We can outrun a lot of animals, and probably all the wild ones that don't undergo "training", but we are definitely slower than horses. Human best marathon time is 2 hours for 26 miles, which gives us an average speed of 20 km/h. A horse on the other hand, can race at an average speed of 25 km/h, and do this for 6 hours. And that is carrying a person.
Only if you don't bother getting any other exercise throughout the day. If you're the kind of person who gets regular exercise outside of work, you probably won't mind sitting down for a few hours at work. Standing at work is better than sitting at a desk and then walking to your car, sitting in your car, walking to your couch and sitting on your couch. But no amount of standing will make up for real exercise. Also, I remember that last time I had a job where I spend 8 hour days on my feet, I would come home with some pretty tired legs at the end of the day, and didn't want to do any real exercise. So while my legs may have been building some muscle, I don't think my heart and lungs ever got a work out.
I guess it depends on your definition of "rich". While he probably isn't hard up for cash, neither are most extremely competent software developers. Bill Gates on the other hand is undeniably rich, although he is probably not as good of a software developer as Linus Torvalds. I don't think that Linus wrote Linux to become rich. Linus probably has a lot of money, and he didn't patent stuff, but correlation is not causation. A smart guy like that could have probably been quite a lot richer if he had chosen the other side.
You can even get add-on cages for you existing case like this one. Big advantage is that you can fit 3 drives in 2, 5.25" slots, which very rarely have much use anymore, yet most cases seem to still have 3 or 4 of them. You can get other models that will fit fit 5 drives in 3 bays, or have 1 in 1 depending on your needs.
I was going to state something similar. Just the sound on a HD video stream would probably be around 160 kbps. And definitely at least 96 kpbs. That leaves a maxium of 288 kbps, not even counting protocol overhead, to transmit HD video, which is just impossible. As a benchmark I tried watching Netflix on my phone, and even their SD stuff that my phone streams is about 200 MB for 45 minutes. Which is about 266 MB/hour which ends up being (according to Google conversion tools, eautiful it does weird units) is 605 kbps. 384 kbps would give a pretty low quality stream. I think that Netflix automatically adjusts the stream based on the bandwidth you have.
IT is a stupid classification anyway. It includes way too many different types of jobs. It could include everything from people working at the IT help desk all the way to people designing operating systems. That would be like looking at the "manufacturing sector" but also including the people who design the machines the manufacturing plants use. Sure an increase in manufacturing jobs means they need more machines, but you still shouldn't count them in the same lot.
Which is fine if all you ever do is watch videos. Some people like to do other things with their computers. Don't even get me started on the problem with widescreen monitors in general. Very few monitors can be flipped on their side, even though that's their most useful orientation for a lot of tasks.
Yeah, but you only have to scan it once. Then release it on the internet. Maybe it won't end well for small time publishers, but the authors they publish could see a boost in the popularity of their work. I've read way more books on my eReader in the past year, than I read in the previous 5 years before I owned it. And every book I've read on my eReader was not pirated (many were free however). As Cory Doctorow says, the problems for most authors isn't piracy, it's obscurity. Getting people to read your work is the hardest part. Once the author has you reading his books, it's that much easier to get you to pay for one.
Actually, if you live in Canada, you can get one from Newark for $35 CDN. Which, with today's exchange rate is $34.94. So you can get it for less than $35. Plus shipping and taxes of course.
I was going to say, It's funny to see things going the other way for once. Living in Canada, I know a lot of people who have signed up for proxy services to access to US Netflix Catalog, as well as things like Hulu, and even things like the shows that ABC, NBC, and CBS put on their websites. The nice thing about Netflix is that even if you sign up on the Canadian site, as soon as you use a proxy, it shows a nice message along the lines of "Looks like you're travelling, Content may be different from what you're used to". You can get a US VPN for $6 a month. Which is well worth it considering how much extra content you can get.
Depends on what you are buying. I could easily see somebody who is interested in WarHammer could save quite a few bucks if they had a 3D printer. I was in the local games store a while back and noticed how expensive these things were. They made out of the same material as hotwheels (die cast metal), yet they will easily charge 5-10 times as much for them. And they don't even paint them for you. You have to paint them yourself. I understand that's part of the experience, but get real. $50 for 5 unpainted die-cast 1 inch figurines? Some businesses do charge exuberant prices for things that could easily be printed out on a 3D printer, just as the music and industries charges a lot for things that can be cheaply written out to disk, and easily downloaded over the internet. The same will come to pass for many physical objects.
