I know I don't speak for the world but I totally don't get the idea of "we'll get the message to them, somehow." I want to control the "somehow." If it's a short message that warrants interrupting whatever they're doing, I'll text. If I'm already sitting in front of a computer and a longer conversation is required, I'll IM. If it's more detailed and/or not time sensitive, I'll email, and furthermore, depending on what it is, I'll send it to their home address or their work address. Sometimes I want a conversation, sometimes I want a monologue. Not all mediums are equally good at or suitable for all types of communication.
Not every message requires an immediate response. Some messages very much don't need an immediate response. If I'm emailing someone and want them to look at something complex online, the last thing I want to do is have them get the message right this second while they're in the grocery store. I do, however, want to send it now because that's what I'm doing. If I'm on IM with someone and they're going to step away from their computer and start driving a car I very much do not want the conversation transparently shifting to SMS.
And finally, one-size-fits-all messaging becomes even less desirable as you move across time zones. It's bad enough that I work with people in another time zone and they always want to schedule "mid-morning" meetings that are actually in the middle of my lunch. I don't want my work or my friends following me everywhere I go. My life is cut up into chunks: work time, family time, friend time, me time. I like being able to enforce a little solitude and cut off any arbitrary group at any arbitrary time just based on where I am and what devices I'm near.
Oops, typo. The number '72' came from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and the punctuation above 0-9. If you count the other punctuation on a standard keyboard the number goes up to 94, and depending on the app you might be able to use things like é and ñ which would really raise the character count.
"Using the CUDA-Multiforce, I was able to crack all hashes from this file with a password length from 1-6 in only 49 Minutes..." [emphasis mine]
Sounds like someone missed the day they taught exponents in school.
Pretend he only tested 72 characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9. Going from 6 to 8 characters would make this take 5,184x longer. (72x72). 49 minutes x 5184 = about SIX MONTHS.
I was amused at how the ending of TS3 was received by the audience. Every adult in the theater was crying, every kid (my 4 year old included) was smiling because (to them) it was a happy thing that was happening.
Chargers are just one more thing that manufacturers WANT to be different. If they're all the same, they'll become cheap commodities and manufacturers can't charge out the ass for them. Did you not notice that for two decades laptops haven't had interchangeable power supplies?
At least Apple has internally stabilized. In the last ten years they've only had two kinds of chargers, and MagSafe is a definite improvement over the old style, not just change for change's sake.
Wikipedia: "Kinect is based on software technology developed internally by Microsoft and range camera technology by Israeli developer PrimeSense, which interprets 3D scene information from a continuously-projected infrared pattern." So, half credit. Maybe 1/3 credit--the Wii came out a year earlier, so the first steps of "control a game with body motion" were already in place. "Jumping on the bandwagon a year later" doesn't really count as "innovation" in my book. Plus there have been webcam-based games that come with cheap laptops for years. All it is, really, is a nice refinement of the idea.
Sure, I'll give them that, though I don't think it's a really big deal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering -- "Originally invented by IBM in 1988..."
Are you fucking kidding me? MS got Halo by buying Bungie outright AFTER Halo had already been developed.
Windows and Office are major, Server is a rather distant third (judging by history, it looks like the the top of the purple part is mistakenly cut off at the end), online services are a loss, and "entertainment and devices" is a small positive (at the moment.)
I'd like to point out, as politely as possible, that Time Machine on OS X works pretty damn well too, and it's included. I've swapped drives, swapped whole computers, and moved from 10.5 to 10.6 and Time Machine just freaking works*. You can move the entire OS along with all apps and settings or you can move individual user folders.
* as much as anything made by humans does. But I've only had one glitch, and it was a minor one, and easily fixed.
No, the entire point of Twitter is to communicate to whoever the hell you want to. Most of the people I know in real life that use Twitter have their accounts set to totally private and have only a handful of friends and family as followers.
Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children's slide and eating Mexican food, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.
If anything, I'd expect Ballmer to have two twitter accounts, one public, one private. Or else I'd expect MS to release a clone of Twitter and he'd use that.
