That group (and all of the similar groups) is basically a bunch of idiots that fell victim to a rumor. Congratulations on falling for it along with them.
As other posters have said, charging for Facebook, even a tiny amount, would instakill it. Look at what Pay-to-Play did to the online game Planetarion back around 2002-2003...
I'm fairly positive this is why they had autofollow. This leverages existing social networks to "jumpstart" a new one.
I don't get why autofollow was so bad - you only got autofollowed when you created your account, and at that point, you have no content on your feed. What's the big deal? The people following you see zilch until you post some content to Buzz - if you don't want someone seeing that update, block/remove them from your followers before you start using Buzz.
Gmail was able to take on the likes of Hotmal and Yahoo Mail because it was usually pretty easy to get your contacts list into and out of most email systems. Thus, you could easily leverage existing social networks (for email, your addressbook) in GMail.
For a more integrated social network, it's a lot harder to migrate that existing network you have. Google already had one in the form of your Google Talk chat contacts.
I think there were also unfounded proliferation fears. Something like a politician automatically assumed reprocessing -> proliferation, even though in the case of the IFR, any of the reprocessing byproducts would be worthless for weapons use. (Again, this is if I recall the literature correctly, it has been a while!)
I think still, availability of fuel is not nearly as big of a problem as spent fuel, and won't be for a long time. The IFR basically solved both problems.
Yup. Too bad the IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) program was killed. If I recall correctly, the half-life of its longest-lived waste was something on the order of 50-100 years, and it extracted on the order of 70-90% of the energy available in its input uranium, instead of something like 5-20% (what typical LWRs are capable of). (Again, this is *if* I recall correctly, it has been a while since I read the IFR literature.)
Similarly, an 8800GT (which I bought around two years ago for under $200) is more than enough for most games on the market. The 9800GT (identical chipset) is under $100 these days I think.
It depends on the game. In general, newer games DO support multicore CPUs, but only within the past 2-3 years, as until the past 2-3 years, multicore systems weren't nearly as common as they are now.
If you have a single-core system, it is actually possible for the game to run slightly slower if designed for a multicore system. It's also a royal bitch to debug multithreaded applications, and plenty of new and wonderful ways to screw up.
The Maemo-based N series are, so far, niche devices, partly due to the fact that they are extremely expensive - $650 in the USA with no contract subsidies available. Remember, you don't get a service discount if you use a non-subsidized phone, so why go for a non-subsidized phone? For the same reason, the OpenMoko was a niche device.
Yeah, I would've expected far better from Bunnie too. Anyone who would be even remotely surprised by this "discovery" simply has no clue about the way the electronics industry works.
Chances are that Kingston isn't buying "SanDisk A-" parts - they're just buying the same flash chip that SanDisk and everyone else buys from Toshiba. Maybe SanDisk had some involvement in the design process with Toshiba, but to see this and assume Kingston is getting the "A-" parts or factory rejects is just plain stupid.
He just had bad luck with a bad batch - it happens to everyone. I bet others have had bad batches of SanDisk parts too.
Typically, fixed electrical plants are more efficient, since they don't have to worry about power to weight ratios or power to volume ratios, and they run at a relatively constant load level that they can be optimized for.
They also typically have significantly more emissions controls than vehicle engines do.
"Or are they using Zamboni in place of "ice resurfacer" like Kleenex and Frisbee? "
Probably. Zamboni has basically had the Kleenex/Xerox treatment at this point. I'm fairly certain that "Zamboni Dave" at Cornell actually drives an Olympia around the rink... I need to check in two weeks.:)
Yeah, it is interesting that in some ways, the biggest complaint many have about Windows Mobile is the same complaint some people throw at Linux - they complain about having too much choice! (KDE vs. GNOME vs. whatever in Linux, the various dialers/reskins/alternate UIs available for WM.)
