Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth
Can anyone clarify what on earth this part of the summary means? Isn't that like saying "we've only got really thin pipes, so we'll need a more powerful pump to force enough water through them?"
Awesome, thanks for that link! I had no idea that a new version of Mix Manager was out. According to the page, it no longer crashes "on fast computers (Pentium II or faster)". Sweet!
How about Google AppEngine? It's intended for "cloud applications", but of course it has to serve up static HTML pages as part of that. It's free for 1GB of storage and 10GB bandwidth, so if you can cope with the slightly technical setup process it might be an ideal solution.
You're painting a false dichotomy here. The distinction is not between "science" and "weird", it is between fiction that is derivative and tedious, and fiction that explores interesting ideas.
The "weird" stuff you're complaining about falls into the former category. The latter category consists of the hard sci-fi that you enjoy, which explores various aspects of science, and other forms of sci-fi, which explore other ideas.
JG Ballard, for instance, was a genius who displayed an incredible aptitude for exploring the darker and more warped recesses of the human psyche. This may or may not be to your tastes, but it is not "weird for weird's sake".
Leaving aside the contentious issue of whether the difference between high quality MP3/OGG and full quality files is audible (I'd argue the middle ground, that some people can tell, some of the time, with certain source material on good quality equipment) the point here is that lossless compression preserves the original material, unchanged.
If you want to move it into a different format later you can do so, without the loss of quality inherent in another decode/encode cycle. If you encode your whole collection to OGG, then later purchase a new stereo, and only then wish you'd picked a slightly higher bitrate, you're screwed.
With storage so ridiculously cheap these days it hardly seems worthwhile to squish music down into tiny files, when you could preserve the original forever.
Wow, all those cool features, this sounds absolutely... oh wait, "just a design idea"? Some guy has cobbled together a wish-list of features which are in no way possible to create with current technology? That's really impressive. Thanks for wasting my time.
On the other hand, pure logic also dictates that no-one who spends their spare time reading articles about the application of quantum theory to psychology could possibly have any interest in watching a show so asinine as Deal or No Deal.
This is why I refuse to buy from Powells. I would ask people to boycott their site, and remove links to it from their own pages, until this despicable policy of imperfection is reversed.
Innovation in games, pointless or otherwise? Point me at it. Yeah, there's the odd exception like Portal, but generally you have to head for the indie sector to find any innovation at all. God knows what the author was thinking, except maybe: -
Write article which describes exact opposite to reality.
This seems like a wise move on Microsoft's part. They've never been able to manage "free as in freedom", and now they're steering well clear of "free as in beer".
He wasn't criticising the guy for the actions of his ancestors, he was criticising his choice of username, which he believes glorifies the actions of those people. It's sorta like picking a username like "AdolfHitler666". Except that this guy might just be a Battlestar Galactica fan with a predilection for oriental chicks.
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Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth
Can anyone clarify what on earth this part of the summary means? Isn't that like saying "we've only got really thin pipes, so we'll need a more powerful pump to force enough water through them?"
Awesome, thanks for that link! I had no idea that a new version of Mix Manager was out. According to the page, it no longer crashes "on fast computers (Pentium II or faster)". Sweet!
Sounds kind of like the argument against Web Apps ...
I guess that's why he was using it to make an argument against a web app. :)
I don't think the British government is doing anything in the name of terrorism and child pornography. Well, okay, maybe terrorism...
How about Google AppEngine? It's intended for "cloud applications", but of course it has to serve up static HTML pages as part of that. It's free for 1GB of storage and 10GB bandwidth, so if you can cope with the slightly technical setup process it might be an ideal solution.
I know it can be difficult to find a woman who shares your taste in entertainment, but drugging one seems somewhat excessive.
You do not want this movie to be financially successful, otherwise the studio will insist on producing a sequel.
There is a Swedish company that has done this in Sweden.
Almost certainly the best place for a Swedish company to do so, in my limited experience.
You're painting a false dichotomy here. The distinction is not between "science" and "weird", it is between fiction that is derivative and tedious, and fiction that explores interesting ideas.
The "weird" stuff you're complaining about falls into the former category. The latter category consists of the hard sci-fi that you enjoy, which explores various aspects of science, and other forms of sci-fi, which explore other ideas.
JG Ballard, for instance, was a genius who displayed an incredible aptitude for exploring the darker and more warped recesses of the human psyche. This may or may not be to your tastes, but it is not "weird for weird's sake".
Leaving aside the contentious issue of whether the difference between high quality MP3/OGG and full quality files is audible (I'd argue the middle ground, that some people can tell, some of the time, with certain source material on good quality equipment) the point here is that lossless compression preserves the original material, unchanged.
If you want to move it into a different format later you can do so, without the loss of quality inherent in another decode/encode cycle. If you encode your whole collection to OGG, then later purchase a new stereo, and only then wish you'd picked a slightly higher bitrate, you're screwed.
With storage so ridiculously cheap these days it hardly seems worthwhile to squish music down into tiny files, when you could preserve the original forever.
Wow, all those cool features, this sounds absolutely... oh wait, "just a design idea"? Some guy has cobbled together a wish-list of features which are in no way possible to create with current technology? That's really impressive. Thanks for wasting my time.
Sadly, most people do not seem to understand this.
They probably would if you fixed your 's' key.
On the other hand, pure logic also dictates that no-one who spends their spare time reading articles about the application of quantum theory to psychology could possibly have any interest in watching a show so asinine as Deal or No Deal.
"It absolutely is worthwhile to invest in carbon capture and storage because we are not in a vacuum,"
If we were in a vacuum, it would be pretty pointless attempting to burn coal at all.
And here is an even better story.
Need a hand fixing that space bar?
I don't think out-dated cargo ships will be flying around out in space anytime soon
Too late.
why don't the ISP's just provide metered service? This way, Grandma... only pays a little bit.
I think you answered your own question there. No wonder you got modded insightful.
You quit your job so as not to piss people off? Man, you'll never make management.
Are they perfect? No.
This is why I refuse to buy from Powells. I would ask people to boycott their site, and remove links to it from their own pages, until this despicable policy of imperfection is reversed.
Twitter? That's so first-quarter-of-2009. Everyone's using flutter now you know.
This seems like a wise move on Microsoft's part. They've never been able to manage "free as in freedom", and now they're steering well clear of "free as in beer".
Not much point me trying to Godwin a thread when you go and reply anyway though. :)
He wasn't criticising the guy for the actions of his ancestors, he was criticising his choice of username, which he believes glorifies the actions of those people. It's sorta like picking a username like "AdolfHitler666". Except that this guy might just be a Battlestar Galactica fan with a predilection for oriental chicks.