I like Google Sky as a toy, but it wasn't able to replace Starry Night as a serious tool. It sounds like WWT may actually compete with the more useful applications, which is pretty cool.
Yeah, read speeds would probably be around 1-10 bits per second, and then you'd either need to program some automated analysis software or...well you'd definitely need to automate it. Just finding the relevant data on the drive would be a nightmare.
I think the ten best story posted a couple days ago shows work spaces that are pretty much interchangeable with those shown in this one. I'll repeat what I said then: a private office is better than any workspace listed, now in either list.
You make a lot of dramatically incorrect assertions, many of which are figures that are simply wrong, but let's focus just on this:
"Regulations only serve to raise prices."
The last major deregulation we had in the US was an energy deregulation that led to tripling of power costs in California and frequent blackouts due to massive collusion among energy suppliers. $20 billion was flat out stolen from Californians, but since the Texan energy companies that did the stealing were controlled by friends of Mr. Bush, the federal government refused to look into taking that $20 billion back. If California hadn't voted against Bush in the election, things might have been different, but things weren't different.
The damages they claim have never been based on logic. The RIAA's claimed damage per.mp3 shared (per person) was what, $91000? Something around there. As has been done in the post discussing that, work out the number of sharers, the number of files being shared per sharer, and that figure, and the total damage the RIAA claims per year is something like 10 trillion (or was it quadrillion?) dollars per year. You know, more than the GDP of the US. Also ludicrously more than the $10B in revenue they have each year.
That was always my problem with Macs, and why I switched to PCs a long time ago. On my PC, compared to on my Macs, I was relatively encouraged to understand and tweak my system.
Bring Steam over and port over some of the more popular games, like the Orange box and I'm there.
(Likely Won't happen (ever), but I can dream...)
I'm holding off a Mac purchase until I see what gets a refresh at the WWDC. You can always just boot into Windows to play games from Steam. Games that run on both OSX and Windows are invariably faster in windows, anyway, so even given this option you'd still want to boot into Windows.
This seems barely more practical than the scattered modified small planes I saw in airshows 20 years ago that demonstrated motor-powered wheels driving the plane that was no wider than a lane. Those planes, if I recall correctly from my youth, had wings that folded upward, meaning driving under an overpass with less than about 20 feet of clearance would be a disaster.
I'm sick of hearing about this. Lets dispel some myths.
1: You can copy music on and off an iPod with great ease. There is no magic DRM preventing this *at all*.
2: Apple are quite happy to let you rip their music to cd, and then to mp3. It's no different, and sounds no different from ripping a bought music cd.
3: The iPod only has DRM on it because Apple new they would get sued to fuck if they didn't, or if they went around allowing direct circumvention. By allowing copying to audio cd they avoid this via the fair use claim.
4: A *lot* of available iPod content is not DRM'd anyway. The same is true of the Zune and even Vista, despite the frequent complaints about DRM. So far, DRM is a paper tiger.
Eh, I think it's not a bad point to make. The 13 year old uber gamer stereotype gets passed around a fair bit, so it's worth pointing out that it's not very common.
A mature OS isn't based around the idea of being "different" from Windows. A mature OS is designed to work well. Just because MS does something in Office doesn't mean that OO shouldn't have it too.
I work in a bunker of a 50 year old building. I have my own office. Every person in the building has a private office, in fact. Having done both semi-private cubicles and the "open" sweatshop-style seen in TFA, I definitely think that most people would prefer the private office and get the most accomplished in it.
umm.. wouldn't that be one zettabyte? If I am not off then one yottabyte would be a billion terabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta Yeah. If it were merely a billion gigabytes, and we assume (not unreasonably) that the average drive is 1 terabyte 5 years from now, then the summary implies that only a million drives will sell in 2013, which would be terrible. Hmm, it's equally hard to imagine a billion such drives shipping, so maybe I'm missing something.
