This is NOT a real product for blind people. It is a way to use art to point out something in our world that we don't think about. A comedian would use a joke.
I seriously doubt any blind person would buy this for stimulation. It is just a way to look at the world from a different perspective.
This guy is not a troll, he just hasn't got the joke.
The idea is not a million miles removed from the folding@home and seti programs. Why build a supercomputer you can't afford when you can utalize existing hardware?
Why install a dense and costly sensor grid when you can disribute the sensor in a much cheaper package? You could of course install countless sensors with their own battery pack, processing power and communication gear, OR you could hitch them to existing gear that is by its nature widely distrubuted.
And with it, you could create a grid that reaches almost anywhere to measure air quality. I am pretty sure there are scientists who have a wet dream thinking of a very dense air measurment grid in urban areas.
Sure, privacy could be an issue...
Oh wait, no it isn't. If you got a phone, "they" can track you already. No special sniffer needed. How many of the privacy nutters got a phone? Your secret overlords thank you for carrying your tracker.
So, no privacy issue is added except perhaps "they" being able to tell you farted.
The idea is very close to using cellphones to track traffic jams. Lots of phone signals not moving? Traffic jam. Why not? The alternative is installing lots and lots of camera's.
Yeah, the tech would need good laws to regulate it, but if done right, it could create a very powerful tool for having a dense sensor grid at marginal costs.
We in the west enjoy excellent weather forcasts thanks to a dense grid of weather station, many of which are operated by amateurs. This could do the same for monitoring air quality with a hundred times refinement. An intresting idea, once you get beyond the knee jerk privacy reaction which anybody with a cellphone has already accepted. Allthough I wouldn't put it behind the average privacy nutter to wrap his cellphone in tinfoil, just in case.
If Mexico wants to solve all their problems, they should get rid of America. America funds countless drug organisation around the globe, funding even the terrorists it is fighting with its population craze for drugs.
It is amusing. One hand funds anti-drug campaigns that end up hurting foreign farmers, and the other gives those farmers a highly lucrative source of income. Meanwhile the US improsons more people then anyone else, including far larger nations, on sheer numbers with absolutely zero effect on its drug use.
You got to wonder how it can be that the US has the most expensive war on drugs and yet drugs flow so freely. Corruption? It is known the CIA, a government body has sponsored the drug trade. Are they perhaps still doing it?
Mexico should just close the border. 100%. Nobody in or out. That would solve the problem really fast. But of course, you can't stop the free-trade of drugs.
The problem is that there isn't a problem. There are a whole lot of them, all interconnected and unrelated all at the same time. And that means there isn't a solution. Not a simple one anyway.
The problems are:
The elites (several, not all the same group), who live in their own world and have carefully surrounded them by like minded indivduals (unpaid yes-men) so they never hear anything that disagrees with them.
Voters who want to be involved but not be involved. Who don't trust everything that is told to them but don't bother to find out the truth either.
NIMBY.
Politicians getting elected on promises, not on what they deliver.
People keep voting for taxcuts despite taxes never ever having being cut, ever anywhere.
Taxes being considered the only measurement, people not asking what you get for them. Fine that someone promises to cut spending, but if this means that you now have to pay more yourself, then you lost. Oh and remember, spending cuts never result in less taxes.
Long term plans don't appeal to politicians facing re-election in two years. Take Obama, has to fix 8 years of bad goverment in less then a year before being judged. HOW? If a politician initiats a policy that takes years to prove successful, he will have lost and the opposition takes the credit. Why bother? Instead shout "TAXCUTS" and get elected now.
Media with clear agenda's ruled by an elite who never has to take responsibility.
Secret ballots. I know how to solve the deadlock around global climate change. The republicans get their way, but if in 10-20 years they are proven wrong, all republicans and their offspring are killed off. Now we get voters voting for whatever but without any accountability. So they vote for their own short term self intrests, then bitch when the long term bites them in the ass. AKA all the people who voted for this major for 20 years that lead to Chigaco needing a bullet detection system.
