He was confused. This New RIAA Math confuses everyone, which is surely what it is intended to do.
The RIAA appears to have learned the lessons of religion and government which is really a lesson in marketing (that perception is reality): it doesn't matter whether what you say is true and can be proven - if you say it often enough, forcefully enough and with apparent total conviction, the majority will eventually accept it as fact.
they checked with the Hubble folks to make sure that they hadn't applied some sort of (pseudo)sharpening techniques along with all the other processing (like false-coloring, et al) that they do. The article didn't say that they analyzed raw data.
I'd like to LART some managers who come by every 10 or 15 minutes while I'm working on a project with a very tight deadline, and ask 'Is it done yet?
Under a very tight deadline, I once told a manager quite forcefully:
"Look, each of us has an obligation to the other here. Your obligation is to do everything you reasonably can to empower me and enable me to meet the deadline. My obligation is to do everything that I reasonably can to meet my commitment on this deadline and to inform you when there are things that you can do to improve my chances. Therefore, as part of my obligation, I have to inform you that by constantly interrupting me to ask me how it's going, you are breaking the concentration that I have spent several hours building and reducing my chances of meeting the deadline in the order of 2 or more hours* per interruption."**
He looked quite shocked at first but then seemed to summon his memories of his days in the trenches, apologized and backed off. We had a new understanding from that point on.
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* 1/2 hour to cool off + 1 hour to re-build my mental state + 1/2 hour fudge ('cause we always gotta fudge;)
**(This is what I said IIRC. It was some years ago and legends tend acquire new dimensions over time. It's also possible that I said something more concise like "quit f---ing bugging me, so I can get this done". I can't remember exactly now.)
Doesn't Intel get a fair amount of profit from overclocking enthusiasts?
It seems to me that it would be quite the reverse. Faster systems based on faster (more expensive) processors from Intel = more money to Intel. Faster systems based on over-clocked slower (cheaper) Intel processors = less money to Intel.
I guess that if they had placed the html link more prominently or had both an "OK Flash" and an "OK HTML" button, I would have noticed. Or maybe the default should be HTML since everybody has/uses HTML as opposed to flash. It does set a cookie for the default after you've used it once.
Conceptually, I like the keyword add/ignore suggestions and auto re-categorizing - this could be very empowering if it works well. I can't see a clear indication of the number of hits it finds and it's still ugly (get rid of the damned dark blue background) and it needs some UI improvements. And why does it default to the "UK Web" (and not change this in with a cookie, like the interface)?
I just gave them a quick spin. Here's my highly subjective eval based on 2 minutes of use:
Vivisimo Light google-ish interface. "Clustered Results" is neat idea and may be quite useful. Seems a little light in the hits department, but so is every new search engine. Time will tell.
Kartoo Ugly. Requires Flash - bad move - game over.
I was thinking of a different bone of contention I have when I said that: FAT32 support, which MS never provided under NT4 right up to SP6A (I mean, the provided it under '95a/b for goodness sake!). They probably thought that it would eat into Win2k sales. I have read-only support of FAT32 with a free driver from System Internals. You can also purchase the driver with full read/write support from Wininternals.
It was a couple of years ago, but I now remember that the problem was that the (SP4-6A) NTFS5 support was half-assed - you could no longer use low level disk tools (including MS's own *cough* tools) if you had NTFS5 under NT4. And that certainly qualifies as NFG IMO.
But that's not what really pissed me off. I knew that and didn't want NTFS upgraded. What pissed me off was that Win2k did it anyway and without warning. And that is unacceptable.
He either one brave fellow or all his other data are belong to the recycle bin.
I wouldn't let an early beta o/s on a system that even had another partition or drive in the same room. I'm still pissed from when that dumb-assed release version of Win2k "upgraded" my NTFS 4 on another drive to NTFS 5 (making it incompatible with NT4) WITHOUT WARNING when I simply looked at the other drive. Yes, they warn that it could happen during the install if you have any NTFS 4 partitions, but this was after the install, when I connected another drive to copy some files over! Luckily, I had imaged the drives beforehand just in case.
For example a company will make an operating system that people have used for years through a command line. Everyone knows how to use it and applications fly. But, some bright spark thinks that command lines are passe and insists on "updating" the operating system. They spend LOTS of money developing some gui interface, worse yet, some browser based interface to the operating system.
Suddenly, the operating system is slower than molasses, going up hill on a cold day. No one knows how to navigate the new interface and productivity takes a major dive.
Naturally, the bright sparks insist the problem is old hardware and the world spends another fortune upgrading equipment to get performance back to where it was before. It's a total waste of time and money, not to mention that it pisses off the user community in a major way.
