Yeah, didn't think so. Next time you have a problem with your skilled tradesman, keep it the hell to yourself./quote Oh hell no! If you have a problem with your skilled tradesman, and after reasonable attempts at arbitration are unable to come to satsifaction, by all means BITCH AS LOUD AS YOU CAN. I wanna know which plumbers, carpenters, general contractors, etc to avoid.
If this canadian company had any smarts they would at least get it to run on Symbian (the majority OS) and preferably do it so that it simply runs on anything that has a camera. That is what the Japanese did. You must be a European, right? Symbian is far from the majority OS in North America, and it's a PITA to develop for. Bash WinMob all you want, (And this is/. so I'm sure they will) but MS at least provides decent development tools, and an environment where multi-threading/multi-tasking isn't mindbogglingly difficult.
Has slashdot ever spoken about how they title the stories they publish on the front page? Granted, slashdot isn't really a traditional news organization, but there are accepted standards for how a headline should be written. The AP stylebook comes to mind, and in my long ago forgotten journalism class, IIRC there being a particular standard.
We had 406 MURDERS in our city of about 1.5 million for 2006. (The gamer in me wants to scream NEW HIGH SCORE!) This doesn't even include the suicides. If all you're working with is 300 gun related deaths in a population of 7.5 million, most of which were suicides, allow me to say that I'm more than a bit jealous.
It's not quite enough to get me to move, (I still love this area, and roots are all here) but it seems to me y'all got it pretty good.
Ignoring the obvious programming shortcuts that they afford, levels can offer the same literary features that a chapter break offers to a printed work. It gives the opportunity to build tension, change scenes, or shift the focus from one character to another.
was a sequel to "Gokinjo Monogatari" a much larger (50-episode) And that 50 episode count would be why it didn't get picked up. That's a pretty big investment for something that you couldn't dream of getting broadcast. Para-kiss at 13 eps was a much easier sell.
I wish programmers would program more responsibly, return to using their OWN drivers so as to make things independent of the OS. Ahh, but then that would negate the reason for the Registry, Oh of course we should all aspire to be driver programmers rather than getting ya know, work done? Cuz you know I really aspire to spend my day tinkering with drivers to write bits straight to my GPU rather than hmm... use GL? Or rewrite a brand new driver every time a new sound device hits the market. Or write a brand new print routine every six months when Lexmark brings out the new consumer printer du_jour.
One of the few good things Windows brought to the table was its driver / device / API set. Standardizing on those (yes, via the registry) added a level of extensibility that we'd never before seen in the PC software world, and opened up a whole world of development that simply wouldn't have been possible prior.
Now you can argue that some of the current drivers out there are poorly written, and I'd be the very first in line to agree with you. But please don't dismiss the rest of us a poor programmers simply because we don't want to have to rewrite code specific to each device.
I shouldn't be forced to write drivers for every damn device that I want to access, any more than I ought to be expected to code my file system from scratch. (Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you, and if that's your itch, then please, by all means, write your drivers or FS, and make it good.) To assume that we're inferior programmers because we don't write drivers is uncalled for.
2. No US media company would ever have bought hard-to-categorize shows like Death Note, BR>
Ran in Jump. A no brainer, fansubs or not.
Nana
An Ai Yazawa shoujo manga, in a growing shojo market. Again, a no-brainer.
or Prince of Tennis
Well, okay, I can't explain this one.:-)
Actually, I'm lying. This is Jump too.
before the fansub community proved that there was a market for such shows among western viewers. Fansubs are basically free market research for the distributors.
But fansubs are not, and CANNOT replace proper market research. A fansub hit does NOT guarantee commercial success in the R1 market. You can't convert every fansub download into a sale. And there's no solid method of correlating downloads of a particular show to the sales of said show.
You don't know:
Who downloaded a fansub
What market/region the downloader is from
Whether that downloader is a pirate or a "good" fan
The only thing you really can do is estimate general interest. And that doesn't always translate into sales.
MCE will install from the PRO disc, but will fail unless you have the second disc in the set, which contains all the media center specifics. The same is true of XP Tablet Edition.
Homesteaders, survivalists, folks with second homes, and ecologically (if not always economically) conscious people have all been moving off-grid for a variety of reasons. Solar is one (but not the only) one of the ways that this can be accomplished.
