I think you use those ratios more simply because they are easier to use, not because they are better. The rest of the world uses other ratios that are simple to calculate and measure in metric for the very same reason, and that is also why recipes differ a little - noone wants to measure 2.366 dl (1 cup) so they write 2.5 dl instead. If a recipe was converted from metric to imperial the very same thing would happen.
Original: a "revolutionary mobile phone" (actually just what Jobs said, not a slogan)
3G: Twice the speed, half the price.
3GS: The most powerful iPhone yet.
4: This changes everything. Again.
Based on this we extrapolate a few plausible slogans:
5: This changes everything. Again. Again.
5: Twice the cores, twice the price.
5: We don't even need a slogan, you will buy it anyway.
5: Obsolete in three weeks!
5: Three hundred ways to hold it, and they all drop calls!
I haven't tried a Win7 phone (heck, I've never even seen one), but I do think MS might be able to push it enough to become a success. Reviews have generally been quite positive, and if they can use their market share from Windows and XBox and create some kind of easy porting method it might become at least a moderate success. It will probably take a couple of years before the platform can actually compete though, if that ever happens.
I've done it as well, without a problem. However, I think it's easy to damage the microwave if you keep it running for too long, since the CD doesn't contain a whole lot of water that can absorb the energy. Wikipedia has a section explaining it:
"Another hazard is the resonance of the magnetron tube itself. If the microwave is run without an object to absorb the radiation, a standing wave will form. The energy is reflected back and forth between the tube and the cooking chamber. This may cause the tube to 'cook' itself and burn out. Thus dehydrated food, or food wrapped in metal which does not arc, is problematic without being an obvious fire hazard."
This is an excellent idea! However, today's touch screens aren't even close to sensitive enough to recognize a fingerprint... It would probably be possible if you wore gloves with differently shaped pointers, but that isn't exactly smooth. On capacitative screens I can imagine using different parts of the finger though, like finger/nail to simulate left/right clicks respectively though.
What you are missing is that an internet connection is generally shared by everyone in the apartment/building, i.e. the whole family. Split those movies and tv series on four-six persons and it doesn't seem overkill at all.
I don't know about encourage, but the market for them would be extremely niche if it wasn't for piracy. In general, streaming services (even HD) works great on a 10 Mbit/s connection.
However, P2P isn't used exclusively for piracy. Spotify, for example, serve the majority of their music either via the local cache or P2P, and only a fraction is actually streamed from their servers. I don't know about the video streaming services out there, but if they would start using P2P like Spotify does these connection speeds could very well get a widespread legitimate use.
Apparently some others pointed out it's supposed to be GB while I was writing, so my point is moot. 250 GB is much more humane, although having it would still feel like buying an awesome sports car (sorry about the car reference) but not having any money left to buy fuel.
250 Gbit = 256 000 Mbit
256 000 Mbit / 105 = 2438 seconds, or roughly 40 minutes using the full bandwidth. Who would pay $105 for 40 minutes of internet usage!?
Not to mention that 250 Gbit is 31.25 GB, or roughly a single movie in blu-ray quality a month. I used much more than that, even when my connection speed was considerably slower than this, not counting downloads. I really hope Kevin meant GB rather than Gbit...
I definitely agree that all sysadmins should know their way around shell scripting for situations like these, but I really don't see why they can't write the majority of their scripts in scripting languages which will be written much faster. Doing everything with shell scripts is kind of like developing all applications in plain C or even assembler, rather than whatever higher level language (where you can develop the same application some orders of magnitude faster) strikes your fancy.
Also, as others have pointed out, many of these scripting languages are very widespread nowadays.
Indeed, a more correct version would be: only copy stuff that belongs to someone who can't afford as many lawyers as you. Or maybe: the company that has the most lawyers can get away with anything.
This could also be applied to other areas, for example: the country with the most powerful military can get away with anything. *hides*
This. If a game has terrible DRM I simply pirate it (or ignore it completely), I wouldn't support the game maker even if the game was awesome. This game isn't for me anyway, but if Ubisoft hadn't messed AC2 up completely I would definitely have bought it.
Seeing that Ubisoft dropped a lot of the DRM in AC3 it seems like they at least get the message.
