In college, our lecture sizes were so large that personal interaction was out the window. It was just a guy at a whiteboard talking at us. A video would be actually BETTER, as you can pause, rewind, and watch it at your convenience. Even better, it could use better graphics than our professor's scribblings and include more content (examples) than lecture time would allow for.
Maxim
For the record, I skipped lectures and just read the books. The teachers wanted to do research, not teach, so they sucked at it.
Of course, if I could remember the acronym correctly, it'd make me look a lot less like a nimrod. A lot less tasty, though. Mmm...peta bread...I mean, pita bread! (:
The seeds of crappiness were already showing in Firefly: Heart of Gold, anyone? If Serenity is any guide, I'm thrilled Firefly ended abruptly.
That's always been a strength of a lot of anime and a fair amount of BBC programming: it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. They don't try and string it out for as long as possible. The ones that do suffer the same fate as US shows.
I read an interview with the producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation season six, and she said that they had the ep they were shooting, one they had pretty much written, and some basic ideas for the next one and that was how they went through the whole season. I don't like Start Trek anyways, but any show would have trouble being of high quality under those circumstances.
I've found the series weak frequently, but there was enough to keep me limping along until the "series finale" they had a while ago. That was so horrible that it killed any interest I had in SG-1 and, frankly, has kept me from even giving Atlantis a chance (not that I would say ill of it, since I haven't watched it).
Radios that play CDs of mp3s are pretty good and you can get them now. If they only played DVDs full of mp3s, it'd be all I'd really need. I just don't drive around that much. Obviously an mp3 player built into a standard radio form factor is the easiest solution: why do I want to have to hook up my ipod every time I get in the damn car? That's just annoying. I guess synching is the only downside. Wifi?
My wife is the marketing manager of a ski resort and she gets uber spam. She swears by Cloudmark as well.
I personally get almost no spam...and I'm not quite sure why as I don't do anything to try and filter/avoid it. I suppose once it happens I'll have to set something up. At least those damn telemarketers are history. Now we need to nail the non-profit callers.
You liked Serenity? It betrayed everything Firefly was about: not saving the world (or worlds), not being uber-heros. And it had a lot of stuff that was simply dumb! The guy with the sword being the poster-child. The characterization was super-thin, which is another reason a save-the-world plot shouldn't have been done: not enough time to do both.
This is what I want: Scifi based on the old west as portrayed in Deadwood! Now you'd be talking!
The big dig is simply an ill-conceived use of resources. In another 10-20 years, the traffic will overwhelm the improvements again. Investing that massively in the city's public transportation infrastructure (including parking garages at the city limits) and limiting the number of cars would've been a much wiser overall investment, IMHO.
Not where I live! I live in a ski town with its own micro-climate and the forcast is terrible here. Timing is the biggest thing they're wrong on, being early or late on temp changes or precipiation by a couple of days in either direction.
In the middle of building my own house while trying to live in it. This makes it tough. Besides, I'm prone to absentmindedly carrying things around with me and leaving them places I'd never think to look again (tools mostly).
I just want 15 foot range cheap RFID tags so I can tag everything I ever want to find again with a unique ID. A detector with left and right LEDs would be enough. To never again go insane trying to find my glasses, car keys, books, or remote (to say nothing of losing tools outside) would be huge.
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One major drawback for handcapped or elderly users: you have to stay standing up while you use it. That's a stamina issue for
a lot of such users.
Just goes to show what I've always said: you can hurt yourself with just about anything if you're a bloody idiot.
In college, our lecture sizes were so large that personal interaction was out the window. It was just a guy at a whiteboard talking at us. A video would be actually BETTER, as you can pause, rewind, and watch it at your convenience. Even better, it could use better graphics than our professor's scribblings and include more content (examples) than lecture time would allow for.
Maxim
For the record, I skipped lectures and just read the books. The teachers wanted to do research, not teach, so they sucked at it.
Of course, if I could remember the acronym correctly, it'd make me look a lot less like a nimrod.
