I've found a lot of songs/bands I had never heard of thanks to Pandora. I started a station based on "Panic Attack" by Dream Theater, and it's interesting to look at "why was this song selected" for new songs. The current song I'm listening to says "we're playing this track because it features a subtle use of paired vocal harmony, varying tempo and time signatures, chromatic harmonic structure and demanding instrumental part writing." I could have said that I like varying tempo and time signatures, and demanding instrumental parts, but it's neat that it can pick up on things like chromatic harmonic structure and paired vocal harmony.
While I agree that it does seem like this will do little, from the article you posted, it sounds like nitrogen can normally only be absorbed by the roots of plants, and only by means of nitrifying bacteria. The article says the plants can absorb nitrogen oxides directly through the leaves. I'm no botanist, but I think that's the key to the article, not that they can metabolize nitrogen.
The App Store is a store, not a bazaar. They approve/deny products just as any store would. You don't see people complaining that they can't just open up a booth to sell their own CDs in the local record store. I'm a supporter of net neutrality, but why does everything that uses the internet have to be neutral? I take net neutrality to mean everyone has equal access to the internet, not that developers can sell apps on the App Store without going through the current process of getting approved.
That will work if you're going from A to B, and have the route planned already. If you're already lost at X, where they don't have 3G, when you decide you need to use the GPS app, you're out of luck.
I personally still wouldn't get a standalone GPS though. For the times when I'm really lost, I still have an atlas in my car. Hopefully Google will update the iPhone map app to allow turn-by-turn as well. Currently it almost requires a copilot to use, but it's still better than having to print directions beforehand.
It sounds like the maps will still only be hosted by Google, rather than stored on the device as with standalone GPSs. As long as that's the case, there will probably still be standalone units.
I don't know. These days, the only thing that makes my computer feel slow is the hard drive. The capacity of hard drives has been keeping up with or exceeding demand, but the speed seems to be increasing much more slowly.
I'm not sure why we're talking about a 250GB drive in 2020 anyway. SSDs are already that big (and bigger). They just cost a lot right now. While I will probably keep a disk based drive for storage for many years to come, my next boot drive will almost certainly be an SSD. The random access rate of my Raptor not only seems slow, but is very loud. I welcome the extra speed and silence of an SSD, even if it's more expensive.
Like you said, the price basically stays the same. The point that TimeOday was trying to make wasn't that 250GB SSDs would be available in 2020, but that they would be the commodity keychain drives that 4GB flash drives are today, and could be had for $20. Today 256GB SSDs cost $600 or so. In two years, 256GB will probably be under $200, and 512GB and 1TB drives will be $400 and $600 or so...maybe less. The point he was making is that flash drives have the capacity to be reduced much lower in price than hard drives can, because they don't need the complicated mechanical parts in a disk based drive.
I bought a 17GB drive in 1999 to add to the 4GB one that came with the computer I bought in 1997. I don't think 17GB was the largest at the time, but I don't think 250GB in 10 years will be like 250MB now. It might be more like what 20GB is like today. Maybe even more than that. I also think hard drive capacity is increasing faster than the need for bigger hard drives. You can get a 2TB drive these days, but very few people could even begin to fill that.
Software developers and the US Department of Defense are developing military software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight, made by the Florida firm Knight's Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Army researchers are developing applications to turn an iPod into a remote control for a bomb-disposal robot (tilting the iPod steers the robot). In Sudan, American military observers are using iPods to learn the appropriate etiquette for interacting with tribal leaders.'
I don't find lap dances morally objectionable. If this were an after-event thing, and they had entertainment for ALL of the attendees, not just the heterosexual men who enjoy lap dances, then it might have been OK. I think what's worse is having scantily clad women in the brainstorming sessions. At best, it's distracting. At worst, it makes people uncomfortable (especially any women who might have been attending). Since this is Slashdot - Yes, there are women here, and yes, there are women programmers.
Lots of guys here are saying people need to lighten up about it. Next time you're in a meeting, hire a couple male strippers to walk around and grind their crotches against the back of your head or something. See how comfortable you are with that, and how productive the meeting is.
