I think it is safe to say that you are not aware of current trends in web design, at all. Most serious web developers are now aware, and have begun correctly using html as content markup, not for formatting and display. Of course these are professional developers, but WYSIWYG editors will be updated and casual html coders will learn, eventually. This idea can't die before it has even started. Considering XHTML isn't even done being developed, its a bit ridiculous to suggest it is never going to work.
Maybe to web developers like me (and you?) a website means an bunch of text based markup and stylesheets with the occasional image, but for the average user, it doesn't matter wether the site is flash based or not, wether it uses a ridiculous amount of images that it shouldn't or that it contains high bandwidth video, they just want to see the website quickly. 256 kbps really isn't fast anymore.
... slow. If you go to http://www.ottawawireless.net/services/pricing.htm l, you see that they offer 256kbps for regular users. That's only about 5 times dialup. With modern websites, that really doesnt cut it.
Fair enough. Thank you for correcting me. Regardless, the other stuff I said about mainstream artists still stands. Anyway, I could easily respond to must of your comments the same way you did to me. You can't just destroy the credibility of my source without giving what you would say is a more credible one (and because i know you will misunderstand, I have already conceded on independent artists, I'm referring to the point about mainstream ones.).
congratulations on not RTFA. If you looked at that link I posted, you'd see that artists get approximatel 11% of the money, record gets 53% and Apple gets 35%. You can't jsut record and send it to iTunes. Of course you can just record and sell it online, but not through the RIAA strangled iTunes. Some independent labels do this type of thing and offer a 50% cut to artists. Of course they offer much less advertising and stuff like that, but I like that system better.
maybe you missed the articles on/. about how much (err, little) of the money you spend on iTunes actually goes to artists (see here: http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/). Besides for that fact, if I'm not mistaken, Apple had to cut a deal with RIAA to create iTunes in the first place. You are a moron.
But the same sort of abstraction can and (I think) should be done inside the application. As one of the replies mentions, store procedures can essentially be replicated inside the software running the DB.
Kind of interesting, my dad was working on a project at Honeywell (then Allied Signal) to design a very similar bolt with built in torque sensor for space applications about 15 years ago. That bolt eventually found its way onto the ISS (the bolt to be used on the ISS was probably designed and built at least another 6 or 7 years ago) and now, car manufactures are looking to mass produce this technology and put it in in millions of cars. Course its nothing new that this is how it happens with technologies, but it is always interesting to note.
Excellent post. Next time try it with some real facts. It's great that you can give us specific dates for when the "technical-elite" began hating MS without any proof (Regardless of it being more than difficult to put a date on such a thing). You just put some smart-sounding words behind the usual baseless/. rhetoric. The idea of an evil genius is ridiculous. As the parent said, companies just try to make money, there is no higher moral to it.
...a Sharper Image ad. This award looks a bunch of bullshit that is funded indirectly by the same companies that win. Just another thinkly veiled advertisement.
I can tell you the reaction a kid will have to that. "Ah! Mommy!" That thing is friggin scary looking. It probably only gets worse when its eye aperture starts changing and its string-for-a-mouth moves up and down. I think they should take a look at this article.
There are things they can do to oppose a subpoena and a contract they sign with their customer may require them to do whatever they can to keep information private. If they don't try, they may be in breach of contract.
Yeah! Whenever I find an.... insightful... errr... article, I always bring it in to show my nerdy friends! It's so great how almost any... person can appreciate the.... ughhh... content.
Why? It seems much smarter to start encrypting your email than to simply trust a private company to not watch what is done with their equipment.
That's ridiculous! Why don't you start filling out forms to sign up for auto insurance in garbled alpha-numeric characters and just tell them to get a verisign key? If you can't rely on a private company keeping your information safe, you are screwed. Just like an insurance company wouldn't dare give the kind of info you put on those forms to anyone else because of legal repercussions, an ISP wouldn't dare read your email if the proper laws were in place. Insightful my ass.
No one should ever do anything revolutionary! I don't want years of improvement and an overall much better system if it means a little inconvenienve now. Just write your crap in goddamn PHP and mySQL like the rest of us!
I just can't wait for all the bugs in DirectX games to show up on my Windows desktop. I'm not bashing MS or whatever, but it will just be really funny when a window flickers or something like a full screen game does when you minimize it. I'll have a framerate counter running in the corner, too, lol.
