscription to my already complicated monthly payments is just not worth it by far.
B.