> The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone.
No, that's just how they're used in some cases. Although to be fair, the last time I ran into an abusive and power-hungry TSA employee was pre-9/11, and everyone I've seen in the last few years has been professional, courteous, and often amiable. But I don't travel much.
I fly a lot and the TSA folks I run into all over the US are very nice. People often underestimate how just being friendly to the people tasked with screening a few thousand people a day can make a huge difference in your experience.
Say, "Hello.".
Ask, "How are you doing today?".
Say, "Thank you." sometimes.
Most of all get your crap together before you get in line. All these things will make your airport experiences much better.
Hmm. I was thinking that maybe they were filtering for the iPad user agent, but then I just hit CNN and Vimeo on my iPhone and they both played video just fine.
Web standards are one thing. Browser choice is a totally different thing.
From the TV analogy, the choice of TV set is irrelevant as long as it supports the broadcast standards I want.
Browsers have different levels of support for W3C standards, but that level of support isn't what defines the standard. I might want to use a browser with a different feature set or code base, but that has nothing to do with the "open web standards" of the content to be consumed.
Not really. A browser is not the web any more than my TV is the content I display on it.
Put another way, a computer is not a Linux distro, although you can use it to run one. In an ideal world the hardware part is fairly irrelevant as a means to get to the content.
Both of these sites have HTML 5 versions now as well. In particular the Vimeo HD stuff is pretty indistinguishable from the Flash version on devices like the iPad. Spend just a few minutes browsing to video sites on an iPad and it's pretty stunning how many just switch to HTML 5 now.
My Xserves would run at 100% when they were doing a lot of postscript processing on the print queues, but on average the UNIX stuff there was loaded far more heavily than the Windows servers. (2003r2 at the time.)
The Windows guys would order more hardware when they got to 60% CPU load. This was hard for me to grasp at first when I took over the Citrix farms. Windows does actually have nice performance instrumentation and nice documentation to go with it.
The only person that loaded Windows servers harder than I did was my buddy who managed the MS-SQL OLAP cubes. When they processed a cube it would peg out 8 and 16 way Itaniums at 100% for several days.
Just like CPU utilization, idle RAM usage is a terrible performance metric. I'm constantly amazed by all the people that want to keep CPU and RAM usage to a minimum, particularly on servers. When I worked in a large enterprise I used to freak my Windows colleagues out by running my Mac OS X and Linux servers at 100%. It's not the % number of use, it's the loads that matter and learning how to size a server is more complicated than the Windows Task Manager.
In an ideal world your system would use every scrap of it's hardware to complete each task as quickly and efficiently as possible.
My job is about 80% public speaking of some kind or the other. Sometimes it's a room of 20, sometimes it's 1500, and sometimes it's in a studio recording a webcast. I've been doing this for a while now and I've found a few things that helped me get started.
First you need to know your material. It's not so much a presentation as it's a one sided discussion. The more conversational you are the more you draw that audience in.
Second don't put a ton of stuff on your slides. I can't even count how many Keynote decks I've seen that the presenter just reads to the audience. A good concept to have about slides is that they are an outline with points of emphasis for the discussion. The screen isn't giving the presentation, you are!
Third on the list is to make it fun. Take an easy dig at yourself as it always loosens them up. A really easy potshot is to make fun of end users. If you are presenting to sysadmins this is an instant win. Also strive to make things interactive. Ask questions of the audience that get them to raise a show of hands. It keeps people engaged.
Next get a presentation remote and walk around the stage/screen. You can be much more physically emotive if you aren't nailed to a lectern the whole time. If it's a big enough room you will need to do this so that you don't loose the people that are far away from you.
Finally, just be confident. You are presenting because someone thinks that what you have to say is important. Take that vote of confidence and run with it.
One last tip is to watch effective speakers give presentations. They are easy to find on the web from YouTube or TED. In my group we actually will often record our own presentations and then watch them later in order to pick up places to improve. This is a game that you can always keep improving.
Erm... When I went from a 2.5 G iPhone to a 3GS I just popped the SIM out of the old one and into the new. The 2.5 G then just said NO SIM next to the WiFi menu and continued to work just fine as a iPod Touch.
If you want to update the OS on it you will need an inactive SIM or be able to swap them back. Apple has the whole thing documented here. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
Eventually my wife tired of her Sony phone so we put her ATT SIM into the old iPhone, itunes prompted her to add the 2.5G $20 data/text plan to it and she was done.
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure that the Sega Saturn 3D pad came out first as part of a Nights into Dreams bundle. Analog stick and shoulder buttons. Driving games were SO much better to play all of a sudden.
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Doom was most certainly an indie game. It was a freaking shareware release!
failfs!
Use smaller words please. I'm a bit slow for some reason.
> The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone.
No, that's just how they're used in some cases. Although to be fair, the last time I ran into an abusive and power-hungry TSA employee was pre-9/11, and everyone I've seen in the last few years has been professional, courteous, and often amiable. But I don't travel much.
I fly a lot and the TSA folks I run into all over the US are very nice. People often underestimate how just being friendly to the people tasked with screening a few thousand people a day can make a huge difference in your experience.
