I got TiVo's for most of my family last year for christmas. One was returned, the rest of the family are new TiVo converts. Even my mom, who can barely boot up her computer and send email has figured out everything she needs too with TiVo. Definitely a great gift for the non-luddites in the family. Especially if they are one of those people that always seems to have 5-10 tapes sitting around their VCR full of shows they need to watch so they can tape over them with new shows.
Well, I can only speak for the local homeless shelter, but 40% of the people at that shelter have full time jobs. They just don't make enough money to afford a home (housing is pretty expensive here).
Personally I don't really like giving money straight to some homeless guy either, because most likely they will spend it on alcohol. (although, honestly it's not like I never drink alcohol, so who am I to say they can't). Anyway, you can give the money to a shelter, and you can be sure it will be put to good use.
Lots of large organizations (UNICEF, Red Cross, etc.) spend >50% of your donation on overhead, and promotion. But I think if you give the money directly to a local organization (homeless shelter, shelter for battered women, children's hospital) that a much greater percentage goes directly to help the people that need it.
I've worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for about 2 years now. And even when I first started Linux was the dominant force, and looked as if it had been for quite some time. All of the Software Engineers, and some of the scientists & managers have debian linux on their desktop. The rest have some form of windows.
We use linux in development, when creating large clusters to run weather models on, and when deploying systems in the field. It's the clear first choice in OS (when we have the choice).
Somehow they keep the storyline about Sauron being drawn out early. I know this because the new LOTR video game has scenes from the new movie, and in one scene Merry says something to Pippin about: "The enemy [Sauron] thinks you have the ring."
It's not even going to take that long. The third edition of the Xbox will come out about the same time as Interactive 3d porn becomes the new big thing in adult entertainment. This has been MS's strategy from the beginning, you don't think it's a coincidence that the Xbox was targeted at "adult gamers" do you? Plus it always takes microsoft 3 versions to get it right, so this is right on schedule.
More of these awards sounded like real science to me this year than previous years. I wonder if that is because less weird science is being done, or because my opinion of what constitues real science is broadening.
One in particular is the statue ignored by pigeons. Many very important discoveries were preceded by some observation, with the remark: "That's strange..."
You get motion blur because the nerves and the chemical receptors can only react so quickly, and because nerves fire as light accumlates on the
receptors.
Damn, I thought I got motion blur because of all the shroooms.
Since you read slashdot, you've probably heard this before, but you sound like a good canidate for emusic.com. You say you like obscure shit, and are willing to experiment, well emusic has certainly got that covered. Right now you can search their catalog for free, and even get the first 50 songs for free (have to give a credit card & cancel within the first 14 days though). Pick a genre you like, and see what the top 20 artists in that genre are. Chances are you'll find at least a few bands you really like that you've never heard of.
In any case, I have no affiliation with them, except I am a satisfied customer and would hate for them to go away. Go check them out, it's $10 a month if you buy a years subscription, and you have almost unlimited downloads.
Are you telling me that at one point Tony Hawk was the same age as you, but know he's a different age then you? So which one of you has been traveling at near light speeds?
I read a couple years ago (I think in Scientific american). That tube amps generate distortion in odd harmonics, and transistor amps generate distortion in even harmonics (or maybe the other way around). In any case, the distortion generated by the tube amps was generally considered more pleasant, and the point of the article was that there was a scientific basis for people saying that tube amps sound better (or atleast different) from transistor amps.
I think the problem here is that USA does not give TIVO enough of a description to determine if monk is a repeat.
The best workaround, is to find a time that Monk is on that does not conflict with anything else you want to watch... say 2am on wednesday morning. Then set up a manual weekly repeating recording for that time. Now you will only get the one Monk episode a week.
A lot of people have been complaining that this article is biased against google, because microsoft is going to be launching their own search engine soon.
The main complaint seems to be that: "This guy is an idiot, he only uses 1 word search terms and doesn't know enough to use the negation mark (-)"
Look, I know all of us are smart enough to add a couple terms or use the negation mark to narrow our search results, but I used to be in the search engine business, and at the time (about two years ago) I remember reading a study saying the average query length at a search engine was something like 1.4 words long. This sounded kind of absurd to me, because I almost never have a query less than 3 words long, but you have to remember how non-technical people think. They want something they can just punch in a word or couple of words and get the answer to their question.
