I'm hoping that the iWife has a setting that prevents her from becoming an iBitch when I get home late after doing that iStuff, forcing me to later visit an iStripper and drink some iBeer.
This is a clear path to make a lot of money to fund other research. And possibly the easiest path to pursue in this line, as far as safety and testing go. It's a stepping stone.
I agree, too much up and down movement. Probably the best match would be a recumbent bike with attached keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Bikes make much less noise than a treadmill also.
If any company were to actually do this, I think it would have to have them in a separate room from the regular cubes. Then they would need a way to allow anyone who comes along use them instead of having them set up for an individual person. Maybe use remote desktop or something like that. A lot of workers would need a phone also, possibly a wireless headset could do the trick.
These people would still be missing out on the best reason that I go to my gym... the scenery. Rows of hot women who would never give me the time of day running in front of me. That's motivation.
I think the starting point for the next generation of programmers is the web. Namely HTML and JavaScript.
I got my start in programming using BASIC for the C64. I eventually wrote a few simple which way games along the lines of Zork, but with multiple choice of what to do instead of guessing. It also did random number generation for combat and tracked hit points. I was in about 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
So, what I'm saying is that the same kind of thing could be done by kids today using a web browser and some JavaScript. There are tons of samples to get them started. The samples are not usually articles written in a way that kids would really understand though. What they need is a tutorial that would guide them, in a way that they can understand, to write a simple game in the web browser.
This new article made me take a look at cbs.com and while there I noticed that Bob Barker is retiring after 35 years of The Price is Right, possibly the greatest gameshow ever. It's a sad day.
That game was a lot of fun. You could get a Beetle, station wagon, the hearse, or a sports car to drive around. Then it seems like there were add ons for each car that I don't remember what they did.
IE has a feature where it passes the username of an authenticated user on the network if you're in the same domain. This is a great feature for internal apps that I have not seen anyone duplicate with Firefox. Saves a ton of support calls.
Last time I checked, high schools do not have jails. Maybe the principal pointed his finger at this kid, but it's the police who were dumb enough to believe him without doing the proper investigation.
I know that at least one higher level programming language can make use of multiple processors relatively easily for web applications..Net has a relatively easy way to make web garden base applications.
If they can ever put legal issues behind them, SED should be first to market by maybe a couple of years, at least at larger sizes anyway. In that time the cost of manufacturing SEDs could be greatly reduced and it could take even longer for OLED to gain popularity. However, eventually OLED should win, since it is just better technology, but it will take a good number of years for it to happen.
I'm hoping they put full Top Gear episodes on there, there have been some good ones. My favorites are the Ariel Atom ("so fast it will destroy your face!"), Evo vs. Gallardo, F1 vs. street cars, and there are a few others I can't think of. That guy who does the reviews just cracks me up.
The problem with the record companies giving away music is that often people assume that they are getting what they pay for. In other words, if the music is free then people assume that it sucks.
However, if the record companies charge regular price for the music and there is an easy way for people to get the music for free then they will feel like they are pulling one over on the record companies. I think its kind of a union of rebels mentality.
The current problem is that once enough people have gotten it for free, and the music becomes popular, the record companies then take notice that people are getting it for free.
The record companies need to come up with a way to get people to take music for free even though they are charging for it from another location or in another format. Then once it becomes popular the record companies will want to take it away, like with a DRM scheme where songs work for free for a limited amount of time.
Now trouble comes in when people start to notice that DRM sucks, for reasons that I'm sure you are all aware of. Maybe if new songs from unknown artists were released in mp3 format for a limited amount of time, with a tag of the original downloaders name embedded in the file. Of course, that's very easy to get around, just modify the file to have a different name embedded in it.
In short, I have no idea what they should do, but DRM isn't it.
Apple deserves to be sued for this, just because it was so obvious. Hell, I could have told them that. The best part for me was seeing Steve Jobs up on stage talking about how they will actively enforce all of their patents, then a day later they are sued for an obvious trademark infringement.
Like it or not, Bill Gates is a kind of figurehead that people look to for opinions on everything technology related. Mostly because he has made the most money with computer products. I feel better about his opinion than an actor, even if it is not as good as a true expert in a field, he may at least be able to give a broad overview and a slightly educated opinion.
That's true the way it is currently. But they have been moving into using the GPU's power for folding also. It seems like they could make it use both the CPU and the GPU if they updated the software like that.
Since Windows XP doesn't suck as much as the previous versions of Windows that users were dying to get rid of there will not be that much excitement about it.
Don't give them any ideas. I would bet that as HDTV equipment becomes cheaper and everything is broadcast in HD you will start to see your old standard def shows appearing with some extra crap in the sidebars.
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I'm hoping that the iWife has a setting that prevents her from becoming an iBitch when I get home late after doing that iStuff, forcing me to later visit an iStripper and drink some iBeer.
They could always remake Buck Rogers too.
