Hello? Even the W3C recognizes that. They don't even call them standards. What they publish are "recommendations".
Until this Firefox thing took off recently, the good folks in Redmond sat around and laughed about how a tiny insignificant handful of people were off in a corner somewhere, talking to no one but themselves about "standards". It was indeed quite funny.
Then one day, like an annoying insect, this pesky Firefox thing managed to claw its way up to a tiny but still non-trivial amount of marketshare. The IE7 project is like the casual swat of the hand needed to shoo away the insect. Nothing more.
I remember being excited back in 1981 when Columbia first launched. Oh man. I was an eight-year-old boy, and I sat in awe in front of my TV set as Columbia rose into the sky.
Same here, except even then I was thinking "what's the point?" I had already read and re-read the "Space Travel" article in my World Book encyclopedia so many times the pages were crinkled. It was full of talk of the moon landings, the Apollo program, and the Saturn V rocket. The shuttle seemed like a step down.
millions of mac users had custom UIs
because of this man.
One important point: before he wrote Kaleidoscope, he worked at Apple on the Mac OS Appearance Manager, which Kaleidoscope relies on heavily. If it weren't for that inside knowledge, he would never have been able to make it work.
Yeah, what the hell is that bit about the robot? It's completely unnecessary.
Carlsbad Caverns has (used to have?) a system of repeating audio at various points, transmitted by very low power FM (or is it AM?). You rent and carry a small receiver with you, and listen to the audio at various places along the tour. The transmitters are clearly marked, so all you have to do is stand next to one, and you get some info. Each audio loop is fairly short, so if you miss something, just wait for it to repeat.
It works great, is cheap and done entirely with simple analog equipment, and best of all, doesn't require a friggin' robot to work.
A "level" is a specific task that must be completed within a time limit. For example, in one of the middle levels you might have to go from 10cm to 12m in 20 minutes. That's one level. There are 10 main levels in which you have to reach a certain size, plus 10 side quest levels which have various other goals (such as pick up as many of a specific object as you can during the time limit). And of course, you can save between levels. Once you finish them all, the game is over, although you can replay as much as you want.
The first game has a vs. mode, but it feels tacked on and isn't very fun past the first few times. The sequel is supposed to have a really good coop mode which I'm looking forward to.
Uh, that doesn't make any sense. You can still run the old software on the new machine, using Rosetta. She can buy software now and upgrade the hardware later without worry.
This is exactly like the 68k to PPC transition. Most users won't even notice.
Can you point out a case where the same individual poster once said PPC was faster and now says Intel is faster (for which there is almost no real, hard data yet)?
Nah, at worst, it's going to be more like Laserdisc vs. videotape. At best, it will really take off. There is plenty of demand for high definition material. The difference is night and day. Even for people who don't have HD televisions, they still will have fairly high resolution displays on their PCs, and the difference will be immediately noticable there.
Not to mention, more and more TVs on display in electronics stores these days are HD capable, so people have plenty of chances to see what it looks like. And when they do, they're going to want it.
Read the parent post to yours again, and try hard to comprehend it.
FL didn't say he was getting his information from Jay Leno. He was just using the Leno audience reaction as an example of the general public's feelings toward the whole situation. Leno merely mentioned things which had already been reported elsewhere. He was not the original source.
...is a generic x86 box with a simple VMWare-like environment built right into the BIOS. You could then use this enviroment to run multiple OSes simultaneously. No need to double or triple boot. Just run all three at once and switch between them with a keyboard shortcut.
If you want to see your mouse clicks drive up the stock price, just click the "buy" button on ETrade a whole bunch of times.
Amazingly, this works with any stock!
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Yeah, and as many as 0.00001% of viewers will actually watch the ads instead of just using one of 100,000 different freely available apps named something like "Joe Blow's Super Cool Fully Automatic Ad Skipping Utility" to make them disappear!
Most people do not have enough room in their homes for 7.1, let alone anything more.
For example, I know someone with a 7.1 setup in a room that is way too small for it. The "sweet spot" is only big enough to hold one person. Yet she invites 5-10 friends over at a time and shows movies using the full 7.1 engaged (the fact that we are watching DVDs which aren't encoded as 7.1 nothwithstanding), and refuses to do anything to prevent people getting headaches because they are sitting too close to the side speakers which don't need to be on. Really, to get a full two dimensional sound field in that room requires only four speakers plus a subwoofer. Everything inbetween can be handled with "phantom" channels. It would make the "sweet spot" bigger if she did it that way, but she will never cop to that, because that would mean admitting she wasted her money on those extra speakers.
I don't go over there much anymore, despite her wanting me to come back. She just won't listen to reason, and I don't want any more headaches.
Your previous post mentions the book "How to Read a Book", by Charles Van Doren, not Mark Van Doren. Amazon confirms Charles is the author; the same man who wrote "A Brief History of Knowledge". Wikipedia and other sources name him as the quiz show guy. I do not see any mentions of Mark Van Doren in your previous post nor in any of the linked material.
He and the other Steve offered to build their marvelous Apple I for them. HP said "no thanks". So did Atari and a few other companies. That's where the garage came into play.
It's the US Deptartment of Labor, which reports the CPI.
Inflation is bad for elections, just ask Jimmy Carter. The dept. of labor is part of the executive branch, and they have a vested interest in avoiding the appearance of inflation. Whether or not they actually avoid inflation is irrelevant. Just so people can't tell.
If you're talking about the US, then no, not really. A few years ago, the US dept. of labor changed the way the CPI is calculated to hide it a little better. If you calculate it the old way, there is actually quite a bit of inflation today. But they knew inflation was coming and didn't want people to know about it (since they tend to make a fuss), so the CPI is now designed to hide it.
