The biggest problem i have seen is the manufacturers of cheap panels who boost the backlight way too bright (maybe to inflate some specification or other). you should try looking at different types of panel, such as IPS vs. PVA.
i do. I have twin 23" Cinema displays mounted on wall-mounted articulated arms. I can change the position and orientation of either or both monitors, and it consumes no desk space. So i can have my video cameras and other firewire devices sitting under the displays, with the FW cable going directly up to the displays. I can use both monitors (or one) in portrait (vertical) orientation for things like laying out magazine pages or reading web-pages.
More likely that the Dell display looks like crap in the real-world, while the Apple display lookis stunning. I haven't seen any realistic alternative to Apple's Cinema Display quality in its price-range. Apple uses a different type of screen technology to most vendors. I can't recall what it is called off the top of my head. but I know what looks good, and the vast majority of LCD displays look like utter shit.
What? nobody is forcing you to buy tracks from Apple - the iPod allows the free use of unencumbered formats like MP3 and WAV. Microsoft sees this as a threat, and wants you to stop using "free" formats so they can force WMA and DRM on people. Apple isn't doing any forcing - just offering an option. If you want to play WMA, you are free to buy one of the many other players on the market.
If you hate DRM you would never use Apple products. If you hate DRM you would use Linux.
Only if DRM (or the lack of it) was your primary reason for buying a computer. Is that true for anybody except Richard Stallman? Most people have other things as higher priorities whejn buying a computer - things like productivity. So why can't we hate DRM and still buy Apple products? My hatred for DRM doesn't override everything else in my life. There are things I like about Linux, but there are things I hate about it. I hate almost eveything about Windows. So MacOS has the fewest things to hate, IMO. No OS or application is perfect.
I don't know if it has to do with audiophile quality as much as for people who store music at home in FLAC, maintaing a seperate MP3 (or whatever) collection for portables is a pain in the ass.
Why? Just run a script that converts FLAC to MP3 when you sync with the phone.
With storage as cheap as it is, is it really that crazy to say "I just want to go with FLAC on everything"?
Yes. With storage space so cheap, it costs almost nothing to keep an MP3 mirror of your FLACs. I'm also not sure how widely available FLAC decoding is in mobile chips, and how much processor power it takes to implement.
The desire to do this also ignores the fact that many phones have poor quality amplification circuitry that would not really want to listen to music through in the first place.
In Jurassic Bark, we find out Seymour waited YEARS for Fry to come back, until finally giving up and lowering his head and closing his eyes one last time.
But it's just not believable enough (considering this is a show about a Pizza delivery guy who goes to the future!). I think it's more likely that Seymour went back for the pizza scraps, and "Walking on Sunshine" was actually Fry's hallucination induced by 80s pop music and Coca-Cola. The Fry and Leela story is one that happens every day, today, in the past and in the future. Even Fry admits this when he decides not to revive Seymour. It's a dog, they love food.
are you sure Bender is the right robotic role model?
Bender is the ideal robotic role-model for children. He promotes multiculturalism, and above all, he takes responsibility for his actions. Children will know the consequences of pretending to be a woman to win at sports games. They will understand why not to play God with a miniature civilization. They will learn the perils of selling their bodies. They will know damn well not to accept inferior-quality cigars or Martinis.
Who are you going to trust more than Bender as a robotic role-model? Sony Aibo? Microsoft X-Box? That pathetic robotic kid from A.I? The Crushinator? Roy Batty?
Bender may not be perfect, but there is no better example of robolescence in the whole of New New York. Sometimes I think the people who diss Bender must have brainslugs.
The Leela/Fry story-arc is way more tearjerking and emotionally compelling. A dog that can bark 'Walking on Sunshine'? That's small potatoes compared to the parasitic worms, the holophone, the Devil's Hands, moving the stars into a giant love message. the alternate universe where Leela and fry are together just because of Leela's coin-tosses and ghost stories.
But I agree with your gist. Futurama is a great love story, not a homage to trivia and slapstick.
It doesn't really matter, because it can be deinterlaced. Calling it 'yuk' is a bit of a stretch, considering the much lower TV and video standards we are all used to.
LCD watch was perfected. Soon after we were treated to a parade of typical household items...but with an LCD watch in them!
Suckers.
Instead of putting a regular LCD clock in novelty items, I got a regular (well, chunky) LCD watch that had a clone of Space Invaders on it. I wish I still had it, that thing was the coolest. About as cool as Nintendo Donkey Kong dual-screen. Or cooler. What happened to the compelling WATCH+GAME platform?
These kids with their fancy-schmancy USB wrist-drives and Nintendo DS are just driven by hype. Oh, wait.
The processes to manufacture these are also green? Ever seen a semiconductor fab?
