Steve: Bill, if it didn't work the other 226 times you tried to reclick, what makes you think it will work the 227th?
There is a very high incidence of people attempting to cast multiple votes, even though the poll script blocked out most attempts at multiple voting. The one that wins the prize made 228 attempts to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain.
This is identical to everything else they make... looks impressive, but it is nothing more than consumer grade stuff with a few frills added on. Why didn't they make it a bit more useful or offer a better version, something with a 2-4 channel mixer built into it? a real microphone preamp?
Not their market. They're consumer oriented. If you want to do real recording, you go to TASCAM or another studio-oriented company and get multi-channel mixing boards, etc.
Typing pools historically used large typewriters on lowered desks, which would tend to mitigate CTS. Computers, on the other hand, use flat keyboards and are usually used on raised desks, resulting in more stress on the wrist and carpals.
You've got to be kidding. Radio Free Albemuth makes for a decent book, but a movie? Even Valis (a better book) wouldn't make a decent movie.
If you're going to make a PKD movie, *Man in the High Tower*, *The Unteleported Man*, or "Electric Ant" would be the obvious sources.
As for Total Recall, maybe if Gary Sinise had been cast in it, it might have been a decent movie (Arnohld isn't exactly your PKD hero, is he?). As it is it's garbage.
isaac asimov wrote a neat book called a choice of catastrophes he addresses being hit by an asteroid while it is statistically possible it is highly unlikely.
Remember, Asimov was writing (in 1980) before Gene Shoemaker's work from the 60s and after became fully accepted. It really wasn't until all the work identifying impact craters on the earth that was inspired at least in part by Shoemaker's work, and by the Alvarez hypothesis on the K-T extinction (i.e., the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), got underway that astronomers and geologists took the idea of large impacts seriously (most scientists thought that Meteor Crater was an extinct caldera before Shoemaker, despite the name). Also, Sagan et al.'s work on sandstorms in the Martian atmosphere in the 1970s, which helped to provide a possible mechanism for global effects from local impacts, wouldn't have been completely digested by the time Asimov was writing. Though Asimov was right that overpopulation is the most serious of the issues he deals with in the book (and of course few countries outside Asia take the problem seriously), it would be foolish to dismiss the threat of an impact.
Recently there has been the introduction of tuition fees to UK universities in an attempt to increase the funding available.
All US public universities charge tuition, at least to out of state students, some of them well into the 5 figures per year (dollars, not pounds) to out of state students, and well into the 4 figures per year for in-state students. The only exception I can think of is the California state university system (e.g., UC Berkley), where IIRC tuition is free for state residents.
Then there are the fees. At one time, the fees for attending many state universities were actually higher for in-state students than the tuition (e.g., $2,500 fees and $1,500 tuition for one semester).
I won't be truly impressed until I see an a site being served with a turing machine, run manually by a guy drawing dots on a paper looking at a T1 line terminating in a green LED
Built initially to house currency, the Hostworks data centre in the suburb of Kidman Park, Adelaide is a tribute to the profligacy of Timothy Marcus Clark, [snip] Nestled in a semi-industrial area, with minimum road signage, it is at once unassuming, virtually impenetrable and to this day an inspirational feet of excess engineering.
Ahem... The point of Where's George? is not to serve as a academic/statistical analysis of the velocity of money, it's purpose is to allow people to HAVE FUN tracking their currency and interacting with the online community. Sure, it would be interesting to be able to track *every* cash transaction, but that is not feasible, so Where's George? is the next-best thing. Like it or leave it, but don't criticize it because it isn't what you expect it to be.
-Hank (creator of Where's George?)
I'm criticizing it only within the context of this particular thread, Hank (if that is your real name, Anonymous Coward;-). People are having fun; good. But the replied-to posting suggested that Where's George would be a good way to get the information, and I said that Where's George isn't all that effective at gauging it.
Where's George isn't all that effective. I got one Where's George bill in Andover, MA which had previously been registered as being received in Maine. I'm guessing that several steps were skipped in the tracking.
Then again, I did spend it in Norfolk, VA.
However, if registers (or at least banks) kept track of each time on which a bill changed hands (not who, just when), I can see that being of some use for economic modeling, as suggested.
See this link, which is one of the highlights on the MSN page today. http://www.bcentral.com/articles/enbysk/138.asp?co brand=msn
Speculation: Maybe MS has already realized that they're going to lose a lot of XP sales this quarter thanks to the PnP bug, figure the best way to prop up their bottom line this quarter is with another piracy crackdown, and are pushing stories about software piracy to the popular press to make the crackdown more palatable?
Not to defend piracy, of course.
Funny as hell. Actually, the Chi-Rho ligature (which among Christians goes back something like 1700-1900 years) is even older, having been used for other purposes (I can't think of any right now, but dig around a little).
And of course it is the normal abbreviation used for Cross Platform, which Windows XP certainly is not.
