You can't pick someone like that out of midair, though. Conversely, not every project needs a rock star developer to be successful. Sometimes the project produces a rock star developer on its own, on its way to becoming successful.
This reminds me rather absurdly of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, with the circular argument that they can't become successful without Eddie van Halen, but then they can't attract Eddie van Halen unless they're successful.
I reckon the project will stand on its own merit and they'll find someone in the community, not necessarily a Linus-grade personality but someone adequate to be the go-to guy for community relations.
Luckily if the new and weird start screen is too weird and new for you, you can always drop to the kosher desktop and the standard old way of doing things, albeit without a Start menu.
I was (and still am, I suppose) a pretty huge Win8 skeptic, but I installed the preview build last night and it's not so mind-blowingly different from regular old Windows. I think the people gleefully pointing out that Windows 8 seems too different and by that dint it's bound to fail, either haven't really played with it or are so excited over this remote possibility that they have horse blinders on.
I'm even starting to warm up to the Start screen. Gods, what is wrong with me? I'm not even using it 'properly' and on a tablet, like apparently I'm supposed to be doing.
This. Hell, we were at an outdoor market with our not-yet-two-year-old insisting on walking, and he shot away from us at knee-level. Was able to keep an eye on him (if unable to catch him without knocking people over) so we weren't too worried, but he wasn't watching where he was going -- markets are very interesting places for a little boy -- and tripped over some poor gentleman's foot and busted his lip open. Lesson learned, some tears, he sticks closer to us now and tries to focus on his direction of travel more (but it's oh-so-hard sometimes =P).
This is how kids learn. Scary lessons are sometimes more effective than mum saying very loudly, 'DON'T RUN OFF.'
Thinking you're smarter than your parents is an unfortunate and unavoidable part of growing up. If ShanghaiBill is an idiot for knowing what his daughter is doing and letting her think she's smarter than him, well... I can only imagine what your adolescence was like.
Hells, our 2yo (despite having Treehouse on the television) often runs up with his shoes and coat, demanding to go outside. He's turning out to be a pickle ball master.
Never mind the fact that two siblings can grow up in the same house, the same environment, the same rules, and also end up as two completely dissimilar people. Or does my experience count for less than yours because you watched your friends' daughters (from two different families even?) and I'm using myself and my brother as my example case?
You can pick whatever examples you like from whatever sources and still be able to prove or disprove this report, depending on who you use.
What he's getting at, and other manufacturers' all-in-ones do the same thing, is it's more or less a laptop with a giant screen. Laptop-grade hard drive, SODIMM for memory, mobile versions of graphics chipsets. Makes sense, really, they're cramming a computer into a thin space just like a laptop, so why not use technology already developed for this purpose?
I think you may just use your regular old phone number on a job app or resume. Unless I was applying to work at McDonald's. Then I'd make it **McAwesome.
Russia actually offered some surplus military stuff to Canada a couple years ago, including ships. I understand why we didn't accept, but it'd have been cool as hell to be cruising around in a Sovremenny-class flying a maple leaf.:)
I've done it with a longer coat in winter; the pockets were just the right height to fall sideways when I hiked the front up to conduct my, er, business. One day, out at a pub, no urinal, don't feel like sitting down. Hike, tilt, the phone slithers out and falls in the toilet. Yeah, time to buy a new phone.
Funnily enough that's about the only time I've ever dropped a cell phone.
You pack your laptop and iPod into boxes when you move? Why isn't your laptop at your side in its bag/case and your iPod in your pocket? Do you actually use them?
You could use a more modern, more relevant example. That was a batshit crazy period in history, where you could hardly walk down the street without getting your head chopped off.
But not cheap enough. There's this whole ratio of price to performance to weight that the 'Oh, just buy a Celeron laptop if you want cheap' or 'Just buy a Macbook Air if you want very portable' crowd (basically the 'netbooks are dead' crowd) can't seem to get their head around all at once.
Like a few others here I have an E-350 netbook. I absolutely love it. It runs rings around an Atom netbook and the GPU ensures moderate gaming isn't akin to a root canal. It's only slightly bigger than my Eee 1000HA. It wasn't that expensive. There's my three checkmarks. =)
No. There's no way there can be a database of every song ever recorded, to cover multiple bitrates, multiple formats, differences between coding the same format with different programs... differences with the same program (VBR limits, and doesn't LAME have quality options?) It's impossible to even conceive of this working.
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You can't pick someone like that out of midair, though. Conversely, not every project needs a rock star developer to be successful. Sometimes the project produces a rock star developer on its own, on its way to becoming successful.
This reminds me rather absurdly of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, with the circular argument that they can't become successful without Eddie van Halen, but then they can't attract Eddie van Halen unless they're successful.
I reckon the project will stand on its own merit and they'll find someone in the community, not necessarily a Linus-grade personality but someone adequate to be the go-to guy for community relations.
