Doesn't that mean that the impeller is actually a fan and not a heatsink? I mean, if it just sucks air over the aluminium plate on top of the CPU, doesn't that mean it's that layer of hot air that's blow away, rather than the heatsink actually getting hot and then blowing the air away?
I have some trouble grasping how even a really thin layer of air can conduct heat so efficiently from one solid object to another.
What I hope to see in Google+ is a way to filter on specific kinds of messages from the people in your circles. Some people may post lots of crap and the occasional gem. Give posts tags to filter on, filter on number of +1s, number of comments, etc. Filtering on game spam would be easy in that setup.
Google+ doesn't seem to have this, but if everybody here sends this idea as feedback, maybe they'll implement it.
I don't see why games like Civilization or other strategy games would be a problem on a tablet. (A phone is obvious a bit small to display lots of strategic information.) I think it's only really traditional action games that have a problem. But there are action games that use the accelerometer, and that works quite well.
Of course tablets are a much smaller market than phones, but as their market penetration grows, so will the game market for them.
Why would you think casual games are irrelevant? Maybe you're not interested in them, but by that same logic, FPSs and RTSs are equally irrelevant because some people don't like them.
Functionality tests can also be important for regression testing. I remember a ruby site I once worked on where, due to some change, registration of a new user didn't work anymore. All the individual classes worked fine, but something wasn't redirected correctly, or not properly stored in the database or something like that. Automated functionality tests allowed us to keep an eye on that.
Weirdo controls? There are only a few types of games for which the standard console controller is really suitable (action/FPS games, mostly). For many other types of game, touch is incredibly convenient and intuitive. Even more so than a mouse. My 2 year old son can play games on a tablet that he wouldn't be able to play otherwise.
Different games have different requirements for controls. Some are better served by consoles, others by tablets. (But of course the best games are only playable with mouse+keyboard.)
Was this the most hated feature? There are plenty of cases where this is very appropriate. The problem with Wave was that your conversations quickly turned into a jumbled mess where you had no idea what the most recent contributions are.
But yeah, my first thought was: didn't Google Wave already do real time text over XMPP?
It turns out Opera was the culprit. I had no idea Opera even did its own filtering, but apparently it really sucks in versions 11, which I have. I managed to turn it off (which is far from trivial in Opera).
At a previous job, one of our neighbours in the building did exactly that: they handled paperwork for foreign companies and people who wanted to become a dutch company and then invest in real estate in Eastern Europe. Surprisingly specific, and sounds iffy on several levels, but apparently completely legal.
The cause has been cleared up. It wasn't Gmail, but Opera Mail that fucked up. Apparently Opera does its own filtering, but tries to learn from Gmail's filter. Why it would even bother, considering it's aware of Gmail's filter, I don't know. But I didn't say that some stuff was not spam, Opera apparently decided that it's spam, and threw all my stuff in the spam folder.
So I need to turn off Opera's retarded filter. (I didn't even know it had one.)
I stand by my point that a hundred misses are still better than a single false positive. Because to catch that single false positive, you need to check all the hits, which defeats the purpose of spam filtering. To catch the misses, you need to check them and the correct negatives. But you're going to do that anyway.
But I never told it to file Facebook or Google Calendar mail as spam. So when did it learn that those are spam? It worked seemingly fine for years, and I never had the impression I needed to double check the spam filter's work. And now it suddenly turns out I did, but I can't because they already threw it all away.
False positives are really bad in spam filters. This used to be a commonly accepted fact. It's better to encounter the occasional spam in your inbox than to have to dredge through your spambox to see if anything of value ended up there. And that's how it seemed to work for a long time. But now, possibly in their drive to give the appearance of a very effective spam filter through a perfectly clean inbox, they ended up filtering a lot of legitimate mail, which means I need to do their work for them.
If I have to double check the spam filter's work, then what's the point of a spambox in the first place? If I need to check every message there, they might as well be in my inbox.
I don't remember much spam from before 1994. I do remember the start of usenet spam (a lawyer who sued his ISP because he got banned for spamming) somewhere around that time, and it didn't all that long after that for spam to migrate to email.
What a coincidence that this story pops up just when I discover that Gmail has been throwing away a lot of legitimate email as spam. And apparently the spam box only keeps a month worth of spam, so I lost a lot of email that I wanted to read due to GMail's fantastic filtering technology.
They even mark notifications from Google Calendar as spam. And Facebook (although they might not be entirely wrong there). And legitimate job offers. And a really cool technology/development mailinglist.
I'd rather filter through all my spam by hand than have something like this happen. In fact, I did just sort through last month's spam (because that's all they keep) and about half of it was false positives. That's a pretty disgusting failure rate. If their filtering is really this bad, I'd rather see some misses in my inbox.
How about requiring the suing party to pay all the costs of the defense if the judge decides they could have known they didn't have a case? That should really cut back on the retarded lawsuits, I'd say.
There are a few advantages to Google over Facebook in this regard: Google has proven to be reasonably competent about their popular services, and Google is not desperate for cash. Of course they'll monetize it, but they're doing that already anyway. They know how to monetize stuff without ruining it, unlike Facebook.
It's official. The German police is cool. I admit I have rather limited experience with them, but what little I have is all positive. Very helpful, friendly, and even with a subtle hint of humor.
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Doesn't that mean that the impeller is actually a fan and not a heatsink? I mean, if it just sucks air over the aluminium plate on top of the CPU, doesn't that mean it's that layer of hot air that's blow away, rather than the heatsink actually getting hot and then blowing the air away?
I have some trouble grasping how even a really thin layer of air can conduct heat so efficiently from one solid object to another.
