with my wife hating multitasking. She never closes a thing (tab, application, etc.) and invariably runs out of memory. Often, there are dozens of background processes. Her hard drive starts to thrash. Things grind to a halt. I get called.
I've tried to explain about things taking up memory, the problem of lots of background applications, the problem of never closing applications. She doesn't want to know what memory even IS. "Why is the computer so stupid," she wants to know, "that it can't figure out that I only care about what I'm working on RIGHT NOW?"
If you really loved your wife, you would rewrite the schedulers so they didn't get in her way.
Seriously though, I know its impossible to rip a few pennies out of taxpayers hands for anything short of an infant bleeding in the sidewalk, but SCIENCE IS IMPORTANT YOU IDIOTS
Look, i'm sorry that Bush inspired you to become a rocket scientist, but sending a meat sack to the moon isn't necessarily the most productive use of research funds.
It's an 18 minute speech. Those words are excerpted from the middle, after he had already praised several different rocket and satellite programs--the "other things". The pause wasn't really a rhetorical pause, so much as a pause for the applause to stop drowning out his words. (Or perhaps that's rhetorical artifice.)
The defense contractors already structure their contracts to ensure that a great many representatives have pieces of the pies. It's not as if a Boeing plane will be built in one factory in one state. No, the parts have to be sourced from dozens, if not hundreds of different suppliers, each strategically placed to earn that vote, and each suplier has an equal opportunity to drive those all important cost overruns.
My my my, those environmental problems just keep coming. An endless cycle of spotting problems, figuring out technical solutions, negotiating with the world governments to find a politically acceptable solutions, signing the treaty, solving the problem, and then getting back to business. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, when will it ever end?
Let's face, it, the only way to stop wasting time in endless bad faith negotiations is to form a decent one world government. Stop wasting time, and Immanentize the eschaton already!
HILDEBRAND Hi. I'm Andy Hildebrand, and I'm here with my good friend Paul Northfield, and we're here to discuss why this albums sounds the way it does. NORTHFIELD: What's so impressive about this album? I'd like to point out that this track is particularly loud. By keeping the basic beat at fairly steady -0.5 dbFS, we were able to achieve a dynamic punch heretofore unrealized in the industry. HILDEBRAND: One of the problems with singing that loudly, of course is that sometimes a singer's voice distorts. By applying a proprietary algorithm, we able to ensure that the distortion is minimal.
Does a kipferl taste like a properly made croissant (you know-- plenty of butter, lots of careful folding, ends up taking two days to make because that's how long it takes to rise in the refrigerator, etc...) or does it merely look crescent shaped? The crescent shape is the least of the croissant's charms.
When I push any of the front panel buttons on my Samsung Bluray player, it chimes. Or, at least it did, until I turned it off. Bluray menus also have sounds. For example, if a "panel" is opened. it slides out with a "whoosh."
Perhaps more obscurely, the Atari 400 used a membrane keyboard, and even the Atari 800 had a bit of a mushy feel. To substitute for the lack of tactile feedback, each keypress was accompanied by a lo-fi "click" sound from the television/monitor's speaker.
It's been a while, but IIRC the top speed of that particular model is around 145mph;-) Mercedes are not known for being wimpy vehicles in the power department.
My ultimate theme would probably look like a collaboration between Donald Knuth and Edward Tufte. Today's display technology is not yet comparable to print, though, so much of the elegance would be lost.
The "vector graphics" of 2001, though merely cell animation back projected onto movie screens embedded in the Discovery's sets, have a really timeless quality. Attempts to render the same graphics using rasterization and CRTs in more recent movies (such as 2010) look quite dated in comparison.
However, if I was from Japan, I wouldn't have any clue what any of these buttons mean. I'd probably get so fed up with it I'd request a Japanese version of Slashdot.
Slashdot Japan. So far as I can tell , it's a different set of articles.
People close to the VLC project, at l'Ecole Centrale Paris collected traffic cones. Why? You might ask why Bertie Wooster collected policeman's helmets. If you want to make it sound less silly, you could probably argue that the videolan client manages the traffic of numerous media streams, but it's a strain.
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with my wife hating multitasking. She never closes a thing (tab, application, etc.) and invariably runs out of memory. Often, there are dozens of background processes. Her hard drive starts to thrash. Things grind to a halt. I get called.
I've tried to explain about things taking up memory, the problem of lots of background applications, the problem of never closing applications. She doesn't want to know what memory even IS. "Why is the computer so stupid," she wants to know, "that it can't figure out that I only care about what I'm working on RIGHT NOW?"
