[ ] vendor guarantees that software works as advertised could be another checkbox that all software companies are trying to reach.
"What? You don't guarantee works-as-advertised? Well, then I'm looking for a different product."
If computing magazines would update their testing methods and added this one checkbox, Microsoft just might say "oh, hey, we haven't covered that checkbox yet. We need to have every checkbox. Let's quickly drop by the legal department get this in order..."
170 TB is nothing! Is it really not more? 170 TB can be saved by you locally if you really want. Well, let me explain:
For 100$, you can get 250 DVD-Rs if you look hard. This is about 1 Terabyte. 170 TB = $17'000. The web can be yours for a tiny weeny little amount of money if you think about it. Isn't that incredible that the storage industry keeps making those medias cheaper and cheaper and us humans can't create new media fast enough? Wow, I'm baffled.
Bullshit. Those singularity-thinkers always reduce the advances in computing to a single element: "better", like in "computers have become better all the time, at some point they will overtake us". Actually, they have become "faster", but in terms of "intelligence", computers still are like stupid babies, completely unable to think to themselves. AI research hasn't made any real progress in the past 30 years, and without it, we won't see no singularity anytime soon, since computer's won't become "better towards human standards", only "faster".
So, would you say Linus said "A spec is close to useless" because the specs he was confronted with where some of those "incomplete" specs? I would understand that, it would make sense.
I don't understand Launch Loop (this site definitely needs some good pictures), but I can tell you why the Space fountain is not feasible, and I think Launch Loop is a variant of the space fountain, right? Space fountain needs those pellet shooting cannons to keep the structure upright. You remove that daily maintenance and the whole structure comes crashing down. Well we people like stuff that stays by itself(tm). Imagine a power failure - boom. We don't like the idea of a structure dependent on contstand energy input to stay upright, it's just not human, sorry.
I'm using opera mini since a few weeks and it absolutely rocks. It has literally changed my mobile life - any info I might think at is now in the palm of my hands, fast and cheap, and on any regular lightweight mobile phone. Too bad opera didn't make it a free offer, too, I had to let a norwegian friend get a copy for me. But for me, at least, Opera, funded 1994, finally seems to start becoming important. Good move.
I've generated some pretty cool tunes. They let you bookmark a composition, but they won't let you download the midi file. Has anybody already looked into the sources and found out how to get it?
I have no idea what you are talking about. Dithering applies to signal *processing* (input -> process -> output). The presented concept doesn't mean "sampling the original wing flapping, adding a signal and applying the end result again to the wings", it just means "adding a signal to the wing". You don't even have the means to start fresh with the "applying" part, since you can't control all of the wing movement.
The central point of the linked article is, that Lisp is the "highest Language" around - Could somebody comment on this? Sureley there must be a higher, even more experimental language somewhere, no?
Isn't it a podcast only if there are at least two shows, and you can subscribe through RSS or something similar and get updates automatically? This sounds like a big miss-naming incident.
In the video, the ball has a very visible parabolic flight curve over the 2 meters distance. Either the video has been recorded on saturn, or the ball is flying much slower than they say.
Is this the same as with the capacitance sensors in the trackpad, which do not really measure pressure, but the area that your finger covers, which gets bigger if you press your finger harder to the surface (according to the developer of "FingaMIDI")?
Well, actually, nobody knows because we haven't tried out the mouse yet. But reading from the apple site, it looks like the user will not be able to "just move a finger", but to consciously make sure that only the right finger is on the mouse when he presses the mouse down to arrive at a right-click, which sounds cumbersome. Your idea to "lift the left finger to get a right click" doesn't sound too intuitive either, imho.
The difference is that with a standard multi-button mouse, i can rest fingers on both buttons, press down one side and it knows what I have done. With the current Apple design, it cannot know what you want if you rest both your fingers on the mouse.
It's not about "will there still be _some_ compatible apps in 5 years", but about "can I be sure that every new app release in the next 5 years will be compatible with my PowerPC processor?". And you can't. That's why the grandparent, me an many many other people will wait until we can buy intel machines.
1. Compatible control keys - The problem isn't the labeling, it's the location of the keys used
I presume that Chris is talking about the default location of the control(win)/command(mac) key. Thing is, the mac key location is much better: Pressing Cmd-S, Cmd-W, Cmd-A and so many other often used shortcuts is absolutely a breeze because the Command key is where it is. If Apple would move the location to where it is on windows, it would become more difficult to press those combos. Try them out on a mac and a pc and then tell me that you seriously think the window location is better. If you do, you must have very strange hands indeed. With the thumb on the control key, 12 keys around S and D are extremely easy to grab. Undo, Cut, Copy, Past, Select All, Save, Duplicate, Find, Close Window - it's all there in a tenth of a second. That's why so many people love macs - it just feels like a breeze to save - you don't have to twist your fingers like you have to do on a win machine.
