Nope, didn't mistype a thing. While there were bays available, my first IBM PC did _not_ have floppy drives - and yes, it came from the factory that way. Storage was on audio cassette; yes, the original models actually had a cassette interface port on the back, right next to the keyboard port. Floppy drives were optional (and yes, I got one a couple weeks later).
While you were typing that response, I was spelling out a much longer and far more helpful posting. Go look for it. Where's yours?
Yes, I posted a snide comment at first. Honest truth? after 4 years and >$50,000 for a CS degree you'd darn well better be able to have SOME idea (note TFA insisted he had NO idea) how to start a project, how to examine the idea (no matter how bizzare) and break it down to manageable parts, and how to find relevant information.
There is growing concern that some technology-related degrees are increasingly about warm fuzzies and awfuly thin on hardcore engineering & science principles. I'm afraid we may be looking at exactly such a case; a CS degree and no idea where to begin developing a project using existing (albeit bleeding-edge) technology? A degree should give you a grounding in basic principles and problem solving, applicable to any goal; lacking that, I'd say he got gyped.
Looking back on 15+ years of industry experience...
- Find something interesting (hereafter "IT") to do. Just pick something that fascinates YOU, one thing, no matter how odd or far-fetched IT seems. - Do IT. Completely. I mean, if it's gonna take 10 years to pull IT off, take a deep breath and start your 10 years. If IT requires a whole new technology, well then develop a whole new technology. - Eradicate "can't" from your vocabulary. Lots of stuff exists precisely because someone didn't know it couldn't be done. Make IT happen. - Live IT. IT is now your thing until your next career change.
A major problem of the Information Age is that there's so freaking much fascinating stuff going on out there that it's easy to constantly be distracted by "hey, that's neat..." and waste inordinate time in minor pursuits.
I've been in this since before the original IBM PC (as in: my first didn't even have floppy disk drives). In that time I've watched individuals create the World Wide Web, Google, Apple, digital movie characters, etc. - all things that were incomprehensible "you can't do that" tasks, and which are ubiquitous... and were pulled off mostly by a few people devoted to the task for years.
It doesn't matter that you don't know where to start with the idea. The key is HAVING the idea, and being devoted to pulling it off. If you do it, it will pay off. Success comes to those devoted to making IT happen.
For those of us working in the "gutters" - embedded systems stuffed into the sometimes gludgy real world - only a language like C++ will do. A polished user-level GUI app running atop layer after layer of abstraction can be written in something slick and aloof like Java, Lisp, or some nifty obscure language....but for those of us writing specialized critical apps running on minimal hardware and dealing directly with the real world, we need something that has only the thinnest layer of abstraction, is comprehensible and predictable, and will reliably affect reality.
Sneer at "gutter"s as you like. Your house/apartment has them, your business/school has them, you don't notice them when they work, but they are quietly everpresent and designed by someone who had to think about them and use specialized tools to make them - and life would be less pleasant without them. Ditto for lots of C++ apps. You don't really expect a Java VM running on your toaster, do you?
Quantum algebra? Just accept that a variable could have multiple values until inspection/application forces the 'quantum field' to collapse to a single value. Works in physics for Schrodenger's Cat, how about in math for Schrodenger's X?
Climate predictions routinely exaggerate changes or use worst case scenarios
"I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis." -- Al Gore
A lot of people like to claim the sky is blue. Yeah, I see a lot of blue up there right now, but there's a bunch of white there too, last night it was black with white dots (actually that's the dominant color this half the year), yesterday evening it was red, and often it is gray.
Lots of people insist the state of nature is invariably X. Perhaps the earth, on average, has warmed slightly. It happens. Was a lot colder not that long ago, and most of the current (brief) warming seems related to cyclic natural activities. It's also been a lot colder in some areas. Things change. Cope. It's not Bush's fault.
It seems to me that modern news outlets are far too obsessed with viewpoints reporters want presented. Sometimes counter arguments don't get presented because they conflict with a neat theory.
I heard the guy too. That he was on the Art Bell show (awright, I was driving 1000 miles overnight and couldn't get any other station) does not bode well.
