Most people don't listen to music in a bubble, they talk to other people about the music and ideas get implanted in their heads. Also the way people talk about music makes a difference. If you say to me, that you LOVE this song and I HAVE to hear it, and download it and listen to it all the time, I'm going to look at you funny. But if you tell me in a laid-back, smooth and cool manner that this song is cool, I'll be more inclined to listen to you and less likely to write you off. It also works backwards. "I'm used to really like that song too, now I'm getting kinda sick of it..." Now you start to feel the same way, even just a little bit. There are some really interesting studies on how people react in certain situations, responding to peer pressure and all that. Good stuff.
I think Nintendo has a lot of opportunity to develop some innovative new things for the DS. I'm thinking it would be way easier to set up GPS, (which is coming to the PSP btw) and the comment about VoIP was dead on. I'd love to see some real video distribution (cheap anime, anyone?) in addition to what was announced today.
I think it's interesting that Nintendo is going after older women at all. This demographic is regularly behind the times in many new techs that are considered the hottest thing among their children. This generalization can even extend to single women around this age. These people often look at things like text messaging via cell phone and trends such as Myspace/blogging as a waste of time. As such, I commend Nintendo for being adventuresome and targeting a group that is certainly off the beaten path when it comes to tech marketing.
Maybe a solution is to relocate your data center to a place where your peak usage will be at the middle of the night local time. This could potentially add up to a significant savings, unless the center is currently in the Midwestern US, then you'd have to move off-continent. But switching coasts seems like a plausible money-saver.
Also, it appears the/. community is offering some trendy and cutting-edge ideas to solve this problem, but none of those ideas are practical unless your building is owned by your firm and is located in rural Vermont. I mean seriously guys, do you have any idea how unpopular solar and wind power structures are in the center of any US city?
Some of the ideas suggested would require massive structural modifications, which is almost certainly not the solution the seeker is looking for. The seeker appears to be looking for off-the-shelf, easy to implement methods, strategies, and hardware, and/. is dropping the ball on this one.
So when are we going to see grass farmers out there? The simple fact is that only corn farmers are going to get behind ethanol and promote it, and only so long as it's corn-based ethanol. The article does not point out that it is only in theory that large quantities of ethanol can be made from grasses.
They also need to find a way to allow students to get DDR credit as a way to avoid the useless and largely unnecessary PE classes. Usually only athletic students really participate, to everyone else it's just a junk class to be avoided and ignored as much as possible...
My dad got really bored trying to teach my younger siblings chess, so he ended up teaching them a bowling game in which you flick chess peices with your fingers. The man that still has chess pieces standing at the end wins. Obviously works best with a cheap wooden chess set, and doesn't last very long...
Somehow I doubt that software publishing companies will restrain themselves until every surface possible advertises something and pop-up ads or spam exist in every game. If there are real benefits (eg a big discount to gamers) then ok, we'll talk, but if prices don't fall for the consumer then this is one trend that is nothing but a slippery slope and needs to be derailed.
He's doing an awful job. What the heck is VIIV??? Most people don't understand what Centrino stands for, and he's getting rid of "Intel Inside"... Don't even get me started on the numbering scheme... I think if Otellini doesn't turn his act around quickly, he's going to be known as a failure. On the other hand, he did get Apple to switch...
AMD is fully planning on transitioning to 65nm in 06. Also, many fanboys are speculating (hoping?) that prices will decrease with the new socket (M2) and the opening of Fab 36 in the next few months.
Excellent point. Unless the feds require RFID in the Nat'l ID due out next year, and states/banks start issuing more licenses or bank cards with embedded RFID tags, RFID is simply not going to be that great of a privacy issue.
I'd like to see sales of RFID scanners restricted to retailers/what have you that actually *need* them, and perhaps a different RFID standard or format for secure gov't applications that can't be read by the RFID scanners at my local bookstore. This would add a layer of security beyond encryption and the practically geeks-only tin-foil solution...
But in the end the sheer number of RFID tags being made is not cause for fear and trepidation.
Tell that to Wal-Mart... Or the US Gov't. RFID is coming, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it...
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Sounds like an interesting project to me. How long would the section on, uh, ecological issues be? If it were any longer than the section on religion, I wouldn't read it:p I mean come on, the article talks about humans being the central nervous system of Gaia. "Not that I want to start a flamewar here," but let's call a duck, a duck, and move on. This guy's a quack, moving on...
I think this is a legitamate question that needs to be addressed by wallet manufacturers. There are uses for RFID that need to be shielded until I say that I want them scanned. I don't think a duct tape wallet is a long-term solution, so Slashdotters, get busy...
Also, would it be possible for my card, whatever it may be, to be scanned twice at the same moment? What if I took an RFID scanner and lurked around a stationary scanner, would it be possible for me to pick up people's RFID info?
We need to reduce the amount of electricity our homes require. NYC simply needs to enact a curfew and mandatory bedtime. "Lights out, kids!"
Or, we could just work on the age-old problem of energy efficiency a little more... Maybe some subsidies to help the poorer folk afford the new gadgetry.
I think that it's inevitable that Dell realizes that the game where they say they're thinking about adding AMD processors to get concessions from Intel is bad business strategy in the long run. Now they can probably get concessions from AMD AND Intel, as AMD will want to keep the server relationship going AND get its foot in the desktop door, while Intel will have even greater incentive to keep AMD out of Dell desktops and laptops. It's a win-win situation for Dell, and even if it doesn't happen this time around, it'll happen this year.
Also, doesn't it tell you something that Dell's stock price rose on this news?