An opinion piece at Rock, Paper, Shotgun questions whether the way we classify music limits creativity and innovation in the music industry. "If the next Britney Spears album introduced dramatically different themes, there would be uproar. Sure, set it on the moon, but make sure I never need to hear something that sounds different, or I’ll swear at you on the internet." The author suggests that the creators' willingness to break with established themes and blend together different music genres may in part be attributable to new distribution channels. "There's huge risk to blurring. It makes the music more difficult to market, it defies customers’ expectations, and it requires educating the public. It’s safe to make yet another Lady Gaga clone, because we all know them and what they do. And they're what we want! But like the child who's never tried a new food, refusing to eat it because it's different leads to a very limited and dull palate."
The iPhone 5 will probably be coming with a new revolutionary display with an amazing 25.4 dpi - and since Steve Jobs (and Slashdot!) says humans can't see the pixels, I doubt anyone buying it will.
Anything that gives anyone motivation to perform some kind of exercise is good. This is one idea, achievements is another. Geocaching provides a good system for achievements for physical activity, and nerds often find themselves enjoying it (in my experience anyway. I was introduced by a nerd, have introduced several nerds and met a whole lot of nerds doing it.). A third is AR-based games. The "time gain" that general relativity supposedly gives is just as good a carrot as anything else - the real gain is health.
At my university it's customary to spend a lot of time sorting the freshmen based on various parameters, and with various sorting algorithms. I recall using bubble sort, multithreaded bubblesort (when the sequential bubble sort turned out to be too slow) as well as multithreaded quicksort. I don't think we managed to look as stupid as those guys, but we were admittedly pretty close.
I suspect that USA, after losing the race to the moon since they lost the interest after getting into space, would have went for something else. Such as creating a zombie virus. Maybe then the zombie apocalypse could have happened and my shotgun/crowbar combo wouldn't just be gathering dust on my wall.
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I think you use those ratios more simply because they are easier to use, not because they are better. The rest of the world uses other ratios that are simple to calculate and measure in metric for the very same reason, and that is also why recipes differ a little - noone wants to measure 2.366 dl (1 cup) so they write 2.5 dl instead. If a recipe was converted from metric to imperial the very same thing would happen.
iPhone slogans:
Original: a "revolutionary mobile phone" (actually just what Jobs said, not a slogan)
3G: Twice the speed, half the price.
3GS: The most powerful iPhone yet.
4: This changes everything. Again.
Based on this we extrapolate a few plausible slogans:
5: This changes everything. Again. Again.
5: Twice the cores, twice the price.
5: We don't even need a slogan, you will buy it anyway.
5: Obsolete in three weeks!
5: Three hundred ways to hold it, and they all drop calls!
I haven't tried a Win7 phone (heck, I've never even seen one), but I do think MS might be able to push it enough to become a success. Reviews have generally been quite positive, and if they can use their market share from Windows and XBox and create some kind of easy porting method it might become at least a moderate success. It will probably take a couple of years before the platform can actually compete though, if that ever happens.
Never mind, thought the metal would only arc for a few seconds, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I've done it as well, without a problem. However, I think it's easy to damage the microwave if you keep it running for too long, since the CD doesn't contain a whole lot of water that can absorb the energy. Wikipedia has a section explaining it:
"Another hazard is the resonance of the magnetron tube itself. If the microwave is run without an object to absorb the radiation, a standing wave will form. The energy is reflected back and forth between the tube and the cooking chamber. This may cause the tube to 'cook' itself and burn out. Thus dehydrated food, or food wrapped in metal which does not arc, is problematic without being an obvious fire hazard."
It's very easy to damage the microwave when doing so. Fire works, but it doesn't look even close to as cool as this.
This is an excellent idea! However, today's touch screens aren't even close to sensitive enough to recognize a fingerprint... It would probably be possible if you wore gloves with differently shaped pointers, but that isn't exactly smooth. On capacitative screens I can imagine using different parts of the finger though, like finger/nail to simulate left/right clicks respectively though.
What you are missing is that an internet connection is generally shared by everyone in the apartment/building, i.e. the whole family. Split those movies and tv series on four-six persons and it doesn't seem overkill at all.
I would say that the group of people who need 105Mbps probably has a rather large overlap with the 0.1% who needs more than 250GB/month...
I don't know about encourage, but the market for them would be extremely niche if it wasn't for piracy. In general, streaming services (even HD) works great on a 10 Mbit/s connection.