Art asked something similar about "if it works, why aren't we getting any information from the future right now?" The excuse was that you can only send info back so far as the machine has been turned on. Ergo, no machine = isn't running = no winning lottery numbers.
The guy was obviously a crackpot. Unfortunately, people who do not understand a subject adequately cannot differentiate between the crackpot's impressive yet incomprehensible rantings vs. your reasoned informed explanations of why the crackpot is wrong... hence the reason he was on Art Bell, and why we're discussing him on/. per an exciting-sounding but ill-expressed story.
If doing so would cure cancer so many would line up to do so you could sell tickets.
Practically speaking, several billion people will do the equivalent just to eat lunch today - much less do something as helpful to the human condition as find a cheap safe alternative to morphine
/. recently faced, and possibly suffered, a rollover-error bug in the comments database (comment numbers maxed out at 16M; comment 16M+1 gets number 0). They had to recompile the software and reconstruct the database. Your problems could very well be a consequence of that bug and/or fix...inform CmdrTaco et al.
The point I'm making here is simple; the man from Sony clearly dodged the question. The poster thinks it might be because he had no opinion on the matter; I'm suggesting, and this from a third-person perspective, that it might necessarily because he was unopinionated.
How about: he's smart enough to know that his answers to hot-button questions from strangers may very well lead to those answers, even polite avoidance thereof, will be publicly quoted and discussed on world-spanning message boards (say, for instance... this very thread!).
Quite. Put more simply: Too many people will tie themselves in mental knots trying to prove the existance of a lie, while the liar simply smiles and moves on to his next task. Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful tool for the manipulative.
Darn tootin' it ain't rocket science. There shouldn't even be an issue. There's no technical reason, given a tiny bit of buffering, why a player can't have the beginning of the next track ready to play the instant the last track ends - especially when the unit has a "fade" feature. Default should be a 0-second "fade", not a gap interrupting the music.
We're paying hundreds of $$$ for gizmos that are entirely capable of uninterrupted playback, yet track transitions are disturbingly discernable silent gaps.
The whole point is to make it EASY, even TRIVIAL to load music on a player and play in a manner the listener expects. There's no friggin' reason why someone should have to dork around with merging tracks, setting bookmarks, etc. Yes, those duct-tape fixes can be done without much difficulty, but the whole point is fixing something that shouldn't be broken in the first place.
I have a 1GB Shuffle. The 1GB & 2GB Nanos won't be much different.
The point of having/using a small-memory player is not to put your whole collection on there, or to have lots of "if I want" music on there, it's to store those dozen or so albums you are ACTIVELY listening to (or a random mix if you really don't care).
In no way is it meant to hold one's collection; you keep the whole collection on the computer & pick a few things you know you'll want. Small & large storage spaces require very different usage behaviors.
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The biggest loss from terminating the Shuffle is the built-in USB plug - one less cable to drag around. The Nano doesn't even have a USB socket; instead there's another specialized cable to fill up bag/briefcase space with. The "thumbdrive" format was just so very convenient, both for data transfer and recharging.
Well, they're NOT throttling specific applications/sites/uses, so your point is moot. Actually your point is unfair precisely because it inspires baseless anger. Kinda like asking "well, what if you just start punching me for no reason, that wouldn't be fair, right?" Well, you're not - so it really isn't fair to even raise the question, invoking unwarranted emotions. (See implications of "have you stopped beating your wife?")
It's not until a person hits age 40 or 50 that they start realizing that having large diversity of opinion promotes nothing but disagreement.
Sometimes you mull over a vague idea until someone, coincidentally, phrases it perfectly.
Upon hitting 38, I've become weary of ongoing political debates precisely because they never end. This has been rolling around in my head for a couple months; somehow (perhaps by mentioning the age it sets in) you've summarized it perfectly.
At the age range mentioned, one has (generlaly) heard it all before; further discussion won't add to nor dislodge chosen views. Time for HL Mencken's quote on flag-raising.
