First of all - they're hideous. Few types of (sun)glasses look good on people (depends on the facial shape amongst other things), so a one design fits all is out the window if you expect people to use them in public.
If I can get some that fit outside my own glasses, that'd be nice. Even better if you could adjust each screen to somehow present an image that apears sharp to whatever's wrong with your eyes. Not sure you can do that though... present an image that looks blurry to regular vision, but sharp to someone not wearing their glasses that is.
40 grams is also a bit on the heavy side. My own glasses weigh 22 grams, and they can be a bit bothersome in the long run. Of course, these probably aren't meant to be worn 16 hours a day anyway, so maybe it's not a problem. Hard to say without trying.
Since they're obviously meant to improve your sense of "being there" in whatever you're watching (movie, tv, game), you'd think it'd be logical to use Dolby Surround head phones with them. However most ear covering headphones are uncomfortable to wear through a movie when you're wearing glasses, as the "legs" (no clue what they're actually called) tend to get mushed between the ear and the skull, which is rather annoying over the course of more than maybe 45 minutes in my case.
I suppose my answer to the question in the title is a big fat maybe
All you need is a clock, a schedule of when to store power and when not to.
Ahh, yes - highly intelligent. You do know, that the reason electicity is cheaper at 3 AM is that hardly anyone is buying it, right? Guess what happens if LOTS of people start buying electricity at 3 AM? It'll get more expensive.
If you're the right type of customers, you can (well, with some providers at least) get hour by hour quotes on prices as they change. That's (well, one would think) what an intelligent buying scheme would use.
I think you're quite right about that. Plus, school tends to be boring if it's easy.
I know at least 5 (former) members of Mensa (they didn't want to waste their money on membership) and probably twice as many that could probably be a member if they took the test. Personally I haven't taken their test, but I suspect I'm in the top 5 percentile.
Common trait amongst these people? Average grades. Very average grades. Lazy about schoolwork (or were when they were in school), found it utterly boring etc.
InPhase will be the first company to deliver a holographic product for professional archive applications in late 2006. The media for this product will be offered through its strategic partner Hitachi Maxell Ltd. The initial InPhase Tapestry holographic recording device will record 300 gigabytes (GB) of data onto a 130 mm disc with a transfer rate of 20 megabytes per second (MB/s). This is compatible with high-definition television transmission rates, and high-end enterprise computer applications.
I know how you feel - mine is also loud as hell when it starts spinning up. I don't remember the programs name, but I do remember a utility that was made to limit CD-drives to 24x (I think that was the speed at which the disc's started to shake), which made them almost silent.
Just limit the dvd-speed to something similar - if you're just watching a dvd movie you don't really need it to read at 16x - 2x is plenty fast.
Lots of people griping about the use of it, but who cares about that? It's like asking about why you'd dual boot Linux and Windows.
I like the idea - the hardware is nice, I like the OS, but I'm not 100% certain that the programs I use some of the time has been ported to OS X or if it has a usable counterpart on OS X. Lack of something like WINE makes this a viable option, should I choose to get a Mac (looking dreamily at the MacBook Pro).
I'd get nice hardware, an excelent OS and the option of still using the old and busted OS and irreplacable programs if I need them. Best of all parts I think.
I want smooth high-poly models with realistic lighting and 60fps.
And I want peace in the middle east. Give it 10 years, one of us may get our wish.
Well, compared to 10 years ago, we probably HAVE cinematic quality rendering in games, and we definately have smooth high-poly models with realistic lighting and 60 fps. Trouble is that apart from 60 fps, every thing else in that statement is a very moving target.
That's doubtfull. They'll probably be targetting you as an enemy combatant as you've been gathering intel on the country's leaders, their whereabouts and habits - this information, if in the hands of nefarious people, can be used to usurp the entire democratic process, and as such they need to throw your ass in jail before you can do anything with the information.
About the only thing I like from that list is... turning DMA on
Wait... turning DMA ON? It's not on by default? Why wouldn't the Ubuntu installer turn it on by default if the machine is capable of handling it? I don't think I can even find a drive in my collection that doesn't support DMA.
I realise that you're often trying to get as big a target as possible, but come on - DMA off by default? How difficult would it be to check to see which drives supports DMA and enabling it for those instead of leaving it off? Yes, this is a somewhat loaded question, but I'm actually rather curious why it isn't done.
Because accidentally peppering someone with a shotgun
To (somewhat) quote Jon Stewart.
Peppered? Ah yes, the man was seasoned to within an inch of his life!
