I think it depends entirely on the user. For most/. readers, a netbook compliments a PC instead of replacing it. On the other hand, the overall population plays video games on a console, sticks with lightweight web games like Farmville, or doesn't play video games at all. Video is popular, but netbook processors are capable of supporting HD playback in combination with a GPU to offload work to.
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If people were willing to spend $600 on a PS3 that sits in their living room, I don't see why they can't spend a few hundred for a PC. Heck, if you subtract the $100 "special adapter" from the price of the PC, you can get one real cheap.
Meaning yet another power-hungry disposable consumer good to sit in common space now and in the landfill later. Thanks, but no thanks. Besides, if they already spent for a PS3, they can already stream video over wi-fi using PS3 Media Server.
Whats up with this whole "Library" thing? What is wrong with "My Documents"
"My Documents" still exists if you want it. The key advantage of the Library is allowing the user to define additional locations (local or remote) where content of a certain type exists. The OS indexes the contents of all directories defined in this way and presents the user with a combined view of all defined content in within a section of the library.
Let's say you like to keep your local video content on a different hard drive than the one your OS is installed on. You also have a removable drive that you use to carry very large video files between locations with. In addition, there's a share on your network that has video content that you need to access from time to time. You can add those locations to your video library and then have a unified view of all related content. It lets you initially focus on WHAT you want, not WHERE it may be hiding
Yeah, it is a little different, but it is a pretty big improvement over the if you deal with multiple directories or just wish to keep your content someplace different than your OS. I always ignored the MyWhatever folders in XP because I keep my local content on an external drive, but I find myself using the library all the time now.
“I still want to stab a certain someone with a trocar. I’m not a monster. I’m not someone who’s going to attack anybody.”
Holy self contradiction batman!
I'm not seeing the contradiction. This is an adult who has control enough over her impulses to be able to *want* to do something without having the intent to actually go through with it. There's a world of difference between desire and action. Wants are transitory, but they impact no one. Is the husband who daydreams about cheating on his wife, but who never acts on that impulse the same as the philanderer who goes through with it?
She said that she "wanted" to do something, not that she had any intention of following through with it. An unrelated post said she was looking forward to class.
There's a world of difference between wanting to do something and actually doing something.
Good read in the linked article from parent comment...
Last November, a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act.
He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature.
That subtle change in copyright law will add billions of dollars to record company bank accounts over the next few years -- billions of dollars that rightfully should have been paid to artists. A "work for hire" is now owned in perpetuity by the record company.
Under the 1978 Copyright Act, artists could reclaim the copyrights on their work after 35 years. If you wrote and recorded "Everybody Hurts," you at least got it back to as a family legacy after 35 years. But now, because of this corrupt little pisher, "Everybody Hurts" never gets returned to your family, and can now be sold to the highest bidder.
Over the years record companies have tried to put "work for hire" provisions in their contracts, and Mr. Glazier claims that the "work for hire" only "codified" a standard industry practice. But copyright laws didn't identify sound recordings as being eligible to be called "works for hire," so those contracts didn't mean anything. Until now.
Hackintosh users can live without the 10.6.2 update. This doesn't really break anything, it just prevents netbook users from having the latest set of OS patches between now and whenever the community finds a workaround.
Anyone who thinks WoW is expensive by any metric needs to spend some quality time with a math book.
WoW only looks like a bargain if you compare it with other disposable forms of entertainment with limited replay value....compared to buying a new console game every month WoW is a great deal. Compared to buying a chess set, WoW is a terrible waste of money in terms of both potential hours of entertainment and opportunity for meaningful social interaction.
AT&T has voiced no issue with the accuracy of the maps. Their claim is that consumers are too dumb to know that the map is comparing 3G data coverage and not voice coverage, even though the ad makes that comparison clear.
The unfortunately corollary from this is if you have an ugly girlfriend/wife, you probably resemble a bulldog's arse.
