So this is what gets modded as +5 Insightful on/. these days?...'refresh' rates are measured in 'ms' not 'Hz'...todays LCDs with sub-10ms refresh rates (I believe I read about a 3-4ms LCD coming soon as well)...
In the slashdot article you "read", there was a lengthy discussion about how refresh rate still applies to LCDs, and how the ms response time quoted by manufacturers is essentially useless. Similar to a wattage rating on your consumer amplifier. Whether current LCDs are good enough for games is very subjective.
The grandparent is out of date regarding shutter release time. However if you fill up your camera's cache, there will be a delay as the camera writes to the card.
Many of you - and most everyone, I think - miss the point of Wolfram's cellular automata experiments. They are based on the observation of patterns in nature.
I got that point reading ANKOS. Actually I had it smashed over my head several times per chapter. And it is interesting. My main problem with ANKOS and Wolfram is the outlandish claims, mainly that this is a "new science" and is about to change the world. ANKOS puts forward interesting ideas, but they only rise to the level of curiosities. I can't predict nature with CA. I can't calculate a trajectory for mars orbit insertion with CA. ANKOS is even weak on where this line of research should progress to. CA patterns are interesting, and the fact that they mimick patterns in nature is interesting. But then what? CA may change the world, but ANKOS is a trivial step towards that future.
After researching the OLED technology the longest OLED life I've read about is 15000 hours....Thats just over a year...I dont want to buy a potentially 40-300 dollar keyboard for it to die on me in a year
Well it is 1.7 years of constant use. But who is going to use it constantly? If you used it non-stop for work at 40 hours a week, that's over 7 years which could be quite practical for someone who likes this kind of thing.
I think problems with leaving your case open is a myth, possibly intended to sell expensive cases. My CPU and PSU fans spin slow when the components are cool. And that only occurrs when the case is open. I don't believe the air will remain stagnant as it is heated after all. It will rise out of the case and cool air will replace it.
Well if we are talking about strict communism, as opposed to socialism, then it hasn't been successfully implemented, which is failure. If we take a broader definition, and if the measurement is quality of life for the middle class, then I can't think of any examples where any communist country has equalled any of the major capitalistic democracies. This is also failure.
So if you are arguing that communism is the way to go I just don't get it.
Raising everyone's income will incite inflation, and you'll be no better off. In capitalism, someone has to get the shit end of the stick because it's built into the system. Communism didn't work. You'll have to think of a new system.
I suppose that almost makes sense. But I can't imagine a situation where having a bunch of business users making their own forms would be more efficient than hiring some junior developer to make some pretty basic web pages backed by a proper DB. I mean business people should stick to what they do best - sending in ludicrous demands to IT.
And I work in the IT department of a major retailer, so I am not totally devoid of experience with the corporate environment.
Can you give me an example of a project where I would rather use InfoPath, rather than an HTML form built with PHP,.Net or whatever?
InfoPath has an XML doc behind it representing the data structure being manipulated by the user. The introduction of a hierarchial data structure is not something I would describe as complex.
Well I didn't know you could do that with PDFs so I guess you should ask someone else.
I do think if this functionality was added to Word, then this would be mildly useful. As it is, it is a separate environment, and as far as I can tell you can't embed an Infopath document within a Word document. So I have a very low opinion of this whole Infopath thing. I was asked at one point to develop a small application with it. Thankfully the Infopath technology was abandoned when I saw how limited it is.
InfoPath is a product which allows you to create XML documents which you can email to each other. These documents act like HTML forms when opened in the InfoPath environment. Users can then fill out the form and the data gets posted somewhere like to a webservice.
My opinion is that it is basically like a form on a web page, except less functional, and harder to develop. MS has taken the easiest part of web development (making forms out of INPUT tags) and made it much harder by wrapping a WYSIWYG editor around it. This is yet another attempt to allow the unwashed masses to design their own web forms for data manipulation. I think it is a massive failure so far since it only addresses the most trivial part of web development. And I'm no MS hater.
I hope they prove me wrong, but at this point I trust them about as far as I can throw their headquarters (which I think is shaped like a giant cobra for some reason).
It all makes sense now. Bill Gates is actually Cobra Commander!
I believe AQ is ultimately fighting an economic war, the purpose of which is to drain the resources of western countries so that ultimately western hegemony collapses. The strategy employed is to keep the US and Britain engaged. If they remain engaged in Iraq, at home, wherever, this is an unsustainable drain on resources that will ultimately lead to economic collapse. AQ is economically sustainable, while we are currently not.
Thus, AQ wants to maintain the Iraq war, the Afghan war, because they can sustain it indefinitely while we cannot. QA's unwitting partner in this war is China.
Understanding your opponent is critical in any conflict, if only to learn how to kill them better. That is not so shocking. If the extent of your analysis is "they are evil terrorists" you are only crippling your own efforts.
Seems to me 13.1 denotes one bass channel. But there's nothing stopping you from attaching multiple speakers to that one channel, save the limitations of your amp.
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that they may ass well just release "Windows Virus Edition" and just get it all over with!
I had no idea windows software was delivered rectally!
So this is what gets modded as +5 Insightful on /. these days? ...'refresh' rates are measured in 'ms' not 'Hz'...todays LCDs with sub-10ms refresh rates (I believe I read about a 3-4ms LCD coming soon as well)...
In the slashdot article you "read", there was a lengthy discussion about how refresh rate still applies to LCDs, and how the ms response time quoted by manufacturers is essentially useless. Similar to a wattage rating on your consumer amplifier. Whether current LCDs are good enough for games is very subjective.
Insightful rating intact.
I feel pretty confident in saying that 69% of all workers didn't perform above average...
I would have thought 50% of workers would perform above average?
