I think it's quite stupid that the definition of "int" changes every time we change architectures. This caught me a few times in my first year programming course. The compiler I had at home was 32 bit, but for some reason the machines in the lab were configured to compile for 16 bit. They were windows 98, with some version of Borland, but for some reason, all my integers which worked fine at home, would overflow like crazy as soon as I brought them into the school computer lab.
Yes, it's a trade off. I have an iPod Nano. There's no waay you could have any kind of standard user replacable battery in that thing without making it bigger. The same probably holds true for this laptop.
Even if the item is on sale for dirt cheap, it still costs money to buy. I remember a story one of my professors told me. His wife comes back from shopping with a new $400 coat. When he asks why she spent so much money, she says, it was on sale, I saved $200. He said great. Go buy 4 more so we can pay the rent. The moral of the story is, buying something simply because it's on sale doesn't save you anything. It just costs you money.
It doesn't take much (money) to get a game rated above 80% these days. It's not like in the old days, where if you had a terrible game, they'd actually give you a rating of 7%. The range for most games is around 60%-100%. So being above 80% doesn't really say much. The real question is, how many games are above 95%?
And that right there is the answer. Advertising decides everything. I don't think they advertised half as much as they should have for HDDVD, and this is why it failed. Not because it's technologically inferior, but simply because they didn't push it enough.
The difference is that if you pick Delta airlines over TWA, you can still fly from New York to Chicago (I don't fly often, let's assume that's correct). When you choose either HDDVD or BluRay, you are limited in what movies you can watch on which one. So if you buy HDDVD You can't buy Disney Movies, and if you buy BluRay, you can't buy movies from Universal (or whichever company is still left as HDDVD exclusive).
The problem is, is that it's becoming very easy for the average use to circumvent most copy-protection technologies. I remember 5-10 years ago, you'd go to a site, download a patch, and run it. Voila, the game would have no more copy protection. The same is currently true with DVDs. Download a simple program, and it does everything for you. I know a bunch of people who can't keep their computer running for more than 3 weeks without getting a virus, but they know how to copy a DVD.
I singed up for eMusic about a year ago and as such, I pay 30 cents a song, or around $3-$5 an album, depending on the number of songs on the album. This has set a value of the music I listen to of around 30 cents a song. Now, I don't have access to a lot of mainstream artists, but I can still use iTunes or CDs for that. The problem is that I find it hard to justify paying $10+ for an album. I would have to like the album twice as much as the stuff I find on eMusic, probably more to really justify the cost. When I can get tons of albums I like for $3.00, your album is going to have to be really good before I'm willing to spend $10 on it.
I think that a major problem with many of the old Microsoft formats is that there is no format. They are basically a big memory dump from MS Word, and there's not really a spec of how to actually interpret the information. If the format followed some logical specification, then the OO.o team would have already figured out how to interpret MS Word files.
That's hillarious. I was just thinking of doing that for one of the images on my site that was being used by a bunch of myspace members. In the end, I didn't do it, just deleted the image, as I wasn't using it any more. However, that probably would have worked just as well.
You think 90210 is fun? Well I'm from Canada, so whenever I need a fake address, I use the postal code H0H 0H0. Looks like I'm getting some coal in my stocking.
What's to stop the kid from creating a secondary address via Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, or any one of the millions of other free email services available on the internet?
How do you ensure that the computer is returning the correct hash from it's executable. For all you know, their version of SHA1SUM could just return the predetermined hash code every time. Oh, and don't plan on bringing your own version of SHA1SUM, because there's no way to ensure that your version was actually run.
Sorry, I forgot that printers always printed out things perfectly, without any problems. Also you can make a ballot laid out or badly worded on a computer screen, just as well as you can on a piece of paper. If you have so much stuff on the ballot that you can't put it all on a single piece of paper, then get bigger paper, or use more than 1 sheet. Also, why even elect officials if there is so much stuff on the ballot. Might as well just forgo paying them, and get the public to vote on every single issue. This is why you elect representatives. To represent you. So you don't have to vote on every piddly little thing.
I think that for most movies, all the sound effects are added in afterwards. Only the voices are recorded when actually filming. And the only reason they go that far, is that people are very sensitive to lips being off sync from the voice. All most all the sounds are put in afterwards.
Maybe it's just me, but most robots I've seen aren't that strong. Most can be outdone pretty easily by a human the is in good shape. There are some strong robots, but they are extremely large, and not the kind that could be worked into a suit that would be worn by a human. Also, what advantage does this offer over typical farm machinery that isn't in a human exoskeleton form factor?
Well, now instead of having to combine all sound effects into a single audio stream, we can give each sound effect it's own channel. So if two people were talking at the same time, you would be able to play one track, and then the other, and hear both voices clearly.
It's not whether or not it's worthy. It's whether or not it makes sense. Why would you (as a business) take the time to put out something on HD that doesn't gain anything from being HD, when there are plenty of movies that would benefit more (and thus create more profit) from being HD.
Maybe it's just me, but the kitchen sounds like a terrible place for a computer. First, it seems like the place where most families would spend the least amount of time. Also, all the airbourne grease and steam couldn't bode well for most computers. Plus there's bound to be tons of food in the kitchen, waiting to get spilled. Does anybody actually spend that much time cooking that the computer actually should be placed in the kitchen for surveillance reasons?
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I think it's quite stupid that the definition of "int" changes every time we change architectures. This caught me a few times in my first year programming course. The compiler I had at home was 32 bit, but for some reason the machines in the lab were configured to compile for 16 bit. They were windows 98, with some version of Borland, but for some reason, all my integers which worked fine at home, would overflow like crazy as soon as I brought them into the school computer lab.