And the list goes on. Frankly, I think democracy is to blaim. Democracy only works if the voters take an intrest and the elected people are accountable. Neither of these two is happening in western democracies. Fix that and you will start fixing the system. good luck.
The question should be, if a sandwich is 96% ham and 4% crap, would you still call it a ham sandwich. And yes you would. A disgusting ham sandwich but a ham sandwich still.
And we are not descended from Apes, we share a common ancestor. And we share one with most life if indeed not all.
And faith shouldn't go against facts and be considered normal.
If my faith led me to believe gravity doesn't affect me, wouldn't I be considered normal if I jumped of a building? No, I would be called insane. If ignoring the theory of gravity is insanity, then so is ignoring the theory of evolution.
And no, I am not saying that the universe was created by a god, that is silly and not even worthy of discussion. But we don't really know exactly how the universe got started. And a big explosion is a bit simplistic anyway, because for someone to explode in the conventional sense, there must be something there. But nothing exploded into something. That is not "possible" (well obviously it is possible) by the normal explanation of an explosion which is a very rapid burn. What fuels were there for the big bang? Unknown.
And no, I am not just nitpicking. Science is about answers, not assumptions. We can't just say "well the universe seems to be expanding there for it must have started very small and gone boom". That is fairytale thinking. WHAT HAPPENEND? In theory it might have been a hole that opened up and stuff streamed in from someplace else. Not a big bang, but a big drain. No proof whatsoever for it, but it fits the facts as well as the idea that nothing explodes. The idea of black and white holes.
Questionares like this are always full of holes and can be all to easily steered. I do not have to believe in the Big Bang theory AND be a religious nutter at the same time. But in a simple multiple choice that distinction can't be made. I do not believe in the Big Bang theory as it is explained on TV. Because something can't come from nothing. That would defy all natural laws of our universe. I do belief that real scientist are just working with what they got and partly making it up as they go along. Dark matter, dark energy. We are in the middle of the detective story and all kinds of theories are being flung around but we lack the vital bit of evidence or just haven't made all the connections yet.
That is science too. No real scientist claims the Big Bang is a fact. It is a theory. The best theory we have so far, but there are flaws within it. So the scientists keep looking.
Your logic makes sense, until you realize that IBM offers a LOT more then Oracle does. IBM can be a total solution provider (including that problem of what to do with your cash) and will be more then happy to replace Oracle for you.
So I think it is the last. Oracle just doesn't have a clue. They are used to be seeing as the only professional database, so they don't really think in terms of competition. You don't really compare quotes on databases like you do with say webservers or NAS storage. Your IT guys will suggest Oracle and then that be the one you go for. It is an interesting position to be in for Oracle, to suddenly have a product to sell that people do compare with other offerings.
I know how to find one bad programmer at least. Hire the guy who wrote that article.
Yes he does have a point, but he goes overboard and on several point shows a complete lack of being able to work within the system. No job environment is perfect.
1. List a String of Acronyms for Technologies
This is indeed bad, but you also need to be clear about what you want and the clearest way to list what technologies are needed for the job is to make a list. The list ain't bad, a long unfocused list is bad. If a job doesn't have a short list of what is required then I know they don't have a fucking clue what they are looking for. Only apply if you wish to hold their hand on every decision making process, which will turn out to have a lot of similarity with a random number generator.
2. Put an Arbitrary Number Next to Each Skill
Yup can be pretty bad but how else do you attempt to make it clear you need someone with experience with HTML, not just someone who has seen the acronym once? Personally I would use the experience level you must have for the job rather then years. Because years don't mean anything. I have used databases for 20 years now, but am not a DBA'er (I once talked to a girl after all).
3. Say Nothing Positive About the Position
Yeah, I do notice that. The old "what we offer" seems to have gone missing in action. But on the other hand, am I the only one who hates the boiler-plate "fresh and young company with an informal attitude"? Only put things here if they are relevant and true.