Luckily if the new and weird start screen is too weird and new for you, you can always drop to the kosher desktop and the standard old way of doing things, albeit without a Start menu.
I was (and still am, I suppose) a pretty huge Win8 skeptic, but I installed the preview build last night and it's not so mind-blowingly different from regular old Windows. I think the people gleefully pointing out that Windows 8 seems too different and by that dint it's bound to fail, either haven't really played with it or are so excited over this remote possibility that they have horse blinders on.
I'm even starting to warm up to the Start screen. Gods, what is wrong with me? I'm not even using it 'properly' and on a tablet, like apparently I'm supposed to be doing.
This. Hell, we were at an outdoor market with our not-yet-two-year-old insisting on walking, and he shot away from us at knee-level. Was able to keep an eye on him (if unable to catch him without knocking people over) so we weren't too worried, but he wasn't watching where he was going -- markets are very interesting places for a little boy -- and tripped over some poor gentleman's foot and busted his lip open. Lesson learned, some tears, he sticks closer to us now and tries to focus on his direction of travel more (but it's oh-so-hard sometimes =P).
This is how kids learn. Scary lessons are sometimes more effective than mum saying very loudly, 'DON'T RUN OFF.'
Why? Because he wouldn't want to subject his kid to tracking? I am a father and wouldn't subject my son to this.
I live in one of those 'safe' neighbourhoods full of stay-at-home moms, though. (My wife is one of them.)
Thinking you're smarter than your parents is an unfortunate and unavoidable part of growing up. If ShanghaiBill is an idiot for knowing what his daughter is doing and letting her think she's smarter than him, well... I can only imagine what your adolescence was like.
It depends. Is my carriage playing Modern Warfare 3 or Angry Birds?
Hells, our 2yo (despite having Treehouse on the television) often runs up with his shoes and coat, demanding to go outside. He's turning out to be a pickle ball master.
Never mind the fact that two siblings can grow up in the same house, the same environment, the same rules, and also end up as two completely dissimilar people. Or does my experience count for less than yours because you watched your friends' daughters (from two different families even?) and I'm using myself and my brother as my example case?
You can pick whatever examples you like from whatever sources and still be able to prove or disprove this report, depending on who you use.
What he's getting at, and other manufacturers' all-in-ones do the same thing, is it's more or less a laptop with a giant screen. Laptop-grade hard drive, SODIMM for memory, mobile versions of graphics chipsets. Makes sense, really, they're cramming a computer into a thin space just like a laptop, so why not use technology already developed for this purpose?
I think you may just use your regular old phone number on a job app or resume. Unless I was applying to work at McDonald's. Then I'd make it **McAwesome.
Russia actually offered some surplus military stuff to Canada a couple years ago, including ships. I understand why we didn't accept, but it'd have been cool as hell to be cruising around in a Sovremenny-class flying a maple leaf. :)
I've done it with a longer coat in winter; the pockets were just the right height to fall sideways when I hiked the front up to conduct my, er, business. One day, out at a pub, no urinal, don't feel like sitting down. Hike, tilt, the phone slithers out and falls in the toilet. Yeah, time to buy a new phone.
Funnily enough that's about the only time I've ever dropped a cell phone.
This is exactly what I thought of too when I read the headline. Pykrete -- but without ice! Woooo!
Granted, your Tempest cab probably didn't cost as much as this, but there's a smidgen of irony there.
You pack your laptop and iPod into boxes when you move? Why isn't your laptop at your side in its bag/case and your iPod in your pocket? Do you actually use them?
'OK, OK, you can each have half of the damn telescope, just shut up and give me some peace.'
You know, I was just thinking that. But it could work, if people didn't have to work too hard to decipher it (a-la Brad Pitt in Snatch).
Is this a trick question?
We still have a Liberal deficit. It's called 'Victoria-class submarines/corporate penalties for cancelling original Sea King replacements'.
Hmmm, I didn't think I had the deadpan face on so well.
You could use a more modern, more relevant example. That was a batshit crazy period in history, where you could hardly walk down the street without getting your head chopped off.
Where have you been? Scolding your kids is already a hideous crime.
But not cheap enough. There's this whole ratio of price to performance to weight that the 'Oh, just buy a Celeron laptop if you want cheap' or 'Just buy a Macbook Air if you want very portable' crowd (basically the 'netbooks are dead' crowd) can't seem to get their head around all at once.
Like a few others here I have an E-350 netbook. I absolutely love it. It runs rings around an Atom netbook and the GPU ensures moderate gaming isn't akin to a root canal. It's only slightly bigger than my Eee 1000HA. It wasn't that expensive. There's my three checkmarks. =)
I was wondering if anyone was going to post this. Bravo, good sir. =)
No. There's no way there can be a database of every song ever recorded, to cover multiple bitrates, multiple formats, differences between coding the same format with different programs... differences with the same program (VBR limits, and doesn't LAME have quality options?) It's impossible to even conceive of this working.