It's funny. No matter what I search for, if I'm searching Google Images with Safe Search off, there's porn. And not even "Rule 34: if it exists, there's porn of it" stuff--just totally random porn that has nothing to do with my search. It's like Google is saying "I don't care what you're doing, wouldn't you rather be looking at porn?"
And the answer, of course, is usually "Um, sure, OK." And then there goes two hours.
/etc/hosts and FlashBlock are all I need. Plenty of ads get through, but very few that bother me. And I don't feel like going into detail but I just prefer Safari to FF. There is no dispute concerning taste.
... you would have to get 3 DUIs per week for a YEAR to reach 1.5 million dollars. Clearly one person sharing music online is as big a danger to society as 150 drunks on the road.
Seriously, this is so out of whack. There is a reason punitive damages exist but this is like executing people for speeding. If Jamie earns--excuse me, NETS--$50k per year, this would take 30 years to pay off.
"Apple has given approval to an app developed by Skyfire that translates Flash code into HTML5."
NO IT DOES NOT. As others are pointing out, all this does is use a server to transcode Flash VIDEO and serve it to you. This will not do ANYTHING ELSE with Flash--it certainly DOES NOT "translate Flash code into HTML5 [code]". Better description here.
Also worth noting: "Hulu has also blocked Skyfire to guarantee that users who want to watch the streaming TV service on the iPad have to continue to pay $10 per month for Hulu Plus."
... from a company with a page like this. If I can't buy easily, directly from your site, I'm not going to buy. FFS, do you want to sell things or not? If so then set up a damn store somewhere--Yahoo, eBay, etsy, I don't care. But don't tell me "Here's a bunch of links to the front page of some resellers, start searching." At the very least, post a "suggested price" so I know if it's even worth the effort to pursue.
... as long as we replace it with logic and critical thinking. And finance. I don't care if someone can't do derivatives but everyone should understand the implications of credit card interest.
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Wrong. Here is just one of several solutions to stream video from a computer to an iPad.
"The Apple-1, which didn't include a casing, power supply, keyboard, or monitor..."
Also, it didn't run Flash.
Do all that and I'd still suck at it. And get motion sickness. ;-)
First we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin!
(Kick-ass song, btw.)
I know I don't speak for the world but I totally don't get the idea of "we'll get the message to them, somehow." I want to control the "somehow." If it's a short message that warrants interrupting whatever they're doing, I'll text. If I'm already sitting in front of a computer and a longer conversation is required, I'll IM. If it's more detailed and/or not time sensitive, I'll email, and furthermore, depending on what it is, I'll send it to their home address or their work address. Sometimes I want a conversation, sometimes I want a monologue. Not all mediums are equally good at or suitable for all types of communication.
Not every message requires an immediate response. Some messages very much don't need an immediate response. If I'm emailing someone and want them to look at something complex online, the last thing I want to do is have them get the message right this second while they're in the grocery store. I do, however, want to send it now because that's what I'm doing. If I'm on IM with someone and they're going to step away from their computer and start driving a car I very much do not want the conversation transparently shifting to SMS.
And finally, one-size-fits-all messaging becomes even less desirable as you move across time zones. It's bad enough that I work with people in another time zone and they always want to schedule "mid-morning" meetings that are actually in the middle of my lunch. I don't want my work or my friends following me everywhere I go. My life is cut up into chunks: work time, family time, friend time, me time. I like being able to enforce a little solitude and cut off any arbitrary group at any arbitrary time just based on where I am and what devices I'm near.
Oops, typo. The number '72' came from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and the punctuation above 0-9. If you count the other punctuation on a standard keyboard the number goes up to 94, and depending on the app you might be able to use things like é and ñ which would really raise the character count.
"Using the CUDA-Multiforce, I was able to crack all hashes from this file with a password length from 1-6 in only 49 Minutes..." [emphasis mine]
Sounds like someone missed the day they taught exponents in school.
Pretend he only tested 72 characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9. Going from 6 to 8 characters would make this take 5,184x longer. (72x72). 49 minutes x 5184 = about SIX MONTHS.
I was amused at how the ending of TS3 was received by the audience. Every adult in the theater was crying, every kid (my 4 year old included) was smiling because (to them) it was a happy thing that was happening.
