The problem is easily solved with style sheets. I have a 3G Nokia, and find browsing the web when on public transport a very good use of my time - but I only frequent those pages (or aggregators) that take into account my viewing dimensions (despite OperaS60).
Reading blogs, for example, should be completely painless, since it's mostly text content, but frequently it's a terribly pain. These devices clearly identify themselves via their browser, so websites should apply different style sheets when browser = OperaS60 or whatever.
As for 56k modem design, my 3G connection frequently beats my old dial-up, so I don't think that bandwidth is the problem, rather resolution.
Anyway, I'm sure that, while the larger screens will have digital projectors for the blockbuster releases etc, they'll maintain quite a few reel projectors in the smaller theatres for the arty stuff.
With any luck this could be a feature in the future, prompting cinemas with reels to run "classic movie" weekends thanks to the competitive advantage of being able to play reels...
Unfortunately, like people who boycott Nestle for noble reasons, I think Kraft are too big, to *everywhere* to notice. You probably buy a lot more of their products than you realise.
this seems to be one of those rare cases when Ireland got there ahead of the US. It's been many years now since either of the country's two most prominent broadsheets offered all their content online for free. Indeed my favoured daily started a subscription service so long ago, that the offer of a webmail account with your subscription was tempting.
It's all about tactility, presence, something real, that you can have and hold and possess. I don't care what anyone says, tactility brings a measure of comfort and pleasure you're not going to get from a screen. Then there's the smell of a fresh paper. I'm not saying that it's up there with the smell of frying bacon in the morning, but it adds to the experience. That's it - a print paper is an experience, text on a screen is just, boring...
I don't understand the negative reaction. Production is no longer in the US, but that is not where the money is. IBM realised that they could make a lot of money (and, incidentally, create a lot of relatively high paid, relatively pleasant jobs) by abstracting further up the value chain, to supply services and consultants.
It matters not a fig to most companies who provides their computers, but many large companies cannot operate without IBM services.
So we have a company that no provides high skilled, high payed jobs to the US workforce instead of low payed, low skilled manufacturing jobs.
I'm pretty certain I saw this program on (very) late night BBC Open University TV about two years ago. It got me very interested in this sort of behaviour, but the more research I did into insect behaviour, the more apparant it became that some kind of simple pheremone system is actually used in nature to control things. Many swarm intelligence projects now use "Pheromone robotics" to mimic nature that little more closely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_Intelligence
...to the overall amount of "radiation pollution" or whatever the term is. Some of almost every radio communication ever made leaks into space - if we ever discover faster-than light travel and seriously good attenna technology, our ancestors could watch the original transmission of friends hundreds of years in the future from some where in the galaxy!
The prices of songs via mp3 are already maintained at an artificially high price. This ensures that the price of downloading an album via mp3 is roughly synonymous with the price of purchasing the album in a large retailer. Since the user is paying for "shipping", and packaging and materials are non-existant, it seems to me that even dividing the pie between the distributor, the record companies, and the artists, there's more than enough to go around as is. There's no justification for asking us to pay more for mp3s. Perhaps if they paid for our cable connection...
I'm willing to concede that the accepted usage is probably not the proper usage, and I did find your explanation very interesting. It's dismaying how infrequently people pay real attention to whay they're saying:)
Actually, I'm not certain that that's where the expression comes from at all.
To be taken with a grain of salt comes from the latin "cum grano salis", and was used by Pliney in describing Pompey's discovery of an antidote for poison that had to be taken with a small amount of salt to work.
Since in Roman times, they believed that salt was linked to intelligence, the phrase "cum grano salis" was adopted and came to mean "(take) with a little common sense", which is similar to the "be skeptical" meaning of todays idiom.
The other modern day explanation generally given is that a small amount of salt can make something unpallatable taste better.
It's been common practice to raise the amount of salt by how dubious you believe the story to be for quite a while.
Contradicting the article's claim that the industry isn't standing up to these guys, it's nice to see that CastleCops have themselves retained council, and their rebuttal http://castlecops.com/article-5765-nested-0-0.html doesn't pull any punches.
I'm sorry, is this report for all of those who were asleep in their caves yesterday, or are being given an opportunity to poach all the "insightful" comments from yesterday for ourselves?
...when a body which purports to be democratic does not listen to those who represent the people. We have spoken, we have shouted, we have sent you nasty emails.
If the bill gets carried, it will indicate that the European Union is designed to give people the appearance of having democratic power with the parliament, while the real power resides with commission, who seem emminantly influenced by big business.
Comparing nanotechnology to biology is simply misleading. Viruses are not genuine nanotechnology, since "technology" implies "created by humans". Viruses were definately around before us, and in at least one instance, are believed to have evolved into us.
of this could be quite unfortunate. If China demonstrate that pebble-bed reactors are a good way of generating relatively cheap power, they could undermine funding for efforts between Europe and Japan to produce a fusion generator.
With any luck this also implies that the next release of Frontpage won't create pages in a magical mystical microsoft invented language similar, but importantly different from HTML or XHTML...
I agree totally. In general, making the words less machine readable also makes them less human readable.
A "which object is the arrow pointing at" with non-trivial, but common, relatively synonym-free objects (apple, cow, fork, car, cd, cloud, etc) would seem to be more difficult for the machines, and vastly easier on the user.
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The problem is easily solved with style sheets. I have a 3G Nokia, and find browsing the web when on public transport a very good use of my time - but I only frequent those pages (or aggregators) that take into account my viewing dimensions (despite OperaS60). Reading blogs, for example, should be completely painless, since it's mostly text content, but frequently it's a terribly pain. These devices clearly identify themselves via their browser, so websites should apply different style sheets when browser = OperaS60 or whatever. As for 56k modem design, my 3G connection frequently beats my old dial-up, so I don't think that bandwidth is the problem, rather resolution.
