My daughter is a budding artist and so we decided it was time to purchase a digital platform for her. We narrowed it down to either the new iPad Pro or the new Surface Pro 4. We decided for the Surface Pro 4, even though every other device in our home is Apple. Why? For one very simple reason: she is really into Minecraft and has invested quite a bit of time building her own world on our minecraft server. A server she cannot connect to with the pocket/mobile version of Minecraft - and this device will replace her aging (and almost dead) laptop.
So they just gave up on the whole prototype system and duct taped class-based OO on top of it? That's actually kind of sad -- It was a special aspect of Javascript that set it apart from other languages, and homogenization is boring. I guess maybe today's "Javascript developers" just couldn't wrap their heads around it.
They did not give up on the prototype system. To quote from the link you shared:
ES6 classes are a simple sugar over the prototype-based OO pattern... Classes support prototype-based inheritance, super calls, instance and static methods and constructors.
It's just sugar. It's all prototype inheritance underneath the sugar, and you are still free to not use the sugar and keep using prototype inheritance like you always have.
Could it be the music industry has adapted enough that the average joe doesn't feel the need to pirate music as much as other media? Yes, the adaptation certainly isn't ideal, but most of my friends now pay $9 a month (or so) and stream all their music and stream most new music. They are letting their personal music libraries slowly bit rot away as they increasingly rely on the cloud and streaming services. Plus most digital albums can be bought without DRM these days. But movies are a different story. You have to wait before you can even watch a movie in your own home, and movie media is always DRMed.
This is so disappointing to me. I waited forever for TomTom to come out with their GPS app, but now there is no way they will get my business. I was willing to pay a little extra for guaranteed quality, but not that much. As it is, I will now be researching the competition. No matter how convincing anyone's arguments in defense of this price, I simply cannot afford it, end of story. The most I am able to shell out for the app AND the kit is $75. The most I would have been willing to shell out for the app alone is $40. I've had to cutback recently due to a corporate wide pay cut, and my iPhone service itself survived only because I dropped my landline instead. Now they want me to pay as much for the freakin' app alone as I did for the GPS in my wife's car?!? Ain't gonna happen.
I see a lot of people arguing that this experiment proves God is not real. So, if scientists create a device that can directly induce my brain into feeling sexual pleasure, when, at that particular moment in time, I am not engaged in any sexual act, does that mean sex does not exist? Or maybe they manipulate my mind so that I feel like I'm touching water, when I'm not touching water... does that mean water does not exist? After all, at the point the experiment was performed, those feelings were only in my head - they weren't actually happening. Guess that means I must have imagined them all along.
Let me note that the issue of free will has been a very hot topic in religious circles for hundreds of years. In Protestant Christianity, for example, there are "reformed" (or "Calvinistic") Christians, who believe in a "sovereign God" who is in control of everything (thus, no free will), and the Arminians, who do believe in free will. And, just as the parent notes, the very reason it is hotly debated is the age old question, "How can a good God allow bad things?"
I just use a gas dryer, gas heat, and gas stove. There's really no other way to cook (if you like to cook) than to use gas stovetop. Electric burners suck....just no heat control there.
I've always been curious why more people don't use gas...
I live in the NW, and in my city, gas is now much more expensive than electricity. The previous owners of my house discovered this the hard way. They had an inefficient electric furnace heating the house, and during the winter their electric bill would increase by a $100 a month. This was painful for them, and their furnace was at the end of its life, so they decided to switch to a 97% efficient gas furnace. The next winter, their gas bill was $160 a month (note: they used no gas before, so that $160 is purely for the furnace). Now, it is $220 a month (due to price hikes on the gas). We are lucky. Our home is only 1600 sq. ft. Our next door neighbor has 2400 sq. ft. and they pay over $300 a month. I had a furnace guy come out and tell me that, in our area, switching to a heat pump could save me around $130 a month. But, the question is, will I live in this house long enough for the price difference to justify the cost of a new furnace?:) I'm not sure why this is, and if it is local only to our small city. However, it is inevitable that electricity will eventually become cheaper than gas: many things can be converted into electricity if needed. So far, only gas can be gas, and supplies are limited.
