The first thing I do whenever I can on a new game is to remap the standard WASD keys to ESDF, and then remap everything else accordingly. It allows me to keep my hands on the home row and still use my strong fingers - avoiding use of the pinky on the A key. So in order for this functionality to be of most use, will you allow custom keybindings?
Hulu is funded through advertising. On the radio a few weeks ago, I think on NPR's marketplace, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/12/hulu/ they had an interview with Eric Feng, founder of Hulu. In it, he said that advertising is where the money is and that it is likely that the amount of commercials/ads shown per episode is likely to increase. It was either him or someone else on the program (I can't listen to the program right now) that said Hulu is likely to follow the same path as cable did - starting with very little commercials, and using that as a selling point, and then eventually transitioning to 7+ minutes of advertising per half hour as Hulu became indispensable.
I like Hulu, but I do not believe they operate under some "do our work for the benefit of the users" mantra. At some point they will do the analysis on ads vs. user dissatisfaction and will settle at a balance point.
It is only a matter of time before the record is broken again, both for Class C (as the links says, probably soon to be held by this boat) and for overall, currently held by a kiteboarder. The difference between what happens on water and on land is really dramatic. The fastest boats are remarkably slower than the fastest cars.
BTW, it wasn't *particularly* windy during the record breaking attempts. Too much wind usually means gusty conditions and overpowering. What they needed was the right wind direction relative to the course selected, typically a broad reach (over the back corner of the stern). In the case of the Macquarie, they were only seeing 22-24 knots, which many places in the country see on a daily basis!
So this was on the Reg yesterday, and the comments were all virtually the same, on two variations:
1. The company has to pay people to sit around while PCs power up and down, eliminating any benefit from powering down the PCs since people are so much more expensive. 2. The company pushes updates and such automatically at night when computer/network usage is low, making it less expensive (again, saving money over power saved) than pushing the updates when people turn on their computers in the morning.
I turn most of my computers off at home and work because I hate wasting the power, and I have a problem with my home PC keeping the fan on in sleep mode. On my laptop I put it in sleep mode, plugged into the wall. I have no idea how much power this uses, but I do it so that I get a quick restart in the morning for checking slashdot @ breakfast. It bothers me that I might be wasting a few dollars per month keeping it in sleep rather than hibernate (which doesn't work on my machine - Ubuntu on a IBM T30) or full shutdown.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/04/022257 is a discussion very recently about software piracy at the Beijing office of a company. While the location is different, the responses are quite similar. Basically, document your actions in writing, and be prepared to leave if the situation doesn't improve.
It is not modded +5 because many folks with mod points, myself included, choose to mod only registered and logged-in users. Why promote the asshattery of anonymous joking instead of saving mod points for deserving logged in users? Don't feed the ACs.
Wind is not abundant everywhere. Sure, it gets windy almost everywhere on the globe at some point during the year, but it doesn't blow hard enough, frequently enough, in most places to make wind installations viable.
If you take the state of Connecticut, for example. The wind blows hardest in the Spring and Fall with frontal storms and you can have days when it blows 15 - 25 knots or more. But the coastline is protected by Long Island, New York, which means the wind blows 50 miles away, hits land and then gets deflected upward. So even though we have lots of coastline, it is rarely windy enough to turn a turbine. 100 miles away on Cape Cod, they have all the wind they need (excluding Ted Kennedy) to build a huge wind farm.
Florida is another great example. It is rarely windy there except in the winter time. This is due to the temperature of the water being very close to the temperature on land, so it is usually windy there when storms roll through. They do, of course, have the advantage of having lots of sun, so solar is more viable.
I like that. Another simple solution is OpenDNS.org - just change the DNS settings on your router, set up an account (even using a proxy email is fine) and turn whichever filtering options you want. I use it at home and find OpenDNS is very quick, and the filter works remarkably well. Some things occasionally slip through, but by and large I can't get to improper content without trying really really hard. It also disables proxies.
