floating on the ocean would be way cheaper than living under it, and hell people have been doing it for months at a time for thousands of years... all you have to do is scale up.
I guess we now know why Firefly got canned. You mustn't have liked it.
Correct, me and the other 26million households that chose to watch something else thought firefly sucked.
Just like me and the other 150million car owners in the US have cars with a range > 200 per tank.
The vast majority of car drivers may have a 20 mile each way commute, but that is a thinner margin than it looks. Most commutes don't happen in terms of miles, but they do happen in terms of minutes, and electric cars have something that gas ones don't "zero energy idle" which is awesome for range, but not realistic in most climates (except southern california). See in my 26 mile commute (from before I started telecommuting), I would often spend half of the drive of the time going 65mph, covering 80% of the distance, that last 20% was just me sitting in the air conditioner or heater, with my headlights and radio on, just creeping to my destination. While a gasoline engine would be idling anyway, using up a small amount of my 350 mile range, the electric will be keeping me at a safe temp and dwindling down some of that 100 mile range... My 52 mile round trip, assuming no detours could very quickly become 2+ hours of driving in the hot sun... So when that costs me say 20 miles of range in my conventional car, ok fine I am working from a pool of 350 and I have an opportunity to refuel every 5 miles anyway, but if it happens in my EV, I could end up on the side of the road, because there is no infrastructure.
When it comes down to it we need infrastructure or we need range, the EVs currently do not plan to offer either.
Pandering only to people with impossibly short commutes in cityville will do nothing to save them money, will do nothing to cut down overall emissions, and will do nothing to move the country off of petrol. The problem is in suburbia, where most people live.
The lowest you can go for range and still sell a (non-specialty) gasoline car is 200 miles, and they can refuel anywhere...
Why the 100 mile toys? Why even bother with the leaf and e-Rav if they are going to be useless niche cars that will never see commercial success.
This is not the way forward: To release vastly inferior product after vastly inferior product to try to compete with an established market.
It would be like apple releasing a netbook that is too big to be convenient but too wimpy to be impressive... Oh wait, shit.
Medicare is SOOO different, see evil social medicine is for non-voters and medicare is for the voters with the best turn-out: the elderly. Totally different.
I do not have dish, cable or over the air TV, my living room LCD is connected to a computer, which plays DVDs, blew-Ray disks, ripped movies, old Tivo recordings from when I had cable, netflix, hulu, and occasionally CBS.com's craptacular website.
Apparently Hulu plus is not made for me at all.
Logging in and out of the plus account to watch different shows, seeing that there was NOT ONE SINGLE THING that was on hulu plus that I wanted but could not get from Hulu or Netflix was really annoying.
I had signed up for support for other devices, but since it really didn't add anything, I dropped it after one annoying month.
I guess it is just a geek thing, but imo if you want your TV to do something that your computer can do, just connect your computer to your TV, it isn't that hard, you don't even really need a special cable nowadays as many comps come with hdmi ports. (My "TV" computer us a $150 cheapo machine that does the job just fine.)
where do you buy your groceries? I haven't been in a grocery store without cameras for decades. Where do you buy your gas? Get your prescriptions filled?
In 1995 I had a summer job as an employee of Buena Vista (the company that releases Disney's major animated pictures). My job? Auditing movie theaters by counting the people attending and comparing to the ticket sales, ensuring that during the screening, nobody was taking pictures or using other recording devices (if they were, we had an off duty police officer on site working security).
The buena vista hit squad (as we called ourselves) was nothing new when I joined up.
Fast forward to my weekend job as second shift manager of a movie theater while I was in college (1999) we had 2 "crowd cameras" at every screen, you could see the entire audience the whole time the movie was going, we used it to bust people who decided that the movie theater was an apropriate place to have sex (including some employees after hours *eyeroll*).
In my experience, software development methodologies are more of a way of describing how teams already work. Sure you can put a name to it, polish it a bit, and other people can work toward that name, but there were tons of "Agile" projects and "Agile" groups before the manifesto. Maybe "Software companies" didn't do it before 2001 I don't know... but "software departments" of other companies have pretty much doing this since I have been around, which is a lot more than a decade.