A while back wired.com had an interview with Harry Dent, who predicted a second bubble (he also predicted the first bubble way back in 1992). Ah, here is a link: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70034-0.htm l Basically, his prediction is that tech will boom (aka, bubble) again until about 2010 - 2012, at which point we will have an economic decline not seen since the great depression. I believe reality will be a little more tempered than his prediction, but will otherwise follow the course he describes.
Who signed off on the DMCA? This whole mess is on both sides of the isle, and it isn't going to change until we people show the government who they are supposed to be working for. Right now, they think they work for lobbying industries such as RIAA, MPAA, etc.
As a casual player who can never get more than an hour or two block of time to play WoW (per week), WoW lost its appeal to me when I started to have to team up with other players to finish quests. This is because you must dedicate at least two hours, often more, of contiguous time in order to be fair to everyone involved. I couldn't keep it up and was forced to quit.
The book of Revelation says this, "And then I saw a great white throne, and one seated upon it from whose presence both earth and sky fled and vanished. Then I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books concerning what they had done. The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up the dead which were in them. And men were judged, each according to what he had done. Then death and the grave were themselves hurled into the lake of fire, which is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life he was thrown into the lake of fire."
It does not matter how strongly you believe that this is nonsense. It does not matter how strongly you use evolution to prove that this cannot be true and will not happen. You, the one reading this, will stand before that throne and will be judged. The only way your name appears in the book of life is if you believe in Jesus Christ and turn to Him. The whole evolution vs. creation debate is pointless. Whether God spoke it into existence with a word or evolved it over millions of years doesn't change that you will stand before this throne and be judged. There is no way around this reality.
Being a husband and father of two, I was able to casually play WoW up until lvl 43 or so. When I say casual, I mean about 2 to 3 hours a week, played in 30 minute blocks. However, around that level, WoW began to demand large chunks of time in contiguous blocks. I would need to group up with other players and tackle something (dungeon, whatever), and I would need to be dedicated to that for 2-3 hours without interruption. The only problem is, with a wife and two kids, it is very difficult to do anything without much interruption. I could no longer advance that character without imposing upon my real life too much, and I couldn't muster the motiviation to start over with a new character, so I left the game. I know there must be other people like me out there. I would think that over time more and more people will find themselves in the same place.
If enough people choose other carriers because the other carrier's phones do allow them to transfer pictures to their computer for free (for example), then at some point it does make business sense for Verizon to let you transfer pictures for free.
I too have a Saturn 2001 SL, manual transmission (no automatic windows, no automatic locks, very very basic). I purchased it used (31,000 miles) one year ago at a Saturn dealer for $7500. It averages about 40-44 mpg on the highway and 32-34 mpg when doing lots of stop and go city driving. I have recorded every drop of gas I've ever put in this thing along with mileage, so I have pretty accurate mpg. I recently moved to the west coast, where gas is $2.25 locally. Since my other vehicle averages 16 mpg, I've started doing all my driving in the Saturn and this little baby is saving me quite a bit of $ at the moment. If a hybrid isn't going to do any better, why would I bother? Now, if they came out with a Ford Explorer that got 40 mpg, that would certainly tempt me.:-)
I will never pay a subscription for music. Let me buy it and burn it on a per track/per album basis. Let me own it, just like I own the CDs I buy at the store. I hate subscriptions, and I think I speak for the great majority of the market. Subscription was the one thing that turned me away from all the other legal internet music offerings. Once Apple comes out with a Windows version, I'm on board. If someone else comes out with a service just like Apple's before Apple does, or cheaper than Apple, I'm on board. Someone help me understand why these companies can't figure out something so obvious? It only takes me a split second to think like a consumer to realize this idea won't fly. How can people whose full time job it is to figure this out not figure it out?
