I have a different theory as to why people talk more loudly on cell phones.
On a regular telephone you can hear yourself coming out of the speaker end just a little bit. I don't know if this is because your voice is travelling through the hollow plastic, or if the telephone system is actually designed to do that. Either way, how loud you are hearing yourself compared to the other person helps to give you some feedback into how loudly you actually need to be talking.
On a cellphone, your voice just kind of travels off into nowhere. You don't hear yourself at all coming from the phone. Hence, you feel the need to talk louder, and louder, until you realize that , yes, you are talking loud enough.
This is what happens to me all the time. I always feel that little "urge" that I'm not talking loud enough, and so I sometimes try to actively talk below my comfort level of loudness.
You can't really add more ram to the XBox, because the it doesn't take DIMMs. The RAM is a single chip soldered to the motherboard. I know there is a space for a second RAM chip, and you *could* solder on your own second ram chip (I guess leading to a grand total of 128meg), but I think this is just beyond feasibility.
Of course, if 64meg is enough, well then so be it. Also, Linux would have to be enough too (no Win32 possibility).
After all, he can only compile information about widely known history. This is basically following from Roman times to present, through the European and Mediterranean areas.
The Mayans supposedly had an amazing grasp of celestial workings, like tracking stars, and I think also knew about trigonometry. They probably discovered these ideas independently and in parallel with traditional civilizations, but and so they would not have gotten any credit for it.
Now that mankind finally has the power to create inifinite copies of something for practically free, and we decide to screw it six ways from sunday, it's official that the world is going to hell.
And yes, this is a rant about software also. But only now that this completely brain-fucked ideology of eula's has reached into the real, physical world, can we be sure that, indeed, the world is ruined.
He talked about API's not protocols. Obviously their protocols are broken on purpose, but their API's have remained ery consisten. Porting a program from windows 95 to 98 to 2k to XP requires almost no code change. Sure there are a few differences somewhere, but to tell you the truth, as a Windows programmer for about 5 years I can't think of any off the top of my head.
CreateFile() works practically the same on 95 as it does on XP. WNetAddConnection2() works practically the same on 95 as it does on XP. GlobalAlloc,WaitMultipleObjects, SetWindowsHookEx, I can't explain this enough. And this is just the platform SDK. Things like VB and MFC are even more so. I'm flipping through my msdn and every api call is supported on 95 and later -- not to mention Windows CE. I had to port a program to WinCE once, from 2k. They only thing different was that I had to make it unicode (you know _T everything). Wow.
I am not bashing Linux or anything, because believe me I love linux. I'm just pointing out that the parent blatantly missed the post about consistent API's.
With only one device, think how great it would be when it broke. You are both locked out of your car, cannot buy what you need to fix it, and have no way of calling anyone to come and help you.
I think he was being sarcastic. His analogy about the 72 year old person having their Social Security revoked "just because they had the temerity not to die when demographics predicted they would" makes this a little clearer, because obviously, it's not anyones to perogative to die at any time.
I'd say that this is only the evolution of marketing and selling. I've heard that the single most profitable thing to do in business is to sell something to somebody at the highest price they're willing to pay. As in, if person A is willing to pay 5$ and person B is willing to pay 6$, sell it for 5$ and 6$ respectively. With stores as they are today with one price for the same thing you can't do that. The possibilities are
(a) sell it at 6$ and make only 6$
(b) sell it at 5$ and make only 10$
(c) sell it at 5 and 6 and make 11$
Obviously, (c) is the right answer. I'm not saying it's good or anything, just that this next step was inevitable.
What I'm looking for are the backlit space paintings that you can always see inside the TNG crew quarters at different times. I love those things, but unfortunately an afternoon of googling hasn't helped get find out anything about them.