Red Bull was the first popular "energy drink". It is closest to universally available and universally known, and has endured the longest - ergo, Red Bull is the defacto standard "energy drink". Others may taste better/worse, have more/less kick; Red Bull is a stable standard.
I'd like to deem Amp or Venom as the standard, but availability is iffy.
Current count is 30 different energy drink cans on display in my cube, from an ongoing sampling of every kind I can get my hands on.
Best: - Venom: best tasting of the bunch, actual flavor balancing quasi-bitter with sweet (but not sickly sweet). - Amp: essentially "Distilled Mountain Dew", good flavor with strongest keep-awake effect I've found. - Source Burn: a fine general energy drink with a few vitamins. - Monster Khaos: actually contains 70% juice, tastes good.
Of note: - Avoid the 16 oz. cans; they tend to have more "stuff" than some bodies can comfortably handle. Von Dutch has the strongest unpleasant aftereffect feeling (tastes pretty good though). - RockStar is reportedly made by the/a son of Michael Savage (nutrition expert and political pundit) claiming it's the best balance of "energy" ingredients. - Red Bull is the standard to measure all others against.
So far my collection includes in no particular order: Large cans: - Raw Energy Fuel - MDX - Extreme Energy Shot - Lost - Von Dutch - Rooster Booster - Horse Power - Hansen's Energy Delux - Full Throttle - Monster - Monster Khaos - Monster Assault - Rip It - FirePowerEX Small cans (preferred size): - Crunk - Donkey Kick - Rush - Amp - Rooster Booster - Hansen's Energy - KMX - ROX (Austrian) - Red Bull - RockStar - Hair of the Dog - Source Burn - Diablo (Canadian) - Sobe Adrenaline Rush - Liquid Z - Glaceau SmartWater
SmartWater is actually the best: just water, distilled & selected electrolytes - just what your body ACTUALLY needs.
Of course it's a non-issue in China: in China, you do what the Chinese government tells you to do & live with, or you don't suck air long enough to say it's an issue.
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Nope, didn't mistype a thing.
While there were bays available, my first IBM PC did _not_ have floppy drives - and yes, it came from the factory that way. Storage was on audio cassette; yes, the original models actually had a cassette interface port on the back, right next to the keyboard port. Floppy drives were optional (and yes, I got one a couple weeks later).
While you were typing that response, I was spelling out a much longer and far more helpful posting. Go look for it. Where's yours?
Yes, I posted a snide comment at first. Honest truth? after 4 years and >$50,000 for a CS degree you'd darn well better be able to have SOME idea (note TFA insisted he had NO idea) how to start a project, how to examine the idea (no matter how bizzare) and break it down to manageable parts, and how to find relevant information.
There is growing concern that some technology-related degrees are increasingly about warm fuzzies and awfuly thin on hardcore engineering & science principles. I'm afraid we may be looking at exactly such a case; a CS degree and no idea where to begin developing a project using existing (albeit bleeding-edge) technology? A degree should give you a grounding in basic principles and problem solving, applicable to any goal; lacking that, I'd say he got gyped.
Looking back on 15+ years of industry experience...
... and were pulled off mostly by a few people devoted to the task for years.
- Find something interesting (hereafter "IT") to do. Just pick something that fascinates YOU, one thing, no matter how odd or far-fetched IT seems.
- Do IT. Completely. I mean, if it's gonna take 10 years to pull IT off, take a deep breath and start your 10 years. If IT requires a whole new technology, well then develop a whole new technology.
- Eradicate "can't" from your vocabulary. Lots of stuff exists precisely because someone didn't know it couldn't be done. Make IT happen.
- Live IT. IT is now your thing until your next career change.
A major problem of the Information Age is that there's so freaking much fascinating stuff going on out there that it's easy to constantly be distracted by "hey, that's neat..." and waste inordinate time in minor pursuits.
I've been in this since before the original IBM PC (as in: my first didn't even have floppy disk drives). In that time I've watched individuals create the World Wide Web, Google, Apple, digital movie characters, etc. - all things that were incomprehensible "you can't do that" tasks, and which are ubiquitous
It doesn't matter that you don't know where to start with the idea. The key is HAVING the idea, and being devoted to pulling it off. If you do it, it will pay off. Success comes to those devoted to making IT happen.