What is a weakness in the eyes of some (flexibility and choice) is a strength for others. A WM phone doesn't provide the "out of the box" user experience that iPhone does, but it is far more powerful and flexible.
It's what Linux on mobile devices SHOULD be, but as I mentioned before (and you confirmed affects even Android), Linux on mobile phones has a bad habit of getting tivoized. There are exceptions (OpenMoko and the like) but they're smallfry.
Same here, so far I haven't seen any spam. After all, you choose who you follow.
So far it just seems like another Twitter with a few extra bells and whistles (namely, the "Remember me" function ACTUALLY working, instead of consistently logging me out over and over again like Twitter does) to me.
Windows Mobile is a completely different experience from the crap known as Vista. I've been a Windows (on Desktop) hater for years, however I started using WM phones at around WM5.0, and still stick with WM.
(If a decent Android phone becomes available on AT&T I might jump over...)
That's why xda-developers has been in a "can't live without them" state as far as Microsoft and HTC go - MS and HTC have grounds to sue or C&D the people at XDA-Developers, but have decided not to because of the fact that a large portion of their customer base uses cooked ROMs for just the reason you describe - the vendors (AT&T, Verizon, etc.) have a bad habit of bloatwaring the phones.
The hardware vendors (such as HTC) usually do a good problem - it's the carriers that screw the users over with crap releases.
As to "Does Microsoft finally have a phone worth buying?" - they did years ago. Strangely enough, until the advent of Android, Microsoft actually had one of the more "open" phone OSes. iPhone development is heavily locked down, most of the other Linux-based handset efforts were either nonstarters or HEAVILY Tivoized, Blackberries can only be developed for in Java as far as I can tell.
Yes, I'm a pretty avid Linux user on the desktop, but for business/geek users, Windows Mobile is currently where it's at unless you are willing to deal with Verizon. (I'm not, and I won't go with T-Mobile because I'd actually like to use my phone within 20 miles of work/home.)
Did you know that you just gave your facebook username to everyone? (although your privacy settings are pretty clamped down so it doesn't really matter.)
Remember long ago when you could choose a username (to replace the number in your profile URL with something human-readable)? While on the site you login with your email, apparently with XMPP you log in with that username. This is the first highly visible use of that name other than your profile's URL.
Hmm, either you have no clue, or Facebook changed account creation policy recently. I never had to provide my phone number at registration (although I did add it to my profile later with privacy restrictions on it.)
Most drivers I've talked to with far more experience driving on gravel than I do seem to be of the opinion that traction control = BAD NEWS on gravel and that even moderately experienced drivers can do far better than what any TCS can do/allows you to do in terms of maintaining control on gravel.
Most TC systems are apparently tuned more towards pavement or ice/snow, not towards gravel.
There's also the fact that, as you state, taking a turn properly requires prior knowledge of the conditions of that turn - traction control only handles the current road conditions.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has been pretty big on foreign military sales. So yeah, a big motivator here is business.
Also, it's not like the specific capabilities of the plane are publicized. It's basically saying, "look at this plane that kicks ass" without specifying exactly how much ass it will kick.
Part of the reason this deal went through (when the previous one did not) is because one of the Spyker execs (Muller) effectively bought out his Russian partners - There is no longer any controlling Russian interest in Spyker.
No. The old synthetic diamond processes were only good for small diamonds, and some of them specifically can only create "diamond powder".
There are new CVD-based processes for growing large diamonds (Such as that used by Apollo Diamond), but they're still reasonably expensive. Cheaper than DeBeers, but only economical because DeBeers is artificially inflating prices.
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That group (and all of the similar groups) is basically a bunch of idiots that fell victim to a rumor. Congratulations on falling for it along with them.
As other posters have said, charging for Facebook, even a tiny amount, would instakill it. Look at what Pay-to-Play did to the online game Planetarion back around 2002-2003...
I'm fairly positive this is why they had autofollow. This leverages existing social networks to "jumpstart" a new one.
