As for some anecdotal evidence towards this, I went out to buy WoW this weekend it was sold out at a number of places. Of course, anecdotal evidence doesn't mean squat, but it was annoying nonetheless.
I'm not sure I'd be seriously worried quite yet. There are plenty of people who have no qualms about and even look forward to plopping down on the couch after dinner and veging out for the primetime hours while they turn their brains off for network TV. It will be a while be a while before great numbers of people will give up their sitcom/reality show routines. I've had trouble convincing people of the benefits of a TiVo; anything more complicated than that will take some time to get much traction.
People buy Starbucks because it's 'in' or 'cool'. If you can't see how blatantly obvious this is, I think you need to wkae the hell up.
My neighborhood Starbucks has turned out to be a convenient community gathering place. Quite a few people show up after dinner time or on Saturday mornings, many bringing their kids and dogs, mainly to chat. The "cool" coffee is entirely secondary, but since so many people like coffee, why not meet up with your friends and neighbors to drink it rather than make your own at home?
And before anyone mentions it: no, there are no other coffee shops in the area. The only one we have is the one that is 'in' or 'cool' to hate.
Here's a short review of the Fisher FVD-C1 from the current MacWorld article on DV Camcorders:
The Fisher FVD-C1 is one of a new generation of MPEG-4 video camcorders that eschew tape and record directly to storage media. Like a shapely silver iPod, the lightweight, compact Fisher comes with a docking station, fits contentedly in the palm of your hand, and begs you to play. Flip open the bright, 1.5-inch LCD screen, and a cheerful female voice chimes faintly, "Camera mode." Though not much bigger than a postage stamp, the menus are easy to navigate with a beadlike joystick that you control with your thumb.
In spite of its small size, the Fisher takes big pictures: still images at 3.2 megapixels, and video at 640 by 480 pixels and 30 frames per second. At the highest-quality settings, you can fit as many as 491 pictures, or about 21 minutes of video, on the supplied 512MB memory card. The still pictures are sharp and vibrant, but video quality is disappointing, with soft edges, banding (blocks of muddy pixels), and pixel artifacts. Lightweight camcorders like this one are difficult to hold steady, and it has no image stabilization. While the audio is sufficiently loud, we heard a whine and occasional clicking as the autofocus tried to keep up, and you can't use an external microphone.
We'd recommend any of the DV camcorders in our test group over the Fisher for video quality, even if it means hauling around a few extra ounces. And if you're looking for excellent photographs, you can buy a good 3.2-megapixel camera and a 512MB memory card for about half its price.
I visited Mt. St. Helens about a year ago with my family. Unfortunately, the crater was obscured by clouds during most of our visit. I did get some nice pictures, regardless. Here's a link to a few of them:
A couple of years ago, my company issued the developers a style guide that told us how we were suppose to spell, punctuate, and capitalize certain things. Not only was it full of "e-" things, but they all were followed by capitalized words. I.e.,
e-Mail e-Business e-Commerce
Ugh. Not only was it ugly, but it was a pain to type and maintain consistency, since all of us were used to "e-mail", etc.
I think they've since dropped the capitalization weirdness, thankfully.
Think about something far more interesting; for example, what if every singe person in that rural Montana community could get a regular yearly physical with a real physician sitting thousands of miles away.
And then the big city doctor told me, "Please put the webcam down your pants, turn your head and cough."
Oh, you would have heard about it, once a song gets picked and played over and over and over again in every possible venue, like Beautiful Day off the last album--especially with the olympics coming up, which also happened to correspond with their last album release.
Yeah, but the major media powers would hate that, since you wouldn't need to consume anything new. What they should do it come up with a way to make you forget the actual content, just that you really liked it (no matter if you really did). Then you'd want to buy the next great thing from them.
It would probably be pretty hard to get the robot owners to give up control of the robots. It seems that there's always people who want more power than others and control of the working robots would be the source of that power. If someone came to take them away, they'd be able to unleash their horde of robot housekeepers turned warriors upon the rest of civilization. (see Mom's Robots on Futurama).
