if this nano has the same audio or better, it will blow the market away for those that CARE about sound as well as the features of the player.
Spoken like a true elitist douchebag.
Sorry if the rest of us aren't as incredibly refined as you are, but it may surprise you to know that most people who say "I love my iPod" aren't lying. And most people who listen to the iPod shuffle won't come away from the experience feeling enlightened and that all of their other audio devices are inadequate from now on.
The iPod is not only quite sufficient, but more than enough for most of us. It's pretty ignorant to simply assume that the rest of the world is solely comprised of knuckle-dragging retards simply because they weren't born with your sophisticated taste.
True, I have read about this condition. However I still think its fair to say that in the vast majority of cases, if you're a guy and you've got jugs, you probably earned 'em.
I second that motion. Anything by VS Ramachandran is great; his book Phantoms in the Brain is excellent; I can't recommend it highly enough. Also check out the lectures (you can probably find them in mp3 on your favorite p2p server, but you didn't hear me say that) - he's not only incredibly intelligent and has a knack for explaining things, but he has the greatest. voice. EVAR.
Seriously. He sounds like if Sean Connery and God had a kid.
Not to get off-topic, but did you ever notice how some of the same people keep showing up for "Real World/Road Rules Challenge X" year after year after year? I guess they've chosen to make a career of walking tightropes above skyscrapers and whining in confessional booths.
For 15 years I've been reading stories of new non-volatile storage. I rememer reading about holographic memory in 1989.
Get back to me when it's actually a marketable, mass-producable product.
I don't know much about the science behind these things, but isnt it a simple problem of the dimensions involved?
That is to say, the reason you can access any space on hard disk quickly is because the heads are three-dimensional (hovering over the platters) whereas the platters are for all intents and purposes only two dimensional (I think it was Dennis Ritchie who made an analogy along these lines a few weeks ago when he described why it is very efficient to use the mouse instead of just keystrokes when in a text editor [mouse is 3d, keystrokes 2d [they live only in the window]]).
In other words, I can see it theoretically being possible, but wont it be ridiculously slow compared to the 3d-2d advantage that regular hard disks have?
Unless Toshiba can now tap into the fourth dimension....Which of course, would perfectly explain the weird stranger who came up to me with a copy of "Sports Almanac" in his hand who offered me ridiculously great odds to bet UConn when he would take NC State...son of a BITCH!
Google's job is to give the user the most relevant pages to a topic. A search for "viagra" should ideally bring up things like the webmd information for the drug and pfizer's site long before any "BUY CHEAP PERSCRIPTION V1AGR@ FROM Cherub J. Happenstance" pages.
Consequently, anything that you do to your web page specifically and solely for the purpose of increasing your search engine ranking without increasing the relevance of your page, while we can split hairs about whether it's a "sneaky trick" or not, it's pretty clear that it's a nontrivially scummy thing to do.
I never won a car or PDA, but I haven't bought a pen in 6 years.
Pfft. Rookie. I took all my promotional schwag and lived in the wilderness for two years armed with only my ruler, LED flashlight, tape measure, solar calculator, collapsable water bottle, twenty t-shirts to use as a tent, one hundred pens for tent stakes, a stress ball, and fifty business-card-sized CDs that I used as shriuken to kill animals for food.
Needless to say I came back with a rockin beard and a newfound appreciation for being able to take a dump in a recipticle made especially for that purpose.
Oh man, the Kitchen Gun has been a staple of Southern cuisine for centuries now. Ever have grits? That's nothing but a bushel of ears of corn before the twelve-gauge tenderizer gets a hold of it.
kurosawdust, 1st of all thanks for the interesting story.
Glad you enjoyed it - I did too - but I didn't submit it:). I'm just saying it was pretty obvious that the submitter was making a joke (e.g. if someone said "so-and-so claims to have invented a perpetual-motion machine. Looks A-OK to me, but didn't somebody long ago say something about that? I think he was an English guy; had something to do with an apple.") It's just a form of sarcasm, but oh man did it not go through in this case.
OK I survived the first twenty or so "dude, that Indian guy was Ramanujan, you moron" posts without saying anything, but your "prejudice/ignorance/disrespect! I'm taking my business elsewhere!" post pushed me over the edge.
[Gets out bullhorn:]
It is very obvious that the submitter was CONSCIOUSLY referring to Ramanujan as "some Indian guy or something, Idontrememberhisname" in a tounge-in-cheek way, a technique frequently used by those of us who possess an actual sense of humor. Please do not be alarmed or otherwise let this information affect your propensity for righteous indignation in the future. That is all.
That's quite easy though isn't it?
