Even if your intent is just to fill the much smaller divots in the glass, 30 molecules thick isn't going to make much difference.
I think Trojan might disagree with that. Going off on a tangent, I know, but exactly how flexible is that material? Lots of people have latex allergies. And if we leave the term "glass" off the packaging it could be appealing as an all-natural solution.
I agree, however Apple has a long history of breaking compatiblity to force you to upgrade to a new product.
You are quite correct, however I would argue that many of Windows biggest shortcomings over the years relate to the push for backwards compatibility. DOS mode, the registry, DLLs... Supporting poor software begets poor software. It even carried over into Microsoft Games division where the 100 member friend-list restriction is retained to this day to support Halo 2 players, years after an original Xbox can no longer be purchased. Somebody hard-coded, because who could imagine a need for more? 640k, etc. etc. They refuse to cut the cord because those are still paying customers.
In principle, Microsoft is willing to sacrifice the satisfaction of new customers to maintain status quo momentum and revenue, and Apple is willing to sacrifice old customers to pull in new adopters with a better made product. Given their respective market shares ten years ago compared to now, I can't blame either of them. They are successful in different ways.
It's a meta search engine that focusses on privacy by not logging your IP address and your searches.
I don't feel that the deliberate absence of something makes it a focus, even if it happens to be contrary to the norm. "Come to my website, it doesn't care who you are and just displays funny 404 screens based on buttons you click. We support your privacy."
It's not as if logging IP addresses and searches is mandatory. It has to be coded in. There are aspects of that data that can improve how a search engine works. The rest is either user convenience or marketing data.
Summary gives the impression that MP4 and M4V are different (or platform-flavoured), but I have no trouble with renaming them back and forth. M4V is iTunes-friendly, certainly. But that's a file association that can be tweaked in a few clicks. V is just shorthand for video to clarify what the content inside the container is. A for audio, B for bookmarked audio, R for ringtones, etc. Apple is doing the same thing that Microsoft is doing with ASF, WMA and WMV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14#.MP4_versus_.M4A_file_extensions http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284094
Agreed. My question is how can there be a sweeping laser without having screen flicker? Especially with a mechanical mirror in the mix. I thought we were done with headache inducing refresh rates? Hopefully the frequency noise is avoided.
Is the main difference between laser and cathode ray in the use of magnetism vs. mirrors? That would mean the laser beam generators can be snugly parallel to the screen and then reflected? TFA is more like an entertainment piece, so more info on the comparative tech is appreciated.
Gee, remember when short domains were cool? And ones that spell themselves? Not no more.
Is @aol.com worse than @compuserve.com? Is it the age of the service we're supposed to be discriminating against, or just the fact they're the ISP that launched a thousand-thousand newbies? I'd hate to hate for the wrong reasons.....
Years ago many of my classmates decided to switch e-mails at the end of school for resume purposes. Usually from hotmail to yahoo, and some are using gmail more nowadays. The concern with hotmail was less about brand recognition and more about spam recognition. Worries that hotmail addresses were more likely to be filtered by the employer, and more likely for a job offer to end up in the Junk folder. Yahoo isn't exactly more professional, they just figured it was more reliable, and I expect employers did too.
I do like the idea of not needing an explanatory tool like "Dark Energy"... that has always bothered me. Far more than "Dark Matter".
I always took "Dark ____" to mean unexplained. The here be dragons of universal physics. Having a lump of the stuff in a petri dish or beamline would probably result in a mundane yet technically precise name. But then we'd be off in search of the next dragon.
Good contextual links are fine. (Hypertext FTW.) More sources are better to avoid the appearance of blog spam. What I think we might all appreciate is a handy box below the story quote that says "TFA: [full URI]" . Then at least the story submitter has to choose the most relevant one, and we all know which one not to read before commenting.;)
That's why manufacturers have resorted to bundling crapware, and now apparently retailers as well.
Very true, but I think the greed of all parties (including the crapware developers) plays a stronger part than survival. It's not as if they weren't aware the industry has thin margins. One problem is, if a piece of technology functions well and does everything you need, there is no further consumption until a need arises.
There are thin margins on groceries/produce. It's made up for by sheer quantity because food is a rapid consumable. I think computer quantities are doing pretty good these days despite the cost, and relative longevity. Apple certainly doesn't have a problem with increasing their margins and factoring planned obsolescence. A lot of people find that objectionable, but I can't even use up a whole hand counting the amount of Mac crapware I've been subjected to.
And unsold groceries, like unsold computers, lose their value over time ("shrink"), and can be sold cheaper to avoid 100% loss. Unless you only buy bagged produce (off the shelf computers), you can choose the best of what's available, piece by piece. Hmm, time for lunch I think...