Sounds like you should ask your school for a refund.
For those of us working in the "gutters" - embedded systems stuffed into the sometimes gludgy real world - only a language like C++ will do. A polished user-level GUI app running atop layer after layer of abstraction can be written in something slick and aloof like Java, Lisp, or some nifty obscure language. ...but for those of us writing specialized critical apps running on minimal hardware and dealing directly with the real world, we need something that has only the thinnest layer of abstraction, is comprehensible and predictable, and will reliably affect reality.
Sneer at "gutter"s as you like. Your house/apartment has them, your business/school has them, you don't notice them when they work, but they are quietly everpresent and designed by someone who had to think about them and use specialized tools to make them - and life would be less pleasant without them. Ditto for lots of C++ apps. You don't really expect a Java VM running on your toaster, do you?
That gives 0/0 = 0 and 1 at the same time.
Quantum algebra? Just accept that a variable could have multiple values until inspection/application forces the 'quantum field' to collapse to a single value. Works in physics for Schrodenger's Cat, how about in math for Schrodenger's X?
"I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis." -- Al Gore
A lot of people like to claim the sky is blue.
Yeah, I see a lot of blue up there right now, but there's a bunch of white there too, last night it was black with white dots (actually that's the dominant color this half the year), yesterday evening it was red, and often it is gray.
Lots of people insist the state of nature is invariably X.
Perhaps the earth, on average, has warmed slightly. It happens. Was a lot colder not that long ago, and most of the current (brief) warming seems related to cyclic natural activities.
It's also been a lot colder in some areas.
Things change. Cope. It's not Bush's fault.
It seems to me that modern news outlets are far too obsessed with viewpoints reporters want presented.
Sometimes counter arguments don't get presented because they conflict with a neat theory.
I liked Wuthering Heights.
Don't really care for Lisp (more of a PROLOG kinda guy).
I heard the guy too. That he was on the Art Bell show (awright, I was driving 1000 miles overnight and couldn't get any other station) does not bode well.
... hence the reason he was on Art Bell, and why we're discussing him on /. per an exciting-sounding but ill-expressed story.
Art asked something similar about "if it works, why aren't we getting any information from the future right now?" The excuse was that you can only send info back so far as the machine has been turned on. Ergo, no machine = isn't running = no winning lottery numbers.
The guy was obviously a crackpot.
Unfortunately, people who do not understand a subject adequately cannot differentiate between the crackpot's impressive yet incomprehensible rantings vs. your reasoned informed explanations of why the crackpot is wrong
If doing so would cure cancer so many would line up to do so you could sell tickets.
Practically speaking, several billion people will do the equivalent just to eat lunch today - much less do something as helpful to the human condition as find a cheap safe alternative to morphine
/. recently faced, and possibly suffered, a rollover-error bug in the comments database (comment numbers maxed out at 16M; comment 16M+1 gets number 0). They had to recompile the software and reconstruct the database. Your problems could very well be a consequence of that bug and/or fix...inform CmdrTaco et al.
How about: he's smart enough to know that his answers to hot-button questions from strangers may very well lead to those answers, even polite avoidance thereof, will be publicly quoted and discussed on world-spanning message boards (say, for instance
This coming from someone posting to
Quite.
Put more simply:
Too many people will tie themselves in mental knots trying to prove the existance of a lie, while the liar simply smiles and moves on to his next task.
Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful tool for the manipulative.
/.? what /.?
Darn tootin' it ain't rocket science.
There shouldn't even be an issue.
There's no technical reason, given a tiny bit of buffering, why a player can't have the beginning of the next track ready to play the instant the last track ends - especially when the unit has a "fade" feature. Default should be a 0-second "fade", not a gap interrupting the music.
We're paying hundreds of $$$ for gizmos that are entirely capable of uninterrupted playback, yet track transitions are disturbingly discernable silent gaps.