A week's worth of autonomy is not at all unheard of. You mistake being able to STORE a week's worth of energy for the ability to GENERATE a week's worth of energy. Enough batteries for a week's worth of energy isn't cheap. But 3 days worth of batteries, a generator, and some creative reduction of loads is both reasonable, and feasible.
That said, I'll go out on a limb and guess that your average slashdotter probably has a higher level of electricity consumption than most.
I'd think more along the lines of MS not wanting to cut into sales for DOAX2. I mean, why allow playback for the old version when you can ding your customers for another$60, or even $30 for the platinum edition?
Me! Data collection is often easier done in table form. Excel Mobile is quite good for this. I use it weekly to record my gasoline costs and mileage. (But please don't ask me to do calculation work on it. PLEASE.) I log the water parameters for my aqauariums with the phone too. It's easier than lugging a notebook around, and paper and water just don't mix.
For a quick note, Word Mobile works well too. I use it in church on Sunday and Thursdays to take notes.
I've viewed power point presentations on it, and to a point they work. Not a substitute for a real notebook, but more than serviceable.
But the "beauty" of the Win Mobile platform for me is that it is extensible. When I want new features, I install them. I wanted separate ringtones for particular contacts. No problem. Don't like the browser? Install a new one. Better calculator? Done.
For me, (and I'll bet a goodly portion of the slashdot crowd) the extensibility of the platform is by far more important than the features that do or do not come with the phone. If we don't like apps, or the device is missing a feature, we'll find the software to do it, or write our own. We want our devices to do what WE want them to do, not what a third party wants them to do. (Vodafone not withstanding... There's a reason that the MDA is so popular to unlock...)
But the iPhone isn't aimed at me. And it's not aimed at today's connected business users, who are for better or worse chained to a Microsoft dominated infrastructure.
The iPhone is targeted at the iPod owner, who for the most part likes exactly what Steve Jobs tells them to like. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Apple has consistently delivered best-of-breed devices and interfaces, and their customer's loyalty is simply more proof of that. According to wiki, there have been over 88,000,000 iPods sold. If Apple can manage to sell 1/10 of that number, they'll have made their sales goals, and I'll bet they manage to do it.
Oddly, as a windows user, I'm inclined in the opposite direction. The current vista drivers are so bad, that this (8800GTX) may well be the very last NVidia product I ever purchase.:-)
I use it extensively when I'm mailing physical media. I'd call it an ideal solution if the parity files didn't take amazingly long to generate. Generating 25% parity files to fill a DVD-5 takes about an hour on my current system. Burning said disc takes less than 10 minutes.:(
We're only taking your Karma if you don't have a good excuse for driving that suburban.
Do you
- have a Family of 7? - work in construction or a related field? - work in agriculture or a related field? - live or work in an area where a large 4wd vehicle is a necessity? - drive the suburban as a daily commuter vehicle?
Our family owns a large F150 van that gets about 10mpg. I don't apologize for owning, it. But I don't drive it as a daily commuter. It comes out when we need to carry construction supplies, more something large, or have need for the wheelchair lift and the like.
Some of our friends are jeep owners. They drive them top down on the weekends with nice weather, or up to the mountains for some camping. (They also pull my dropped Camry out of the snow. Thanks!) Again, these aren't daily commuters, but rather purpose built and used vehicles.
Now if you're driving this thing 100 miles each way on the highway to a white collar office job every morning, well your karma can go to hell.:-) But there are legitimate reasons for owning a large SUV, and flaming people just for owning one, without taking into account the usage is silly!
Interesting idea. But bear in mind that while we know what wavelengths are visible to humans, I'd be surprised if we knew what wavelengths were visible to this particular shark. I know some dogs and cats can see into the near-IR spectrum. Anyone out there know what fish can see?
The difference between a 'rocket' and a 'missile' is nothing but a name.
Respectfully, you're greatly oversimplifying the situation. Granted, a rocket forms the delivery device for just about every modern missile, but the design work and compromises necessary for fulfilling these roles are totally different!
Rockets delivering a payload into space need to reach orbital heights, and sometimes escape velocities. The amount of propellant involved is an order greater than that for your typical missile payload. In addition, the types of control surfaces and vectoring used are totally different.
