- Collect more data from the person: age, region ("The South" "Northeast" etc.), education level, etc. As far as privacy goes, if you don't want to enter it that's fine--but your recommendations will suffer
- Analyze rental activity with ratings. If I've rented a movie 3 times, I probably like it more than the movie I've never rented but gave 5 stars
- Analyze queue transactions. What movies did I add to my queue together? What did I move up or down? What movies did I delete from the queue (and ask why: saw it already, changed my mind, etc.)
- Analyze how long I hold movies versus what I rate them. Upon return ask if I watched the movie or not.
- Find more ways to group movies together (genre, subgenre, actor, theme, director, writer, etc.). Figure out which actors I love/hate
My mom's computer died and we talked her into buying an Mac Mini. Of course, she still has AOL (had to buy the Apple USB modem) but hopefully she'll get rid of that, too.
Whatever happened to the idea of using flywheels (built from exotic materials and spinning at crazy speeds) to store energy. There was a Discover Magazine cover story about it a few years ago--the flywheels floated on magnetic bearings in a vacuum.
> So because OpenDocument can't help everyone, it shouldn't help anyone?
That's how the disabled argument often works. Remember the fully automated, self-cleaning toilets they tried to put in New York? They were also self-funding (with ads), but since the handicapped couldn't use them they weren't deployed. The larger, handicapped-friendly versions turned into crack whore mini-hotels, so that didn't work, either.
But nobody knows what the most money is. If I lose an auction, it won't be for an amount I was willing to pay. I don't care if I got outbid at the last moment if I was also outspent.
I think remapping is more appropriate. It's like the experiment where you put on prism glasses that invert what you see. Initially everything is upside down. After a while you don't notice. At the end of the day when you take the glasses off, everything looks upside down for a while.
I have HD. I watch free HD broadcasts with the built-in tuner (they don't tell about that at Best Buy because it doesn't help them sell Direct TV). Sports look great.
Anyway...
When I watch a DVD it looks great. I'm sure that HD/BluRay DVDs will look even better, but I can't imagine the difference is worth $100s of dollars. Maybe when NetFlix is carrying a zillion hi-def titles I'll think about upgrading.
You might try Edubuntu. The default installation includes LTSP and is designed for small computer labs. You only have to admin one machine and the clients will run on old boxes. You can also reduce noise/power consumption removing the drives from the clients.
Maybe some uberuser should make a "Click here for Brittney Spears Pics" trojan that wipes the computer. It could load a little program that runs at startup and nukes the PC from orbit.
Any other bots and spyware on that machine go away, and the user ends up with a clean factory restore (after his brother-in-law comes over to show him how to use the restore disks).
Over time, this could be modified to seek out zombie machines directly.
I hope martial arts games can use this technology. Right now they just chain together motion captured sequences. The most glaring time you see this is when the players slide on the floor--they never seem connected to the ground: blocking a kick shouldn't make you slide back 12 inches.
And when a kick or strike is landed it should look different than when it's blocked.
Racing games use physics model the actions and reactions of the cars. If fighting games did the same thing, that would be awesome. You could model injuries (the fighter limps or holds one arm), just like NASCAR games model damage to the car. And they could interact with the environment and fight on uneven surfaces.
"and for the amount of power generated, wouldn't work out very well"
I'm too dumb to do the math, but this was supposed to generate alot of power. It seems like a supersonic airflow in a 10 foot pipe would contain alot of energy.
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Also: Enlist celebrities to publish their queues. Lots of people will rent movies just because their favorite actor/athelete/whoever just rented it.
- Collect more data from the person: age, region ("The South" "Northeast" etc.), education level, etc. As far as privacy goes, if you don't want to enter it that's fine--but your recommendations will suffer
- Analyze rental activity with ratings. If I've rented a movie 3 times, I probably like it more than the movie I've never rented but gave 5 stars
- Analyze queue transactions. What movies did I add to my queue together? What did I move up or down? What movies did I delete from the queue (and ask why: saw it already, changed my mind, etc.)
