And the best part: it can run for "hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery," according to the PortalPlayer site.
I'd like to see some real world numbers for this. Watching video and using wifi (to access the flight schedule information) would certainly drain the battery a bit faster than "100s of hours" before delving into your notebook battery.
If no one wins within a year, Netflix will award $50,000 to whoever makes the most progress above a 1 percent improvement, and will award the same amount each year until someone wins the grand prize.
But if someone does win within a year they will still have the ability to use others' code, free of charge, as part of their product.
The article doesn't say but how will you know if your code is making choices better than their existing system? I wouldn't be submitting my code unless I was sure I was going to win. Then again I'm not a gambler or a coder;)
after tagging emails in gmail, it's a little hard to go back to the folder paradigm.
While I use GMail for archival of all my e-mail (since 6/22/04), I don't find the labels to be all that great of a feature. In fact, I use them just like I do folders. I tag e-mails based on whatever and then, in order to effectively search, I have to click the tag and then search within the tag (the search function *never* returns what I'm looking for if I search all e-mail)).
So while I use the tags it's not exactly like they are being used any differently for me than folders were and I know plenty of people that don't tag anything and instead just kind use GMail as if it had 6MB of space (my parents included).
2. It's really a new service by "Yahool Mail Beta" and not "Yahoo! Mail Beta". Yahool is a Trademark of Google Inc. and is not to be confused with Yahoo! in any way!
"The game trained him ''how to point and shoot a gun in a fashion making him an extraordinarily effective killer."
Guns aren't difficult to use and, as you already pointed out, movies and TV also show you exactly how to hold and fire a gun that makes you just as effective. This comment is nothing more than hype to confuse the media and eventually the jury.
The only difference I see between typical gun cases and video game cases is the money behind the gun cases coming from the pro-Second Ammendment folks.
I wouldn't put it past them and I'm sure no one would care...
I just recently took a trip to Winnipeg so that I could get around any passport requirements they might put up in the near future. I *refuse* to travel abroad with a passport that has RFID technology inside. Just like I will not give my SSN out to anyone, I will not allow my passport to be read via RFID.
The individuals I was with on this trip told me I was paranoid and shouldn't let something as little as an RFID tag stop me from traveling where I want to go.
I tried to explain to them the privacy implications of this but they refused to listen.
But FiOS is really, exists in plenty of homes already, and is much more real than many of those other technologies were at the times the promises were made.
I'm in New York and have FiOS. It's a very nice service. Happily, in New York, the slowest speed tier is 10 down / 2 up, and it's quite affordable compared to cable modem service.
Did you have cable modem service when it first started to roll out? 10/10 and it was cheap (~$30/mo). Once they have added subscribers and oversold their bandwidth the speeds dropped to 1.5/128k and prices soared above $60/mo.
Eventually, over the last few years, speeds have started to climb again but prices have held steady.
I have a good feeling that this is exactly what will happen with this service.
I had been an anti-Windows person on Slashdot for a long time. Back in November of 2002 I received a computer as a present that included XP (with a key!) I switched over to being a Windows desktop user with a Linux server running everything else.
Now, with WGA (and my valid key invalidated for whatever reason), I'm now using my Mac and my Linux machines only. I have absolutely no desire to deal w/verifying with MSFT that my install is a valid one. I shouldn't have to as it's THEIR problem.
While I never trusted MSFT, there was a 3.5 year stretch there where I didn't much care either way. This one incident has turned me around right quick.
And now, for the machine that I need to have XP on for my wife to do her job, we have used several hacks to get around the WGA and get it what it needs to run. I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it either. I paid for it and now I'm going to run it.
I don't own an iPod. It doesn't mean that iTunes isn't one of the better MP3 players out there and that the iTunes Store doesn't make it easy for me to find podcasts that I might have to dig around for.
Didn't Apple basically ignore "podcasting" when it first started? Why would they bother to chase down people who are creating content that makes iTunes Store more attractive for those of us that couldn't give a shit about DRM music?
I use iTunes for playing music and podcasts but I haven't visited the Music Store before iTunes 7 in a *long* time. Now that they are really pushing podcasting content on there, I'm all about finding free media.
Don't piss off your userbase Apple, you should know better.
How about IBM just adds mobile web stuff to IBM.com which automatically detects the mobile connection and serves the proper content?
ibm.com is shorter to type than ibm.mobi;)
I have a script that converts letters to numbers (dollar word) at http://lazylightning.org/dollar -- it works for regular browsers and mobile ones (WAP) so people can use it from the field when they are geocaching.
It's fairly easy to do with a couple of simple lines in your HTML and your http.conf.
The only reason I ask is that I see plenty of ways to manually look at the tracklog and get the coords, but I don't want to do anything manually and was hoping that there was some software to do it for you. Perhaps some shell scripts or something else, maybe even for Gallery1?
Thank you! I was wondering how I could do it w/o a bunch of extra shit that I'm not using already. The only question I have is how accurate the camera's clock has to be (being that the GPS is constantly updated and the camera isn't).