I mean, sure, a Saturn V, and a Tomahawk Cruise missile are both nominally rockets. But you should know that there's a whole world of engineering difference between the two, and I really think you do a disservice to engineers in both fields by lumping them together wholesale like that.
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Oh hell no! If you have a problem with your skilled tradesman, and after reasonable attempts at arbitration are unable to come to satsifaction, by all means BITCH AS LOUD AS YOU CAN. I wanna know which plumbers, carpenters, general contractors, etc to avoid.
Chicken.
Has slashdot ever spoken about how they title the stories they publish on the front page? Granted, slashdot isn't really a traditional news organization, but there are accepted standards for how a headline should be written. The AP stylebook comes to mind, and in my long ago forgotten journalism class, IIRC there being a particular standard.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Phila. leads big cities in murder rate
We had 406 MURDERS in our city of about 1.5 million for 2006. (The gamer in me wants to scream NEW HIGH SCORE!) This doesn't even include the suicides. If all you're working with is 300 gun related deaths in a population of 7.5 million, most of which were suicides, allow me to say that I'm more than a bit jealous.
It's not quite enough to get me to move, (I still love this area, and roots are all here) but it seems to me y'all got it pretty good.
Just a theory:
Ignoring the obvious programming shortcuts that they afford, levels can offer the same literary features that a chapter break offers to a printed work. It gives the opportunity to build tension, change scenes, or shift the focus from one character to another.
One of the few good things Windows brought to the table was its driver / device / API set. Standardizing on those (yes, via the registry) added a level of extensibility that we'd never before seen in the PC software world, and opened up a whole world of development that simply wouldn't have been possible prior.
Now you can argue that some of the current drivers out there are poorly written, and I'd be the very first in line to agree with you. But please don't dismiss the rest of us a poor programmers simply because we don't want to have to rewrite code specific to each device.
I shouldn't be forced to write drivers for every damn device that I want to access, any more than I ought to be expected to code my file system from scratch. (Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you, and if that's your itch, then please, by all means, write your drivers or FS, and make it good.) To assume that we're inferior programmers because we don't write drivers is uncalled for.
I mostly agree with your statements, conclusions, and sentiments.
:-(
But what exactly is wrong with bike helmets?
1. I defy you to cite examples of Japanese anime houses (not US dub shops) objecting to the fansubs of unlicensed shows.
http://www.animesuki.com/doc.php/legal/mediafactory.html>This wasn't good enough for you?
2. No US media company would ever have bought hard-to-categorize shows like Death Note, BR>
Ran in Jump. A no brainer, fansubs or not.
Nana
An Ai Yazawa shoujo manga, in a growing shojo market. Again, a no-brainer.
or Prince of Tennis
Well, okay, I can't explain this one.
Actually, I'm lying. This is Jump too.
before the fansub community proved that there was a market for such shows among western viewers. Fansubs are basically free market research for the distributors.
But fansubs are not, and CANNOT replace proper market research. A fansub hit does NOT guarantee commercial success in the R1 market. You can't convert every fansub download into a sale. And there's no solid method of correlating downloads of a particular show to the sales of said show.
You don't know:
Who downloaded a fansub
What market/region the downloader is from
Whether that downloader is a pirate or a "good" fan
The only thing you really can do is estimate general interest. And that doesn't always translate into sales.
[otaku purist]
Lies! There is no Tsukihime anime!
[/otaku purist]
JAXA to Kaguya ni omedetou gozaimasu!
MCE will install from the PRO disc, but will fail unless you have the second disc in the set, which contains all the media center specifics. The same is true of XP Tablet Edition.
http://www.homepower.com/
Homesteaders, survivalists, folks with second homes, and ecologically (if not always economically) conscious people have all been moving off-grid for a variety of reasons. Solar is one (but not the only) one of the ways that this can be accomplished.
A week's worth of autonomy is not at all unheard of. You mistake being able to STORE a week's worth of energy for the ability to GENERATE a week's worth of energy. Enough batteries for a week's worth of energy isn't cheap. But 3 days worth of batteries, a generator, and some creative reduction of loads is both reasonable, and feasible.
That said, I'll go out on a limb and guess that your average slashdotter probably has a higher level of electricity consumption than most.
I'd think more along the lines of MS not wanting to cut into sales for DOAX2. I mean, why allow playback for the old version when you can ding your customers for another$60, or even $30 for the platinum edition?
