You hit the nail on the head. While Pandora's approach has some nice properties, their major drawback in comparison to Last.FM is that they need to invest a lot of manual work, and that they have no equivalent to Last.FM's "fluidity" of content (i.e., Last.FM's measurement of similarity changes with the behavior of its users).
I have a PowerShot A70, and after gradually introducing noise to images it finally "died" a couple of weeks ago. This actually looks rather amazing -- I've documented this in a short Flickr set at http://flickr.com/photos/dekstop/sets/1026874/ and I'll post some more information at http://dekstop.de/weblog/ as soon as I find some time... I even have some video clips made with the camera.
To quote from the Flickr page: "my only digital camera has finally degraded into a first-class piece of alien surveillance equipment. instant live show, one-button entertainment, subjective electronics."
It seems they only tested the hardware on Windows; there is no info on Linux or OS X support/testing. I'm not sure if all drives mentioned can even be used on other OSes, or if there still are driver issues. This is especially bothersome as they seem to install any software provided by the respective manufacturers before benchmarking the drives; but they don't mention if this includes installing custom drivers, or if the software in each case consists simply of data management tools.
That was just an unhappy coincidence. And the names are slightly different: Propellerhead (Swedish company) v.s Propellerheads (British musicians).
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propellerheads
They changed almost all of his sentences, with a lot of ellipses and modified expressions.
I realize that an editor would want to make shure that an article contains proper english sentences, but this level of rewording makes me wonder about the motivation behind it.
And the footnote on page one only underlines this, where a seemingly minor detail is qualified with the comment "This sentence was inadvertently omitted in an earlier version of this story." Makes one wonder how many people were actually working on this text, and how many lawyers were involved.
Man, that Microsoft initiative was one of the reasons that I switched. Not the initiative per se, but the overall impression of a Windows platform that is getting more and more locked down. A small part of my motivation was indeed the search for alternatives to such a restricted platform.
My impression was (and still is) that Apple recognizes when technology is restrictive to a point where it harms the user experience.
I don't think there are many people or organizations that actually design cars and give them (or the design plans) away for free, for people to use or improve upon.
You are trying to build an analogy between two completely different systems.
Yeah I know this is offtopic, but these kinds of arguments piss me off.
...because the following month a user's default actions will be:
- notice that dialog pops up.
- check that checkbox without which websites seem not to work correctly.
- click OK.
Yeah, I know the feeling. A roommate of mine in the late nineties had a playstation and I used to play Wipeout for hours. It was a very (very!) fast paced racing game, and you have to do some tricky stunts to win some levels; sliding up walls while in a turn or while overtaking opponents is basically standard procedure.
Boy was I worried when driving to work after playing for hours; I realized that traffic around me was so slow that I started losing my patience (faster! faster! clock's ticking!) and I'm basically trying not to slide up the railings while doing a turn, just out of habit and because it's such a f'ing elegant thing to do.
Apparently they suffer from a rather violent variety of the slashdot effect: bandwidth exceeded, account suspended. "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
I wonder how long it will take for the first individuals to reverse engineer some of the underlying indexing, pagerank and search algorithms.
Although this might not be an easy feat (it is safe to assume they have used mechanisms to prevent that; and even then, reverse engineering algorithms from binary code is not an easy craft) it still is bound to happen.
The post is a bit misleading. The website is of the Ars Electronica Center, a building/museum for various media/art related stuff and open throughout the year. The correct link would have been http://www.aec.at/en/festival/ -- Ars Electronica Festival
Ha. A search for the author of this posting reveals a rather lengthy list of "OS Research Questions" in forums, newsgroups and alike. Implementation details, amount of work, authors and ownership, etc.
But shouldn't come as a surprise, as his email address "[name]@adti.net" belongs to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution mentioned in the article.
Has anyone tried to integrate the compiler into the Visual Studio 6 IDE? Is it even possible? Would there be any advantages compared to simply installing the recent Service Pack 6 for VS6?
GPL'ed IDE, not (yet) as mature as Eclipse, but targeted specifically towards C# development, and very usable. It even has a GUI builder. Highly recommended!
Slashdot Mirror
http://london.hackspace.org.uk/
And as everybody knows, these two groups rarely ever do interviews. Kudos!
...to store code snippets, example code, and documentation.
You hit the nail on the head. While Pandora's approach has some nice properties, their major drawback in comparison to Last.FM is that they need to invest a lot of manual work, and that they have no equivalent to Last.FM's "fluidity" of content (i.e., Last.FM's measurement of similarity changes with the behavior of its users).
p andora/ for a review and comparison.