And at least now you can always choose search engine #2 to avoid most of the spam search responses, which usually target search engine #1, but only as long as #2 is itself a good search engine.
I'm guessing the main difference is that the laser causes very localized surface heating rather than isotropic heating throughout the sample.
Also, this process is beautifully simple. We do this in my field, too, but using polymers in almost exactly the same process. I haven't seen a picture in my field nearly as convincing as the SEMs in this project, however.
For reference, Obama, Clinton, and McCain are all deep in the pockets of the RIAA and a million other lobbying groups. Every major candidate is owned by various industries. On this specific issue, Obama is known to oppose telecom spying immunity while McCain is a fan of it.
The sad thing is that the expensive actors tend not to be any better than cheap actors. They make a lot of money because of silly factors like looks or previously held roles, not acting quality. This is especially horrid in animated movies, where "stars" doing voices are the focus of all the trailers, and then each celebrity essentially plays himself or herself. The talented voice actors (for instance, Billy West, who plays half of the characters in Futurama) come in to audition and get rejected, while the director will then coach the auto-hired celebrity based on the improvised performances seen by the talented but unknown actors.
Next time you see an ad for Crazy Animal Doing People Things starring Al Pacino as Every Character Al Panico Has Ever Played and Cameron Diaz as Generic Bimbo, just walk away.
Not trolling, but...isn't the IT support capability of India as basic as it is widespread? I may be totally wrong, but my secondhand knowledge of IT support calls that went to India includes them being sent to higher level support centers in the US when questions got complicated.
As it looks now, neither Microsoft nor Yahoo can take on Google as their rival is expanding heavily and innovating at a faster pace. Innovating means buying existing products from small companies and rebranding them? Okay. The only good thing they made themselves was the search engine, and I only call it good out of respect for the Slashdot consensus, not because it actually ever produced enough good results to justify the single-handed creation of the spam-website phenomenon.
I don't think the geographical similarity matters in your comparison as much as the fact that Canada's population density is way, way below that of the US. Either Canadians cluster into cities more than we do down here, or you Canucks just blew the "USA can't compete mainly because of low population density" argument way out of the water.
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I like Google Sky as a toy, but it wasn't able to replace Starry Night as a serious tool. It sounds like WWT may actually compete with the more useful applications, which is pretty cool.
Yeah, read speeds would probably be around 1-10 bits per second, and then you'd either need to program some automated analysis software or...well you'd definitely need to automate it. Just finding the relevant data on the drive would be a nightmare.
They offer unlimited data & text and 500 minutes of voice with nights beginning at 7 PM for only $30/month.
I think the ten best story posted a couple days ago shows work spaces that are pretty much interchangeable with those shown in this one. I'll repeat what I said then: a private office is better than any workspace listed, now in either list.
Then stop buying products made in China!
You make a lot of dramatically incorrect assertions, many of which are figures that are simply wrong, but let's focus just on this:
"Regulations only serve to raise prices."
The last major deregulation we had in the US was an energy deregulation that led to tripling of power costs in California and frequent blackouts due to massive collusion among energy suppliers. $20 billion was flat out stolen from Californians, but since the Texan energy companies that did the stealing were controlled by friends of Mr. Bush, the federal government refused to look into taking that $20 billion back. If California hadn't voted against Bush in the election, things might have been different, but things weren't different.
Funny question: have you heard of Enron?
The damages they claim have never been based on logic. The RIAA's claimed damage per .mp3 shared (per person) was what, $91000? Something around there. As has been done in the post discussing that, work out the number of sharers, the number of files being shared per sharer, and that figure, and the total damage the RIAA claims per year is something like 10 trillion (or was it quadrillion?) dollars per year. You know, more than the GDP of the US. Also ludicrously more than the $10B in revenue they have each year.
It's not about logic. It's about intimidation.
That was always my problem with Macs, and why I switched to PCs a long time ago. On my PC, compared to on my Macs, I was relatively encouraged to understand and tweak my system.