And no, within an inch of his life isn't exagerating, as he actually suffered from a heart attack caused by one of the "pellets" (no clue what they're actually called).
Also, just how powerful do you have to be to SHOOT someone in the face and have THEM come out and say "My bad"? (Again, Jon Stewart).
Which brings me to my point - the government of China has proven themselves evil time and time again.
And this is different from the US government how, exactly? Even if you claim that the Chinese have been like that for decades it doesn't really change the fact, that the US has become quite the police state with its own "dissapearing" citizens (no less), people held outside legal representation - with the judicial branch rubber stamping it.
The assumption that "hey, perhaps this time they're ok" is a dangerous precident that seems to have been set sometime recently.
Probably around September 12, 2001? I remember seeing a video of Osama Bin Laden saying "after this, the United States will never be the same again". I really doubt he imagined the US turning itself into a police state, propping up dictatorships in opportune countries, trying to force democracy into being in others and having qualms about the result of fair democratic elections in third ones. Well, the last parts isn't really new, though.
As Tom Lehrer sang in the early 1960's:
For might makes right, And till they've seen the light, They've got to be protected, All their rights respected, 'Till somebody we like can be elected.
First of all - the idea of having a toilet in the same room as a shower/bath? Scrap that! I don't want to sit in a bath, soaking for an hour to the stench of whomever just visited! Toilets in a room for themselves, please! And add LOTS of exhaust venting to that room. While I can see it as a fun thing to have people hair getting sucked towards the ceiling, that might be a bit much, but I'm sure you get the idea.
Secondly - all bathroom mirrors should have anti-fogging whatever on them. Third - all bathroom walls and floors should have heating. Nothing worse than relaxing in a warm bath and then having to scamper to find tiles that aren't 10 C!
Fourth - kitchen tables shouldn't be fixed. I want ones that I can lower or lift easily like office furniture. I'm 193 cm (6'4"), which makes my perfect work height about 25 cm higher than my girlfriend's work height. If they could also be pulled away from the walls, that'd be just perfect - that way I can clean behind them and get rid of the gunk.
For me? No, I use it all the time. For people for whom sending someone else a file means firing off an email? Yes. For people who's company policy forbids them to install anything on their computers AND forbids the use of FTP Clients (they exist) except for very specific reason? Hell yes.
FTP is excelent for people like you and me. The rest of the world? Until you can make it as simple as sending someone an email (email client that plops stuff in a ftp server instead), I sincerely doubt it'll happen.
Seriously - I spent half a day trying to explain some guy in Romania how the hell he should upload a file to our FTP-server, as his ISP wouldn't allow him to send an email bigger than 2 MB. Half a fucking day! And that was one of the brighter people I've spoken with.
FTP works - it doesn't quite cut it for stupid users. And I'm not entirely sure it'd work in really big organisations where you have tonnes of documents going in and out all the time. But I'd love to be shown wrong. Just point me to some documents describing not only how to roll it out (securely and without risk of RIAA/MPAA type lawsuit), how to sell it to the users AND how to explain it to their contacts.
Internally there's absolutely no reason for it. Since everyone can access all files on the fileservers, and every project has their own folders, it's overkill to use FTP for internal reasons.
Externally, as in "go download this" or "upload your mail to this server" that is going to take some SERIOUS work. I'm curious as to how exactly you'd sell that to not only the people internally in the company, but to the clients they talk to as well.
"Dear John. Can you send me the files I need? But upload them to ftp://ftp.company.com/upload/project/date/ instead of mailing them. I'll get you a login and password you can use."
"Dear Bill. I tried that, but now what do I do. The internet just shows me some kind of empty page and now what do I do?"
"Dear George. Can you tell Bill how to upload the files to us?"
"Dear Bill. What you do, is you download a program from http://whereever./ Install that. Then you [16 line explaination as to how to do it]."
"Dear Bill. I am Peter, George's replacement. He was fired after trying to install some weird teepee program against company policy. I understand you need some files for the project?"
Ever been to a lan-party? I don't know this one in particular, but the last one I attended took place in a gymnasium and had about 200 participants. After about 20 hours we had to have doors open and bigass fans running to circulate cool outside air inside for two reasons:
1) The stink 2) The gymnasium AC wasn't buit for 200 people each toting a 300 W rig. That's about 60 kW of heat being dumped into the air constantly.
We hit temperatures of abut 35 deg C (95 F) in the middle of the gymnasium before the doors were opened.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was part of the problem. Using a computer in a non ventilated hot area will make it difficult for it to be stable if it's only designed to be used in "normal" temperatures. Doesn't matter if it's a laptop or a desktop at that point.
