Ones where you change your mainboard often? I've had the same Linux install carry across 8 boards with no problems. Windows always ended in a blue screen on boot after every mainboard swap.
I'm not sure why you got modded as a troll since it's true. The entire idea behind the Wii is to change the way gaming works (for nintendo). Personally I'm waiting for the game company that gets so fustrated with trying to put a square peg in a round hole via porting a ps3/xbox to the Wii that they just insist that people buy a wavebird
There is an interesting aspect to "fairness" in the political sense. NPR brought up an interesting point in the upcoming U.S. election that youtube will play a significant role. Some candidates will be able to roll with the changes, quickly adapt to what is coming at them and use it to their advantage. Other candidates that have a very "rigid" appearance may not be able to handle the massive third party attacks. If you think about it this is probably true. Old timers who cannot flow with the coming tide of random people with their own agenda getting their 5 minutes in the spotlight are going to take the brunt of the force instead of deflecting it because they no longer control their own campain.
From what little I know about Japanese politics, Japanese politicians being "uptight" is an understatement. These guys fear youtube because it's something new that they probably aren't good at dealing with - therefore not really "fair" to them. Whether or not it would really make a difference in a campaign right now is hard to say.
Although you narrowed that down to soccer moms, the reality is people in general think they should always get something from a doctor. Nevermind that you might just be sick and need some rest and some time, that's sheer silliness. If I recall correctly doctors prescribed antibiotics something like 30% of the time when the patient did not need them.
Well I don't think MS is necessarily stuck on always bringing in money. IE for instance. But both MS and Google create things which don't go strait to the bottom line but add to their ecosystem to add value. Gmail for instance I found to be okay, but I found it convenient to use the calendar as well. Google documents is a convenient place to jot down notes for me. Slowly but surely Google has won me over to gmail, but not directly because of gmail.
Microsoft is much more complex. For instnace they push a music format, and a PC media player neither of which generates any real profit but is more of an attempt for Microsoft to gain some control in the market. Control == $$ I think your spot on about Balmer being a bit of both columns.
Sheesh SET IT TO CLASSIC MODE... are people really that blind?
And every user is going to have it set to classic mode? I doubt it. I personally don't like going on a machine at a person's request to fix it and mess with all the settings. I would expect the new mode is what I will find, so I've tried (like many here) to use the new mode. I've stuck with the new start menu as well, and I've actually found it easier to use now.
But the control panel is just a total quagmire. I honestly can't see Microsoft having done any usability studies on it. Despite being rather unfamiliar with a Mac, it's usually pretty easy to figure everything out. In windows when not in classic mode I can chase my tail endlessly trying to figure out things like where remote desktop would be enabled.
A "revolution" in a process can be patented I believe. For instance if you found a way to produce steel that required half the time, or energy, or whatever. I'm not going to get into the entire lawsuits over accidental cross pollination and such, but I think there probably is some basis in there.
I guess I find it sort of interesting that people say "update that firewall". If you have a firewall it's passing traffic out, and last I heard IPV6 wasn't growing by leaps and bounds. So why have IPV6 enabled if you don't need it? I understand the BSD team wants the default IPV6 ready, but if you're setting up a serious firewall then you should take most everything you don't need out of the kernel - that would include ipv6 for just about everyone.
And really you shouldn't have IPV6 compiled in any other BSD or Linux on a firewall if you have no plans on using it in my opinion. You can always compile it back in when everyone is ready to play.
The low-hanging fruit of Date taken and some other things is handled by EXIF data most cameras record, and most photo managers deal with, but looking at similarities in photographs without context is more along the lines of the difficulty you bring up
And to tell you the truth EXIF data is about all you could realistically get out of it anyway. If you could seriously code something that would tell you meaningful things about arbitrary photographs, you've probably made the biggest breakthrough in AI ever. I mean there is realistically no way a program could really know what you are trying to do with pictures and why you would group them. If I'm taking pictures experimenting with perspective, there is obviously no way the program could know such things. I think a sort of tagging system could work well, but that's 'adding metadata' which is what the parent didn't want to do.
Well if you want to make the next revolution in software, I guess that's one avenue to try.
I think following the dollar is going to be the rule for this generation. When all is said and done, I think the market share formerly held by the Xbox, and mostly the PS2 will be split evenly for the 360 and PS3 but will have shrunk by a fair margin. Nintendo will have the biggest market share with the least powerful console. If you port between the Xbox and PS3 you can probably better utilize the power but will be fighting for table scraps. Or you can take a step down and go for the nintendo.
