I didn't even see how it was getting paid to use Bing. I would search on Bing for a deal and find ones where I would have to wait for cash back.
I'd then do the same search on Amazon or go directly to the store site and get offfered the same deal except the price was just lower by the amount that Bing was offering for a cashback.
What's worse is that even when it was a little cheaper I'd go through a different site because I couldn't be bothered with signing up for the program, nor would I just make the purchase without signing up knowing that I was forfeiting the cashback deal.
People like me are what really screw up corporate marketing campaigns.
It won't be long before SSD drives are cheaper than conventional drives.
An SSD drive is mostly a bunch of memory sandwiched together. A conventional drive has complex precision moving parts with motors, platters, heads, etc.
Manufacturing costs on SSDs will be almost nothing when the scales get a bit smaller and they go into mass production.
I suspect people are moving to Powershell, since it's a good shell scripting language, and it's easy to load.NET assemblies among other things.
I was able to learn enough powershell to do some rather useful things in a few days, and that's without having a strong shell scripting background.
There has to be at least some real differences between the games that make them different. I was watching a review of "Guitar Hero III" on G4 and it gets a 4 star (of 5) rating. The game offers almost nothing different from Guitar Hero II.
G4 says, "Where else can you find a game offering the songs Barracuda and Paint it Black"?
Easy. GHII had Crazy on You and Can't you Hear Me Knocking.
Woo Hoo! Big change there!
It didn't surprise me in the least to see a 15 second GH3 commercial a few minutes later.
Not even close to being silent. Have you ever heard a tracked miliatry vehicle move?
It sounds like about 100 people banging pots and pans walking toward you.
It isn't the engine on a tracked vehicle that makes noise, it's the fact you have a several ton vehicle constantly moving several pieces of metal around in an oval pattern for mobility.
Take the M1 for example. The tank engine sounds kind of like what an airplane idling on a runway sounds like, byt the moment it starts rolling you hear it coming for miles.
The entire US Bill of Rights, as stated in the preamble, is about limiting the power of government over poeple. If you look at the other nine amendments in the bill you see the context into which the second amendment fits.
Personally I believe the second amendment is what allows the citizens to overthrow the government should it become a tyranny, but the ACLU's position is along the same line as the Supreme Court's, and it is certainly a reasonable position.
Ok, so I'm not smoking crack. I was thinking that they may have done something different in this version of passport to somehow make it better, but it appears to be just a renamed version of the same thing.
What makes LiveID different from Passport or other auth systems? I'd like a way to sign in to multiple sites without having to remember and type a username and login for each one, but so far every solution for the problem has been widely rejected. What are the limitations with these single sign-ons that cause sites to prefer rolling their own logins?
The network is one thing, but just processing that amount of data is incredible.
200 computer breaks the 1GB chink into more manageable 5MB/Sec chinks of data, but then they still need to handle the metadata that figures out how to put it all back together. On top of this they'll need to have some redundancy in case of data loss, and how the load is redistributed if a machine croaks.
These are good problems, it would be a fun system to work on.
This takedown notice has absolutely nothing to do with the music they are playing. There are hundreds of videos of people playing entire songs on YouTube.
These sites are being attacked because they are cutting into the DVD video training market, with products (at least Sandercoe's, in my opinion) that are better than most of the 'professional' videos out there.
The 'copyright violation' is just the excuse they are using to get them off the market.
It's because the industry doesn't want computer scientists for the most part; they want Software Engineers. CS and software engineering are as different as physics and mechanical engineering. A physicist has enough technical knowledge to build a bridge, but would you want them to?
Universities have failed to understand the difference between software science and engineering. The result is that they cave to industry pressure to educate people in CS programs to produce software needed for business.
If our professors would pull their collective heads from their butts and split these disciplines into separate programs, then Computer Science could focus on research and Software Engineering could focus on building software solutions.
You do, however, make some good points. Some of the content which has been omitted is important to engineering as well and should be reevaluated.
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I didn't even see how it was getting paid to use Bing. I would search on Bing for a deal and find ones where I would have to wait for cash back.