Does anyone know who created those, or where I could buy some of them? I love the way they look, and by buying it I could get a nice office decoration and my TNG memorabilia at the same time.:)
Well, if they had told the peeps on the Enterprise to go to sector XZ-987-r, as the borg call it (made up), they wouldn't have understood. I think it makes sense.:)
It doesn't make sense why they would leave out BellSouth in the group of DSL providers. I have them, and a 1.5Mbps DSL service, which is way above the 800kbps cable max they mention in the story. Unless they meant 800kBps, then their study is complete crap.
I was going to make a post that the easiest way to ensure that you get a quality monitor is to just buy a ViewSonic, but the parent covered that pretty well already.
I own a ViewSonic E70fb, and I have to say I love it. It's clear and vibrant, and even though it is only 17inch, that's fine because my baby is 1280x960@72Hz.
It was a great value, and I would definitely buy another Viewsonic.
This post is extremely offtopic, but when I saw that the post had 666 current replies, I felt obliged to step in and save the slashdot community from eternal damnation, or well, at least slight dismay from communing with the devil.:)
I'm sorry but this simply will never happen. I have worked in the business with Bluetooth and it is impossible for one bluetooh device to "accidentally" receive information from another. All connections between bluetooth devices are specific to the other device, by using a 48-bit uuid, called a board address, that is unique to every bluetooth device created. It is similar as the reason not every computer on a lan receives the same web data. The reason that when you posted your reply on slashdot, no other computer received the same html data, and saw what you saw. Unless you hack your own bluetooth baseband to relay all information it sees thats out there (which is not nearly as easy as you think), you simply will never get information intended for somebody else. It's part of the design.
Coming from the perspective of a current engineering student, this is the worst idea I have ever heard. The advantages of having a real, physical, dead tree version are enormous. An electronic version would simply not cut it.
Advantages of a book:
More information is available at once. You have two pages at once easily viewable simultaneously, with hundred's more at the flick of a finger/bookmark/pen/what have you. The screen real estate of an ipaq or even a purty 19'' monitor does not compare
Simply having something physical in front on you is infinitely more engaging than a web page or electronic document. It is my belief that the physical page is viewed by the mind as a real object, and so is given more attention and understood much easier. Also the ability to interact with a said page is engrained in us from birth. We are taught to write at a very early age, and it's a simple matter of fact that writing down something -- notes, equations, cute girl's phone number -- you are more likely to remember it than being merely a spectator at a computer. Highlighters also fall in with this idea. Unless it is extremely easy to make certian sections of the electronic document stand out and quickly scan you simply will not be able to mark any important/central ideas as any more important or central than the other crap. At least effectively.
Always able to be read. No amount of years and cultures could render the book unreadable (short of a Nazi regime). Which would you rather depend on in times of finals mania? Even in death trees can save a few college careers.
Collaboration. This one kinda goes along with the amount of information viewable at once. It will be much harder to collaborate around a computer or monitor ( or an ipaq!) and be able to share/analyze ideas or get work done. Think of it this way. Is it easier to work with others and share ideas when using a chalkboard or an IRC chat channel (esp true when the ideas require visualization.)? How about with a piece of paper and a read only display?
Whew. I'm sure there are so many more reasons to keep books. There has to be many other slashdotters that are in college and know exactly what I'm talking about. Perhaps with less mathmatics oriented majors it's not as much of an issue because the material would require less visualization and interaction ( english or medical texts), but I think there is simply know way that I would pass up real books for a differential equations or network analysis class.
Exactly. This could be serious FUD or just in general bad publicity for Linux as you could just as easily leave a Win2k box or iMac or something else that big corporations love in there to do the exact same thing. But no, they make the assertion that it is Linux and Linux can be very dangerous. If "slips" like this keep happening people really will be afraid of Linux and then it's all over for us.
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This guy has more b*lls than I.
What, can people not say balls now? If not, could someone please say why?
Oh, maybe he means bills, as in dollaz. Meaning, he can afford the law suit?
Either way...
I have a different theory as to why people talk more loudly on cell phones.