The truth is that electronic delivery created agile development, at least for software companies. Internal departments have had the connectiviety for 2+ decades to deploy new releases often, but it wasn't till the late 1990s or early 2000s that a "boxed" software company could provide regular working releases to their customers (who wants to mail a CD or a stack of floppies every 3 weeks, and what customer would actually apply them?) Web-based apps and self-updating software just brought dedicated software development in line with corporate development practices, and then it was given a name.
After years of playing SC1 (mostly LAN parties and co-op vs AI) and after murdering the campaign on "normal", getting the 1v7 instane AI achievements and the "outmatched hard AI" achievements, and even watching lots of pro level games... I played my 5 "ranked" 1v1 games
it was hilarious and sad. I am rank 99 bronze (the lowest possible rank). I find it pretty funny that all this time I have been playing a completely different game from most of the people on bNet... I still love the game, but I don't play it the way other people seem to. I havenever been much of a player vs player kind of guy, I suck at it and it is not much fun; yet I love SC2, go figure.
we have had this kind of thing for a little over a decade where I live, which is nice, except we don't have the over 21 rule, so there is still the matter of the kids on my lawn. Really though on 25 cent beer night, you may as well be at a rock concert for how little you can watch the actual movie.
I think 3D is more about providing an experience that can't (yet) be pirated successfully. I have seen damn good CAMs where they have used the Hard of hearing accessibilty device to rip the sound straight from the equipment, recorded in a dark empty theater on a tripod on an HD camera (this is done by theater employees).
with a telesync that good, or a screener dvd rip, lots of people have projectors or nice big TVs in their house and there really is no reason to go to some crappy theater where people will be hollering and the floor is sticky.
3D and IMAX movies are the only movie theater experiences that are significantly better than pirating (or waiting for DVD) for me nowadays.
I still go to other movies sometimes, but I really make time for decent 3d releases that I (or my kids) want to see.
I think the pirating problem is not as big as the film industry thinks it is, but I think anti-pirating is no small part of their push for 3D.
your stupid rant aside, I will answer your question. California has a PERFECT climate. Year round, it is an absolute delight just to wake up and walk outside. That really is the reason why all these rich people and rich companies are there, because they can afford to be delighted every morning just by opening their door.
you can move your headquarters to say Texas, and many companies do... They don't really have to pay taxes, the wages you have to pay out are lower, the cost of living is nothing, but the truth of the matter is the weather sucks, pretty much everywhere except California.
I have never actually met anyone who has even tried second life. I mean, I play MMOs, I have plenty of acquaintences who are the types that would play "Sims" and "Farmville".
I don't know it just seems really unlikely to me that second life was nearly as big as media decided it was for those few months.
hah actually no it did not occur to me, I read it as "these companies said this" which is not what they were saying at all. Hah reading comprehension fail, sorry about that... Carry on.
weird, I work for one of the companies on the list... our web servers for customer front-end (not business front-end) run Linux and a very small amount of our analytics run Linux... Most of our Windows servers are virtualized, so maybe that is where the numbers are going askew... My department alone added something like 2000 Windows servers this year, and about 5 new Linux -- I would estimate about 50 of those windows servers were non-virtual. Now our existing Linux servers are upgraded significantly beyond what our windows servers run (more processors, more RAM), and in general we upgrade and patch Linux servers, but we never reconfigure hardware on windows servers -- we always replace/rebuild them (company standard policy), which really adds to the "new windows machines" numbers and makes TFA's statistic seem more and more made-up.
I do not have exact stats for company-wide, but I can say the support team, the internal user base, the server footprint, the development staff, the administration staff are all orders of magnitude bigger for Wintel vs Linux/Unix/iSeries(which is one team)... In other words, I do not believe this survey, based on inside information about one of the companies listed.
Unlike Jenny McCarthy, I am an Autism advocate. Advocating for Autism does not mean trying to ensure that there are no more Autistic people, that is not advocating, that is iradicating. Autism is a different way of looking at the world, a different route for physical neuro pathways. It is different, not worse than being neurotypical.
It is fuckwads that think Autism is a disease and that children and adults who function differently are broken that are deeply insensitive.
Seriously does anyone really just sit still on the couch watching a movie or TV? Without like getting up to get a snack, playing on the laptop, taking care of the kids, sweeping the floor, straightening the books, wiping down the table, etc etc...
