This argument is just absurd. That's like saying if you rent a dvd, you should be able to give them money, but when you return the dvd, they should also return your money...
Maybe you just haven't seen how awesome HD quality can be on a good projector or TV. If you watch Apple Trailers in HD 1080 vs HD 480 (~dvd quality), you'll notice how much prettier it can be (it definitely shows on my Dell 24" LCD).
With cheap earphones or headsets, high quality and low quality music players are hard to distinguish. However, if you have a pair of Sennheiser, Etymotic, or Shure, you're realize how much more good music can be.
The opposite is true for music. Looking through my iTunes library, the vast majority of tracks have a play count of 50-80, making music rental services a very bad financial choice for me.
I don't see how your music playing contradicts the music rental service. A missing data point is how long it took you to get to a play count of 50-80.
One thing that differs from a music subscription service is there is no limit on how many songs you listen to a month (unlike your 30 movies a month limit which you set).
On the other hand, if you said you only find 3 new songs a month that you like, then it wouldn't be a financially good choice for you to subscribe to a music service when there's only $3.00 worth of songs you want to listen to.
Music subscription service, unlike current movie subscription services, don't have these arbitrary limits which force you to stop listening to songs after x number of songs a month. In fact they don't even bother deleting them off your drive because it says them bandwidth if there's songs that you listen to often.
Could it be the fact they don't have or want to set aside resources to support Linux. I mean, for those that want Linux, it's easy enough for them to install it. For those that don't, then they don't have to worry about supporting them. I think what the optimal solution is to be able to buy ThinkPads w/o any OS on it.
I mean, by allowing users to buy ThinkPads with Linux on it means if there's any problem, they'll have to support it (need it be drivers, or applications, or something that just doesn't work). IBM has a big linux support team, though Lenovo (a traditionally Windows laptop manufacturer) may not.
I'm curious if anyone knows the laptops that Dell sells with Redhat preloaded has any type of support. If I remember correctly, the support came directly from Redhat (not sure if Dell has to pay Redhat anything for this).
Anyway, my point here isn't that option isn't nice and Lenovo can even put a clause out there stating they won't trouble Linux, but in turn what happens if a buyer choses Linux because it saves him $100, and it turns out he's having problems up the gazoo. In that situation, Lenovo can only suggest the buyer to search for help online, find support through the OS company, or purchase Windows, none of which would make the customer happy.
I remember reading these books as a kid and would always have a stack of Post-Its (my form of bookmarks) because if I chose a bad path, I can always go back. In order to do that, I had to number these Post-Its. As you can imagine, sometimes I had 30+ Post-Its scattered through out the book.
One thing you want to make sure is to do a direct test and not through a router or a home network network. If I connected my computer directly to the cable modem, I see some speed boost. I'm guessing there's some hit that's being taken by going through the router.
Also, test on servers that aren't busy and it's best to choose a high speed server close to you (i.e. local university). I'm sure you're doing this already, but make sure nothing else is using the internet (close all applications that send packets online). Yes, that means you'll have to disconnect from AIM and close your email viewer.
Finally, you don't want to test upload and download simultaneously as they degrade each other. You also only want to test downloading directly from 1 server.
With this setup, you should find the current maximum d/l you can get.
Repeat with upload (but with upload, you don't need a server that can download fast).
A large molasses (treacle) tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 MPH (56 km/h), killing twenty-one and injuring 150 others.
The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (60 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft (200 kPa).
Google calculator shows: 35 miles = 56.32704 kilometers
That said I personally like the software as a service model less than the music model. At least with the music you are constantly getting new material for the monthly price where software is (more or less) just paying for the exact same thing again and again.
It depends on how it works. If paying $x/month gives me access to a suite of applications and new features and applications are constantly added, it'd be similar to the model.
There's also times I only have a need for a software once (i.e. I have an video file I want to edit, but don't want to pay $xxx for a software I'll hardly ever use). In these situations, I'd like to rent the software for a week or a month and pay only a few dollars.
so how does the OS distinguish between malware vs non-malware? If the user is dumb enough to click install w/o knowing fully what he/she is doing (about 90% of how all malwares are installed these days), in the end, what you have is a compromised system.
VirtualWiFi is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards. It abstracts a single WLAN card to appear as multiple virtual WLAN cards to the user. The user can then configure each virtual card to connect to a different wireless network. Therefore, VirtualWiFi allows a user to simultaneously connect his machine to multiple wireless networks using just one WLAN card. This new functionality introduced by VirtualWiFi enables many new applications, which were not possible earlier using a single WLAN card.