On a regular telephone you can hear yourself coming out of the speaker end just a little bit. I don't know if this is because your voice is travelling through the hollow plastic, or if the telephone system is actually designed to do that. Either way, how loud you are hearing yourself compared to the other person helps to give you some feedback into how loudly you actually need to be talking.
On a cellphone, your voice just kind of travels off into nowhere. You don't hear yourself at all coming from the phone. Hence, you feel the need to talk louder, and louder, until you realize that , yes, you are talking loud enough.
This is what happens to me all the time. I always feel that little "urge" that I'm not talking loud enough, and so I sometimes try to actively talk below my comfort level of loudness.
You can't really add more ram to the XBox, because the it doesn't take DIMMs. The RAM is a single chip soldered to the motherboard. I know there is a space for a second RAM chip, and you *could* solder on your own second ram chip (I guess leading to a grand total of 128meg), but I think this is just beyond feasibility.
Of course, if 64meg is enough, well then so be it. Also, Linux would have to be enough too (no Win32 possibility).
Just a question, what player are you referring to? I'm looking to get myself one of those, and that seems like a good price.
so watch out!!
I don't know about anybody else, but I don't want to know ANYTHING at all yet. Not even a hint.
After all, he can only compile information about widely known history. This is basically following from Roman times to present, through the European and Mediterranean areas.
The Mayans supposedly had an amazing grasp of celestial workings, like tracking stars, and I think also knew about trigonometry. They probably discovered these ideas independently and in parallel with traditional civilizations, but and so they would not have gotten any credit for it.
I'm a programmer for Yum! Brands, the company who owns KFC. I'll be sure to let you know how big of a raise I get after I suggest this to my boss! :)
Now that mankind finally has the power to create inifinite copies of something for practically free, and we decide to screw it six ways from sunday, it's official that the world is going to hell.
And yes, this is a rant about software also. But only now that this completely brain-fucked ideology of eula's has reached into the real, physical world, can we be sure that, indeed, the world is ruined.
He talked about API's not protocols. Obviously their protocols are broken on purpose, but their API's have remained ery consisten. Porting a program from windows 95 to 98 to 2k to XP requires almost no code change. Sure there are a few differences somewhere, but to tell you the truth, as a Windows programmer for about 5 years I can't think of any off the top of my head.
CreateFile() works practically the same on 95 as it does on XP. WNetAddConnection2() works practically the same on 95 as it does on XP. GlobalAlloc,WaitMultipleObjects, SetWindowsHookEx, I can't explain this enough. And this is just the platform SDK. Things like VB and MFC are even more so. I'm flipping through my msdn and every api call is supported on 95 and later -- not to mention Windows CE. I had to port a program to WinCE once, from 2k. They only thing different was that I had to make it unicode (you know _T everything). Wow.
I am not bashing Linux or anything, because believe me I love linux. I'm just pointing out that the parent blatantly missed the post about consistent API's.
With only one device, think how great it would be when it broke. You are both locked out of your car, cannot buy what you need to fix it, and have no way of calling anyone to come and help you.
Borland C++ Builder 5.0 has an ANSI compliant compiler, including STL support. I'm sure 6.0 also does.
I remember that it was such a big deal that it was advertised on the box. Check it out.
I think he was being sarcastic. His analogy about the 72 year old person having their Social Security revoked "just because they had the temerity not to die when demographics predicted they would" makes this a little clearer, because obviously, it's not anyones to perogative to die at any time.
Obviously, (c) is the right answer. I'm not saying it's good or anything, just that this next step was inevitable.
What I'm looking for are the backlit space paintings that you can always see inside the TNG crew quarters at different times. I love those things, but unfortunately an afternoon of googling hasn't helped get find out anything about them.
:)
Does anyone know who created those, or where I could buy some of them? I love the way they look, and by buying it I could get a nice office decoration and my TNG memorabilia at the same time.
