One format is to use standard DVD discs and MPEG-4.
I'd like that, my new HTPC should be capable of playing those already. Then a higher-density format can come later for seasons-on-a-disk or higher quality. Since the former is a formatting spec, not a hardware one (granted, current DVD players can't handle it), it seems to me it's not that much of a competing standard.
Name three things that can only be done with a right-click or control-click in Mac OS X
"Need" is a strong condition. It's certainly a shorter process to create an alias to a directory in another directory via option-command drag and drop than it is to make alias/drag-n-drop (with pause for folder to open)/select/rename (to remove the " alias" from the end of the name).
Most of the people I know who've used Macs from the start have no problem with a one-button, given that Ctrl-click performs the same function as a right click.
In my home computer setup, I often don't have a keyboard handy; I'm just surfing with the mouse. (And no, it's not because my other hand is "busy.") So right-click is more convenient. It's also better for the one-handed, temporary or permanent. It may be just because I use my Mac less than my PC, but the exact key combination to copy vs. move vs. make an alias often takes memultiple presses to find, especially since one of them requires two of the four modifier keys.
It also took me quite a while to develop a scroll wheel habit, but now I find it quite useful, and frustratedly "caress" mice that don't have one.
But the key thing is, Apple could simply offer the option -- most people won't change it -- and it would quiet the anti-one-button critics.
Why is this flamebait? It's the truth; Apple could quiet every Apple-mouse critic in a day by adding a mouse choice option to systems purchased in their store. The "no-button" mouse sells separately for more than they sell Logitech and Kensington mice, so they'd even make a little money on the deal while saving their buyers money (otherwise spent on getting an extra mouse.)
sticking with it since then has just been sheer cussedness....and not offering a multi-button mouse with a scroll wheel as an option with Macs is just sheer brain-deadness.
[...]whereas a 17" CRT is generally about 16" viewable....but if you add 1+6 (from the 16"), you get 7. 7 is the magic number.
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So how can something be 60 cycles a second and infinite cycles a second at the same time?
LCDs have no scanning beam. If you were hyperfast, you would notice that the pixels on your monitor get very bright as the cathode ray hits them, then fade away over time. This is why you can see flicker at low refresh rates. But like watching a movie, you don't see the refreshes, you see a moving image.
With an LCD, the backlight is constantly on. LCD pixels don't have the surge in brightness, they stay a uniform color. When the signal says change color, it transitions to the new color. The time it takes to change can be significant, thus limiting the "refresh" rate of the LCD -- really, the maximum change rate -- and causing ghosting, as pixels retain some of their old color longer than they should.
With LCD displays, it is a much different story, anything smaller than the LCD native resolution will be scaled by the monitor (or shrunk to a smaller area) by some digital scaling technique.
Yes, but the higher the resolution, the better a scaled image will look. On a 4000x3000 display, most resolutions would look pretty good. Also, that only explains why LCDs would be standard resolutions; so why aren't notebook LCDs affected by the same issue?
The DVI spec seems to be limited in resolution: is that the reason? A notebook can do a non-standard interconnect.
/.ers have got me seriously thinking about getting a Tivo. Everyone seems to like it so much.
Either that, or a HTPC (Home theater PC.) I got one with a DVD writer to serve as the latter; via the network I can also use it for generic data backup for my main PC. No chance of that going out of business, you can upgrade for HDTV, play hi-res MOVs/AVIs/etc., use it as an MP3/Ogg player, expand it trivially, etc. You pay for it in (probably) a higher initial price and a less convenient set-up, though.
Unless they are much greater than LCDs in some respect, I don't know why the regular Joe Bloggs would want to upgrade from a CRT.
Black levels should be better. LCDs always have some bleedthrough of the backlight. Also, they may have a better "refresh" rate, or whatever the equivalent is for such a device.
It sounds like the process should also allow for lower manufacturing costs, which should translate into lower prices in the long run.
Use a negative filter: Only accept the stuff addressed to you and dump the rest.
The article mentions getting nearly 10,000 of these, though. It seems like that would take a long time for an e-mail client to go through. Also, the negative filter means you can't make temporary addresses that you ever do want to receive mail through, or else you must add them without fail to your legal address list.
