Well, China can't be far up there, since the report is quite clearly hard-blocked (which means the connection is always reset when trying to access it). Interestingly enough, imdb is also blocked, which just seems stupid. I really need to get a vpn.
I teach English in China, and one of my most (apparently) interesting lectures comes when I teach tongue twisters. I almost inevitably end up teaching "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," which is a pretty fun tongue twister for the students, but they don't understand peck, and I don't blame them. I explain it the way my great Uncle explained it to me after he told me that everyone should eat at least 2 pecks of dirt in their lifetime: You know what a barrel is, right? (I usually end up explaining that visually) A peck is just 2 barrels. Ok, so his explanation is not really accurate since a peck is actually 8 quarts, or 2 gallons, or a little more than 8 liters, but it gets the point across. When the kids ask me why it's 2 barrels, I tell them, again, what my uncle told me: I haven't the foggiest. It's a completely inane system of measurement. Even the British abandoned the Imperial system, so why can't we? It's even more fun when I explain to them that a mile is 5,280 feet. Again, they ask why, and again I tell them that I have no idea why it's that long. The sad thing is that I remember that number. I have no reason to know that number, it comes as if snapped up from the air somewhere, and yet there it sits, in my brain, wasting however many bits it does. It took me all of a day to figure out the metric system when we learned it in school, and a lifetime later, I'm still mystified by the strange numbers of importance in the Imperial system, many of which I'm sure I can't remember correctly.
I had assumed the reason that they mentioned Microsoft's cloud services not being FISMA certified was that the government is still using Microsoft's services...or did I misunderstand something?
To be honest, I didn't click most of those links in the summary, but I did check out the codec's website, and it made me wonder where I can find an app that actually uses this codec. I would be really interested in trying this out or participating in any kind of testing they might be doing since I live in China, Skype is uber-slow here and I do enjoy jamming from time to time. Anyone know how to put this codec to use yet?
That almost exactly what happened to me. The first time I used blender, I was horribly mystified by everything in it, and I ended up making a lot of things that were utterly horrible to look at, from any angle. Later, I discovered all of the free tutes out there and I followed a few of them, and even ended up developing a couple of (very simple) models for an open source game I was playing at the time. The tutes did a great job of helping me learn my way around the app, and I was seriously surprised at how little I actually needed the mouse to develop pretty decent looking models. I don't think there was anything wrong with the GUI before, but the problem was with the lack of access to those tutes from the application itself, or at least a lack of obvious access. I haven't tried 2.57 yet, but I'm willing to bet that even with the GUI enhancements, it's still worth your while to check out the tutes, once they're all updated for the new interface.
Where exactly did you get the word "invented" from that article? If you had bothered to RTFA at all, you might have noticed that there was no claim of a new invention, and, in point of fact, the article is in the "innovation" section of the website. This is a genuinely staggering innovation as it could greatly reduce weight of vehicles, efficiency of fuel use AND cut down on repair costs by removing a ton of components from cars. The fact that it can only be used in hybrid vehicles does not make it any less amazing or useful, since EVs are gaining in popularity so much recently. I would buy a car with this engine in it without a second thought if I had the money.
... at least in China, I've been using it for months. The only catch here is that you can't pay for it and the streaming and downloading seems to be handled by a third party website (something like top100.cn). So I don't really know what they're talking about when they say "internally testing," unless that means that the google music everyone in China knows (and most of them love) is going to be somehow inherently different from what the rest of the world will be getting (though that wouldn't be particularly surprising, considering our internet situation here).
... to see how many people think this is going to ruin Ubuntu. I would really like to see this kind of release schedule at least for the applications I have installed (such as Empathy, Skype, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) because I honestly believe that PPA's are the handy-work of the devil. Of course, I don't think they should make such updates transparent, but rather on an opt-in per application basis. I remember back when Pidgin was still in, changes to the protocols would often make it nearly useless (for me) and that's the kind of thing I think they want to stop. It is kind of ridiculous for a "normal" user to have to do some googling and command-line magic to get the latest version of an application that doesn't even demand new dependencies or anything like that to run. What would be great is if it offers to update the program when you actually go to open it, but will offer the option to suppress that particular update so that you don't get spammed by the offer every time you open the application. That's a pretty standard method for offering updates, right? I don't think that the Shuttle is talking about hijacking your DM via some ninja update and borking your system, it sounds more like he wants the users who say "Why the heck can't it just DO it?" to not have a reason to ask that question so often when using Ubuntu. This is the 21st freaking century and we still can't update to the newest version of our chosen browser without some serious user-fu? I certainly hope not.