My only concern is that usually the games that are developed as being cross platform from the start, have the crappiest graphics - even below the lowest common denominator. Separate dedicated ports always seem to be much better.
Actually it appears that it is using a CBC, there appears to be a middle layer that arbitrarily partitions sections that are encrypted and decrypted on the fly. I was pretty skeptical the last time this was mentioned on slashdot, but I have to admit this actually looks like a promising product. I'll wait for some more skillful security experts to evaluate it first, but I'm certainly keeping an open mind on it.
Is it possible to use wyse terminal keyboards with a regular PC? I've got a lot of them laying around and really like them but nothing to hook them up to really (only two serial terminals).
I use over 500 minutes and it actually still works out quite well with their rates. I also make a lot of calls to Canada so I save big time there. But you need to use over 750 to go over $25 (which I've never gone over) so even if you use over 500 minutes it can still pay to be on that plan.
Nikon has a best shot selector which saves the sharpest image out of a series of pictures, (up to 10) so that could help with the blurry part.. In my experience it's best to just take as many pictures as possible in a set. I never take less than two myself. I got in the habit of that with my Canon camera which I have a hard time holding steady - a combination of my hand, and rarely using the flash.
Not as much as she did back in 98. If you remember those days, you'd hear stories about her going down 5-6 times a night. Then I guess around 2000 she got her act together and needed less attention. With a bit more XPerience she's considered to be much more stable. Now I hear she's gone off the deep end and is extremely defensive. She asks you to confirm everything with her before you do even some of the most trivial things.
I'm not sure it matters how many people are on a T1 really. You'd think that when people hear that term that there was a halo around it. "Wow, our company has an entire T1!" I can saturate that with ONE download. After you start clogging the pipe with more connections you'll obviously have problems, but 3 severe users can single handily take that up. The only realistic solution I had was to set up a FreeBSD firewall and start segregating traffic. It actually works quite well but I'm already hearing things like "Is there something wrong with the internet? It seems slow?". I think part of the problem is that no one (normal people) really seems to know how much bandwidth a T1 has, 1.5Mb sounds like a lot but that's bits, not bytes, and the fact that many people don't even have a grasp at how big anything on the internet is - 1500k pictures are just numbers to them.
> the larger, more detailed icons (which are a real eye saver if you run at screen resolutions of 1280 x 1024 and above)
Yikes! Large icons are the first thing I usually turn off. What a waste of screen space. Once again, is this really a huge efficiency boost?
Actually I find the icons are making vista harder to use. If you look at the control panel in "classic mode", it looks like a jumbled together collage of shiny garbage. Many of the system program icons should utilize either extremely simple representations of things (the old "my computer" icon for instance), or general symbols. When you look at traffic signs, you don't see an actual picture of a windy road, you see a squiggly line representing one. Another examle is the quickstart bar where I have windows explorer, show the desktop, and the view all windows 3d effect thing. The icons all look like shiny blue screens with just a hint of something different that has hardly any correlation to what does (or it's way to small in the icon to really see without significant study).
If they failed miserably with Open Licensing, then they're still failing - you can still get pretty much all corporate products under the Open Licensing Scheme (and about a billion others).
I would like to point out that first of all, this doesn't sound like it's completely ruled out of the U.S. version either. As this is done in software, it will be upgradeable. The PS3 has more than enough horsepower to do this in software, and long term I doubt you'll actually see much of a difference as they tweak backwards compatibility. Well, IF they do anyway...
Fun fact: When the Queen of England leaves Britain and is on Canadian soil, she IS the queen of Canada. Take the parliament tour in Ottawa; It's pretty interesting.
As someone who has done quite a bit of perl (and still does) I'd say I'd have to agree that perl's sytnax needs work. I'm not very hip on the changes that will be comming in perl6 however so I decided to jump ship totally and switch to ruby.
Ruby can do most everything perl can do (including one liners), but once you've used perl, you will sorely miss CPAN. That and the ruby cgi library is junk, although good enough for simplistic cgi work.
Have you ever really looked at benchmarks with the larger cache sizes? When I was looking into upgrading a processor I found that there were some Athlon64's that were pretty much identical except for the cache sizes. And what do the benchmarks show? Pretty much a negligible speed increase, which I found to be pretty surprising actually. When looking at the price difference you're much better off putting that money towards RAM. Maybe some server applications can better take advantage of the cache, but it seems like the consumer level isn't seeing much benefit there.