4. Use Euphemisms for the Negative Aspects of the Job
Oh boy. Don't forget the "flexible" one. Means: We are going to screw you every which way but whine like a girl if you ask for a single thing back. Basically, jobs are like girls. Nobody who doesn't have a multiple personality could ever hope to succeed.
5. Require Resume to be in Word doc Format
I like this one, good way to avoid MS shops. ALWAYS look for the desktops being used. All MS? Then run. Fast.
I am actually working on a little site myself that will advise people on how to buy a website. How do you handle the process? How do you determine your true requirements so you don't get hussled? What can you do to avoid becoming the dreaded "scope creep" client and the huge costs that come with it?
What the article/site will mostly focus on is trying to educate customers about the product they are buying and a LOT of companies hiring programmers don't have a clue about programmers or the job they are supposed to do. And this is odd, because if you are going to buy a car, you bring that friend who knows everything about cars. But anything to do with IT and those Luddites from HR can surely handle it. Would you let the guy who doesn't drive handle purchasing the company cars?
So, here is my own list of how to find a GOOD programmer.
Determine what it is you need. This is NOT a case of just listing every tech that ever been used in the company. If you need a web-developer it MIGHT sound reasonable to list everything from the server to image manipulation but really, what human can truly be an expert on all of them? Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Yes, it can be handy for your frontend guru to handle his own images, but should he also know how to handle obscure database crashes? If the job requirement becomes to wide, then you either need to split up the job, use external expert services or maybe accept that what you need is a couple of juniors who are still looking what area to go for rather then a specialist in a certain area.
Determine what kind of company you really are. Not every company is young and dynamic. Sure, you are advertising your company but that doesn't mean you have to sell it like Axe. Be realistic unless you want to attract the kind of person who falls for commercials. If you are a MS shop were everything is MS, don't try to sell yourself as an anything goes company, because your new hiree will run when he has to file a request in triplicate to h
And to all dutch people reading, this is why the disappearance of the Postbank is a really bad thing. We forget just how good we got it as consumers when the government used to run the cheapest bank around.
Pin charges, used to be free but still an insignificant amount compared to Credit Card charges.
None of the penalty payments like the above. If you can go in the the red, then you just pay the reasonable loan rate over the amount borrowed. There are no penalties. If you are not allowed to go in the red (you can turn this feature off), then you pay nothing. Any charges against your account simply don't get handled. No penalty fees again.
There is no allowance for repeating incasso to many times. The initial agreements specifies the repeat interval. Any company that abuses it faces the full fury of the bank, because the costs are fully for the bank, and banks don't like companies that upset their customers.
Market forces are NOT a good thing when it comes to handling your meager savings. Let the Americans have their silly banks and let us keep our cheap ones. Where you don't have to pay a bank for the privilege of holding your money.
But space is often limited, because we don't want to cover the landscape in solar panels. But we can put them in places that are already build-up.
And automated tracking systems need more maintenance then fixed systems, that is why roof top solar panels of various sorts don't tend to track. Better accept the lesser efficiency then risk having to have maintenance done on a roof that without solar panels can go for decades without maintenance.
I just found the shapes puzzling, got to wonder how the sunlight enters that first blue one with the spiral in it. It is an intresting idea, but I wonder if they are usable on a roof, some look like their would be really good at catching the wind (read blowing off).
It is going to wrong and slow. Yeah yeah, GPU based rendering, but most PC's don't have a GPU. And this says NOTHING about its javascript engine (IE is the slowest of them all. In fact if it was a race, IE would be running backwards, then drop dead) and the dom etc. So they can pass one test very quickly. Good for them. It is about time because with their current browsers they fail every single test without fail.
And I fear what advertisers will do with this.
But frankly, considering the recent removal of Flash from some websites because of the iPad, I think MS might hopefully be to late. If companies are no longer willing to ignore a "small" number of users whose browser is not IE, then they will not be making use of any gadget MS adds.