What I hope to see in Google+ is a way to filter on specific kinds of messages from the people in your circles. Some people may post lots of crap and the occasional gem. Give posts tags to filter on, filter on number of +1s, number of comments, etc. Filtering on game spam would be easy in that setup.
Google+ doesn't seem to have this, but if everybody here sends this idea as feedback, maybe they'll implement it.
I don't see why games like Civilization or other strategy games would be a problem on a tablet. (A phone is obvious a bit small to display lots of strategic information.)
I think it's only really traditional action games that have a problem. But there are action games that use the accelerometer, and that works quite well.
Of course tablets are a much smaller market than phones, but as their market penetration grows, so will the game market for them.
Why would you think casual games are irrelevant? Maybe you're not interested in them, but by that same logic, FPSs and RTSs are equally irrelevant because some people don't like them.
Where do you leave the mouse and the keyboard?
I understand that some games work better on a couch with a big TV and some friends. PC tends to be more a solo thing. Or at least one PC each.
I suppose if you really want to, it could be possible to play some games on a tablet with a gamepad.
Functionality tests can also be important for regression testing. I remember a ruby site I once worked on where, due to some change, registration of a new user didn't work anymore. All the individual classes worked fine, but something wasn't redirected correctly, or not properly stored in the database or something like that. Automated functionality tests allowed us to keep an eye on that.
Did that guy from the screenshot in TFA have sexual activity for 4 hours and 15 minutes? FitBit is really good for your stamina, apparently.
That doesn't mean they can't be faithful.
Power doesn't matter if the input method sucks.
Mobiles will never overtake PC/Console gaming.
Because Angry Birds plays so much better with a controller than with a touch screen?
Weirdo controls? There are only a few types of games for which the standard console controller is really suitable (action/FPS games, mostly). For many other types of game, touch is incredibly convenient and intuitive. Even more so than a mouse. My 2 year old son can play games on a tablet that he wouldn't be able to play otherwise.
Different games have different requirements for controls. Some are better served by consoles, others by tablets. (But of course the best games are only playable with mouse+keyboard.)
Was this the most hated feature? There are plenty of cases where this is very appropriate. The problem with Wave was that your conversations quickly turned into a jumbled mess where you had no idea what the most recent contributions are.
But yeah, my first thought was: didn't Google Wave already do real time text over XMPP?
It turns out Opera was the culprit. I had no idea Opera even did its own filtering, but apparently it really sucks in versions 11, which I have. I managed to turn it off (which is far from trivial in Opera).
At a previous job, one of our neighbours in the building did exactly that: they handled paperwork for foreign companies and people who wanted to become a dutch company and then invest in real estate in Eastern Europe. Surprisingly specific, and sounds iffy on several levels, but apparently completely legal.
The cause has been cleared up. It wasn't Gmail, but Opera Mail that fucked up. Apparently Opera does its own filtering, but tries to learn from Gmail's filter. Why it would even bother, considering it's aware of Gmail's filter, I don't know. But I didn't say that some stuff was not spam, Opera apparently decided that it's spam, and threw all my stuff in the spam folder.
So I need to turn off Opera's retarded filter. (I didn't even know it had one.)
I stand by my point that a hundred misses are still better than a single false positive. Because to catch that single false positive, you need to check all the hits, which defeats the purpose of spam filtering. To catch the misses, you need to check them and the correct negatives. But you're going to do that anyway.
But I never told it to file Facebook or Google Calendar mail as spam. So when did it learn that those are spam? It worked seemingly fine for years, and I never had the impression I needed to double check the spam filter's work. And now it suddenly turns out I did, but I can't because they already threw it all away.
False positives are really bad in spam filters. This used to be a commonly accepted fact. It's better to encounter the occasional spam in your inbox than to have to dredge through your spambox to see if anything of value ended up there. And that's how it seemed to work for a long time. But now, possibly in their drive to give the appearance of a very effective spam filter through a perfectly clean inbox, they ended up filtering a lot of legitimate mail, which means I need to do their work for them.
If I have to double check the spam filter's work, then what's the point of a spambox in the first place? If I need to check every message there, they might as well be in my inbox.
I don't remember much spam from before 1994. I do remember the start of usenet spam (a lawyer who sued his ISP because he got banned for spamming) somewhere around that time, and it didn't all that long after that for spam to migrate to email.
What a coincidence that this story pops up just when I discover that Gmail has been throwing away a lot of legitimate email as spam. And apparently the spam box only keeps a month worth of spam, so I lost a lot of email that I wanted to read due to GMail's fantastic filtering technology.
They even mark notifications from Google Calendar as spam. And Facebook (although they might not be entirely wrong there). And legitimate job offers. And a really cool technology/development mailinglist.
I'd rather filter through all my spam by hand than have something like this happen. In fact, I did just sort through last month's spam (because that's all they keep) and about half of it was false positives. That's a pretty disgusting failure rate. If their filtering is really this bad, I'd rather see some misses in my inbox.
How about requiring the suing party to pay all the costs of the defense if the judge decides they could have known they didn't have a case? That should really cut back on the retarded lawsuits, I'd say.
Apparently verbs can now also be nouned.
There are a few advantages to Google over Facebook in this regard: Google has proven to be reasonably competent about their popular services, and Google is not desperate for cash. Of course they'll monetize it, but they're doing that already anyway. They know how to monetize stuff without ruining it, unlike Facebook.
Google Wave was open, decentralized and worked quite well. Didn't take off, though.
I don't know. It might be good to speak to somebody smart in customer support for a change.
... after all, she goes around hiding strange packages every year.
And if there's one thing that Angry Birds:Seasons taught me, it's that eggs can do quite a bit of damage if they hit the right spot.
It's official. The German police is cool. I admit I have rather limited experience with them, but what little I have is all positive. Very helpful, friendly, and even with a subtle hint of humor.