Well, I think I'm sitting pretty nice here in Seattle. We've got the whole Olympic peninsula to deflect and absorb tsunmanis, and the (relatively) small passage leading into the Puget Sound would mean that only a small section of a wave would get in, and it would be bounced around so many times before it got anywhere near the Seattle area that noting more than a slight tidal increase would occur. However, I shouldn't lord it over everyone else cause one of these days we'll get our own little 9.0+ earthquake, and that will probably be as bad as (or worse than) any tsunami wave. Oh well... there are not very many places on Earth that are free from natural disasters - and those places are not very fun to live in for other reasons, I imagine. Thats life:)
Uh, look it up in a dictionary: he pronounced it right! Most people do not realize that the prefix "giga" in the English language should be pronounced "ji'ga" not "gi'ga" - at least, that is how it was until the prefix became popular with computer terms such as gigabyte and gigahertz. Now, both pronunciations are generally accepted. Wait... could that be Linguistic Darwinism????;)
Well, with USB 1.0, yeah, there isn't enough bandwidth. Didin't RTFA, though, did ya? "As a side note, you must have at least one USB 2.0 port available in your machine, or you won't be able to use any of these devices." Its right there, USB 2.0 is needed, and it has plently of bandwidth (comparable to Firewire 400).
I have a hunch that a really good way for MS to make sure it only has (reasonably) computer savvy employees would be to - ahem - "terminate" anybody who couldn't keep their computer clean. I mean, if a guy is coding MS security stuff, and can't keep a single desktop safe, he doesn't belong there...
what happens when you slow down HUGE amounts of air moving in low altitudes? Could this have an effect on the environment just as destructive as that posed by other energy sources?
Rather ironically, my wife used to own a laptop. It was a Dell she purchased early in 2003. It died, earlier this year, just a month after it left its 1 year warranty. It suffered from a surge while being plugged into its powersupply, which fried the mainboard. Repairs would have cost almost as much as a new laptop (something like $900). Even more ironically, it was later found that the power adapter on that model of Dell laptop was defective - Dell would replace the adapter, but they would not replace the laptop. All I can say is I'm never buying a Dell again. Even more ironically, I had a Toshiba back in college that suffered the exact same fate after about the same life-span. Maybe I'll just never buy a laptop again...:(
Yeah, the PDA you list would be a great buy. The thing is, my wife mostly wants one so she can surf the 'net around the house or at a wi-fi hotspot - and unfortunately its a bit more for the wireless PDAs (last time I checked):( I guess even a simple web browser for the DS would do most of what she wants - maybe somebody design make one... (crossing fingers)
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My wife has a Nintendo DS, and I was flipping through the specs on it the other day. Its is AMAZING!!!! for $150 she got a piece of hardware with 2 screens, 1 of which is a touch screen, 2 ARM CPUs (a 7 and a 9, IIRC), and 802.11 wireless. Sure it is great for games, but that thing could also double as a PDA, given the right software package. So, would there be any way Palm could sell a DS "game" cartridge with, say, PalmOS, a couple apps, and a few MBs of storage? No need for a USB connection, as the wireless could transfer data to/from a PC. And the hardware is there already, and should probably be compatible (I assume some PDAs use ARM cpus?)... so please, do this! My wife has always been interested in PDAs, but they are too expensive as a stand-alone for what they do (at least to us). Imagine reaching out to a bunch of people that will have the Nintendo DS over the next few years...:)
Wow, well, it would be interesting if those links actually dealt with the points introduced in the link they "rebut"... but they only address 1, and only indirectly at that. Besides, the whole point of the link I gave was NOT that evolution is wrong (see other pages on the same site for that info) but that the things people have been told are so old on the Earth can form in much less time than people are usually told. Why don't you actually LOOK at the link (here it is again) before trying to rebutt it?
Link (make sure there are no spaces):
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/ho wold.asp
I see the point here, but then I wonder why Abel raised flocks of animals in Genesis 4:3? I certainly beleive the Bible (everything in it, as fact, unless specifically symbolical (like poetry)), so perhaps there is some nuance in the original languages, or perhaps Abel raised flocks for purposes other than eating. But I'm pretty sure that animals would have been eating other animals at the time, or else there would have been a lot of rotting carcases lying around. Also, in case nobody else mentions this, Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, and died within 1 year of the flood. And somebosy else on this thread said 5 people survived the Flood - its actually 8 (Noah, his Wife, 3 sons, their 3 wives).