Even David Attenborough who himself narrated the Blue Planet were animals were shown that lived independent of the sun, narrated happily on Planet Earth that all lives needs the sun... It is just that for us it is so true that we forget that it isn't.
Fact: Hetero males have more anal sex then homosexual men. See how that fits in your little hetero world. Thinking the universe revolves around you is more common then you think.
Like the rolls of photos missing from Srebrenica, where the US airforce responsible for providing air support for dutch forces mysteriously failed to show up, and an american general now blames american cowardice on dutch homosexuals.
How do you know the US is your alley? By the bullet holes in your back.
The plane stayed aloft for 87 minutes, performing test maneuvers as well as completing a successful takeoff and landing.
Gosh, that is novel. So first it flies for 87 minutes, does several maneuvers and THEN even manages a successful takeoff. Didn't see that one coming. I thought it had crashed on takeoff, but no.
Pedantic? You bet.
It as bad as, "he died from his injuries which are believed to have been lethal". No kidding.
Less is more editors. Some of us can read between the lines, especially when they are written in editor crayon. What next, "the red firetruck was red"?
It is amusing, seeing MS apologists and Mac fanboys argue over who has the more open system.
A linux user.
But Apple is known for screwing up from time to ti
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Sometimes Apple has a period of greatness and then they have a period of... well, not so greatness. Maybe it is time again?
Personally, I don't know. The Wifi problems sound odd, but then again, who exactly thought putting an metal shield on an antenna was a good idea? But surely Apple would have tested that.
I think what we are finding is that a lot of people are putting this device under an intense microscope, determined to find any and all flaws and blow them up out of proportion. High trees catch a lot of wind, especially if they fail to fall in previous gusts of hot air. Anyone remember people scoffing the iPod and iPhone? They must be getting desperate for Apple to have one of its famous screw-ups again.
I think Apple had a simple reason to launch the iPad now. One of its uses is to go outside and use it. Who is going to go outside in the winter? And soonish they will have to announce a new macbook pro anyway (core 2 duo is getting very long in the tooth) and that makes more sense later in the year, and two must have's should be seperated so the victim eh customer has time to recover from the bloodletting that is called buying an Apple product.
Frankly, I have seen all this negativity before. I don't put much stock in it. If someone were to introduce fire in this day and age, people would find plenty of stuff wrong with it and claim that nobody really needs it.
Star Wars did not jump the shark. A vital ingredient is missing for that. The audience is NOT tired of the same old same old. That is EXACTLY what they crave. MORE episode 4-6.
For something to jump the shark, it must attempt to go overboard in order to keep intrest. But people were intrested in more Star Wars. There was no need for Jar Jar and slapstick space combat to sell it. Happy Days was loosing popularity and so they added the shark jump to boost viewer ratings. For Fonz to have done that same as Lucas did, he would have had to jump the shark in the first couple of seasons.
This is ultimately worse then jumping the shark. It is a producer not producing what the fans want, fans who got plenty of cash to buy anything at all. It would be like McD suddenly deciding that it is going to sell tofu burgers only, at 3am. To cats. With platinum credit cards.
And to be a bit serious. I think this is a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.
Labour and the Conservaties have been exchanging power for so long, that they have become completely entrenched. Pretty much like the bankers. Most bankers don't even get why the public don't think they should get bonusses. They really just can't see that people might be upset about the whole economy. Surely they deserve their bonusses for all their hardwork because without that hardwork... the economy wouldn't have crashed... the logic ain't there, but luckily nobody in their inner circle is going to point this out.
4 Labour and 1 conservative were trapped willing to accept bribes, and they haven't even been arrested on suspicion of high treason. Cash for questions, the declerations scandal, the sleeze has been going on for decades across both parties.
Some of the people in power are corrupt and worse, think that this is right and proper. And the rest are completely detached from reality. And we the voter vote for them time and time again.
