http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=standard Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
What makes [or should make] something standard is the wide acceptance from the population. And after all, that is a standard. As an example (trying not to flamebait) Microsoft could try to standaraize his.DOC format, but if people wont use it, it wont be a standard (it wont matter if it is an ISO-XXXX standard). Of course, now,.DOC is a kind of document standard.
And no, I am in now way affiliated with the seller, just the first link after a search.
I bought one similar to this player (512 MB model) and It is pretty good. Personally I wont go for an IPod because I think it is big, mine has a good size and uses a AAA battery (I have 4 AAA rechargable batteries, so because I use it almost 7 hours a day...). And it is quite relaiable, and it gives me like 10 hours with 1 battery. (that is 2 days of use).
It also connects to the computer and all that.
The only downside I could think of, is the sound quality, but anyway, i bought a pair of Sony headphones and it sounds pretty well, I use 128kbps mp3 so as you can see I dont care a lot about the sound details, it sounds pretty well.
Oh, and also that "Built in FM radio", no I dont use radio so I really dont need it, and they could add some extra features.
From TFA:...huge storage capacities thanks to the advances of ATRAC3plus. The NW-E403, NW-E405 and NW-E407 feature 256MB, 512MB and 1GB of storage space respectively... mmm thats not kinda Huge, come on! I just bought a 512 MB small mp3 player on Ebay, and you can buy 1GB player for GBP 70 (like $132 USD)... and they play raw mp3...
So because these new Sony players does not have anything GREAT new feature they just fall in the really big set of the-others-that-are-not-iPods list of players.
Now, this story and the article itself can be funny but the idea is quite interesting. After reading the article, everything seems in place, it can be stated that the paper has new knowlege, so it can be stated as computer genereated knowledge, after all new knowledge is (generally) combination of old knowledge with some new ideas.
It may be right or wrong knowledge but, after reading this paper someone could think of a new idea. Just maybe about a new approach to attack some problem.
I think it is pretty cool, although I may be biased because I am doing an AI PhD, but anyway it seems interesting.
Man, for what I could see, this First East group have some good chicks! even, if you enter to their homepage you can go to the girls homepage and see some pictures.
For me, the most important value of WIkipedia is that I can find a simple explaniation of any subject I need to know. For example, recently I had to learn about some terms in economics (specifically about derivatives) and after wandering in some sites about economics that tried to explain that, I really could not understand all the terms, then I searched in Wikipedia and it was really easy to understand.
Another point is that Wikipedia articles usually have links to other sites so it is easy to do a dive to get more information about the subject.
And the 3rd and one of the most important things is that the web pages are CLEAN. You see, in this era of bLinking-images-MMflash-powered-embeded-video-WebP ages I really enjoy going to pages like Wikipedia and Google which interface is really clean and allow you to focus in what you want to read.
They might have moded your comment Funny but I totally agree with you, it would be interesting to see the "artists" the RIAA backup, come on, if the mayority of those artists are things like Britney spears then it is really crap what they are giving, it is not music. I myself listen to European music (mostly German and Finnish metal) and of course I dont buy all that RIAA music bullshit.
I would love to see Mr./Miss Joe/Jane SixPack starts buying real music...
In my country, when a lot of people dont like what a company is doing we usually go for strike, that (sort of) is what people must do! just stop from buying ANYTHING that is backed up by RIAA and start buying groups that are not related to it...
Hey, now, this is how/. editors should do their work! 3 stories joined (coherently) togheter about the same subject! way to go. This way I like reading slashdot and, well, telling friends abot this website =o)
Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills).
MMmm.. I think they mistaken the use of the "X"... and also the example... FWIK X replaces CKS as is SUX for SUCKS and FUX FOR FUCKS...
Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left uncorrected
Lol so then everyone has something of 1337 inside him...
Leet words of concern or indicating possible illegal activity:
"warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
"h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a malicious computer hacker does.
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.
hehe... come on... I am sure that most |
Well, I had great fun reading that page... maybe it is useful for someone...
It surely does, but I for example have a 40 GB ogg/mp3 music collection which gets bigger all the time.
Now, I am not to fanatical about music to care for each of the different sounds in my files, for me OGG v5 or mp3 320VBR is quite good but, there is people who only likes 100% Lossless FLAC codec or the like, If I had my music collection in this format god... I think I would need like 2 or 3 orf your 80 GB drives (ok ok, it is/. 40GB x 10 (mp3 have ~1/10 compression ratio) = 400 GB so this is like 5 80GB drives yikes... it is quite a lot no?).
I know my example is somewhat extreme but, there are uses for that space, with new technologies coming to the desktop (like virtualization, enough multimedia processing power, high definition media streaming, etc etc etc...) it won't be a bad guess to say 80 GB will not be enough in some years.
