I have a very low opinion of The Day After Tomorrow, but if this Prince of Persia movie has the requisite number of extras falling onto spikes and being eaten by door-sized steel jaws... I'm adding it to the Netflix list.:-D
These are essentially upgraded versions of the Gamecube chip after all, right? With about twice the processing power and 30% less energy usage.
Sony's Cell architecture comes off as being a whole lot more complex. I don't know if IBM delivered for them on time or on budget, or how much more time they spent on architecture development. The point is that if IBM missed timely delivery on the new Wii chips, I'd be pretty surprised.
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F ...
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F ...
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F! ...
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F dammit! ...
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F!!! F!!! ...
<end transmission>
I understand the Positive Train Control part; you need to be able to tell where a train is in order to tell it what to do. I'm having a little more trouble with the Intelligent Transportation Systems part.
You don't necessarily need GPS to tell automobile drivers what's going on ahead of them; there are other, infrared or magnetic loop current-based ways to do that already.
You may not want an unpredictable OS, but I don't like wasting my time, either. You're probably thinking of instances like Windows' "feature" to customize your menus, which is more annoying than helpful. Or Clippy, for that matter.
On the other hand, if I'm trying to contact my cousin, in 2006, I have four options: e-mail, text message, cell phone, home phone. I would rather not go in order if some sort of context-aggregator service knows that her cell phone is on the move somewhere in north-central Illinois. Businesses would appreciate knowing where their employees, or other employees, were at any given point in time.
Or, imagine a website (Gmail, for example) that responds to the user depending on if it knows you're at work, home, or the library, and adjusts its security settings accordingly.
I'm not a time freak and I don't demand to utilize 100% of my time, all the time, but if this could save me some hassle that's come in this age as a result of our technology, I'm for it.
3x to 10x sounds right, depending on the brand. I'm assuming the higher price means you get a color temperature somewhere in the ballpark of incandescents; fluorescent light is a lot cooler than incandescent. My wife notices and it bothers her; I notice it but it doesn't bother me, so the compromise was that I put CFLs in the closets and places where I don't care about the color of the light (closets, hallways, undercabinet kitchen lights), and incandescents go in the living spaces.
Anyways, it's typical for a regular tungsten light bulb to be about $.50 a pop; see this example. Soft pink ones that are specifically bought for their color (and resulting effects in a room), and, as women put it, are more "flattering" go for 2x-4x that price. CFLs are dropping to about $2 per bulb, which is your 3x-4x value, and that's in this value pack. Higher quality bulbs, and, I assume, warmer bulbs, are pricier; here's one for $7, which is 14x the 50 cent price.
I'm optimistic for using LED lights for a warmer color in the future, but the technology still has some maturing to do; point sources aren't the best at lighting up a large room.
I'm not so sure; I should see all sorts of "The S.S. Badger is the best f*!@in' ferry on earth!" vandals on S.S. Badger, but that hasn't happened. Maybe just someone disappointed with their ride, or a Muskegon teen with nothing better to do.
Ha. Didn't think this would make it to Slashdot. (I didn't participate in the Lake Express wars, but I did recreate the entireS.S. Badger page because it was created, and persisted, as a copy-and-paste of the History section of their website. I did notice strange things happening in Lake Express at the time, though...)
A more difficult issue in Wikipedia is figuring out how many copyright violations are in the encyclopedia. I don't see how it's feasible for every copyright holder to keep tabs of their Wikipedia article(s); that's not very fair to the copyright holder. More distressing, it seems that the art of proper summarization and citation has been lost from the general community in our generation (aged early 30s and younger) for some time.
With regional, nontechnical and just plain unpopular topics like this, if I (as an editor) don't fix it when I see it, the odds are pretty good no one will fix it. Not to mention I may be introducing some unwanted, commentary-style bias that I'm unaware of. But it always goes back to "unpopular"... unless you have a strong contingent of editors on a particular topic, whether numbering 3 or 30, lightly-traveled topics are just not going to be as good as they could be.
Regarding having opinions on an encyclopedia... it would be a better place if people just learned how and where to pick their battles. My answer to this is "I really don't give a damn, just pick something; it's not that important!"
Heh. I'm not even the systems administrator around here... it's more of a shared job.
Firefox is used here sparingly (4 installs off the top of my head, out of 50+) precisely because it's untested. If people know how to install it (and have permissions, for that matter, though I don't recall if you need to be admin to install Firefox) we don't support it. But in this case, all I had to go on was a website that worked before in IE now wouldn't work with IE, but continued to work with Firefox.
For limited installations, I point the start page towards whatever application they need to access, and if they want to use it beyond that, they can go for it. So far this has happened twice; yesterday with a PeopleSoft application at the Board, and once prior because AT&T's servers can't serve PDFs properly.