You think Americans were stupid for electing Bush twice? Then how about Blair? Berlusconi? Balkenende? All dismal leaders that ruined their country and all impossible to get rid off.
Looking at the screenshots, I think some players approached this game differently then I did. For me the challenge was not the insane AI, but trying to create a maximum efficiency rail network. Getting the most goods transport, with as few trains with as little track as possible.
This game is closer the Sims and Sim City in that there is no AI to beat. The spiritual succesor of Roller Coaster tycoon makes this bloody clear by removing the AI altogether.
When you managed to pump up a city from nothing to a thriving metropolis with thousands of passengers, that for me was the challenge and the reward. I always switched the AI of.
Quite frankly, very few games have AI that is challenging. If you find satisfaction in beating a path finding AI... well then good luck to you.
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This is NOT a real product for blind people. It is a way to use art to point out something in our world that we don't think about. A comedian would use a joke.
I seriously doubt any blind person would buy this for stimulation. It is just a way to look at the world from a different perspective.
This guy is not a troll, he just hasn't got the joke.
Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*?
This might shock you, but some people do manage to touch boobies in their life time. (They are called girls, doesn't seem fair really).
So they can feel that big boobies are hotter. The extra friction when moving around heats them up. That is what you mean by hotter right?
Sex on slashdot, the king of oxymorons.
The idea is not a million miles removed from the folding@home and seti programs. Why build a supercomputer you can't afford when you can utalize existing hardware?
Why install a dense and costly sensor grid when you can disribute the sensor in a much cheaper package? You could of course install countless sensors with their own battery pack, processing power and communication gear, OR you could hitch them to existing gear that is by its nature widely distrubuted.
And with it, you could create a grid that reaches almost anywhere to measure air quality. I am pretty sure there are scientists who have a wet dream thinking of a very dense air measurment grid in urban areas.
Sure, privacy could be an issue...
Oh wait, no it isn't. If you got a phone, "they" can track you already. No special sniffer needed. How many of the privacy nutters got a phone? Your secret overlords thank you for carrying your tracker.
So, no privacy issue is added except perhaps "they" being able to tell you farted.
The idea is very close to using cellphones to track traffic jams. Lots of phone signals not moving? Traffic jam. Why not? The alternative is installing lots and lots of camera's.
Yeah, the tech would need good laws to regulate it, but if done right, it could create a very powerful tool for having a dense sensor grid at marginal costs.
We in the west enjoy excellent weather forcasts thanks to a dense grid of weather station, many of which are operated by amateurs. This could do the same for monitoring air quality with a hundred times refinement. An intresting idea, once you get beyond the knee jerk privacy reaction which anybody with a cellphone has already accepted. Allthough I wouldn't put it behind the average privacy nutter to wrap his cellphone in tinfoil, just in case.
If Mexico wants to solve all their problems, they should get rid of America. America funds countless drug organisation around the globe, funding even the terrorists it is fighting with its population craze for drugs.
It is amusing. One hand funds anti-drug campaigns that end up hurting foreign farmers, and the other gives those farmers a highly lucrative source of income. Meanwhile the US improsons more people then anyone else, including far larger nations, on sheer numbers with absolutely zero effect on its drug use.
You got to wonder how it can be that the US has the most expensive war on drugs and yet drugs flow so freely. Corruption? It is known the CIA, a government body has sponsored the drug trade. Are they perhaps still doing it?
Mexico should just close the border. 100%. Nobody in or out. That would solve the problem really fast. But of course, you can't stop the free-trade of drugs.
Funny really. When you are on another continent.
The problem is that there isn't a problem. There are a whole lot of them, all interconnected and unrelated all at the same time. And that means there isn't a solution. Not a simple one anyway.
The problems are:
And the list goes on. Frankly, I think democracy is to blaim. Democracy only works if the voters take an intrest and the elected people are accountable. Neither of these two is happening in western democracies. Fix that and you will start fixing the system. good luck.
