"NOMINEES FOR THE FIRST EMMY AWARD FOR INTERNET, CELLPHONES AND IPODS ANNOUNCED"
It's refered to as several other things such as "the new Emmy" in their Press Release, which makes me think they are still settling on the name. Short video programs for your cell phone may be a short lived fad, so perhaps they don't want to commit? Does the Academy have a category for
I like this bit:
"The new Emmy Award for broadband will also be presented at the 27th annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 1, 2006."
If you're fresh out of college, I suggest hunting for a job. Work in the IT field for a while-- try to get an internship or work on the business side. Not sure what the job market looks like for new grads these days, but I know it's better then a few years ago.
School is fun, but you need some real world experience in order to function in this world. Universities tend to be a bit isolated with their approach to things, and their teachings don't necessarily reflect reality.
If you go straight to grad school, there's a big risk that you'll spend $40,000 and fail to focus on the right skills.
After a few years out here, you'll have a *much* better idea about what sort of program you want to go into, and you will be wayyyy more motivated when you are actually go back to grad school.
Well, think of it this way-- your baby didn't NEED to say 'mommie' or 'daddy'-- the baby probably did something else that got your attention, and you picked him/her up-- this happens dozens of times a day.
Cheese, on the other hand, is a special request. How many cheese sticks can your kid eat in a day, really?;)
Most parents who teach sign language to their infants have seen these language skills at a very early age.
I think many parents miss this development in their child, which is a little sad. It's amazing to watch-- babies have incredible brains.
It's a little frustrating when researchers are a little slow to recognize this, or dismiss these observations simply as 'prideful parents'. Granted, many parents think their child is a superbaby, but I know parents (and researchers!) who were looking at this sort of stuff in the 70s.
Most babies make simple primal noises like "ma ma ma", "ba ba ba" or "da da da" starting at a few months. But somewhere between 5-8 months, these noises stop becoming "grunts" and start becoming "words". Certainly the babies continue to 'grunt', but some of those grunts start to have real meanings.
We started teaching our son sign language when he was 6 months. At 7-8 months, he would make sounds like "ma ma ma" when mom walked into the room. By 9 months, he was signing "Milk", "Dog", "HOT!!!" and "More" numerous times every day, and used more then 20 signs sporatically. Eventually he learned 'da da';)
By 12 months, he even would say & say two words together like "Ball Play", but I don't know if these were actual sentences or just two words that seemed right for the situation.
I have three babies in my family, and I've watched them all develop from an early age. By 7 months, all three of them started making making a noise like "ma ma ma ma" consistantly when Mommie walked into the room.
The Nick is an exceptional theater for an exceptional town. There are many people in Santa Cruz who want to see the funky flicks.
But leave the Santa Cruz Bubble and art houses like the Nick become incredibly rare-- they usually only show 1 movie a week. The Nick is showing 6 films this week. We arguably have a couple nice arty theaters in Berkeley, but they are plagued by loud people, cell phones, drunks, etc. (Students? I don't know).
Even Santa Cruz is loosing their Art houses--- there used to be 5-6 funky arty movie houses in the area. I think they are all gone except for The Nick & the Del Mar, and the Del Mar nearly went bust a few years ago.
"iPod leather cases. We've been working on these for a while. We're gonna sell these for $99, they go on sale in mid March."
I got a leather case for my iPod, with a microfiber lining for free. I've seen dozens of similar leather pouches for $5. What can a $99 leather case get me?
Each of these cases occurs on an internal server, so it is hard for me to provide a use case. I've seen it with system monitors such as Nagios, Sitescope and Cacti. Not sure how I could file a bug for that without some sort of external demo site.
it can and will just reuse those 9 unused pages instead of allocating more memory from the OS and growing the heap.
But then the heap is still huge, right? Firefox will reuse those 9 unused pages, but if each page takes 1MB in the heap, Firefox still has 132MB sitting there in the heap, unused.
I have one page which triggers the memory leak-- It's a system monitoring page, which refreshes every minute. This page is critical to my job, and I would keep this page open forever if I could. However after 24 hours Firefox will grow to be over 150MB in size.
Combine this with high memory usage in Outlook and the Antivirus/firewall suite, and we're talking 350MB. Ouch!
I use Yahoo's Calendar all the time, and I know many small nonprofits and other loosely organized groups who need this sort of cheap groupware solution. I share my calendar with friends & family, use the reminders, etc. It's the one feature that is holding me on Yahoo.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980
I seem to remember VHS tapes costing much more-- like $50 and above, at least for a new release.