2. Save button on toolbars
Since it's very easy to save on the mac (compared with your fingertwisting on windows), we mac folks don't need a taskbar button. See 1. Our taskbars concentrate on less stuff with bigger icons, thus making the app more accessible, easy and userfriendly. One has to wonder how much time the author has spent on the mac side of things.
With 2D Chips, every part of the chip was very close to the surface. With 3D Chips, parts can be layers away from the outside of the chip, so cooling cannot be done as easy on 3D chips. Does anybody know how they are dealing with these problems?
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[ ] vendor guarantees that software works as advertised
could be another checkbox that all software companies are trying to reach.
"What? You don't guarantee works-as-advertised? Well, then I'm looking for a different product."
If computing magazines would update their testing methods and added this one checkbox, Microsoft just might say "oh, hey, we haven't covered that checkbox yet. We need to have every checkbox. Let's quickly drop by the legal department get this in order..."
170 TB is nothing! Is it really not more? 170 TB can be saved by you locally if you really want. Well, let me explain:
For 100$, you can get 250 DVD-Rs if you look hard. This is about 1 Terabyte. 170 TB = $17'000. The web can be yours for a tiny weeny little amount of money if you think about it. Isn't that incredible that the storage industry keeps making those medias cheaper and cheaper and us humans can't create new media fast enough? Wow, I'm baffled.
Bullshit. Those singularity-thinkers always reduce the advances in computing to a single element: "better", like in "computers have become better all the time, at some point they will overtake us". Actually, they have become "faster", but in terms of "intelligence", computers still are like stupid babies, completely unable to think to themselves. AI research hasn't made any real progress in the past 30 years, and without it, we won't see no singularity anytime soon, since computer's won't become "better towards human standards", only "faster".
So, would you say Linus said "A spec is close to useless" because the specs he was confronted with where some of those "incomplete" specs? I would understand that, it would make sense.
I don't understand Launch Loop (this site definitely needs some good pictures), but I can tell you why the Space fountain is not feasible, and I think Launch Loop is a variant of the space fountain, right? Space fountain needs those pellet shooting cannons to keep the structure upright. You remove that daily maintenance and the whole structure comes crashing down. Well we people like stuff that stays by itself(tm). Imagine a power failure - boom. We don't like the idea of a structure dependent on contstand energy input to stay upright, it's just not human, sorry.
I'm using opera mini since a few weeks and it absolutely rocks. It has literally changed my mobile life - any info I might think at is now in the palm of my hands, fast and cheap, and on any regular lightweight mobile phone. Too bad opera didn't make it a free offer, too, I had to let a norwegian friend get a copy for me. But for me, at least, Opera, funded 1994, finally seems to start becoming important. Good move.
I've generated some pretty cool tunes. They let you bookmark a composition, but they won't let you download the midi file. Has anybody already looked into the sources and found out how to get it?
I have no idea what you are talking about. Dithering applies to signal *processing* (input -> process -> output). The presented concept doesn't mean "sampling the original wing flapping, adding a signal and applying the end result again to the wings", it just means "adding a signal to the wing". You don't even have the means to start fresh with the "applying" part, since you can't control all of the wing movement.
Could you elaborate your idea?
The central point of the linked article is, that Lisp is the "highest Language" around - Could somebody comment on this? Sureley there must be a higher, even more experimental language somewhere, no?
Isn't it a podcast only if there are at least two shows, and you can subscribe through RSS or something similar and get updates automatically? This sounds like a big miss-naming incident.
In the video, the ball has a very visible parabolic flight curve over the 2 meters distance. Either the video has been recorded on saturn, or the ball is flying much slower than they say.
Is this the same as with the capacitance sensors in the trackpad, which do not really measure pressure, but the area that your finger covers, which gets bigger if you press your finger harder to the surface (according to the developer of "FingaMIDI")?
Well, actually, nobody knows because we haven't tried out the mouse yet. But reading from the apple site, it looks like the user will not be able to "just move a finger", but to consciously make sure that only the right finger is on the mouse when he presses the mouse down to arrive at a right-click, which sounds cumbersome. Your idea to "lift the left finger to get a right click" doesn't sound too intuitive either, imho.
The difference is that with a standard multi-button mouse, i can rest fingers on both buttons, press down one side and it knows what I have done. With the current Apple design, it cannot know what you want if you rest both your fingers on the mouse.
But, do they make a multi-button mouse? Oh..
It's not about "will there still be _some_ compatible apps in 5 years", but about "can I be sure that every new app release in the next 5 years will be compatible with my PowerPC processor?". And you can't. That's why the grandparent, me an many many other people will wait until we can buy intel machines.
With 2D Chips, every part of the chip was very close to the surface. With 3D Chips, parts can be layers away from the outside of the chip, so cooling cannot be done as easy on 3D chips. Does anybody know how they are dealing with these problems?
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