Any chance this firmware update is first in an ongoing ploy to keep the encryption methods overhauled? Promising to increase size and compatibility, even when the majority of people won't benefit from it, is a pretty big carrot to get Joe Consumer to flash an entertainment device. These days even my grandparents understand that having a higher version number means something good.
Waiting for the "oh sorry, your player is not compatible with this update, here's a $50 coupon towards a new one (.*.that won't read burned discs.*.)" message.
I actually did one of those comments a few days ago. There wasn't a better way to do a particular piece of code, so I put the comment in "// This is ugly, but there isn't a better way to do it.". It's a note to myself and future developers not to bother trying to fix an insignificant ugly piece.
I don't wish to be abrasive, but you're basically saying because it's beyond your grasp, it's a lost cause? What if another programmer comes and rewrites the code in a "better" language for the task?
Sometimes things are overcommented, like the default Apache httpd.conf. I've been known to clean up such files with "mv filename filename.orig | cat filename.orig | grep -v ^# > filename", just to shorten it down to something reasonable that can be read. If you're familiar with the Apache httpd.conf, there's no need for all those comments. But, if someone needs to reference them, they're in the httpd.conf.orig.
You've just contradicted yourself. It's overcommented in case someone, like a web developer switching from IIS to Apache, needs to reference it. What you've been known to do is something that I've known almost every coder to do. Strip comments from production code, and leave them in the debug. Apache isn't providing bloated files, they're saving thousands of people from forgetting to make their own.orig copy, and having to spend more than 4 seconds to restore a working version if it breaks the server.
I'm not sure why Nintendo would want to do this - it's only a negative for them, spreading all this ill will.
Define all. I think it's a bummer for the creators, but in no way whatsoever will this impact my Nintendo purchasing habits. Whatsoever. This is the first time I've even heard of the project, and if I never see it I doubt my life will be lacking for it.
Nintendo primarily sells interactive products, so a noninteractive fan film would not be in direct competition with well, anything they sell. That is, unless they decide to develop a full length Zelda film. Remember how well Super Mario Bros. turned out?
Stronger arguments than this used to be made for the case of sharing ROMs without owning the carts, and morally justifying retro game piracy. Then the Wii came out and virtually every mainstream title Nintendo has published is, or will be on their Virtual Console service. Point being, you have utterly no idea what they could be planning to profit from. It's commonly known as having All Rights Reserved.
They're making a derivative of someone else's "art". If it's really artistry, then it seems to me that they could have been more original than that.
The Quest of Tilda: Lank's Journey.
Trouble with knockoffs is they sound like knockoffs, and if they don't, the average fan (normally the only audience for "fan" projects) doesn't have anything advertising to them that it's an homage. If I miss a cool Slashdot story, I have a 4 or 5 day window for another editor to repost it, and then I'll never look past the front page again. Without word of mouth, and I mean serious buzz, the chance for a fan project of this scale to also afford and benefit from real advertising (also drawing more attention from IP holders) and gain momentum diminishes towards zero.
As a contractor it works out pretty well. Quote a month, finish in a week, show the client normal milestones. Wait for feedback, rinse-repeat. Let the client be the one that pushes deadlines. There's no shame in being efficient, just don't lie and say you're tracking by the hour when you're really invoicing your quoted total to accomplish a project. Good clients are happy to pay exactly what they expect to pay. Hourly comes with maintenance.:)
Because you're paranoid, didn't RTFA, and you don't understand the concept of not-for-profit. Library associations don't possess or provide access to this content, and they don't charge anyone anything (other than institutional membership fees), even if it "came down to it". They have the power to lobby, which is exactly what they're doing here.
Associations a library chooses to belong to have no control over setting cost of services. If that was the case, costs would be uniform, and they're not. That is for Directors, Deans, and Boards of each institution, and most every publicly funded institution has a mandate to provide as much as possible for free. If you don't like the fees one library may be charging you to fulfill a request, try another library. If that one is outside your "tax" region, check if they have a partnership with your local institutions to access the information for free. Odds are you'll only need to show your current library card.
Slashdot Mirror
Even if your intent is just to fill the much smaller divots in the glass, 30 molecules thick isn't going to make much difference.
I think Trojan might disagree with that.
Going off on a tangent, I know, but exactly how flexible is that material? Lots of people have latex allergies. And if we leave the term "glass" off the packaging it could be appealing as an all-natural solution.
I agree, however Apple has a long history of breaking compatiblity to force you to upgrade to a new product.
You are quite correct, however I would argue that many of Windows biggest shortcomings over the years relate to the push for backwards compatibility. DOS mode, the registry, DLLs... Supporting poor software begets poor software. It even carried over into Microsoft Games division where the 100 member friend-list restriction is retained to this day to support Halo 2 players, years after an original Xbox can no longer be purchased. Somebody hard-coded, because who could imagine a need for more? 640k, etc. etc. They refuse to cut the cord because those are still paying customers.