I haven't just sat there watching the TV uninterupted for more than 10 minutes in a row, pretty much ever. Special Glasses would be so damn annoying at home for exactly this reason. Sure I love going to see "Disposable Action Movie THREE DEE" in the theater, but really the home experience is so different from the movie theater one that it won't translate for me at all... AND I have a projector with 2 rows of seating, and a dedicated theater room in my house, so it isn't like I don't like watching movies at home.
Even sports, isn't that usually some kind of social gathering with lots of snacks and banter? How can that work with big glasses on your face?
oh yeah, we don't disagree here. I am a fan of using novel software rather than word processor software when apropriate. I think TFA was just being pretentious.
Sadly I have never heard of your software, I am polishing off my current project for my publisher now, but I will try yWriter out for NanoWriMo this year. Thanks for plugging it (really, thank you)
I get that Office Suite 20xx is bloated, but it is not like there aren't a wide array of Novel specific editors that cater to the exact things novel writers need, and it is not like OSs don't come with VI, EMACS, DOS Edit, Notepad, etc... Scrivener is almost good enough to make me want a mac. Rough Draft is what I actually use to write novels, it is simple and outputs in RTF, has very few features, but the ones that it does have are what I want.
IMO a good creative writing software package has to be simple, and it looks like TFA is looking to simplify even further... It is an understandable thing, because distractions are killer for a writer...
IMO he should get an AlphaSmart A portable, purpose built device which does text and only text. Full keyboard, it gets something like 700 hours on 3 AA batteries, it does not have fonts or animated assistants or 1gb install files, and best of all, you don't have to look like a pretentious douche on slashdot to use it.
There are several known organizations that make much more than the paltry value of the Mona Lisa each year with systematic credit card theft and fraud.
Industries such as the credit card fraud Industry, which take in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year are generally not *lazy* and generally do not suffer from poor impulse control.
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floating on the ocean would be way cheaper than living under it, and hell people have been doing it for months at a time for thousands of years... all you have to do is scale up.
I guess we now know why Firefly got canned. You mustn't have liked it.
Correct, me and the other 26million households that chose to watch something else thought firefly sucked.
Just like me and the other 150million car owners in the US have cars with a range > 200 per tank.
The vast majority of car drivers may have a 20 mile each way commute, but that is a thinner margin than it looks. Most commutes don't happen in terms of miles, but they do happen in terms of minutes, and electric cars have something that gas ones don't "zero energy idle" which is awesome for range, but not realistic in most climates (except southern california). See in my 26 mile commute (from before I started telecommuting), I would often spend half of the drive of the time going 65mph, covering 80% of the distance, that last 20% was just me sitting in the air conditioner or heater, with my headlights and radio on, just creeping to my destination. While a gasoline engine would be idling anyway, using up a small amount of my 350 mile range, the electric will be keeping me at a safe temp and dwindling down some of that 100 mile range... My 52 mile round trip, assuming no detours could very quickly become 2+ hours of driving in the hot sun... So when that costs me say 20 miles of range in my conventional car, ok fine I am working from a pool of 350 and I have an opportunity to refuel every 5 miles anyway, but if it happens in my EV, I could end up on the side of the road, because there is no infrastructure.
When it comes down to it we need infrastructure or we need range, the EVs currently do not plan to offer either.
Pandering only to people with impossibly short commutes in cityville will do nothing to save them money, will do nothing to cut down overall emissions, and will do nothing to move the country off of petrol. The problem is in suburbia, where most people live.
The lowest you can go for range and still sell a (non-specialty) gasoline car is 200 miles, and they can refuel anywhere...
Why the 100 mile toys? Why even bother with the leaf and e-Rav if they are going to be useless niche cars that will never see commercial success.
This is not the way forward: To release vastly inferior product after vastly inferior product to try to compete with an established market.
It would be like apple releasing a netbook that is too big to be convenient but too wimpy to be impressive... Oh wait, shit.
Medicare is SOOO different, see evil social medicine is for non-voters and medicare is for the voters with the best turn-out: the elderly. Totally different.
I do not have dish, cable or over the air TV, my living room LCD is connected to a computer, which plays DVDs, blew-Ray disks, ripped movies, old Tivo recordings from when I had cable, netflix, hulu, and occasionally CBS.com's craptacular website.
Apparently Hulu plus is not made for me at all.