So now that all the eggs are in one basket (except MS, but do they matter any more?), who wants to take bets on how long before DHS drops a brick and decides these data centers ought to be a little more spread out?
Does anyone else find it strange that the article talks about testing on an EeePC and the picture heading up the article is of a Samsung netbook?
Also, I'm not sure this test is very fair, it seems a very non-technical approach to testing how well the different systems actually operate. Granted, it isn't wholly bad to test the actual usability, but this testing isn't very rigorous or controlled in any way, I mean flash performance could change from one ten-minute period to the next just because of differences in internet traffic at the time. I wouldn't put much confidence in this article.
What these research scientists fail to realize is that businesses are slow to adapt to their visions, so they always overestimate the importance of their discoveries. Yeah, it's easy to imagine how great this thing they made could be for man-kind, but who is going to actually adopt their method? How much will it cost? Scientists, strange though it may sound, are generally not "details people," so they can't really conceive of how their work will actually enter into the market, which is what is relevant to consumers and/or non-research scientist types.
I'm guessing this is just a rehash of old complaints against pretty much all major ISPs in the U.S. regarding their traffic shaping practices, in which they give you that max speed only for a few seconds at a time when you are initially downloading the contents of a webpage, but then they cut it off after maybe 10 seconds to prevent you from actually enjoying any kind of video or pictures that you might be enjoying.
They seem to believe that we webbies ought to adhere to their standards for what "normal" internet use consists of, rather than using the web the way we would like. It's a very rationalized argument that probably works very well on judges, most of whom don't actually understand much, if anything, about what most people would consider "normal" web traffic, and their ignorance is probably largely due to the fact that they have to spend so much time researching all the useless information out there about the frivolous lawsuit of the week.
Ok, maybe a little out there, but does the point get across? It's like everyone in the U.S. has been using Catch-22 as a political/business model.
It's great and all that I'm now aware of yet another manner in which I may or may not be intentionally or unintentionally flouting the law, but can we get a more realistic list of cameras that don't cause you to infringe on patents by their mere everyday use? I know the author listed a couple in the article, but $6k-12k is not even in my realm of possibility for purchasing transportation, much less photographic equipment.
OK, I'll throw in my lame attempt at a car analogy.
It's the equivalent of a tire manufacturer with a patent or two on how their tires are made (presumably some chemical process/formula that makes it differ in some minor way from others), charged royalties to the car company for using the tires with their cars, the gas company for every mile driven using their gas to turn the tires AND the consumer for every rotation of said tires. And if some poor kid decides to tie one of those tires up to a tree and swing on it? Ho-ho-ho, christmas come early, cause that kid is gonna spend the rest of his natural born life with garnished wages for his unlicensed misuse of their technology.
Laugh now, but I'm about to go take down my tire swing.
Let's not forget summerfest! It combines all of the best parts of Wisconsin and occasionally adds good looking boobies. Check it out: www.summerfest.com
At risk of my own reputation, I have to ask: Is that a reference to Magic: The Gathering's "Unglued" set?
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Yeah, and R2 could make sure you do a good job of it too, clean up afterwards and everything. In fact, they should equip the thing with a big "rack" to "give rise" to the astronauts. Also, then they could call him R2D2!
(I realize the joke was totally stupid, feel free to point out one or several of the many ways in which I achieved fail)
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Well, China can't be far up there, since the report is quite clearly hard-blocked (which means the connection is always reset when trying to access it). Interestingly enough, imdb is also blocked, which just seems stupid. I really need to get a vpn.
