Netflix DVD rental service is not available in Canada. Zip.ca is Canada's mail DVD service, but their selection is still not particularly stellar (although admittedly modestly better than Netflix streaming service in Canada, it's still not significantly better than the video rental stores that Netflix has largely replaced)..
First of all, claiming to "come to linux" but only working under WINE is not really coming to linux at all. You can run Windows Notepad under WINE as well.
Secondly, WINE (with win32 compatiblity) is not officially supported on native 64 bit Linux systems unless you have 32-bit libraries installed. While this is probably fine if you are only installing binaries, but for distributions which install some applications by compiling them from source, it can cause some consternation when building some applications because the linker might end up trying to use the libraries in the 32 bit library directory instead of the 64-bit one which causes what's supposed to be an automated build process to fail, abruptly and unceremoniously. Although such errors are ultimately the result of faulty assumptions in the actual build script, and not the fault of actually trying to use both 32 and 64-bit libraries simultaneously on one platform, such errors are still frequent enough to be annoying... and I'd rather not deal with them.
Finally... it's Netflix. Their movie selection sucks.
Actually, I'd just appreciate if they were just a whole lot more up front about the fact that they haven't actually verified any of their hypotheses yet. They dance around this using what seems to be carefully chosen verbiage that reminds me all too much of people who try to twist the truth to make things sound better than they actually are, but don't want to get caught in any actual outright lie. Is forthright honesty really too much to expect from people?
In other words... they don't *actually* have any good news. They're just particularly hopeful that they will.
Sounds like somebody is using a particularly optimistic phrasing in order to get funding for more research.
Not to belittle such research, but until that research actually bears real fruit, it feels to me like they are deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking that a practical cure or treatment is basically here already (even though they don't actually come right out and say so), and to me that's not any better than the conmen who travelled from village to village in the 1700's selling "snake oil".
If that's the case, it's a disease shared by every single solitary thing that exists. Not just living things, but *EVERYTHING*. Stars get old and die too. you know. And even protons have a half-life, and eventually will each decay into a pion and positron.
Here's another name for it: entropy. Somehow I don't think that any ingenuity is going to overcome that.
Who said I'm running to the cable company? All of the TV shows that I watch are available online, streamed from the network's website only one day after airing, and available online for about 2 weeks. I haven't had cable for almost 5 years.
As for how wide Netflix selection used to be, I have no comparison.... since I only just started using it a few weeks ago. I can easily see it as more convenient than going to a video rental store, which is what I see Netflix replacing, but if they don't actually have anything I want to watch, then that convenience can only say that it's not any better than a video rental store at having what movies I want to watch, then that convenience isn't worth a dime to me.
My son is staying with us for a few months and has set up Netflix on our main dvd player, so I've recently had a chance to try it out for a while, but almost any time that I think of an old movie I'd really like to see that I don't have the DVD for already, I find it's never actually available on Netflix anyways. If Netflix carried stuff that I actually cared about, I'd probably get it myself when my son moves out, but it doesn't. So.... nope.
Glowing in the dark would, I imagine, constitute a significant anti-survival trait for a creature such as this... If this trait gets passed on, could the technique be used to bring the rabbit population under control within a few dozen generations in areas where rabbits are nothing more than profound pests?
Or do you think would it reduce their chances of survival so low that they wouldn't even get to breed?
You mean, like a mechanical switch that comes built in to the jack chassis?
For crying out loud, I built an amplifier in high school in 1980 that could detect when a headset was detected. Making software detect the same thing would amount to merely polling on a physical line the switch is on and converting the voltage on it to a digital signal of true or false.
... is if the browser distributed any (unsecured) content which is currently loaded into a tab or window, in addition to any the inline media content such as images or embeded video all via bittorrent... potentially reducing the impact that "flash mobs" might have on websites to the extent that people adopt use of the browser.
It'd be ideal, in my opinion, if someone developed an new protocol based on http that did something like that, but I don't think that's terribly likely to happen
The problem isn't backlighting, per se... it has to do with the difference between how bright what you are looking at is lit compared to ambient lighting... the pupils in your eyes adjust according to how much light they are receiving, and if what you are looking at is too much more brightly lit than your surroundings, it's going to feel like you are reading while staring into a flashlight. If, however (mostly because of limitations in most current backlit display technologies), the display is not brightly lit, then there will not be enough contrast on the display to actually read it. LCD readers which try to adjust their brightness dynamically based on surrounding lighting might mitigate this to a certain extent, but they are still only usable within a relatively narrow range of lighting conditions compared to what conditions a person could comfortably read a book in.
Myself, I prefer to read textbooks. Many of these even utilize color diagrams
Of course, I realize I'm probably not within a sigma of typical e-ink readers manufacturers target demographic.