I think games and anything that really needs performance will stay in DirectX. Its more like Avalon is replacing GDI and they just decided that the easiest way to implement all the complex graphics is using the existing DirectX. I don't think it was designed to replace anything that DirectX is used for today.
I think it pretty clearly states in the ppt that Avalon will be a layer on top of DirectX utilizing DirectX for all the actual rendering. Avalon just provides this convenient (will it's supposed to be...) "visual tree" to make window management more powerful and easier.
If you think that most of the people are uneducated and eldery you must not understand how random samples work.
Interesting my ass. That is ridiculous, the original poster did not say anything at all like that. He said because most of the people who accept are elderly or uneducated, the sample is disproportionate to the population. I think you only proved his point about a larger proportion of uneducated people. At least be smart enough to know when you aren't smart enough. "The other interesting thing is that you can tell them how many TVs you have in your house." Interesting thing? What the hell are you talking about?
Oops, forgot to finish my sentence:
This means that it maintains the same voltage for a relatively long time, not decreasing significantly as it discharges
Not so insightful... What you probably meant to say was "how many milliamp hours the battery stores", but this is also incorrect. Current-time (mah) is a measure of how long a battery can output a certain current, but this does not let you compare the batteries power to batteries of other voltages. The true measure of how "powerful" these batteries are is power or energy per volume or density depending on what you really care about. power is usually given in watts and energy in watt-hours (for batteries). energy per volume is probably important in cell phones while energy (and power)per mass is probably more important in something like an electric car or maybe a laptop. As for not getting excited because the companies website doesn't mention these details, a quick Google search turns up much of this information. A Lithium Sulfur battery does appear to be significantly better. Its discharge curve (i think thats what you were thinking of) also appears to be relatively flat. This means that it maintains the same
Of course there are many other important factors in a battery other than these such as the shelf life and "memory effect" but in general, this technology does appear to be as exciting as batteries get.
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And jeez, Guinness isn't even that bad or that cheap. Imagine if they got some real crack investors on the job and bought some Budweisers...
try the third one down
I think it is safe to say that you are not aware of current trends in web design, at all. Most serious web developers are now aware, and have begun correctly using html as content markup, not for formatting and display. Of course these are professional developers, but WYSIWYG editors will be updated and casual html coders will learn, eventually. This idea can't die before it has even started. Considering XHTML isn't even done being developed, its a bit ridiculous to suggest it is never going to work.
Maybe to web developers like me (and you?) a website means an bunch of text based markup and stylesheets with the occasional image, but for the average user, it doesn't matter wether the site is flash based or not, wether it uses a ridiculous amount of images that it shouldn't or that it contains high bandwidth video, they just want to see the website quickly. 256 kbps really isn't fast anymore.
... slow. If you go to http://www.ottawawireless.net/services/pricing.htm l, you see that they offer 256kbps for regular users. That's only about 5 times dialup. With modern websites, that really doesnt cut it.
Fair enough. Thank you for correcting me. Regardless, the other stuff I said about mainstream artists still stands. Anyway, I could easily respond to must of your comments the same way you did to me. You can't just destroy the credibility of my source without giving what you would say is a more credible one (and because i know you will misunderstand, I have already conceded on independent artists, I'm referring to the point about mainstream ones.).
congratulations on not RTFA. If you looked at that link I posted, you'd see that artists get approximatel 11% of the money, record gets 53% and Apple gets 35%. You can't jsut record and send it to iTunes. Of course you can just record and sell it online, but not through the RIAA strangled iTunes. Some independent labels do this type of thing and offer a 50% cut to artists. Of course they offer much less advertising and stuff like that, but I like that system better.
maybe you missed the articles on /. about how much (err, little) of the money you spend on iTunes actually goes to artists (see here: http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/). Besides for that fact, if I'm not mistaken, Apple had to cut a deal with RIAA to create iTunes in the first place. You are a moron.
But the same sort of abstraction can and (I think) should be done inside the application. As one of the replies mentions, store procedures can essentially be replicated inside the software running the DB.