I used to work for the Mouse, and though the pay was low, they at least had good OT rules. Did I say good? Make that GREAT! For example, if you worked more than 8 hours on a shift, they gave you time and a half. Also, anything over 40 hours a week was time and a half. If you had shifts less than 8 hours apart, the second was time and a half. If you had 3 such shift, less than 8 hours between each, the thrid was double time! and any other following were too! I knew guys that were hourly for about $10-11/hour, and were pulling in 70k a year becasue they'd pull a really long week or two, and then take a week almost off. I never could do it, and they didn't force us to work me than maybe 50 hours a week unless we wanted to, but it was cool how their rules worked. And the free access to the parks... yum:)
I used to work for Disney, and actually they are striking out into the CGI field on their own, after the recent falling-out with Pixar. They have done some of this in the past (Dinosaur), but look for "Chicken Little" coming out in something like Q2 of 2005. Also, Disney's normal animation department is still going, and I keep hearing rumors that the next big animated film will be a Princess movie again... though I can't think of any princess with a good story they haven't done already yet...
I agree! I frikin BUILT my PC from SCRATCH!!!! Its much closer to a "baby" to me because of that than a MAC could ever be. And I am constantly adding to it, giving it better parts, tweaking it to run faster... in fact, thats the very thing that turns me off so much about MACs - the lack of being able to "build my own"./rant off
Kudos to all involved. I haven't read the actual agreement yet, but from the article it sounds like a very promising begining. Technology and computers these days are great, and I hope they keeps going strong, but I'd hate to see people trampled on along the way. Now, I guess thats one less thing to have to worry about, eh?
A major portion of their analysis seems to be the ratio of students to computers, but that is rather unfair: they are only counting campus-owned computers, not the ones students bring with them. For example: my alma matter, the University of Washington, has two EXCELLENT, large computer labs, plus others scattered about the various buildings. They also have Wi-Fi network s (though not campus-wide). But still, the majority of students bring their own computers (wether laptops they carry or desktops in their dorms). And ya know what, it didn't even make the list! This is bull-crap!
Hmm - in the same vein:
To hear ACC on a Creative Labs MP3 player, click here.
To hear ACC in WMP, click here.
To hear ACC on my 5.1 surround sound home theater system (which happens to be made by Creative, and plugged into my Sound Blaster), click here.
Really, I guess it comes down to what hardware/software you prefer to use. For MacOS or iPod people, ACC must be the way to go. However, I will never own either a MacOS (at least until I can build it from scratch with whatever hardware I want) or an iPod (unless someone donates it - they are too expensive, even compared to Creative's harddrive players, and they are UGLY!). So for me WMA is the way to go. ACC would not work for me, and even if it did there is no way that I can imagine for it to sound better than WMA Lossless (they would come from the same source (CD), and neither could be better than the source, right?).
One interesting thing this brings up, however, is downloadable music. My wife, for example, thinks it is great to just be able to download the songs she wants, rather than buying a whole CD. I, however, do not want to sacrifice the music quality. Is there anybody out there offering full CD quality music downloads? I'm talking a lossless format here, not that "this many kbs will sound just like a CD" crap. I think there might be a big market for it in some demographics, and since its nature is lossless (in whatever format you offer it for download) it could be re-encoded to any other format without quality loss. That alone would make it great, and if the downloading/purchasing app had a converter to all the major lossless and losey formats built in it could be a real winner. What do you guys think?
I don't understand what the big deal is about formats. Here on/. I hear all the time about how great AAC or Ogg is, but to be honest I never have heard of them anywhere else. Now granted, I'm not am music buff. When I wanted to put the few CDs I own on my PC (to make them easier to listen to / organize, not to share) I went to WMP and looked, and here was this thing called WMA Lossless. Takes more space, but it mathematically lossless, so you have full CD quality at less than 1/2 of the space it would take for pure.wav files. So that is what I use, and if I want to listen to them on my MP3 player I just plug it in and it converst them to either 320kbs MP3 or 192kps WMA, whichever I feel like, and puts them on the player. Ta-da. No extra software, nothing. Works like a charm, and the lossless files on my hard drive are excellent. So what is it everybody has against WMA?....
Okay, maybe it just me, but I don't see any need for search capabilities like Google's program on public-access computers. People use them for, what, like an hour at most (at a time)? If someone manages to "lose" something in that short of time and needs to use Google to find it again, they probably should not be let anywhere near a computer. Not to mention that this probably isn't installed on these computers by the IT staff, and temporary users shouldn't be able to install apps (like this one) anyway, so its a non-issue.