I'm hoping that they don't coat the balloons with a flamable doping
No these are good balloons. You see, surrounding London with balloons will discourage German dive bombers.
The grandparent is out of date regarding shutter release time. However if you fill up your camera's cache, there will be a delay as the camera writes to the card.
Bjork
Lucciano Pavorati
The list goes on and on dude... all great musicians... all 100% American!
Apparently American hegemony and conquest is now complete.
Many of you - and most everyone, I think - miss the point of Wolfram's cellular automata experiments. They are based on the observation of patterns in nature.
I got that point reading ANKOS. Actually I had it smashed over my head several times per chapter. And it is interesting. My main problem with ANKOS and Wolfram is the outlandish claims, mainly that this is a "new science" and is about to change the world. ANKOS puts forward interesting ideas, but they only rise to the level of curiosities. I can't predict nature with CA. I can't calculate a trajectory for mars orbit insertion with CA. ANKOS is even weak on where this line of research should progress to. CA patterns are interesting, and the fact that they mimick patterns in nature is interesting. But then what? CA may change the world, but ANKOS is a trivial step towards that future.
ANKOS would be pretty good with just a few changes:
Reduce page count from 1200 to 400 by removing redundant and self aggrandizing material.
Retract claims that Wolfram is singlehandedly going to change the course of human history.
Choose a title more suitable to the seriousness of the book. Perhaps "An Introduction to Cellular Automata" or "Fun With Graph Paper"
This generator concept seems superficially interesting, but lacking in any real depth. I think there is far less going on here than Wolfram implies.
Exactly like A New Kind Of Science actually.
I wasn't trying to be funny, I was serious! This looks to be a good cop bad cop strategy to influence people's thinking. No joke.
Personally, if I were in control of Microsoft, I'd want Hilf to be talking to the public instead of Ballmer.
This looks to be a good cop/bad cop routine.
Ballmer: We will crush linux, see OSS driven before us, and hear the lamentation of the geeks!
Hilf: Don't worry about him, can't we all just get along?
After researching the OLED technology the longest OLED life I've read about is 15000 hours....Thats just over a year...I dont want to buy a potentially 40-300 dollar keyboard for it to die on me in a year
Well it is 1.7 years of constant use. But who is going to use it constantly? If you used it non-stop for work at 40 hours a week, that's over 7 years which could be quite practical for someone who likes this kind of thing.
I think problems with leaving your case open is a myth, possibly intended to sell expensive cases. My CPU and PSU fans spin slow when the components are cool. And that only occurrs when the case is open. I don't believe the air will remain stagnant as it is heated after all. It will rise out of the case and cool air will replace it.
Well if we are talking about strict communism, as opposed to socialism, then it hasn't been successfully implemented, which is failure. If we take a broader definition, and if the measurement is quality of life for the middle class, then I can't think of any examples where any communist country has equalled any of the major capitalistic democracies. This is also failure.
So if you are arguing that communism is the way to go I just don't get it.
Raising everyone's income will incite inflation, and you'll be no better off. In capitalism, someone has to get the shit end of the stick because it's built into the system. Communism didn't work. You'll have to think of a new system.
I suppose that almost makes sense. But I can't imagine a situation where having a bunch of business users making their own forms would be more efficient than hiring some junior developer to make some pretty basic web pages backed by a proper DB. I mean business people should stick to what they do best - sending in ludicrous demands to IT.
And I work in the IT department of a major retailer, so I am not totally devoid of experience with the corporate environment.
Can you give me an example of a project where I would rather use InfoPath, rather than an HTML form built with PHP, .Net or whatever?
InfoPath has an XML doc behind it representing the data structure being manipulated by the user. The introduction of a hierarchial data structure is not something I would describe as complex.
Well I didn't know you could do that with PDFs so I guess you should ask someone else.
I do think if this functionality was added to Word, then this would be mildly useful. As it is, it is a separate environment, and as far as I can tell you can't embed an Infopath document within a Word document. So I have a very low opinion of this whole Infopath thing. I was asked at one point to develop a small application with it. Thankfully the Infopath technology was abandoned when I saw how limited it is.
InfoPath is a product which allows you to create XML documents which you can email to each other. These documents act like HTML forms when opened in the InfoPath environment. Users can then fill out the form and the data gets posted somewhere like to a webservice.
My opinion is that it is basically like a form on a web page, except less functional, and harder to develop. MS has taken the easiest part of web development (making forms out of INPUT tags) and made it much harder by wrapping a WYSIWYG editor around it. This is yet another attempt to allow the unwashed masses to design their own web forms for data manipulation. I think it is a massive failure so far since it only addresses the most trivial part of web development. And I'm no MS hater.
I hope they prove me wrong, but at this point I trust them about as far as I can throw their headquarters (which I think is shaped like a giant cobra for some reason).
It all makes sense now. Bill Gates is actually Cobra Commander!
I believe AQ is ultimately fighting an economic war, the purpose of which is to drain the resources of western countries so that ultimately western hegemony collapses. The strategy employed is to keep the US and Britain engaged. If they remain engaged in Iraq, at home, wherever, this is an unsustainable drain on resources that will ultimately lead to economic collapse. AQ is economically sustainable, while we are currently not.
Thus, AQ wants to maintain the Iraq war, the Afghan war, because they can sustain it indefinitely while we cannot. QA's unwitting partner in this war is China.
Understanding your opponent is critical in any conflict, if only to learn how to kill them better. That is not so shocking. If the extent of your analysis is "they are evil terrorists" you are only crippling your own efforts.
If we can quash "rediculous" I will be happy.
Seems to me 13.1 denotes one bass channel. But there's nothing stopping you from attaching multiple speakers to that one channel, save the limitations of your amp.
The problem is the dust getting in joints right? Can you encase the robot in a flexible bag so that no joints are exposed?