Yikes... my alzheimer is attacking again... my other reason to prefer the non-mechanical technology is of course seek and access times. With Flash cards it is almost 0!!
Nowadays it is possible to buy a 4GB Flash Card for £254.95 approx, I am not sure but, I would thank anyone who could tell me what was the price of a 250 MB HDD when it first appeared in the market? or the or even before, the fabulous 20 MB HD?
If I am right, it is possible to make an installation of Windows (ok ok, and Linux) in one of those 4GB memory cards, and use some space for the swap.
I could not agree with you now. In fact, I am waiting for the time to come when we can SecureDigital media disks (or any other Flash Memory) as a mass storage medium.
Personally I think the mechanical equipment used by current HDDs is kind of old and obsolete, come on!, in this all electronic age how can we be using this 60-or more)-year-old-mechanical devices?? also, they are noisy and really big.
Well, it could be but, since i started to read about the Hotmail's 250 MB offer I got a bit happy, but, nope, i still had those miserable 4 MB... now I know why:
" 250MB inbox available only in the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Eligible Hotmail users will first receive 25MB at sign-up. Please allow at least 30 days for activation of your 250MB storage to verify your e-mail account and help prevent abuse. Microsoft Corporation reserves the right to provide 250MB inbox to free Hotmail accounts at its discretion"
So... nope Hotmail service is FAAAR faaaar FAAAAAAAAAR from getting my attention again... as I have the fortune not to live in the USed
WTF, they publish this thing (i know it is funny) and they have just REJECTED my story about google increase in space (2GB) and Rich text format new features...
Cool! I guess that is not NEWS FOR NERDS... and really does not MATTERS....
Well, people said the same when Microsoft entered the console market with the X-box... and, to the webmail market... and btw, their webmail is also an "unmitigated disaster" and a lof of people likes it, also X-box is an time bomb, and a lot of people likes it, you see, United States citizens are known from other countries to have a use-and-throw culture so it does not mather that something is shitty as long as there is a new version within next 1 or 2 years, its okey! at the end It is cool to have the last bleeding-edge [your-favorite-tech] it does not mather that your older one works JUST FINE!!.
Well, personally I think Windows BSOD was replaced with those anoying "Program Crashed please send feedback to us" window...
I, sometime took the time to try to send the report to Microsoft, lol after some 15 minutes trying to I just threw it and IIRC the darn think also crashed...
I am not saying Linux does not crash... One of the first things I see when entering a Linux distro and opening Knoqueror or aonther app is the pretty looking bomb with a message telling me "CORE DUMP YOU FRIGGING LOSER!!". Now, I know its not Linux fault but the fault of some X or Y program, but anyway I just wanted to mention it.
But personally, I would rather pay more for food knowing that Americans are being employed, and illegal immigration isn't being encouraged.
And here is where you fail, these companies wont expend more to know that americans are being employed.
You see, here at Mexico there are really intelligent and capable people. Unfortunatley we dont have the same salaries that you have, but thats what triggered outsorcing in the first place. Indian engineers work for $5 hour while US engineers wont do it.
And, in the same way, there ARE jobs that US citizens wont to for a certain price, I think it is qute simple, for example the market specifies that a gardener should get $5 an hour, but, in US the only ones to do it may kids or teens.
I remember reading in another/. story about how someone complained being paid $5 hour for a job, and other told him that that was what her sister got for childcare.
Now, if you put that into a monthly payment it is like $5*8(hours a day)*5(days a week)*4(weeks a month) = 800 dollars monthly. Do you think it is low? well, guess what, I used to work as a software developer at a company in Mexico, well, they payed me like $600 a month (more or less, it was $6000 MXN on 2004). The company was from some US ppl, and well, guess what, they sell they software IN dollars, and pay people in Mexico in Pesos.
Now, I could bitch a lot about that (more than i have done already) but, let me tell you, I think their idea is great, because, I was just out of the University, and I got employed immediatly (because of my programming skills) and for Mexico's standards $6000 MXN is a good monthly fee, if you live alone (or better in you moms house.) it is because of that that I dont care and i hope they are employing more graduates (and some undergraduates for what I know).
Well, those are my 2 cents, I just wanted to show the other side of the coin. What pisses me off are comments like "you see, there are intelligent people in x or y place" come on, lets just see the picture of the average Joe US citizen, and as another poster wrote, where do you think MIT ppl come frome?? maybe not everyone are from 3rd world countries but, shurely they are not 70% US...
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=standard Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
.DOC format, but if people wont use it, it wont be a standard (it wont matter if it is an ISO-XXXX standard). Of course, now, .DOC is a kind of document standard.
What makes [or should make] something standard is the wide acceptance from the population. And after all, that is a standard. As an example (trying not to flamebait) Microsoft could try to standaraize his
1GB 1G MP3 Player WMA/REC/USB/Built-in FM.