As for a better solution, the company I was working for did automatic categorization of any query you typed in, so if you typed in "apple" it might come back with these categories:
home & garden computers music.
Then you could choose a category you were interested in, and it would only return results that were relevant to that category. Personally I think that was a great solution, and I'm suprised more search engines don't have something like that.
Stop thinking that just because you can use a product that it is fit for mass consumption. I love google, it's by far the best search engine out there, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. And in the computer world, improved upon often times means made easier to use, so that your average proletarian can make it work. This is the same attitude that will see Linux used by only the 5% of the population that's geeky enough to figure it out.
My girlfriend and I fit into this category. Usually we prefer just being alone (together), but occasionally we'll go over other people's houses, or out with groups of people.
I prefer the term asocial, not anti-social. (I have nothing against society, I'm just not interested in it either.)
Actually I don't see these beds anymore. My girlfriend and I were looking for a hotel with beds of this type to stay at while on a road trip, and a search of the internet revealed absolutely nothing.
Does anyone actually know of a motel or motel chain that still has the coin-operated vibrating beds?
It's only astroturfing if it's fake. If the posters genuinely like eMusic than it's grassroots. I use eMusic, and I really like it. And as other posters have noted a.emp file is a stub that directs the download manager to the mp3 files. Which of course have no DRM, and so you CAN play it in iTunes, put it on a iPod, and burn it to an audio CD. (or more importantly in my case, burn it to a data CD so that you I can listen to it in my car and my mp3 cd player.)
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my mp3 cd players care. Some of them like to display file name instead of id3 tagged info.
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This is a nitpick, but with 4 200GB drives, Raid 5 will net you 600GB and Raid 0 will net you 400GB.
I got TiVo's for most of my family last year for christmas. One was returned, the rest of the family are new TiVo converts. Even my mom, who can barely boot up her computer and send email has figured out everything she needs too with TiVo. Definitely a great gift for the non-luddites in the family. Especially if they are one of those people that always seems to have 5-10 tapes sitting around their VCR full of shows they need to watch so they can tape over them with new shows.
Well, I can only speak for the local homeless shelter, but 40% of the people at that shelter have full time jobs. They just don't make enough money to afford a home (housing is pretty expensive here).
Personally I don't really like giving money straight to some homeless guy either, because most likely they will spend it on alcohol. (although, honestly it's not like I never drink alcohol, so who am I to say they can't). Anyway, you can give the money to a shelter, and you can be sure it will be put to good use.
Lots of large organizations (UNICEF, Red Cross, etc.) spend >50% of your donation on overhead, and promotion. But I think if you give the money directly to a local organization (homeless shelter, shelter for battered women, children's hospital) that a much greater percentage goes directly to help the people that need it.
I'm not going to look at it real closely, but I'm guessing it's an "I feel lucky" link, where tubgirl is the top result.
I've worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for about 2 years now. And even when I first started Linux was the dominant force, and looked as if it had been for quite some time. All of the Software Engineers, and some of the scientists & managers have debian linux on their desktop. The rest have some form of windows.
We use linux in development, when creating large clusters to run weather models on, and when deploying systems in the field. It's the clear first choice in OS (when we have the choice).
Chappelle's show also did a pretty good spoof of the matrix.
Somehow they keep the storyline about Sauron being drawn out early. I know this because the new LOTR video game has scenes from the new movie, and in one scene Merry says something to Pippin about: "The enemy [Sauron] thinks you have the ring."
It's not even going to take that long. The third edition of the Xbox will come out about the same time as Interactive 3d porn becomes the new big thing in adult entertainment. This has been MS's strategy from the beginning, you don't think it's a coincidence that the Xbox was targeted at "adult gamers" do you? Plus it always takes microsoft 3 versions to get it right, so this is right on schedule.
Even better is the proposed name: The XXX-Box.
More of these awards sounded like real science to me this year than previous years. I wonder if that is because less weird science is being done, or because my opinion of what constitues real science is broadening.
One in particular is the statue ignored by pigeons. Many very important discoveries were preceded by some observation, with the remark: "That's strange..."