Some clients accessing systems at the Chicago Board of Trade were rendered useless by this bug; the flaw essentially resulted in a crash on login. Didn't know until today that it was exploitable, though.
The solution for us was simple: install Firefox on affected clients. Problem solved, users happy.
Economical? Not yet, and not far away from California. Maybe if you're a streets & sanitation manager for a rich town and have money to blow in exchange for lower maintenance cost down the road. But that's why I appreciate small businesses in America and worldwide; they can be effective in their own niche and take risks that bigger companies wouldn't make.
If they had been comparing May 2006 to June 2006 it'd make more sense, but as they're comparing May 2005 to May 2006 (-10%) and June 2005 to June 2006 (+25%), there's no simple explanation to be found at first glance. Other than "don't listen to analysts", but most of us probably abide by that already.
Something like 4m 30s of freefall (3:00-7:30) on that video. Very neat. Can someone with greater knowledge than I explain how the camera survived re-entry, or is there no re-entry at that altitude yet?
The video game industry is like a game of soccer.
Nintendo and Microsoft have staked Sony to a 5-0 lead after 10 minutes. It's a little early to be predicting a 6-5 loss, isn't it?
...to give them just a little bit of credit, it's better to find this out now than to see the must-have launch title magically appear on the shelf for USD$79.
The randomly bolded words were really detracting from my reading experience, so I suggest temporarily implementing the following 3 lines of code in your personal CSS file to stop the madness:
b { font-weight: normal; }
As an aside, I've now done 0.3% of what an average developer does yearly at Microsoft.
In tie-ratio terms (for 2006 only)... DS owners are buying 3.5 pieces of software for every DS in Japan, while PSP owners are only buying an average of 1.2 each.
How does this work? Assuming a reasonable bell curve, I'm sure there are PSP owners in Japan with 8 games... what do the people that buy 0 or 1 games do with their PSP? Did the UMD format take off in Japan when I wasn't looking? What's going on?
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Just bought the book, actually. (Granted, the company will pay for it.) I agree with what you said, but consider that it's called "Art of SQL" because the parallel (according to the intro/back of the book) is to Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
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I have a very low opinion of The Day After Tomorrow, but if this Prince of Persia movie has the requisite number of extras falling onto spikes and being eaten by door-sized steel jaws... I'm adding it to the Netflix list. :-D
These are essentially upgraded versions of the Gamecube chip after all, right? With about twice the processing power and 30% less energy usage.
Sony's Cell architecture comes off as being a whole lot more complex. I don't know if IBM delivered for them on time or on budget, or how much more time they spent on architecture development. The point is that if IBM missed timely delivery on the new Wii chips, I'd be pretty surprised.
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F
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[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F!
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F dammit!
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]lee to high ground? : F!!! F!!!
<end transmission>
I understand the Positive Train Control part; you need to be able to tell where a train is in order to tell it what to do. I'm having a little more trouble with the Intelligent Transportation Systems part.
You don't necessarily need GPS to tell automobile drivers what's going on ahead of them; there are other, infrared or magnetic loop current-based ways to do that already.
You may not want an unpredictable OS, but I don't like wasting my time, either. You're probably thinking of instances like Windows' "feature" to customize your menus, which is more annoying than helpful. Or Clippy, for that matter.
On the other hand, if I'm trying to contact my cousin, in 2006, I have four options: e-mail, text message, cell phone, home phone. I would rather not go in order if some sort of context-aggregator service knows that her cell phone is on the move somewhere in north-central Illinois. Businesses would appreciate knowing where their employees, or other employees, were at any given point in time.
Or, imagine a website (Gmail, for example) that responds to the user depending on if it knows you're at work, home, or the library, and adjusts its security settings accordingly.
I'm not a time freak and I don't demand to utilize 100% of my time, all the time, but if this could save me some hassle that's come in this age as a result of our technology, I'm for it.
Quarterback drops back... back... back... back... back... back... goal line... throws... touchdown!!!
I myself was a fan of the 100-yard pass completion on a 1st and 10 at the goal line. :-)
3x to 10x sounds right, depending on the brand. I'm assuming the higher price means you get a color temperature somewhere in the ballpark of incandescents; fluorescent light is a lot cooler than incandescent. My wife notices and it bothers her; I notice it but it doesn't bother me, so the compromise was that I put CFLs in the closets and places where I don't care about the color of the light (closets, hallways, undercabinet kitchen lights), and incandescents go in the living spaces.