No. Can you buy one that fits in 6.5x6.5x2", has gigabit ethernet, 802.11n, FireWire 800, dual display support, and uses 16w? I don't see that listed anywhere BUT apple.com. Nice try at trolling though.
If you're going to put Debian or Ubuntu on it, you might as well get the regular mini. Part of the value is that the Mac mini Server is only $100 more than the standard mini equipped with a single 500 GB drive, when OS X Server costs $500 on its own. I think it's an interesting package. Not everyone needs a Mac Pro or XServe for a server. The mini is plenty for a small scale server, and OS X Server is easy to set up.
2^n-1 can only be prime if n is prime. It doesn't mean that it must be prime if n is prime. For example, 11 is prime, but 2^11-1 = 2047, which is not prime (2047/23 = 89)
Yeah - I too am tired of paying for unlimited data that I don't use (there's no option on the data plan). I use about 30MB per month at most. The rest of the time, I'm on WiFi. Of course as you said, they probably wouldn't give a lower priced option. They'd just change the $30 plan to a limited amount, and make unlimited even more expensive.
The reaction itself would be close to 100%, but there would probably be some loss in harnessing the energy, and if I remember correctly, creating antimatter, or at least our current methods, only captures a very small portion of the particles created. So at best it would still be wasting a lot of energy.
MySpace didn't just assume that someone else owned the copyright. In this case, it seems Warner Music Group was trying to claim they owned it, when they didn't. Perhaps at some point, Warner sold his CDs, while he retained copyright, or something.
Seriously? Is this the movie you are referencing? You're either really old, really young, or are privy to some joke I'm unaware of. If it's the last, then well played.
I'd argue that anyone who doesn't know that reference is really young.
My guess is like other racing/fighting games, the extra cars will be purchasable, or can be unlocked by playing the game. Maybe you'll be able to buy the International-A and Super Licenses if you can't earn them, or instead of having a 1 in 4 chance of getting the car you want after a 200 lap endurance race, you can just buy it.
Think about what you just did: you posted on Slashdot.
You used a web browser, which sent a few HTTP requests, represented as TCP/IP packets over an ethernet cable, which then traveled to an internet router, possibly via DSL or DOCSIS, got routed via OSPF and BGP, to a server running Apache and Perl.
Every step of that journey involved one or more open, freely-available standards-based protocols that have been embraced by hundreds if not thousands of vendors so they could all communicate with each other. Without all those open protocols, you would be stuck on a Microsoft internet, or an Apple internet, or maybe even a boring conservative IBM internet, and they would all be walled gardens, completely blocked off from each other.
You just made a good argument against what Palm did. With all these standards, if companies didn't follow them, there could be problems. Palm didn't follow USB standards and tricked iTunes into thinking it was an iPod. Not every protocol has to be an open standard. If Apple doesn't want to allow everyone to sync with iTunes, they don't have to. Also, openness does not benefit everyone. It benefits some, and could potentially benefit everyone, but doesn't always. When Apple allowed Mac clones to be made, most people thought it would bring Mac OS to a wider market and make Apple more money. Apple still made the OS, and even got licensing fees from the clone manufacturers. All it ended up doing was bite into Apple's revenue. Mac OS market share didn't grow, and Apple was just losing sales to the clones. Even if the average iPod user buys 100 songs over the life of the iPod, Apple still makes more money from the iPod sale than from the music. Why would they want to cut into their iPod sales just to potentially increase the money they get from the iTunes store?
There's a site near where I live where for 40 years, the Ward Transformer Company was contaminating the surrounding area with PCBs. They've been cleaning the dirt for over a year, with an estimated cost of $6,130,000. That's not a cost I'd want to buy. Good thing your friend was warned away from buying. Of course I think I'm paying for this $6 million cleanup with my taxes.