You get motion blur because the nerves and the chemical receptors can only react so quickly, and because nerves fire as light accumlates on the receptors.
Damn, I thought I got motion blur because of all the shroooms.
Since you read slashdot, you've probably heard this before, but you sound like a good canidate for emusic.com. You say you like obscure shit, and are willing to experiment, well emusic has certainly got that covered. Right now you can search their catalog for free, and even get the first 50 songs for free (have to give a credit card & cancel within the first 14 days though). Pick a genre you like, and see what the top 20 artists in that genre are. Chances are you'll find at least a few bands you really like that you've never heard of.
In any case, I have no affiliation with them, except I am a satisfied customer and would hate for them to go away. Go check them out, it's $10 a month if you buy a years subscription, and you have almost unlimited downloads.
Are you telling me that at one point Tony Hawk was the same age as you, but know he's a different age then you? So which one of you has been traveling at near light speeds?
I read a couple years ago (I think in Scientific american). That tube amps generate distortion in odd harmonics, and transistor amps generate distortion in even harmonics (or maybe the other way around). In any case, the distortion generated by the tube amps was generally considered more pleasant, and the point of the article was that there was a scientific basis for people saying that tube amps sound better (or atleast different) from transistor amps.
I can't wait to see the rebranding of the O'Reilly books.
I think the problem here is that USA does not give TIVO enough of a description to determine if monk is a repeat.
The best workaround, is to find a time that Monk is on that does not conflict with anything else you want to watch... say 2am on wednesday morning. Then set up a manual weekly repeating recording for that time. Now you will only get the one Monk episode a week.
I'd still give my left testicle to be able to play in the Disney/Pixar/etc. animation studios and computing centers
That's probably as good a definition of a geek as any.
A lot of people have been complaining that this article is biased against google, because microsoft is going to be launching their own search engine soon.
The main complaint seems to be that: "This guy is an idiot, he only uses 1 word search terms and doesn't know enough to use the negation mark (-)"
Look, I know all of us are smart enough to add a couple terms or use the negation mark to narrow our search results, but I used to be in the search engine business, and at the time (about two years ago) I remember reading a study saying the average query length at a search engine was something like 1.4 words long. This sounded kind of absurd to me, because I almost never have a query less than 3 words long, but you have to remember how non-technical people think. They want something they can just punch in a word or couple of words and get the answer to their question.
As for a better solution, the company I was working for did automatic categorization of any query you typed in, so if you typed in "apple" it might come back with these categories:
home & garden
computers
music.
Then you could choose a category you were interested in, and it would only return results that were relevant to that category. Personally I think that was a great solution, and I'm suprised more search engines don't have something like that.
Stop thinking that just because you can use a product that it is fit for mass consumption. I love google, it's by far the best search engine out there, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. And in the computer world, improved upon often times means made easier to use, so that your average proletarian can make it work. This is the same attitude that will see Linux used by only the 5% of the population that's geeky enough to figure it out.
My girlfriend and I fit into this category. Usually we prefer just being alone (together), but occasionally we'll go over other people's houses, or out with groups of people.
I prefer the term asocial, not anti-social. (I have nothing against society, I'm just not interested in it either.)
Actually I don't see these beds anymore. My girlfriend and I were looking for a hotel with beds of this type to stay at while on a road trip, and a search of the internet revealed absolutely nothing.
Does anyone actually know of a motel or motel chain that still has the coin-operated vibrating beds?
Wait, you want the patron saint of geeks and programmers to be a guy whose name is pronounced "ball-sack".
No thanks.
Can you give more details? Is there some kind of invisible space between the * and the .o?
FYI: you can get a nice widescreen HDTV for $1000-$2000 now. Prices have really been dropping the last couple of years.
Sucker.
It's only astroturfing if it's fake. If the posters genuinely like eMusic than it's grassroots. I use eMusic, and I really like it. And as other posters have noted a .emp file is a stub that directs the download manager to the mp3 files. Which of course have no DRM, and so you CAN play it in iTunes, put it on a iPod, and burn it to an audio CD. (or more importantly in my case, burn it to a data CD so that you I can listen to it in my car and my mp3 cd player.)
my mp3 cd players care. Some of them like to display file name instead of id3 tagged info.