I worked with AI for several years at the beginning of my career, and was rather unimpressed with the technology available at the time. However, during the course of my work, I ran across Cortical Thought Theory. This one impressed me, and seeing it in action proved to me that it would indeed be possible to build a machine that thinks as humans think. However, what I saw were the remnants of a project that originally was very successful, but got wrapped up in politics and other red tape, eventually killing it. Now, everywhere I go, I see applications for this technology, but do not have time or resources to implement it. It haunts me that I've seen a way for computers to "think"... that the knowledge to make it happen exists, and no one is doing it.
My memory is terrible, and I am not a very organized person. I got burned too many times forgetting appointments and losing notes. I tried the paper daytimer, but that required me to look at it every day to make sure I wasn't forgetting any appointments - I just couldn't trust myself to look at the daytimer every day. After a series of terrible mishaps, I bought myself a PDA for the sole reason that I can set it to beep me when I need to be reminded. That simple feature has saved my life many times. Now, I put everything in my PDA, because I know that it will remind me. I had a hard time being consistent with the daytimer because I had no confidence in it (or rather, in myself). If someone tells me something, I put it in a memo. If someone gives me their phone # or address, I put in the address book. And if I need to remember an appointment, I put it in the datebook and set an alarm. It works, and it's wonderful. I never owned a daytimer that beeped and reminded me of things. I laugh at people who find no use for a PDA. BTW, mine is a Sony Clie.
I tried it last night. Rented and downloaded an older classic for $1.99 (took 1.08 hours on my DSL). It seems their codec could have been much better. I have seen DivX movies the same size (628MB) and same length movie that were higher quality. I would say the quality was similar to VHS. I don't know what codec they are using, but it doesn't seem like MPEG4, which is what I would like to see them use to make maximum use of bandwidth. This service would actually be useful for us, because we live so far away from any rental store... and sometimes have problems getting the movies back on time.:-) We usually watch DVDs on the computer anyway. If a service opens up that uses MPEG4 (or DivX) and has good prices, then we will be using it quite frequently.
I gotta say, I'm tempted to get a Zaurus. My main worry was lack of software, but I keep reminding myself that Zaurus is Linux, and there are already many applications ported to work with the unit. And if it doesn't have an app I want, I could probably port it myself. I saw one of these at the store the other day and just loved how beautiful it looked, including the screen.
I really know nothing on this topic, but the article did mention that earth's magnetic field protects them from some of the radiation. How difficult would it be to build a magnetic "shield" into the space station itself? For all I know, it could be impossible because of the amount of power needed to create such a magnetic field, or the weight/size of the equipment needed. Just a thought, though.
Could someone who knows tell me if it is possible to create a version of this idea that works with regular paper by tracking the ballpoint instead of taking pictures of special digital paper? It almost seems like Logitech has purposefully tied this product to digital paper for the sole purpose of creating recurring income. This reminds me too much of the printer and ink model. There is no way on earth I'm buying such a pen if I have to buy special paper to go with it. Give me a digital pen that works with regular paper and costs less than $70, and I'll strongly consider purchasing. Add some kind of wireless functionality (bluetooth, or even IR) so I can transmit to my PC or PDA, still for less than $70, and there is no way on earth I'm not buying the product.
Maybe this is Microsoft's new tactic at attacking OSS... make it look insecure and unstable by sneaking in bugs, trojans, virus, etc. I wouldn't put it beyond them.
Come on, people, why is this so hard? CleanFlicks isn't forcing their censored products down anyone's throats. People are paying and requesting these products from CleanFlicks. It's not forced censorship. Why do I care if CleanFlicks is doing this if I can easily and legally go out and buy an original version? So, in the end, because of the people's rights that CleanFlicks is defending, I am going to side with CleanFlicks. As a member of the opensource community, I'm very open to someone taking my source and modifying it for whatever they need. The movie industry has never been open to this and wants to remain in control of their content. I see nothing wrong with what CleanFlicks is doing if they purchase a new copy of the video for every edited one they sell, and if they aren't forcing their version and removing the choice for the original in the marketplace. I have a right to modify videos I own for my own personal use, and I don't want that taken away from me.