Kind of interesting, my dad was working on a project at Honeywell (then Allied Signal) to design a very similar bolt with built in torque sensor for space applications about 15 years ago. That bolt eventually found its way onto the ISS (the bolt to be used on the ISS was probably designed and built at least another 6 or 7 years ago) and now, car manufactures are looking to mass produce this technology and put it in in millions of cars. Course its nothing new that this is how it happens with technologies, but it is always interesting to note.
Excellent post. Next time try it with some real facts. It's great that you can give us specific dates for when the "technical-elite" began hating MS without any proof (Regardless of it being more than difficult to put a date on such a thing). You just put some smart-sounding words behind the usual baseless /. rhetoric. The idea of an evil genius is ridiculous. As the parent said, companies just try to make money, there is no higher moral to it.
...a Sharper Image ad. This award looks a bunch of bullshit that is funded indirectly by the same companies that win. Just another thinkly veiled advertisement.
I can tell you the reaction a kid will have to that. "Ah! Mommy!" That thing is friggin scary looking. It probably only gets worse when its eye aperture starts changing and its string-for-a-mouth moves up and down. I think they should take a look at this article.
There are things they can do to oppose a subpoena and a contract they sign with their customer may require them to do whatever they can to keep information private. If they don't try, they may be in breach of contract.
Yeah! Whenever I find an.... insightful... errr... article, I always bring it in to show my nerdy friends! It's so great how almost any... person can appreciate the.... ughhh... content.
Why? It seems much smarter to start encrypting your email than to simply trust a private company to not watch what is done with their equipment. That's ridiculous! Why don't you start filling out forms to sign up for auto insurance in garbled alpha-numeric characters and just tell them to get a verisign key? If you can't rely on a private company keeping your information safe, you are screwed. Just like an insurance company wouldn't dare give the kind of info you put on those forms to anyone else because of legal repercussions, an ISP wouldn't dare read your email if the proper laws were in place. Insightful my ass.
you'd surely see a lot more people replying about how Microsoft is finally getting put in its place, that they just crap on privacy...
No one should ever do anything revolutionary! I don't want years of improvement and an overall much better system if it means a little inconvenienve now. Just write your crap in goddamn PHP and mySQL like the rest of us!
I just can't wait for all the bugs in DirectX games to show up on my Windows desktop. I'm not bashing MS or whatever, but it will just be really funny when a window flickers or something like a full screen game does when you minimize it. I'll have a framerate counter running in the corner, too, lol.
I think games and anything that really needs performance will stay in DirectX. Its more like Avalon is replacing GDI and they just decided that the easiest way to implement all the complex graphics is using the existing DirectX. I don't think it was designed to replace anything that DirectX is used for today.
I think it pretty clearly states in the ppt that Avalon will be a layer on top of DirectX utilizing DirectX for all the actual rendering. Avalon just provides this convenient (will it's supposed to be...) "visual tree" to make window management more powerful and easier.
Here is my local mirror on a server that won't be ./'ed...
It is futile to resist! you will be Slashdotted!
If you think that most of the people are uneducated and eldery you must not understand how random samples work.
Interesting my ass. That is ridiculous, the original poster did not say anything at all like that. He said because most of the people who accept are elderly or uneducated, the sample is disproportionate to the population. I think you only proved his point about a larger proportion of uneducated people. At least be smart enough to know when you aren't smart enough. "The other interesting thing is that you can tell them how many TVs you have in your house." Interesting thing? What the hell are you talking about?
Oops, forgot to finish my sentence: This means that it maintains the same voltage for a relatively long time, not decreasing significantly as it discharges
Not so insightful... What you probably meant to say was "how many milliamp hours the battery stores", but this is also incorrect. Current-time (mah) is a measure of how long a battery can output a certain current, but this does not let you compare the batteries power to batteries of other voltages. The true measure of how "powerful" these batteries are is power or energy per volume or density depending on what you really care about. power is usually given in watts and energy in watt-hours (for batteries). energy per volume is probably important in cell phones while energy (and power)per mass is probably more important in something like an electric car or maybe a laptop. As for not getting excited because the companies website doesn't mention these details, a quick Google search turns up much of this information. A Lithium Sulfur battery does appear to be significantly better. Its discharge curve (i think thats what you were thinking of) also appears to be relatively flat. This means that it maintains the same
Of course there are many other important factors in a battery other than these such as the shelf life and "memory effect" but in general, this technology does appear to be as exciting as batteries get.