In principle, Microsoft is willing to sacrifice the satisfaction of new customers to maintain status quo momentum and revenue, and Apple is willing to sacrifice old customers to pull in new adopters with a better made product. Given their respective market shares ten years ago compared to now, I can't blame either of them. They are successful in different ways.
It's a meta search engine that focusses on privacy by not logging your IP address and your searches.
I don't feel that the deliberate absence of something makes it a focus, even if it happens to be contrary to the norm. "Come to my website, it doesn't care who you are and just displays funny 404 screens based on buttons you click. We support your privacy."
It's not as if logging IP addresses and searches is mandatory. It has to be coded in. There are aspects of that data that can improve how a search engine works. The rest is either user convenience or marketing data.
In Soviet Russia, Google bugs bug you!
Why would I want to store a video in my MP3 file instead of as its own video file?
Yo dawg, we heard you like music videos, so we put video in your music so you can watch while you listen!
Basically it sounds like a multimedia PDF. How novel.
Maybe they can embed novels in audiobooks too.
The summary could just as easily be titled:
Sound Barrier To Break Skydiver During Free-Fall.
It seems like there's some kind of insightful point to be made here, but I'm not sure what it is.
It's what scientists have been saying for decades (likely longer, but I tend to mark splitting the atom as a key event in science philosophy.)
_______ itself is not inherently bad, but by human ingenuity it can always be used to an end that is seen as bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudest_band_in_the_world
also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Area_(fictional_band)#Hotblack_Desiato
Interesting that TFA doesn't mention decibel levels. Can sound and shockwaves be mutually exclusive (inside atmosphere)?
Summary gives the impression that MP4 and M4V are different (or platform-flavoured), but I have no trouble with renaming them back and forth.
M4V is iTunes-friendly, certainly. But that's a file association that can be tweaked in a few clicks.
V is just shorthand for video to clarify what the content inside the container is. A for audio, B for bookmarked audio, R for ringtones, etc. Apple is doing the same thing that Microsoft is doing with ASF, WMA and WMV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14#.MP4_versus_.M4A_file_extensions
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284094
"WHY ARE THESE MINES EVEN HERE???"
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138
The most intriguing thing about that article is the Brookings expert they interviewed, "Bates Gill". ISYN.
Agreed. My question is how can there be a sweeping laser without having screen flicker? Especially with a mechanical mirror in the mix.
I thought we were done with headache inducing refresh rates? Hopefully the frequency noise is avoided.
Is the main difference between laser and cathode ray in the use of magnetism vs. mirrors? That would mean the laser beam generators can be snugly parallel to the screen and then reflected? TFA is more like an entertainment piece, so more info on the comparative tech is appreciated.
Gee, remember when short domains were cool? And ones that spell themselves? Not no more.
Is @aol.com worse than @compuserve.com? Is it the age of the service we're supposed to be discriminating against, or just the fact they're the ISP that launched a thousand-thousand newbies? I'd hate to hate for the wrong reasons.....
Years ago many of my classmates decided to switch e-mails at the end of school for resume purposes. Usually from hotmail to yahoo, and some are using gmail more nowadays. The concern with hotmail was less about brand recognition and more about spam recognition. Worries that hotmail addresses were more likely to be filtered by the employer, and more likely for a job offer to end up in the Junk folder. Yahoo isn't exactly more professional, they just figured it was more reliable, and I expect employers did too.
I do like the idea of not needing an explanatory tool like "Dark Energy" ... that has always bothered me. Far more than "Dark Matter".
I always took "Dark ____" to mean unexplained. The here be dragons of universal physics. Having a lump of the stuff in a petri dish or beamline would probably result in a mundane yet technically precise name. But then we'd be off in search of the next dragon.
Good contextual links are fine. (Hypertext FTW.) More sources are better to avoid the appearance of blog spam. ;)
What I think we might all appreciate is a handy box below the story quote that says "TFA: [full URI]" . Then at least the story submitter has to choose the most relevant one, and we all know which one not to read before commenting.
The margins on PCs are ridiculously thin.
That's why manufacturers have resorted to bundling crapware, and now apparently retailers as well.
Very true, but I think the greed of all parties (including the crapware developers) plays a stronger part than survival. It's not as if they weren't aware the industry has thin margins. One problem is, if a piece of technology functions well and does everything you need, there is no further consumption until a need arises.
There are thin margins on groceries/produce. It's made up for by sheer quantity because food is a rapid consumable. I think computer quantities are doing pretty good these days despite the cost, and relative longevity. Apple certainly doesn't have a problem with increasing their margins and factoring planned obsolescence. A lot of people find that objectionable, but I can't even use up a whole hand counting the amount of Mac crapware I've been subjected to.