Assuming the Internet becomes a truly global entity, this is an obvious (and mathematically correct) conclusion.
Only if you're talking about first languages. I think if you look at the numbers of persons who use a language as their first or second language, there's a statistical tie between English and Chinese, or English comes out slightly ahead.
See David Crystal, English as a Global Language, which has the exact statistics.
Don't put too much hope in machine translation. Eventually, machine translation will end up working like Graffitti on the Palm or older voice recognition software: in order for something to be translated properly, you'll have to write in a style that the translation engine will understand.
That would be a huge mistake: you'd be handing MS MEGAFUD. MS does its best to obscure bugs; the Linux community wants bugs widely known so they'll get fixed quicker. So the counter will always show more bugs for Linux than for MS, and MS will make sure they let the whole world know about it.
Dunno. It would be nice to have three cards in my wallet, one with my Linux system on it, one with my OS X system on it, one with my Windows system on it, and be able to insert it into a driveless box anywhere I go.
More likely, it would be nice to be able to carry a lot of music, voice notes, etc. around in a card in my wallet.
The point is, you don't know what possibilities Moore's Law will open for the future, and you don't know what people will think they'll need in the future.
I too went a checked it out on the HTML validy tool. But then I went and checked my own webpage too. Ouch. Anywahy, working for a startup that hasn't been funding with millions of dollars, the website is a very low priority for non-internet related technologies.
Exactly. I find validity problems on my personal pages all the time - even occasionally on the pages I do for a living. But I've had years to refine those pages, and that's what they pay me for. I can't blame a startup that doesn't want to add a web developer to their startup costs, and I can't blame an engineer who's only got 3 hours to put up a site for the company if the pages are a little ugly.
If he were talking about any country other than the US, do you really think he would have referred to a W2? Last time I checked, they don't call it a W2 anywhere else.
Yes, S/N is the missing link here. I get 30 pieces of spam to 20 pieces of email every day. That's bad. I'd say that a livable S/N for spam would be maybe 10:1.
Nice dn.
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Bill: Damnit, blocked again.
Steve: Bill, if it didn't work the other 226 times you tried to reclick, what makes you think it will work the 227th?
There is a very high incidence of people attempting to cast multiple votes, even though the poll script blocked out most attempts at multiple voting. The one that wins the prize made 228 attempts to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain.
This is identical to everything else they make... looks impressive, but it is nothing more than consumer grade stuff with a few frills added on. Why didn't they make it a bit more useful or offer a better version, something with a 2-4 channel mixer built into it? a real microphone preamp?
Not their market. They're consumer oriented. If you want to do real recording, you go to TASCAM or another studio-oriented company and get multi-channel mixing boards, etc.
Typing pools historically used large typewriters on lowered desks, which would tend to mitigate CTS. Computers, on the other hand, use flat keyboards and are usually used on raised desks, resulting in more stress on the wrist and carpals.
http://www.apple.com/ was slashdotted before Slashdot even posted the story!
Thanks for the correction. Someone should mod parent this up to be on same level as my post.
You've got to be kidding. Radio Free Albemuth makes for a decent book, but a movie? Even Valis (a better book) wouldn't make a decent movie. If you're going to make a PKD movie, *Man in the High Tower*, *The Unteleported Man*, or "Electric Ant" would be the obvious sources. As for Total Recall, maybe if Gary Sinise had been cast in it, it might have been a decent movie (Arnohld isn't exactly your PKD hero, is he?). As it is it's garbage.
isaac asimov wrote a neat book called a choice of catastrophes he addresses being hit by an asteroid while it is statistically possible it is highly unlikely.
Remember, Asimov was writing (in 1980) before Gene Shoemaker's work from the 60s and after became fully accepted. It really wasn't until all the work identifying impact craters on the earth that was inspired at least in part by Shoemaker's work, and by the Alvarez hypothesis on the K-T extinction (i.e., the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), got underway that astronomers and geologists took the idea of large impacts seriously (most scientists thought that Meteor Crater was an extinct caldera before Shoemaker, despite the name). Also, Sagan et al.'s work on sandstorms in the Martian atmosphere in the 1970s, which helped to provide a possible mechanism for global effects from local impacts, wouldn't have been completely digested by the time Asimov was writing. Though Asimov was right that overpopulation is the most serious of the issues he deals with in the book (and of course few countries outside Asia take the problem seriously), it would be foolish to dismiss the threat of an impact.
Actually, the usual English translation of this is "the perfect is the enemy of the good."
Recently there has been the introduction of tuition fees to UK universities in an attempt to increase the funding available.
All US public universities charge tuition, at least to out of state students, some of them well into the 5 figures per year (dollars, not pounds) to out of state students, and well into the 4 figures per year for in-state students. The only exception I can think of is the California state university system (e.g., UC Berkley), where IIRC tuition is free for state residents.