This is a clear path to make a lot of money to fund other research. And possibly the easiest path to pursue in this line, as far as safety and testing go. It's a stepping stone.
I agree, too much up and down movement. Probably the best match would be a recumbent bike with attached keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Bikes make much less noise than a treadmill also.
If any company were to actually do this, I think it would have to have them in a separate room from the regular cubes. Then they would need a way to allow anyone who comes along use them instead of having them set up for an individual person. Maybe use remote desktop or something like that. A lot of workers would need a phone also, possibly a wireless headset could do the trick.
These people would still be missing out on the best reason that I go to my gym... the scenery. Rows of hot women who would never give me the time of day running in front of me. That's motivation.
I think the starting point for the next generation of programmers is the web. Namely HTML and JavaScript.
I got my start in programming using BASIC for the C64. I eventually wrote a few simple which way games along the lines of Zork, but with multiple choice of what to do instead of guessing. It also did random number generation for combat and tracked hit points. I was in about 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
So, what I'm saying is that the same kind of thing could be done by kids today using a web browser and some JavaScript. There are tons of samples to get them started. The samples are not usually articles written in a way that kids would really understand though. What they need is a tutorial that would guide them, in a way that they can understand, to write a simple game in the web browser.
This new article made me take a look at cbs.com and while there I noticed that Bob Barker is retiring after 35 years of The Price is Right, possibly the greatest gameshow ever. It's a sad day.
That game was a lot of fun. You could get a Beetle, station wagon, the hearse, or a sports car to drive around. Then it seems like there were add ons for each car that I don't remember what they did.
IE has a feature where it passes the username of an authenticated user on the network if you're in the same domain. This is a great feature for internal apps that I have not seen anyone duplicate with Firefox. Saves a ton of support calls.
Last time I checked, high schools do not have jails. Maybe the principal pointed his finger at this kid, but it's the police who were dumb enough to believe him without doing the proper investigation.
I know that at least one higher level programming language can make use of multiple processors relatively easily for web applications. .Net has a relatively easy way to make web garden base applications.
Itanic. That's all I have to say about that.
If they can ever put legal issues behind them, SED should be first to market by maybe a couple of years, at least at larger sizes anyway. In that time the cost of manufacturing SEDs could be greatly reduced and it could take even longer for OLED to gain popularity. However, eventually OLED should win, since it is just better technology, but it will take a good number of years for it to happen.
We've seen what happens when someone's bioport gets infected, it completely destroys your gamepod.
I'm hoping they put full Top Gear episodes on there, there have been some good ones. My favorites are the Ariel Atom ("so fast it will destroy your face!"), Evo vs. Gallardo, F1 vs. street cars, and there are a few others I can't think of. That guy who does the reviews just cracks me up.
The problem with the record companies giving away music is that often people assume that they are getting what they pay for. In other words, if the music is free then people assume that it sucks.
However, if the record companies charge regular price for the music and there is an easy way for people to get the music for free then they will feel like they are pulling one over on the record companies. I think its kind of a union of rebels mentality.
The current problem is that once enough people have gotten it for free, and the music becomes popular, the record companies then take notice that people are getting it for free.
The record companies need to come up with a way to get people to take music for free even though they are charging for it from another location or in another format. Then once it becomes popular the record companies will want to take it away, like with a DRM scheme where songs work for free for a limited amount of time.
Now trouble comes in when people start to notice that DRM sucks, for reasons that I'm sure you are all aware of. Maybe if new songs from unknown artists were released in mp3 format for a limited amount of time, with a tag of the original downloaders name embedded in the file. Of course, that's very easy to get around, just modify the file to have a different name embedded in it.
In short, I have no idea what they should do, but DRM isn't it.
$1 coins would never work for them.
...that you think will never actually happen, but it does. While the ones that seem possible don't (flying cars, etc.).
Apple deserves to be sued for this, just because it was so obvious. Hell, I could have told them that. The best part for me was seeing Steve Jobs up on stage talking about how they will actively enforce all of their patents, then a day later they are sued for an obvious trademark infringement.
Like it or not, Bill Gates is a kind of figurehead that people look to for opinions on everything technology related. Mostly because he has made the most money with computer products. I feel better about his opinion than an actor, even if it is not as good as a true expert in a field, he may at least be able to give a broad overview and a slightly educated opinion.
That's true the way it is currently. But they have been moving into using the GPU's power for folding also. It seems like they could make it use both the CPU and the GPU if they updated the software like that.
I would bet that Folding@home could be made to use all of the PS3's power.
Now I'll be able to see pictures of the earth and it will be almost like I'm there!
Since Windows XP doesn't suck as much as the previous versions of Windows that users were dying to get rid of there will not be that much excitement about it.
Don't give them any ideas. I would bet that as HDTV equipment becomes cheaper and everything is broadcast in HD you will start to see your old standard def shows appearing with some extra crap in the sidebars.