And unsold groceries, like unsold computers, lose their value over time ("shrink"), and can be sold cheaper to avoid 100% loss.
Unless you only buy bagged produce (off the shelf computers), you can choose the best of what's available, piece by piece.
Hmm, time for lunch I think...
Does this mean my stagnant Folding queue could be out of date?
^^ BTW, sorry if my joke made no Cents. I'm just a two-bit pundit.
I prefer the pronunciation "widdy"
I'm assuming it would have a 802.11/G-unit.
Any chance this firmware update is first in an ongoing ploy to keep the encryption methods overhauled?
Promising to increase size and compatibility, even when the majority of people won't benefit from it, is a pretty big carrot to get Joe Consumer to flash an entertainment device. These days even my grandparents understand that having a higher version number means something good.
Waiting for the "oh sorry, your player is not compatible with this update, here's a $50 coupon towards a new one (.*.that won't read burned discs.*.)" message.
I actually did one of those comments a few days ago. There wasn't a better way to do a particular piece of code, so I put the comment in "// This is ugly, but there isn't a better way to do it.". It's a note to myself and future developers not to bother trying to fix an insignificant ugly piece.
I don't wish to be abrasive, but you're basically saying because it's beyond your grasp, it's a lost cause? What if another programmer comes and rewrites the code in a "better" language for the task?
Sometimes things are overcommented, like the default Apache httpd.conf. I've been known to clean up such files with "mv filename filename.orig | cat filename.orig | grep -v ^# > filename", just to shorten it down to something reasonable that can be read. If you're familiar with the Apache httpd.conf, there's no need for all those comments. But, if someone needs to reference them, they're in the httpd.conf.orig.
You've just contradicted yourself. It's overcommented in case someone, like a web developer switching from IIS to Apache, needs to reference it. What you've been known to do is something that I've known almost every coder to do. Strip comments from production code, and leave them in the debug. .orig copy, and having to spend more than 4 seconds to restore a working version if it breaks the server.
Apache isn't providing bloated files, they're saving thousands of people from forgetting to make their own
I'm not sure why Nintendo would want to do this - it's only a negative for them, spreading all this ill will.
Define all. I think it's a bummer for the creators, but in no way whatsoever will this impact my Nintendo purchasing habits. Whatsoever. This is the first time I've even heard of the project, and if I never see it I doubt my life will be lacking for it.
Nintendo primarily sells interactive products, so a noninteractive fan film would not be in direct competition with well, anything they sell. That is, unless they decide to develop a full length Zelda film. Remember how well Super Mario Bros. turned out?
Stronger arguments than this used to be made for the case of sharing ROMs without owning the carts, and morally justifying retro game piracy. Then the Wii came out and virtually every mainstream title Nintendo has published is, or will be on their Virtual Console service. Point being, you have utterly no idea what they could be planning to profit from. It's commonly known as having All Rights Reserved.
They're making a derivative of someone else's "art". If it's really artistry, then it seems to me that they could have been more original than that.
The Quest of Tilda: Lank's Journey.
Trouble with knockoffs is they sound like knockoffs, and if they don't, the average fan (normally the only audience for "fan" projects) doesn't have anything advertising to them that it's an homage.
If I miss a cool Slashdot story, I have a 4 or 5 day window for another editor to repost it, and then I'll never look past the front page again. Without word of mouth, and I mean serious buzz, the chance for a fan project of this scale to also afford and benefit from real advertising (also drawing more attention from IP holders) and gain momentum diminishes towards zero.
As a contractor it works out pretty well. Quote a month, finish in a week, show the client normal milestones. Wait for feedback, rinse-repeat. Let the client be the one that pushes deadlines. :)
There's no shame in being efficient, just don't lie and say you're tracking by the hour when you're really invoicing your quoted total to accomplish a project. Good clients are happy to pay exactly what they expect to pay. Hourly comes with maintenance.
Because you're paranoid, didn't RTFA, and you don't understand the concept of not-for-profit. Library associations don't possess or provide access to this content, and they don't charge anyone anything (other than institutional membership fees), even if it "came down to it". They have the power to lobby, which is exactly what they're doing here.
Associations a library chooses to belong to have no control over setting cost of services. If that was the case, costs would be uniform, and they're not. That is for Directors, Deans, and Boards of each institution, and most every publicly funded institution has a mandate to provide as much as possible for free. If you don't like the fees one library may be charging you to fulfill a request, try another library. If that one is outside your "tax" region, check if they have a partnership with your local institutions to access the information for free. Odds are you'll only need to show your current library card.
You do have one, right?