Good lord how I miss the UGC on Parnell St...
Anyway, I'm sure that, while the larger screens will have digital projectors for the blockbuster releases etc, they'll maintain quite a few reel projectors in the smaller theatres for the arty stuff.
With any luck this could be a feature in the future, prompting cinemas with reels to run "classic movie" weekends thanks to the competitive advantage of being able to play reels...
Indeed I do, but every now and then I get cravings for Cadburys that Fazer just can't fix :)
Unfortunately, like people who boycott Nestle for noble reasons, I think Kraft are too big, to *everywhere* to notice. You probably buy a lot more of their products than you realise.
Amen to that. How come the nearest place to Helsinki I can get some Cadburys is St Petersburg?!
Indeed. I've been hundreds of kilometres north of the arctic circle and had 5 bars reception on my phone.
this seems to be one of those rare cases when Ireland got there ahead of the US. It's been many years now since either of the country's two most prominent broadsheets offered all their content online for free. Indeed my favoured daily started a subscription service so long ago, that the offer of a webmail account with your subscription was tempting.
Now I get my news from google and the bbc.
It's all about tactility, presence, something real, that you can have and hold and possess. I don't care what anyone says, tactility brings a measure of comfort and pleasure you're not going to get from a screen. Then there's the smell of a fresh paper. I'm not saying that it's up there with the smell of frying bacon in the morning, but it adds to the experience. That's it - a print paper is an experience, text on a screen is just, boring...
I don't understand the negative reaction. Production is no longer in the US, but that is not where the money is. IBM realised that they could make a lot of money (and, incidentally, create a lot of relatively high paid, relatively pleasant jobs) by abstracting further up the value chain, to supply services and consultants. It matters not a fig to most companies who provides their computers, but many large companies cannot operate without IBM services. So we have a company that no provides high skilled, high payed jobs to the US workforce instead of low payed, low skilled manufacturing jobs.
I'm pretty certain I saw this program on (very) late night BBC Open University TV about two years ago. It got me very interested in this sort of behaviour, but the more research I did into insect behaviour, the more apparant it became that some kind of simple pheremone system is actually used in nature to control things. Many swarm intelligence projects now use "Pheromone robotics" to mimic nature that little more closely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_Intelligence
Yes, but I'd find it highly doubtful that Quictime, lossy video compression extraordinaire, would uses ALAC for sound... does it?
...to the overall amount of "radiation pollution" or whatever the term is. Some of almost every radio communication ever made leaks into space - if we ever discover faster-than light travel and seriously good attenna technology, our ancestors could watch the original transmission of friends hundreds of years in the future from some where in the galaxy!
The prices of songs via mp3 are already maintained at an artificially high price. This ensures that the price of downloading an album via mp3 is roughly synonymous with the price of purchasing the album in a large retailer. Since the user is paying for "shipping", and packaging and materials are non-existant, it seems to me that even dividing the pie between the distributor, the record companies, and the artists, there's more than enough to go around as is. There's no justification for asking us to pay more for mp3s. Perhaps if they paid for our cable connection...
I'm willing to concede that the accepted usage is probably not the proper usage, and I did find your explanation very interesting. It's dismaying how infrequently people pay real attention to whay they're saying :)
Actually, I'm not certain that that's where the expression comes from at all. To be taken with a grain of salt comes from the latin "cum grano salis", and was used by Pliney in describing Pompey's discovery of an antidote for poison that had to be taken with a small amount of salt to work. Since in Roman times, they believed that salt was linked to intelligence, the phrase "cum grano salis" was adopted and came to mean "(take) with a little common sense", which is similar to the "be skeptical" meaning of todays idiom. The other modern day explanation generally given is that a small amount of salt can make something unpallatable taste better. It's been common practice to raise the amount of salt by how dubious you believe the story to be for quite a while.
Contradicting the article's claim that the industry isn't standing up to these guys, it's nice to see that CastleCops have themselves retained council, and their rebuttal http://castlecops.com/article-5765-nested-0-0.html doesn't pull any punches.
I'm sorry, is this report for all of those who were asleep in their caves yesterday, or are being given an opportunity to poach all the "insightful" comments from yesterday for ourselves?
*illegal* dammit... ugh, need coffee.
Here in Finland, for example, subsidies are legal. My Nokia 6630 costs about 600.
...when a body which purports to be democratic does not listen to those who represent the people. We have spoken, we have shouted, we have sent you nasty emails. If the bill gets carried, it will indicate that the European Union is designed to give people the appearance of having democratic power with the parliament, while the real power resides with commission, who seem emminantly influenced by big business.
...must be relatively high. 14 million cables, shipping, etc - that's got to cost more than a couple of lawsuits.
This sort of thing happens all the time in the motor industry, according to my good friend Jack.
Comparing nanotechnology to biology is simply misleading. Viruses are not genuine nanotechnology, since "technology" implies "created by humans". Viruses were definately around before us, and in at least one instance, are believed to have evolved into us.
of this could be quite unfortunate. If China demonstrate that pebble-bed reactors are a good way of generating relatively cheap power, they could undermine funding for efforts between Europe and Japan to produce a fusion generator.
With any luck this also implies that the next release of Frontpage won't create pages in a magical mystical microsoft invented language similar, but importantly different from HTML or XHTML...
I agree totally. In general, making the words less machine readable also makes them less human readable. A "which object is the arrow pointing at" with non-trivial, but common, relatively synonym-free objects (apple, cow, fork, car, cd, cloud, etc) would seem to be more difficult for the machines, and vastly easier on the user.