Maybe they can have both? Not going to suggest how they divide it up, but an allotment of the good seats will go as auctions, and the other allotment of good seats will go to those who were lucky and happened to be at the right place at the right time, or for those who waited 12 hours in line to get them.
however, for those who got cheap tickets, they must prefill their name(s) and when they appear at the concert, their id has to match the ticket. sort of like airplane tickets. you can't really buy airplane tickets for cheap and resell them because you happened to get an early bird ticket home for a holidy. that way, they can make more money through auctions (for those who have the money) and for fans who don't, they can still get them at cheap prices given that they are okay with waiting in long lines or got lucky and be willing to show your id at the entrance.
to remember never to post mirrors to 400meg or 800meg files when they think they're going to get slashdotted. those servers that were mirroring the video were litteraly hammered to the point of non-recognition. Even the edu server they had was trailing less than 10KB/sec.
you're mixing up 2 business models here. compare this to netflix and best buy. once you pay the monthly fee, get whatever movies you want, watch whenever you want with the thousands of selections they have, but the moment you stop paying, the movies you've seen before are no longer available to watch again. i'm not sure if many people would say that suddenly all the movies they've watched "disappeared" is disconcerting. netflix is a proven to work business model.
next compare it to best buy, where you buy the movies, you can watch that movie whenever you want no matter how many times and never have to pay again. this model also works.
i've always liked a hybrid of both business models, where I rent the movies people recommend or that I feel like watching. If I like it enough, I'll buy it and add it to my collection.
so now replace every instance of movies with music, every instance of best buy with itunes, every instance of netflix with urge/rhapsody/napster and every instance of watch with listen, and you should be able to see the same logic.
that's because the human already has an awesome anti-disease system installed. it's called the immune system. Windows' immune system is very lacking and that's why we needed external systems like antivirus and antispyware to help us fight off diseases.
It really depends on what your teaching. If you're teaching spelling/vocabulary and if writing is an essay to practice vocabulary, I agree totally that spell checkers are tools the prohibit learning. At this point, teachers should tell students to WRITE their essays and if they're typing, they should use school computers and software where spell checkers aren't enabled. But when one does start writing real essays in High School and College, the teachers/professors don't want to deal spelling mistakes. Should the teacher/professor take points away because of spelling mistakes, even though your ideas and essay deserves an A+ (sans spelling errors)?
As I mentioned in my previous post. It depends on what you're trying to teach. If you're trying to teach syntax and good coding guidelines, start with notepad. However, if you're trying to get into more advance areas where syntax and good coding guidelines are long gone, then an IDE is definitely useful.
You can argue that IDEs are memory resource hogs, but you can't argue that IDEs are a successful and great tool for programmers, new or old.
saving you can download it as an avi is somewhat misleading since avi is just a video container and can be used with practically any codec.
the formats that google video had and is supporting include gvp (google video player), mp4 (video ipod), and mp4 (sony psp). I'm not sure if the latter 2 mp4s are the same files, but I usually just get the video ipod mp4 and convert it to a format/codec that I prefer.
not saying what you said isn't insightful, but what you said is like saying people should type essays without a spell checker. honestly, you won't be able to use an IDE if you didn't know how to program. IDEs make it simpler by catching simple and common mistakes like forgetting to close your braces or missing an ending parenthesis. forgot which method it was called, no need to open the source code again, just have it display all the method names of the given class. it's not like the IDE will magically write code for you if you didn't know what you wanted.
using an IDE has nothing to do with learning debugging in my opinion. most IDEs themselves already contain great debugging tools, unless you're thinking about the non-GUI ones. at that point, it's just preference, both debuggers are just as powerful, one having advantages that the other doesn't, but also has disadvantages the other doesn't.
I agree when you first learn, notepad would be useful to teach skills, but by the time you get to even like emacs or vi, they already come with a bunch of tools like auto-ident and coloring (which is another thing that IDE supports). IDE makes life easier, and that's that. Just like a spell checker or autoformatting document. even with a spell checker and grammer checker, one still needs to double check for mistakes that the tools don't see. if you think a spell checker finds every problem, you're wrong. Just like those who have the same mentality of an IDE.
The only reason I could think of is people may be concerned if Wii's shell can actually house all that hardware. The Wii case is substantially smaller than the GC case. Though I don't particularily mind a bigger Wii casing, some people may.
I'm not an anatomist, but it might be the fact that facial structure might give enough information to estimate the tone and pitch. Obviously, you can add in random accents, but accents don't exactly change your tone / pitch that much. It also appears that body height is factor in determining tone.
I'll also be curious on how they fare when comparing with live demos. They say they experimented on Osama bin Laden's facial structure. It'd be interesting to see how that came out.
