Quite often (more often than I would care to admit), I reach a roadblock on how to do something the right way. I can't quite wrap my brain around what the best method or algorhythm should be, or what the interface should look like, the workflow, etc.
Sometimes I'll spend WAY too long racking my brain for a solution.
What I've learned is that if I just distract myself for a short period of time, by doing something else like taking a lunch break, when I return to the problem the solution will come to me almost right away.
Isn't Spore also released (or soon to be) on the PS3?
I'd really like to play Spore, and I'm thinking that playing it on my PS3 might be a better experience anyway. Bigger screen, more comfortable controls, and in my case a better processor.
Anyone know any details about this? Is the game experience the same or better?
I was just thinking the same thing to myself when I learned about CS4.
Two and a half years ago I bit the bullet and bought CS2. It was like $300, and I think that was the educational version (I am an IT instructor).
Not too long after that, CS3 came out. And now, CS4. The upgrade pricing, even for education, is high enough -- but for people who don't qualify and need retail versions (full or upgrade) it's rediculous.
CS4 Master Edition, which is basically a package of everything Adobe, is $2500.
I feel sorry for the small/medium designers and print shops that *need* to upgrade to keep up with their customers' needs. I can't imagine they have budgeted to spend $1000-2000 every year per PC on software upgrades.
Haha, no. My point was to further illustrate why BluRays haven't dominated the market.
I, and many others, just haven't upgraded our TVs yet with a new $1000+ display. Thus, why would we care about BluRay (which was one of the reasons they sent out the DVD)?
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You got it. I have a Blu player in my PS3 and haven't yet purchased one to play on it.
I just can't see myself paying $30 or whatever... I hardly ever even watch the "special features" (aka crap) they put on normal DVDs, let alone all the extra stuff on Blu-Ray.
And I don't own a high-definition TV yet either. Maybe after I invest in a brand new 1080p television, switch my entire entertainment system over to HDMI, buy the PS3 DVD remote controller, I'll consider Blu-Ray discs.
Of course by then, I'll be too broke to be able to afford the extra 50% in cost over normal DVDs.
I got the same disc in Wired and was curious enough to try it, so I popped it in my PS3. It was the first Blu-Ray disc I've tried.
Sadly, I don't have a high-definition TV.. and it's using standard RCA hookups. So, the picture quality and sound was that of a normal DVD.
As for the movie? I only got about 10 minutes in, because that's how long it took me to eat my lunch while I was watching it. Then I stopped because it just didn't pull me in enough to care.
Like you said, if they defined encryption to the tee, then they'd have a problem next year when that defininition is out of date or broken.
Seems to me that leaving it vague is better, since it lets people choose how they comply. We're always saying on here that government should keep their hands off things. Maybe this is a good thing?
Either way, this decision sounds like a step forward. It might be a very small step, and even slightly off the desired path, but at least we're moving forward.
Kudos to EMI for doing something digital without DRM, but how is this better than what Amazon.com offers us now?
I can download DRM-free songs from Amazon for less than a buck, and albums at about $8. Windows Media Player downloads the album art, and a plug-in gets me lyrics. I can transfer the song to other devices, friends, or burn to CD. Amazon's library is HUGE.
And internet distribution doesn't impact the environment.
About the only advantage I see to this is the "up to 320k", whereas Amazon's are 160k I believe. But, I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference.
Physical distribution is dead. If they want to cater to impulse buyers at a retailer, install a kiosk with a variety of ports, card readers, BlueTooth, etc and let people download stuff instantly.
I have Vista Business running on a two-year-old Dell laptop with 1 GB of RAM. It boots up to usable in under 2 minutes, and Word 2007 takes about 5 seconds.
If I have the laptop in standby, which it can stay in for about a half day without charging, it "boots" in about 5 seconds, plus another 5 to get on the wireless network.
As for jotting quick notes... I send myself emails from my phone. Works great, and I can attach an audio recording if I don't want to type.
All he's doing is just bringing himself down to their sleazy level.
How does that help?
Yes, it's hilarious to see our politicans playing power games on each other. Fodder for Jon Stewart, sure, but our courts have better things to do, and our voters deserve more from these people.
I agree. I can't stand the two-party system we have here (let's face it).
But that's not a reason to sue the two candidates and prevent them from running. Nor is that they were "late" on a deadline that seems to me to be way too early (when compared with the rest of the country).
Like I said earlier, we have lots of reasons not to vote for the two major candiates (and their parties)... but this shouldn't be one of them.
I believe the issue here was that the major parties hadn't yet decided who their candidate was going to be, and that Texas has an unusually early filing requirment compared to most of the other states.
There's plenty of things to fault the candidates for, but I don't think this is one of them.