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Most people don't listen to music in a bubble, they talk to other people about the music and ideas get implanted in their heads. Also the way people talk about music makes a difference. If you say to me, that you LOVE this song and I HAVE to hear it, and download it and listen to it all the time, I'm going to look at you funny. But if you tell me in a laid-back, smooth and cool manner that this song is cool, I'll be more inclined to listen to you and less likely to write you off. It also works backwards. "I'm used to really like that song too, now I'm getting kinda sick of it..." Now you start to feel the same way, even just a little bit.
There are some really interesting studies on how people react in certain situations, responding to peer pressure and all that. Good stuff.
Welp, I have mod points, and I'm going to say..... LOL
I think Nintendo has a lot of opportunity to develop some innovative new things for the DS. I'm thinking it would be way easier to set up GPS, (which is coming to the PSP btw) and the comment about VoIP was dead on. I'd love to see some real video distribution (cheap anime, anyone?) in addition to what was announced today.
Wow. I think that's an exception though...
I think it's interesting that Nintendo is going after older women at all. This demographic is regularly behind the times in many new techs that are considered the hottest thing among their children. This generalization can even extend to single women around this age. These people often look at things like text messaging via cell phone and trends such as Myspace/blogging as a waste of time. As such, I commend Nintendo for being adventuresome and targeting a group that is certainly off the beaten path when it comes to tech marketing.
Maybe a solution is to relocate your data center to a place where your peak usage will be at the middle of the night local time. This could potentially add up to a significant savings, unless the center is currently in the Midwestern US, then you'd have to move off-continent. But switching coasts seems like a plausible money-saver.
/. community is offering some trendy and cutting-edge ideas to solve this problem, but none of those ideas are practical unless your building is owned by your firm and is located in rural Vermont. I mean seriously guys, do you have any idea how unpopular solar and wind power structures are in the center of any US city?
/. is dropping the ball on this one.
Also, it appears the
Some of the ideas suggested would require massive structural modifications, which is almost certainly not the solution the seeker is looking for. The seeker appears to be looking for off-the-shelf, easy to implement methods, strategies, and hardware, and
So when are we going to see grass farmers out there? The simple fact is that only corn farmers are going to get behind ethanol and promote it, and only so long as it's corn-based ethanol. The article does not point out that it is only in theory that large quantities of ethanol can be made from grasses.
They also need to find a way to allow students to get DDR credit as a way to avoid the useless and largely unnecessary PE classes. Usually only athletic students really participate, to everyone else it's just a junk class to be avoided and ignored as much as possible...
My dad got really bored trying to teach my younger siblings chess, so he ended up teaching them a bowling game in which you flick chess peices with your fingers. The man that still has chess pieces standing at the end wins. Obviously works best with a cheap wooden chess set, and doesn't last very long...
Somehow I doubt that software publishing companies will restrain themselves until every surface possible advertises something and pop-up ads or spam exist in every game. If there are real benefits (eg a big discount to gamers) then ok, we'll talk, but if prices don't fall for the consumer then this is one trend that is nothing but a slippery slope and needs to be derailed.
It was mostly Intel's marketing that lead to Apple's switch to Intel, rather than AMD or even Cell...
He's doing an awful job. What the heck is VIIV??? Most people don't understand what Centrino stands for, and he's getting rid of "Intel Inside"... Don't even get me started on the numbering scheme... I think if Otellini doesn't turn his act around quickly, he's going to be known as a failure. On the other hand, he did get Apple to switch...
AMD is fully planning on transitioning to 65nm in 06. Also, many fanboys are speculating (hoping?) that prices will decrease with the new socket (M2) and the opening of Fab 36 in the next few months.
Excellent point. Unless the feds require RFID in the Nat'l ID due out next year, and states/banks start issuing more licenses or bank cards with embedded RFID tags, RFID is simply not going to be that great of a privacy issue. I'd like to see sales of RFID scanners restricted to retailers/what have you that actually *need* them, and perhaps a different RFID standard or format for secure gov't applications that can't be read by the RFID scanners at my local bookstore. This would add a layer of security beyond encryption and the practically geeks-only tin-foil solution... But in the end the sheer number of RFID tags being made is not cause for fear and trepidation.
Exactly. Who would have thought this possible?
Tell that to Wal-Mart... Or the US Gov't. RFID is coming, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it...
Sounds like an interesting project to me. How long would the section on, uh, ecological issues be? If it were any longer than the section on religion, I wouldn't read it :p I mean come on, the article talks about humans being the central nervous system of Gaia. "Not that I want to start a flamewar here," but let's call a duck, a duck, and move on. This guy's a quack, moving on...
I think this is a legitamate question that needs to be addressed by wallet manufacturers. There are uses for RFID that need to be shielded until I say that I want them scanned. I don't think a duct tape wallet is a long-term solution, so Slashdotters, get busy... Also, would it be possible for my card, whatever it may be, to be scanned twice at the same moment? What if I took an RFID scanner and lurked around a stationary scanner, would it be possible for me to pick up people's RFID info?
We need to reduce the amount of electricity our homes require. NYC simply needs to enact a curfew and mandatory bedtime. "Lights out, kids!" Or, we could just work on the age-old problem of energy efficiency a little more... Maybe some subsidies to help the poorer folk afford the new gadgetry.
I think that it's inevitable that Dell realizes that the game where they say they're thinking about adding AMD processors to get concessions from Intel is bad business strategy in the long run. Now they can probably get concessions from AMD AND Intel, as AMD will want to keep the server relationship going AND get its foot in the desktop door, while Intel will have even greater incentive to keep AMD out of Dell desktops and laptops. It's a win-win situation for Dell, and even if it doesn't happen this time around, it'll happen this year. Also, doesn't it tell you something that Dell's stock price rose on this news?