I teach English in China, and one of my most (apparently) interesting lectures comes when I teach tongue twisters. I almost inevitably end up teaching "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," which is a pretty fun tongue twister for the students, but they don't understand peck, and I don't blame them. I explain it the way my great Uncle explained it to me after he told me that everyone should eat at least 2 pecks of dirt in their lifetime: You know what a barrel is, right? (I usually end up explaining that visually) A peck is just 2 barrels. Ok, so his explanation is not really accurate since a peck is actually 8 quarts, or 2 gallons, or a little more than 8 liters, but it gets the point across. When the kids ask me why it's 2 barrels, I tell them, again, what my uncle told me: I haven't the foggiest. It's a completely inane system of measurement. Even the British abandoned the Imperial system, so why can't we? It's even more fun when I explain to them that a mile is 5,280 feet. Again, they ask why, and again I tell them that I have no idea why it's that long. The sad thing is that I remember that number. I have no reason to know that number, it comes as if snapped up from the air somewhere, and yet there it sits, in my brain, wasting however many bits it does. It took me all of a day to figure out the metric system when we learned it in school, and a lifetime later, I'm still mystified by the strange numbers of importance in the Imperial system, many of which I'm sure I can't remember correctly.
I had assumed the reason that they mentioned Microsoft's cloud services not being FISMA certified was that the government is still using Microsoft's services...or did I misunderstand something?
To be honest, I didn't click most of those links in the summary, but I did check out the codec's website, and it made me wonder where I can find an app that actually uses this codec. I would be really interested in trying this out or participating in any kind of testing they might be doing since I live in China, Skype is uber-slow here and I do enjoy jamming from time to time. Anyone know how to put this codec to use yet?
With raspberry jam of course, much to the lament of Dark Helmet.
That almost exactly what happened to me. The first time I used blender, I was horribly mystified by everything in it, and I ended up making a lot of things that were utterly horrible to look at, from any angle. Later, I discovered all of the free tutes out there and I followed a few of them, and even ended up developing a couple of (very simple) models for an open source game I was playing at the time. The tutes did a great job of helping me learn my way around the app, and I was seriously surprised at how little I actually needed the mouse to develop pretty decent looking models. I don't think there was anything wrong with the GUI before, but the problem was with the lack of access to those tutes from the application itself, or at least a lack of obvious access. I haven't tried 2.57 yet, but I'm willing to bet that even with the GUI enhancements, it's still worth your while to check out the tutes, once they're all updated for the new interface.
Where exactly did you get the word "invented" from that article? If you had bothered to RTFA at all, you might have noticed that there was no claim of a new invention, and, in point of fact, the article is in the "innovation" section of the website. This is a genuinely staggering innovation as it could greatly reduce weight of vehicles, efficiency of fuel use AND cut down on repair costs by removing a ton of components from cars. The fact that it can only be used in hybrid vehicles does not make it any less amazing or useful, since EVs are gaining in popularity so much recently. I would buy a car with this engine in it without a second thought if I had the money.
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... at least in China, I've been using it for months. The only catch here is that you can't pay for it and the streaming and downloading seems to be handled by a third party website (something like top100.cn). So I don't really know what they're talking about when they say "internally testing," unless that means that the google music everyone in China knows (and most of them love) is going to be somehow inherently different from what the rest of the world will be getting (though that wouldn't be particularly surprising, considering our internet situation here).
I so called it in the previous thread. People just love to go crazy over little things, eh?
... to see how many people think this is going to ruin Ubuntu. I would really like to see this kind of release schedule at least for the applications I have installed (such as Empathy, Skype, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) because I honestly believe that PPA's are the handy-work of the devil. Of course, I don't think they should make such updates transparent, but rather on an opt-in per application basis. I remember back when Pidgin was still in, changes to the protocols would often make it nearly useless (for me) and that's the kind of thing I think they want to stop. It is kind of ridiculous for a "normal" user to have to do some googling and command-line magic to get the latest version of an application that doesn't even demand new dependencies or anything like that to run. What would be great is if it offers to update the program when you actually go to open it, but will offer the option to suppress that particular update so that you don't get spammed by the offer every time you open the application. That's a pretty standard method for offering updates, right? I don't think that the Shuttle is talking about hijacking your DM via some ninja update and borking your system, it sounds more like he wants the users who say "Why the heck can't it just DO it?" to not have a reason to ask that question so often when using Ubuntu. This is the 21st freaking century and we still can't update to the newest version of our chosen browser without some serious user-fu? I certainly hope not.
