As for the idea of contaminating something like Mars and having it end up overrun with earth bacteria, I guess it's impossible to prove that it couldn't happen, but I don't it's very likely. Mars is more like the earth than anywhere else in the solar system, but it's still very different. You might be able to find a few organisms here that could potentially survive on Mars, but it's doubtful that any would thrive, particularly to the point of overrunning the planet.
I hope you don't have to eat those words when our giant bat overlords come back down in 30 years.
If it's that old and no updates are going to be made to it, just stop providing it. Or throw one last update that says the feed is terminated and point them to a newer version of it.
I doubt your users will cry foul.
Boxee plays the ads. Boxee goes directly to Hulu to get the content whereas I think XBMC is served from your computer which goes to Hulu. Not to familiar with XBMC myself though.
Regardless the worst part is is that on my computer I have an ad blocker. On Boxee I do not. I saw more ads on Boxee than I ever saw on my computer. Even if I disabled ad blocking on my computer I was more prone to "do something else" for those 15-30 seconds. At the TV, not so much.
I use a Mac at home and one day finally remembered that Amazon had a service. So I decided to go their first as I knew they were cheaper. I went to go fill up my cart with some albums but as far as I could tell you could only buy one album per purchase. Even worse if I went to buy singles I had to make a new transaction per song. Has the service improved since then? After I bought one single I went back to my DRM laden and slightly more expensive iTunes store. Although maybe there is an easier way to do it on a Windows machine.
I'm actually just curious, not trying to be secretly inflammatory.
MacrumorsLive didn't crash. They took the site offline along with Macrumors.com to assess what happened instead of trying to fight 4Chan. Once they determined only MacrumorsLive was cracked they kept it offline (no chance of fixing the security issue in that time frame) and brought Macrumors.com back up as the servers are separate entities. Macrumors.com was only brought down just to be safe.
Yeah. Nothing in the linked article or the 2 articles it links to says the ads were pulled. There was just some guy that wrote a letter to the editor saying he didn't like them and he thought they should be pulled. Way to go editors!
How is that a bug with the save system? A bug to me is something such as deleting your saves... this "bug" is just that if you save at a certain point near the end of the game you can no longer explore the open areas in the game from that particular save as you're locked into that room. That's not really a bug...
I don't use multiple profiles but here is why the above doesn't necessarily work. If you have one user that likes to watch the newest movies all the time and somebody that likes to watch old TV shows, odds are they will only have the old TV show discs in. Interleaving these two queues will result in Netflix skipping the new movies in favor of the discs that sit around. With separate queues you're more likely to get a popular movie and an old TV show instead of just old TV shows.
I propose we all take pictures with blue screen in them (not the whole background, just "enough") and then write a script to randomly replace the blue screen with alternative locations every time the picture loads.
From e-mails they get from friends that came from a very knowledgeable friend of a friend of a friend who knows about computers even though nobody knows who the original friend of a friend of a friend is.
I know this won't make you feel better but... iPhones are technically purchased over a 2 year period. At least that is how Apple is putting it into their accounting spreadsheets. iPod Touches are probably accounted for all at once. Add this in with the reasoning behind why they charged $1 or whatever it was for 802.11n in some devices and that may be part of why they are charging $20 for these new features...
Not that I *agree* with it at all. But that at least might shed some reason on it. Even if it's a poor reason.
Usually if it's a complicated section of code I'll include the URL in a comment above. If it's just a line or two I won't. Often times if it's from a forum I stay with that forum for a few weeks and try to contribute back in some way.
If the code explicitly has a license attached to it I follow that of course. But I've not had to do that yet. I don't pull code from other project bases unless it's a library or such (in which case I follow the license). Only code that is meant to be viewed and used (such as forums/tutorials).
I did read the article and neither of those things answer my questions. It states that the people using the iPhone (iPhone texters) don't improve with experience. But the iPhone improves itself with experience about the person. It can take several hundred texts before the iPhone even starts to know how you type and that is providing you use a lot of different words. I would guess they were texting based on predefined phrases which depending on how many times they texted those words would depend on how well the iPhone adapted.
They other part you quoted states that new users make the same amount of mistakes as those with an iPhone for a month. Having an iPhone for a month has no correlation as to how many texts you make. How trained were the phones? Also the new users could not possibly have had trained phones. Do trained phones decrease the amount of typos (they should since that's the point)?
I often type words incorrectly on my iPhone but it corrects them most of the time. On occasion it replaces them with an incorrect word especially if you're not typing a "real word" (oh becomes on). Is "hai 2 u! ttyl omg" considered a typo? It should be...:)
Also I believe the iPhone learns how you type as you use it more and will even start correcting to incorrect words if you force them often enough. Were these people using clean install iPhones? If so that would contribute to it. If the people who were trying them out that were accustomed to the normal phones were using the same iPhones it would be using the other persons mistakes to make corrections which would lead to possibly more mistakes.