I don't know if it exists for DSLRs, but I have some software I load onto my Canon SD1100is called CDHK. It allows me to do all kinds of things that don't exist in the standard software load for this camera. I have been experimenting with long shutter exposures - the standard camera has 15 second shutter speed. CDHK gives me up to 64 second shutter speeds. The difference was not much, but it allowed the star tracks from a nighttime shot to be more pronounced.
It also allows things like custom battery meters, histograms etc. Basically I was thinking of it *exactly* like DD-WRT for my home router. In fact, if it wasn't for my experience with DD-WRT I would have never tried CDHK, mostly out of distrust that any firmware could be low risk to my "expensive" hardware.
Agreed. And to all my Indian and Pakistani friends, please understand what deodorant is for. You may shower each day to remove the smell of curry, but it doesn't help @ 2pm or 6pm if you don't use deodorant. You will still smell rather badly of body odor, and it is not only annoying but it is incredibly unproductive. It is sometimes hard enough to get our business partners to join us for meetings, but it makes it that much harder when they don't want to come because our department smell of BO.
I have a former employee that fell asleep in my manager's office. She was overweight and had sleep apnea. The next day she had a Dr's appointment, and followup with the sleep lab, where they figured out she was getting something like 30 minutes of sleep per night because her neck fat was cutting off her air supply.
Anyway I have seen people sleeping at their desks, and a quick shake you can see the ones that were drooling by the quick, instinctive mouth wipe. Yuck - if they only knew how dirty their desks were! Those people got fired, the first lady got short term disability (paid leave)
I played a lot of the Portal add-ons, which are available for free, and they are quite variable in quality. However there is one that is something like 47 levels of goodness and is every bit as professional as the original game. It is based on Flash Portal (can't link to it from work now anyway).
So this is my one data point that freely available content, developed using a robust structure, can be just as good as the commercial stuff. My only investment was $20 for Portal and a few cents downloading the add-on.
Is anyone surprised that the chavs and yobs running around with knives are powerful, and the defenseless British public are scared and powerless? This is exactly what happens when the criminals lack fear because the British people have been completely disarmed. What is a person supposed to do now against someone who has a knife? Ask politely for them to stop?
While the timing of this article, and response, is very poor given the two horrendous gun crimes yesterday and today, perhaps it is time to revisit the anti-weapon stance that has gripped England since the Scottish school massacre. Take away the guns, then only criminals will have them. Outlaw knives, and only criminals have them. Outlaw video games next?
Then what will happen to the urine recycling program where the astronauts drink their own pee? Then we'd have to start sending more water into orbit with them.
I think what happened to your original recordings is similar to what happened to many of us. We recorded from the radio onto cassette or even reel-to-reel and found that the quality of the recording was very low compared to either what came straight off the radio or from the purchased album.
I have a few cassette tapes still lying around and am amazed that I even liked listening to the thing - compared with a 64kbps MP3 they sound horrible. Oh how I would have dreamed of 128kbps MP3s!;-)
It wasn't a preference for sounds, it was a preference of convenience. I remember my first CD player like it was yesterday, bought by my parents for me in 1986. We were so impressed in the following features (some of which didn't turn out to be true): 1. Scratchless, hissless and popless (um, yeah) 2. Convenient forward and backward track skipping 3. Not having to get up and flip the record/tape over (my Full Moon Fever album by Tom Petty has a built-in pause on the CD in fairness to those record/cassette owners who need time to flip the album) 4. Repeat the whole album 5. Size compared to vinyl 6. Shiny!
I said it wasn't a preference for sound, but that isn't quite true. All of my cassettes and many of my albums had hisses and pops, accumlated over many playings. The various analog filters that came with decent components at the time made a dent, but not compared to the clean, crisp sound we first heard on CDs. It wasn't until much later that we discovered what was missing from the CD sound.
And yet if that sheet music arrived with a bent corner, you can bet you (or perhaps more likely another one of their customers) would have gone ballistic on either UPS or Amazon for poor packaging.
I agree that they overpack things, but given that most packages are shipped by weight and not volume, the only things they need to worry about are a) damage and b) packaging materials expense - which tend to run in opposite directions. I am sure there is a formula that can be applied to find the most optimal materials expense vs. damage, and they have probably figured it out already.