Give me a color ereader with a form factor large enough to read academic material (roughly letter or A4 size) without scrolling or panning that doesn't feel like I'm reading while staring into a flashlight while I'm holding it 12 inches from my face, and with a fast enough update speed that don't notice any delays when I'm flipping pages and I'll move to it in a heartbeat.
That's all very well and good when there's an actual route of escape.
Dunno if you noticed this or not, but we're kinda stuck here... and barring some extraordinary and unprecedented breakthrough in physics and energy consumption, unfortunately that's not likely to change anytime within the next couple of millennia.
So metaphorically, people who are screaming about global warming are going around yelling "fire" when there's absolutely no possible way that anybody who'se currently inside is getting out of the building anyways. A more prudent exercise than alarming people would be to do whatever you can, personally, to try to mitigate disaster... since going around shouting at people isn't going to accomplish much other than make other people's lives miserable.
Because we don't understand it... if we can, however, approximate its function with a computer model, then we can analayze it more closely and determine exactly why it made the decisions that it did... which may, in turn, lead to insight into why us human beings make the choices that we do.
I would expect that the "iThink" would simply not function while you were asleep... and it is possible even with today's technology to differentiate the brain signature of a person who is sleeping from when they are awake.
You could have some javascript code that automatically runs an md5 hash on its content, and compares it to what is known for that page, recording any differences as qualifying as a derivative work, effectively automating the process.
You exaggerate. You must think in order to direct your fingers to type the keys that they do... this requires a type of deliberate intent that could, at least in theory, be picked up by devices designed to scan brain activity, and if the issues regarding understanding how the brain waves correspond to what, exactly, is being thought about can ever be worked out, such an apparatus could probably improve your throughput by more than an order of magnitude. The amount of time it takes for signals to reach your fingers from your brain alone is staggeringly slow compared to the speed of electronics.
... would be for web browsers to have some javascript configuration settings, allowing them to specify, for instance, what values these particular queries (hostname and mac address) should actually return, if not the defaults, much like how some browsers allow you to configure what it reports as a user-agent header in an http request.
Of course it can load that URL in a frame, but you'd still have to *give* it that URL first.
For myself, whenever I am going to visit a website that isn't linked to the page I'm on, such as if I'm wanting to go to my bank's website or logging into gmail or whatnot, I *always* manually open a new window or tab first.
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Netflix DVD rental service is not available in Canada. Zip.ca is Canada's mail DVD service, but their selection is still not particularly stellar (although admittedly modestly better than Netflix streaming service in Canada, it's still not significantly better than the video rental stores that Netflix has largely replaced)..
First of all, claiming to "come to linux" but only working under WINE is not really coming to linux at all. You can run Windows Notepad under WINE as well.
Secondly, WINE (with win32 compatiblity) is not officially supported on native 64 bit Linux systems unless you have 32-bit libraries installed. While this is probably fine if you are only installing binaries, but for distributions which install some applications by compiling them from source, it can cause some consternation when building some applications because the linker might end up trying to use the libraries in the 32 bit library directory instead of the 64-bit one which causes what's supposed to be an automated build process to fail, abruptly and unceremoniously. Although such errors are ultimately the result of faulty assumptions in the actual build script, and not the fault of actually trying to use both 32 and 64-bit libraries simultaneously on one platform, such errors are still frequent enough to be annoying... and I'd rather not deal with them.
Finally... it's Netflix. Their movie selection sucks.
Actually, I'd just appreciate if they were just a whole lot more up front about the fact that they haven't actually verified any of their hypotheses yet. They dance around this using what seems to be carefully chosen verbiage that reminds me all too much of people who try to twist the truth to make things sound better than they actually are, but don't want to get caught in any actual outright lie. Is forthright honesty really too much to expect from people?
In other words... they don't *actually* have any good news. They're just particularly hopeful that they will.
Sounds like somebody is using a particularly optimistic phrasing in order to get funding for more research.
Not to belittle such research, but until that research actually bears real fruit, it feels to me like they are deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking that a practical cure or treatment is basically here already (even though they don't actually come right out and say so), and to me that's not any better than the conmen who travelled from village to village in the 1700's selling "snake oil".
If that's the case, it's a disease shared by every single solitary thing that exists. Not just living things, but *EVERYTHING*. Stars get old and die too. you know. And even protons have a half-life, and eventually will each decay into a pion and positron.
Here's another name for it: entropy. Somehow I don't think that any ingenuity is going to overcome that.
Search. When it's happened to me, they were older movies, and I wouldn't have expected them to be highlighted.
Who said I'm running to the cable company? All of the TV shows that I watch are available online, streamed from the network's website only one day after airing, and available online for about 2 weeks. I haven't had cable for almost 5 years.
As for how wide Netflix selection used to be, I have no comparison.... since I only just started using it a few weeks ago. I can easily see it as more convenient than going to a video rental store, which is what I see Netflix replacing, but if they don't actually have anything I want to watch, then that convenience can only say that it's not any better than a video rental store at having what movies I want to watch, then that convenience isn't worth a dime to me.