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Ones where you change your mainboard often? I've had the same Linux install carry across 8 boards with no problems. Windows always ended in a blue screen on boot after every mainboard swap.
I'm not sure why you got modded as a troll since it's true. The entire idea behind the Wii is to change the way gaming works (for nintendo). Personally I'm waiting for the game company that gets so fustrated with trying to put a square peg in a round hole via porting a ps3/xbox to the Wii that they just insist that people buy a wavebird
There is an interesting aspect to "fairness" in the political sense. NPR brought up an interesting point in the upcoming U.S. election that youtube will play a significant role. Some candidates will be able to roll with the changes, quickly adapt to what is coming at them and use it to their advantage. Other candidates that have a very "rigid" appearance may not be able to handle the massive third party attacks. If you think about it this is probably true. Old timers who cannot flow with the coming tide of random people with their own agenda getting their 5 minutes in the spotlight are going to take the brunt of the force instead of deflecting it because they no longer control their own campain.
From what little I know about Japanese politics, Japanese politicians being "uptight" is an understatement. These guys fear youtube because it's something new that they probably aren't good at dealing with - therefore not really "fair" to them. Whether or not it would really make a difference in a campaign right now is hard to say.
Although you narrowed that down to soccer moms, the reality is people in general think they should always get something from a doctor. Nevermind that you might just be sick and need some rest and some time, that's sheer silliness. If I recall correctly doctors prescribed antibiotics something like 30% of the time when the patient did not need them.
Hope you remembered to lock down grub or you'll be eating those words when that punk kid who knows linux starts working there =)
Well I don't think MS is necessarily stuck on always bringing in money. IE for instance. But both MS and Google create things which don't go strait to the bottom line but add to their ecosystem to add value. Gmail for instance I found to be okay, but I found it convenient to use the calendar as well. Google documents is a convenient place to jot down notes for me. Slowly but surely Google has won me over to gmail, but not directly because of gmail.
Microsoft is much more complex. For instnace they push a music format, and a PC media player neither of which generates any real profit but is more of an attempt for Microsoft to gain some control in the market. Control == $$ I think your spot on about Balmer being a bit of both columns.
Sheesh SET IT TO CLASSIC MODE... are people really that blind?
And every user is going to have it set to classic mode? I doubt it. I personally don't like going on a machine at a person's request to fix it and mess with all the settings. I would expect the new mode is what I will find, so I've tried (like many here) to use the new mode. I've stuck with the new start menu as well, and I've actually found it easier to use now.
But the control panel is just a total quagmire. I honestly can't see Microsoft having done any usability studies on it. Despite being rather unfamiliar with a Mac, it's usually pretty easy to figure everything out. In windows when not in classic mode I can chase my tail endlessly trying to figure out things like where remote desktop would be enabled.
A "revolution" in a process can be patented I believe. For instance if you found a way to produce steel that required half the time, or energy, or whatever. I'm not going to get into the entire lawsuits over accidental cross pollination and such, but I think there probably is some basis in there.
I guess I find it sort of interesting that people say "update that firewall". If you have a firewall it's passing traffic out, and last I heard IPV6 wasn't growing by leaps and bounds. So why have IPV6 enabled if you don't need it? I understand the BSD team wants the default IPV6 ready, but if you're setting up a serious firewall then you should take most everything you don't need out of the kernel - that would include ipv6 for just about everyone.
And really you shouldn't have IPV6 compiled in any other BSD or Linux on a firewall if you have no plans on using it in my opinion. You can always compile it back in when everyone is ready to play.
The low-hanging fruit of Date taken and some other things is handled by EXIF data most cameras record, and most photo managers deal with, but looking at similarities in photographs without context is more along the lines of the difficulty you bring up
And to tell you the truth EXIF data is about all you could realistically get out of it anyway. If you could seriously code something that would tell you meaningful things about arbitrary photographs, you've probably made the biggest breakthrough in AI ever. I mean there is realistically no way a program could really know what you are trying to do with pictures and why you would group them. If I'm taking pictures experimenting with perspective, there is obviously no way the program could know such things. I think a sort of tagging system could work well, but that's 'adding metadata' which is what the parent didn't want to do.
Well if you want to make the next revolution in software, I guess that's one avenue to try.
I think following the dollar is going to be the rule for this generation. When all is said and done, I think the market share formerly held by the Xbox, and mostly the PS2 will be split evenly for the 360 and PS3 but will have shrunk by a fair margin. Nintendo will have the biggest market share with the least powerful console. If you port between the Xbox and PS3 you can probably better utilize the power but will be fighting for table scraps. Or you can take a step down and go for the nintendo.