Source for statistics? I'm not voicing disbelief, just curiousity and interest in the numbers.
I'm not the original poster, but look at this. Quote from it: "Workers in the United States are putting in more hours than anyone else in the industrialized world."
I've thought of this idea before; it seems somewhat reasonable but there are some problems. For example, what if the escrow value is set too high?
One possibility would be to have the escrow money reduce the duration for which exclusive copyright is claimed. For every X thousand dollars given, a year is taken off of the 95 year limit (with no grandfathering for further copyright extensions.) Thus you always get some progress for your money.
You seem to believe that Iraq is a rogue state, the gov't does slaughter its own population, and that it would be generally a better world should Saddam et. al. be usurped. [...] But then you say that GDub's pretexts are dodgy?
How about "Dubya's pretexts for doing so in a way that will kill many times more innocent people than 9/11 are dodgy." Does that explain it better?
If a special forces guy could go in and quietly off the relevant members of the Iraqi leadership, I'd say "What's he/she waiting for?" Unfortunately, that's not the case.
What I would like is a hill-climbing assist, especially as a recreational biker. Instead of an always-on engine, holding a button somewhere on the handgrips would activate a sensor that would sense how fast the wheels are turning. If they're going below a certain speed, it would trigger (preferably) an electric motor that would provide sufficient boost to achieve the specified speed. Has anyone done anything like this?
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One format is to use standard DVD discs and MPEG-4.
I'd like that, my new HTPC should be capable of playing those already. Then a higher-density format can come later for seasons-on-a-disk or higher quality. Since the former is a formatting spec, not a hardware one (granted, current DVD players can't handle it), it seems to me it's not that much of a competing standard.
Yeh, just like the CPU in my computer, silicone naturally acts like a transister. [Emphasis mine]
So Pamela Anderson has a dual-processor setup, then?
Name three things that can only be done with a right-click or control-click in Mac OS X
"Need" is a strong condition. It's certainly a shorter process to create an alias to a directory in another directory via option-command drag and drop than it is to make alias/drag-n-drop (with pause for folder to open)/select/rename (to remove the " alias" from the end of the name).
Yes, because the UI is designed so you don't actually NEED more than one button
Sure you do. You just achieve that additional button by holding down some combination of modifier keys while you press the mouse button.
Most of the people I know who've used Macs from the start have no problem with a one-button, given that Ctrl-click performs the same function as a right click.
In my home computer setup, I often don't have a keyboard handy; I'm just surfing with the mouse. (And no, it's not because my other hand is "busy.") So right-click is more convenient. It's also better for the one-handed, temporary or permanent. It may be just because I use my Mac less than my PC, but the exact key combination to copy vs. move vs. make an alias often takes memultiple presses to find, especially since one of them requires two of the four modifier keys.
It also took me quite a while to develop a scroll wheel habit, but now I find it quite useful, and frustratedly "caress" mice that don't have one.
But the key thing is, Apple could simply offer the option -- most people won't change it -- and it would quiet the anti-one-button critics.
Why is this flamebait? It's the truth; Apple could quiet every Apple-mouse critic in a day by adding a mouse choice option to systems purchased in their store. The "no-button" mouse sells separately for more than they sell Logitech and Kensington mice, so they'd even make a little money on the deal while saving their buyers money (otherwise spent on getting an extra mouse.)
sticking with it since then has just been sheer cussedness. ...and not offering a multi-button mouse with a scroll wheel as an option with Macs is just sheer brain-deadness.
[...]whereas a 17" CRT is generally about 16" viewable. ...but if you add 1+6 (from the 16"), you get 7. 7 is the magic number.
So how can something be 60 cycles a second and infinite cycles a second at the same time?
LCDs have no scanning beam. If you were hyperfast, you would notice that the pixels on your monitor get very bright as the cathode ray hits them, then fade away over time. This is why you can see flicker at low refresh rates. But like watching a movie, you don't see the refreshes, you see a moving image.
With an LCD, the backlight is constantly on. LCD pixels don't have the surge in brightness, they stay a uniform color. When the signal says change color, it transitions to the new color. The time it takes to change can be significant, thus limiting the "refresh" rate of the LCD -- really, the maximum change rate -- and causing ghosting, as pixels retain some of their old color longer than they should.