I don't have a problem believing that amount of emails. The consulting engineering company I worked for (14 people in all) had abut 80 GB of emails when I joined the company. Many of them were replicated across mailboxes, because mails sent to one guy might need to be forwarded for further evaluation by others (and they didn't know how to use the network server properly) and in one case I blinked several times and double checked to make sure, but someone had sent a 1.8 GB (yes, GIGAbyte) email(!!!).
It contained every single version of a set of documents involved in a project (I think some 1.000+ documents) nicely zipped in a single file. Not sure just how long it took to send or receive, but our mailserver was set up not to reject anything, except for a complete lack of diskspace.
It made me rethink the need for storage space in our company.
Completely off topic, but I've seen your signature a couple of times, and I've played around with it a few times. I can't help but wonder if you know of a way to design document styles in the same way as the presentation style. I have little use for presentations myself, but I wouldn't mind being able to make some better document styles than what I have available (plus, I've no clue how to modify styles as it is).
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Am I the only one hoping to get high quality videos of these two booth babes going at it? *drools*
Depends on a few things ...
... present an image that looks blurry to regular vision, but sharp to someone not wearing their glasses that is.
First of all - they're hideous. Few types of (sun)glasses look good on people (depends on the facial shape amongst other things), so a one design fits all is out the window if you expect people to use them in public.
If I can get some that fit outside my own glasses, that'd be nice. Even better if you could adjust each screen to somehow present an image that apears sharp to whatever's wrong with your eyes. Not sure you can do that though
40 grams is also a bit on the heavy side. My own glasses weigh 22 grams, and they can be a bit bothersome in the long run. Of course, these probably aren't meant to be worn 16 hours a day anyway, so maybe it's not a problem. Hard to say without trying.
Since they're obviously meant to improve your sense of "being there" in whatever you're watching (movie, tv, game), you'd think it'd be logical to use Dolby Surround head phones with them. However most ear covering headphones are uncomfortable to wear through a movie when you're wearing glasses, as the "legs" (no clue what they're actually called) tend to get mushed between the ear and the skull, which is rather annoying over the course of more than maybe 45 minutes in my case.
I suppose my answer to the question in the title is a big fat maybe
Ehh ... The Book of Megadrive? That's definately an interesting twist on the creation of earth.
If you're the right type of customers, you can (well, with some providers at least) get hour by hour quotes on prices as they change. That's (well, one would think) what an intelligent buying scheme would use.
I think you're quite right about that. Plus, school tends to be boring if it's easy.
I know at least 5 (former) members of Mensa (they didn't want to waste their money on membership) and probably twice as many that could probably be a member if they took the test. Personally I haven't taken their test, but I suspect I'm in the top 5 percentile.
Common trait amongst these people? Average grades. Very average grades. Lazy about schoolwork (or were when they were in school), found it utterly boring etc.
No, none at all. Just some smack talk.
How do you like that, mon petite bitch?
Yeah, best stay away from those bitches!
Yeah, I end up there too. Same with http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/ - wonder what the [censored] is up with that.
I know how you feel - mine is also loud as hell when it starts spinning up. I don't remember the programs name, but I do remember a utility that was made to limit CD-drives to 24x (I think that was the speed at which the disc's started to shake), which made them almost silent.
Just limit the dvd-speed to something similar - if you're just watching a dvd movie you don't really need it to read at 16x - 2x is plenty fast.
Lots of people griping about the use of it, but who cares about that? It's like asking about why you'd dual boot Linux and Windows.
I like the idea - the hardware is nice, I like the OS, but I'm not 100% certain that the programs I use some of the time has been ported to OS X or if it has a usable counterpart on OS X. Lack of something like WINE makes this a viable option, should I choose to get a Mac (looking dreamily at the MacBook Pro).
I'd get nice hardware, an excelent OS and the option of still using the old and busted OS and irreplacable programs if I need them. Best of all parts I think.
I find your ideas intreaguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
That's doubtfull. They'll probably be targetting you as an enemy combatant as you've been gathering intel on the country's leaders, their whereabouts and habits - this information, if in the hands of nefarious people, can be used to usurp the entire democratic process, and as such they need to throw your ass in jail before you can do anything with the information.
I realise that you're often trying to get as big a target as possible, but come on - DMA off by default? How difficult would it be to check to see which drives supports DMA and enabling it for those instead of leaving it off? Yes, this is a somewhat loaded question, but I'm actually rather curious why it isn't done.
Also, just how powerful do you have to be to SHOOT someone in the face and have THEM come out and say "My bad"? (Again, Jon Stewart).
