Okay, I call bullshit! I use Safari and Firefox both on a very regular basis. Why? Because Safari grinds to a halt and gives me the spinning pizza of death on a regular basis. That's with an Intel Mac Mini, 2GB RAM, all the latest software update. Bottom line, Firefox SMOKES Safari (the only reason I use Safari is for its RSS reader). So don't give me this crybaby shit about "crippling non-Apple software" -- that would be the ticket right back to "Macs Suck Island"...
...how long before M$ starts their own MMORPG, and then finds a small company that holds a patent on something in WoW, fronts them the money to sue the pants off Blizzard, while licensing the use of the patent-holder's IP? Or just goes the easy route and sues under anti-trust?
As an endurance athlete with a freakishly low resting heart rate (42 bpm), I can tell you that every time I go to a new doctor they freak right the hell out around the time of my first physical. They tell me that I have an enlarged left ventricle and that I "obviously have heart disease"... Doc? Did you notice that I'm also about 5% body fat, have ripped legs, and a funny-looking tan? Yes. I'm an endurance geek. Yes, this fucks up your baseline.
When my heart rate is elevated due to office stress, it might jump into the 60s. This is going to screw with your readings.
Furthermore, isn't this more-or-less just a wireless polygraph where you're looking at data without asking questions? Where the hell is the accuracy in that?
...there's nothing quite like watching the traditional, embattled news sources "innovate" themselves right out of existence. They were slow to respond to the web and didn't understand it when they first did (they've gotten better), and now they're going to ACAP themselves into obscurity. Way to go guys! You're the bleeding edge of reporting!
"Bad Customer Service for Bad Customers"? Good lord, between working in retail and IT, I have so many cases of prior art, this patent won't last a second.
One would assume that the commands issued would be more like a (non-force feedback) joystick -- outbound traffic only. You'd get your results by looking at the screen. I can't imagine that anyone would want to have information dumped into their brain via this, given that the information would only be basic and used to stimulate certain areas of the brain. (Yes, yes, stimulate my pleasure centers while using Excel. Gah.)
...what I want is an affordable DS cart loaded up with Firefox, a lightweight mail client (put the keyboard on the touchscreen), a lightweight AIM app, telnet/ssh, and maybe even an IRC client. Give me that, and I won't need an iPhone.
...holy crap, I hope it outperforms the handheld. Three hours of charging for maaaaaaybe six minutes of operation. Then recharge. I was disgusted enough where I took it back after two days. (And I swear by my DC14 upright.)
What happened to "do no evil"? That $89 million they'd have paid NC in taxes could go toward any number of good things -- schools, roads, etc. What Google should have asked for in this case was some input on how their $89 million in tax money was spent.
1. Open image file.
2. Duplicate layer.
3. Select the subject of your photo using the lasso tool. It doesn't need to be perfect, just outline it.
4. Go to Select -> Feather. Give it about 30px, when it asks.
5. Go to Layer - >New -> Layer Via Copy.
6. Go to the second layer, this one should be called "Background copy"...or whatever you renamed it.
7. Go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, and then blur that layer such that you can still make out shapes.
8. Save new image.
This year, rather than make specifics, I went with one thing: be more awesome.
Crazy, right? In the last year, I started doing everything I needed to do to have a great life. This year, I want to keep doing those things and stay consistent. And even try a few new things. No point in making concrete goals -- the goal is to be more awesome in everything that I do.
PS2: Released in the middle of a booming economy when a large number of twentysomethings had either more money than god, or at least enough to warrant spending hundreds of dollars on a video game console.
PS3: Released in the middle of a shitty economy when a large number of twentysomethings have less money, more bills, and enough to worry about that a $700 game console isn't in the cards.
And Bill Gates couldn't see the need for more than 640K of RAM... Snarkiness aside, my point is that the market will find uses for things. If there's an 80-core chip out there in 5 years, you can sure-as-shit bet that there's going to be applications that take advantage of it.
I think I've got mild dyslexia. I thought that said "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Beavers."
That's going to get an AO rating for sure!
Good christ, I pay a damned sizeable portion of my income for rent and food. I have two jobs, and my typical work week goes well into the 60+ hours range with no overtime. Where's the news story on that?
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Okay, I call bullshit! I use Safari and Firefox both on a very regular basis. Why? Because Safari grinds to a halt and gives me the spinning pizza of death on a regular basis. That's with an Intel Mac Mini, 2GB RAM, all the latest software update. Bottom line, Firefox SMOKES Safari (the only reason I use Safari is for its RSS reader). So don't give me this crybaby shit about "crippling non-Apple software" -- that would be the ticket right back to "Macs Suck Island"...