To put things in perspective-- You could rent the same movie for $2.50. I remember my family of 4 eating dinner at a fancy resturant for $50. I had friends who paid $250 a month for a nice 2 bedroom apartment in a small (but not poor) town. $50 from Grandma would buy you 10 Star Wars Action Figures, an X-Wing and 2 tickets to a movie, with popcorn and soda.
People used the high pricetag of $50 to justify piracy--- most people couldn't afford to buy more then a handful of movies.
Granted, I was pretty young in 1980 and maybe I'm remembering things wrong. But I remember video tapes being really expensive.
I spoke to one of the engineers a few years ago. They clean it exactly as you would expect: with some light detergent and a hose. No rubbing-- scraches the mirrors and requires more effort then a simple hosing down.
In one test, they attached little sprayers (I think they were using the sprayers from a drip irrigation system) to the panels to spray it down every morning. Worked pretty well.
I haven't been paying close attention to developments in the Mozilla world outside Firefox, Thunderbird and the Calendaring application.
Is the "Mozilla Suite" project dead? Is Seamonkey the replacement for the old Mozilla Suite? Will the next version of Netscape be based on Seamonkey 1.0?
For whatever reason, many people in the business world don't know what "Mozilla" means, and may take them a while to recognize the name of "Seamonkey". However, they still recognize the name "Netscape".
I'm shocked to find out that many Managers at web companies still talk about "IE vs. Netscape" in terms of browser compatability. These folks often lump "Firefox" into the column for "Other, less supported browsers". It's not suprising, but that "Other" column now represents somewhere between 10-20% of users.
Rockstar, Red Bull, Monster, Hansen's, Jolt, Red Jak, Lost, Sobe, Bawls, Amp, MDX, the list goes on
I'm sure these drinks may be fun to drink once in a while, but don't fool yourself-- most of these "energy drinks" are pretty much the same thing --- sugar water with varying levels of caffine. There are other ingredients for taste. Sometimes they have ginsing, ginko-biloba, or some other herb-of-the day as an extra stimulant, but largely the herbs are there for show, and that extra energy boost is from the sugar-- and it's A LOT of sugar.
If you drink these things because you feel tired all the time, it's probably because you're drinking too much sugar and aren't getting enough sleep.
I've had to cut out pretty much all soda and other high-sugar drinks out of my diet-- they give me energy for about 30 minutes, and then I crash. It was a riot during parties... "Drink soda. Talk talk talk. Crash. Need to go home." Not to mention the teeth rot.
My favorite energy drink? A good night's rest. Second favorite energy drink? Coffee, no sugar.
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I think it used to remember customization by cookies though
That is correct. Google News will remember your customziations by Cookie for your current computer. Google News will also remember your customziations by Login Account, and you can use those Customizations each computer that you log into.
Same thing with Google Search Preferences really... those can be stored by Cookie or stored by account.
And then here's the tricky part-- if you log into your Gmail or Google Groups account, your personal preferences for Google News or Google Search will also be loaded from your account preferences. All of Google's web services are tied together.
Google offers these features to enhance their datamining analysis. A set of sessions tied to individuals will be more accurate then a set of cookies which may be shared by everyone who uses this computer.
Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black mark on my resume?
It won't be a black mark. A year is actually a pretty good run considering the volatility of the job market-- and actually, if you can move from one job to another job quickly (With a few weeks for personal time or whatever), it's a big plus for your resume.
Although sometimes "worked at company X for 1 year" isn't as impressive "worked at company X for 2 (or more) years".
More importantly, if a job is sucking the life out of you, it's a sure path to burnout and will stall your career. You need to leave and try something new. Don't live so you can work. Work so you can live.
The job market has been incredibly volatile for the last several years. It's very common to see someone work at Company X for a year, Company Y for a year, and then Company Z for a year. That's the way the job market has been.
If a hiring manager is bothered by something like that, it's probably because they have been hiding in a box for the last 5 years and have an unrealistic view of the world. You'll run into fun other "Thinking inside the box" situations like "Linux? MySQL? Apache? But we don't support freeware!" and "But we NEED rlogin. And why would they want OUR passwords?". It probably isn't worth working for them when there are many other good opportunities out there.
AdAware, SpyBot and MS Antispyware will see many malware programs, but will be unable to remove certain programs. (Virtumondo is one such nasty, as it can bind itself to the winlogon.exe or other critical processes, and the antispyware programs were unable to extract it.