That selection criteria works both ways, so sayeth Jimmy Soul in 1963:
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall.
As soon as he marries her
Then she starts to do
The things that will break his heart.
But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
You'll be happy for the rest of your life,
An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
She'll always give you peace of mind.
Don't let your friends say
You have no taste,
Go ahead and marry anyway,
Though her face is ugly,
Her eyes don't match,
Take it from me she's a better catch.
It may be that Duchamp and Warhol paved the way towards the act of selection being defined as a creative act, but I find it difficult to think of Fairey in the same light. His work isn't breaking barriers, presenting irony, or forcing us to rethink our interpretation of the source material he chooses to use. It is blatantly commercial and self-serving, calling attention to the Fairey brand without adding any value or doing any creative work as part of the process.
Some combination of knowledge + ability to execute + ability to adapt is probably a better definition.
Your armchair quarterback isn't skilled at American football because he is unable to execute. An amateur with both knowledge and ability may not reach pro levels of play because of an inability to think on his feet and adapt to changes on the field.
In the same way, someone in an MMO may know what all of their abilities do, but their level of comparative skill may suffer because they aren't able to link skills together quickly enough or aren't able to think tactically and make adjustments in the middle of play.
Not BS: When you eat a lot of sugar, your body responds by releasing insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in your blood. Elevated insulin levels tell your body to start storing fat instead of breaking it down.
what if there was an easier way to express joins? Most queries I write have more joins than actual query.
I've seen some products do this by having a developer write a catalog that hides all the joins from the end-user as done in Cognos Impromptu.
This simplifies the experience, but if your catalog writer makes a mistake, everybody pays and it becomes impossible for anyone to get good data or even see why bad data is coming through. If you're lucky the user is close enough to the data to call out the bad data and the catalog writer is questioned. If you're not lucky, nobody notices until long after important decisions are made based on the bad data
Writing joins can seem cumbersome, but it gives complete control to the person writing the query. If you're looking to save time, start a join collection and jot away useful joins in a text file somewhere. Make a copy available to your workgroup so everyone can benefit from the standardized joins and so that there's a good chance that a poor join will be identified before the damage caused by it gets expensive
You only need to learn about null comparisons once, and nulls are extremely valuable when you get into eliminating rows from a result sets based on matches from data in other tables.
Combining a left outer join with a search condition where a primary key is null from the joined table is a quick and dirty way to scrub records where there's a match in the joined table, and would be impossible without the concept of nulls.
For the average person the time to download a movie in the US on our abysmal brodband lines you could probably make up the cost of the movie by just being at work.
Along with half movies, bogus titles, viruses, poor quality, people that let you download and kill it after a few minutes it's just not worth it.
Sure it is. Add movie(s) to queue, go to work, come home, watch movie(s). I have no idea why time is a concern in an age where broadband is so cheap. Plan in advance a little, go do something worthwhile while you PC brings down your content.
Use handy reference sites like VCD Quality to avoid bogus titles and poor quality. Get a virus scanner and use a little common sense about what you download. Get out of whatever p2p ghetto you're stuck in where people are consistently killing your downloads. Use PAR files to fix broken files. Downloading movies isn't as polished as using Napster back in the day or iTunes now, but it isn't rocket science either.
How long does it take to download 700MB on a DSL connection, burn a CD and print a label? How much do you value your time?
It doesn't take me long at all, five minutes work maybe. It's my computer that has to spend time downloading and burning. I just start the DL and burn the disc. Nobody's staring at the download bar the whole time, unable to do anything else with their time until it finishes.
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I think it depends entirely on the user. For most /. readers, a netbook compliments a PC instead of replacing it. On the other hand, the overall population plays video games on a console, sticks with lightweight web games like Farmville, or doesn't play video games at all. Video is popular, but netbook processors are capable of supporting HD playback in combination with a GPU to offload work to.