So now that all the eggs are in one basket (except MS, but do they matter any more?), who wants to take bets on how long before DHS drops a brick and decides these data centers ought to be a little more spread out?
Does anyone else find it strange that the article talks about testing on an EeePC and the picture heading up the article is of a Samsung netbook?
Also, I'm not sure this test is very fair, it seems a very non-technical approach to testing how well the different systems actually operate. Granted, it isn't wholly bad to test the actual usability, but this testing isn't very rigorous or controlled in any way, I mean flash performance could change from one ten-minute period to the next just because of differences in internet traffic at the time. I wouldn't put much confidence in this article.
What these research scientists fail to realize is that businesses are slow to adapt to their visions, so they always overestimate the importance of their discoveries. Yeah, it's easy to imagine how great this thing they made could be for man-kind, but who is going to actually adopt their method? How much will it cost? Scientists, strange though it may sound, are generally not "details people," so they can't really conceive of how their work will actually enter into the market, which is what is relevant to consumers and/or non-research scientist types.
I'm guessing this is just a rehash of old complaints against pretty much all major ISPs in the U.S. regarding their traffic shaping practices, in which they give you that max speed only for a few seconds at a time when you are initially downloading the contents of a webpage, but then they cut it off after maybe 10 seconds to prevent you from actually enjoying any kind of video or pictures that you might be enjoying.
They seem to believe that we webbies ought to adhere to their standards for what "normal" internet use consists of, rather than using the web the way we would like. It's a very rationalized argument that probably works very well on judges, most of whom don't actually understand much, if anything, about what most people would consider "normal" web traffic, and their ignorance is probably largely due to the fact that they have to spend so much time researching all the useless information out there about the frivolous lawsuit of the week.
Ok, maybe a little out there, but does the point get across? It's like everyone in the U.S. has been using Catch-22 as a political/business model.
... reminded of the cinematic scenes from Diablo II? I had a major flashback while watching this to wasting hours of my life on that game.
I could see a lot of things going wrong... if something went wrong.
Yeah, funny how those reflexive relationships work, huh?
It's great and all that I'm now aware of yet another manner in which I may or may not be intentionally or unintentionally flouting the law, but can we get a more realistic list of cameras that don't cause you to infringe on patents by their mere everyday use? I know the author listed a couple in the article, but $6k-12k is not even in my realm of possibility for purchasing transportation, much less photographic equipment.
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OK, I'll throw in my lame attempt at a car analogy.
It's the equivalent of a tire manufacturer with a patent or two on how their tires are made (presumably some chemical process/formula that makes it differ in some minor way from others), charged royalties to the car company for using the tires with their cars, the gas company for every mile driven using their gas to turn the tires AND the consumer for every rotation of said tires. And if some poor kid decides to tie one of those tires up to a tree and swing on it? Ho-ho-ho, christmas come early, cause that kid is gonna spend the rest of his natural born life with garnished wages for his unlicensed misuse of their technology.
Laugh now, but I'm about to go take down my tire swing.
I feel like I may have missed the memo about who can destroy the Earth in the most spectacular way. Someone wanna forward that one to me again?
Let's not forget summerfest! It combines all of the best parts of Wisconsin and occasionally adds good looking boobies. Check it out: www.summerfest.com
At risk of my own reputation, I have to ask: Is that a reference to Magic: The Gathering's "Unglued" set?
Yeah, and R2 could make sure you do a good job of it too, clean up afterwards and everything. In fact, they should equip the thing with a big "rack" to "give rise" to the astronauts. Also, then they could call him R2D2!
(I realize the joke was totally stupid, feel free to point out one or several of the many ways in which I achieved fail)
OK, we're computer literate folks around here (mostly), can't we figure out a better way to set up a warning system?
GLOBAL string name=browser.name.random();
c.out"German government warns against the use of " name;
You have been warned.