Anyways, it's typical for a regular tungsten light bulb to be about $.50 a pop; see this example. Soft pink ones that are specifically bought for their color (and resulting effects in a room), and, as women put it, are more "flattering" go for 2x-4x that price. CFLs are dropping to about $2 per bulb, which is your 3x-4x value, and that's in this value pack. Higher quality bulbs, and, I assume, warmer bulbs, are pricier; here's one for $7, which is 14x the 50 cent price.
I'm optimistic for using LED lights for a warmer color in the future, but the technology still has some maturing to do; point sources aren't the best at lighting up a large room.
I'm not so sure; I should see all sorts of "The S.S. Badger is the best f*!@in' ferry on earth!" vandals on S.S. Badger, but that hasn't happened. Maybe just someone disappointed with their ride, or a Muskegon teen with nothing better to do.
Ha. Didn't think this would make it to Slashdot. (I didn't participate in the Lake Express wars, but I did recreate the entire S.S. Badger page because it was created, and persisted, as a copy-and-paste of the History section of their website. I did notice strange things happening in Lake Express at the time, though...)
A more difficult issue in Wikipedia is figuring out how many copyright violations are in the encyclopedia. I don't see how it's feasible for every copyright holder to keep tabs of their Wikipedia article(s); that's not very fair to the copyright holder. More distressing, it seems that the art of proper summarization and citation has been lost from the general community in our generation (aged early 30s and younger) for some time.
With regional, nontechnical and just plain unpopular topics like this, if I (as an editor) don't fix it when I see it, the odds are pretty good no one will fix it. Not to mention I may be introducing some unwanted, commentary-style bias that I'm unaware of. But it always goes back to "unpopular"... unless you have a strong contingent of editors on a particular topic, whether numbering 3 or 30, lightly-traveled topics are just not going to be as good as they could be.
Regarding having opinions on an encyclopedia... it would be a better place if people just learned how and where to pick their battles. My answer to this is "I really don't give a damn, just pick something; it's not that important!"
Heh. I'm not even the systems administrator around here... it's more of a shared job.
Firefox is used here sparingly (4 installs off the top of my head, out of 50+) precisely because it's untested. If people know how to install it (and have permissions, for that matter, though I don't recall if you need to be admin to install Firefox) we don't support it. But in this case, all I had to go on was a website that worked before in IE now wouldn't work with IE, but continued to work with Firefox.
For limited installations, I point the start page towards whatever application they need to access, and if they want to use it beyond that, they can go for it. So far this has happened twice; yesterday with a PeopleSoft application at the Board, and once prior because AT&T's servers can't serve PDFs properly.
Some clients accessing systems at the Chicago Board of Trade were rendered useless by this bug; the flaw essentially resulted in a crash on login. Didn't know until today that it was exploitable, though.
The solution for us was simple: install Firefox on affected clients. Problem solved, users happy.
I posted about rubber sidewalks in another forum... here's better links:
Christian Science Monitor story
Rubber Sidewalk company page
Economical? Not yet, and not far away from California. Maybe if you're a streets & sanitation manager for a rich town and have money to blow in exchange for lower maintenance cost down the road. But that's why I appreciate small businesses in America and worldwide; they can be effective in their own niche and take risks that bigger companies wouldn't make.
If, and only if, the occupants of these clusters turn out to be vampires.
U.S. Video Game Sales Down 10% in May
If they had been comparing May 2006 to June 2006 it'd make more sense, but as they're comparing May 2005 to May 2006 (-10%) and June 2005 to June 2006 (+25%), there's no simple explanation to be found at first glance. Other than "don't listen to analysts", but most of us probably abide by that already.
Something like 4m 30s of freefall (3:00-7:30) on that video. Very neat. Can someone with greater knowledge than I explain how the camera survived re-entry, or is there no re-entry at that altitude yet?
It looks right.
From [1]: Definitions of cosmologist on the Web:
I think you were thinking of cosmetologists:
Prohibit your execs from forcing writers to write product placement into their shows.
Otherwise, my next 3-week break from pay TV will be intentional and permanent, not accidental and temporary.
<watches next gen status fly out the window>
The video game industry is like a game of soccer. Nintendo and Microsoft have staked Sony to a 5-0 lead after 10 minutes. It's a little early to be predicting a 6-5 loss, isn't it?
...to give them just a little bit of credit, it's better to find this out now than to see the must-have launch title magically appear on the shelf for USD$79.
First developer to make a MacBook do this will receive 1,000 points, and quite possibly the Coolest Mac App of the Year award. :-)
As an aside, I've now done 0.3% of what an average developer does yearly at Microsoft.
How does this work? Assuming a reasonable bell curve, I'm sure there are PSP owners in Japan with 8 games... what do the people that buy 0 or 1 games do with their PSP? Did the UMD format take off in Japan when I wasn't looking? What's going on?
Know thy enemy. :-)