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My daughter is a budding artist and so we decided it was time to purchase a digital platform for her. We narrowed it down to either the new iPad Pro or the new Surface Pro 4. We decided for the Surface Pro 4, even though every other device in our home is Apple. Why? For one very simple reason: she is really into Minecraft and has invested quite a bit of time building her own world on our minecraft server. A server she cannot connect to with the pocket/mobile version of Minecraft - and this device will replace her aging (and almost dead) laptop.
So they just gave up on the whole prototype system and duct taped class-based OO on top of it? That's actually kind of sad -- It was a special aspect of Javascript that set it apart from other languages, and homogenization is boring. I guess maybe today's "Javascript developers" just couldn't wrap their heads around it.
They did not give up on the prototype system. To quote from the link you shared:
ES6 classes are a simple sugar over the prototype-based OO pattern... Classes support prototype-based inheritance, super calls, instance and static methods and constructors.
It's just sugar. It's all prototype inheritance underneath the sugar, and you are still free to not use the sugar and keep using prototype inheritance like you always have.
Could it be the music industry has adapted enough that the average joe doesn't feel the need to pirate music as much as other media?
Yes, the adaptation certainly isn't ideal, but most of my friends now pay $9 a month (or so) and stream all their music and stream most new music. They are letting their personal music libraries slowly bit rot away as they increasingly rely on the cloud and streaming services.
Plus most digital albums can be bought without DRM these days.
But movies are a different story. You have to wait before you can even watch a movie in your own home, and movie media is always DRMed.
This is so disappointing to me. I waited forever for TomTom to come out with their GPS app, but now there is no way they will get my business. I was willing to pay a little extra for guaranteed quality, but not that much. As it is, I will now be researching the competition. No matter how convincing anyone's arguments in defense of this price, I simply cannot afford it, end of story. The most I am able to shell out for the app AND the kit is $75. The most I would have been willing to shell out for the app alone is $40.
I've had to cutback recently due to a corporate wide pay cut, and my iPhone service itself survived only because I dropped my landline instead. Now they want me to pay as much for the freakin' app alone as I did for the GPS in my wife's car?!? Ain't gonna happen.
I see a lot of people arguing that this experiment proves God is not real. So, if scientists create a device that can directly induce my brain into feeling sexual pleasure, when, at that particular moment in time, I am not engaged in any sexual act, does that mean sex does not exist? Or maybe they manipulate my mind so that I feel like I'm touching water, when I'm not touching water... does that mean water does not exist? After all, at the point the experiment was performed, those feelings were only in my head - they weren't actually happening. Guess that means I must have imagined them all along.
Let me note that the issue of free will has been a very hot topic in religious circles for hundreds of years. In Protestant Christianity, for example, there are "reformed" (or "Calvinistic") Christians, who believe in a "sovereign God" who is in control of everything (thus, no free will), and the Arminians, who do believe in free will. And, just as the parent notes, the very reason it is hotly debated is the age old question, "How can a good God allow bad things?"
I live in the NW, and in my city, gas is now much more expensive than electricity. The previous owners of my house discovered this the hard way. They had an inefficient electric furnace heating the house, and during the winter their electric bill would increase by a $100 a month. This was painful for them, and their furnace was at the end of its life, so they decided to switch to a 97% efficient gas furnace. The next winter, their gas bill was $160 a month (note: they used no gas before, so that $160 is purely for the furnace). Now, it is $220 a month (due to price hikes on the gas). We are lucky. Our home is only 1600 sq. ft. Our next door neighbor has 2400 sq. ft. and they pay over $300 a month. I had a furnace guy come out and tell me that, in our area, switching to a heat pump could save me around $130 a month. But, the question is, will I live in this house long enough for the price difference to justify the cost of a new furnace?
I'm not sure why this is, and if it is local only to our small city. However, it is inevitable that electricity will eventually become cheaper than gas: many things can be converted into electricity if needed. So far, only gas can be gas, and supplies are limited.