However, P2P isn't used exclusively for piracy. Spotify, for example, serve the majority of their music either via the local cache or P2P, and only a fraction is actually streamed from their servers. I don't know about the video streaming services out there, but if they would start using P2P like Spotify does these connection speeds could very well get a widespread legitimate use.
Apparently some others pointed out it's supposed to be GB while I was writing, so my point is moot. 250 GB is much more humane, although having it would still feel like buying an awesome sports car (sorry about the car reference) but not having any money left to buy fuel.
250 Gbit = 256 000 Mbit
256 000 Mbit / 105 = 2438 seconds, or roughly 40 minutes using the full bandwidth. Who would pay $105 for 40 minutes of internet usage!?
Not to mention that 250 Gbit is 31.25 GB, or roughly a single movie in blu-ray quality a month. I used much more than that, even when my connection speed was considerably slower than this, not counting downloads. I really hope Kevin meant GB rather than Gbit...
I definitely agree that all sysadmins should know their way around shell scripting for situations like these, but I really don't see why they can't write the majority of their scripts in scripting languages which will be written much faster. Doing everything with shell scripts is kind of like developing all applications in plain C or even assembler, rather than whatever higher level language (where you can develop the same application some orders of magnitude faster) strikes your fancy.
Also, as others have pointed out, many of these scripting languages are very widespread nowadays.
Indeed, a more correct version would be: only copy stuff that belongs to someone who can't afford as many lawyers as you. Or maybe: the company that has the most lawyers can get away with anything.
This could also be applied to other areas, for example: the country with the most powerful military can get away with anything. *hides*
A few hours ago we got news about Safari implementing the Do Not Track option, and now we get a this, enforcing tracking for all US citizens.
This. If a game has terrible DRM I simply pirate it (or ignore it completely), I wouldn't support the game maker even if the game was awesome. This game isn't for me anyway, but if Ubisoft hadn't messed AC2 up completely I would definitely have bought it.
Seeing that Ubisoft dropped a lot of the DRM in AC3 it seems like they at least get the message.
I've never heard of Ceglia before, but all of a sudden the newspapers seem to be filled with rumors about him being a rapist. Hmmm...
If only I had mod points... That really made my day!
This. I really don't want to know how many times I've had to do terribly ugly workarounds because of it.
An opinion piece at Rock, Paper, Shotgun questions whether the way we classify music limits creativity and innovation in the music industry. "If the next Britney Spears album introduced dramatically different themes, there would be uproar. Sure, set it on the moon, but make sure I never need to hear something that sounds different, or I’ll swear at you on the internet." The author suggests that the creators' willingness to break with established themes and blend together different music genres may in part be attributable to new distribution channels. "There's huge risk to blurring. It makes the music more difficult to market, it defies customers’ expectations, and it requires educating the public. It’s safe to make yet another Lady Gaga clone, because we all know them and what they do. And they're what we want! But like the child who's never tried a new food, refusing to eat it because it's different leads to a very limited and dull palate."
The iPhone 5 will probably be coming with a new revolutionary display with an amazing 25.4 dpi - and since Steve Jobs (and Slashdot!) says humans can't see the pixels, I doubt anyone buying it will.
Anything that gives anyone motivation to perform some kind of exercise is good. This is one idea, achievements is another. Geocaching provides a good system for achievements for physical activity, and nerds often find themselves enjoying it (in my experience anyway. I was introduced by a nerd, have introduced several nerds and met a whole lot of nerds doing it.). A third is AR-based games. The "time gain" that general relativity supposedly gives is just as good a carrot as anything else - the real gain is health.
At my university it's customary to spend a lot of time sorting the freshmen based on various parameters, and with various sorting algorithms. I recall using bubble sort, multithreaded bubblesort (when the sequential bubble sort turned out to be too slow) as well as multithreaded quicksort. I don't think we managed to look as stupid as those guys, but we were admittedly pretty close.
So, would these shoes be sole-ar powered?
That one made me laugh, thanks kafka93 (ten years later)!
I suspect that USA, after losing the race to the moon since they lost the interest after getting into space, would have went for something else. Such as creating a zombie virus. Maybe then the zombie apocalypse could have happened and my shotgun/crowbar combo wouldn't just be gathering dust on my wall.