Hijack this will at least let you view the details of your system, and let you remove the malware by hand.
If people only bought hardware with good linux support, more hardware would be well-supported.
Yes, but it's difficult to find this information, especially for wireless cards?
Most Linux hardware databases that I've seen only contain a handful of reviews regarding the native support for a product. Most of the reviews are about wrappers for the non-native drivers.
For example, Linuxquestions.org has a very large HCL database. If you browse the Wireless Cards/Network Card list, you'll see that many cards receive a score of 9.0 or greater. However, if you dig deeper you'll notice that most of the high scores come from people who are using Ndiswrapper to wrap around Non-Native drivers... and yet they give the card a score 10 out of 10 points.
What's the point of having a scale of 1-10 if most reviewers assign a score of "10" for such cruddy products?
- Will Windows or Linux be ported to these new MacTel boxes first? - Which OS will support 90% of the hardware on one of these boxes first?
Linux is more modifiable, but Windows has a far larger userbase then Linux on the desktop. Porting "Linux to Mac" doesn't seem to have the same coolness factor of porting Windows to Mac.
And who needs something like that anyway? Weather fanatics?
Scientists and science students. I spent many many hours of my college life driving/walking/travelling into a field to check the rainmeter and temperature. This would have saved me a ton of time, if I could afford them.
And to emphasize what the other poster said, wireless is very power hungry and would increase the battery requirements by quite a bit. Those little sensors wouldn't be so little anymore.
The articles mention the "Apple Remote". Is this a new remote, or is it the same as the old Apple Remote? The old remote lacks the ability to navigate outside of your current playlist on an iPod, and has a very large "Menu" button which only works with a new iMac. Judging by the reviews, most people want more features in this remote.
Is this the same remote, or has the remote been updated to allow better navigation?
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That wording is also used by the National Television Academy:
n ominations.html
http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/daytime_new_media_
"NOMINEES FOR THE FIRST EMMY AWARD FOR INTERNET, CELLPHONES AND IPODS ANNOUNCED"
It's refered to as several other things such as "the new Emmy" in their Press Release, which makes me think they are still settling on the name. Short video programs for your cell phone may be a short lived fad, so perhaps they don't want to commit? Does the Academy have a category for
I like this bit:
"The new Emmy Award for broadband will also be presented at the 27th annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 1, 2006."
If you're fresh out of college, I suggest hunting for a job. Work in the IT field for a while-- try to get an internship or work on the business side. Not sure what the job market looks like for new grads these days, but I know it's better then a few years ago.
School is fun, but you need some real world experience in order to function in this world. Universities tend to be a bit isolated with their approach to things, and their teachings don't necessarily reflect reality.
If you go straight to grad school, there's a big risk that you'll spend $40,000 and fail to focus on the right skills.
After a few years out here, you'll have a *much* better idea about what sort of program you want to go into, and you will be wayyyy more motivated when you are actually go back to grad school.
Sort of humbling
;)
Well, think of it this way-- your baby didn't NEED to say 'mommie' or 'daddy'-- the baby probably did something else that got your attention, and you picked him/her up-- this happens dozens of times a day.
Cheese, on the other hand, is a special request. How many cheese sticks can your kid eat in a day, really?
Most parents who teach sign language to their infants have seen these language skills at a very early age.
;)
I think many parents miss this development in their child, which is a little sad. It's amazing to watch-- babies have incredible brains.
It's a little frustrating when researchers are a little slow to recognize this, or dismiss these observations simply as 'prideful parents'. Granted, many parents think their child is a superbaby, but I know parents (and researchers!) who were looking at this sort of stuff in the 70s.
Most babies make simple primal noises like "ma ma ma", "ba ba ba" or "da da da" starting at a few months. But somewhere between 5-8 months, these noises stop becoming "grunts" and start becoming "words". Certainly the babies continue to 'grunt', but some of those grunts start to have real meanings.
We started teaching our son sign language when he was 6 months. At 7-8 months, he would make sounds like "ma ma ma" when mom walked into the room. By 9 months, he was signing "Milk", "Dog", "HOT!!!" and "More" numerous times every day, and used more then 20 signs sporatically. Eventually he learned 'da da'
By 12 months, he even would say & say two words together like "Ball Play", but I don't know if these were actual sentences or just two words that seemed right for the situation.
I have three babies in my family, and I've watched them all develop from an early age. By 7 months, all three of them started making making a noise like "ma ma ma ma" consistantly when Mommie walked into the room.