Are there any specific pieces of software that will take the GPS' tracklog GPX and sync it with the EXIF data or is it more a manual thing?
You'll be lucky to find one person who can tell you what DRM means.
Or who won't call you a conspiracy theorist when *you* tell them "loudly" what it is. Not only do they not know, don't want to know, they want to criticize you for knowing and telling them about it.
If this were a Democratic governor wanting to get rid of e-voting and Republicans fighting it, ask yourself: would a post like the parent really be modded up? Think about that and give yourself an honest answer.
If I were able to mod (I haven't had mod points in several *years*) I would have modded it up. I couldn't give a flying rats ass what party affiliation a politician/poster has when it comes to e-Voting. IMHO, *all* e-Voting is unncessary, flawed, and gives too much power to cheat to those that want to cheat (pretty much everyone).
Somehow you come here and complain about how we should think about how such and such was modded and would it be modded another way if it had a different political slant yet *you* are you continually modded up (usually for nothing other than name recognition as many of your posts are just rehashes of what you've said before) for playing the Devil's Advocate role.
IMO, this leads to all sort of laziness and a general lackadaisical attitude on the part of a great many USG employees -- not all of them, to be sure, but it seems like there are usually 4 bags of useless skin for every one person who's pulling the weight of 5 people.
Sounds like just about every place I've worked. You have the office wanderer (the employee that is never in their office and you know you can find them in one of the offices of), the office chatterbox (the person that is always talking to someone on personal business), the office lazyass (the person who is in iTunes Store, surfing CNN, or printing some 100 page PDF on the schematics for their MAME arcade box instead of doing their jobs), and finally you have the office whiner (the person who doesn't do anything except complain to everyone (the chatterbox and wanderer especially) about how busy they are).
Then you have the people, like me, that do their jobs and go the fuck home w/o talking to anyone. We are considered the "anti-social assholes" because we get our work done, on time with praise, and make all the other douchebags look bad.
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And the best part: it can run for "hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery," according to the PortalPlayer site.
I'd like to see some real world numbers for this. Watching video and using wifi (to access the flight schedule information) would certainly drain the battery a bit faster than "100s of hours" before delving into your notebook battery.
Mmmm, marketingspeak.
They don't have a "+1 Nerd Movie Quotes" mod, sorry. :)
If no one wins within a year, Netflix will award $50,000 to whoever makes the most progress above a 1 percent improvement, and will award the same amount each year until someone wins the grand prize.
;)
But if someone does win within a year they will still have the ability to use others' code, free of charge, as part of their product.
The article doesn't say but how will you know if your code is making choices better than their existing system? I wouldn't be submitting my code unless I was sure I was going to win. Then again I'm not a gambler or a coder
they shouldn't be too proud to ask for help.
:(
They aren't when it comes to borrowing money to fight a war, that's for sure
What are you smoking?
You and the Slashdot "editors" need new fonts that allow you to see the difference between !'s and l's
after tagging emails in gmail, it's a little hard to go back to the folder paradigm.
While I use GMail for archival of all my e-mail (since 6/22/04), I don't find the labels to be all that great of a feature. In fact, I use them just like I do folders. I tag e-mails based on whatever and then, in order to effectively search, I have to click the tag and then search within the tag (the search function *never* returns what I'm looking for if I search all e-mail)).
So while I use the tags it's not exactly like they are being used any differently for me than folders were and I know plenty of people that don't tag anything and instead just kind use GMail as if it had 6MB of space (my parents included).
Well that's for a couple of reasons:
1. GMail has 2769MB currently (and counting)
2. It's really a new service by "Yahool Mail Beta" and not "Yahoo! Mail Beta". Yahool is a Trademark of Google Inc. and is not to be confused with Yahoo! in any way!
I have yet to see a DVD player that contains all the features of Laser Disk.
;)
And I haven't seen a Laser Disc player since I was in 7th grade and it's not like it's because they're had to see because of their size
Why bother editing a movie?
Because the first time around the movie sucked bad.
As lame as this whole thing was, if it hadn't happened, we wouldn't have the PNG standard today.
And yet, JPEG and GIF still remain the two most popular image formats on the web rendering PNG as much of a standard as OGG.
"The game trained him ''how to point and shoot a gun in a fashion making him an extraordinarily effective killer."
Guns aren't difficult to use and, as you already pointed out, movies and TV also show you exactly how to hold and fire a gun that makes you just as effective. This comment is nothing more than hype to confuse the media and eventually the jury.
The only difference I see between typical gun cases and video game cases is the money behind the gun cases coming from the pro-Second Ammendment folks.
I wouldn't put it past them and I'm sure no one would care...
I just recently took a trip to Winnipeg so that I could get around any passport requirements they might put up in the near future. I *refuse* to travel abroad with a passport that has RFID technology inside. Just like I will not give my SSN out to anyone, I will not allow my passport to be read via RFID.
The individuals I was with on this trip told me I was paranoid and shouldn't let something as little as an RFID tag stop me from traveling where I want to go.
I tried to explain to them the privacy implications of this but they refused to listen.