Exactly, Why not just time them from when they leave the gate, instead of trying to test their reaction time at hearing the pistol. This is how ski races are timed (ndividual events anyway). The EKG countdown is just to let you know when to go, but the timer doesn't start until you leave the gate, and the timer stops when you cross the finish line. I think running races would be much more interesting if we were only measuring the time they spend running, and didn't worry about how fast they reacted to sound. You could still have the gunshot and have them all race at the same time, but you wouldn't have to worry about false starts, and you wouldn't have to worry about who reacts fastest being the difference between first and fourth. I realize that the whole reaction time is part of the sport. But in events like the 100m dash where.1 seconds (or less) is the difference between first and second, it probably makes sense to eliminate any room for unfairness due to sound propagation.
While not a professional PC gamer, I've been able to hold my own against people using a mouse. As long as they were similarly experienced to me in the game. Maybe at the top end it matters, but at one time, I was pretty good using not only a trackball, but also using the number pad instead of the standard WASD controls. It really just depends on what you are used to for the most part. The nice thing about using the trackball is that you don't have to constantly pick it up and reposition it like you would with a mouse. You can turn the in the same direction indefinitely without ever moving your hand.
+1 for trackballs. They are better than any mouse. Once you get used to them, you'll never go back. A trackball is always in the right position. You never have to reach for it, and you never have to put your arm in weird positions to use it, because it stays in the same place. Sadly, it's getting harder and harder to find them these days. You can pretty much only order them online, and they cost way more than they should given their simplicity.
The problem is, how do you enforce the patent when people are printing the devices in their basement. You can't go after someone for releasing plans they drew up themselves, as long as they aren't a copy of your originals, and even if they were, the plans are just downloadable files, and we know how well that's working out for the movie and music industries. You can't go after the people producing the items, because there are just in their basements, and you have no way of tracking who is printing off the devices for personal use. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it definitely makes things interesting for companies that produce things that can be printed out on a 3D printer at home.
One thing always lacking in Outlook was search. It was there, but it was slow, and could never seem to find stuff I was looking for. I don't know if things are better in recent years with Outlook's search capabilities, but basic stuff I read around the web says it hasn't don't miss folders in Gmail because I can just search for it. And if I really want to file something in a specific place, I can use tags. I see a lot of people stumble around for a long time trying to find things in outlook, clicking through 20 different folders. On my desktop I use Thunderbird, which has really good search capabilities. Now I just have to get people to type relevant stuff in the message, so I can actually search for it. The biggest problem with search for stuff (or filtering for sorting into folders if you insist on folders) is that people don't put any useful information in the email. They'll just send a message with a subject that says "look at this" and attach a jpeg with a screenshot. Makes the email impossible to find 2 days later.
Not only that, but Justin Beiber (going from info on his movie) actually had to go around the standard labels and get popular by putting videos up on YouTube and touring around the US doing concerts at highschools and county fairs as well as doing radio appearances. This is because the labels didn't think music from a 16 year old boy would sell, especially from a person that was previously unknown for anything. By the time he had an album released, he already had quite a following. There's a million examples of artists that are the result of the music industry marketing machine. Justin Beiber is probably one of the worst examples you could pick.
Sounds a lot like what we have in the software development world too. People think they can teach themselves. And while you can get pretty far just figuring things out for yourself, learning some underlying theory behind the subject can go a very long way.
I repaired a drive once by overwriting the entire drive with zeroes, and overwrote the whole thing from/dev/random. After that I repartioned it and it worked fine for another 4-5 years. Before I "fixed" it, it was reporting bad sectors all over the place, and constantly had read and write errors. I salvaged what I could, but wasn't able to recover much. I never really trusted it with important data after that point, but it also never failed me after that. I eventually just stopped using it when I purchased a new hard drive, it realized the old one didn't have enough space to be useful. It was only 12 GB. Most USB sticks are bigger than that these days.
I don't think any fault lies on apple for this one. The financial analysts were wrong. I'm sure if you had asked accountants at Apple 2 months into the quarter they could have told you a much more accurate number of where they would be at the end of the quarter. All that being said, the analysts were only off by 6%. That's not all that much in the grand scheme of things. Especially considering they made a 23% profit (8 billion from one source I read). Any company that can make 23% profit selling electronics should be applauded.
How is creating a new OpenID account any easier than creating a new facebook or a new twitter account? Trolls will be trolls regardless of how they have to log in.
My thoughts exactly. If being designed for pirates means that they do nothing to stop pirates then Android is designed for pirates. As is Windows, Linux, OSX, and probably every OS except iOS. Not counting consoles that is. That doesn't mean its impossible to make money selling applications for those platforms.
What about OpenID. That allows anybody to be a single sign on service provider. I can even be my own single sign on service provider if I have my own domain name.