...how long before M$ starts their own MMORPG, and then finds a small company that holds a patent on something in WoW, fronts them the money to sue the pants off Blizzard, while licensing the use of the patent-holder's IP? Or just goes the easy route and sues under anti-trust?
Actually, I got the point perfectly. My point was that the system is going to be inherently flawed by the wide variety of human data points.
As an endurance athlete with a freakishly low resting heart rate (42 bpm), I can tell you that every time I go to a new doctor they freak right the hell out around the time of my first physical. They tell me that I have an enlarged left ventricle and that I "obviously have heart disease"... Doc? Did you notice that I'm also about 5% body fat, have ripped legs, and a funny-looking tan? Yes. I'm an endurance geek. Yes, this fucks up your baseline.
When my heart rate is elevated due to office stress, it might jump into the 60s. This is going to screw with your readings.
Furthermore, isn't this more-or-less just a wireless polygraph where you're looking at data without asking questions? Where the hell is the accuracy in that?
"Who wants to work on higher capacity and lower distance?"
That standard already exists. It's called POOP (Proximity-Oriented Object Projection) Higher volume, shorter range.
...there's nothing quite like watching the traditional, embattled news sources "innovate" themselves right out of existence. They were slow to respond to the web and didn't understand it when they first did (they've gotten better), and now they're going to ACAP themselves into obscurity. Way to go guys! You're the bleeding edge of reporting!
"Bad Customer Service for Bad Customers"? Good lord, between working in retail and IT, I have so many cases of prior art, this patent won't last a second.
Some variety of gluons? Lay off the porn, buddy...
One would assume that the commands issued would be more like a (non-force feedback) joystick -- outbound traffic only. You'd get your results by looking at the screen. I can't imagine that anyone would want to have information dumped into their brain via this, given that the information would only be basic and used to stimulate certain areas of the brain. (Yes, yes, stimulate my pleasure centers while using Excel. Gah.)
...what I want is an affordable DS cart loaded up with Firefox, a lightweight mail client (put the keyboard on the touchscreen), a lightweight AIM app, telnet/ssh, and maybe even an IRC client. Give me that, and I won't need an iPhone.
...holy crap, I hope it outperforms the handheld. Three hours of charging for maaaaaaybe six minutes of operation. Then recharge. I was disgusted enough where I took it back after two days. (And I swear by my DC14 upright.)
I'd think that they'd be able to adjust the shape of the generated magnetosphere. It might not turn on a dime, but it should be steerable.
I'm guessing that all of those filaments are going to add a LOT of launch mass. Why not just make use of an M2P2 system?
You actually feel guilty? Seriously?
"... and we may see it as early as 2009."
Did Microsoft get their hands on a time machine?
What happened to "do no evil"? That $89 million they'd have paid NC in taxes could go toward any number of good things -- schools, roads, etc. What Google should have asked for in this case was some input on how their $89 million in tax money was spent.
1. Open image file.
2. Duplicate layer.
3. Select the subject of your photo using the lasso tool. It doesn't need to be perfect, just outline it.
4. Go to Select -> Feather. Give it about 30px, when it asks.
5. Go to Layer - >New -> Layer Via Copy.
6. Go to the second layer, this one should be called "Background copy"...or whatever you renamed it.
7. Go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, and then blur that layer such that you can still make out shapes.
8. Save new image.
Dear Sir,
Please be advised of an old adage we have here in America: it's like herding cats.
In short: good fucking luck. You'll need it.
Sincerely,
Me
This year, rather than make specifics, I went with one thing: be more awesome.
Crazy, right? In the last year, I started doing everything I needed to do to have a great life. This year, I want to keep doing those things and stay consistent. And even try a few new things. No point in making concrete goals -- the goal is to be more awesome in everything that I do.
PS2: Released in the middle of a booming economy when a large number of twentysomethings had either more money than god, or at least enough to warrant spending hundreds of dollars on a video game console.
PS3: Released in the middle of a shitty economy when a large number of twentysomethings have less money, more bills, and enough to worry about that a $700 game console isn't in the cards.
Given all that it will do, I am going to have to proclaim Spore to be "the Segway of Video Games"!
And Bill Gates couldn't see the need for more than 640K of RAM... Snarkiness aside, my point is that the market will find uses for things. If there's an 80-core chip out there in 5 years, you can sure-as-shit bet that there's going to be applications that take advantage of it.
I think I've got mild dyslexia. I thought that said "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Beavers." That's going to get an AO rating for sure!
Damn. That would have been hilarious. Points for trying, though. :-)
Good christ, I pay a damned sizeable portion of my income for rent and food. I have two jobs, and my typical work week goes well into the 60+ hours range with no overtime. Where's the news story on that?