Logging in and out of the plus account to watch different shows, seeing that there was NOT ONE SINGLE THING that was on hulu plus that I wanted but could not get from Hulu or Netflix was really annoying.
I had signed up for support for other devices, but since it really didn't add anything, I dropped it after one annoying month.
I guess it is just a geek thing, but imo if you want your TV to do something that your computer can do, just connect your computer to your TV, it isn't that hard, you don't even really need a special cable nowadays as many comps come with hdmi ports. (My "TV" computer us a $150 cheapo machine that does the job just fine.)
where do you buy your groceries? I haven't been in a grocery store without cameras for decades. Where do you buy your gas? Get your prescriptions filled?
In 1995 I had a summer job as an employee of Buena Vista (the company that releases Disney's major animated pictures). My job? Auditing movie theaters by counting the people attending and comparing to the ticket sales, ensuring that during the screening, nobody was taking pictures or using other recording devices (if they were, we had an off duty police officer on site working security).
The buena vista hit squad (as we called ourselves) was nothing new when I joined up.
Fast forward to my weekend job as second shift manager of a movie theater while I was in college (1999) we had 2 "crowd cameras" at every screen, you could see the entire audience the whole time the movie was going, we used it to bust people who decided that the movie theater was an apropriate place to have sex (including some employees after hours *eyeroll*).
In my experience, software development methodologies are more of a way of describing how teams already work. Sure you can put a name to it, polish it a bit, and other people can work toward that name, but there were tons of "Agile" projects and "Agile" groups before the manifesto. Maybe "Software companies" didn't do it before 2001 I don't know... but "software departments" of other companies have pretty much doing this since I have been around, which is a lot more than a decade.
The truth is that electronic delivery created agile development, at least for software companies. Internal departments have had the connectiviety for 2+ decades to deploy new releases often, but it wasn't till the late 1990s or early 2000s that a "boxed" software company could provide regular working releases to their customers (who wants to mail a CD or a stack of floppies every 3 weeks, and what customer would actually apply them?) Web-based apps and self-updating software just brought dedicated software development in line with corporate development practices, and then it was given a name.
After years of playing SC1 (mostly LAN parties and co-op vs AI) and after murdering the campaign on "normal", getting the 1v7 instane AI achievements and the "outmatched hard AI" achievements, and even watching lots of pro level games... I played my 5 "ranked" 1v1 games
it was hilarious and sad. I am rank 99 bronze (the lowest possible rank). I find it pretty funny that all this time I have been playing a completely different game from most of the people on bNet... I still love the game, but I don't play it the way other people seem to. I havenever been much of a player vs player kind of guy, I suck at it and it is not much fun; yet I love SC2, go figure.
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we have had this kind of thing for a little over a decade where I live, which is nice, except we don't have the over 21 rule, so there is still the matter of the kids on my lawn. Really though on 25 cent beer night, you may as well be at a rock concert for how little you can watch the actual movie.
I think 3D is more about providing an experience that can't (yet) be pirated successfully. I have seen damn good CAMs where they have used the Hard of hearing accessibilty device to rip the sound straight from the equipment, recorded in a dark empty theater on a tripod on an HD camera (this is done by theater employees).
with a telesync that good, or a screener dvd rip, lots of people have projectors or nice big TVs in their house and there really is no reason to go to some crappy theater where people will be hollering and the floor is sticky.
3D and IMAX movies are the only movie theater experiences that are significantly better than pirating (or waiting for DVD) for me nowadays.
I still go to other movies sometimes, but I really make time for decent 3d releases that I (or my kids) want to see.
I think the pirating problem is not as big as the film industry thinks it is, but I think anti-pirating is no small part of their push for 3D.
your stupid rant aside, I will answer your question. California has a PERFECT climate. Year round, it is an absolute delight just to wake up and walk outside. That really is the reason why all these rich people and rich companies are there, because they can afford to be delighted every morning just by opening their door.
you can move your headquarters to say Texas, and many companies do... They don't really have to pay taxes, the wages you have to pay out are lower, the cost of living is nothing, but the truth of the matter is the weather sucks, pretty much everywhere except California.
yeah, that photo is in tfa
I have never actually met anyone who has even tried second life. I mean, I play MMOs, I have plenty of acquaintences who are the types that would play "Sims" and "Farmville".