I get mod points all the time, to the point that they get really annoying. I don't know the formula but I think it is related to current karma (currently Excellent), recent posting activity and any resulting moderations, plus metamoderation activity.
Since the switch to the firehouse-like metamoderation I haven't done it lately. And yet I am still getting moderator points every week or so. Sometimes it is only 5 if I have been inactive or acting rather trollish, but most of the time it is 15. I have 9 unused points right now.
Agreed. However for *small* companies, the health of an individual can have a significant effect on what they will pay for premiums. While it is currently illegal to prohibit someone from coverage for a preexisting condition if they have prior coverage (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - HIPAA), and it is not appropriate to ask a potential intervieweee about health concerns, you can bet a small business owner would be rightfully concerned about who they hire. They aren't supposed to do it, and most (?all?) companies large enough to have an HR department won't do it, but there may be the few employers out there who will. If you had 6 employees and wanted to hire a 7th, would you hire that person if you knew they would be responsible for doubling your insurance premiums? It might be illegal and the risk of getting sued is pretty high, but that doesn't mean some business owner doesn't still have huge motivation to do so!
Agreed - keep your online profile and professional profile as separated as you can. I just did a Google search on my online email and my personal/job hunting email and found there wasn't anything tasty. In fact when doing a more wide open search on my given name, I found it is the same as a socialist nutjob from England and some politician from Barbados so the results are all confounded anyway.
The concept of the null value should have been patented. If so, it would have validated that patents in software can be a good thing by stopping the destructive spread of bad ideas in the same way they stop the spread of good ones.
Either that, or whoever invented the concept would be far richer than Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Ballmer combined!
Not at all. That they used capital "J" in the title is misleading. It wasn't until I read the summary that I figured it out. Very confusing to say the least, and a good lesson that proper capitalization is important!
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The first thing I do whenever I can on a new game is to remap the standard WASD keys to ESDF, and then remap everything else accordingly. It allows me to keep my hands on the home row and still use my strong fingers - avoiding use of the pinky on the A key. So in order for this functionality to be of most use, will you allow custom keybindings?
Hulu is funded through advertising. On the radio a few weeks ago, I think on NPR's marketplace, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/12/hulu/ they had an interview with Eric Feng, founder of Hulu. In it, he said that advertising is where the money is and that it is likely that the amount of commercials/ads shown per episode is likely to increase. It was either him or someone else on the program (I can't listen to the program right now) that said Hulu is likely to follow the same path as cable did - starting with very little commercials, and using that as a selling point, and then eventually transitioning to 7+ minutes of advertising per half hour as Hulu became indispensable.
I like Hulu, but I do not believe they operate under some "do our work for the benefit of the users" mantra. At some point they will do the analysis on ads vs. user dissatisfaction and will settle at a balance point.
It is only a matter of time before the record is broken again, both for Class C (as the links says, probably soon to be held by this boat) and for overall, currently held by a kiteboarder. The difference between what happens on water and on land is really dramatic. The fastest boats are remarkably slower than the fastest cars.
BTW, it wasn't *particularly* windy during the record breaking attempts. Too much wind usually means gusty conditions and overpowering. What they needed was the right wind direction relative to the course selected, typically a broad reach (over the back corner of the stern). In the case of the Macquarie, they were only seeing 22-24 knots, which many places in the country see on a daily basis!
I was thinking the woman who fell off the couch fell into the window and cracked it.
So this was on the Reg yesterday, and the comments were all virtually the same, on two variations:
1. The company has to pay people to sit around while PCs power up and down, eliminating any benefit from powering down the PCs since people are so much more expensive.
2. The company pushes updates and such automatically at night when computer/network usage is low, making it less expensive (again, saving money over power saved) than pushing the updates when people turn on their computers in the morning.
I turn most of my computers off at home and work because I hate wasting the power, and I have a problem with my home PC keeping the fan on in sleep mode. On my laptop I put it in sleep mode, plugged into the wall. I have no idea how much power this uses, but I do it so that I get a quick restart in the morning for checking slashdot @ breakfast. It bothers me that I might be wasting a few dollars per month keeping it in sleep rather than hibernate (which doesn't work on my machine - Ubuntu on a IBM T30) or full shutdown.