Then there are the fees. At one time, the fees for attending many state universities were actually higher for in-state students than the tuition (e.g., $2,500 fees and $1,500 tuition for one semester).
This is apparently part of an ad - see Macrumors for more details.
Karma whore. This has been all over the Mac rumors sites, and everyone agrees that it's a GameBoy Gold.
It's possible that the screen doesn't take well to video recording, and that they needed something to wow people at MacExpo.
All video screens don't take well to video recording, unless you have some method of synching the object video's frame rate with the camera's.
If it's a Newton X, that would be very, very nice; but I'm expecting the big news to be an iMac X.
I won't be truly impressed until I see an a site being served with a turing machine, run manually by a guy drawing dots on a paper looking at a T1 line terminating in a green LED
Nope, not a T1 line, a avian carrier.
Built initially to house currency, the Hostworks data centre in the suburb of Kidman Park, Adelaide is a tribute to the profligacy of Timothy Marcus Clark, [snip] Nestled in a semi-industrial area, with minimum road signage, it is at once unassuming, virtually impenetrable and to this day an inspirational feet of excess engineering.
Unassuming feet? What, size 5 1/2 D?
Ahem... The point of Where's George? is not to serve as a academic/statistical analysis of the velocity of money, it's purpose is to allow people to HAVE FUN tracking their currency and interacting with the online community. Sure, it would be interesting to be able to track *every* cash transaction, but that is not feasible, so Where's George? is the next-best thing. Like it or leave it, but don't criticize it because it isn't what you expect it to be. -Hank (creator of Where's George?)
I'm criticizing it only within the context of this particular thread, Hank (if that is your real name, Anonymous Coward ;-). People are having fun; good. But the replied-to posting suggested that Where's George would be a good way to get the information, and I said that Where's George isn't all that effective at gauging it.
Where's George isn't all that effective. I got one Where's George bill in Andover, MA which had previously been registered as being received in Maine. I'm guessing that several steps were skipped in the tracking. Then again, I did spend it in Norfolk, VA. However, if registers (or at least banks) kept track of each time on which a bill changed hands (not who, just when), I can see that being of some use for economic modeling, as suggested.
See this link, which is one of the highlights on the MSN page today. http://www.bcentral.com/articles/enbysk/138.asp?co brand=msn
Speculation: Maybe MS has already realized that they're going to lose a lot of XP sales this quarter thanks to the PnP bug, figure the best way to prop up their bottom line this quarter is with another piracy crackdown, and are pushing stories about software piracy to the popular press to make the crackdown more palatable?
Not to defend piracy, of course.
Funny as hell. Actually, the Chi-Rho ligature (which among Christians goes back something like 1700-1900 years) is even older, having been used for other purposes (I can't think of any right now, but dig around a little). And of course it is the normal abbreviation used for Cross Platform, which Windows XP certainly is not.
Assuming the Internet becomes a truly global entity, this is an obvious (and mathematically correct) conclusion.
Only if you're talking about first languages. I think if you look at the numbers of persons who use a language as their first or second language, there's a statistical tie between English and Chinese, or English comes out slightly ahead.
See David Crystal, English as a Global Language, which has the exact statistics.
Don't put too much hope in machine translation. Eventually, machine translation will end up working like Graffitti on the Palm or older voice recognition software: in order for something to be translated properly, you'll have to write in a style that the translation engine will understand.
That would be a huge mistake: you'd be handing MS MEGAFUD. MS does its best to obscure bugs; the Linux community wants bugs widely known so they'll get fixed quicker. So the counter will always show more bugs for Linux than for MS, and MS will make sure they let the whole world know about it.
How much do you really think YOU need to carry?
Dunno. It would be nice to have three cards in my wallet, one with my Linux system on it, one with my OS X system on it, one with my Windows system on it, and be able to insert it into a driveless box anywhere I go.
More likely, it would be nice to be able to carry a lot of music, voice notes, etc. around in a card in my wallet.
The point is, you don't know what possibilities Moore's Law will open for the future, and you don't know what people will think they'll need in the future.
I too went a checked it out on the HTML validy tool. But then I went and checked my own webpage too. Ouch. Anywahy, working for a startup that hasn't been funding with millions of dollars, the website is a very low priority for non-internet related technologies.
Exactly. I find validity problems on my personal pages all the time - even occasionally on the pages I do for a living. But I've had years to refine those pages, and that's what they pay me for. I can't blame a startup that doesn't want to add a web developer to their startup costs, and I can't blame an engineer who's only got 3 hours to put up a site for the company if the pages are a little ugly.
If he were talking about any country other than the US, do you really think he would have referred to a W2? Last time I checked, they don't call it a W2 anywhere else.
Yes, S/N is the missing link here. I get 30 pieces of spam to 20 pieces of email every day. That's bad. I'd say that a livable S/N for spam would be maybe 10:1. Nice dn.
Try the Odyssey, Dante's Commedia, or maybe The Faerie Queene. And Tolkien would agree . . .