Not to mention that I have never actually seen an 18" monitor.
P.S. You have; they're inaccurately called 19" CRTs.
Not to mention that I have never actually seen an 18" monitor.
Dell Ultrasharp 1800FP. $599 when not on sale.
With LCD displays, it is a much different story, anything smaller than the LCD native resolution will be scaled by the monitor (or shrunk to a smaller area) by some digital scaling technique.
Yes, but the higher the resolution, the better a scaled image will look. On a 4000x3000 display, most resolutions would look pretty good. Also, that only explains why LCDs would be standard resolutions; so why aren't notebook LCDs affected by the same issue?
The DVI spec seems to be limited in resolution: is that the reason? A notebook can do a non-standard interconnect.
/.ers have got me seriously thinking about getting a Tivo. Everyone seems to like it so much.
Either that, or a HTPC (Home theater PC.) I got one with a DVD writer to serve as the latter; via the network I can also use it for generic data backup for my main PC. No chance of that going out of business, you can upgrade for HDTV, play hi-res MOVs/AVIs/etc., use it as an MP3/Ogg player, expand it trivially, etc. You pay for it in (probably) a higher initial price and a less convenient set-up, though.
I'm just worried that things will get out of hand.... how many millions are we talking before source is released?
Give me, say, $1.5 million, and I'll write open source full-time until retirement age. (If only I could figure out a way to actually arrange this...)
Any plans to come to the US soon?
Are you kidding? The MPAA and RIAA want Bush to invade India next now. "IP terrorists!"
Unless they are much greater than LCDs in some respect, I don't know why the regular Joe Bloggs would want to upgrade from a CRT.
Black levels should be better. LCDs always have some bleedthrough of the backlight. Also, they may have a better "refresh" rate, or whatever the equivalent is for such a device.
It sounds like the process should also allow for lower manufacturing costs, which should translate into lower prices in the long run.
Use a negative filter: Only accept the stuff addressed to you and dump the rest.
The article mentions getting nearly 10,000 of these, though. It seems like that would take a long time for an e-mail client to go through. Also, the negative filter means you can't make temporary addresses that you ever do want to receive mail through, or else you must add them without fail to your legal address list.
Source for statistics? I'm not voicing disbelief, just curiousity and interest in the numbers.
I'm not the original poster, but look at this.
Quote from it: "Workers in the United States are putting in more hours than anyone else in the industrialized world."
I've thought of this idea before; it seems somewhat reasonable but there are some problems. For example, what if the escrow value is set too high?
One possibility would be to have the escrow money reduce the duration for which exclusive copyright is claimed. For every X thousand dollars given, a year is taken off of the 95 year limit (with no grandfathering for further copyright extensions.) Thus you always get some progress for your money.
Right, but if you need to wear contacts ANYWAY (as I do), getting rid of a separate pair of sunglasses would be cool.
By 2013, wouldn't you consider laser surgery to fix your eyesight?
You seem to believe that Iraq is a rogue state, the gov't does slaughter its own population, and that it would be generally a better world should Saddam et. al. be usurped. [...] But then you say that GDub's pretexts are dodgy?
How about "Dubya's pretexts for doing so in a way that will kill many times more innocent people than 9/11 are dodgy." Does that explain it better?
If a special forces guy could go in and quietly off the relevant members of the Iraqi leadership, I'd say "What's he/she waiting for?" Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Judging by your low UID, you've probably been reading slashdot so long that your addiction to it is pulling you away from your wife.
Uh-oh.
What I would like is a hill-climbing assist, especially as a recreational biker. Instead of an always-on engine, holding a button somewhere on the handgrips would activate a sensor that would sense how fast the wheels are turning. If they're going below a certain speed, it would trigger (preferably) an electric motor that would provide sufficient boost to achieve the specified speed. Has anyone done anything like this?
my favorite is that Marijuana use funds terrorism.
Well, apparently it scares the heebie-jeebies out of John Ashcroft, and terrorism is about instilling fear...
Mozilla takes FIRE BREATHING REVENGE OF DOOM!
:-(
Actually, the li'l fire-breathing guy is gone! We get an exciting splash screen of the word Mozilla.
I want my lizard back.