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The RIAA appears to have learned the lessons of religion and government which is really a lesson in marketing (that perception is reality): it doesn't matter whether what you say is true and can be proven - if you say it often enough, forcefully enough and with apparent total conviction, the majority will eventually accept it as fact.
I'm not sure what the album's title really refers to, but in the context of that (Radiohead) article, the title seems just a touch ironic.
Now you find the April Fools material.
they checked with the Hubble folks to make sure that they hadn't applied some sort of (pseudo)sharpening techniques along with all the other processing (like false-coloring, et al) that they do. The article didn't say that they analyzed raw data.
and responding accordingly you can prevent access of evil packets.
"you can't just casually mention quasi-invisibility cloaks without posting a link"
He did post a link, but he used the <quasi-invisible> tag.
...that this item was posted a day early.
Under a very tight deadline, I once told a manager quite forcefully:
"Look, each of us has an obligation to the other here. Your obligation is to do everything you reasonably can to empower me and enable me to meet the deadline. My obligation is to do everything that I reasonably can to meet my commitment on this deadline and to inform you when there are things that you can do to improve my chances. Therefore, as part of my obligation, I have to inform you that by constantly interrupting me to ask me how it's going, you are breaking the concentration that I have spent several hours building and reducing my chances of meeting the deadline in the order of 2 or more hours* per interruption."**
He looked quite shocked at first but then seemed to summon his memories of his days in the trenches, apologized and backed off. We had a new understanding from that point on.
----
* 1/2 hour to cool off + 1 hour to re-build my mental state + 1/2 hour fudge ('cause we always gotta fudge ;)
**(This is what I said IIRC. It was some years ago and legends tend acquire new dimensions over time. It's also possible that I said something more concise like "quit f---ing bugging me, so I can get this done". I can't remember exactly now.)
Shut up, bloody Vikings!
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... has been e-mailed to every California taxpayer.
It seems to me that it would be quite the reverse. Faster systems based on faster (more expensive) processors from Intel = more money to Intel. Faster systems based on over-clocked slower (cheaper) Intel processors = less money to Intel.
Conceptually, I like the keyword add/ignore suggestions and auto re-categorizing - this could be very empowering if it works well. I can't see a clear indication of the number of hits it finds and it's still ugly (get rid of the damned dark blue background) and it needs some UI improvements. And why does it default to the "UK Web" (and not change this in with a cookie, like the interface)?
it may be a problem with the U.B.A.
Vivisimo Light google-ish interface. "Clustered Results" is neat idea and may be quite useful. Seems a little light in the hits department, but so is every new search engine. Time will tell.
Kartoo Ugly. Requires Flash - bad move - game over.
Yup. I've been using my AWE32 for 7 years or so. I hope to get good drivers for it any day now.
Windia.
Maybe MS could change the name to Windium and trademark that.
I was thinking of a different bone of contention I have when I said that: FAT32 support, which MS never provided under NT4 right up to SP6A (I mean, the provided it under '95a/b for goodness sake!). They probably thought that it would eat into Win2k sales. I have read-only support of FAT32 with a free driver from System Internals. You can also purchase the driver with full read/write support from Wininternals.
It was a couple of years ago, but I now remember that the problem was that the (SP4-6A) NTFS5 support was half-assed - you could no longer use low level disk tools (including MS's own *cough* tools) if you had NTFS5 under NT4. And that certainly qualifies as NFG IMO.
But that's not what really pissed me off. I knew that and didn't want NTFS upgraded. What pissed me off was that Win2k did it anyway and without warning. And that is unacceptable.
Only to read, not to write. NFG.
He either one brave fellow or all his other data are belong to the recycle bin.
I wouldn't let an early beta o/s on a system that even had another partition or drive in the same room. I'm still pissed from when that dumb-assed release version of Win2k "upgraded" my NTFS 4 on another drive to NTFS 5 (making it incompatible with NT4) WITHOUT WARNING when I simply looked at the other drive. Yes, they warn that it could happen during the install if you have any NTFS 4 partitions, but this was after the install, when I connected another drive to copy some files over! Luckily, I had imaged the drives beforehand just in case.
Suddenly, the operating system is slower than molasses, going up hill on a cold day. No one knows how to navigate the new interface and productivity takes a major dive.
Naturally, the bright sparks insist the problem is old hardware and the world spends another fortune upgrading equipment to get performance back to where it was before. It's a total waste of time and money, not to mention that it pisses off the user community in a major way.
I'm sorry, could you be more specific? ;-)
Especially since a big client of the BS Alliance pretty much owns the process of going after anyone with money.