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I've found a lot of songs/bands I had never heard of thanks to Pandora. I started a station based on "Panic Attack" by Dream Theater, and it's interesting to look at "why was this song selected" for new songs. The current song I'm listening to says "we're playing this track because it features a subtle use of paired vocal harmony, varying tempo and time signatures, chromatic harmonic structure and demanding instrumental part writing." I could have said that I like varying tempo and time signatures, and demanding instrumental parts, but it's neat that it can pick up on things like chromatic harmonic structure and paired vocal harmony.
While I agree that it does seem like this will do little, from the article you posted, it sounds like nitrogen can normally only be absorbed by the roots of plants, and only by means of nitrifying bacteria. The article says the plants can absorb nitrogen oxides directly through the leaves. I'm no botanist, but I think that's the key to the article, not that they can metabolize nitrogen.
The App Store is a store, not a bazaar. They approve/deny products just as any store would. You don't see people complaining that they can't just open up a booth to sell their own CDs in the local record store. I'm a supporter of net neutrality, but why does everything that uses the internet have to be neutral? I take net neutrality to mean everyone has equal access to the internet, not that developers can sell apps on the App Store without going through the current process of getting approved.
That will work if you're going from A to B, and have the route planned already. If you're already lost at X, where they don't have 3G, when you decide you need to use the GPS app, you're out of luck.
I personally still wouldn't get a standalone GPS though. For the times when I'm really lost, I still have an atlas in my car. Hopefully Google will update the iPhone map app to allow turn-by-turn as well. Currently it almost requires a copilot to use, but it's still better than having to print directions beforehand.
It sounds like the maps will still only be hosted by Google, rather than stored on the device as with standalone GPSs. As long as that's the case, there will probably still be standalone units.
Why service it when you can just reprint it for pennies?
I don't know. These days, the only thing that makes my computer feel slow is the hard drive. The capacity of hard drives has been keeping up with or exceeding demand, but the speed seems to be increasing much more slowly.
I'm not sure why we're talking about a 250GB drive in 2020 anyway. SSDs are already that big (and bigger). They just cost a lot right now. While I will probably keep a disk based drive for storage for many years to come, my next boot drive will almost certainly be an SSD. The random access rate of my Raptor not only seems slow, but is very loud. I welcome the extra speed and silence of an SSD, even if it's more expensive.
Like you said, the price basically stays the same. The point that TimeOday was trying to make wasn't that 250GB SSDs would be available in 2020, but that they would be the commodity keychain drives that 4GB flash drives are today, and could be had for $20. Today 256GB SSDs cost $600 or so. In two years, 256GB will probably be under $200, and 512GB and 1TB drives will be $400 and $600 or so...maybe less. The point he was making is that flash drives have the capacity to be reduced much lower in price than hard drives can, because they don't need the complicated mechanical parts in a disk based drive.
I bought a 17GB drive in 1999 to add to the 4GB one that came with the computer I bought in 1997. I don't think 17GB was the largest at the time, but I don't think 250GB in 10 years will be like 250MB now. It might be more like what 20GB is like today. Maybe even more than that. I also think hard drive capacity is increasing faster than the need for bigger hard drives. You can get a 2TB drive these days, but very few people could even begin to fill that.
And the Slashdot article mentioning it - http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/2312233
Software developers and the US Department of Defense are developing military software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight, made by the Florida firm Knight's Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Army researchers are developing applications to turn an iPod into a remote control for a bomb-disposal robot (tilting the iPod steers the robot). In Sudan, American military observers are using iPods to learn the appropriate etiquette for interacting with tribal leaders.'
I don't find lap dances morally objectionable. If this were an after-event thing, and they had entertainment for ALL of the attendees, not just the heterosexual men who enjoy lap dances, then it might have been OK. I think what's worse is having scantily clad women in the brainstorming sessions. At best, it's distracting. At worst, it makes people uncomfortable (especially any women who might have been attending). Since this is Slashdot - Yes, there are women here, and yes, there are women programmers.
Lots of guys here are saying people need to lighten up about it. Next time you're in a meeting, hire a couple male strippers to walk around and grind their crotches against the back of your head or something. See how comfortable you are with that, and how productive the meeting is.