While that's a valid point, "solar power" doesn't need to be semiconductor based. It can be as simple as running water through a plastic tube sitting on the roof. Or designing a house to capture solar energy with windows. Or it could be something like the "solar tower" - a system that uses trubines in a chimney to harness rising hot air.
Hiring counters isn't the problem, the problem is trust. I trust a program whose code I can inspect more than I trust some seasonal lackey hired off the street, provided appropriate safeguards are taken.
I wouldn't. the source code doesn't tell you anything about how it will be compiled - or the hardware that it runs on. What if someone makes hardware to interpret the Open Source code differently?
The big risk is that manipulation from a single person or organization can easily be distributed far and wide through electronic voting. With manual counting, you need so many people to influence the vote that even if there is an effort to manipulate things, it won't have much impact compared to the power of electronic manipulation.
Your point about oversight also applies to manual counting. If supervised properly (video cameras, scrutineers, etc) then manual counters won't be able to get away with much. And most people wouldn't know how to detect electronic fraud, but know when they see it in the "real" world.
Can someone explain why we can standardize street signs and the amount of sugar allowed in school lunches but we cannot get a standardized election system?
Because that would mean fairer elections that are more difficult to manipulate. I find it interesting that during the 2000 debate over going to electronic voting, the most experiences geeks and technophiles tended to favor paper ballots, and were suspicious of electronic voting. While the naive people who didn't know a lot about technology were saying "Electronic voting is the future! Humans make mistakes! Paper is bad!" without really thinking about it.
Of course, there were a few self-styled geeks who thought electronic voting would be simple to implement - but they were usually pretty inexperienced and caught up in "dotcom" and "direct democracy" hype.
Though it won't make much difference if they also decide to ignore the new law when no vendors offer anything compliant.
I don't get it. What happened to capitalism and the desire for profit? Surely, this market is wide open. It's an extremely lucrative market, and the established players now have a reputation for being incompetent crooks.
Someone can start a new company and tout it as making the best hardware for electronic voting, and having a company mission that insists all software development be Open Source, and all hardware meets strict security requirements.
So, why isn't this happening? Heck, why isn't some enterprising slashdotter doing it? This would be so easy to make money with, yet people still start businesses founded on much less probable business models.
Do you really think Republicans would allow a re-count to proceed? They'll just say it's a liberal terrorist plot to undermine the presidency, and then declare martial law.
So, basically, he's saying that because a certain segment of the userbase will be waiting a little while, EVERYONE should wait?
It's more like most Powerbook users will have to run at least something under Rosetta if an Intel model was released now. That's not going to be fun for users - and it would be an absolute PR meltdown for Apple. You are not going to see any Pro Apple machines until a significant amount of worthwhile applications are Intel-native.
Practically anything worth doing on a Powerbook requires capabilities that are not provided by Rosetta, which only handles the G3 instruction set.
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The biggest problem i have seen is the manufacturers of cheap panels who boost the backlight way too bright (maybe to inflate some specification or other). you should try looking at different types of panel, such as IPS vs. PVA.
i do. I have twin 23" Cinema displays mounted on wall-mounted articulated arms. I can change the position and orientation of either or both monitors, and it consumes no desk space. So i can have my video cameras and other firewire devices sitting under the displays, with the FW cable going directly up to the displays. I can use both monitors (or one) in portrait (vertical) orientation for things like laying out magazine pages or reading web-pages.
More likely that the Dell display looks like crap in the real-world, while the Apple display lookis stunning. I haven't seen any realistic alternative to Apple's Cinema Display quality in its price-range. Apple uses a different type of screen technology to most vendors. I can't recall what it is called off the top of my head. but I know what looks good, and the vast majority of LCD displays look like utter shit.
What? nobody is forcing you to buy tracks from Apple - the iPod allows the free use of unencumbered formats like MP3 and WAV. Microsoft sees this as a threat, and wants you to stop using "free" formats so they can force WMA and DRM on people. Apple isn't doing any forcing - just offering an option. If you want to play WMA, you are free to buy one of the many other players on the market.
Only if DRM (or the lack of it) was your primary reason for buying a computer. Is that true for anybody except Richard Stallman? Most people have other things as higher priorities whejn buying a computer - things like productivity. So why can't we hate DRM and still buy Apple products? My hatred for DRM doesn't override everything else in my life. There are things I like about Linux, but there are things I hate about it. I hate almost eveything about Windows. So MacOS has the fewest things to hate, IMO. No OS or application is perfect.
Why? Just run a script that converts FLAC to MP3 when you sync with the phone.
With storage as cheap as it is, is it really that crazy to say "I just want to go with FLAC on everything"?
Yes. With storage space so cheap, it costs almost nothing to keep an MP3 mirror of your FLACs. I'm also not sure how widely available FLAC decoding is in mobile chips, and how much processor power it takes to implement.
The desire to do this also ignores the fact that many phones have poor quality amplification circuitry that would not really want to listen to music through in the first place.