It's more like $1.50 for a 16oz cup of freshly brewed coffee. You don't have to get the venti quaduple shot vanilla extra-hot white chocolate soy mocha.
iTunes Music Store is currently giving away one free song (of their choice) a week, as well. Granted, most of them so far have been fairly average pop songs, but a couple haven't been that bad.
While I did have to take calculus as part of my college curriculum, so did just about every science & engineering student. When I think of Computer Science math, I think more of the discreet math, computational complexity, logic, and probability sort of courses. They really are a different sort of animal than calculus: much more abstract and having little to do with numbers at all (perhaps with the exception of probability). These courses give you insight into how computing fundamentally works, turning a programmer into a computer scientist.
I'm most familiar with the term "metagame" in relation to Magic: the Gathering. The metagame with MtG is essentially a step above actually playing the card game. It's knowing how the players, the current card sets and deck trends are working together. For example, at a given moment, decks featuring goblins may be very popular, so you need to fashion your deck to take that into account. You play the metagame before (and while) you actually play the game.
Having to pay for privacy seems to be pretty standard. Last time I signed up for telephone service, they told me I'd have to pay extra to not get listed in the phone book.
When I was a kid, we could always tell which of our lego bricks were the worst offenders for not coming apart. They were the ones with teeth marks on them.
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As for some anecdotal evidence towards this, I went out to buy WoW this weekend it was sold out at a number of places. Of course, anecdotal evidence doesn't mean squat, but it was annoying nonetheless.
I'm not sure I'd be seriously worried quite yet. There are plenty of people who have no qualms about and even look forward to plopping down on the couch after dinner and veging out for the primetime hours while they turn their brains off for network TV. It will be a while be a while before great numbers of people will give up their sitcom/reality show routines. I've had trouble convincing people of the benefits of a TiVo; anything more complicated than that will take some time to get much traction.
If you access it as:
https://gmail.google.com
it should work fine. Accessing it as:
https://www.gmail.com
will have it redirect to regular http://
There was a story on NPR a couple of days ago about the ad. That's probably better than them just running the ad.
-- ...".
2: "...with this is the judgement
judgment
--
Both are correct.
People buy Starbucks because it's 'in' or 'cool'. If you can't see how blatantly obvious this is, I think you need to wkae the hell up.
My neighborhood Starbucks has turned out to be a convenient community gathering place. Quite a few people show up after dinner time or on Saturday mornings, many bringing their kids and dogs, mainly to chat. The "cool" coffee is entirely secondary, but since so many people like coffee, why not meet up with your friends and neighbors to drink it rather than make your own at home?
And before anyone mentions it: no, there are no other coffee shops in the area. The only one we have is the one that is 'in' or 'cool' to hate.
Here's a short review of the Fisher FVD-C1 from the current MacWorld article on DV Camcorders:
The Fisher FVD-C1 is one of a new generation of MPEG-4 video camcorders that eschew tape and record directly to storage media. Like a shapely silver iPod, the lightweight, compact Fisher comes with a docking station, fits contentedly in the palm of your hand, and begs you to play. Flip open the bright, 1.5-inch LCD screen, and a cheerful female voice chimes faintly, "Camera mode." Though not much bigger than a postage stamp, the menus are easy to navigate with a beadlike joystick that you control with your thumb.
In spite of its small size, the Fisher takes big pictures: still images at 3.2 megapixels, and video at 640 by 480 pixels and 30 frames per second. At the highest-quality settings, you can fit as many as 491 pictures, or about 21 minutes of video, on the supplied 512MB memory card. The still pictures are sharp and vibrant, but video quality is disappointing, with soft edges, banding (blocks of muddy pixels), and pixel artifacts. Lightweight camcorders like this one are difficult to hold steady, and it has no image stabilization. While the audio is sufficiently loud, we heard a whine and occasional clicking as the autofocus tried to keep up, and you can't use an external microphone.