If you really loved your wife, you would rewrite the schedulers so they didn't get in her way.
US GDP per capita: $46,716
China GDP per capita: $3,264
Net worth has very little to do with advertising.
Send a robot. A probe. Not a human being.
58,159 American martyrs for a fascist principle? Countless more on the Vietnam side?
Seriously though, I know its impossible to rip a few pennies out of taxpayers hands for anything short of an infant bleeding in the sidewalk, but SCIENCE IS IMPORTANT YOU IDIOTS
Look, i'm sorry that Bush inspired you to become a rocket scientist, but sending a meat sack to the moon isn't necessarily the most productive use of research funds.
Tell that to the teabaggers.
"Hope and Changes" was so last year. Now it's time for pinching pennies.
It's an 18 minute speech. Those words are excerpted from the middle, after he had already praised several different rocket and satellite programs--the "other things". The pause wasn't really a rhetorical pause, so much as a pause for the applause to stop drowning out his words. (Or perhaps that's rhetorical artifice.)
There was also a fun side show in Vietnam.
The defense contractors already structure their contracts to ensure that a great many representatives have pieces of the pies. It's not as if a Boeing plane will be built in one factory in one state. No, the parts have to be sourced from dozens, if not hundreds of different suppliers, each strategically placed to earn that vote, and each suplier has an equal opportunity to drive those all important cost overruns.
My my my, those environmental problems just keep coming. An endless cycle of spotting problems, figuring out technical solutions, negotiating with the world governments to find a politically acceptable solutions, signing the treaty, solving the problem, and then getting back to business. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, when will it ever end?
Let's face, it, the only way to stop wasting time in endless bad faith negotiations is to form a decent one world government. Stop wasting time, and Immanentize the eschaton already!
The moon is a backup.
HILDEBRAND Hi. I'm Andy Hildebrand, and I'm here with my good friend Paul Northfield, and we're here to discuss why this albums sounds the way it does.
NORTHFIELD: What's so impressive about this album? I'd like to point out that this track is particularly loud. By keeping the basic beat at fairly steady -0.5 dbFS, we were able to achieve a dynamic punch heretofore unrealized in the industry.
HILDEBRAND: One of the problems with singing that loudly, of course is that sometimes a singer's voice distorts. By applying a proprietary algorithm, we able to ensure that the distortion is minimal.
I mean, come on. It's like making a movie about the life of Jesus and filling it with random sex and nudity
Last Temptation of Christ? Though Scorsese's works are never random.
Does a kipferl taste like a properly made croissant (you know-- plenty of butter, lots of careful folding, ends up taking two days to make because that's how long it takes to rise in the refrigerator, etc...) or does it merely look crescent shaped? The crescent shape is the least of the croissant's charms.
When I push any of the front panel buttons on my Samsung Bluray player, it chimes. Or, at least it did, until I turned it off. Bluray menus also have sounds. For example, if a "panel" is opened. it slides out with a "whoosh."
Perhaps more obscurely, the Atari 400 used a membrane keyboard, and even the Atari 800 had a bit of a mushy feel. To substitute for the lack of tactile feedback, each keypress was accompanied by a lo-fi "click" sound from the television/monitor's speaker.
Better colors, please. Perhaps labels for the axes, as well.
It's been a while, but IIRC the top speed of that particular model is around 145mph ;-) Mercedes are not known for being wimpy vehicles in the power department.
120 horsepower. Is that a lot?
A lot of Raskin's ideas never made it into the Macintosh.
Some of MacOSX is like this, and I would imagine that NextStep/OpenStep was similarly "photorealistic".
Mettise uses pie menus, though that's probably the least of its innovations.
My ultimate theme would probably look like a collaboration between Donald Knuth and Edward Tufte. Today's display technology is not yet comparable to print, though, so much of the elegance would be lost.
The "vector graphics" of 2001, though merely cell animation back projected onto movie screens embedded in the Discovery's sets, have a really timeless quality. Attempts to render the same graphics using rasterization and CRTs in more recent movies (such as 2010) look quite dated in comparison.
However, if I was from Japan, I wouldn't have any clue what any of these buttons mean. I'd probably get so fed up with it I'd request a Japanese version of Slashdot.
Slashdot Japan. So far as I can tell , it's a different set of articles.
People close to the VLC project, at l'Ecole Centrale Paris collected traffic cones. Why? You might ask why Bertie Wooster collected policeman's helmets. If you want to make it sound less silly, you could probably argue that the videolan client manages the traffic of numerous media streams, but it's a strain.