If people were willing to spend $600 on a PS3 that sits in their living room, I don't see why they can't spend a few hundred for a PC. Heck, if you subtract the $100 "special adapter" from the price of the PC, you can get one real cheap.
Meaning yet another power-hungry disposable consumer good to sit in common space now and in the landfill later. Thanks, but no thanks. Besides, if they already spent for a PS3, they can already stream video over wi-fi using PS3 Media Server.
Whats up with this whole "Library" thing? What is wrong with "My Documents"
"My Documents" still exists if you want it. The key advantage of the Library is allowing the user to define additional locations (local or remote) where content of a certain type exists. The OS indexes the contents of all directories defined in this way and presents the user with a combined view of all defined content in within a section of the library.
Let's say you like to keep your local video content on a different hard drive than the one your OS is installed on. You also have a removable drive that you use to carry very large video files between locations with. In addition, there's a share on your network that has video content that you need to access from time to time. You can add those locations to your video library and then have a unified view of all related content. It lets you initially focus on WHAT you want, not WHERE it may be hiding
Yeah, it is a little different, but it is a pretty big improvement over the if you deal with multiple directories or just wish to keep your content someplace different than your OS. I always ignored the MyWhatever folders in XP because I keep my local content on an external drive, but I find myself using the library all the time now.
Just to clarify: It's broken on Vista 64-bit. It works fine on Windows 7 64-bit.
“I still want to stab a certain someone with a trocar. I’m not a monster. I’m not someone who’s going to attack anybody.”
Holy self contradiction batman!
I'm not seeing the contradiction. This is an adult who has control enough over her impulses to be able to *want* to do something without having the intent to actually go through with it. There's a world of difference between desire and action. Wants are transitory, but they impact no one. Is the husband who daydreams about cheating on his wife, but who never acts on that impulse the same as the philanderer who goes through with it?
She said that she "wanted" to do something, not that she had any intention of following through with it. An unrelated post said she was looking forward to class.
There's a world of difference between wanting to do something and actually doing something.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise.
They fucking own us. Literally and figuratively.
If you owe the bank $100,000 they own you, but if you owe the bank $1,000,000,000,000 you own them.
China's fate is just as wrapped up in the value of that debt as our own is.
Last November, a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act.
He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature.
That subtle change in copyright law will add billions of dollars to record company bank accounts over the next few years -- billions of dollars that rightfully should have been paid to artists. A "work for hire" is now owned in perpetuity by the record company.
Under the 1978 Copyright Act, artists could reclaim the copyrights on their work after 35 years. If you wrote and recorded "Everybody Hurts," you at least got it back to as a family legacy after 35 years. But now, because of this corrupt little pisher, "Everybody Hurts" never gets returned to your family, and can now be sold to the highest bidder.
Over the years record companies have tried to put "work for hire" provisions in their contracts, and Mr. Glazier claims that the "work for hire" only "codified" a standard industry practice. But copyright laws didn't identify sound recordings as being eligible to be called "works for hire," so those contracts didn't mean anything. Until now.
Hackintosh users can live without the 10.6.2 update. This doesn't really break anything, it just prevents netbook users from having the latest set of OS patches between now and whenever the community finds a workaround.
Anyone who thinks WoW is expensive by any metric needs to spend some quality time with a math book.
WoW only looks like a bargain if you compare it with other disposable forms of entertainment with limited replay value....compared to buying a new console game every month WoW is a great deal. Compared to buying a chess set, WoW is a terrible waste of money in terms of both potential hours of entertainment and opportunity for meaningful social interaction.
AT&T has voiced no issue with the accuracy of the maps. Their claim is that consumers are too dumb to know that the map is comparing 3G data coverage and not voice coverage, even though the ad makes that comparison clear.
The unfortunately corollary from this is if you have an ugly girlfriend/wife, you probably resemble a bulldog's arse.
That selection criteria works both ways, so sayeth Jimmy Soul in 1963:
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall.