I'd then do the same search on Amazon or go directly to the store site and get offfered the same deal except the price was just lower by the amount that Bing was offering for a cashback.
What's worse is that even when it was a little cheaper I'd go through a different site because I couldn't be bothered with signing up for the program, nor would I just make the purchase without signing up knowing that I was forfeiting the cashback deal.
People like me are what really screw up corporate marketing campaigns.
It won't be long before SSD drives are cheaper than conventional drives. An SSD drive is mostly a bunch of memory sandwiched together. A conventional drive has complex precision moving parts with motors, platters, heads, etc. Manufacturing costs on SSDs will be almost nothing when the scales get a bit smaller and they go into mass production.
I suspect people are moving to Powershell, since it's a good shell scripting language, and it's easy to load .NET assemblies among other things.
I was able to learn enough powershell to do some rather useful things in a few days, and that's without having a strong shell scripting background.
There has to be at least some real differences between the games that make them different. I was watching a review of "Guitar Hero III" on G4 and it gets a 4 star (of 5) rating. The game offers almost nothing different from Guitar Hero II.
G4 says, "Where else can you find a game offering the songs Barracuda and Paint it Black"?
Easy. GHII had Crazy on You and Can't you Hear Me Knocking.
Woo Hoo! Big change there!
It didn't surprise me in the least to see a 15 second GH3 commercial a few minutes later.
I can see attorney Jack Thompson licking his lips in anticipation already
Not even close to being silent. Have you ever heard a tracked miliatry vehicle move?
It sounds like about 100 people banging pots and pans walking toward you.
It isn't the engine on a tracked vehicle that makes noise, it's the fact you have a several ton vehicle constantly moving several pieces of metal around in an oval pattern for mobility.
Take the M1 for example. The tank engine sounds kind of like what an airplane idling on a runway sounds like, byt the moment it starts rolling you hear it coming for miles.
The entire US Bill of Rights, as stated in the preamble, is about limiting the power of government over poeple. If you look at the other nine amendments in the bill you see the context into which the second amendment fits.
Personally I believe the second amendment is what allows the citizens to overthrow the government should it become a tyranny, but the ACLU's position is along the same line as the Supreme Court's, and it is certainly a reasonable position.
Ok, so I'm not smoking crack. I was thinking that they may have done something different in this version of passport to somehow make it better, but it appears to be just a renamed version of the same thing.
What makes LiveID different from Passport or other auth systems? I'd like a way to sign in to multiple sites without having to remember and type a username and login for each one, but so far every solution for the problem has been widely rejected. What are the limitations with these single sign-ons that cause sites to prefer rolling their own logins?
for drivers yakking away on their cell phone instead of watching the road.
I wasn't even going to bother getting this DVD, until I saw the Hypnotoad. Now I want 10 copies!
The network is one thing, but just processing that amount of data is incredible.
200 computer breaks the 1GB chink into more manageable 5MB/Sec chinks of data, but then they still need to handle the metadata that figures out how to put it all back together. On top of this they'll need to have some redundancy in case of data loss, and how the load is redistributed if a machine croaks.
These are good problems, it would be a fun system to work on.
This takedown notice has absolutely nothing to do with the music they are playing. There are hundreds of videos of people playing entire songs on YouTube. These sites are being attacked because they are cutting into the DVD video training market, with products (at least Sandercoe's, in my opinion) that are better than most of the 'professional' videos out there.
The 'copyright violation' is just the excuse they are using to get them off the market.
It's because the industry doesn't want computer scientists for the most part; they want Software Engineers. CS and software engineering are as different as physics and mechanical engineering. A physicist has enough technical knowledge to build a bridge, but would you want them to?
Universities have failed to understand the difference between software science and engineering. The result is that they cave to industry pressure to educate people in CS programs to produce software needed for business.
If our professors would pull their collective heads from their butts and split these disciplines into separate programs, then Computer Science could focus on research and Software Engineering could focus on building software solutions.
You do, however, make some good points. Some of the content which has been omitted is important to engineering as well and should be reevaluated.