Which is the whole reason for calling it the "War on Terrorism" or the "War on Drugs". It basically gives them the power to do whatever they want, as they can claim that they are in a state of war. The US needs some serious political change. I hope that they elect in somebody competent in November. Although I'm not sure who's running who would actually qualify. Hopefully whoever gets voted in, will be willing the stop the insanity that is, "The War on Terrorism".
I never use history. I actually disable it because I never look in there, among other reasons. I think the major problem is that there's just too much stuff in there, and it's too hard to really find, since you can only search by page title and URL, and often times you don't even know what you're looking for. I think history should have a much more hierarchical view. It shows you a tree of how you ended up at a page. So, you search google for Foo, and then from there opened up pages A, B, and C. Those should all be child nodes of the original google search. That way, when you look in your history, you only see the starting points, and you can recall your navigation path in order to find the page.
Seriously though. Awesomebar sounds like something invented by strongbad. I'm sure it's a good feature, but it's hard to talk about it without sounding like a moron. Same thing goes for GIMP.
It may not be quite as useful, but if you don't want to kill your battery on your portable device, it's probably better to have the podcast. Just download it in the morning, and you're set. It would suck to miss part of the show because you drove through a tunnel, or hit some other blackout area.
For most of my talk radio, I do podcasts. I listen to 2 podcasts every week. For music, I don't do radio. I really like podcasting, and hope that it will eventually replace all broadcast radio. It really is a much better way to listen to the radio.
But by completely removing the ability for them to transmit the data, they've also lost the ability to catch people who want to transmit data this way. If you know how to break their codes, don't tell them, because they will find some other way of transmitting the data more securely.
On top of this, if you have a VOIP/GSM phone, you probably have email. Why not just send encrypted email? Why jump through hoops trying to send stenographic data through the phone system.
I don't think it's about density or sheer numbers. It's about how much other data you have about the data you're looking at. In this case, they augmented the netflix data with data from IMDB. By having more data about the movies that were being rated, such as actors, producers, directors, year of filming, and other information, they were better able to recommend movies. If the only thing you know about a movie is who voted for it, but not why, then you are going to have a hard time recommending movies to others.
I know you're probably trying to be funny, but that's what I was thinking. Most people couldn't care less about accurate colour reproduction. Unless you're a graphic designer, I can't really see this mattering much. Also, to the graphic designers out there, try to put yourself in the seat of your target audience. Don't assume that the people viewing your web page have the same quality of monitor as you do. Just because two colours show lots of contrast, and look different on your monitor, doesn't mean they will look different on cheaper ones.
The thing is, is that the RIAA is just about business. And therefore all they are interested in is making money. They've found the best way to make money is to produce the minimum amount of music that will result in the maximum amount of sales. That's how they maximize their profits. The best way to do that is to promote a small number of artists that most people will buy, because they don't find it terrible.
I read about 2/3 of Cryptonomicon. Put it down for the summer because I use my bike instead of public transit for travelling to work, and I never picked it back up again. I keep on meaning to finish it, but it's been so long I fear that I'll have to start over from the beginning again. If there really is no ending, I might not bother, as I like my books to have some kind of conclusion.
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Couldn't have put it better myself. Wireshark gives you a ton of tools for filtering through all the ongoing connections, and really looking at what's going on with your network.
This is actually worse than failure. Anyway, this is my first time posting a comment on idle. If you think the comments page is messed up, you should check out the page for posting comments.
I remember a comment from a previous story on raytracing that basically said, since using raster processing is faster, to get the same quality image, you will always be able to get a better image out of a raster graphics processor, then from a ray-tracer. Which means that raytracing is nice if you have time to wait around, but if you wait around the same amount of time with raster processing, you'll get a better image.
I would also like to remind people that anybody that uploads anything to some webserver that isn't their own, should expect that the information will be publically accessible, even if it's supposed to be private. MySpace and Facebook have both had problems with "private" photos being accessible. If you don't want the information to be accessible on the web, don't upload it.
Who cares how many people end up using the GIMP in a professional environment? Many people just want a program to use at home for a little quick photo editing. By getting home users to start using GIMP, this takes serious market share and mind share away from Adobe. The best thing about photo editing is that we don't have to worry about proprietary formats (as much) as we do with document editing. This means that you can use whichever tool you want, and don't have to really worry about what the rest of the world is using.
To further prove that point, only from a different angle, here's my story. I'm married and have 2 kids and I'm only 27. None of my long time friends have kids, and most them aren't even close to being married. I feel there's a huge disconnect when I see them. We don't really share much of the same interests anymore, and don't see eachother very often.
It makes you more attractive to the women, but what quality of woman is still available when she's forty? There's either the women who don't want to be married, which is fine, but a very small percentage, and then there's the duds.
I don't think you have to get rid of the TV. Just get good at limiting it. There's no reason that you have to watch television news just because they broadcast it. I very rarely watch the news. And when I do, it's the morning news, which consists of weather, traffic (I don't drive so I ignore this), the stock market prices, and a couple advertisements in the form of stories for local businesses. My kids watch about 30 minutes of TV a day. Some days there's no TV at all, not because think they've had too much, but just because they have other things they enjoy doing more.
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Which is the whole reason for calling it the "War on Terrorism" or the "War on Drugs". It basically gives them the power to do whatever they want, as they can claim that they are in a state of war. The US needs some serious political change. I hope that they elect in somebody competent in November. Although I'm not sure who's running who would actually qualify. Hopefully whoever gets voted in, will be willing the stop the insanity that is, "The War on Terrorism".