Why each state can't have the exact same filing date is beyond me.
So am I to believe that the only way this guy can possibly win Texas is if he manages to erase the #1 and #2 candidates from the ballot?
Even if he's right, I don't think I'd vote for him because of this action. If he can't win on his own merit, and has to sue the system because of an unimportant deadline issue, then why does he deserve my vote?
What's he gonna do if elected president? Sue the National Weather Service the next time we have a hurricane disaster? Sue Iraq for unfair oil prices? Sue North Korea if they launch a missile at us? Sue E.T. for blowing up our planet?
This isn't Israel doing it. It's a city within Israel.
An employee who works for the government had an idea and made it happen. That employee probably couldn't solve the whole war thing, so figured they'd do this instead.
I can't cure cancer, but that doesn't mean I can't do my part to make the world a better -- or less poopy -- place.
They've been showing off Google Defense for some time now. It works like their people-drivin image tagging system. If enough people tag an oncoming sub/jet/ship as enemy, the Google Barge will open fire.
At first, I thought this got me hopeful that someone at the US Patent Office found a clue and that perhaps they might have landed back into our physical reality -- instead of the bizzaro universe they currently inhabit.
And then, after reading the first sentence from my RSS feed, I thought the story was about The Matrix being real. Or something like it.
Either way, I'm disappointed. And traffic in San Francisco still sucks.
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Quite often (more often than I would care to admit), I reach a roadblock on how to do something the right way. I can't quite wrap my brain around what the best method or algorhythm should be, or what the interface should look like, the workflow, etc.
Sometimes I'll spend WAY too long racking my brain for a solution.
What I've learned is that if I just distract myself for a short period of time, by doing something else like taking a lunch break, when I return to the problem the solution will come to me almost right away.
Isn't Spore also released (or soon to be) on the PS3?
I'd really like to play Spore, and I'm thinking that playing it on my PS3 might be a better experience anyway. Bigger screen, more comfortable controls, and in my case a better processor.
Anyone know any details about this? Is the game experience the same or better?
Like the useless PTT (Push to Talk) button that AT&T put on my Tilt (HTC TyTn II).
Thankfully, a software hack let me remap the button to launch Google Maps instead.
I was just thinking the same thing to myself when I learned about CS4.
Two and a half years ago I bit the bullet and bought CS2. It was like $300, and I think that was the educational version (I am an IT instructor).
Not too long after that, CS3 came out. And now, CS4. The upgrade pricing, even for education, is high enough -- but for people who don't qualify and need retail versions (full or upgrade) it's rediculous.
CS4 Master Edition, which is basically a package of everything Adobe, is $2500.
I feel sorry for the small/medium designers and print shops that *need* to upgrade to keep up with their customers' needs. I can't imagine they have budgeted to spend $1000-2000 every year per PC on software upgrades.
Haha, no. My point was to further illustrate why BluRays haven't dominated the market.
I, and many others, just haven't upgraded our TVs yet with a new $1000+ display. Thus, why would we care about BluRay (which was one of the reasons they sent out the DVD)?
You got it. I have a Blu player in my PS3 and haven't yet purchased one to play on it.
I just can't see myself paying $30 or whatever... I hardly ever even watch the "special features" (aka crap) they put on normal DVDs, let alone all the extra stuff on Blu-Ray.
And I don't own a high-definition TV yet either. Maybe after I invest in a brand new 1080p television, switch my entire entertainment system over to HDMI, buy the PS3 DVD remote controller, I'll consider Blu-Ray discs.
Of course by then, I'll be too broke to be able to afford the extra 50% in cost over normal DVDs.
I got the same disc in Wired and was curious enough to try it, so I popped it in my PS3. It was the first Blu-Ray disc I've tried.
Sadly, I don't have a high-definition TV.. and it's using standard RCA hookups. So, the picture quality and sound was that of a normal DVD.
As for the movie? I only got about 10 minutes in, because that's how long it took me to eat my lunch while I was watching it. Then I stopped because it just didn't pull me in enough to care.
IANAN, but I'm pretty sure they'd be pissed if they found out about this book.
Order it while you can.
We could have the kiosk talk down to the customer if they purchase anything by the Jonas Brothers.
Even refuse to sell it to them, and suggest something by Nine Inch Nails instead.
Seems there is no easy way to win this.
Like you said, if they defined encryption to the tee, then they'd have a problem next year when that defininition is out of date or broken.
Seems to me that leaving it vague is better, since it lets people choose how they comply. We're always saying on here that government should keep their hands off things. Maybe this is a good thing?
Either way, this decision sounds like a step forward. It might be a very small step, and even slightly off the desired path, but at least we're moving forward.