The whole point is to make it EASY, even TRIVIAL to load music on a player and play in a manner the listener expects. There's no friggin' reason why someone should have to dork around with merging tracks, setting bookmarks, etc. Yes, those duct-tape fixes can be done without much difficulty, but the whole point is fixing something that shouldn't be broken in the first place.
I have a 1GB Shuffle. The 1GB & 2GB Nanos won't be much different.
The point of having/using a small-memory player is not to put your whole collection on there, or to have lots of "if I want" music on there, it's to store those dozen or so albums you are ACTIVELY listening to (or a random mix if you really don't care).
In no way is it meant to hold one's collection; you keep the whole collection on the computer & pick a few things you know you'll want. Small & large storage spaces require very different usage behaviors.
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The biggest loss from terminating the Shuffle is the built-in USB plug - one less cable to drag around. The Nano doesn't even have a USB socket; instead there's another specialized cable to fill up bag/briefcase space with. The "thumbdrive" format was just so very convenient, both for data transfer and recharging.
---
Well, they're NOT throttling specific applications/sites/uses, so your point is moot. Actually your point is unfair precisely because it inspires baseless anger.
Kinda like asking "well, what if you just start punching me for no reason, that wouldn't be fair, right?" Well, you're not - so it really isn't fair to even raise the question, invoking unwarranted emotions. (See implications of "have you stopped beating your wife?")
It's not until a person hits age 40 or 50 that they start realizing that having large diversity of opinion promotes nothing but disagreement.
Sometimes you mull over a vague idea until someone, coincidentally, phrases it perfectly.
Upon hitting 38, I've become weary of ongoing political debates precisely because they never end. This has been rolling around in my head for a couple months; somehow (perhaps by mentioning the age it sets in) you've summarized it perfectly.
At the age range mentioned, one has (generlaly) heard it all before; further discussion won't add to nor dislodge chosen views. Time for HL Mencken's quote on flag-raising.
Red Bull was the first popular "energy drink". It is closest to universally available and universally known, and has endured the longest - ergo, Red Bull is the defacto standard "energy drink". Others may taste better/worse, have more/less kick; Red Bull is a stable standard.
I'd like to deem Amp or Venom as the standard, but availability is iffy.
Current count is 30 different energy drink cans on display in my cube, from an ongoing sampling of every kind I can get my hands on.
Best:
- Venom: best tasting of the bunch, actual flavor balancing quasi-bitter with sweet (but not sickly sweet).
- Amp: essentially "Distilled Mountain Dew", good flavor with strongest keep-awake effect I've found.
- Source Burn: a fine general energy drink with a few vitamins.
- Monster Khaos: actually contains 70% juice, tastes good.
Of note:
- Avoid the 16 oz. cans; they tend to have more "stuff" than some bodies can comfortably handle. Von Dutch has the strongest unpleasant aftereffect feeling (tastes pretty good though).
- RockStar is reportedly made by the/a son of Michael Savage (nutrition expert and political pundit) claiming it's the best balance of "energy" ingredients.
- Red Bull is the standard to measure all others against.
So far my collection includes in no particular order:
Large cans:
- Raw Energy Fuel
- MDX
- Extreme Energy Shot
- Lost
- Von Dutch
- Rooster Booster
- Horse Power
- Hansen's Energy Delux
- Full Throttle
- Monster
- Monster Khaos
- Monster Assault
- Rip It
- FirePowerEX
Small cans (preferred size):
- Crunk
- Donkey Kick
- Rush
- Amp
- Rooster Booster
- Hansen's Energy
- KMX
- ROX (Austrian)
- Red Bull
- RockStar
- Hair of the Dog
- Source Burn
- Diablo (Canadian)
- Sobe Adrenaline Rush
- Liquid Z
- Glaceau SmartWater
SmartWater is actually the best: just water, distilled & selected electrolytes - just what your body ACTUALLY needs.
Another angle:
Statistics mean nothing when they happen to YOU.
they say it's a non-issue in China.
Of course it's a non-issue in China: in China, you do what the Chinese government tells you to do & live with, or you don't suck air long enough to say it's an issue.
Enjoy your 1st Amendment. Chinese don't have one.