You can always* switch to a competitive ISP, with the associated startup fees. Those fees can add up to 10s or 100s of dollars.
*may not apply if you live in a rural area, or if there is only one high speed internet ISP
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/04/022257 is a discussion very recently about software piracy at the Beijing office of a company. While the location is different, the responses are quite similar. Basically, document your actions in writing, and be prepared to leave if the situation doesn't improve.
It is not modded +5 because many folks with mod points, myself included, choose to mod only registered and logged-in users. Why promote the asshattery of anonymous joking instead of saving mod points for deserving logged in users? Don't feed the ACs.
Wind is not abundant everywhere. Sure, it gets windy almost everywhere on the globe at some point during the year, but it doesn't blow hard enough, frequently enough, in most places to make wind installations viable.
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps.asp
If you take the state of Connecticut, for example. The wind blows hardest in the Spring and Fall with frontal storms and you can have days when it blows 15 - 25 knots or more. But the coastline is protected by Long Island, New York, which means the wind blows 50 miles away, hits land and then gets deflected upward. So even though we have lots of coastline, it is rarely windy enough to turn a turbine. 100 miles away on Cape Cod, they have all the wind they need (excluding Ted Kennedy) to build a huge wind farm.
Florida is another great example. It is rarely windy there except in the winter time. This is due to the temperature of the water being very close to the temperature on land, so it is usually windy there when storms roll through. They do, of course, have the advantage of having lots of sun, so solar is more viable.
I like that. Another simple solution is OpenDNS.org - just change the DNS settings on your router, set up an account (even using a proxy email is fine) and turn whichever filtering options you want. I use it at home and find OpenDNS is very quick, and the filter works remarkably well. Some things occasionally slip through, but by and large I can't get to improper content without trying really really hard. It also disables proxies.
I don't know if it exists for DSLRs, but I have some software I load onto my Canon SD1100is called CDHK. It allows me to do all kinds of things that don't exist in the standard software load for this camera. I have been experimenting with long shutter exposures - the standard camera has 15 second shutter speed. CDHK gives me up to 64 second shutter speeds. The difference was not much, but it allowed the star tracks from a nighttime shot to be more pronounced.
It also allows things like custom battery meters, histograms etc. Basically I was thinking of it *exactly* like DD-WRT for my home router. In fact, if it wasn't for my experience with DD-WRT I would have never tried CDHK, mostly out of distrust that any firmware could be low risk to my "expensive" hardware.
Agreed. And to all my Indian and Pakistani friends, please understand what deodorant is for. You may shower each day to remove the smell of curry, but it doesn't help @ 2pm or 6pm if you don't use deodorant. You will still smell rather badly of body odor, and it is not only annoying but it is incredibly unproductive. It is sometimes hard enough to get our business partners to join us for meetings, but it makes it that much harder when they don't want to come because our department smell of BO.
Thank you,
The Management.
You are Sofa King We Todd Did!
I have a former employee that fell asleep in my manager's office. She was overweight and had sleep apnea. The next day she had a Dr's appointment, and followup with the sleep lab, where they figured out she was getting something like 30 minutes of sleep per night because her neck fat was cutting off her air supply.
Anyway I have seen people sleeping at their desks, and a quick shake you can see the ones that were drooling by the quick, instinctive mouth wipe. Yuck - if they only knew how dirty their desks were! Those people got fired, the first lady got short term disability (paid leave)
I played a lot of the Portal add-ons, which are available for free, and they are quite variable in quality. However there is one that is something like 47 levels of goodness and is every bit as professional as the original game. It is based on Flash Portal (can't link to it from work now anyway).
So this is my one data point that freely available content, developed using a robust structure, can be just as good as the commercial stuff. My only investment was $20 for Portal and a few cents downloading the add-on.
Pacific Daylight time. This is 5 pm Eastern Daylight time for those of us on the wrong coast.