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Well, I think I'm sitting pretty nice here in Seattle. We've got the whole Olympic peninsula to deflect and absorb tsunmanis, and the (relatively) small passage leading into the Puget Sound would mean that only a small section of a wave would get in, and it would be bounced around so many times before it got anywhere near the Seattle area that noting more than a slight tidal increase would occur. However, I shouldn't lord it over everyone else cause one of these days we'll get our own little 9.0+ earthquake, and that will probably be as bad as (or worse than) any tsunami wave. Oh well... there are not very many places on Earth that are free from natural disasters - and those places are not very fun to live in for other reasons, I imagine. Thats life :)
Uh, look it up in a dictionary: he pronounced it right! Most people do not realize that the prefix "giga" in the English language should be pronounced "ji'ga" not "gi'ga" - at least, that is how it was until the prefix became popular with computer terms such as gigabyte and gigahertz. Now, both pronunciations are generally accepted. Wait... could that be Linguistic Darwinism???? ;)
Well, with USB 1.0, yeah, there isn't enough bandwidth. Didin't RTFA, though, did ya? "As a side note, you must have at least one USB 2.0 port available in your machine, or you won't be able to use any of these devices." Its right there, USB 2.0 is needed, and it has plently of bandwidth (comparable to Firewire 400).
You are correct, that is not the Heart of Gold. This is http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808411970&cf =pg&photoid=550992&intl=us
Not if you turn off pagefiles/virtual memory, and disable chat logging :)
I have a hunch that a really good way for MS to make sure it only has (reasonably) computer savvy employees would be to - ahem - "terminate" anybody who couldn't keep their computer clean. I mean, if a guy is coding MS security stuff, and can't keep a single desktop safe, he doesn't belong there...
what happens when you slow down HUGE amounts of air moving in low altitudes? Could this have an effect on the environment just as destructive as that posed by other energy sources?
Rather ironically, my wife used to own a laptop. It was a Dell she purchased early in 2003. It died, earlier this year, just a month after it left its 1 year warranty. It suffered from a surge while being plugged into its powersupply, which fried the mainboard. Repairs would have cost almost as much as a new laptop (something like $900). Even more ironically, it was later found that the power adapter on that model of Dell laptop was defective - Dell would replace the adapter, but they would not replace the laptop. All I can say is I'm never buying a Dell again. Even more ironically, I had a Toshiba back in college that suffered the exact same fate after about the same life-span. Maybe I'll just never buy a laptop again... :(
Yeah, the PDA you list would be a great buy. The thing is, my wife mostly wants one so she can surf the 'net around the house or at a wi-fi hotspot - and unfortunately its a bit more for the wireless PDAs (last time I checked) :( I guess even a simple web browser for the DS would do most of what she wants - maybe somebody design make one... (crossing fingers)
My wife has a Nintendo DS, and I was flipping through the specs on it the other day. Its is AMAZING!!!! for $150 she got a piece of hardware with 2 screens, 1 of which is a touch screen, 2 ARM CPUs (a 7 and a 9, IIRC), and 802.11 wireless. Sure it is great for games, but that thing could also double as a PDA, given the right software package. So, would there be any way Palm could sell a DS "game" cartridge with, say, PalmOS, a couple apps, and a few MBs of storage? No need for a USB connection, as the wireless could transfer data to/from a PC. And the hardware is there already, and should probably be compatible (I assume some PDAs use ARM cpus?)... so please, do this! My wife has always been interested in PDAs, but they are too expensive as a stand-alone for what they do (at least to us). Imagine reaching out to a bunch of people that will have the Nintendo DS over the next few years... :)
Wow, well, it would be interesting if those links actually dealt with the points introduced in the link they "rebut"... but they only address 1, and only indirectly at that. Besides, the whole point of the link I gave was NOT that evolution is wrong (see other pages on the same site for that info) but that the things people have been told are so old on the Earth can form in much less time than people are usually told. Why don't you actually LOOK at the link (here it is again) before trying to rebutt it? Link (make sure there are no spaces): http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/ho wold.asp
Okay, thats just plain weird. It did it again. Trying HTML this time, instead of text: http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/ho wold.asp
Sorry about the above link - apparently the cut-and-paste I did parsed the link in a strange place :( Here is the link again:
/ ho wold.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1
Quote: "I don't understand why God made an earth that is so clearly billions of years old, and made it around 6,000 years ago."
/ ho wold.asp
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And why, if I may ask, do you think the Earth is "clearly billions of years old"? I think it looks rather young, personally...
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1
Although, I guess one could very well say that 6,000+ years is pretty darn old
I see the point here, but then I wonder why Abel raised flocks of animals in Genesis 4:3? I certainly beleive the Bible (everything in it, as fact, unless specifically symbolical (like poetry)), so perhaps there is some nuance in the original languages, or perhaps Abel raised flocks for purposes other than eating. But I'm pretty sure that animals would have been eating other animals at the time, or else there would have been a lot of rotting carcases lying around. Also, in case nobody else mentions this, Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, and died within 1 year of the flood. And somebosy else on this thread said 5 people survived the Flood - its actually 8 (Noah, his Wife, 3 sons, their 3 wives).