The Nick is an exceptional theater for an exceptional town. There are many people in Santa Cruz who want to see the funky flicks.
But leave the Santa Cruz Bubble and art houses like the Nick become incredibly rare-- they usually only show 1 movie a week. The Nick is showing 6 films this week. We arguably have a couple nice arty theaters in Berkeley, but they are plagued by loud people, cell phones, drunks, etc. (Students? I don't know).
Even Santa Cruz is loosing their Art houses--- there used to be 5-6 funky arty movie houses in the area. I think they are all gone except for The Nick & the Del Mar, and the Del Mar nearly went bust a few years ago.
"iPod leather cases. We've been working on these for a while. We're gonna sell these for $99, they go on sale in mid March."
I got a leather case for my iPod, with a microfiber lining for free. I've seen dozens of similar leather pouches for $5. What can a $99 leather case get me?
Save time. Use bungee cord.
My Boy Scout Master, Ol' Half-Hitch, would be shocked!
It is difficult to file a bug in these cases.
Each of these cases occurs on an internal server, so it is hard for me to provide a use case. I've seen it with system monitors such as Nagios, Sitescope and Cacti. Not sure how I could file a bug for that without some sort of external demo site.
it can and will just reuse those 9 unused pages instead of allocating more memory from the OS and growing the heap.
But then the heap is still huge, right? Firefox will reuse those 9 unused pages, but if each page takes 1MB in the heap, Firefox still has 132MB sitting there in the heap, unused.
I have one page which triggers the memory leak-- It's a system monitoring page, which refreshes every minute. This page is critical to my job, and I would keep this page open forever if I could. However after 24 hours Firefox will grow to be over 150MB in size.
Combine this with high memory usage in Outlook and the Antivirus/firewall suite, and we're talking 350MB. Ouch!
Rumors abound about Google Calendar. The domain http://calendar.google.com/ went live a few months ago.
I use Yahoo's Calendar all the time, and I know many small nonprofits and other loosely organized groups who need this sort of cheap groupware solution. I share my calendar with friends & family, use the reminders, etc. It's the one feature that is holding me on Yahoo.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in
1980
I seem to remember VHS tapes costing much more-- like $50 and above, at least for a new release.
To put things in perspective-- You could rent the same movie for $2.50. I remember my family of 4 eating dinner at a fancy resturant for $50. I had friends who paid $250 a month for a nice 2 bedroom apartment in a small (but not poor) town. $50 from Grandma would buy you 10 Star Wars Action Figures, an X-Wing and 2 tickets to a movie, with popcorn and soda.
People used the high pricetag of $50 to justify piracy--- most people couldn't afford to buy more then a handful of movies.
Granted, I was pretty young in 1980 and maybe I'm remembering things wrong. But I remember video tapes being really expensive.
I spoke to one of the engineers a few years ago. They clean it exactly as you would expect: with some light detergent and a hose. No rubbing-- scraches the mirrors and requires more effort then a simple hosing down.
In one test, they attached little sprayers (I think they were using the sprayers from a drip irrigation system) to the panels to spray it down every morning. Worked pretty well.
He was just being redundant, in case you didn't get it the first time.
Is a drivable couch physics, or art? Because I suspect those guys are going to switch their major to "Art" sometime soon.
Or rather, it would be another service that the Dentist would sell. There is money to be made in selling all those add-ons.
"Would you like teeth whitening today?"
"Oh, those old metal fillings wear out over time. Would you like some new ceramic fillings instead?"
I haven't been paying close attention to developments in the Mozilla world outside Firefox, Thunderbird and the Calendaring application.
Is the "Mozilla Suite" project dead? Is Seamonkey the replacement for the old Mozilla Suite? Will the next version of Netscape be based on Seamonkey 1.0?
For whatever reason, many people in the business world don't know what "Mozilla" means, and may take them a while to recognize the name of "Seamonkey". However, they still recognize the name "Netscape".
I'm shocked to find out that many Managers at web companies still talk about "IE vs. Netscape" in terms of browser compatability. These folks often lump "Firefox" into the column for "Other, less supported browsers". It's not suprising, but that "Other" column now represents somewhere between 10-20% of users.
Rockstar, Red Bull, Monster, Hansen's, Jolt, Red Jak, Lost, Sobe, Bawls, Amp, MDX, the list goes on
I'm sure these drinks may be fun to drink once in a while, but don't fool yourself-- most of these "energy drinks" are pretty much the same thing --- sugar water with varying levels of caffine. There are other ingredients for taste. Sometimes they have ginsing, ginko-biloba, or some other herb-of-the day as an extra stimulant, but largely the herbs are there for show, and that extra energy boost is from the sugar-- and it's A LOT of sugar.