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We can outrun a lot of animals, and probably all the wild ones that don't undergo "training", but we are definitely slower than horses. Human best marathon time is 2 hours for 26 miles, which gives us an average speed of 20 km/h. A horse on the other hand, can race at an average speed of 25 km/h, and do this for 6 hours. And that is carrying a person.
Only if you don't bother getting any other exercise throughout the day. If you're the kind of person who gets regular exercise outside of work, you probably won't mind sitting down for a few hours at work. Standing at work is better than sitting at a desk and then walking to your car, sitting in your car, walking to your couch and sitting on your couch. But no amount of standing will make up for real exercise. Also, I remember that last time I had a job where I spend 8 hour days on my feet, I would come home with some pretty tired legs at the end of the day, and didn't want to do any real exercise. So while my legs may have been building some muscle, I don't think my heart and lungs ever got a work out.
I guess it depends on your definition of "rich". While he probably isn't hard up for cash, neither are most extremely competent software developers. Bill Gates on the other hand is undeniably rich, although he is probably not as good of a software developer as Linus Torvalds. I don't think that Linus wrote Linux to become rich. Linus probably has a lot of money, and he didn't patent stuff, but correlation is not causation. A smart guy like that could have probably been quite a lot richer if he had chosen the other side.
You can even get add-on cages for you existing case like this one. Big advantage is that you can fit 3 drives in 2, 5.25" slots, which very rarely have much use anymore, yet most cases seem to still have 3 or 4 of them. You can get other models that will fit fit 5 drives in 3 bays, or have 1 in 1 depending on your needs.
I was going to state something similar. Just the sound on a HD video stream would probably be around 160 kbps. And definitely at least 96 kpbs. That leaves a maxium of 288 kbps, not even counting protocol overhead, to transmit HD video, which is just impossible. As a benchmark I tried watching Netflix on my phone, and even their SD stuff that my phone streams is about 200 MB for 45 minutes. Which is about 266 MB/hour which ends up being (according to Google conversion tools, eautiful it does weird units) is 605 kbps. 384 kbps would give a pretty low quality stream. I think that Netflix automatically adjusts the stream based on the bandwidth you have.
IT is a stupid classification anyway. It includes way too many different types of jobs. It could include everything from people working at the IT help desk all the way to people designing operating systems. That would be like looking at the "manufacturing sector" but also including the people who design the machines the manufacturing plants use. Sure an increase in manufacturing jobs means they need more machines, but you still shouldn't count them in the same lot.
Which is fine if all you ever do is watch videos. Some people like to do other things with their computers. Don't even get me started on the problem with widescreen monitors in general. Very few monitors can be flipped on their side, even though that's their most useful orientation for a lot of tasks.
Yeah, but you only have to scan it once. Then release it on the internet. Maybe it won't end well for small time publishers, but the authors they publish could see a boost in the popularity of their work. I've read way more books on my eReader in the past year, than I read in the previous 5 years before I owned it. And every book I've read on my eReader was not pirated (many were free however). As Cory Doctorow says, the problems for most authors isn't piracy, it's obscurity. Getting people to read your work is the hardest part. Once the author has you reading his books, it's that much easier to get you to pay for one.
Please listen to this podcast. WinRT doesn't replace .Net, and it isn't a "Runtime" in the same sense that the CLR is a "Runtime".
Actually, if you live in Canada, you can get one from Newark for $35 CDN. Which, with today's exchange rate is $34.94. So you can get it for less than $35. Plus shipping and taxes of course.
I was going to say, It's funny to see things going the other way for once. Living in Canada, I know a lot of people who have signed up for proxy services to access to US Netflix Catalog, as well as things like Hulu, and even things like the shows that ABC, NBC, and CBS put on their websites. The nice thing about Netflix is that even if you sign up on the Canadian site, as soon as you use a proxy, it shows a nice message along the lines of "Looks like you're travelling, Content may be different from what you're used to". You can get a US VPN for $6 a month. Which is well worth it considering how much extra content you can get.
Depends on what you are buying. I could easily see somebody who is interested in WarHammer could save quite a few bucks if they had a 3D printer. I was in the local games store a while back and noticed how expensive these things were. They made out of the same material as hotwheels (die cast metal), yet they will easily charge 5-10 times as much for them. And they don't even paint them for you. You have to paint them yourself. I understand that's part of the experience, but get real. $50 for 5 unpainted die-cast 1 inch figurines? Some businesses do charge exuberant prices for things that could easily be printed out on a 3D printer, just as the music and industries charges a lot for things that can be cheaply written out to disk, and easily downloaded over the internet. The same will come to pass for many physical objects.