And no, I am in now way affiliated with the seller, just the first link after a search.
I bought one similar to this player (512 MB model) and It is pretty good. Personally I wont go for an IPod because I think it is big, mine has a good size and uses a AAA battery (I have 4 AAA rechargable batteries, so because I use it almost 7 hours a day...). And it is quite relaiable, and it gives me like 10 hours with 1 battery. (that is 2 days of use).
It also connects to the computer and all that.
The only downside I could think of, is the sound quality, but anyway, i bought a pair of Sony headphones and it sounds pretty well, I use 128kbps mp3 so as you can see I dont care a lot about the sound details, it sounds pretty well.
Oh, and also that "Built in FM radio", no I dont use radio so I really dont need it, and they could add some extra features.
Yeah I agree
...huge storage capacities thanks to the advances of ATRAC3plus. The NW-E403, NW-E405 and NW-E407 feature 256MB, 512MB and 1GB of storage space respectively... mmm thats not kinda Huge, come on! I just bought a 512 MB small mp3 player on Ebay, and you can buy 1GB player for GBP 70 (like $132 USD)... and they play raw mp3...
From TFA:
So because these new Sony players does not have anything GREAT new feature they just fall in the really big set of the-others-that-are-not-iPods list of players.
Now, this story and the article itself can be funny but the idea is quite interesting. After reading the article, everything seems in place, it can be stated that the paper has new knowlege, so it can be stated as computer genereated knowledge, after all new knowledge is (generally) combination of old knowledge with some new ideas.
It may be right or wrong knowledge but, after reading this paper someone could think of a new idea. Just maybe about a new approach to attack some problem.
I think it is pretty cool, although I may be biased because I am doing an AI PhD, but anyway it seems interesting.
Oh holly Crap! and I am here breaking my ass to get one article accepted for the GTDT
IJCAI 05 workshop...
darn...
Man, for what I could see, this First East group have some good chicks! even, if you enter to their homepage you can go to the girls homepage and see some pictures.
I guess it has sense to create the Disco no? hehe
For me, the most important value of WIkipedia is that I can find a simple explaniation of any subject I need to know. For example, recently I had to learn about some terms in economics (specifically about derivatives) and after wandering in some sites about economics that tried to explain that, I really could not understand all the terms, then I searched in Wikipedia and it was really easy to understand.
P ages
Another point is that Wikipedia articles usually have links to other sites so it is easy to do a dive to get more information about the subject.
And the 3rd and one of the most important things is that the web pages are CLEAN. You see, in this era of bLinking-images-MMflash-powered-embeded-video-Web
I really enjoy going to pages like Wikipedia and Google which interface is really clean and allow you to focus in what you want to read.
They might have moded your comment Funny but I totally agree with you, it would be interesting to see the "artists" the RIAA backup, come on, if the mayority of those artists are things like Britney spears then it is really crap what they are giving, it is not music. I myself listen to European music (mostly German and Finnish metal) and of course I dont buy all that RIAA music bullshit.
I would love to see Mr./Miss Joe/Jane SixPack starts buying real music...
In my country, when a lot of people dont like what a company is doing we usually go for strike, that (sort of) is what people must do! just stop from buying ANYTHING that is backed up by RIAA and start buying groups that are not related to it...
lol After reading the title I said, WTH does DHL has to do with slashdot?? and Privacy?
Hey, now, this is how /. editors should do their work! 3 stories joined (coherently) togheter about the same subject! way to go. This way I like reading slashdot and, well, telling friends abot this website =o)
Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills).
... and also the example... FWIK X replaces CKS as is SUX for SUCKS and FUX FOR FUCKS...
MMmm.. I think they mistaken the use of the "X"
Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left uncorrected
Lol so then everyone has something of 1337 inside him...
Leet words of concern or indicating possible illegal activity:
"warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
"h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a malicious computer hacker does.
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.
hehe... come on... I am sure that most |
Well, I had great fun reading that page... maybe it is useful for someone...
My MP3 collection fits happily on my 20GB player.
/. 40GB x 10 (mp3 have ~1/10 compression ratio) = 400 GB so this is like 5 80GB drives yikes... it is quite a lot no?).
It surely does, but I for example have a 40 GB ogg/mp3 music collection which gets bigger all the time.
Now, I am not to fanatical about music to care for each of the different sounds in my files, for me OGG v5 or mp3 320VBR is quite good but, there is people who only likes 100% Lossless FLAC codec or the like, If I had my music collection in this format god... I think I would need like 2 or 3 orf your 80 GB drives (ok ok, it is
I know my example is somewhat extreme but, there are uses for that space, with new technologies coming to the desktop (like virtualization, enough multimedia processing power, high definition media streaming, etc etc etc...) it won't be a bad guess to say 80 GB will not be enough in some years.
