This is not about the word app -- it's about the phrase App Store (or appstore, or any permutation involving spaces between the two words and capitalization).
This is not the first time a company has trademarked or otherwise branded a simple phrase. What if Budweiser used, "Good to the last drop" as their motto (it's Maxwell House's motto)?
Personally, I do think Apple's being pretty juvenile, but they were the first ones to use the phrase App Store with real success.
And powerful and slow, if it's not too much to ask.
I know this was a humorous comment, but (at least by my definitions) slow and powerful aren't mutually exclusive. Running, say, PostgreSQL on a 486 is a very powerful tool -- but it might be painfully slow. Actually, I'd be curious to see the difference in speed between a modern computer running Excel and a 486 running PostgreSQL/MySQL working on a dataset of a million rows / dozen columns or so. Apples and oranges, but still...
Of course, if you use a definition of "power" as "stuff per unit time," ("stuff" = "energy" for the standard definition, "computation ability" in this example), then powerful and slow do seem to be antonyms (assuming we agree on the definition of slow...).
And just because there's an abundance of software engineers here doesn't mean that there's an abundance of good software engineers. A solid CS major should have no trouble finding work here, with a 5.8+ figure* salary.
* I use (log10(salary) + 1) to calculate the number of figures in a salary...let me know if there's a better way.
Statistics, confidence and methods. A scientist will say, "my data shows X, on equipment with a noise floor of Y, an associated confidence of Z, etc." A newspaper or blog might say, "Scientists prove X!"
Read the original paper. Read the citations. Read the tech specs on the telescopes / equipment. Then make up your mind -- that's the beauty of science. If you read the original paper, saw that they were using suspect data and called foul, then you could probably bring about some scientific progress.
There is a difference between a measurement error, and being completely wrong.
But what if the two are the same thing? If you have poor spatial resolution and a lousy spectrometer (like our eyes), then you may very well look at a binary system and say, "look, there's a solitary star." Would I be justified in pointing and laughing at you for being wrong, and claiming that anything you say is as suspect as the FSM cosmology because you failed to identify a ball of fusion hundreds of thousands of times the size of Earth?
The point is, very small measurement errors can lead to remarkably different conclusions. And, in proper scientific writing, you should be able to read up on the methods used for obtaining every fact in the paper.
Sort of -- a segfault in legitimate software is not unheard of. Is that really the users fault?
Which brings up an interesting point (others -- care to weight in?): if/when you yell "at your computer," are you yelling at your computer, or a particular piece of software / hardware? I curse at things all the time -- shoddy wifi drivers / grub misbehaving (that's a fun one...) / databases / etc., but I'm very clear that I'm not yelling at my computer per se (or I may curse at a stuck key, lousy ethernet cable, etc.). I see this as very different than yelling at your computer -- kinda a "don't kill the messenger" thing.
Actually, according to the summary, it's not Hulu and Netflix that cause the problem -- it's interactivity which is to blame (video games, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
Formula 1 is seen as the apogee of engineering excellence and automotive power.
F1 may be the pinnacle of engineering excellence (though Le Mans racers may give 'em a run for the their money...?), but in terms of raw "automotive power," NHRA Top Fuel has F1 beat by an order of magnitude (F1 ~ 1k bhp, Top Fuel ~ 10k bhp).
True, a dragster may not be able to run for more than a few seconds without blowing up, but that's beside the point...
The code they use for navigation actually runs on Linux.
And they plan to open source it! and hardware design too!
(They use 8 cameras and few dozens of sensors)
When I applied to grad school, I believe they explicitly gave me the option to waive what I can only assume were my FERPA rights with regards to letters of rec (that is, I waived my right to read the letters). Giving someone the option to waive rights (as opposed to just taking them away...) -- what a concept! (I did, of course, waive that right, as it seemed a good-faith thing to do...seemed to work, at any rate.)
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This is not about the word app -- it's about the phrase App Store (or appstore, or any permutation involving spaces between the two words and capitalization).
Modifying your own query, we get zero results for "app store" in the given date range, but 18,000+ results if we're not date-restricted.
This is not the first time a company has trademarked or otherwise branded a simple phrase. What if Budweiser used, "Good to the last drop" as their motto (it's Maxwell House's motto)?
Personally, I do think Apple's being pretty juvenile, but they were the first ones to use the phrase App Store with real success.
And powerful and slow, if it's not too much to ask.
I know this was a humorous comment, but (at least by my definitions) slow and powerful aren't mutually exclusive. Running, say, PostgreSQL on a 486 is a very powerful tool -- but it might be painfully slow. Actually, I'd be curious to see the difference in speed between a modern computer running Excel and a 486 running PostgreSQL/MySQL working on a dataset of a million rows / dozen columns or so. Apples and oranges, but still...