The question should be, if a sandwich is 96% ham and 4% crap, would you still call it a ham sandwich. And yes you would. A disgusting ham sandwich but a ham sandwich still.
And we are not descended from Apes, we share a common ancestor. And we share one with most life if indeed not all.
And faith shouldn't go against facts and be considered normal.
If my faith led me to believe gravity doesn't affect me, wouldn't I be considered normal if I jumped of a building? No, I would be called insane. If ignoring the theory of gravity is insanity, then so is ignoring the theory of evolution.
And no, I am not saying that the universe was created by a god, that is silly and not even worthy of discussion. But we don't really know exactly how the universe got started. And a big explosion is a bit simplistic anyway, because for someone to explode in the conventional sense, there must be something there. But nothing exploded into something. That is not "possible" (well obviously it is possible) by the normal explanation of an explosion which is a very rapid burn. What fuels were there for the big bang? Unknown.
And no, I am not just nitpicking. Science is about answers, not assumptions. We can't just say "well the universe seems to be expanding there for it must have started very small and gone boom". That is fairytale thinking. WHAT HAPPENEND? In theory it might have been a hole that opened up and stuff streamed in from someplace else. Not a big bang, but a big drain. No proof whatsoever for it, but it fits the facts as well as the idea that nothing explodes. The idea of black and white holes.
Questionares like this are always full of holes and can be all to easily steered. I do not have to believe in the Big Bang theory AND be a religious nutter at the same time. But in a simple multiple choice that distinction can't be made. I do not believe in the Big Bang theory as it is explained on TV. Because something can't come from nothing. That would defy all natural laws of our universe. I do belief that real scientist are just working with what they got and partly making it up as they go along. Dark matter, dark energy. We are in the middle of the detective story and all kinds of theories are being flung around but we lack the vital bit of evidence or just haven't made all the connections yet.
That is science too. No real scientist claims the Big Bang is a fact. It is a theory. The best theory we have so far, but there are flaws within it. So the scientists keep looking.
Your logic makes sense, until you realize that IBM offers a LOT more then Oracle does. IBM can be a total solution provider (including that problem of what to do with your cash) and will be more then happy to replace Oracle for you.
So I think it is the last. Oracle just doesn't have a clue. They are used to be seeing as the only professional database, so they don't really think in terms of competition. You don't really compare quotes on databases like you do with say webservers or NAS storage. Your IT guys will suggest Oracle and then that be the one you go for. It is an interesting position to be in for Oracle, to suddenly have a product to sell that people do compare with other offerings.
I know how to find one bad programmer at least. Hire the guy who wrote that article.
Yes he does have a point, but he goes overboard and on several point shows a complete lack of being able to work within the system. No job environment is perfect.
1. List a String of Acronyms for Technologies
This is indeed bad, but you also need to be clear about what you want and the clearest way to list what technologies are needed for the job is to make a list. The list ain't bad, a long unfocused list is bad. If a job doesn't have a short list of what is required then I know they don't have a fucking clue what they are looking for. Only apply if you wish to hold their hand on every decision making process, which will turn out to have a lot of similarity with a random number generator.
2. Put an Arbitrary Number Next to Each Skill
Yup can be pretty bad but how else do you attempt to make it clear you need someone with experience with HTML, not just someone who has seen the acronym once? Personally I would use the experience level you must have for the job rather then years. Because years don't mean anything. I have used databases for 20 years now, but am not a DBA'er (I once talked to a girl after all).
3. Say Nothing Positive About the Position
Yeah, I do notice that. The old "what we offer" seems to have gone missing in action. But on the other hand, am I the only one who hates the boiler-plate "fresh and young company with an informal attitude"? Only put things here if they are relevant and true.
4. Use Euphemisms for the Negative Aspects of the Job
Oh boy. Don't forget the "flexible" one. Means: We are going to screw you every which way but whine like a girl if you ask for a single thing back. Basically, jobs are like girls. Nobody who doesn't have a multiple personality could ever hope to succeed.