A while back wired.com had an interview with Harry Dent, who predicted a second bubble (he also predicted the first bubble way back in 1992). Ah, here is a link: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70034-0.htm l
Basically, his prediction is that tech will boom (aka, bubble) again until about 2010 - 2012, at which point we will have an economic decline not seen since the great depression. I believe reality will be a little more tempered than his prediction, but will otherwise follow the course he describes.
Who signed off on the DMCA? This whole mess is on both sides of the isle, and it isn't going to change until we people show the government who they are supposed to be working for. Right now, they think they work for lobbying industries such as RIAA, MPAA, etc.
As a casual player who can never get more than an hour or two block of time to play WoW (per week), WoW lost its appeal to me when I started to have to team up with other players to finish quests. This is because you must dedicate at least two hours, often more, of contiguous time in order to be fair to everyone involved. I couldn't keep it up and was forced to quit.
The book of Revelation says this,
"And then I saw a great white throne, and one seated upon it from whose presence both earth and sky fled and vanished. Then I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books concerning what they had done. The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up the dead which were in them. And men were judged, each according to what he had done. Then death and the grave were themselves hurled into the lake of fire, which is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life he was thrown into the lake of fire."
It does not matter how strongly you believe that this is nonsense. It does not matter how strongly you use evolution to prove that this cannot be true and will not happen. You, the one reading this, will stand before that throne and will be judged. The only way your name appears in the book of life is if you believe in Jesus Christ and turn to Him. The whole evolution vs. creation debate is pointless. Whether God spoke it into existence with a word or evolved it over millions of years doesn't change that you will stand before this throne and be judged. There is no way around this reality.
Amen! If I could digg your comment, I would. :)
Being a husband and father of two, I was able to casually play WoW up until lvl 43 or so. When I say casual, I mean about 2 to 3 hours a week, played in 30 minute blocks. However, around that level, WoW began to demand large chunks of time in contiguous blocks. I would need to group up with other players and tackle something (dungeon, whatever), and I would need to be dedicated to that for 2-3 hours without interruption. The only problem is, with a wife and two kids, it is very difficult to do anything without much interruption. I could no longer advance that character without imposing upon my real life too much, and I couldn't muster the motiviation to start over with a new character, so I left the game. I know there must be other people like me out there. I would think that over time more and more people will find themselves in the same place.
If enough people choose other carriers because the other carrier's phones do allow them to transfer pictures to their computer for free (for example), then at some point it does make business sense for Verizon to let you transfer pictures for free.
I too have a Saturn 2001 SL, manual transmission (no automatic windows, no automatic locks, very very basic). I purchased it used (31,000 miles) one year ago at a Saturn dealer for $7500. It averages about 40-44 mpg on the highway and 32-34 mpg when doing lots of stop and go city driving. I have recorded every drop of gas I've ever put in this thing along with mileage, so I have pretty accurate mpg. I recently moved to the west coast, where gas is $2.25 locally. Since my other vehicle averages 16 mpg, I've started doing all my driving in the Saturn and this little baby is saving me quite a bit of $ at the moment. If a hybrid isn't going to do any better, why would I bother? Now, if they came out with a Ford Explorer that got 40 mpg, that would certainly tempt me. :-)
I will never pay a subscription for music. Let me buy it and burn it on a per track/per album basis. Let me own it, just like I own the CDs I buy at the store.
I hate subscriptions, and I think I speak for the great majority of the market. Subscription was the one thing that turned me away from all the other legal internet music offerings. Once Apple comes out with a Windows version, I'm on board. If someone else comes out with a service just like Apple's before Apple does, or cheaper than Apple, I'm on board.
Someone help me understand why these companies can't figure out something so obvious? It only takes me a split second to think like a consumer to realize this idea won't fly. How can people whose full time job it is to figure this out not figure it out?