My son is staying with us for a few months and has set up Netflix on our main dvd player, so I've recently had a chance to try it out for a while, but almost any time that I think of an old movie I'd really like to see that I don't have the DVD for already, I find it's never actually available on Netflix anyways. If Netflix carried stuff that I actually cared about, I'd probably get it myself when my son moves out, but it doesn't. So.... nope.
Glowing in the dark would, I imagine, constitute a significant anti-survival trait for a creature such as this... If this trait gets passed on, could the technique be used to bring the rabbit population under control within a few dozen generations in areas where rabbits are nothing more than profound pests?
Or do you think would it reduce their chances of survival so low that they wouldn't even get to breed?
You mean, like a mechanical switch that comes built in to the jack chassis?
For crying out loud, I built an amplifier in high school in 1980 that could detect when a headset was detected. Making software detect the same thing would amount to merely polling on a physical line the switch is on and converting the voltage on it to a digital signal of true or false.
It'd be ideal, in my opinion, if someone developed an new protocol based on http that did something like that, but I don't think that's terribly likely to happen
I don't generally read novels... that was my point.
And a 6" or 7" diagonal is still way too tiny for textbooks. It needs to be sport at least about a 10" diagonal or so to be readable.
Apple devices are still not particularly usable in sunlit conditions.
The problem isn't backlighting, per se... it has to do with the difference between how bright what you are looking at is lit compared to ambient lighting... the pupils in your eyes adjust according to how much light they are receiving, and if what you are looking at is too much more brightly lit than your surroundings, it's going to feel like you are reading while staring into a flashlight. If, however (mostly because of limitations in most current backlit display technologies), the display is not brightly lit, then there will not be enough contrast on the display to actually read it. LCD readers which try to adjust their brightness dynamically based on surrounding lighting might mitigate this to a certain extent, but they are still only usable within a relatively narrow range of lighting conditions compared to what conditions a person could comfortably read a book in.
If all you're reading is novels, sure...
Myself, I prefer to read textbooks. Many of these even utilize color diagrams
Of course, I realize I'm probably not within a sigma of typical e-ink readers manufacturers target demographic.
Give me a color ereader with a form factor large enough to read academic material (roughly letter or A4 size) without scrolling or panning that doesn't feel like I'm reading while staring into a flashlight while I'm holding it 12 inches from my face, and with a fast enough update speed that don't notice any delays when I'm flipping pages and I'll move to it in a heartbeat.
That's all very well and good when there's an actual route of escape.
Dunno if you noticed this or not, but we're kinda stuck here... and barring some extraordinary and unprecedented breakthrough in physics and energy consumption, unfortunately that's not likely to change anytime within the next couple of millennia.
So metaphorically, people who are screaming about global warming are going around yelling "fire" when there's absolutely no possible way that anybody who'se currently inside is getting out of the building anyways. A more prudent exercise than alarming people would be to do whatever you can, personally, to try to mitigate disaster... since going around shouting at people isn't going to accomplish much other than make other people's lives miserable.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1328640/Why-laughing-instinctive-learn-cry.html
If laughter is a social bonding behavior, why do people laugh at something they are reading when they are completely alone?
Because we don't understand it... if we can, however, approximate its function with a computer model, then we can analayze it more closely and determine exactly why it made the decisions that it did... which may, in turn, lead to insight into why us human beings make the choices that we do.
I would expect that the "iThink" would simply not function while you were asleep... and it is possible even with today's technology to differentiate the brain signature of a person who is sleeping from when they are awake.
You could have some javascript code that automatically runs an md5 hash on its content, and compares it to what is known for that page, recording any differences as qualifying as a derivative work, effectively automating the process.
The big difference, however. is that the JVM can do escape analysis at runtime... and can possibly realize that further optimize is possible.
You exaggerate. You must think in order to direct your fingers to type the keys that they do... this requires a type of deliberate intent that could, at least in theory, be picked up by devices designed to scan brain activity, and if the issues regarding understanding how the brain waves correspond to what, exactly, is being thought about can ever be worked out, such an apparatus could probably improve your throughput by more than an order of magnitude. The amount of time it takes for signals to reach your fingers from your brain alone is staggeringly slow compared to the speed of electronics.
... would be for web browsers to have some javascript configuration settings, allowing them to specify, for instance, what values these particular queries (hostname and mac address) should actually return, if not the defaults, much like how some browsers allow you to configure what it reports as a user-agent header in an http request.
Of course it can load that URL in a frame, but you'd still have to *give* it that URL first.
For myself, whenever I am going to visit a website that isn't linked to the page I'm on, such as if I'm wanting to go to my bank's website or logging into gmail or whatnot, I *always* manually open a new window or tab first.