Keeping track of four running counts in your head, continually updating them each second? Expert card-counters at blackjack train for years to be able to do that. It seems easy on paper, but I suggest you try it sometime (don't forget, no cheating - 1 second per card:))
A goat will address a wider range of garbage, but has head-butting-related disadvantages.
Ah, but my dear friend, you have failed to take into account the extra counter-advantage of milk! Dogs cannot provide this reliably, and even if they could one would probably be aesthetically averse to dunking their oreos in a nice cold glass of Dog Milk.
Want a more mature forum than Slashdot? Try Technocrat.net [technocrat.net]
I tried that place once, but I just couldn't stand all the "Netcraft Confirms: Southern California's Pinot Noir Wines are Dying" trolls.
publishable to world or certain contacts (a la google groups)
calendars accessible from anywhere
plenty of reliable storage space (not too much chance your google calendar is going to get wiped out)
toolbar integration (button to add a new item to your to-do list whose text is the URL of the current page, perhaps?)
specially-targeted google textads based on the items in your calendar/to-do list (gotta pay the bills)
integration with blogger
So yeah - there are a few things they could do with the web calendar idea:). Please note that I personally have no idea whether or not google is actually going to attempt this - I'm just saying that if they did, there'd certainly be things they could improve upon (and it'd be interesting to see how they handle the primary disadvantage that web calendars have compared to end-user calendar programs, the alarm feature, since an alarm is infinitely more useful as a "push" transaction ["GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS AND SELL SOME WICKER!"], but the web can only allow you to "pull", which requires you to remember to check your calendar on a regular basis throughout the day, which sort of defeats the purpose for people with Nintento-induced ADD like many of us).
What was I saying? Ah yes. CHECK OUT THAT HOT CHICK WITH THE BOOBS!
After reading your post, I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and see if indeed PBF is just a weekly three-panel swear word.
Here's what I found:
The following words/phrases appear only once in the entire archive: penis, porno, "monkey love", "uck", sex, "space-sex", "what the f-", booty, hermaphrodites, gay, gay-wad, crap, "you guys sock" [sic].
"shit", "rack", and "Shitashi" appear twice each, and "weeaboo" appears five times.
In the entire archive, there is not one single instance of either "wang" or "fuck", so I just wasted ten minutes of my life feeding your troll.
However, the phrases "a bunny giving oral sex to a girl with a skirt" and "Unicorn POWER!" are there, so you may just have a point.:P
Man alive, there are some different tastes on this here site. I personally can't stand Penny Arcade - I don't think it's funny at all - but I think the best (and unfortunately underrated) webcomic today is The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Doesn't say with what kind of algorithm, I'm willing to bed someone will pay something for this algorithm to favour them. This disclaimer means nothing.
Ahh, now the interesting question here is whether you meant to say "I'm willing to bet someone will pay something for this algorithm to favour them" or "I'm willing to bed someone who will pay something for this algorithm to favour them."
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I think I'll wait for "Best Software Writing 2: Electric Boogaloo"
The Mesopotamians wanted to know when it was no longer safe to drive home.
Spoken like a true elitist douchebag.
Sorry if the rest of us aren't as incredibly refined as you are, but it may surprise you to know that most people who say "I love my iPod" aren't lying. And most people who listen to the iPod shuffle won't come away from the experience feeling enlightened and that all of their other audio devices are inadequate from now on. The iPod is not only quite sufficient, but more than enough for most of us. It's pretty ignorant to simply assume that the rest of the world is solely comprised of knuckle-dragging retards simply because they weren't born with your sophisticated taste.
Holy crap! I knew that particle accelerator at Cornell was going to be bad news! But did anybody listen? Noooooooo!
True, I have read about this condition. However I still think its fair to say that in the vast majority of cases, if you're a guy and you've got jugs, you probably earned 'em.
Yeah, but if you're dedicated enough to the cause, you can get yourself some nice boobs as a sort of consolation prize! :)
Seriously. He sounds like if Sean Connery and God had a kid.
Not to get off-topic, but did you ever notice how some of the same people keep showing up for "Real World/Road Rules Challenge X" year after year after year? I guess they've chosen to make a career of walking tightropes above skyscrapers and whining in confessional booths.
I don't know much about the science behind these things, but isnt it a simple problem of the dimensions involved?
That is to say, the reason you can access any space on hard disk quickly is because the heads are three-dimensional (hovering over the platters) whereas the platters are for all intents and purposes only two dimensional (I think it was Dennis Ritchie who made an analogy along these lines a few weeks ago when he described why it is very efficient to use the mouse instead of just keystrokes when in a text editor [mouse is 3d, keystrokes 2d [they live only in the window]]).
In other words, I can see it theoretically being possible, but wont it be ridiculously slow compared to the 3d-2d advantage that regular hard disks have?