I don't know it just seems really unlikely to me that second life was nearly as big as media decided it was for those few months.
hah actually no it did not occur to me, I read it as "these companies said this" which is not what they were saying at all. Hah reading comprehension fail, sorry about that... Carry on.
weird, I work for one of the companies on the list... our web servers for customer front-end (not business front-end) run Linux and a very small amount of our analytics run Linux... Most of our Windows servers are virtualized, so maybe that is where the numbers are going askew... My department alone added something like 2000 Windows servers this year, and about 5 new Linux -- I would estimate about 50 of those windows servers were non-virtual. Now our existing Linux servers are upgraded significantly beyond what our windows servers run (more processors, more RAM), and in general we upgrade and patch Linux servers, but we never reconfigure hardware on windows servers -- we always replace/rebuild them (company standard policy), which really adds to the "new windows machines" numbers and makes TFA's statistic seem more and more made-up. I do not have exact stats for company-wide, but I can say the support team, the internal user base, the server footprint, the development staff, the administration staff are all orders of magnitude bigger for Wintel vs Linux/Unix/iSeries(which is one team)... In other words, I do not believe this survey, based on inside information about one of the companies listed.
"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Unlike Jenny McCarthy, I am an Autism advocate. Advocating for Autism does not mean trying to ensure that there are no more Autistic people, that is not advocating, that is iradicating. Autism is a different way of looking at the world, a different route for physical neuro pathways. It is different, not worse than being neurotypical.
It is fuckwads that think Autism is a disease and that children and adults who function differently are broken that are deeply insensitive.
And for the record, when the book tour ended, Jenny McCarthy's kid wasn't autistic anymore. Mine still was.
Studies say that Jenny McCarthy says that the MMR will give you the dreaded Autism. Andrew Wakefield told me so, and his patent for a competing vaccine has nothing to do with it
So which shot is "the autism shot" you could probably ask 10 moms and 5 would tell you "MMR", even though the whole thing is obvious fraud horseshit.
I have no idea why "information" is perpetuated so quickly but "rebuttal" is so slow.
Seriously does anyone really just sit still on the couch watching a movie or TV? Without like getting up to get a snack, playing on the laptop, taking care of the kids, sweeping the floor, straightening the books, wiping down the table, etc etc...
I haven't just sat there watching the TV uninterupted for more than 10 minutes in a row, pretty much ever. Special Glasses would be so damn annoying at home for exactly this reason. Sure I love going to see "Disposable Action Movie THREE DEE" in the theater, but really the home experience is so different from the movie theater one that it won't translate for me at all... AND I have a projector with 2 rows of seating, and a dedicated theater room in my house, so it isn't like I don't like watching movies at home.
Even sports, isn't that usually some kind of social gathering with lots of snacks and banter? How can that work with big glasses on your face?
oh yeah, we don't disagree here. I am a fan of using novel software rather than word processor software when apropriate. I think TFA was just being pretentious.
Sadly I have never heard of your software, I am polishing off my current project for my publisher now, but I will try yWriter out for NanoWriMo this year. Thanks for plugging it (really, thank you)
I get that Office Suite 20xx is bloated, but it is not like there aren't a wide array of Novel specific editors that cater to the exact things novel writers need, and it is not like OSs don't come with VI, EMACS, DOS Edit, Notepad, etc...
Scrivener is almost good enough to make me want a mac.
Rough Draft is what I actually use to write novels, it is simple and outputs in RTF, has very few features, but the ones that it does have are what I want.
IMO a good creative writing software package has to be simple, and it looks like TFA is looking to simplify even further... It is an understandable thing, because distractions are killer for a writer...
IMO he should get an AlphaSmart A portable, purpose built device which does text and only text. Full keyboard, it gets something like 700 hours on 3 AA batteries, it does not have fonts or animated assistants or 1gb install files, and best of all, you don't have to look like a pretentious douche on slashdot to use it.
Criminals do not go to that type of effort.
There are several known organizations that make much more than the paltry value of the Mona Lisa each year with systematic credit card theft and fraud.
Industries such as the credit card fraud Industry, which take in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year are generally not *lazy* and generally do not suffer from poor impulse control.
behavior patterns + credit card = a way to use the card and not get flagged as suspicious activity.