That was exactly my reaction when I first read this headline. Ever since I first moved here a decade ago, I'd been meaning to check him out at Iridium before it was too late, but stupidly never made the time. The same thing happened with Tommy Flanagan with his regular gigs in town.
It's amazing to me that these musicians continue to perform live shows with as much passion as ever to the very end of their lives. I'll never forgive myself for missing out on this, their incredible life-long gift to the world.
Sounds like a pretty powerful laser to me. Does the energy used by this process significantly counteract any efficiency gained in the bulbs' use thereafter?
For example, porting the OS X antialiasing over to Windows rather than using the native ClearType just seems weird (almost to the extent that I don't believe Ars Technica).
It's somewhat useful from a frontend web development perspective in that I don't have to KVM over to my Mac to see exactly what fonts will look like in OS X.
But I agree that for the average user ignoring his/her personal settings is not good for usability.
Ditto here. I actually liked SC4 the best. Maybe it was just the same SimCity with little more than extra polish, but that polish drew me into the game more than any of its predecessors did. And I really like a lot of the mods coming out of the Simtropolis community. Some of them may be relatively small things that have little-to-no impact on the game mechanics, like street/road/avenue-top bus stops, or new park tiles (although the former did greatly alter my zoning habits). But in my case it's these small additions and new details that aggregate into the game that I still enjoy playing all these years after it was released.
That was also something I appreciated about Firefly and Serenity. In Serenity, they cheated to get sound in for the more mainstream theater going audience by having the one major space battle within a gaseous, nebulous thingy.
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I think we'll all have to grow accustomed to the likelihood that generations of our descendants growing up on other planets will evolve, physically and socially, in a way significantly divergent from what we term "human" based on our Earth experience. Even if they lived on Mars or the Moon or other moons/planets here within our solar system, the physical environment would skew them away from the way we developed here, probably in a significant way -- and that's likely to their advantage, and would serve testament to our adaptability over the course of some generations.
I mean, look at the cultural differences we have between continents, much less in between different planets and star systems.
I haven't read it myself, but it's actually written by Gregory Benford -- not Bear.
One I read that I liked a lot is Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter, in which the main characters use a "Feynman Radio" to detect future messages in the background radiation of the big bang. Though I couldn't begin to tell you how that works...something like the negative of a radio wave that progresses forward in time can go backwards, or something. *shrug*
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The difference with Rayovac's "I-C3" technology is that it pairs "intelligent" chargers with "intelligent" batteries, meaning that the chargers monitor batteries' status for optimal charging, and the batteries also contain monitoring circuitry themselves and provide information to the charger to prevent the charge at any given moment from exceeding the tolerances of the batteries. Hence why they can charge so efficiently.
I love my Rayovac batteries. They do get hot (the chargers, when fast-charging I-C3 batteries, have cooling fans; they don't turn on with normal NiMH batteries which are charged at a slower rate), but it's not beyond what the batteries can take. They've been serving me well for a few years now, in cameras, portable audio equipment, remote controls, and various other things for which I need batteries quickly.
My MythTV box has problems with some Bravo ads - I think specifically the ads for other shows that immediately follow and precede the cuts of the current show. I'm guessing it's because the Bravo logo doesn't fade out for these spots.
The latest version of Ubuntu (6.06) worked with my Intel 2915 in my Acer Aspire with no need to configure anything. In the preceding version of Ubuntu (5.10), I had to manually install the ipw drivers; though even that was pretty straightforward.
Development has ceased on DVD Decryptor; however, the program in its last state can still be found and downloaded with a decent Google search. Nothing has changed in the nature of current DVDs to have necessitated much further development, anyway, so it still works just fine.
Though it is a shame then that we can't donate any money to the dev; I love the program.
It's on the right side of the page...he used a Sonic Impact digital amplifier, which uses a Tripath TA2024 chip (you can buy the chip in a DIY kit, as well).
According to this brief (PDF) from Intel, the Core Duos do, as stated in the second paragraph of the introduction:
The Intel® Core(TM) Duo Processor also includes support for Intel® Virtualization Technology which is a set of hardware enhancements to Intel server and client systems that combined with the appropriate software, will enable enhanced virtualization robustness and performance for both enterprise and consumer uses.
copying other artists' styles is such a common practice in art that it's more noteworthy to see an original style than to see a copied (albeit altered) style.
Agreed whole-heartedly! As a visual artist, myself, it is nigh impossible to create something that isn't influenced by established styles. In fact, that was part of my education at Pratt Institute in NYC - learning the styles and accomplishments of Miro and countless others, and incorporating some of their ideas in clever, new executions. Likely, this sort of thing is more subtle than Google's outright references, but that could easily be argued as a subjective perception.
If somebody made a visual reference or "quotation" of my work, I would be flattered, to say the least. I guess Google's main mistake was verbally attributing the inspiration for the restyled logo to Joan Miro. But in my opinion as an artist, this was a best-intentioned and visually witty tribute.