Is anyone surprised that the chavs and yobs running around with knives are powerful, and the defenseless British public are scared and powerless? This is exactly what happens when the criminals lack fear because the British people have been completely disarmed. What is a person supposed to do now against someone who has a knife? Ask politely for them to stop?
While the timing of this article, and response, is very poor given the two horrendous gun crimes yesterday and today, perhaps it is time to revisit the anti-weapon stance that has gripped England since the Scottish school massacre. Take away the guns, then only criminals will have them. Outlaw knives, and only criminals have them. Outlaw video games next?
Then what will happen to the urine recycling program where the astronauts drink their own pee? Then we'd have to start sending more water into orbit with them.
I think what happened to your original recordings is similar to what happened to many of us. We recorded from the radio onto cassette or even reel-to-reel and found that the quality of the recording was very low compared to either what came straight off the radio or from the purchased album.
I have a few cassette tapes still lying around and am amazed that I even liked listening to the thing - compared with a 64kbps MP3 they sound horrible. Oh how I would have dreamed of 128kbps MP3s! ;-)
It wasn't a preference for sounds, it was a preference of convenience. I remember my first CD player like it was yesterday, bought by my parents for me in 1986. We were so impressed in the following features (some of which didn't turn out to be true):
1. Scratchless, hissless and popless (um, yeah)
2. Convenient forward and backward track skipping
3. Not having to get up and flip the record/tape over (my Full Moon Fever album by Tom Petty has a built-in pause on the CD in fairness to those record/cassette owners who need time to flip the album)
4. Repeat the whole album
5. Size compared to vinyl
6. Shiny!
I said it wasn't a preference for sound, but that isn't quite true. All of my cassettes and many of my albums had hisses and pops, accumlated over many playings. The various analog filters that came with decent components at the time made a dent, but not compared to the clean, crisp sound we first heard on CDs. It wasn't until much later that we discovered what was missing from the CD sound.
And yet if that sheet music arrived with a bent corner, you can bet you (or perhaps more likely another one of their customers) would have gone ballistic on either UPS or Amazon for poor packaging.
I agree that they overpack things, but given that most packages are shipped by weight and not volume, the only things they need to worry about are a) damage and b) packaging materials expense - which tend to run in opposite directions. I am sure there is a formula that can be applied to find the most optimal materials expense vs. damage, and they have probably figured it out already.
I get mod points all the time, to the point that they get really annoying. I don't know the formula but I think it is related to current karma (currently Excellent), recent posting activity and any resulting moderations, plus metamoderation activity.
Since the switch to the firehouse-like metamoderation I haven't done it lately. And yet I am still getting moderator points every week or so. Sometimes it is only 5 if I have been inactive or acting rather trollish, but most of the time it is 15. I have 9 unused points right now.
Agreed. However for *small* companies, the health of an individual can have a significant effect on what they will pay for premiums. While it is currently illegal to prohibit someone from coverage for a preexisting condition if they have prior coverage (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - HIPAA), and it is not appropriate to ask a potential intervieweee about health concerns, you can bet a small business owner would be rightfully concerned about who they hire. They aren't supposed to do it, and most (?all?) companies large enough to have an HR department won't do it, but there may be the few employers out there who will. If you had 6 employees and wanted to hire a 7th, would you hire that person if you knew they would be responsible for doubling your insurance premiums? It might be illegal and the risk of getting sued is pretty high, but that doesn't mean some business owner doesn't still have huge motivation to do so!
Agreed - keep your online profile and professional profile as separated as you can. I just did a Google search on my online email and my personal/job hunting email and found there wasn't anything tasty. In fact when doing a more wide open search on my given name, I found it is the same as a socialist nutjob from England and some politician from Barbados so the results are all confounded anyway.
The concept of the null value should have been patented. If so, it would have validated that patents in software can be a good thing by stopping the destructive spread of bad ideas in the same way they stop the spread of good ones.
Either that, or whoever invented the concept would be far richer than Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Ballmer combined!
Not at all. That they used capital "J" in the title is misleading. It wasn't until I read the summary that I figured it out. Very confusing to say the least, and a good lesson that proper capitalization is important!