Exactly, Why not just time them from when they leave the gate, instead of trying to test their reaction time at hearing the pistol. This is how ski races are timed (ndividual events anyway). The EKG countdown is just to let you know when to go, but the timer doesn't start until you leave the gate, and the timer stops when you cross the finish line. I think running races would be much more interesting if we were only measuring the time they spend running, and didn't worry about how fast they reacted to sound. You could still have the gunshot and have them all race at the same time, but you wouldn't have to worry about false starts, and you wouldn't have to worry about who reacts fastest being the difference between first and fourth. I realize that the whole reaction time is part of the sport. But in events like the 100m dash where .1 seconds (or less) is the difference between first and second, it probably makes sense to eliminate any room for unfairness due to sound propagation.
While not a professional PC gamer, I've been able to hold my own against people using a mouse. As long as they were similarly experienced to me in the game. Maybe at the top end it matters, but at one time, I was pretty good using not only a trackball, but also using the number pad instead of the standard WASD controls. It really just depends on what you are used to for the most part. The nice thing about using the trackball is that you don't have to constantly pick it up and reposition it like you would with a mouse. You can turn the in the same direction indefinitely without ever moving your hand.
+1 for trackballs. They are better than any mouse. Once you get used to them, you'll never go back. A trackball is always in the right position. You never have to reach for it, and you never have to put your arm in weird positions to use it, because it stays in the same place. Sadly, it's getting harder and harder to find them these days. You can pretty much only order them online, and they cost way more than they should given their simplicity.
The problem is, how do you enforce the patent when people are printing the devices in their basement. You can't go after someone for releasing plans they drew up themselves, as long as they aren't a copy of your originals, and even if they were, the plans are just downloadable files, and we know how well that's working out for the movie and music industries. You can't go after the people producing the items, because there are just in their basements, and you have no way of tracking who is printing off the devices for personal use. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it definitely makes things interesting for companies that produce things that can be printed out on a 3D printer at home.
One thing always lacking in Outlook was search. It was there, but it was slow, and could never seem to find stuff I was looking for. I don't know if things are better in recent years with Outlook's search capabilities, but basic stuff I read around the web says it hasn't don't miss folders in Gmail because I can just search for it. And if I really want to file something in a specific place, I can use tags. I see a lot of people stumble around for a long time trying to find things in outlook, clicking through 20 different folders. On my desktop I use Thunderbird, which has really good search capabilities. Now I just have to get people to type relevant stuff in the message, so I can actually search for it. The biggest problem with search for stuff (or filtering for sorting into folders if you insist on folders) is that people don't put any useful information in the email. They'll just send a message with a subject that says "look at this" and attach a jpeg with a screenshot. Makes the email impossible to find 2 days later.
Not only that, but Justin Beiber (going from info on his movie) actually had to go around the standard labels and get popular by putting videos up on YouTube and touring around the US doing concerts at highschools and county fairs as well as doing radio appearances. This is because the labels didn't think music from a 16 year old boy would sell, especially from a person that was previously unknown for anything. By the time he had an album released, he already had quite a following. There's a million examples of artists that are the result of the music industry marketing machine. Justin Beiber is probably one of the worst examples you could pick.
Don't forget the Wii Family Edition which removed the ports for GameCube controllers and memory cards which meant it couldn't play GameCube games.
Sounds a lot like what we have in the software development world too. People think they can teach themselves. And while you can get pretty far just figuring things out for yourself, learning some underlying theory behind the subject can go a very long way.
I repaired a drive once by overwriting the entire drive with zeroes, and overwrote the whole thing from /dev/random. After that I repartioned it and it worked fine for another 4-5 years. Before I "fixed" it, it was reporting bad sectors all over the place, and constantly had read and write errors. I salvaged what I could, but wasn't able to recover much. I never really trusted it with important data after that point, but it also never failed me after that. I eventually just stopped using it when I purchased a new hard drive, it realized the old one didn't have enough space to be useful. It was only 12 GB. Most USB sticks are bigger than that these days.
I don't think any fault lies on apple for this one. The financial analysts were wrong. I'm sure if you had asked accountants at Apple 2 months into the quarter they could have told you a much more accurate number of where they would be at the end of the quarter. All that being said, the analysts were only off by 6%. That's not all that much in the grand scheme of things. Especially considering they made a 23% profit (8 billion from one source I read). Any company that can make 23% profit selling electronics should be applauded.
How is creating a new OpenID account any easier than creating a new facebook or a new twitter account? Trolls will be trolls regardless of how they have to log in.
My thoughts exactly. If being designed for pirates means that they do nothing to stop pirates then Android is designed for pirates. As is Windows, Linux, OSX, and probably every OS except iOS. Not counting consoles that is. That doesn't mean its impossible to make money selling applications for those platforms.
What about OpenID. That allows anybody to be a single sign on service provider. I can even be my own single sign on service provider if I have my own domain name.