I don't get why autofollow was so bad - you only got autofollowed when you created your account, and at that point, you have no content on your feed. What's the big deal? The people following you see zilch until you post some content to Buzz - if you don't want someone seeing that update, block/remove them from your followers before you start using Buzz.
Gmail was able to take on the likes of Hotmal and Yahoo Mail because it was usually pretty easy to get your contacts list into and out of most email systems. Thus, you could easily leverage existing social networks (for email, your addressbook) in GMail.
For a more integrated social network, it's a lot harder to migrate that existing network you have. Google already had one in the form of your Google Talk chat contacts.
I think there were also unfounded proliferation fears. Something like a politician automatically assumed reprocessing -> proliferation, even though in the case of the IFR, any of the reprocessing byproducts would be worthless for weapons use. (Again, this is if I recall the literature correctly, it has been a while!)
I think still, availability of fuel is not nearly as big of a problem as spent fuel, and won't be for a long time. The IFR basically solved both problems.
Yup. Too bad the IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) program was killed. If I recall correctly, the half-life of its longest-lived waste was something on the order of 50-100 years, and it extracted on the order of 70-90% of the energy available in its input uranium, instead of something like 5-20% (what typical LWRs are capable of). (Again, this is *if* I recall correctly, it has been a while since I read the IFR literature.)
Similarly, an 8800GT (which I bought around two years ago for under $200) is more than enough for most games on the market. The 9800GT (identical chipset) is under $100 these days I think.
It depends on the game. In general, newer games DO support multicore CPUs, but only within the past 2-3 years, as until the past 2-3 years, multicore systems weren't nearly as common as they are now.
If you have a single-core system, it is actually possible for the game to run slightly slower if designed for a multicore system. It's also a royal bitch to debug multithreaded applications, and plenty of new and wonderful ways to screw up.
The Maemo-based N series are, so far, niche devices, partly due to the fact that they are extremely expensive - $650 in the USA with no contract subsidies available. Remember, you don't get a service discount if you use a non-subsidized phone, so why go for a non-subsidized phone? For the same reason, the OpenMoko was a niche device.
"It doesn't tell you anywere on the packaging that it forces you into a totally horrible marketing idea...."
That surprises me. U3-enabled drives get HEAVILY marketed as such.
Yeah, I would've expected far better from Bunnie too. Anyone who would be even remotely surprised by this "discovery" simply has no clue about the way the electronics industry works.
Chances are that Kingston isn't buying "SanDisk A-" parts - they're just buying the same flash chip that SanDisk and everyone else buys from Toshiba. Maybe SanDisk had some involvement in the design process with Toshiba, but to see this and assume Kingston is getting the "A-" parts or factory rejects is just plain stupid.
He just had bad luck with a bad batch - it happens to everyone. I bet others have had bad batches of SanDisk parts too.
Typically, fixed electrical plants are more efficient, since they don't have to worry about power to weight ratios or power to volume ratios, and they run at a relatively constant load level that they can be optimized for.
They also typically have significantly more emissions controls than vehicle engines do.
"Or are they using Zamboni in place of "ice resurfacer" like Kleenex and Frisbee? "
Probably. Zamboni has basically had the Kleenex/Xerox treatment at this point. I'm fairly certain that "Zamboni Dave" at Cornell actually drives an Olympia around the rink... I need to check in two weeks. :)
Yeah, it is interesting that in some ways, the biggest complaint many have about Windows Mobile is the same complaint some people throw at Linux - they complain about having too much choice! (KDE vs. GNOME vs. whatever in Linux, the various dialers/reskins/alternate UIs available for WM.)
What is a weakness in the eyes of some (flexibility and choice) is a strength for others. A WM phone doesn't provide the "out of the box" user experience that iPhone does, but it is far more powerful and flexible.