My only concern is that usually the games that are developed as being cross platform from the start, have the crappiest graphics - even below the lowest common denominator. Separate dedicated ports always seem to be much better.
Actually it appears that it is using a CBC, there appears to be a middle layer that arbitrarily partitions sections that are encrypted and decrypted on the fly. I was pretty skeptical the last time this was mentioned on slashdot, but I have to admit this actually looks like a promising product. I'll wait for some more skillful security experts to evaluate it first, but I'm certainly keeping an open mind on it.
Is it possible to use wyse terminal keyboards with a regular PC? I've got a lot of them laying around and really like them but nothing to hook them up to really (only two serial terminals).
I use over 500 minutes and it actually still works out quite well with their rates. I also make a lot of calls to Canada so I save big time there. But you need to use over 750 to go over $25 (which I've never gone over) so even if you use over 500 minutes it can still pay to be on that plan.
Nikon has a best shot selector which saves the sharpest image out of a series of pictures, (up to 10) so that could help with the blurry part.. In my experience it's best to just take as many pictures as possible in a set. I never take less than two myself. I got in the habit of that with my Canon camera which I have a hard time holding steady - a combination of my hand, and rarely using the flash.
And, as another user pointed out "editable text configurations" is a stupid name too, because if it's text, it's evidently editable
but then there was the sendmail configuration...
Not as much as she did back in 98. If you remember those days, you'd hear stories about her going down 5-6 times a night. Then I guess around 2000 she got her act together and needed less attention. With a bit more XPerience she's considered to be much more stable. Now I hear she's gone off the deep end and is extremely defensive. She asks you to confirm everything with her before you do even some of the most trivial things.
I'm not sure it matters how many people are on a T1 really. You'd think that when people hear that term that there was a halo around it. "Wow, our company has an entire T1!" I can saturate that with ONE download. After you start clogging the pipe with more connections you'll obviously have problems, but 3 severe users can single handily take that up. The only realistic solution I had was to set up a FreeBSD firewall and start segregating traffic. It actually works quite well but I'm already hearing things like "Is there something wrong with the internet? It seems slow?". I think part of the problem is that no one (normal people) really seems to know how much bandwidth a T1 has, 1.5Mb sounds like a lot but that's bits, not bytes, and the fact that many people don't even have a grasp at how big anything on the internet is - 1500k pictures are just numbers to them.
Actually I find the icons are making vista harder to use. If you look at the control panel in "classic mode", it looks like a jumbled together collage of shiny garbage. Many of the system program icons should utilize either extremely simple representations of things (the old "my computer" icon for instance), or general symbols. When you look at traffic signs, you don't see an actual picture of a windy road, you see a squiggly line representing one. Another examle is the quickstart bar where I have windows explorer, show the desktop, and the view all windows 3d effect thing. The icons all look like shiny blue screens with just a hint of something different that has hardly any correlation to what does (or it's way to small in the icon to really see without significant study).
If they failed miserably with Open Licensing, then they're still failing - you can still get pretty much all corporate products under the Open Licensing Scheme (and about a billion others).
I would like to point out that first of all, this doesn't sound like it's completely ruled out of the U.S. version either. As this is done in software, it will be upgradeable. The PS3 has more than enough horsepower to do this in software, and long term I doubt you'll actually see much of a difference as they tweak backwards compatibility. Well, IF they do anyway...
Fun fact: When the Queen of England leaves Britain and is on Canadian soil, she IS the queen of Canada. Take the parliament tour in Ottawa; It's pretty interesting.
As someone who has done quite a bit of perl (and still does) I'd say I'd have to agree that perl's sytnax needs work. I'm not very hip on the changes that will be comming in perl6 however so I decided to jump ship totally and switch to ruby.
Ruby can do most everything perl can do (including one liners), but once you've used perl, you will sorely miss CPAN. That and the ruby cgi library is junk, although good enough for simplistic cgi work.
Have you ever really looked at benchmarks with the larger cache sizes? When I was looking into upgrading a processor I found that there were some Athlon64's that were pretty much identical except for the cache sizes. And what do the benchmarks show? Pretty much a negligible speed increase, which I found to be pretty surprising actually. When looking at the price difference you're much better off putting that money towards RAM. Maybe some server applications can better take advantage of the cache, but it seems like the consumer level isn't seeing much benefit there.