See http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/08/pandora/ for a more detailed description of this aspect, and http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/08/a_first_look_at_
Yeah the site got hacked over the weekend and there are still some side-effects after restoring it... your comment is visible now.
Ha, you're right -- it doesn't make the distortion go away, but it definitely affects the visual "mood" of the camera.
I have a PowerShot A70, and after gradually introducing noise to images it finally "died" a couple of weeks ago. This actually looks rather amazing -- I've documented this in a short Flickr set at http://flickr.com/photos/dekstop/sets/1026874/ and I'll post some more information at http://dekstop.de/weblog/ as soon as I find some time... I even have some video clips made with the camera.
To quote from the Flickr page: "my only digital camera has finally degraded into a first-class piece of alien surveillance equipment. instant live show, one-button entertainment, subjective electronics."
It seems they only tested the hardware on Windows; there is no info on Linux or OS X support/testing. I'm not sure if all drives mentioned can even be used on other OSes, or if there still are driver issues. This is especially bothersome as they seem to install any software provided by the respective manufacturers before benchmarking the drives; but they don't mention if this includes installing custom drivers, or if the software in each case consists simply of data management tools.
That was just an unhappy coincidence. And the names are slightly different: Propellerhead (Swedish company) v.s Propellerheads (British musicians). See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propellerheads
They changed almost all of his sentences, with a lot of ellipses and modified expressions.
I realize that an editor would want to make shure that an article contains proper english sentences, but this level of rewording makes me wonder about the motivation behind it.
And the footnote on page one only underlines this, where a seemingly minor detail is qualified with the comment "This sentence was inadvertently omitted in an earlier version of this story." Makes one wonder how many people were actually working on this text, and how many lawyers were involved.
*deletes cookies*
Man, that Microsoft initiative was one of the reasons that I switched. Not the initiative per se, but the overall impression of a Windows platform that is getting more and more locked down. A small part of my motivation was indeed the search for alternatives to such a restricted platform.
My impression was (and still is) that Apple recognizes when technology is restrictive to a point where it harms the user experience.
You are trying to build an analogy between two completely different systems.
Yeah I know this is offtopic, but these kinds of arguments piss me off.
...because the following month a user's default actions will be: - notice that dialog pops up. - check that checkbox without which websites seem not to work correctly. - click OK.
Yeah, I know the feeling. A roommate of mine in the late nineties had a playstation and I used to play Wipeout for hours. It was a very (very!) fast paced racing game, and you have to do some tricky stunts to win some levels; sliding up walls while in a turn or while overtaking opponents is basically standard procedure.
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Boy was I worried when driving to work after playing for hours; I realized that traffic around me was so slow that I started losing my patience (faster! faster! clock's ticking!) and I'm basically trying not to slide up the railings while doing a turn, just out of habit and because it's such a f'ing elegant thing to do.
For screenshots see http://www.vidgames.com/ps/software/wipeoutxl.htm
Apparently they suffer from a rather violent variety of the slashdot effect: bandwidth exceeded, account suspended. "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
I wonder how long it will take for the first individuals to reverse engineer some of the underlying indexing, pagerank and search algorithms.
Although this might not be an easy feat (it is safe to assume they have used mechanisms to prevent that; and even then, reverse engineering algorithms from binary code is not an easy craft) it still is bound to happen.
The post is a bit misleading. The website is of the Ars Electronica Center, a building/museum for various media/art related stuff and open throughout the year. The correct link would have been http://www.aec.at/en/festival/ -- Ars Electronica Festival
Or did anyone tape it and put it online?
Their form to enter the time I wake up in the "mornings" is flawed. No option after noon (I usually rise at 1-3 pm, go to sleep at 4-5 am).
Guess they didn't think about students. Or unemployed programmers...
Ha. A search for the author of this posting reveals a rather lengthy list of "OS Research Questions" in forums, newsgroups and alike. Implementation details, amount of work, authors and ownership, etc.
But shouldn't come as a surprise, as his email address "[name]@adti.net" belongs to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution mentioned in the article.
Has anyone tried to integrate the compiler into the Visual Studio 6 IDE? Is it even possible? Would there be any advantages compared to simply installing the recent Service Pack 6 for VS6?
... here (linus torvalds playing frozen bubble at linux.conf.au). and you can get a glimpse of his desktop.
SharpDevelop -- www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
GPL'ed IDE, not (yet) as mature as Eclipse, but targeted specifically towards C# development, and very usable. It even has a GUI builder. Highly recommended!
http://www.google.com/search?q=nyt+account+generat or