Yes, it's a trade off. I have an iPod Nano. There's no waay you could have any kind of standard user replacable battery in that thing without making it bigger. The same probably holds true for this laptop.
Even if the item is on sale for dirt cheap, it still costs money to buy. I remember a story one of my professors told me. His wife comes back from shopping with a new $400 coat. When he asks why she spent so much money, she says, it was on sale, I saved $200. He said great. Go buy 4 more so we can pay the rent. The moral of the story is, buying something simply because it's on sale doesn't save you anything. It just costs you money.
It doesn't take much (money) to get a game rated above 80% these days. It's not like in the old days, where if you had a terrible game, they'd actually give you a rating of 7%. The range for most games is around 60%-100%. So being above 80% doesn't really say much. The real question is, how many games are above 95%?
And that right there is the answer. Advertising decides everything. I don't think they advertised half as much as they should have for HDDVD, and this is why it failed. Not because it's technologically inferior, but simply because they didn't push it enough.
The difference is that if you pick Delta airlines over TWA, you can still fly from New York to Chicago (I don't fly often, let's assume that's correct). When you choose either HDDVD or BluRay, you are limited in what movies you can watch on which one. So if you buy HDDVD You can't buy Disney Movies, and if you buy BluRay, you can't buy movies from Universal (or whichever company is still left as HDDVD exclusive).
Most of the CDs I've seen like this can easily be ripped with CDex.
The problem is, is that it's becoming very easy for the average use to circumvent most copy-protection technologies. I remember 5-10 years ago, you'd go to a site, download a patch, and run it. Voila, the game would have no more copy protection. The same is currently true with DVDs. Download a simple program, and it does everything for you. I know a bunch of people who can't keep their computer running for more than 3 weeks without getting a virus, but they know how to copy a DVD.
I singed up for eMusic about a year ago and as such, I pay 30 cents a song, or around $3-$5 an album, depending on the number of songs on the album. This has set a value of the music I listen to of around 30 cents a song. Now, I don't have access to a lot of mainstream artists, but I can still use iTunes or CDs for that. The problem is that I find it hard to justify paying $10+ for an album. I would have to like the album twice as much as the stuff I find on eMusic, probably more to really justify the cost. When I can get tons of albums I like for $3.00, your album is going to have to be really good before I'm willing to spend $10 on it.
How was the music on the CD encoded in WMA? That doesn't even make sense.
I think that a major problem with many of the old Microsoft formats is that there is no format. They are basically a big memory dump from MS Word, and there's not really a spec of how to actually interpret the information. If the format followed some logical specification, then the OO.o team would have already figured out how to interpret MS Word files.
That's hillarious. I was just thinking of doing that for one of the images on my site that was being used by a bunch of myspace members. In the end, I didn't do it, just deleted the image, as I wasn't using it any more. However, that probably would have worked just as well.
You think 90210 is fun? Well I'm from Canada, so whenever I need a fake address, I use the postal code H0H 0H0. Looks like I'm getting some coal in my stocking.
What's to stop the kid from creating a secondary address via Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, or any one of the millions of other free email services available on the internet?
How do you ensure that the computer is returning the correct hash from it's executable. For all you know, their version of SHA1SUM could just return the predetermined hash code every time. Oh, and don't plan on bringing your own version of SHA1SUM, because there's no way to ensure that your version was actually run.
Sorry, I forgot that printers always printed out things perfectly, without any problems. Also you can make a ballot laid out or badly worded on a computer screen, just as well as you can on a piece of paper. If you have so much stuff on the ballot that you can't put it all on a single piece of paper, then get bigger paper, or use more than 1 sheet. Also, why even elect officials if there is so much stuff on the ballot. Might as well just forgo paying them, and get the public to vote on every single issue. This is why you elect representatives. To represent you. So you don't have to vote on every piddly little thing.
If humans are re-verifying everything, then why have the machine at all?
How do you verify the machine you are voting on is actually running this code?
It's like that Japanese zombie movie "Junk" where they talk the entire movie about a Porsche, and then in the end, he drives off in a Corvette.
I think that for most movies, all the sound effects are added in afterwards. Only the voices are recorded when actually filming. And the only reason they go that far, is that people are very sensitive to lips being off sync from the voice. All most all the sounds are put in afterwards.
Maybe it's just me, but most robots I've seen aren't that strong. Most can be outdone pretty easily by a human the is in good shape. There are some strong robots, but they are extremely large, and not the kind that could be worked into a suit that would be worn by a human. Also, what advantage does this offer over typical farm machinery that isn't in a human exoskeleton form factor?
Well, now instead of having to combine all sound effects into a single audio stream, we can give each sound effect it's own channel. So if two people were talking at the same time, you would be able to play one track, and then the other, and hear both voices clearly.
It's not whether or not it's worthy. It's whether or not it makes sense. Why would you (as a business) take the time to put out something on HD that doesn't gain anything from being HD, when there are plenty of movies that would benefit more (and thus create more profit) from being HD.
Since when can you not sell open source software? Somebody better tell RedHat.
Maybe it's just me, but the kitchen sounds like a terrible place for a computer. First, it seems like the place where most families would spend the least amount of time. Also, all the airbourne grease and steam couldn't bode well for most computers. Plus there's bound to be tons of food in the kitchen, waiting to get spilled. Does anybody actually spend that much time cooking that the computer actually should be placed in the kitchen for surveillance reasons?