Yikes... my alzheimer is attacking again ... my other reason to prefer the non-mechanical technology is of course seek and access times. With Flash cards it is almost 0!!
Nowadays it is possible to buy a 4GB Flash Card for £254.95 approx, I am not sure but, I would thank anyone who could tell me what was the price of a 250 MB HDD when it first appeared in the market? or the or even before, the fabulous 20 MB HD?
If I am right, it is possible to make an installation of Windows (ok ok, and Linux) in one of those 4GB memory cards, and use some space for the swap.
I could not agree with you now. In fact, I am waiting for the time to come when we can SecureDigital media disks (or any other Flash Memory) as a mass storage medium.
Personally I think the mechanical equipment used by current HDDs is kind of old and obsolete, come on!, in this all electronic age how can we be using this 60-or more)-year-old-mechanical devices?? also, they are noisy and really big.
Well, it could be but, since i started to read about the Hotmail's 250 MB offer I got a bit happy, but, nope, i still had those miserable 4 MB... now I know why:
... nope Hotmail service is FAAAR faaaar FAAAAAAAAAR from getting my attention again...
"
250MB inbox available only in the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Eligible Hotmail users will first receive 25MB at sign-up. Please allow at least 30 days for activation of your 250MB storage to verify your e-mail account and help prevent abuse. Microsoft Corporation reserves the right to provide 250MB inbox to free Hotmail accounts at its discretion"
So
as I have the fortune not to live in the USed
As I mentioned... I posted this before and the story was rejected... so why was my story rejected and this one not??? hm...
lol I can bet... but, they wont say "xtracto writes"
=oP
WTF, they publish this thing (i know it is funny) and they have just REJECTED my story about google increase in space (2GB) and Rich text format new features...
Cool! I guess that is not NEWS FOR NERDS... and really does not MATTERS....
Well, people said the same when Microsoft entered the console market with the X-box... and, to the webmail market... and btw, their webmail is also an "unmitigated disaster" and a lof of people likes it, also X-box is an time bomb, and a lot of people likes it, you see, United States citizens are known from other countries to have a use-and-throw culture so it does not mather that something is shitty as long as there is a new version within next 1 or 2 years, its okey! at the end It is cool to have the last bleeding-edge [your-favorite-tech] it does not mather that your older one works JUST FINE!!.
man, I got really nervous when clicking your tinyurl link lol... i was affraid of the goatse...
well, somehow, slashdot or google manages to change the # witha %23... so:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch
Here is The working Google link
Well, personally I think Windows BSOD was replaced with those anoying "Program Crashed please send feedback to us" window...
I, sometime took the time to try to send the report to Microsoft, lol after some 15 minutes trying to I just threw it and IIRC the darn think also crashed...
I am not saying Linux does not crash... One of the first things I see when entering a Linux distro and opening Knoqueror or aonther app is the pretty looking bomb with a message telling me "CORE DUMP YOU FRIGGING LOSER!!". Now, I know its not Linux fault but the fault of some X or Y program, but anyway I just wanted to mention it.
But personally, I would rather pay more for food knowing that Americans are being employed, and illegal immigration isn't being encouraged.
/. story about how someone complained being paid $5 hour for a job, and other told him that that was what her sister got for childcare.
And here is where you fail, these companies wont expend more to know that americans are being employed.
You see, here at Mexico there are really intelligent and capable people. Unfortunatley we dont have the same salaries that you have, but thats what triggered outsorcing in the first place. Indian engineers work for $5 hour while US engineers wont do it.
And, in the same way, there ARE jobs that US citizens wont to for a certain price, I think it is qute simple, for example the market specifies that a gardener should get $5 an hour, but, in US the only ones to do it may kids or teens.
I remember reading in another
Now, if you put that into a monthly payment it is like $5*8(hours a day)*5(days a week)*4(weeks a month) = 800 dollars monthly. Do you think it is low? well, guess what, I used to work as a software developer at a company in Mexico, well, they payed me like $600 a month (more or less, it was $6000 MXN on 2004). The company was from some US ppl, and well, guess what, they sell they software IN dollars, and pay people in Mexico in Pesos.
Now, I could bitch a lot about that (more than i have done already) but, let me tell you, I think their idea is great, because, I was just out of the University, and I got employed immediatly (because of my programming skills) and for Mexico's standards $6000 MXN is a good monthly fee, if you live alone (or better in you moms house.) it is because of that that I dont care and i hope they are employing more graduates (and some undergraduates for what I know).
Well, those are my 2 cents, I just wanted to show the other side of the coin. What pisses me off are comments like "you see, there are intelligent people in x or y place" come on, lets just see the picture of the average Joe US citizen, and as another poster wrote, where do you think MIT ppl come frome?? maybe not everyone are from 3rd world countries but, shurely they are not 70% US...
Wow!
So this is a new standard:
Sixupe