Linux is many things, but "elegant" is not one of them.
WTF? There are tons of phones like that. just get the cheapest phone you can find, and it will probably fit this bill.
But it's just not believable enough (considering this is a show about a Pizza delivery guy who goes to the future!). I think it's more likely that Seymour went back for the pizza scraps, and "Walking on Sunshine" was actually Fry's hallucination induced by 80s pop music and Coca-Cola. The Fry and Leela story is one that happens every day, today, in the past and in the future. Even Fry admits this when he decides not to revive Seymour. It's a dog, they love food.
Bender is the ideal robotic role-model for children. He promotes multiculturalism, and above all, he takes responsibility for his actions. Children will know the consequences of pretending to be a woman to win at sports games. They will understand why not to play God with a miniature civilization. They will learn the perils of selling their bodies. They will know damn well not to accept inferior-quality cigars or Martinis.
Who are you going to trust more than Bender as a robotic role-model? Sony Aibo? Microsoft X-Box? That pathetic robotic kid from A.I? The Crushinator? Roy Batty?
Bender may not be perfect, but there is no better example of robolescence in the whole of New New York. Sometimes I think the people who diss Bender must have brainslugs.
The Leela/Fry story-arc is way more tearjerking and emotionally compelling. A dog that can bark 'Walking on Sunshine'? That's small potatoes compared to the parasitic worms, the holophone, the Devil's Hands, moving the stars into a giant love message. the alternate universe where Leela and fry are together just because of Leela's coin-tosses and ghost stories.
But I agree with your gist. Futurama is a great love story, not a homage to trivia and slapstick.
I dunno, in some kind of sphere?
It doesn't really matter, because it can be deinterlaced. Calling it 'yuk' is a bit of a stretch, considering the much lower TV and video standards we are all used to.
Suckers.
Instead of putting a regular LCD clock in novelty items, I got a regular (well, chunky) LCD watch that had a clone of Space Invaders on it. I wish I still had it, that thing was the coolest. About as cool as Nintendo Donkey Kong dual-screen. Or cooler. What happened to the compelling WATCH+GAME platform?
These kids with their fancy-schmancy USB wrist-drives and Nintendo DS are just driven by hype. Oh, wait.
Live beautifully with the super fast fantastic lens.
While that's a valid point, "solar power" doesn't need to be semiconductor based. It can be as simple as running water through a plastic tube sitting on the roof. Or designing a house to capture solar energy with windows. Or it could be something like the "solar tower" - a system that uses trubines in a chimney to harness rising hot air.
They tried that with the holy ark of the covenant - and it still ended up in Cheney's hands.
I wouldn't. the source code doesn't tell you anything about how it will be compiled - or the hardware that it runs on. What if someone makes hardware to interpret the Open Source code differently?
The big risk is that manipulation from a single person or organization can easily be distributed far and wide through electronic voting. With manual counting, you need so many people to influence the vote that even if there is an effort to manipulate things, it won't have much impact compared to the power of electronic manipulation.
Your point about oversight also applies to manual counting. If supervised properly (video cameras, scrutineers, etc) then manual counters won't be able to get away with much. And most people wouldn't know how to detect electronic fraud, but know when they see it in the "real" world.
Because that would mean fairer elections that are more difficult to manipulate. I find it interesting that during the 2000 debate over going to electronic voting, the most experiences geeks and technophiles tended to favor paper ballots, and were suspicious of electronic voting. While the naive people who didn't know a lot about technology were saying "Electronic voting is the future! Humans make mistakes! Paper is bad!" without really thinking about it.
Of course, there were a few self-styled geeks who thought electronic voting would be simple to implement - but they were usually pretty inexperienced and caught up in "dotcom" and "direct democracy" hype.
I don't get it. What happened to capitalism and the desire for profit? Surely, this market is wide open. It's an extremely lucrative market, and the established players now have a reputation for being incompetent crooks.
Someone can start a new company and tout it as making the best hardware for electronic voting, and having a company mission that insists all software development be Open Source, and all hardware meets strict security requirements.
So, why isn't this happening? Heck, why isn't some enterprising slashdotter doing it? This would be so easy to make money with, yet people still start businesses founded on much less probable business models.
Do you really think Republicans would allow a re-count to proceed? They'll just say it's a liberal terrorist plot to undermine the presidency, and then declare martial law.
That's because of a licensing deal with Google.
Overlord, yes. Saviour, no.
It's more like most Powerbook users will have to run at least something under Rosetta if an Intel model was released now. That's not going to be fun for users - and it would be an absolute PR meltdown for Apple. You are not going to see any Pro Apple machines until a significant amount of worthwhile applications are Intel-native.
Practically anything worth doing on a Powerbook requires capabilities that are not provided by Rosetta, which only handles the G3 instruction set.
Like in one of those porno movies. What do they call it? Golden Shower. Yeah, that's it.