A lot less tasty, though. Mmm...peta bread...I mean, pita bread! (:
>> 98% of members of the Libertarian party have NO CLUE what the party's platform really advocates.
I find that's true of PITA supporters as well. All the ones I know own pets! Ah, the humanity (i.e. stupidity).
Perhaps a cloned John Holmes?
The seeds of crappiness were already showing in Firefly: Heart of Gold, anyone?
If Serenity is any guide, I'm thrilled Firefly ended abruptly.
That's always been a strength of a lot of anime and a fair amount of BBC programming:
it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. They don't try and string it out for as long as
possible. The ones that do suffer the same fate as US shows.
I read an interview with the producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation season six,
and she said that they had the ep they were shooting, one they had pretty much written,
and some basic ideas for the next one and that was how they went through the whole
season. I don't like Start Trek anyways, but any show would have trouble being of high
quality under those circumstances.
Always leave 'em wanting more, right?
Maxim
I've found the series weak frequently, but there was enough to keep me limping along until the "series finale" they had a while ago. That was so horrible that it killed any interest I had in SG-1 and, frankly, has kept me from even giving Atlantis a chance (not that I would say ill of it, since I haven't watched it).
Maxim
Amen!
Radios that play CDs of mp3s are pretty good and you can get them now. If
they only played DVDs full of mp3s, it'd be all I'd really need. I just don't drive
around that much. Obviously an mp3 player built into a standard radio
form factor is the easiest solution: why do I want to have to hook up my
ipod every time I get in the damn car? That's just annoying. I guess synching
is the only downside. Wifi?
Maxim
My wife is the marketing manager of a ski resort and she gets uber spam. She swears by Cloudmark as well.
I personally get almost no spam...and I'm not quite sure why as I don't do anything to try and filter/avoid it. I suppose once
it happens I'll have to set something up. At least those damn telemarketers are history. Now we need to nail the non-profit
callers.
Maxim
You liked Serenity? It betrayed everything Firefly was about: not saving the world (or worlds), not being uber-heros.
And it had a lot of stuff that was simply dumb! The guy with the sword being the poster-child. The characterization
was super-thin, which is another reason a save-the-world plot shouldn't have been done: not enough time to
do both.
This is what I want: Scifi based on the old west as portrayed in Deadwood! Now you'd be talking!
Maxim
Perfect example: two crappy sequals.
The big dig is simply an ill-conceived use of resources. In another 10-20 years, the traffic will overwhelm the improvements again. Investing that massively in the city's public transportation infrastructure (including parking garages at the city limits) and limiting the number of cars would've been a much wiser overall investment, IMHO.
Maxim
Your laptop comment dovetails nicely with your swiss army analogy. Above a certain size, a leatherman kicks a swiss army knife's ass.
Maxim
On the timescales they're discussing the 1572 sighting was "last year"!
And selling booze, cigarettes, or guns to little kids is allowed right now? Did you actually think about what I wrote before responding?
Maxim
And the war on drugs, of course. Try to treat a public health problem as a criminal one! Great plan.
When you have unrealistic and unenforceable controls, you lose the real control more measured approaches could yield.
Maxim
More than that! I'm retired and my wife's still working, so I get affordable health insurance through her!
Maxim
Not where I live! I live in a ski town with its own micro-climate and the forcast is terrible here.
Timing is the biggest thing they're wrong on, being early or late on temp changes or precipiation
by a couple of days in either direction.
Maxim
My model seems to makes things harder for me to find, not easier. (:
In the middle of building my own house while trying to live in it. This makes it tough.
Besides, I'm prone to absentmindedly carrying things around with me and leaving
them places I'd never think to look again (tools mostly).
I just want 15 foot range cheap RFID tags so I can tag everything I ever want to find again with a
unique ID. A detector with left and right LEDs would be enough. To never again go insane trying
to find my glasses, car keys, books, or remote (to say nothing of losing tools outside) would be huge.
Maxim
Since apple just switched to intel, I wouldn't be so fast to discount it just yet!
Having coded an awful lot of time-critical assembly routines, I can say c is definitely not low-level! Mid-level
probably describes it pretty well.
Maxim