It's what Linux on mobile devices SHOULD be, but as I mentioned before (and you confirmed affects even Android), Linux on mobile phones has a bad habit of getting tivoized. There are exceptions (OpenMoko and the like) but they're smallfry.
Same here, so far I haven't seen any spam. After all, you choose who you follow.
So far it just seems like another Twitter with a few extra bells and whistles (namely, the "Remember me" function ACTUALLY working, instead of consistently logging me out over and over again like Twitter does) to me.
Which ones?
I've never had any such problems with my AT&T Tilt or Tilt 2. OK, maybe not never, I think I've had one crash during a call in 3 years.
AT&T has a 30 day return policy on phones.
Windows Mobile is a completely different experience from the crap known as Vista. I've been a Windows (on Desktop) hater for years, however I started using WM phones at around WM5.0, and still stick with WM.
(If a decent Android phone becomes available on AT&T I might jump over...)
That's why xda-developers has been in a "can't live without them" state as far as Microsoft and HTC go - MS and HTC have grounds to sue or C&D the people at XDA-Developers, but have decided not to because of the fact that a large portion of their customer base uses cooked ROMs for just the reason you describe - the vendors (AT&T, Verizon, etc.) have a bad habit of bloatwaring the phones.
The hardware vendors (such as HTC) usually do a good problem - it's the carriers that screw the users over with crap releases.
As to "Does Microsoft finally have a phone worth buying?" - they did years ago. Strangely enough, until the advent of Android, Microsoft actually had one of the more "open" phone OSes. iPhone development is heavily locked down, most of the other Linux-based handset efforts were either nonstarters or HEAVILY Tivoized, Blackberries can only be developed for in Java as far as I can tell.
Yes, I'm a pretty avid Linux user on the desktop, but for business/geek users, Windows Mobile is currently where it's at unless you are willing to deal with Verizon. (I'm not, and I won't go with T-Mobile because I'd actually like to use my phone within 20 miles of work/home.)
Hello Dave.
Did you know that you just gave your facebook username to everyone? (although your privacy settings are pretty clamped down so it doesn't really matter.)
Remember long ago when you could choose a username (to replace the number in your profile URL with something human-readable)? While on the site you login with your email, apparently with XMPP you log in with that username. This is the first highly visible use of that name other than your profile's URL.
Hmm, either you have no clue, or Facebook changed account creation policy recently. I never had to provide my phone number at registration (although I did add it to my profile later with privacy restrictions on it.)
Pidgin can't do it, since it was never a "mainline" plugin in the standard distribution - can't remove that which was never there to begin with.
It meets (and exceeds) the basic functional requirements for a "television".
Most drivers I've talked to with far more experience driving on gravel than I do seem to be of the opinion that traction control = BAD NEWS on gravel and that even moderately experienced drivers can do far better than what any TCS can do/allows you to do in terms of maintaining control on gravel.
Most TC systems are apparently tuned more towards pavement or ice/snow, not towards gravel.
There's also the fact that, as you state, taking a turn properly requires prior knowledge of the conditions of that turn - traction control only handles the current road conditions.
Sounds like a PERFECT time to unleash an autonomous racing vehicle.
Especially if the goal is AI research. We have chess-playing computers, we need GTA-playing computers.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has been pretty big on foreign military sales. So yeah, a big motivator here is business.
Also, it's not like the specific capabilities of the plane are publicized. It's basically saying, "look at this plane that kicks ass" without specifying exactly how much ass it will kick.
Not even the original submitter bothered...
Part of the reason this deal went through (when the previous one did not) is because one of the Spyker execs (Muller) effectively bought out his Russian partners - There is no longer any controlling Russian interest in Spyker.
No. The old synthetic diamond processes were only good for small diamonds, and some of them specifically can only create "diamond powder".
There are new CVD-based processes for growing large diamonds (Such as that used by Apollo Diamond), but they're still reasonably expensive. Cheaper than DeBeers, but only economical because DeBeers is artificially inflating prices.