most of the comments I've been asked to "meta moderate" have never been modded in the first place, so that'a a negative.
Are you sure about that? I've had the opposite experience. I've never been asked to meta moderate even a single comment that wasn't already moderated (I'm not even sure how that would work).
solid state hard drives....I don't get why they don't spend all that legal money on innovation there
They are spending plenty of money there, and they are smoking the competition in the process. The X25-M/E drives are easily at the head of the pack. There are very few SSDs that can keep up, and the few that manage to just barely surpass it in one benchmark tend to fail miserably in some other benchmark.
It's just that Intel has the resources to be able to focus on more than one thing at a time.
People need faster and faster GPUs; but CPUs? Many are fine with the weak Atom.
So what? Many people are fine with basic graphics cards, too. Heck, my current computer is running a 64MB GeForce 2, and the only reason it isn't going into my new Core i7 machine is because of a lack of AGP slots. I do very little that would benefit from a powerful GPU. It doesn't help with compiling code. Adobe Lightroom doesn't yet make use of it. Photoshop CS4 is just starting to make use of it in limited form (via plugins for a limited number of features, most of which aren't very useful to me). Gaming is the only thing I could do that would use it, but I'd rather do that on a console anyway.
Sure it's a design flaw, but not a Microsoft design flaw. Put it this way. What if it turned out there was some bug in the IBM processor they used that caused the processor to randomly fry itself completely? That would be IBMs fault. When you choose a vendor to supply your components, you expect those components to live up to specifications and industry standards.
Yeah, I know about that, but it is a different issue. In that case, they didn't go out and say "we're having some nasty flu problems" and then wait a few months to see how many people googled for the flu after their report. In the case of the flu study, there weren't any reports prompting the searches, because the searches were done before it was realized there was an increase in flu cases. Also, the flu study went further and looked for regional patterns. Of course, that doesn't rule out the possibility that a local TV station ran a news report on the flu, prompting the searches in that area, but they have a much stronger correlation and have done more to weed out any chance of errors like this.
BTW...it also helps that the flu is a pretty well established phenomenon, and isn't so likely to be influeced the way these E74 problems are, where people hearing about E74 for the first time have no idea what it is, what the symptoms are, etc, and go and google for info after hearing about it.
Doh....I wish I hadn't posted that. I just recalled it was Jindal who trashed the volcano monitoring (though perhaps Palin jumped on the bandwagon and I never heard about it).
Exactly. As far as the google trends thing goes, I hadn't googled for E74 prior to early Dec 2008, but then I started reading about people saying the E74 was a growing problem. The result...I started googling for E74 to learn more about it, to see what data there was.
This would be no different than if I said there was an increased number of reports of people spotting 4 foot tall cyclops ducks***, a bunch of curious slashdotters read my post and go search google for "4 foot tall cyclops ducks", and then a few month later I come back and point to the increase number of google searches for "4 foot tall cyclops ducks" as proof that people really are spotting them.
***They really do exist. Go search for them on google.
Xbox 360 consoles were dying in store demo kiosks months before the console went on sale.
Really? I didn't know any stores had them on display before they were available (I certainly never saw any), and stores are usually pretty reluctant to waste floor space on a product they can't actually sell yet.
No, I think that's an entirely different issue. Take the DVD, for example. The design department doesn't work out all the details of the DVD drive. It's an industry standard component, with an industry standard interface. They design the system to work with a standard DVD drive with certain basic specs, let some other department work out the pricing deals with various suppliers, and then do whatever custom firmware integration they need to with whoever the contract was made with. A lot of it is no more the fault of the design department that it would be if it turned out there was some major flaw in an intel chip used in the system.
Sorry, I don't have time to watch a 1 hour video, but it sounds like you are trying to say their console wasn't quality because the security was poor and that people could pirate games on it. Yet, no matter how easy or difficult it might be to hack, I'm failing to think of a system that hasn't been hacked to allow pirating. If the xbox is low quality, what is the high quality example that they should be aspiring to be like, and how is that really any better if people still find a way to work around it and pirate games anyway?
Yes, I am serious. Did I say it was never safe to drive faster? No. I said it was the speed that was DECIDED to be the maximum safe speed. This was a decision taking into account a variety of conditions (road layout, construction materials, proximity of houses and other structures, likelihood of kids in the area, etc).