5. Require Resume to be in Word doc Format
I like this one, good way to avoid MS shops. ALWAYS look for the desktops being used. All MS? Then run. Fast.
I am actually working on a little site myself that will advise people on how to buy a website. How do you handle the process? How do you determine your true requirements so you don't get hussled? What can you do to avoid becoming the dreaded "scope creep" client and the huge costs that come with it?
What the article/site will mostly focus on is trying to educate customers about the product they are buying and a LOT of companies hiring programmers don't have a clue about programmers or the job they are supposed to do. And this is odd, because if you are going to buy a car, you bring that friend who knows everything about cars. But anything to do with IT and those Luddites from HR can surely handle it. Would you let the guy who doesn't drive handle purchasing the company cars?
So, here is my own list of how to find a GOOD programmer.
And to all dutch people reading, this is why the disappearance of the Postbank is a really bad thing. We forget just how good we got it as consumers when the government used to run the cheapest bank around.
Pin charges, used to be free but still an insignificant amount compared to Credit Card charges.
None of the penalty payments like the above. If you can go in the the red, then you just pay the reasonable loan rate over the amount borrowed. There are no penalties. If you are not allowed to go in the red (you can turn this feature off), then you pay nothing. Any charges against your account simply don't get handled. No penalty fees again.
There is no allowance for repeating incasso to many times. The initial agreements specifies the repeat interval. Any company that abuses it faces the full fury of the bank, because the costs are fully for the bank, and banks don't like companies that upset their customers.
Market forces are NOT a good thing when it comes to handling your meager savings. Let the Americans have their silly banks and let us keep our cheap ones. Where you don't have to pay a bank for the privilege of holding your money.
But space is often limited, because we don't want to cover the landscape in solar panels. But we can put them in places that are already build-up.
And automated tracking systems need more maintenance then fixed systems, that is why roof top solar panels of various sorts don't tend to track. Better accept the lesser efficiency then risk having to have maintenance done on a roof that without solar panels can go for decades without maintenance.
I just found the shapes puzzling, got to wonder how the sunlight enters that first blue one with the spiral in it. It is an intresting idea, but I wonder if they are usable on a roof, some look like their would be really good at catching the wind (read blowing off).
It is going to wrong and slow. Yeah yeah, GPU based rendering, but most PC's don't have a GPU. And this says NOTHING about its javascript engine (IE is the slowest of them all. In fact if it was a race, IE would be running backwards, then drop dead) and the dom etc. So they can pass one test very quickly. Good for them. It is about time because with their current browsers they fail every single test without fail.
And I fear what advertisers will do with this.
But frankly, considering the recent removal of Flash from some websites because of the iPad, I think MS might hopefully be to late. If companies are no longer willing to ignore a "small" number of users whose browser is not IE, then they will not be making use of any gadget MS adds.
If you didn't drive over it, it ain't worth eating.
You were knocked out by a beer lover who saw you drinking budweiser. Good thing it happened in Japan, in Europe you would have been killed.
Even David Attenborough who himself narrated the Blue Planet were animals were shown that lived independent of the sun, narrated happily on Planet Earth that all lives needs the sun... It is just that for us it is so true that we forget that it isn't.
Fact: Hetero males have more anal sex then homosexual men. See how that fits in your little hetero world. Thinking the universe revolves around you is more common then you think.
Like the rolls of photos missing from Srebrenica, where the US airforce responsible for providing air support for dutch forces mysteriously failed to show up, and an american general now blames american cowardice on dutch homosexuals.
How do you know the US is your alley? By the bullet holes in your back.
The plane stayed aloft for 87 minutes, performing test maneuvers as well as completing a successful takeoff and landing.
Gosh, that is novel. So first it flies for 87 minutes, does several maneuvers and THEN even manages a successful takeoff. Didn't see that one coming. I thought it had crashed on takeoff, but no.
Pedantic? You bet.
It as bad as, "he died from his injuries which are believed to have been lethal". No kidding.