Did they create this platform, or did they just merely jump on the same boat as the rest? A common hardware platform seems to me to have existed already when they switched to x86. I was already dual booting and virtualizing Linux and XP, after all... It was just as simple as compiling OS X for x86 to have common hardware for all three - in which case I wouldn't credit Apple with creating the platform; just joining in the party.
But I'm too much a n00b to know the specifics on CHRP, so feel free to fill in with any dissenting technical details.
Limits, but doesn't eliminate. There's a decent market for burned copies of rips on the sidewalks here in NYC. Heck, even if you did downsample (plenty of the latest releases are cruddy camcorder bootlegs), people would still buy them up now and again - and for many people (dare I say most), DVD resolution is plenty.
I'm sure it pales next to online distribution, but it's there enough that stodgy MPAA execs would want to stamp down on it, I'm sure.
Or put the field generator above the object(s) to be manufactured, such that it counteracts Earth's gravity for anything between itself and the ground.
Agreed... I've always been big for cooperative video games.
But the biggest attraction for me is the adventure aspect of the game, which differentiates it in a good way from real-life shooters like paint ball. I look forward to the theme they set with the Manhattan site; it'd probably be a lot more cyber-punkish than the Spanish prison.
The article states 15 euros to get in, which doesn't sound too bad. I just wonder how long the "level" is. Of course, lacking in Gordon Freeman's HEV suit, I doubt I'd survive the length of a typical single player level of today without collapsing in exhaustion.
if MS can put anti-malware software out, I hope it's because Windows has improved to the point where it's not needed.
As great as that would be, I don't think any OS will ever reach the point where third-party security software isn't needed.
A big part of what makes security software work as well as they do today (whether it's good or bad, I'll leave that up to you) is that multiple different programs are used concurrently. No one basket gets all the eggs - at least, not in my case where I have three programs simultaneously scanning for malware and viruses. Last month when Sophos released an update to their OS X software that reported false positives, people reacted by jumping the corporate ship in favor of smaller open source boats. But the real lesson is that nobody's perfect.
Linus's mantra about more eyes on bugs translates well to antivirus software.
Maybe it's changed by now, but he's got a fully GNU/Linux-friendly OGG Theora video. Theora should play fine in MPlayer (although, I used Totem).
The app looks plenty cool to me, and the idea of tying it into file management in general makes me wish really bad that there were Linux driver support for my 3D accelerator on my laptop.
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That was exactly my reaction when I first read this headline. Ever since I first moved here a decade ago, I'd been meaning to check him out at Iridium before it was too late, but stupidly never made the time. The same thing happened with Tommy Flanagan with his regular gigs in town.
It's amazing to me that these musicians continue to perform live shows with as much passion as ever to the very end of their lives. I'll never forgive myself for missing out on this, their incredible life-long gift to the world.
Sounds like a pretty powerful laser to me. Does the energy used by this process significantly counteract any efficiency gained in the bulbs' use thereafter?
Four...point...eight...JIGGABITS???
It's somewhat useful from a frontend web development perspective in that I don't have to KVM over to my Mac to see exactly what fonts will look like in OS X.
But I agree that for the average user ignoring his/her personal settings is not good for usability.
Ditto here. I actually liked SC4 the best. Maybe it was just the same SimCity with little more than extra polish, but that polish drew me into the game more than any of its predecessors did. And I really like a lot of the mods coming out of the Simtropolis community. Some of them may be relatively small things that have little-to-no impact on the game mechanics, like street/road/avenue-top bus stops, or new park tiles (although the former did greatly alter my zoning habits). But in my case it's these small additions and new details that aggregate into the game that I still enjoy playing all these years after it was released.
That was also something I appreciated about Firefly and Serenity. In Serenity, they cheated to get sound in for the more mainstream theater going audience by having the one major space battle within a gaseous, nebulous thingy.
I think we'll all have to grow accustomed to the likelihood that generations of our descendants growing up on other planets will evolve, physically and socially, in a way significantly divergent from what we term "human" based on our Earth experience. Even if they lived on Mars or the Moon or other moons/planets here within our solar system, the physical environment would skew them away from the way we developed here, probably in a significant way -- and that's likely to their advantage, and would serve testament to our adaptability over the course of some generations.
I mean, look at the cultural differences we have between continents, much less in between different planets and star systems.
I haven't read it myself, but it's actually written by Gregory Benford -- not Bear.
One I read that I liked a lot is Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter, in which the main characters use a "Feynman Radio" to detect future messages in the background radiation of the big bang. Though I couldn't begin to tell you how that works...something like the negative of a radio wave that progresses forward in time can go backwards, or something. *shrug*
The difference with Rayovac's "I-C3" technology is that it pairs "intelligent" chargers with "intelligent" batteries, meaning that the chargers monitor batteries' status for optimal charging, and the batteries also contain monitoring circuitry themselves and provide information to the charger to prevent the charge at any given moment from exceeding the tolerances of the batteries. Hence why they can charge so efficiently.