However, in the case of an emergency vehicle, they've got an advantage over the average vehicle in that they have a siren and lights to warn others nearby. That improves things for them, making conditions safer for them. Could someone still pull out in front of them? Sure, but that could happen if they were doing 10 MPH.
Also, I don't know if this is ever taken into account when deciding limits, but it might also be worth considering the likelihood of a collision vs. the damage that can be done. Yes, it might be safe to drive 60 MPH on a particular street, but a collision at that speed is going to be more dangerous. If the risk of a collision is greater under certain conditions, then it might be worth saying that we should keep the speed lower so the collisions are likely to be less severe.
PS. Actually, I don't know if I ever see ambulances driving above the speed limit. Typically they are going slower because they have to slow down as they approach each intersection, even if the light is green for them.
Nice way to mess up statistics. More or less zero is not equal to zero. Your odds of winning the lotto are also nearly zero, yet people win it on a regular basis. Heck, some people even win it twice. That doesn't mean I give any consideration to the fact that I could win it.
No, it's not even close. "Speeding" is driving faster than a number written at the side of the road by people sitting in offices 300 miles away
Sorry, buy you aren't correct. The number on the sign is simply the decided maximum safe speed under ideal conditions. In other words, it is the speed LIMIT (just as the wording on the sign says). Under no conditions is it considered safe to drive over that limit.
mrsquid0 was correct, in that speeding is simply driving too fast for conditions. I know people that have received speeding tickets while driving SLOWER than the posted limit, and the reason was that the road condiditons (icy) didn't warrant driving that fast. Heck, I was in the vehicle when my brother received a speeding ticket in the middle of the day in Montana, where (at the time) there was no daytime speed limit. In the words of the officer, it wasn't that there was no speed limit, but that the speed limit was "whatever road conditions safely allow" (though you wouldn't find those words on any posted sign).
Agreed, but I think this whole article and discussion is supposed to be referring to consumer point and shoots
Yeah, except right in the summary: "Akira Watanabe, head of Olympus' SLR planning department, said that..."
Besides, even if you are talking about the P&S models, just as features and tech trickle down from the pro models to the low end DSLRs, a lot of that tech will trickle down to the P&S models too.
Oops, didn't mean to post that so soon. I also wanted to say that they've also improved countless other aspects. Better metering, better autofocus, more features tricked down from high end models, large buffers, faster write speeds, etc. Megapixels may have been their big bullet point for the masses, but they've done way more improvements than just that.
I wouldn't say that they've been increasing megapixels at the cost of ignoring everything else. At least not in the SLR market as far as Canon and Nikon are concerned.
Using my 6.7MP Canon 300D from 2004, I can't really stand to go any higher than ISO 400 (and even that is a bit iffy). On the other hand, using my 12.2MP from 2008, I really don't mind shooting at up to ISO 400, and I'll use 800 if I have to. The improvements in low light noise level has been incredibly, even at the same time they nearly doubled the megapixels.
That's nothing new. I have a pair of Sennheisers (don't recall the model number, but it was a $200 pair) that my friend gave me used when he upgraded. That was back around 1995. They had the detatchable cable back then (though I haven't had to replace them yet).
I haven't looked at the site you linked to, but my experience has been that hosts that offer really low per GB prices typically either A) only offer such a price with an already expensive base package where there is already a really nice profit, or B) host for a LOT of high bandwidth customers, and it's more like dealing in bulk. It might be that neither apply in this scenario (for a small ISP, I'd suspect not).
after Apple has taken their cut they'll have made about $20K
Assuming they aren't forced to give refunds for making an app that only worked for a few days. If people complain, I'm sure apple won't look favorably on that.
If you have no interest in the forwarding to multiple numbers type stuff, I think there is still value here.
1) Spam filtering 2) Blocking capabilities that surpass what many systems offer 3) Voice mail transcripts 4) Selective forwarding (you give your number to a client, but you are going to be gone for a week, so you set the client's number to forward to the guy who will be covering for you) 5) Screening voicemails like you can with an answering machine. 6) Recording of calls (in full or in part)
Just a few of the benefits I could see being useful to someone who already does everything through a single cell phone number.
Yeah, but unless you are willing to run your own PBX(*), you don't have the option of getting something like this as a product.
(*) including paying the fees not just for the line in but for as many outgoing lines as the number of phones you want to forward to simultaneously, and also tolerating the case where your phone/internet connection could go down, etc
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most of the comments I've been asked to "meta moderate" have never been modded in the first place, so that'a a negative.