And of course, the very next day your political enemies would start the campaign that says:
c6gunner is PRO PUPPY STOMPING!
Kudos to EMI for doing something digital without DRM, but how is this better than what Amazon.com offers us now?
I can download DRM-free songs from Amazon for less than a buck, and albums at about $8. Windows Media Player downloads the album art, and a plug-in gets me lyrics. I can transfer the song to other devices, friends, or burn to CD. Amazon's library is HUGE.
And internet distribution doesn't impact the environment.
About the only advantage I see to this is the "up to 320k", whereas Amazon's are 160k I believe. But, I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference.
Physical distribution is dead. If they want to cater to impulse buyers at a retailer, install a kiosk with a variety of ports, card readers, BlueTooth, etc and let people download stuff instantly.
For what it's worth, I second and third that.
I have Vista Business running on a two-year-old Dell laptop with 1 GB of RAM. It boots up to usable in under 2 minutes, and Word 2007 takes about 5 seconds.
If I have the laptop in standby, which it can stay in for about a half day without charging, it "boots" in about 5 seconds, plus another 5 to get on the wireless network.
As for jotting quick notes... I send myself emails from my phone. Works great, and I can attach an audio recording if I don't want to type.
What happens when these helmets are rootkitted, and they start playing pop-up ads directly into the soldiers' brains while idle?
Hmmm....
3. Profit!!!
All he's doing is just bringing himself down to their sleazy level.
How does that help?
Yes, it's hilarious to see our politicans playing power games on each other. Fodder for Jon Stewart, sure, but our courts have better things to do, and our voters deserve more from these people.
Nice, real nice.
I think you miss the point I was trying to make. Rather than recognizing that maybe this law isn't right, he's just suing someone for his own benefit.
If this were a patent issue, we'd be all in arms about how the whole system is wrong and someone is taking advantage of the law.
But as soon as it's a minority party doing the same thing, then the Law is Gold and needs to be upheld no matter what.
I agree. I can't stand the two-party system we have here (let's face it).
But that's not a reason to sue the two candidates and prevent them from running. Nor is that they were "late" on a deadline that seems to me to be way too early (when compared with the rest of the country).
Like I said earlier, we have lots of reasons not to vote for the two major candiates (and their parties)... but this shouldn't be one of them.
I believe the issue here was that the major parties hadn't yet decided who their candidate was going to be, and that Texas has an unusually early filing requirment compared to most of the other states.
There's plenty of things to fault the candidates for, but I don't think this is one of them.
Why each state can't have the exact same filing date is beyond me.
So am I to believe that the only way this guy can possibly win Texas is if he manages to erase the #1 and #2 candidates from the ballot?
Even if he's right, I don't think I'd vote for him because of this action. If he can't win on his own merit, and has to sue the system because of an unimportant deadline issue, then why does he deserve my vote?
What's he gonna do if elected president? Sue the National Weather Service the next time we have a hurricane disaster? Sue Iraq for unfair oil prices? Sue North Korea if they launch a missile at us? Sue E.T. for blowing up our planet?
Dear City of Chicago,
We regret to inform you that we have voted our 2016 Olympic Games be held at the fine city of Amsterdam, and not Chicago, IL.
Our decision was based on many factors, and your city scored quite well on all criteria of the selection process.
But when it came down to it, Amsterdam2016.com was actually registered to the right people.
Sincereley,
The Olympic Planning Task Force
This isn't Israel doing it. It's a city within Israel.
An employee who works for the government had an idea and made it happen. That employee probably couldn't solve the whole war thing, so figured they'd do this instead.
I can't cure cancer, but that doesn't mean I can't do my part to make the world a better -- or less poopy -- place.
There's a lot of damage done to the underlying grass from poo.
With enough creative accounting, it's possible this actually saves them money.
They've been showing off Google Defense for some time now. It works like their people-drivin image tagging system. If enough people tag an oncoming sub/jet/ship as enemy, the Google Barge will open fire.
Of course, it's still in Beta.
If people complain about the $0.10 charge, why not get an unlimited or high-volume plan?
I have unlimited SMS, MMS, and internet data from AT&T for $60/mo, and I can tether it to my laptop too.
Without the internet, their high-volume (3000, I think) plan is $20/mo. That's less than a penny per message, unless you exceed 100 per day.
They also have some $5/mo plan which gives you 100 per month or something.
I don't think these prices are unfair at all.
Agreed.
At first, I thought this got me hopeful that someone at the US Patent Office found a clue and that perhaps they might have landed back into our physical reality -- instead of the bizzaro universe they currently inhabit.
And then, after reading the first sentence from my RSS feed, I thought the story was about The Matrix being real. Or something like it.
Either way, I'm disappointed. And traffic in San Francisco still sucks.