But FiOS is really, exists in plenty of homes already, and is much more real than many of those other technologies were at the times the promises were made.
I'm in New York and have FiOS. It's a very nice service. Happily, in New York, the slowest speed tier is 10 down / 2 up, and it's quite affordable compared to cable modem service.
Did you have cable modem service when it first started to roll out? 10/10 and it was cheap (~$30/mo). Once they have added subscribers and oversold their bandwidth the speeds dropped to 1.5/128k and prices soared above $60/mo.
Eventually, over the last few years, speeds have started to climb again but prices have held steady.
I have a good feeling that this is exactly what will happen with this service.
I had been an anti-Windows person on Slashdot for a long time. Back in November of 2002 I received a computer as a present that included XP (with a key!) I switched over to being a Windows desktop user with a Linux server running everything else.
Now, with WGA (and my valid key invalidated for whatever reason), I'm now using my Mac and my Linux machines only. I have absolutely no desire to deal w/verifying with MSFT that my install is a valid one. I shouldn't have to as it's THEIR problem.
While I never trusted MSFT, there was a 3.5 year stretch there where I didn't much care either way. This one incident has turned me around right quick.
And now, for the machine that I need to have XP on for my wife to do her job, we have used several hacks to get around the WGA and get it what it needs to run. I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it either. I paid for it and now I'm going to run it.
8, 80, whatever cores? I just want my hovercraft damn it, they promised us hovercrafts!
Like Al Gore, it's a bit clunky
You misspelled chunky.
stick your friggen ipod up your arse
I don't own an iPod. It doesn't mean that iTunes isn't one of the better MP3 players out there and that the iTunes Store doesn't make it easy for me to find podcasts that I might have to dig around for.
Didn't Apple basically ignore "podcasting" when it first started? Why would they bother to chase down people who are creating content that makes iTunes Store more attractive for those of us that couldn't give a shit about DRM music?
I use iTunes for playing music and podcasts but I haven't visited the Music Store before iTunes 7 in a *long* time. Now that they are really pushing podcasting content on there, I'm all about finding free media.
Don't piss off your userbase Apple, you should know better.
How about IBM just adds mobile web stuff to IBM.com which automatically detects the mobile connection and serves the proper content?
;)
ibm.com is shorter to type than ibm.mobi
I have a script that converts letters to numbers (dollar word) at http://lazylightning.org/dollar -- it works for regular browsers and mobile ones (WAP) so people can use it from the field when they are geocaching.
It's fairly easy to do with a couple of simple lines in your HTML and your http.conf.
The only reason I ask is that I see plenty of ways to manually look at the tracklog and get the coords, but I don't want to do anything manually and was hoping that there was some software to do it for you. Perhaps some shell scripts or something else, maybe even for Gallery1?
Thank you! I was wondering how I could do it w/o a bunch of extra shit that I'm not using already. The only question I have is how accurate the camera's clock has to be (being that the GPS is constantly updated and the camera isn't).
Are there any specific pieces of software that will take the GPS' tracklog GPX and sync it with the EXIF data or is it more a manual thing?
You'll be lucky to find one person who can tell you what DRM means.
Or who won't call you a conspiracy theorist when *you* tell them "loudly" what it is. Not only do they not know, don't want to know, they want to criticize you for knowing and telling them about it.
If this were a Democratic governor wanting to get rid of e-voting and Republicans fighting it, ask yourself: would a post like the parent really be modded up? Think about that and give yourself an honest answer.
If I were able to mod (I haven't had mod points in several *years*) I would have modded it up. I couldn't give a flying rats ass what party affiliation a politician/poster has when it comes to e-Voting. IMHO, *all* e-Voting is unncessary, flawed, and gives too much power to cheat to those that want to cheat (pretty much everyone).
Somehow you come here and complain about how we should think about how such and such was modded and would it be modded another way if it had a different political slant yet *you* are you continually modded up (usually for nothing other than name recognition as many of your posts are just rehashes of what you've said before) for playing the Devil's Advocate role.
What about those people that make assumptions about others' work weeks, hours, and breaks?! Crazy world we live in!
IMO, this leads to all sort of laziness and a general lackadaisical attitude on the part of a great many USG employees -- not all of them, to be sure, but it seems like there are usually 4 bags of useless skin for every one person who's pulling the weight of 5 people.
;)
Sounds like just about every place I've worked. You have the office wanderer (the employee that is never in their office and you know you can find them in one of the offices of), the office chatterbox (the person that is always talking to someone on personal business), the office lazyass (the person who is in iTunes Store, surfing CNN, or printing some 100 page PDF on the schematics for their MAME arcade box instead of doing their jobs), and finally you have the office whiner (the person who doesn't do anything except complain to everyone (the chatterbox and wanderer especially) about how busy they are).
Then you have the people, like me, that do their jobs and go the fuck home w/o talking to anyone. We are considered the "anti-social assholes" because we get our work done, on time with praise, and make all the other douchebags look bad.
Yes, this is mostly a joke. Mod appropriately