It actually makes sense, considering Microsoft's contracts with OEMs (like Dell) typically stipulate that a license fee be paid for every computer sold, whether or not it actually includes Windows. The only way the price could be the same is if Mac OS X's license fee were zero, and I doubt Apple would settle for that.
Not really. The container format is pretty well documented, especially since it is part of the MPEG-4 standard. Sometimes you might encounter movies that use a Quicktime container but use a proprietary codec (like Sorenson), but that doesn't make the container itself proprietary.
ISO MPEG - is this even a container?
Yes, the MPEG-4 standard defines a container format, based on the Quicktime format (see above).
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Until this Firefox thing took off recently, the good folks in Redmond sat around and laughed about how a tiny insignificant handful of people were off in a corner somewhere, talking to no one but themselves about "standards". It was indeed quite funny.
Then one day, like an annoying insect, this pesky Firefox thing managed to claw its way up to a tiny but still non-trivial amount of marketshare. The IE7 project is like the casual swat of the hand needed to shoo away the insect. Nothing more.
IE is the standard, and the standard is IE.
Same here, except even then I was thinking "what's the point?" I had already read and re-read the "Space Travel" article in my World Book encyclopedia so many times the pages were crinkled. It was full of talk of the moon landings, the Apollo program, and the Saturn V rocket. The shuttle seemed like a step down.
One important point: before he wrote Kaleidoscope, he worked at Apple on the Mac OS Appearance Manager, which Kaleidoscope relies on heavily. If it weren't for that inside knowledge, he would never have been able to make it work.
Carlsbad Caverns has (used to have?) a system of repeating audio at various points, transmitted by very low power FM (or is it AM?). You rent and carry a small receiver with you, and listen to the audio at various places along the tour. The transmitters are clearly marked, so all you have to do is stand next to one, and you get some info. Each audio loop is fairly short, so if you miss something, just wait for it to repeat.
It works great, is cheap and done entirely with simple analog equipment, and best of all, doesn't require a friggin' robot to work.
Who says he's expecting different results? He could just consider it part of owning a computer -- gotta replace it after it goes bad, like lunch meat.
The first game has a vs. mode, but it feels tacked on and isn't very fun past the first few times. The sequel is supposed to have a really good coop mode which I'm looking forward to.
This is exactly like the 68k to PPC transition. Most users won't even notice.
Can you point out a case where the same individual poster once said PPC was faster and now says Intel is faster (for which there is almost no real, hard data yet)?
Not to mention, more and more TVs on display in electronics stores these days are HD capable, so people have plenty of chances to see what it looks like. And when they do, they're going to want it.
FL didn't say he was getting his information from Jay Leno. He was just using the Leno audience reaction as an example of the general public's feelings toward the whole situation. Leno merely mentioned things which had already been reported elsewhere. He was not the original source.
...is a generic x86 box with a simple VMWare-like environment built right into the BIOS. You could then use this enviroment to run multiple OSes simultaneously. No need to double or triple boot. Just run all three at once and switch between them with a keyboard shortcut.
Amazingly, this works with any stock!
Advertisers will LOVE it!
For example, I know someone with a 7.1 setup in a room that is way too small for it. The "sweet spot" is only big enough to hold one person. Yet she invites 5-10 friends over at a time and shows movies using the full 7.1 engaged (the fact that we are watching DVDs which aren't encoded as 7.1 nothwithstanding), and refuses to do anything to prevent people getting headaches because they are sitting too close to the side speakers which don't need to be on. Really, to get a full two dimensional sound field in that room requires only four speakers plus a subwoofer. Everything inbetween can be handled with "phantom" channels. It would make the "sweet spot" bigger if she did it that way, but she will never cop to that, because that would mean admitting she wasted her money on those extra speakers.
I don't go over there much anymore, despite her wanting me to come back. She just won't listen to reason, and I don't want any more headaches.
Oops, there's no "Brief" in the title of the "History of Knowledge" book. Everything else is correct, though.
What are you smoking?
Did he actually read all those books, or just the Cliff's Notes?
He and the other Steve offered to build their marvelous Apple I for them. HP said "no thanks". So did Atari and a few other companies. That's where the garage came into play.
Inflation is bad for elections, just ask Jimmy Carter. The dept. of labor is part of the executive branch, and they have a vested interest in avoiding the appearance of inflation. Whether or not they actually avoid inflation is irrelevant. Just so people can't tell.
If you're talking about the US, then no, not really. A few years ago, the US dept. of labor changed the way the CPI is calculated to hide it a little better. If you calculate it the old way, there is actually quite a bit of inflation today. But they knew inflation was coming and didn't want people to know about it (since they tend to make a fuss), so the CPI is now designed to hide it.
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Okay, now that one is funny.
It actually makes sense, considering Microsoft's contracts with OEMs (like Dell) typically stipulate that a license fee be paid for every computer sold, whether or not it actually includes Windows. The only way the price could be the same is if Mac OS X's license fee were zero, and I doubt Apple would settle for that.
Not really. The container format is pretty well documented, especially since it is part of the MPEG-4 standard. Sometimes you might encounter movies that use a Quicktime container but use a proprietary codec (like Sorenson), but that doesn't make the container itself proprietary.
ISO MPEG - is this even a container?
Yes, the MPEG-4 standard defines a container format, based on the Quicktime format (see above).
Does it matter? He didn't stick around and do anything about it, so it's not like he would deserve any credit in that case.