Unless Toshiba can now tap into the fourth dimension....Which of course, would perfectly explain the weird stranger who came up to me with a copy of "Sports Almanac" in his hand who offered me ridiculously great odds to bet UConn when he would take NC State...son of a BITCH!
Google's job is to give the user the most relevant pages to a topic. A search for "viagra" should ideally bring up things like the webmd information for the drug and pfizer's site long before any "BUY CHEAP PERSCRIPTION V1AGR@ FROM Cherub J. Happenstance" pages.
Consequently, anything that you do to your web page specifically and solely for the purpose of increasing your search engine ranking without increasing the relevance of your page, while we can split hairs about whether it's a "sneaky trick" or not, it's pretty clear that it's a nontrivially scummy thing to do.
Pfft. Rookie. I took all my promotional schwag and lived in the wilderness for two years armed with only my ruler, LED flashlight, tape measure, solar calculator, collapsable water bottle, twenty t-shirts to use as a tent, one hundred pens for tent stakes, a stress ball, and fifty business-card-sized CDs that I used as shriuken to kill animals for food.
Needless to say I came back with a rockin beard and a newfound appreciation for being able to take a dump in a recipticle made especially for that purpose.
Oh man, the Kitchen Gun has been a staple of Southern cuisine for centuries now. Ever have grits? That's nothing but a bushel of ears of corn before the twelve-gauge tenderizer gets a hold of it.
Glad you enjoyed it - I did too - but I didn't submit it :). I'm just saying it was pretty obvious that the submitter was making a joke (e.g. if someone said "so-and-so claims to have invented a perpetual-motion machine. Looks A-OK to me, but didn't somebody long ago say something about that? I think he was an English guy; had something to do with an apple.") It's just a form of sarcasm, but oh man did it not go through in this case.
[Gets out bullhorn:]
It is very obvious that the submitter was CONSCIOUSLY referring to Ramanujan as "some Indian guy or something, Idontrememberhisname" in a tounge-in-cheek way, a technique frequently used by those of us who possess an actual sense of humor. Please do not be alarmed or otherwise let this information affect your propensity for righteous indignation in the future. That is all.
That's quite easy though isn't it? Keeping track of four running counts in your head, continually updating them each second? Expert card-counters at blackjack train for years to be able to do that. It seems easy on paper, but I suggest you try it sometime (don't forget, no cheating - 1 second per card :))
Ah, but my dear friend, you have failed to take into account the extra counter-advantage of milk! Dogs cannot provide this reliably, and even if they could one would probably be aesthetically averse to dunking their oreos in a nice cold glass of Dog Milk.
Nah, they had a falling out a few years back - see this incredibly bad conspiracy-theory movie for details.
I greatly prefer his later open-source inspired works, most notably "Beyond Micro and Mono" and "The Will to Gentoo".
Want a more mature forum than Slashdot? Try Technocrat.net [technocrat.net] I tried that place once, but I just couldn't stand all the "Netcraft Confirms: Southern California's Pinot Noir Wines are Dying" trolls.
- integration with gmail
- publishable to world or certain contacts (a la google groups)
- calendars accessible from anywhere
- plenty of reliable storage space (not too much chance your google calendar is going to get wiped out)
- toolbar integration (button to add a new item to your to-do list whose text is the URL of the current page, perhaps?)
- specially-targeted google textads based on the items in your calendar/to-do list (gotta pay the bills)
- integration with blogger
So yeah - there are a few things they could do with the web calendar ideaAfter reading your post, I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and see if indeed PBF is just a weekly three-panel swear word.
:P
Here's what I found:
The following words/phrases appear only once in the entire archive: penis, porno, "monkey love", "uck", sex, "space-sex", "what the f-", booty, hermaphrodites, gay, gay-wad, crap, "you guys sock" [sic].
"shit", "rack", and "Shitashi" appear twice each, and "weeaboo" appears five times.
In the entire archive, there is not one single instance of either "wang" or "fuck", so I just wasted ten minutes of my life feeding your troll.
However, the phrases "a bunny giving oral sex to a girl with a skirt" and "Unicorn POWER!" are there, so you may just have a point.
Hilarious stuff.
Boy, am I glad those East Coast-Pangean Coast rap rivalries are over. *pours out a little pterodactyl juice for the dead homies*
Hey, sorry I'm late, I couldn't catch a cab. Now what's this about Magic Jews?
Ahh, now the interesting question here is whether you meant to say "I'm willing to bet someone will pay something for this algorithm to favour them" or "I'm willing to bed someone who will pay something for this algorithm to favour them."
Freudian slip? YOU MAKE THE CALL!