Are you sure about that? I've had the opposite experience. I've never been asked to meta moderate even a single comment that wasn't already moderated (I'm not even sure how that would work).
solid state hard drives....I don't get why they don't spend all that legal money on innovation there
They are spending plenty of money there, and they are smoking the competition in the process. The X25-M/E drives are easily at the head of the pack. There are very few SSDs that can keep up, and the few that manage to just barely surpass it in one benchmark tend to fail miserably in some other benchmark.
It's just that Intel has the resources to be able to focus on more than one thing at a time.
So what? Many people are fine with basic graphics cards, too. Heck, my current computer is running a 64MB GeForce 2, and the only reason it isn't going into my new Core i7 machine is because of a lack of AGP slots. I do very little that would benefit from a powerful GPU. It doesn't help with compiling code. Adobe Lightroom doesn't yet make use of it. Photoshop CS4 is just starting to make use of it in limited form (via plugins for a limited number of features, most of which aren't very useful to me). Gaming is the only thing I could do that would use it, but I'd rather do that on a console anyway.
Sure it's a design flaw, but not a Microsoft design flaw. Put it this way. What if it turned out there was some bug in the IBM processor they used that caused the processor to randomly fry itself completely? That would be IBMs fault. When you choose a vendor to supply your components, you expect those components to live up to specifications and industry standards.
He also often pronounces the T when talking to himself, like "get a grip, Colbert"
Yeah, I know about that, but it is a different issue. In that case, they didn't go out and say "we're having some nasty flu problems" and then wait a few months to see how many people googled for the flu after their report. In the case of the flu study, there weren't any reports prompting the searches, because the searches were done before it was realized there was an increase in flu cases. Also, the flu study went further and looked for regional patterns. Of course, that doesn't rule out the possibility that a local TV station ran a news report on the flu, prompting the searches in that area, but they have a much stronger correlation and have done more to weed out any chance of errors like this.
BTW...it also helps that the flu is a pretty well established phenomenon, and isn't so likely to be influeced the way these E74 problems are, where people hearing about E74 for the first time have no idea what it is, what the symptoms are, etc, and go and google for info after hearing about it.
Doh....I wish I hadn't posted that. I just recalled it was Jindal who trashed the volcano monitoring (though perhaps Palin jumped on the bandwagon and I never heard about it).
Good catch. I'll be surprised if that joke doesn't show up on the Daily Show
Exactly. As far as the google trends thing goes, I hadn't googled for E74 prior to early Dec 2008, but then I started reading about people saying the E74 was a growing problem. The result...I started googling for E74 to learn more about it, to see what data there was.
This would be no different than if I said there was an increased number of reports of people spotting 4 foot tall cyclops ducks***, a bunch of curious slashdotters read my post and go search google for "4 foot tall cyclops ducks", and then a few month later I come back and point to the increase number of google searches for "4 foot tall cyclops ducks" as proof that people really are spotting them.
***They really do exist. Go search for them on google.
Really? I didn't know any stores had them on display before they were available (I certainly never saw any), and stores are usually pretty reluctant to waste floor space on a product they can't actually sell yet.
No, I think that's an entirely different issue. Take the DVD, for example. The design department doesn't work out all the details of the DVD drive. It's an industry standard component, with an industry standard interface. They design the system to work with a standard DVD drive with certain basic specs, let some other department work out the pricing deals with various suppliers, and then do whatever custom firmware integration they need to with whoever the contract was made with. A lot of it is no more the fault of the design department that it would be if it turned out there was some major flaw in an intel chip used in the system.
Sorry, I don't have time to watch a 1 hour video, but it sounds like you are trying to say their console wasn't quality because the security was poor and that people could pirate games on it. Yet, no matter how easy or difficult it might be to hack, I'm failing to think of a system that hasn't been hacked to allow pirating. If the xbox is low quality, what is the high quality example that they should be aspiring to be like, and how is that really any better if people still find a way to work around it and pirate games anyway?
Yes, I am serious. Did I say it was never safe to drive faster? No. I said it was the speed that was DECIDED to be the maximum safe speed. This was a decision taking into account a variety of conditions (road layout, construction materials, proximity of houses and other structures, likelihood of kids in the area, etc).