- Analyze how long I hold movies versus what I rate them. Upon return ask if I watched the movie or not.
- Find more ways to group movies together (genre, subgenre, actor, theme, director, writer, etc.). Figure out which actors I love/hate
We've moved beyond RTFA to RTF Post or RTF Previous Paragraph.
Last time I checked, they didn't work with dimmers.
If they're going to "reimagine" Star Trek, they should use the Apple design strategy on all the Enterprise controls and workstations.
The Klingons, of course, would have screens that look like MS Windows and their computers lock up at the worst possible moment.
My mom's computer died and we talked her into buying an Mac Mini. Of course, she still has AOL (had to buy the Apple USB modem) but hopefully she'll get rid of that, too.
The AOL client doesn't kill Macs, does it?
"whalah" ?!
Could they use this for stationary power systems, like home solar/wind power?
Whatever happened to the idea of using flywheels (built from exotic materials and spinning at crazy speeds) to store energy. There was a Discover Magazine cover story about it a few years ago--the flywheels floated on magnetic bearings in a vacuum.
Killed by big oil?
He's going to bust a... (whatever geek rappers bust into people)
> So because OpenDocument can't help everyone, it shouldn't help anyone?
That's how the disabled argument often works. Remember the fully automated, self-cleaning toilets they tried to put in New York? They were also self-funding (with ads), but since the handicapped couldn't use them they weren't deployed. The larger, handicapped-friendly versions turned into crack whore mini-hotels, so that didn't work, either.
Just make sure everything the WAP connects to is secure (printers, WinTel machines, etc.).
"maximum"
Maybe that word doesn't mean what you think it does?
But nobody knows what the most money is. If I lose an auction, it won't be for an amount I was willing to pay. I don't care if I got outbid at the last moment if I was also outspent.
I think remapping is more appropriate. It's like the experiment where you put on prism glasses that invert what you see. Initially everything is upside down. After a while you don't notice. At the end of the day when you take the glasses off, everything looks upside down for a while.
I have HD. I watch free HD broadcasts with the built-in tuner (they don't tell about that at Best Buy because it doesn't help them sell Direct TV). Sports look great.
Anyway...
When I watch a DVD it looks great. I'm sure that HD/BluRay DVDs will look even better, but I can't imagine the difference is worth $100s of dollars. Maybe when NetFlix is carrying a zillion hi-def titles I'll think about upgrading.
You might try Edubuntu. The default installation includes LTSP and is designed for small computer labs. You only have to admin one machine and the clients will run on old boxes. You can also reduce noise/power consumption removing the drives from the clients.
I heard they found him bny pairing with his bluetooth phone.
Or worse yet, a thief!
Then we need Live Webcam Kitten Auth(tm)!
Maybe some uberuser should make a "Click here for Brittney Spears Pics" trojan that wipes the computer. It could load a little program that runs at startup and nukes the PC from orbit.
Any other bots and spyware on that machine go away, and the user ends up with a clean factory restore (after his brother-in-law comes over to show him how to use the restore disks).
Over time, this could be modified to seek out zombie machines directly.
I hope martial arts games can use this technology. Right now they just chain together motion captured sequences. The most glaring time you see this is when the players slide on the floor--they never seem connected to the ground: blocking a kick shouldn't make you slide back 12 inches.
And when a kick or strike is landed it should look different than when it's blocked.
Racing games use physics model the actions and reactions of the cars. If fighting games did the same thing, that would be awesome. You could model injuries (the fighter limps or holds one arm), just like NASCAR games model damage to the car. And they could interact with the environment and fight on uneven surfaces.
The taper doesn't change the amount of energy, it forces the same amount of air to move through a smaller space, increasing the velocity.
Sounds like a Solar Chimnet
"and for the amount of power generated, wouldn't work out very well"
I'm too dumb to do the math, but this was supposed to generate alot of power. It seems like a supersonic airflow in a 10 foot pipe would contain alot of energy.