No. Can you buy one that fits in 6.5x6.5x2", has gigabit ethernet, 802.11n, FireWire 800, dual display support, and uses 16w? I don't see that listed anywhere BUT apple.com. Nice try at trolling though.
If you're going to put Debian or Ubuntu on it, you might as well get the regular mini. Part of the value is that the Mac mini Server is only $100 more than the standard mini equipped with a single 500 GB drive, when OS X Server costs $500 on its own. I think it's an interesting package. Not everyone needs a Mac Pro or XServe for a server. The mini is plenty for a small scale server, and OS X Server is easy to set up.
2^n-1 can only be prime if n is prime. It doesn't mean that it must be prime if n is prime. For example, 11 is prime, but 2^11-1 = 2047, which is not prime (2047/23 = 89)
Yeah - I too am tired of paying for unlimited data that I don't use (there's no option on the data plan). I use about 30MB per month at most. The rest of the time, I'm on WiFi. Of course as you said, they probably wouldn't give a lower priced option. They'd just change the $30 plan to a limited amount, and make unlimited even more expensive.
The reaction itself would be close to 100%, but there would probably be some loss in harnessing the energy, and if I remember correctly, creating antimatter, or at least our current methods, only captures a very small portion of the particles created. So at best it would still be wasting a lot of energy.
MySpace didn't just assume that someone else owned the copyright. In this case, it seems Warner Music Group was trying to claim they owned it, when they didn't. Perhaps at some point, Warner sold his CDs, while he retained copyright, or something.
Seriously?
Is
this the movie you are referencing?
You're either really old, really young, or are privy to some joke I'm unaware of.
If it's the last, then well played.
I'd argue that anyone who doesn't know that reference is really young.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWzMyKSIbFY
My guess is like other racing/fighting games, the extra cars will be purchasable, or can be unlocked by playing the game. Maybe you'll be able to buy the International-A and Super Licenses if you can't earn them, or instead of having a 1 in 4 chance of getting the car you want after a 200 lap endurance race, you can just buy it.
My Mac Pro weighs 42 lbs. That's not much less than this case.
Think about what you just did: you posted on Slashdot.
You used a web browser, which sent a few HTTP requests, represented as TCP/IP packets over an ethernet cable, which then traveled to an internet router, possibly via DSL or DOCSIS, got routed via OSPF and BGP, to a server running Apache and Perl.
Every step of that journey involved one or more open, freely-available standards-based protocols that have been embraced by hundreds if not thousands of vendors so they could all communicate with each other. Without all those open protocols, you would be stuck on a Microsoft internet, or an Apple internet, or maybe even a boring conservative IBM internet, and they would all be walled gardens, completely blocked off from each other.
You just made a good argument against what Palm did. With all these standards, if companies didn't follow them, there could be problems. Palm didn't follow USB standards and tricked iTunes into thinking it was an iPod. Not every protocol has to be an open standard. If Apple doesn't want to allow everyone to sync with iTunes, they don't have to. Also, openness does not benefit everyone. It benefits some, and could potentially benefit everyone, but doesn't always. When Apple allowed Mac clones to be made, most people thought it would bring Mac OS to a wider market and make Apple more money. Apple still made the OS, and even got licensing fees from the clone manufacturers. All it ended up doing was bite into Apple's revenue. Mac OS market share didn't grow, and Apple was just losing sales to the clones. Even if the average iPod user buys 100 songs over the life of the iPod, Apple still makes more money from the iPod sale than from the music. Why would they want to cut into their iPod sales just to potentially increase the money they get from the iTunes store?
half a gram of Anjoran bio-mimetic gel
Danceable? Monster Cable? Don't make me laugh. For truly danceable cables, you need Anjou cables.
There's a site near where I live where for 40 years, the Ward Transformer Company was contaminating the surrounding area with PCBs. They've been cleaning the dirt for over a year, with an estimated cost of $6,130,000. That's not a cost I'd want to buy. Good thing your friend was warned away from buying. Of course I think I'm paying for this $6 million cleanup with my taxes.
YouTube actually did almost that this April in response to XKCD's comic
They don't only come at night. They mostly come at night...mostly.