In all honesty though... just look at your message before you send it?
I think the way I use my own Netflix ratings is a decent system. They have a 5 star system. All movies start as a 3.
3 stars - These are movies that were good to watch and I'd recommend watching them if they interest you at all or if you have similar tastes as me.
4 stars - Basically a shortened list of my 3 stars but these movies are just plain better. They are rewatchable, have interesting and new ideas, or might just be interesting visually.
5 stars - The best movies I've seen and if you haven't seen them I won't be friends with you.:P Really these are reserved for movies that I would recommend you watch even if it doesn't interest you. It should be in your collection if you're into buying movies. I very rarely give a 5 star rating to any movie.
2 stars - Bearable. This might be a 2nd or 3rd movie in a series that is okay if you're a fan, etc. I didn't fast forward to the end but there is better stuff out there.
1 star - I probably couldn't even watch the whole movie. Just poor.
No stars - Odds are I never even watched this movie. The trailer was not enticing at all.
The problem with a 100% system is anything less than 90% looks bad and anything close to 100% looks over-hyped. I really think reviewers need to switch to a system similar to what I use and explain the system so people know a 3-star movie is a good thing.
I recall Apple saying that they had pulled developers off Leopard to put onto the iPhone before it was launched which pushed Leopard back. Of course that would be an excuse but if it was indeed true those developers were probably put back onto Leopard shortly around the time of the iPhone launch. Now that Leopard is being released next week it may have freed up those developers to work on the SDK.
Everything seems to say the phone was "off" but as far as I can tell it was on standby and not off. I haven't read my manual but even I know that when the phone is on standby it checks my e-mail every hour. If it was on standby then it's their fault as far as should be concerned. If it was actually off, as in they held down the on/off switch and slide the bar to off, then that'd be news to me.
It sounds like the negotiations are over, so much that Apple put out a press release. While they aren't removing current NBC content until December it appears that Apple will not be putting up the new seasons since they won't be able to offer the whole thing.
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That sounds eerily like Google Wave... :)
As for the idea of contaminating something like Mars and having it end up overrun with earth bacteria, I guess it's impossible to prove that it couldn't happen, but I don't it's very likely. Mars is more like the earth than anywhere else in the solar system, but it's still very different. You might be able to find a few organisms here that could potentially survive on Mars, but it's doubtful that any would thrive, particularly to the point of overrunning the planet.
I hope you don't have to eat those words when our giant bat overlords come back down in 30 years.
If it's that old and no updates are going to be made to it, just stop providing it. Or throw one last update that says the feed is terminated and point them to a newer version of it. I doubt your users will cry foul.
Yeah let's remove DRM from the Apple Apps so we can run the Apps on.... on... ummmm....
http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#chapter_04 Planets are more defined than that. At least as of when the Pluto decision was voted on.
Boxee plays the ads. Boxee goes directly to Hulu to get the content whereas I think XBMC is served from your computer which goes to Hulu. Not to familiar with XBMC myself though. Regardless the worst part is is that on my computer I have an ad blocker. On Boxee I do not. I saw more ads on Boxee than I ever saw on my computer. Even if I disabled ad blocking on my computer I was more prone to "do something else" for those 15-30 seconds. At the TV, not so much.
I use a Mac at home and one day finally remembered that Amazon had a service. So I decided to go their first as I knew they were cheaper. I went to go fill up my cart with some albums but as far as I could tell you could only buy one album per purchase. Even worse if I went to buy singles I had to make a new transaction per song. Has the service improved since then? After I bought one single I went back to my DRM laden and slightly more expensive iTunes store. Although maybe there is an easier way to do it on a Windows machine. I'm actually just curious, not trying to be secretly inflammatory.
MacrumorsLive didn't crash. They took the site offline along with Macrumors.com to assess what happened instead of trying to fight 4Chan. Once they determined only MacrumorsLive was cracked they kept it offline (no chance of fixing the security issue in that time frame) and brought Macrumors.com back up as the servers are separate entities. Macrumors.com was only brought down just to be safe.
Yeah. Nothing in the linked article or the 2 articles it links to says the ads were pulled. There was just some guy that wrote a letter to the editor saying he didn't like them and he thought they should be pulled. Way to go editors!
How is that a bug with the save system? A bug to me is something such as deleting your saves... this "bug" is just that if you save at a certain point near the end of the game you can no longer explore the open areas in the game from that particular save as you're locked into that room. That's not really a bug...
I use my iPhone every morning without looking at it. I am a master of hitting the snooze area of the screen.