Well, if they had told the peeps on the Enterprise to go to sector XZ-987-r, as the borg call it (made up), they wouldn't have understood. I think it makes sense. :)
Heh, sometimes it seems like "We couldn't care less about our own country."
Actually a better comparison would be evaluating a car and saying it doesn't fit on the existing roads
Two words: Hummer H2
The fact that it is a huge obnoxious pile of metal doesn't stop idiots from buying them.
I didn't know this at first, so I thought it might help. The launch time is 12:15 pm in EST. Very soon now.
It doesn't make sense why they would leave out BellSouth in the group of DSL providers. I have them, and a 1.5Mbps DSL service, which is way above the 800kbps cable max they mention in the story. Unless they meant 800kBps, then their study is complete crap.
So what's the deal?
I was going to make a post that the easiest way to ensure that you get a quality monitor is to just buy a ViewSonic, but the parent covered that pretty well already.
I own a ViewSonic E70fb, and I have to say I love it. It's clear and vibrant, and even though it is only 17inch, that's fine because my baby is 1280x960@72Hz.
It was a great value, and I would definitely buy another Viewsonic.
This post is extremely offtopic, but when I saw that the post had 666 current replies, I felt obliged to step in and save the slashdot community from eternal damnation, or well, at least slight dismay from communing with the devil. :)
Well, anyways, have a nice day.
I'm sorry but this simply will never happen. I have worked in the business with Bluetooth and it is impossible for one bluetooh device to "accidentally" receive information from another. All connections between bluetooth devices are specific to the other device, by using a 48-bit uuid, called a board address, that is unique to every bluetooth device created. It is similar as the reason not every computer on a lan receives the same web data. The reason that when you posted your reply on slashdot, no other computer received the same html data, and saw what you saw. Unless you hack your own bluetooth baseband to relay all information it sees thats out there (which is not nearly as easy as you think), you simply will never get information intended for somebody else. It's part of the design.
So what movies would you want to see on IMAX?
Debbie Does Dallas!
Advantages of a book:
- More information is available at once. You have two pages at once easily viewable simultaneously, with hundred's more at the flick of a finger/bookmark/pen/what have you. The screen real estate of an ipaq or even a purty 19'' monitor does not compare
- Simply having something physical in front on you is infinitely more engaging than a web page or electronic document. It is my belief that the physical page is viewed by the mind as a real object, and so is given more attention and understood much easier. Also the ability to interact with a said page is engrained in us from birth. We are taught to write at a very early age, and it's a simple matter of fact that writing down something -- notes, equations, cute girl's phone number -- you are more likely to remember it than being merely a spectator at a computer. Highlighters also fall in with this idea. Unless it is extremely easy to make certian sections of the electronic document stand out and quickly scan you simply will not be able to mark any important/central ideas as any more important or central than the other crap. At least effectively.
- Always able to be read. No amount of years and cultures could render the book unreadable (short of a Nazi regime). Which would you rather depend on in times of finals mania? Even in death trees can save a few college careers.
- Collaboration. This one kinda goes along with the amount of information viewable at once. It will be much harder to collaborate around a computer or monitor ( or an ipaq!) and be able to share/analyze ideas or get work done. Think of it this way. Is it easier to work with others and share ideas when using a chalkboard or an IRC chat channel (esp true when the ideas require visualization.)? How about with a piece of paper and a read only display?
Whew. I'm sure there are so many more reasons to keep books. There has to be many other slashdotters that are in college and know exactly what I'm talking about. Perhaps with less mathmatics oriented majors it's not as much of an issue because the material would require less visualization and interaction ( english or medical texts), but I think there is simply know way that I would pass up real books for a differential equations or network analysis class.Exactly. This could be serious FUD or just in general bad publicity for Linux as you could just as easily leave a Win2k box or iMac or something else that big corporations love in there to do the exact same thing. But no, they make the assertion that it is Linux and Linux can be very dangerous. If "slips" like this keep happening people really will be afraid of Linux and then it's all over for us.