Say, "Hello.".
Ask, "How are you doing today?".
Say, "Thank you." sometimes.
Most of all get your crap together before you get in line. All these things will make your airport experiences much better.
Hey! That's four words!
What's "apparent performance"? It's either faster or it's not.
I suppose they could save the flash animations as videos.
How many times do I need to explain this?!?
I can't install the internet on your phone BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE!!!
Hmm. I was thinking that maybe they were filtering for the iPad user agent, but then I just hit CNN and Vimeo on my iPhone and they both played video just fine.
Web standards are one thing. Browser choice is a totally different thing.
From the TV analogy, the choice of TV set is irrelevant as long as it supports the broadcast standards I want.
Browsers have different levels of support for W3C standards, but that level of support isn't what defines the standard. I might want to use a browser with a different feature set or code base, but that has nothing to do with the "open web standards" of the content to be consumed.
Not really. A browser is not the web any more than my TV is the content I display on it.
Put another way, a computer is not a Linux distro, although you can use it to run one. In an ideal world the hardware part is fairly irrelevant as a means to get to the content.
sites that require flash like YouTube, Vimeo,.
Both of these sites have HTML 5 versions now as well. In particular the Vimeo HD stuff is pretty indistinguishable from the Flash version on devices like the iPad. Spend just a few minutes browsing to video sites on an iPad and it's pretty stunning how many just switch to HTML 5 now.
Because those are applications to browse the web with and not the web.
What? You've never heard of BabyTorrent?
Just don't ask the computer to make tea while under a missile attack.
My Xserves would run at 100% when they were doing a lot of postscript processing on the print queues, but on average the UNIX stuff there was loaded far more heavily than the Windows servers. (2003r2 at the time.)
The Windows guys would order more hardware when they got to 60% CPU load. This was hard for me to grasp at first when I took over the Citrix farms. Windows does actually have nice performance instrumentation and nice documentation to go with it.
The only person that loaded Windows servers harder than I did was my buddy who managed the MS-SQL OLAP cubes. When they processed a cube it would peg out 8 and 16 way Itaniums at 100% for several days.
Just like CPU utilization, idle RAM usage is a terrible performance metric. I'm constantly amazed by all the people that want to keep CPU and RAM usage to a minimum, particularly on servers. When I worked in a large enterprise I used to freak my Windows colleagues out by running my Mac OS X and Linux servers at 100%. It's not the % number of use, it's the loads that matter and learning how to size a server is more complicated than the Windows Task Manager.
In an ideal world your system would use every scrap of it's hardware to complete each task as quickly and efficiently as possible.
My job is about 80% public speaking of some kind or the other. Sometimes it's a room of 20, sometimes it's 1500, and sometimes it's in a studio recording a webcast. I've been doing this for a while now and I've found a few things that helped me get started.
First you need to know your material. It's not so much a presentation as it's a one sided discussion. The more conversational you are the more you draw that audience in.
Second don't put a ton of stuff on your slides. I can't even count how many Keynote decks I've seen that the presenter just reads to the audience. A good concept to have about slides is that they are an outline with points of emphasis for the discussion. The screen isn't giving the presentation, you are!
Third on the list is to make it fun. Take an easy dig at yourself as it always loosens them up. A really easy potshot is to make fun of end users. If you are presenting to sysadmins this is an instant win. Also strive to make things interactive. Ask questions of the audience that get them to raise a show of hands. It keeps people engaged.
Next get a presentation remote and walk around the stage/screen. You can be much more physically emotive if you aren't nailed to a lectern the whole time. If it's a big enough room you will need to do this so that you don't loose the people that are far away from you.
Finally, just be confident. You are presenting because someone thinks that what you have to say is important. Take that vote of confidence and run with it.
One last tip is to watch effective speakers give presentations. They are easy to find on the web from YouTube or TED. In my group we actually will often record our own presentations and then watch them later in order to pick up places to improve. This is a game that you can always keep improving.
Erm... When I went from a 2.5 G iPhone to a 3GS I just popped the SIM out of the old one and into the new. The 2.5 G then just said NO SIM next to the WiFi menu and continued to work just fine as a iPod Touch.
If you want to update the OS on it you will need an inactive SIM or be able to swap them back. Apple has the whole thing documented here. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406
Eventually my wife tired of her Sony phone so we put her ATT SIM into the old iPhone, itunes prompted her to add the 2.5G $20 data/text plan to it and she was done.
It's OpenCL that opens up the GPUs to general processing on 10.6. Although GCD certainly plays a role by dispatching threads to those resources.
You should check out this astounding OpenCL demo here: http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode1
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure that the Sega Saturn 3D pad came out first as part of a Nights into Dreams bundle. Analog stick and shoulder buttons. Driving games were SO much better to play all of a sudden.
The PS2 was largish as well, but the PSX was noticeably smaller than the Saturn.
Which of course I just remembered is spelled with a 'K'.
Maybe he meant the tiny hamburgers...
Sure they do. Toshiba even ships triple GPU laptops with Windows.