The WTC fell down didn't it? What more evidence do you need?
I never use history. I actually disable it because I never look in there, among other reasons. I think the major problem is that there's just too much stuff in there, and it's too hard to really find, since you can only search by page title and URL, and often times you don't even know what you're looking for. I think history should have a much more hierarchical view. It shows you a tree of how you ended up at a page. So, you search google for Foo, and then from there opened up pages A, B, and C. Those should all be child nodes of the original google search. That way, when you look in your history, you only see the starting points, and you can recall your navigation path in order to find the page.
Seriously though. Awesomebar sounds like something invented by strongbad. I'm sure it's a good feature, but it's hard to talk about it without sounding like a moron. Same thing goes for GIMP.
It may not be quite as useful, but if you don't want to kill your battery on your portable device, it's probably better to have the podcast. Just download it in the morning, and you're set. It would suck to miss part of the show because you drove through a tunnel, or hit some other blackout area.
For most of my talk radio, I do podcasts. I listen to 2 podcasts every week. For music, I don't do radio. I really like podcasting, and hope that it will eventually replace all broadcast radio. It really is a much better way to listen to the radio.
But by completely removing the ability for them to transmit the data, they've also lost the ability to catch people who want to transmit data this way. If you know how to break their codes, don't tell them, because they will find some other way of transmitting the data more securely.
On top of this, if you have a VOIP/GSM phone, you probably have email. Why not just send encrypted email? Why jump through hoops trying to send stenographic data through the phone system.
I don't think it's about density or sheer numbers. It's about how much other data you have about the data you're looking at. In this case, they augmented the netflix data with data from IMDB. By having more data about the movies that were being rated, such as actors, producers, directors, year of filming, and other information, they were better able to recommend movies. If the only thing you know about a movie is who voted for it, but not why, then you are going to have a hard time recommending movies to others.
I know you're probably trying to be funny, but that's what I was thinking. Most people couldn't care less about accurate colour reproduction. Unless you're a graphic designer, I can't really see this mattering much. Also, to the graphic designers out there, try to put yourself in the seat of your target audience. Don't assume that the people viewing your web page have the same quality of monitor as you do. Just because two colours show lots of contrast, and look different on your monitor, doesn't mean they will look different on cheaper ones.
It would actually be more of a joke if they started posting the summaries on the day the news actually occurred, instead of a few days later.
The thing is, is that the RIAA is just about business. And therefore all they are interested in is making money. They've found the best way to make money is to produce the minimum amount of music that will result in the maximum amount of sales. That's how they maximize their profits. The best way to do that is to promote a small number of artists that most people will buy, because they don't find it terrible.
I read about 2/3 of Cryptonomicon. Put it down for the summer because I use my bike instead of public transit for travelling to work, and I never picked it back up again. I keep on meaning to finish it, but it's been so long I fear that I'll have to start over from the beginning again. If there really is no ending, I might not bother, as I like my books to have some kind of conclusion.
Couldn't have put it better myself. Wireshark gives you a ton of tools for filtering through all the ongoing connections, and really looking at what's going on with your network.
This is actually worse than failure. Anyway, this is my first time posting a comment on idle. If you think the comments page is messed up, you should check out the page for posting comments.
Even better for the people who live 6 years in the future and who are running Windows 7.
I remember a comment from a previous story on raytracing that basically said, since using raster processing is faster, to get the same quality image, you will always be able to get a better image out of a raster graphics processor, then from a ray-tracer. Which means that raytracing is nice if you have time to wait around, but if you wait around the same amount of time with raster processing, you'll get a better image.
When you said Flex, it immediately brought this to mind.
Why not just put Vista on it?
I would also like to remind people that anybody that uploads anything to some webserver that isn't their own, should expect that the information will be publically accessible, even if it's supposed to be private. MySpace and Facebook have both had problems with "private" photos being accessible. If you don't want the information to be accessible on the web, don't upload it.
Who cares how many people end up using the GIMP in a professional environment? Many people just want a program to use at home for a little quick photo editing. By getting home users to start using GIMP, this takes serious market share and mind share away from Adobe. The best thing about photo editing is that we don't have to worry about proprietary formats (as much) as we do with document editing. This means that you can use whichever tool you want, and don't have to really worry about what the rest of the world is using.
To further prove that point, only from a different angle, here's my story. I'm married and have 2 kids and I'm only 27. None of my long time friends have kids, and most them aren't even close to being married. I feel there's a huge disconnect when I see them. We don't really share much of the same interests anymore, and don't see eachother very often.
It makes you more attractive to the women, but what quality of woman is still available when she's forty? There's either the women who don't want to be married, which is fine, but a very small percentage, and then there's the duds.
I don't think you have to get rid of the TV. Just get good at limiting it. There's no reason that you have to watch television news just because they broadcast it. I very rarely watch the news. And when I do, it's the morning news, which consists of weather, traffic (I don't drive so I ignore this), the stock market prices, and a couple advertisements in the form of stories for local businesses. My kids watch about 30 minutes of TV a day. Some days there's no TV at all, not because think they've had too much, but just because they have other things they enjoy doing more.
The sad part is, that certain versions of windows will only take the first 7 characters, and just simply drop the rest.