I worked with AI for several years at the beginning of my career, and was rather unimpressed with the technology available at the time. However, during the course of my work, I ran across Cortical Thought Theory. This one impressed me, and seeing it in action proved to me that it would indeed be possible to build a machine that thinks as humans think. However, what I saw were the remnants of a project that originally was very successful, but got wrapped up in politics and other red tape, eventually killing it. Now, everywhere I go, I see applications for this technology, but do not have time or resources to implement it. It haunts me that I've seen a way for computers to "think"... that the knowledge to make it happen exists, and no one is doing it.
My memory is terrible, and I am not a very organized person. I got burned too many times forgetting appointments and losing notes. I tried the paper daytimer, but that required me to look at it every day to make sure I wasn't forgetting any appointments - I just couldn't trust myself to look at the daytimer every day.
After a series of terrible mishaps, I bought myself a PDA for the sole reason that I can set it to beep me when I need to be reminded.
That simple feature has saved my life many times. Now, I put everything in my PDA, because I know that it will remind me. I had a hard time being consistent with the daytimer because I had no confidence in it (or rather, in myself).
If someone tells me something, I put it in a memo. If someone gives me their phone # or address, I put in the address book. And if I need to remember an appointment, I put it in the datebook and set an alarm. It works, and it's wonderful. I never owned a daytimer that beeped and reminded me of things. I laugh at people who find no use for a PDA.
BTW, mine is a Sony Clie.
I'm telling you, this is Microsoft's new tactic for attacking open source. Make people afraid of it, and they will run in terror.
I tried it last night. Rented and downloaded an older classic for $1.99 (took 1.08 hours on my DSL). It seems their codec could have been much better. I have seen DivX movies the same size (628MB) and same length movie that were higher quality. I would say the quality was similar to VHS. I don't know what codec they are using, but it doesn't seem like MPEG4, which is what I would like to see them use to make maximum use of bandwidth. :-)
This service would actually be useful for us, because we live so far away from any rental store... and sometimes have problems getting the movies back on time.
We usually watch DVDs on the computer anyway.
If a service opens up that uses MPEG4 (or DivX) and has good prices, then we will be using it quite frequently.
I gotta say, I'm tempted to get a Zaurus. My main worry was lack of software, but I keep reminding myself that Zaurus is Linux, and there are already many applications ported to work with the unit. And if it doesn't have an app I want, I could probably port it myself. I saw one of these at the store the other day and just loved how beautiful it looked, including the screen.
I really know nothing on this topic, but the article did mention that earth's magnetic field protects them from some of the radiation. How difficult would it be to build a magnetic "shield" into the space station itself? For all I know, it could be impossible because of the amount of power needed to create such a magnetic field, or the weight/size of the equipment needed. Just a thought, though.
Could someone who knows tell me if it is possible to create a version of this idea that works with regular paper by tracking the ballpoint instead of taking pictures of special digital paper? It almost seems like Logitech has purposefully tied this product to digital paper for the sole purpose of creating recurring income. This reminds me too much of the printer and ink model. There is no way on earth I'm buying such a pen if I have to buy special paper to go with it. Give me a digital pen that works with regular paper and costs less than $70, and I'll strongly consider purchasing. Add some kind of wireless functionality (bluetooth, or even IR) so I can transmit to my PC or PDA, still for less than $70, and there is no way on earth I'm not buying the product.
Maybe this is Microsoft's new tactic at attacking OSS... make it look insecure and unstable by sneaking in bugs, trojans, virus, etc. I wouldn't put it beyond them.
Come on, people, why is this so hard? CleanFlicks isn't forcing their censored products down anyone's throats. People are paying and requesting these products from CleanFlicks. It's not forced censorship. Why do I care if CleanFlicks is doing this if I can easily and legally go out and buy an original version? So, in the end, because of the people's rights that CleanFlicks is defending, I am going to side with CleanFlicks. As a member of the opensource community, I'm very open to someone taking my source and modifying it for whatever they need. The movie industry has never been open to this and wants to remain in control of their content. I see nothing wrong with what CleanFlicks is doing if they purchase a new copy of the video for every edited one they sell, and if they aren't forcing their version and removing the choice for the original in the marketplace. I have a right to modify videos I own for my own personal use, and I don't want that taken away from me.