Of course, if you use a definition of "power" as "stuff per unit time," ("stuff" = "energy" for the standard definition, "computation ability" in this example), then powerful and slow do seem to be antonyms (assuming we agree on the definition of slow...).
Same where I'm from (Silicon Valley).
And just because there's an abundance of software engineers here doesn't mean that there's an abundance of good software engineers. A solid CS major should have no trouble finding work here, with a 5.8+ figure* salary.
* I use (log10(salary) + 1) to calculate the number of figures in a salary...let me know if there's a better way.
...likely being confused by words with x's like "influx" and trying to play along to make themselves feel less like a fucking retard
So that's why there's so much kerfuffle around the XXX TLD...
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Since when did speed become the only thing to affect the immersion of a game?
Seriously -- I find acid much more effective.
Statistics, confidence and methods. A scientist will say, "my data shows X, on equipment with a noise floor of Y, an associated confidence of Z, etc." A newspaper or blog might say, "Scientists prove X!"
Read the original paper. Read the citations. Read the tech specs on the telescopes / equipment. Then make up your mind -- that's the beauty of science. If you read the original paper, saw that they were using suspect data and called foul, then you could probably bring about some scientific progress.
There is a difference between a measurement error, and being completely wrong.
But what if the two are the same thing? If you have poor spatial resolution and a lousy spectrometer (like our eyes), then you may very well look at a binary system and say, "look, there's a solitary star." Would I be justified in pointing and laughing at you for being wrong, and claiming that anything you say is as suspect as the FSM cosmology because you failed to identify a ball of fusion hundreds of thousands of times the size of Earth?
The point is, very small measurement errors can lead to remarkably different conclusions. And, in proper scientific writing, you should be able to read up on the methods used for obtaining every fact in the paper.
Sort of -- a segfault in legitimate software is not unheard of. Is that really the users fault?
Which brings up an interesting point (others -- care to weight in?): if/when you yell "at your computer," are you yelling at your computer, or a particular piece of software / hardware? I curse at things all the time -- shoddy wifi drivers / grub misbehaving (that's a fun one...) / databases / etc., but I'm very clear that I'm not yelling at my computer per se (or I may curse at a stuck key, lousy ethernet cable, etc.). I see this as very different than yelling at your computer -- kinda a "don't kill the messenger" thing.
Anyone else?
Actually, according to the summary, it's not Hulu and Netflix that cause the problem -- it's interactivity which is to blame (video games, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
It would be pretty snazzy to fire a gun from the car at such an angle that you end up running into the bullet from behind (at a slow relative speed).
Formula 1 is seen as the apogee of engineering excellence and automotive power.
F1 may be the pinnacle of engineering excellence (though Le Mans racers may give 'em a run for the their money...?), but in terms of raw "automotive power," NHRA Top Fuel has F1 beat by an order of magnitude (F1 ~ 1k bhp, Top Fuel ~ 10k bhp).
True, a dragster may not be able to run for more than a few seconds without blowing up, but that's beside the point...
To the -1 Troll mod -- I was merely pointing out that the link was a goatse redirect (as I lacked mod points to mod parent down).
Sheesh...
The code they use for navigation actually runs on Linux. And they plan to open source it! and hardware design too! (They use 8 cameras and few dozens of sensors)
$ wget http://goo.gl/zjJOI -O /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -i goatse
Location: http://goatse.ru/ [following]
--2011-03-04 19:55:36-- http://goatse.ru/
Resolving goatse.ru... 78.47.200.67
Connecting to goatse.ru|78.47.200.67|:80... connected.
Mine is Howey the Howitzer. She's not the slimmest of gals...
Plus, according to inception the whole thing would end up running faster.
Yeah, but if it crashes, you die...
Well, if you put Chuck Norris on a bicycle, then the only difference is the number of wheels...
...or 9.8 meters per second the "force" of gravity.
Or think gravity is, dimensionally, a velocity...
When I applied to grad school, I believe they explicitly gave me the option to waive what I can only assume were my FERPA rights with regards to letters of rec (that is, I waived my right to read the letters). Giving someone the option to waive rights (as opposed to just taking them away...) -- what a concept! (I did, of course, waive that right, as it seemed a good-faith thing to do...seemed to work, at any rate.)
There was an article on Slashdot a while back about a clever project to track your browser regardless of cookie settings / IP address. Neat stuff.
that my username won't betray me...
Clouds actually do NOT contribute. Having a high albedo, they reflect a lot of incoming sunlight back into space.
Am I the only one who often misreads/mispronounces "albedo" as "libido"?
I guess that could send the wrong message to friends when you're sitting outside staring at the moon and commenting on its reflectivity...
You say that now, but when the Sony brand fully-functional female androids start walking off the production line...
Fuck Sony.
I think your two words (plus Insightful moderation) just 'bout sums up everything.