I don't use multiple profiles but here is why the above doesn't necessarily work. If you have one user that likes to watch the newest movies all the time and somebody that likes to watch old TV shows, odds are they will only have the old TV show discs in. Interleaving these two queues will result in Netflix skipping the new movies in favor of the discs that sit around. With separate queues you're more likely to get a popular movie and an old TV show instead of just old TV shows.
I propose we all take pictures with blue screen in them (not the whole background, just "enough") and then write a script to randomly replace the blue screen with alternative locations every time the picture loads.
From e-mails they get from friends that came from a very knowledgeable friend of a friend of a friend who knows about computers even though nobody knows who the original friend of a friend of a friend is.
faceboogle!
But seriously I think most of us are thinking the same sentiment.
I know this won't make you feel better but... iPhones are technically purchased over a 2 year period. At least that is how Apple is putting it into their accounting spreadsheets. iPod Touches are probably accounted for all at once. Add this in with the reasoning behind why they charged $1 or whatever it was for 802.11n in some devices and that may be part of why they are charging $20 for these new features...
Not that I *agree* with it at all. But that at least might shed some reason on it. Even if it's a poor reason.
Usually if it's a complicated section of code I'll include the URL in a comment above. If it's just a line or two I won't. Often times if it's from a forum I stay with that forum for a few weeks and try to contribute back in some way.
If the code explicitly has a license attached to it I follow that of course. But I've not had to do that yet. I don't pull code from other project bases unless it's a library or such (in which case I follow the license). Only code that is meant to be viewed and used (such as forums/tutorials).
I did read the article and neither of those things answer my questions. It states that the people using the iPhone (iPhone texters) don't improve with experience. But the iPhone improves itself with experience about the person. It can take several hundred texts before the iPhone even starts to know how you type and that is providing you use a lot of different words. I would guess they were texting based on predefined phrases which depending on how many times they texted those words would depend on how well the iPhone adapted.
They other part you quoted states that new users make the same amount of mistakes as those with an iPhone for a month. Having an iPhone for a month has no correlation as to how many texts you make. How trained were the phones? Also the new users could not possibly have had trained phones. Do trained phones decrease the amount of typos (they should since that's the point)?
So thanks but no.
I often type words incorrectly on my iPhone but it corrects them most of the time. On occasion it replaces them with an incorrect word especially if you're not typing a "real word" (oh becomes on). Is "hai 2 u! ttyl omg" considered a typo? It should be... :)
Also I believe the iPhone learns how you type as you use it more and will even start correcting to incorrect words if you force them often enough. Were these people using clean install iPhones? If so that would contribute to it. If the people who were trying them out that were accustomed to the normal phones were using the same iPhones it would be using the other persons mistakes to make corrections which would lead to possibly more mistakes.
In all honesty though... just look at your message before you send it?
I think the way I use my own Netflix ratings is a decent system. They have a 5 star system. All movies start as a 3.
:P Really these are reserved for movies that I would recommend you watch even if it doesn't interest you. It should be in your collection if you're into buying movies. I very rarely give a 5 star rating to any movie.
3 stars - These are movies that were good to watch and I'd recommend watching them if they interest you at all or if you have similar tastes as me.
4 stars - Basically a shortened list of my 3 stars but these movies are just plain better. They are rewatchable, have interesting and new ideas, or might just be interesting visually.
5 stars - The best movies I've seen and if you haven't seen them I won't be friends with you.
2 stars - Bearable. This might be a 2nd or 3rd movie in a series that is okay if you're a fan, etc. I didn't fast forward to the end but there is better stuff out there.
1 star - I probably couldn't even watch the whole movie. Just poor.
No stars - Odds are I never even watched this movie. The trailer was not enticing at all.
The problem with a 100% system is anything less than 90% looks bad and anything close to 100% looks over-hyped. I really think reviewers need to switch to a system similar to what I use and explain the system so people know a 3-star movie is a good thing.
I recall Apple saying that they had pulled developers off Leopard to put onto the iPhone before it was launched which pushed Leopard back. Of course that would be an excuse but if it was indeed true those developers were probably put back onto Leopard shortly around the time of the iPhone launch. Now that Leopard is being released next week it may have freed up those developers to work on the SDK.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/storecredit/
That's a very pesky "rebate" which I received within 5 minutes of clicking the link.
Not 6-8 weeks if I'm lucky.
Everything seems to say the phone was "off" but as far as I can tell it was on standby and not off. I haven't read my manual but even I know that when the phone is on standby it checks my e-mail every hour. If it was on standby then it's their fault as far as should be concerned. If it was actually off, as in they held down the on/off switch and slide the bar to off, then that'd be news to me.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/08/31itunes.h tml
It sounds like the negotiations are over, so much that Apple put out a press release. While they aren't removing current NBC content until December it appears that Apple will not be putting up the new seasons since they won't be able to offer the whole thing.
I've only ever been billed for outgoing text messages, never for incoming.