However, in the case of an emergency vehicle, they've got an advantage over the average vehicle in that they have a siren and lights to warn others nearby. That improves things for them, making conditions safer for them. Could someone still pull out in front of them? Sure, but that could happen if they were doing 10 MPH.
Also, I don't know if this is ever taken into account when deciding limits, but it might also be worth considering the likelihood of a collision vs. the damage that can be done. Yes, it might be safe to drive 60 MPH on a particular street, but a collision at that speed is going to be more dangerous. If the risk of a collision is greater under certain conditions, then it might be worth saying that we should keep the speed lower so the collisions are likely to be less severe.
PS. Actually, I don't know if I ever see ambulances driving above the speed limit. Typically they are going slower because they have to slow down as they approach each intersection, even if the light is green for them.
Nice way to mess up statistics. More or less zero is not equal to zero. Your odds of winning the lotto are also nearly zero, yet people win it on a regular basis. Heck, some people even win it twice. That doesn't mean I give any consideration to the fact that I could win it.
Sorry, buy you aren't correct. The number on the sign is simply the decided maximum safe speed under ideal conditions. In other words, it is the speed LIMIT (just as the wording on the sign says). Under no conditions is it considered safe to drive over that limit.
mrsquid0 was correct, in that speeding is simply driving too fast for conditions. I know people that have received speeding tickets while driving SLOWER than the posted limit, and the reason was that the road condiditons (icy) didn't warrant driving that fast. Heck, I was in the vehicle when my brother received a speeding ticket in the middle of the day in Montana, where (at the time) there was no daytime speed limit. In the words of the officer, it wasn't that there was no speed limit, but that the speed limit was "whatever road conditions safely allow" (though you wouldn't find those words on any posted sign).
Yeah, except right in the summary: "Akira Watanabe, head of Olympus' SLR planning department, said that..."
Besides, even if you are talking about the P&S models, just as features and tech trickle down from the pro models to the low end DSLRs, a lot of that tech will trickle down to the P&S models too.
Oops, didn't mean to post that so soon. I also wanted to say that they've also improved countless other aspects. Better metering, better autofocus, more features tricked down from high end models, large buffers, faster write speeds, etc. Megapixels may have been their big bullet point for the masses, but they've done way more improvements than just that.
I wouldn't say that they've been increasing megapixels at the cost of ignoring everything else. At least not in the SLR market as far as Canon and Nikon are concerned.
Using my 6.7MP Canon 300D from 2004, I can't really stand to go any higher than ISO 400 (and even that is a bit iffy). On the other hand, using my 12.2MP from 2008, I really don't mind shooting at up to ISO 400, and I'll use 800 if I have to. The improvements in low light noise level has been incredibly, even at the same time they nearly doubled the megapixels.
That's nothing new. I have a pair of Sennheisers (don't recall the model number, but it was a $200 pair) that my friend gave me used when he upgraded. That was back around 1995. They had the detatchable cable back then (though I haven't had to replace them yet).
I haven't looked at the site you linked to, but my experience has been that hosts that offer really low per GB prices typically either A) only offer such a price with an already expensive base package where there is already a really nice profit, or B) host for a LOT of high bandwidth customers, and it's more like dealing in bulk. It might be that neither apply in this scenario (for a small ISP, I'd suspect not).
Oh, don't worry, I knew you were just joking around. I was just trying to add to the intentional silliness of your proposed idea.
Assuming they aren't forced to give refunds for making an app that only worked for a few days. If people complain, I'm sure apple won't look favorably on that.
Yeah, but what sort of time scale are we talking about? Even current batteries discharge themselves over time.
If you have no interest in the forwarding to multiple numbers type stuff, I think there is still value here.
1) Spam filtering
2) Blocking capabilities that surpass what many systems offer
3) Voice mail transcripts
4) Selective forwarding (you give your number to a client, but you are going to be gone for a week, so you set the client's number to forward to the guy who will be covering for you)
5) Screening voicemails like you can with an answering machine.
6) Recording of calls (in full or in part)
Just a few of the benefits I could see being useful to someone who already does everything through a single cell phone number.
Yeah, but unless you are willing to run your own PBX(*), you don't have the option of getting something like this as a product.
(*) including paying the fees not just for the line in but for as many outgoing lines as the number of phones you want to forward to simultaneously, and also tolerating the case where your phone/internet connection could go down, etc