Me! Data collection is often easier done in table form. Excel Mobile is quite good for this. I use it weekly to record my gasoline costs and mileage. (But please don't ask me to do calculation work on it. PLEASE.) I log the water parameters for my aqauariums with the phone too. It's easier than lugging a notebook around, and paper and water just don't mix.
For a quick note, Word Mobile works well too. I use it in church on Sunday and Thursdays to take notes.
I've viewed power point presentations on it, and to a point they work. Not a substitute for a real notebook, but more than serviceable.
But the "beauty" of the Win Mobile platform for me is that it is extensible. When I want new features, I install them. I wanted separate ringtones for particular contacts. No problem. Don't like the browser? Install a new one. Better calculator? Done.
For me, (and I'll bet a goodly portion of the slashdot crowd) the extensibility of the platform is by far more important than the features that do or do not come with the phone. If we don't like apps, or the device is missing a feature, we'll find the software to do it, or write our own. We want our devices to do what WE want them to do, not what a third party wants them to do. (Vodafone not withstanding... There's a reason that the MDA is so popular to unlock...)
But the iPhone isn't aimed at me. And it's not aimed at today's connected business users, who are for better or worse chained to a Microsoft dominated infrastructure.
The iPhone is targeted at the iPod owner, who for the most part likes exactly what Steve Jobs tells them to like. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Apple has consistently delivered best-of-breed devices and interfaces, and their customer's loyalty is simply more proof of that. According to wiki, there have been over 88,000,000 iPods sold. If Apple can manage to sell 1/10 of that number, they'll have made their sales goals, and I'll bet they manage to do it.
Only if apple signs it. :-( And honestly, can you see them signing vim?
Oddly, as a windows user, I'm inclined in the opposite direction. The current vista drivers are so bad, that this (8800GTX) may well be the very last NVidia product I ever purchase. :-)
Putting aside the manufacturing techniques, aren't both standards now using the same VC9 compression?
Parchive says that error correction is free, if at the cost of a little space.
:(
http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
I use it extensively when I'm mailing physical media. I'd call it an ideal solution if the parity files didn't take amazingly long to generate. Generating 25% parity files to fill a DVD-5 takes about an hour on my current system. Burning said disc takes less than 10 minutes.
...because everyone knows you can't use gels or white balance to do color compensation.
:-)
REAL photographers make their own light.
We're only taking your Karma if you don't have a good excuse for driving that suburban.
:-) But there are legitimate reasons for owning a large SUV, and flaming people just for owning one, without taking into account the usage is silly!
Do you
- have a Family of 7?
- work in construction or a related field?
- work in agriculture or a related field?
- live or work in an area where a large 4wd vehicle is a necessity?
- drive the suburban as a daily commuter vehicle?
Our family owns a large F150 van that gets about 10mpg. I don't apologize for owning, it. But I don't drive it as a daily commuter. It comes out when we need to carry construction supplies, more something large, or have need for the wheelchair lift and the like.
Some of our friends are jeep owners. They drive them top down on the weekends with nice weather, or up to the mountains for some camping. (They also pull my dropped Camry out of the snow. Thanks!) Again, these aren't daily commuters, but rather purpose built and used vehicles.
Now if you're driving this thing 100 miles each way on the highway to a white collar office job every morning, well your karma can go to hell.
Interesting idea. But bear in mind that while we know what wavelengths are visible to humans, I'd be surprised if we knew what wavelengths were visible to this particular shark. I know some dogs and cats can see into the near-IR spectrum. Anyone out there know what fish can see?
Slashdot needs a "+1 ANGRY" mod option.
The difference between a 'rocket' and a 'missile' is nothing but a name.
Respectfully, you're greatly oversimplifying the situation. Granted, a rocket forms the delivery device for just about every modern missile, but the design work and compromises necessary for fulfilling these roles are totally different!
Rockets delivering a payload into space need to reach orbital heights, and sometimes escape velocities. The amount of propellant involved is an order greater than that for your typical missile payload. In addition, the types of control surfaces and vectoring used are totally different.
I mean, sure, a Saturn V, and a Tomahawk Cruise missile are both nominally rockets. But you should know that there's a whole world of engineering difference between the two, and I really think you do a disservice to engineers in both fields by lumping them together wholesale like that.