As Tom Lehrer sang in the early 1960's:
Just really neat.
First of all - the idea of having a toilet in the same room as a shower/bath? Scrap that! I don't want to sit in a bath, soaking for an hour to the stench of whomever just visited! Toilets in a room for themselves, please! And add LOTS of exhaust venting to that room. While I can see it as a fun thing to have people hair getting sucked towards the ceiling, that might be a bit much, but I'm sure you get the idea.
Secondly - all bathroom mirrors should have anti-fogging whatever on them.
Third - all bathroom walls and floors should have heating. Nothing worse than relaxing in a warm bath and then having to scamper to find tiles that aren't 10 C!
Fourth - kitchen tables shouldn't be fixed. I want ones that I can lower or lift easily like office furniture. I'm 193 cm (6'4"), which makes my perfect work height about 25 cm higher than my girlfriend's work height. If they could also be pulled away from the walls, that'd be just perfect - that way I can clean behind them and get rid of the gunk.
For me? No, I use it all the time.
For people for whom sending someone else a file means firing off an email? Yes.
For people who's company policy forbids them to install anything on their computers AND forbids the use of FTP Clients (they exist) except for very specific reason? Hell yes.
FTP is excelent for people like you and me. The rest of the world? Until you can make it as simple as sending someone an email (email client that plops stuff in a ftp server instead), I sincerely doubt it'll happen.
Seriously - I spent half a day trying to explain some guy in Romania how the hell he should upload a file to our FTP-server, as his ISP wouldn't allow him to send an email bigger than 2 MB. Half a fucking day! And that was one of the brighter people I've spoken with.
FTP works - it doesn't quite cut it for stupid users. And I'm not entirely sure it'd work in really big organisations where you have tonnes of documents going in and out all the time. But I'd love to be shown wrong. Just point me to some documents describing not only how to roll it out (securely and without risk of RIAA/MPAA type lawsuit), how to sell it to the users AND how to explain it to their contacts.
Internally there's absolutely no reason for it. Since everyone can access all files on the fileservers, and every project has their own folders, it's overkill to use FTP for internal reasons.
Externally, as in "go download this" or "upload your mail to this server" that is going to take some SERIOUS work. I'm curious as to how exactly you'd sell that to not only the people internally in the company, but to the clients they talk to as well.
"Dear John. Can you send me the files I need? But upload them to ftp://ftp.company.com/upload/project/date/ instead of mailing them. I'll get you a login and password you can use."
"Dear Bill. I tried that, but now what do I do. The internet just shows me some kind of empty page and now what do I do?"
"Dear George. Can you tell Bill how to upload the files to us?"
"Dear Bill. What you do, is you download a program from http://whereever./ Install that. Then you [16 line explaination as to how to do it]."
"Dear Bill. I am Peter, George's replacement. He was fired after trying to install some weird teepee program against company policy. I understand you need some files for the project?"
Ever been to a lan-party? I don't know this one in particular, but the last one I attended took place in a gymnasium and had about 200 participants. After about 20 hours we had to have doors open and bigass fans running to circulate cool outside air inside for two reasons:
1) The stink
2) The gymnasium AC wasn't buit for 200 people each toting a 300 W rig. That's about 60 kW of heat being dumped into the air constantly.
We hit temperatures of abut 35 deg C (95 F) in the middle of the gymnasium before the doors were opened.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was part of the problem. Using a computer in a non ventilated hot area will make it difficult for it to be stable if it's only designed to be used in "normal" temperatures. Doesn't matter if it's a laptop or a desktop at that point.
I don't have a problem believing that amount of emails. The consulting engineering company I worked for (14 people in all) had abut 80 GB of emails when I joined the company. Many of them were replicated across mailboxes, because mails sent to one guy might need to be forwarded for further evaluation by others (and they didn't know how to use the network server properly) and in one case I blinked several times and double checked to make sure, but someone had sent a 1.8 GB (yes, GIGAbyte) email(!!!).
It contained every single version of a set of documents involved in a project (I think some 1.000+ documents) nicely zipped in a single file. Not sure just how long it took to send or receive, but our mailserver was set up not to reject anything, except for a complete lack of diskspace.
It made me rethink the need for storage space in our company.
Completely off topic, but I've seen your signature a couple of times, and I've played around with it a few times. I can't help but wonder if you know of a way to design document styles in the same way as the presentation style. I have little use for presentations myself, but I wouldn't mind being able to make some better document styles than what I have available (plus, I've no clue how to modify styles as it is).