(Likely Won't happen (ever), but I can dream...)
I'm holding off a Mac purchase until I see what gets a refresh at the WWDC. You can always just boot into Windows to play games from Steam. Games that run on both OSX and Windows are invariably faster in windows, anyway, so even given this option you'd still want to boot into Windows.
This seems barely more practical than the scattered modified small planes I saw in airshows 20 years ago that demonstrated motor-powered wheels driving the plane that was no wider than a lane. Those planes, if I recall correctly from my youth, had wings that folded upward, meaning driving under an overpass with less than about 20 feet of clearance would be a disaster.
1: You can copy music on and off an iPod with great ease. There is no magic DRM preventing this *at all*.
2: Apple are quite happy to let you rip their music to cd, and then to mp3. It's no different, and sounds no different from ripping a bought music cd.
3: The iPod only has DRM on it because Apple new they would get sued to fuck if they didn't, or if they went around allowing direct circumvention. By allowing copying to audio cd they avoid this via the fair use claim.
4: A *lot* of available iPod content is not DRM'd anyway. The same is true of the Zune and even Vista, despite the frequent complaints about DRM. So far, DRM is a paper tiger.
Eh, I think it's not a bad point to make. The 13 year old uber gamer stereotype gets passed around a fair bit, so it's worth pointing out that it's not very common.
A mature OS isn't based around the idea of being "different" from Windows. A mature OS is designed to work well. Just because MS does something in Office doesn't mean that OO shouldn't have it too.
I work in a bunker of a 50 year old building. I have my own office. Every person in the building has a private office, in fact. Having done both semi-private cubicles and the "open" sweatshop-style seen in TFA, I definitely think that most people would prefer the private office and get the most accomplished in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta Yeah. If it were merely a billion gigabytes, and we assume (not unreasonably) that the average drive is 1 terabyte 5 years from now, then the summary implies that only a million drives will sell in 2013, which would be terrible. Hmm, it's equally hard to imagine a billion such drives shipping, so maybe I'm missing something.
And at least now you can always choose search engine #2 to avoid most of the spam search responses, which usually target search engine #1, but only as long as #2 is itself a good search engine.
I'm guessing the main difference is that the laser causes very localized surface heating rather than isotropic heating throughout the sample.
Also, this process is beautifully simple. We do this in my field, too, but using polymers in almost exactly the same process. I haven't seen a picture in my field nearly as convincing as the SEMs in this project, however.
For reference, Obama, Clinton, and McCain are all deep in the pockets of the RIAA and a million other lobbying groups. Every major candidate is owned by various industries. On this specific issue, Obama is known to oppose telecom spying immunity while McCain is a fan of it.
The sad thing is that the expensive actors tend not to be any better than cheap actors. They make a lot of money because of silly factors like looks or previously held roles, not acting quality. This is especially horrid in animated movies, where "stars" doing voices are the focus of all the trailers, and then each celebrity essentially plays himself or herself. The talented voice actors (for instance, Billy West, who plays half of the characters in Futurama) come in to audition and get rejected, while the director will then coach the auto-hired celebrity based on the improvised performances seen by the talented but unknown actors.
Next time you see an ad for Crazy Animal Doing People Things starring Al Pacino as Every Character Al Panico Has Ever Played and Cameron Diaz as Generic Bimbo, just walk away.
Not trolling, but...isn't the IT support capability of India as basic as it is widespread? I may be totally wrong, but my secondhand knowledge of IT support calls that went to India includes them being sent to higher level support centers in the US when questions got complicated.
You win this argument. The other side loses. The end.
I don't think the geographical similarity matters in your comparison as much as the fact that Canada's population density is way, way below that of the US. Either Canadians cluster into cities more than we do down here, or you Canucks just blew the "USA can't compete mainly because of low population density" argument way out of the water.
I've never seen a Starbucks that charges for wifi, and I've tried in about 20 across 6 states, east, west, and middle of the country.