We'd recommend any of the DV camcorders in our test group over the Fisher for video quality, even if it means hauling around a few extra ounces. And if you're looking for excellent photographs, you can buy a good 3.2-megapixel camera and a 512MB memory card for about half its price.
I visited Mt. St. Helens about a year ago with my family. Unfortunately, the crater was obscured by clouds during most of our visit. I did get some nice pictures, regardless. Here's a link to a few of them:
Mt. St. Helens Pictures
You can still see large areas of trees knocked down and huge stumps left from when the trunks were snapped off like twigs.
"y3r p4wn i5 0wn3d!!!"
y3r p4wn i5 pwn3d.
Here's an article about battery calibration from the Apple site:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86
Essentially, you just need to charge your batter to full, then use it until it goes to sleep and it will recalibrate itself.
Thanks, I realized that upon rereading my post, but, alas, there's no edit function here. The preview button is your friend, I guess.
A couple of years ago, my company issued the developers a style guide that told us how we were suppose to spell, punctuate, and capitalize certain things. Not only was it full of "e-" things, but they all were followed by capitalized words. I.e.,
e-Mail
e-Business
e-Commerce
Ugh. Not only was it ugly, but it was a pain to type and maintain consistency, since all of us were used to "e-mail", etc.
I think they've since dropped the capitalization weirdness, thankfully.
Think about something far more interesting; for example, what if every singe person in that rural Montana community could get a regular yearly physical with a real physician sitting thousands of miles away.
And then the big city doctor told me, "Please put the webcam down your pants, turn your head and cough."
That page is now my browser's startpage. Very cool project! :)
:)
Oh, man, now I have to actually go through with it, since someone's watching.
I don't think my wife would appreciate me getting a share of any infamous girls, Swedish or otherwise.
Oh, you would have heard about it, once a song gets picked and played over and over and over again in every possible venue, like Beautiful Day off the last album--especially with the olympics coming up, which also happened to correspond with their last album release.
Yeah, but the major media powers would hate that, since you wouldn't need to consume anything new. What they should do it come up with a way to make you forget the actual content, just that you really liked it (no matter if you really did). Then you'd want to buy the next great thing from them.
It would probably be pretty hard to get the robot owners to give up control of the robots. It seems that there's always people who want more power than others and control of the working robots would be the source of that power. If someone came to take them away, they'd be able to unleash their horde of robot housekeepers turned warriors upon the rest of civilization. (see Mom's Robots on Futurama).
It's more like $1.50 for a 16oz cup of freshly brewed coffee. You don't have to get the venti quaduple shot vanilla extra-hot white chocolate soy mocha.
iTunes Music Store is currently giving away one free song (of their choice) a week, as well. Granted, most of them so far have been fairly average pop songs, but a couple haven't been that bad.
While I did have to take calculus as part of my college curriculum, so did just about every science & engineering student. When I think of Computer Science math, I think more of the discreet math, computational complexity, logic, and probability sort of courses. They really are a different sort of animal than calculus: much more abstract and having little to do with numbers at all (perhaps with the exception of probability). These courses give you insight into how computing fundamentally works, turning a programmer into a computer scientist.
Yeah, they send out this guy.
I'm most familiar with the term "metagame" in relation to Magic: the Gathering. The metagame with MtG is essentially a step above actually playing the card game. It's knowing how the players, the current card sets and deck trends are working together. For example, at a given moment, decks featuring goblins may be very popular, so you need to fashion your deck to take that into account. You play the metagame before (and while) you actually play the game.
I like this one:
...
Celebrity Hour - Starring Gabe and Jesus
Gabe: Hi!
Jesus: I'm Wantanabe Ken!
Gabe: Who?
Jesus: I'm Last SAMURAI. Please give me katana.
Gabe: It's a lie.
Jesus:
Gabe: You are Tom Cloose!
Jesus: Oh! Yes!
Having to pay for privacy seems to be pretty standard. Last time I signed up for telephone service, they told me I'd have to pay extra to not get listed in the phone book.
When I was a kid, we could always tell which of our lego bricks were the worst offenders for not coming apart. They were the ones with teeth marks on them.