Slashdot Mirror
This argument is just absurd. That's like saying if you rent a dvd, you should be able to give them money, but when you return the dvd, they should also return your money...
Maybe you just haven't seen how awesome HD quality can be on a good projector or TV. If you watch Apple Trailers in HD 1080 vs HD 480 (~dvd quality), you'll notice how much prettier it can be (it definitely shows on my Dell 24" LCD).
With cheap earphones or headsets, high quality and low quality music players are hard to distinguish. However, if you have a pair of Sennheiser, Etymotic, or Shure, you're realize how much more good music can be.
The opposite is true for music. Looking through my iTunes library, the vast majority of tracks have a play count of 50-80, making music rental services a very bad financial choice for me.
I don't see how your music playing contradicts the music rental service. A missing data point is how long it took you to get to a play count of 50-80.
One thing that differs from a music subscription service is there is no limit on how many songs you listen to a month (unlike your 30 movies a month limit which you set).
On the other hand, if you said you only find 3 new songs a month that you like, then it wouldn't be a financially good choice for you to subscribe to a music service when there's only $3.00 worth of songs you want to listen to.
Music subscription service, unlike current movie subscription services, don't have these arbitrary limits which force you to stop listening to songs after x number of songs a month. In fact they don't even bother deleting them off your drive because it says them bandwidth if there's songs that you listen to often.
Could it be the fact they don't have or want to set aside resources to support Linux. I mean, for those that want Linux, it's easy enough for them to install it. For those that don't, then they don't have to worry about supporting them. I think what the optimal solution is to be able to buy ThinkPads w/o any OS on it.
I mean, by allowing users to buy ThinkPads with Linux on it means if there's any problem, they'll have to support it (need it be drivers, or applications, or something that just doesn't work). IBM has a big linux support team, though Lenovo (a traditionally Windows laptop manufacturer) may not.
I'm curious if anyone knows the laptops that Dell sells with Redhat preloaded has any type of support. If I remember correctly, the support came directly from Redhat (not sure if Dell has to pay Redhat anything for this).
Anyway, my point here isn't that option isn't nice and Lenovo can even put a clause out there stating they won't trouble Linux, but in turn what happens if a buyer choses Linux because it saves him $100, and it turns out he's having problems up the gazoo. In that situation, Lenovo can only suggest the buyer to search for help online, find support through the OS company, or purchase Windows, none of which would make the customer happy.
I remember reading these books as a kid and would always have a stack of Post-Its (my form of bookmarks) because if I chose a bad path, I can always go back. In order to do that, I had to number these Post-Its. As you can imagine, sometimes I had 30+ Post-Its scattered through out the book.
hehe. my point was within the same article, there's confliction information. someone should go and fix it. but I like your sigfig theory.
One thing you want to make sure is to do a direct test and not through a router or a home network network. If I connected my computer directly to the cable modem, I see some speed boost. I'm guessing there's some hit that's being taken by going through the router.
Also, test on servers that aren't busy and it's best to choose a high speed server close to you (i.e. local university). I'm sure you're doing this already, but make sure nothing else is using the internet (close all applications that send packets online). Yes, that means you'll have to disconnect from AIM and close your email viewer.
Finally, you don't want to test upload and download simultaneously as they degrade each other. You also only want to test downloading directly from 1 server.
With this setup, you should find the current maximum d/l you can get.
Repeat with upload (but with upload, you don't need a server that can download fast).
the conversions are quite hilarious in Wikipedia:
A large molasses (treacle) tank burst and a wave of molasses ran through the streets at an estimated 35 MPH (56 km/h), killing twenty-one and injuring 150 others.
The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35 mph (60 km/h) and exerting a pressure of 2 ton/ft (200 kPa).
Google calculator shows:
35 miles = 56.32704 kilometers
here's Ars Technica's review on it:4 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060407-655
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It depends on how it works. If paying $x/month gives me access to a suite of applications and new features and applications are constantly added, it'd be similar to the model.
There's also times I only have a need for a software once (i.e. I have an video file I want to edit, but don't want to pay $xxx for a software I'll hardly ever use). In these situations, I'd like to rent the software for a week or a month and pay only a few dollars.
so how does the OS distinguish between malware vs non-malware? If the user is dumb enough to click install w/o knowing fully what he/she is doing (about 90% of how all malwares are installed these days), in the end, what you have is a compromised system.