If you drink these things because you feel tired all the time, it's probably because you're drinking too much sugar and aren't getting enough sleep.
I've had to cut out pretty much all soda and other high-sugar drinks out of my diet-- they give me energy for about 30 minutes, and then I crash. It was a riot during parties... "Drink soda. Talk talk talk. Crash. Need to go home." Not to mention the teeth rot.
My favorite energy drink? A good night's rest. Second favorite energy drink? Coffee, no sugar.
I think it used to remember customization by cookies though
That is correct. Google News will remember your customziations by Cookie for your current computer. Google News will also remember your customziations by Login Account, and you can use those Customizations each computer that you log into.
Same thing with Google Search Preferences really... those can be stored by Cookie or stored by account.
And then here's the tricky part-- if you log into your Gmail or Google Groups account, your personal preferences for Google News or Google Search will also be loaded from your account preferences. All of Google's web services are tied together.
Google offers these features to enhance their datamining analysis. A set of sessions tied to individuals will be more accurate then a set of cookies which may be shared by everyone who uses this computer.
Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black mark on my resume?
It won't be a black mark. A year is actually a pretty good run considering the volatility of the job market-- and actually, if you can move from one job to another job quickly (With a few weeks for personal time or whatever), it's a big plus for your resume.
Although sometimes "worked at company X for 1 year" isn't as impressive "worked at company X for 2 (or more) years".
More importantly, if a job is sucking the life out of you, it's a sure path to burnout and will stall your career. You need to leave and try something new. Don't live so you can work. Work so you can live.
The job market has been incredibly volatile for the last several years. It's very common to see someone work at Company X for a year, Company Y for a year, and then Company Z for a year. That's the way the job market has been.
If a hiring manager is bothered by something like that, it's probably because they have been hiding in a box for the last 5 years and have an unrealistic view of the world. You'll run into fun other "Thinking inside the box" situations like "Linux? MySQL? Apache? But we don't support freeware!" and "But we NEED rlogin. And why would they want OUR passwords?". It probably isn't worth working for them when there are many other good opportunities out there.
AdAware, SpyBot and MS Antispyware will see many malware programs, but will be unable to remove certain programs. (Virtumondo is one such nasty, as it can bind itself to the winlogon.exe or other critical processes, and the antispyware programs were unable to extract it.
Hijack this will at least let you view the details of your system, and let you remove the malware by hand.
Well, you learn something new every day. I didn't realize that NDIS was actually a multiplatform driver.
... within Linux kernel" too literally.
I think I was taking the "This project implements Windows kernel API
If people only bought hardware with good linux support, more hardware would be well-supported.
Yes, but it's difficult to find this information, especially for wireless cards?
Most Linux hardware databases that I've seen only contain a handful of reviews regarding the native support for a product. Most of the reviews are about wrappers for the non-native drivers.
For example, Linuxquestions.org has a very large HCL database. If you browse the Wireless Cards/Network Card list, you'll see that many cards receive a score of 9.0 or greater. However, if you dig deeper you'll notice that most of the high scores come from people who are using Ndiswrapper to wrap around Non-Native drivers... and yet they give the card a score 10 out of 10 points.
What's the point of having a scale of 1-10 if most reviewers assign a score of "10" for such cruddy products?
This would be an interesting race:
- Will Windows or Linux be ported to these new MacTel boxes first?
- Which OS will support 90% of the hardware on one of these boxes first?
Linux is more modifiable, but Windows has a far larger userbase then Linux on the desktop. Porting "Linux to Mac" doesn't seem to have the same coolness factor of porting Windows to Mac.
And who needs something like that anyway? Weather fanatics?
Scientists and science students. I spent many many hours of my college life driving/walking/travelling into a field to check the rainmeter and temperature. This would have saved me a ton of time, if I could afford them.
And to emphasize what the other poster said, wireless is very power hungry and would increase the battery requirements by quite a bit. Those little sensors wouldn't be so little anymore.
The articles mention the "Apple Remote". Is this a new remote, or is it the same as the old Apple Remote? The old remote lacks the ability to navigate outside of your current playlist on an iPod, and has a very large "Menu" button which only works with a new iMac. Judging by the reviews, most people want more features in this remote.
Is this the same remote, or has the remote been updated to allow better navigation?