"After downloading the update, there was a .doc file containing flashing instructions."
Am I the only one who thought the instructions were actually <blink>flashing</blink> the first time reading that?
Chargers are just one more thing that manufacturers WANT to be different. If they're all the same, they'll become cheap commodities and manufacturers can't charge out the ass for them. Did you not notice that for two decades laptops haven't had interchangeable power supplies?
At least Apple has internally stabilized. In the last ten years they've only had two kinds of chargers, and MagSafe is a definite improvement over the old style, not just change for change's sake.
Thanks for helping prove the GP's point.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-operating-income-by-division-2010-2
"Entertainment and devices" has been positive and negative over the years, shows as positive at the moment.
Here are some numbers not from someone's ass.
Windows and Office are major, Server is a rather distant third (judging by history, it looks like the the top of the purple part is mistakenly cut off at the end), online services are a loss, and "entertainment and devices" is a small positive (at the moment.)
And, for fun, here's a similar graph for Apple.
I'd like to point out, as politely as possible, that Time Machine on OS X works pretty damn well too, and it's included. I've swapped drives, swapped whole computers, and moved from 10.5 to 10.6 and Time Machine just freaking works*. You can move the entire OS along with all apps and settings or you can move individual user folders.
* as much as anything made by humans does. But I've only had one glitch, and it was a minor one, and easily fixed.
No, the entire point of Twitter is to communicate to whoever the hell you want to. Most of the people I know in real life that use Twitter have their accounts set to totally private and have only a handful of friends and family as followers.
Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children's slide and eating Mexican food, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.
(Text from Wikipedia, emphasis mine.)
If anything, I'd expect Ballmer to have two twitter accounts, one public, one private. Or else I'd expect MS to release a clone of Twitter and he'd use that.
It's funny. No matter what I search for, if I'm searching Google Images with Safe Search off, there's porn. And not even "Rule 34: if it exists, there's porn of it" stuff--just totally random porn that has nothing to do with my search. It's like Google is saying "I don't care what you're doing, wouldn't you rather be looking at porn?"
And the answer, of course, is usually "Um, sure, OK." And then there goes two hours.
Yeah, all they ever did was power two of the world's fastest supercomputers for a lot lower cost than anyone else that high on the list.
"System X was built at a fifth of the cost of the second-least expensive system in the top 10."
You can dig around for the original TOP500 numbers if you don't believe Hello^H^H^H^H^Apple.
/etc/hosts and FlashBlock are all I need. Plenty of ads get through, but very few that bother me. And I don't feel like going into detail but I just prefer Safari to FF. There is no dispute concerning taste.
... you would have to get 3 DUIs per week for a YEAR to reach 1.5 million dollars. Clearly one person sharing music online is as big a danger to society as 150 drunks on the road.
Seriously, this is so out of whack. There is a reason punitive damages exist but this is like executing people for speeding. If Jamie earns--excuse me, NETS--$50k per year, this would take 30 years to pay off.
"Apple has given approval to an app developed by Skyfire that translates Flash code into HTML5."
NO IT DOES NOT. As others are pointing out, all this does is use a server to transcode Flash VIDEO and serve it to you. This will not do ANYTHING ELSE with Flash--it certainly DOES NOT "translate Flash code into HTML5 [code]". Better description here.
Also worth noting: "Hulu has also blocked Skyfire to guarantee that users who want to watch the streaming TV service on the iPad have to continue to pay $10 per month for Hulu Plus."
... from a company with a page like this. If I can't buy easily, directly from your site, I'm not going to buy. FFS, do you want to sell things or not? If so then set up a damn store somewhere--Yahoo, eBay, etsy, I don't care. But don't tell me "Here's a bunch of links to the front page of some resellers, start searching." At the very least, post a "suggested price" so I know if it's even worth the effort to pursue.
you've got two years to fix everything starting... now.
... is hating 3D and having a spouse who loves it.
If you notice Google becoming less evil in the coming months, this will be why--they're all going to facebook. :-)
... as long as we replace it with logic and critical thinking. And finance. I don't care if someone can't do derivatives but everyone should understand the implications of credit card interest.