If I had to say, it sounds a lot more like Yahoo! Stores than PayPal:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/merchant/
probably maybe less fees.
http://research.microsoft.com/netres/projects/vir
Maybe they can have both? Not going to suggest how they divide it up, but an allotment of the good seats will go as auctions, and the other allotment of good seats will go to those who were lucky and happened to be at the right place at the right time, or for those who waited 12 hours in line to get them.
however, for those who got cheap tickets, they must prefill their name(s) and when they appear at the concert, their id has to match the ticket. sort of like airplane tickets. you can't really buy airplane tickets for cheap and resell them because you happened to get an early bird ticket home for a holidy. that way, they can make more money through auctions (for those who have the money) and for fans who don't, they can still get them at cheap prices given that they are okay with waiting in long lines or got lucky and be willing to show your id at the entrance.
to remember never to post mirrors to 400meg or 800meg files when they think they're going to get slashdotted. those servers that were mirroring the video were litteraly hammered to the point of non-recognition. Even the edu server they had was trailing less than 10KB/sec.
you're mixing up 2 business models here. compare this to netflix and best buy. once you pay the monthly fee, get whatever movies you want, watch whenever you want with the thousands of selections they have, but the moment you stop paying, the movies you've seen before are no longer available to watch again. i'm not sure if many people would say that suddenly all the movies they've watched "disappeared" is disconcerting. netflix is a proven to work business model.
next compare it to best buy, where you buy the movies, you can watch that movie whenever you want no matter how many times and never have to pay again. this model also works.
i've always liked a hybrid of both business models, where I rent the movies people recommend or that I feel like watching. If I like it enough, I'll buy it and add it to my collection.
so now replace every instance of movies with music, every instance of best buy with itunes, every instance of netflix with urge/rhapsody/napster and every instance of watch with listen, and you should be able to see the same logic.
that's because the human already has an awesome anti-disease system installed. it's called the immune system. Windows' immune system is very lacking and that's why we needed external systems like antivirus and antispyware to help us fight off diseases.
It really depends on what your teaching. If you're teaching spelling/vocabulary and if writing is an essay to practice vocabulary, I agree totally that spell checkers are tools the prohibit learning. At this point, teachers should tell students to WRITE their essays and if they're typing, they should use school computers and software where spell checkers aren't enabled. But when one does start writing real essays in High School and College, the teachers/professors don't want to deal spelling mistakes. Should the teacher/professor take points away because of spelling mistakes, even though your ideas and essay deserves an A+ (sans spelling errors)?
As I mentioned in my previous post. It depends on what you're trying to teach. If you're trying to teach syntax and good coding guidelines, start with notepad. However, if you're trying to get into more advance areas where syntax and good coding guidelines are long gone, then an IDE is definitely useful.
You can argue that IDEs are memory resource hogs, but you can't argue that IDEs are a successful and great tool for programmers, new or old.
saving you can download it as an avi is somewhat misleading since avi is just a video container and can be used with practically any codec.
the formats that google video had and is supporting include gvp (google video player), mp4 (video ipod), and mp4 (sony psp). I'm not sure if the latter 2 mp4s are the same files, but I usually just get the video ipod mp4 and convert it to a format/codec that I prefer.
These shows are soundboard quality (pretty much the best you can hope for in a "bootleg") and completely DRM.
think you meant DRM free, but good to know.
not saying what you said isn't insightful, but what you said is like saying people should type essays without a spell checker. honestly, you won't be able to use an IDE if you didn't know how to program. IDEs make it simpler by catching simple and common mistakes like forgetting to close your braces or missing an ending parenthesis. forgot which method it was called, no need to open the source code again, just have it display all the method names of the given class. it's not like the IDE will magically write code for you if you didn't know what you wanted.
using an IDE has nothing to do with learning debugging in my opinion. most IDEs themselves already contain great debugging tools, unless you're thinking about the non-GUI ones. at that point, it's just preference, both debuggers are just as powerful, one having advantages that the other doesn't, but also has disadvantages the other doesn't.
I agree when you first learn, notepad would be useful to teach skills, but by the time you get to even like emacs or vi, they already come with a bunch of tools like auto-ident and coloring (which is another thing that IDE supports). IDE makes life easier, and that's that. Just like a spell checker or autoformatting document. even with a spell checker and grammer checker, one still needs to double check for mistakes that the tools don't see. if you think a spell checker finds every problem, you're wrong. Just like those who have the same mentality of an IDE.
The only reason I could think of is people may be concerned if Wii's shell can actually house all that hardware. The Wii case is substantially smaller than the GC case. Though I don't particularily mind a bigger Wii casing, some people may.
I'm not an anatomist, but it might be the fact that facial structure might give enough information to estimate the tone and pitch. Obviously, you can add in random accents, but accents don't exactly change your tone / pitch that much. It also appears that body height is factor in determining tone.
I'll also be curious on how they fare when comparing with live demos. They say they experimented on Osama bin Laden's facial structure. It'd be interesting to see how that came out.