I love my Rayovac batteries. They do get hot (the chargers, when fast-charging I-C3 batteries, have cooling fans; they don't turn on with normal NiMH batteries which are charged at a slower rate), but it's not beyond what the batteries can take. They've been serving me well for a few years now, in cameras, portable audio equipment, remote controls, and various other things for which I need batteries quickly.
Here's a bit more on the I-C3s.
My MythTV box has problems with some Bravo ads - I think specifically the ads for other shows that immediately follow and precede the cuts of the current show. I'm guessing it's because the Bravo logo doesn't fade out for these spots.
The latest version of Ubuntu (6.06) worked with my Intel 2915 in my Acer Aspire with no need to configure anything. In the preceding version of Ubuntu (5.10), I had to manually install the ipw drivers; though even that was pretty straightforward.
Development has ceased on DVD Decryptor; however, the program in its last state can still be found and downloaded with a decent Google search. Nothing has changed in the nature of current DVDs to have necessitated much further development, anyway, so it still works just fine. Though it is a shame then that we can't donate any money to the dev; I love the program.
It's on the right side of the page...he used a Sonic Impact digital amplifier, which uses a Tripath TA2024 chip (you can buy the chip in a DIY kit, as well).
Yeah, probably they mean to enforce changing the default admin login on routers.
copying other artists' styles is such a common practice in art that it's more noteworthy to see an original style than to see a copied (albeit altered) style.
Agreed whole-heartedly! As a visual artist, myself, it is nigh impossible to create something that isn't influenced by established styles. In fact, that was part of my education at Pratt Institute in NYC - learning the styles and accomplishments of Miro and countless others, and incorporating some of their ideas in clever, new executions. Likely, this sort of thing is more subtle than Google's outright references, but that could easily be argued as a subjective perception.
If somebody made a visual reference or "quotation" of my work, I would be flattered, to say the least. I guess Google's main mistake was verbally attributing the inspiration for the restyled logo to Joan Miro. But in my opinion as an artist, this was a best-intentioned and visually witty tribute.
Did they create this platform, or did they just merely jump on the same boat as the rest? A common hardware platform seems to me to have existed already when they switched to x86. I was already dual booting and virtualizing Linux and XP, after all... It was just as simple as compiling OS X for x86 to have common hardware for all three - in which case I wouldn't credit Apple with creating the platform; just joining in the party.
But I'm too much a n00b to know the specifics on CHRP, so feel free to fill in with any dissenting technical details.
I'm all for people having fun through web design...but thank GOD for being able to switch off style sheets!!
Limits, but doesn't eliminate. There's a decent market for burned copies of rips on the sidewalks here in NYC. Heck, even if you did downsample (plenty of the latest releases are cruddy camcorder bootlegs), people would still buy them up now and again - and for many people (dare I say most), DVD resolution is plenty.
I'm sure it pales next to online distribution, but it's there enough that stodgy MPAA execs would want to stamp down on it, I'm sure.
Or put the field generator above the object(s) to be manufactured, such that it counteracts Earth's gravity for anything between itself and the ground.
More of a subjective thing, I take it.
Agreed... I've always been big for cooperative video games.
But the biggest attraction for me is the adventure aspect of the game, which differentiates it in a good way from real-life shooters like paint ball. I look forward to the theme they set with the Manhattan site; it'd probably be a lot more cyber-punkish than the Spanish prison.
The article states 15 euros to get in, which doesn't sound too bad. I just wonder how long the "level" is. Of course, lacking in Gordon Freeman's HEV suit, I doubt I'd survive the length of a typical single player level of today without collapsing in exhaustion.
As great as that would be, I don't think any OS will ever reach the point where third-party security software isn't needed.
A big part of what makes security software work as well as they do today (whether it's good or bad, I'll leave that up to you) is that multiple different programs are used concurrently. No one basket gets all the eggs - at least, not in my case where I have three programs simultaneously scanning for malware and viruses. Last month when Sophos released an update to their OS X software that reported false positives, people reacted by jumping the corporate ship in favor of smaller open source boats. But the real lesson is that nobody's perfect.
Linus's mantra about more eyes on bugs translates well to antivirus software.
That's only half of the battle... You're assuming the recipients of all of that e-mail aren't using a hosted service that backs up.
Time to hand-deliver everything personally!
Maybe it's changed by now, but he's got a fully GNU/Linux-friendly OGG Theora video. Theora should play fine in MPlayer (although, I used Totem). The app looks plenty cool to me, and the idea of tying it into file management in general makes me wish really bad that there were Linux driver support for my 3D accelerator on my laptop.