Less is more editors. Some of us can read between the lines, especially when they are written in editor crayon. What next, "the red firetruck was red"?
Paranoia, you ain't doing it right. Now go sit in the cellar with your tinfoil hat and your UN conspiracy manual.
It is amusing, seeing MS apologists and Mac fanboys argue over who has the more open system.
A linux user.
Sometimes Apple has a period of greatness and then they have a period of... well, not so greatness. Maybe it is time again?
Personally, I don't know. The Wifi problems sound odd, but then again, who exactly thought putting an metal shield on an antenna was a good idea? But surely Apple would have tested that.
I think what we are finding is that a lot of people are putting this device under an intense microscope, determined to find any and all flaws and blow them up out of proportion. High trees catch a lot of wind, especially if they fail to fall in previous gusts of hot air. Anyone remember people scoffing the iPod and iPhone? They must be getting desperate for Apple to have one of its famous screw-ups again.
I think Apple had a simple reason to launch the iPad now. One of its uses is to go outside and use it. Who is going to go outside in the winter? And soonish they will have to announce a new macbook pro anyway (core 2 duo is getting very long in the tooth) and that makes more sense later in the year, and two must have's should be seperated so the victim eh customer has time to recover from the bloodletting that is called buying an Apple product.
Frankly, I have seen all this negativity before. I don't put much stock in it. If someone were to introduce fire in this day and age, people would find plenty of stuff wrong with it and claim that nobody really needs it.
Star Wars did not jump the shark. A vital ingredient is missing for that. The audience is NOT tired of the same old same old. That is EXACTLY what they crave. MORE episode 4-6.
For something to jump the shark, it must attempt to go overboard in order to keep intrest. But people were intrested in more Star Wars. There was no need for Jar Jar and slapstick space combat to sell it. Happy Days was loosing popularity and so they added the shark jump to boost viewer ratings. For Fonz to have done that same as Lucas did, he would have had to jump the shark in the first couple of seasons.
This is ultimately worse then jumping the shark. It is a producer not producing what the fans want, fans who got plenty of cash to buy anything at all. It would be like McD suddenly deciding that it is going to sell tofu burgers only, at 3am. To cats. With platinum credit cards.
And to be a bit serious. I think this is a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.
Labour and the Conservaties have been exchanging power for so long, that they have become completely entrenched. Pretty much like the bankers. Most bankers don't even get why the public don't think they should get bonusses. They really just can't see that people might be upset about the whole economy. Surely they deserve their bonusses for all their hardwork because without that hardwork... the economy wouldn't have crashed... the logic ain't there, but luckily nobody in their inner circle is going to point this out.
4 Labour and 1 conservative were trapped willing to accept bribes, and they haven't even been arrested on suspicion of high treason. Cash for questions, the declerations scandal, the sleeze has been going on for decades across both parties.
Some of the people in power are corrupt and worse, think that this is right and proper. And the rest are completely detached from reality. And we the voter vote for them time and time again.
You think Americans were stupid for electing Bush twice? Then how about Blair? Berlusconi? Balkenende? All dismal leaders that ruined their country and all impossible to get rid off.
Common sense, not so common actually.
because you know, when the aliens to invade, I am sure the first priority is to set a frontpage, insert some nice ads, print it, distribute it...
At least the Orson Welles scare was over the bloody radio.
Looking at the screenshots, I think some players approached this game differently then I did. For me the challenge was not the insane AI, but trying to create a maximum efficiency rail network. Getting the most goods transport, with as few trains with as little track as possible.
This game is closer the Sims and Sim City in that there is no AI to beat. The spiritual succesor of Roller Coaster tycoon makes this bloody clear by removing the AI altogether.
When you managed to pump up a city from nothing to a thriving metropolis with thousands of passengers, that for me was the challenge and the reward. I always switched the AI of.
Quite frankly, very few games have AI that is challenging. If you find satisfaction in beating a path finding AI... well then good luck to you.