As soon as he marries her
Then she starts to do
The things that will break his heart.
But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
You'll be happy for the rest of your life,
An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
She'll always give you peace of mind.
Don't let your friends say
You have no taste,
Go ahead and marry anyway,
Though her face is ugly,
Her eyes don't match,
Take it from me she's a better catch.
Also... It looks like something a mildly talented person could do in under an hour in Photoshop.
Which is all Shepard Fairey really has to offer the world. All of his best "work" is borrowed more or less directly from another artist's source materials with little to no modification aside from his brand name.
It may be that Duchamp and Warhol paved the way towards the act of selection being defined as a creative act, but I find it difficult to think of Fairey in the same light. His work isn't breaking barriers, presenting irony, or forcing us to rethink our interpretation of the source material he chooses to use. It is blatantly commercial and self-serving, calling attention to the Fairey brand without adding any value or doing any creative work as part of the process.
Some combination of knowledge + ability to execute + ability to adapt is probably a better definition. Your armchair quarterback isn't skilled at American football because he is unable to execute. An amateur with both knowledge and ability may not reach pro levels of play because of an inability to think on his feet and adapt to changes on the field. In the same way, someone in an MMO may know what all of their abilities do, but their level of comparative skill may suffer because they aren't able to link skills together quickly enough or aren't able to think tactically and make adjustments in the middle of play.
Not BS: When you eat a lot of sugar, your body responds by releasing insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in your blood. Elevated insulin levels tell your body to start storing fat instead of breaking it down.
Seals don't come with a warranty. Prepare the clubs!
Such a thing exists...it's called World of Warcraft
what if there was an easier way to express joins? Most queries I write have more joins than actual query.
I've seen some products do this by having a developer write a catalog that hides all the joins from the end-user as done in Cognos Impromptu.
This simplifies the experience, but if your catalog writer makes a mistake, everybody pays and it becomes impossible for anyone to get good data or even see why bad data is coming through. If you're lucky the user is close enough to the data to call out the bad data and the catalog writer is questioned. If you're not lucky, nobody notices until long after important decisions are made based on the bad data
Writing joins can seem cumbersome, but it gives complete control to the person writing the query. If you're looking to save time, start a join collection and jot away useful joins in a text file somewhere. Make a copy available to your workgroup so everyone can benefit from the standardized joins and so that there's a good chance that a poor join will be identified before the damage caused by it gets expensive
You only need to learn about null comparisons once, and nulls are extremely valuable when you get into eliminating rows from a result sets based on matches from data in other tables.
Combining a left outer join with a search condition where a primary key is null from the joined table is a quick and dirty way to scrub records where there's a match in the joined table, and would be impossible without the concept of nulls.
For the average person the time to download a movie in the US on our abysmal brodband lines you could probably make up the cost of the movie by just being at work.
Along with half movies, bogus titles, viruses, poor quality, people that let you download and kill it after a few minutes it's just not worth it.
Sure it is. Add movie(s) to queue, go to work, come home, watch movie(s). I have no idea why time is a concern in an age where broadband is so cheap. Plan in advance a little, go do something worthwhile while you PC brings down your content.
Use handy reference sites like VCD Quality to avoid bogus titles and poor quality. Get a virus scanner and use a little common sense about what you download. Get out of whatever p2p ghetto you're stuck in where people are consistently killing your downloads. Use PAR files to fix broken files. Downloading movies isn't as polished as using Napster back in the day or iTunes now, but it isn't rocket science either.
I just use a pair of noise-canceling headphones...cheaper solution and I can move them from machine to machine.
The single use license similarly restricts use and installation to one "Apple labeled" computer.
Masking tape, marker, problem solved.
It doesn't take me long at all, five minutes work maybe. It's my computer that has to spend time downloading and burning. I just start the DL and burn the disc. Nobody's staring at the download bar the whole time, unable to do anything else with their time until it finishes.
Without even so much as a GROUP BY
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