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I used to work for the Mouse, and though the pay was low, they at least had good OT rules. Did I say good? Make that GREAT! For example, if you worked more than 8 hours on a shift, they gave you time and a half. Also, anything over 40 hours a week was time and a half. If you had shifts less than 8 hours apart, the second was time and a half. If you had 3 such shift, less than 8 hours between each, the thrid was double time! and any other following were too! I knew guys that were hourly for about $10-11/hour, and were pulling in 70k a year becasue they'd pull a really long week or two, and then take a week almost off. I never could do it, and they didn't force us to work me than maybe 50 hours a week unless we wanted to, but it was cool how their rules worked. And the free access to the parks... yum :)
I used to work for Disney, and actually they are striking out into the CGI field on their own, after the recent falling-out with Pixar. They have done some of this in the past (Dinosaur), but look for "Chicken Little" coming out in something like Q2 of 2005. Also, Disney's normal animation department is still going, and I keep hearing rumors that the next big animated film will be a Princess movie again... though I can't think of any princess with a good story they haven't done already yet...
I agree! I frikin BUILT my PC from SCRATCH!!!! Its much closer to a "baby" to me because of that than a MAC could ever be. And I am constantly adding to it, giving it better parts, tweaking it to run faster... in fact, thats the very thing that turns me off so much about MACs - the lack of being able to "build my own". /rant off
Who knew the Shire was in Indonesia!?!? I thought it was in Brittain :)
Kudos to all involved. I haven't read the actual agreement yet, but from the article it sounds like a very promising begining. Technology and computers these days are great, and I hope they keeps going strong, but I'd hate to see people trampled on along the way. Now, I guess thats one less thing to have to worry about, eh?
A major portion of their analysis seems to be the ratio of students to computers, but that is rather unfair: they are only counting campus-owned computers, not the ones students bring with them. For example: my alma matter, the University of Washington, has two EXCELLENT, large computer labs, plus others scattered about the various buildings. They also have Wi-Fi network s (though not campus-wide). But still, the majority of students bring their own computers (wether laptops they carry or desktops in their dorms). And ya know what, it didn't even make the list! This is bull-crap!
Hmm - in the same vein: To hear ACC on a Creative Labs MP3 player, click here. To hear ACC in WMP, click here. To hear ACC on my 5.1 surround sound home theater system (which happens to be made by Creative, and plugged into my Sound Blaster), click here. Really, I guess it comes down to what hardware/software you prefer to use. For MacOS or iPod people, ACC must be the way to go. However, I will never own either a MacOS (at least until I can build it from scratch with whatever hardware I want) or an iPod (unless someone donates it - they are too expensive, even compared to Creative's harddrive players, and they are UGLY!). So for me WMA is the way to go. ACC would not work for me, and even if it did there is no way that I can imagine for it to sound better than WMA Lossless (they would come from the same source (CD), and neither could be better than the source, right?). One interesting thing this brings up, however, is downloadable music. My wife, for example, thinks it is great to just be able to download the songs she wants, rather than buying a whole CD. I, however, do not want to sacrifice the music quality. Is there anybody out there offering full CD quality music downloads? I'm talking a lossless format here, not that "this many kbs will sound just like a CD" crap. I think there might be a big market for it in some demographics, and since its nature is lossless (in whatever format you offer it for download) it could be re-encoded to any other format without quality loss. That alone would make it great, and if the downloading/purchasing app had a converter to all the major lossless and losey formats built in it could be a real winner. What do you guys think?
I don't understand what the big deal is about formats. Here on /. I hear all the time about how great AAC or Ogg is, but to be honest I never have heard of them anywhere else. Now granted, I'm not am music buff. When I wanted to put the few CDs I own on my PC (to make them easier to listen to / organize, not to share) I went to WMP and looked, and here was this thing called WMA Lossless. Takes more space, but it mathematically lossless, so you have full CD quality at less than 1/2 of the space it would take for pure .wav files. So that is what I use, and if I want to listen to them on my MP3 player I just plug it in and it converst them to either 320kbs MP3 or 192kps WMA, whichever I feel like, and puts them on the player. Ta-da. No extra software, nothing. Works like a charm, and the lossless files on my hard drive are excellent. So what is it everybody has against WMA?....
Okay, maybe it just me, but I don't see any need for search capabilities like Google's program on public-access computers. People use them for, what, like an hour at most (at a time)? If someone manages to "lose" something in that short of time and needs to use Google to find it again, they probably should not be let anywhere near a computer. Not to mention that this probably isn't installed on these computers by the IT staff, and temporary users shouldn't be able to install apps (like this one) anyway, so its a non-issue.