At 400$ a kindle, laptops start to look a little more attractive, especially with emerging tech like color eink and olpc's use of eink in screens to lengthen their battery life. I would love to buy a kindle, but its not cost-effective for me, and better products seem right around the corner.
Ya, my first question would be why they haven't made a movie yet. I don't care if it's starcraft, warcraft, or diablo, I'd drool over it just the same.
Actually 50% +/- 1 are below the median. You could have a Poisson or exponential distribution, in which extreme outliers drag the average one way or another. Therefore, you could have a lot of reasonable people and a few extremely stupid ones, or vice-versa. Ah, sorry for nit-picking. I've just been staring at too many math papers. : P
Meh, I'd be careful about pirate-ware if I were you. Some of that stuff comes with nasty trojans and rootkits that are nigh impossible to uninstall. I'd rather shell out 100-200$ for a clean OS than risk that stuff running around on my system. Then again, I'd rather run linux than shell out 100-200$ for cripple-ware : ).
Ya, with 9.10 I have sound issues that I'm still unable to resolve. In a bout of tinkering I attempted to run dpkgreconfigure just for kicks. On reboot I lost my keyboard and mouse! No sound is a mild annoyance to not being able to access homework who's due date is in a few days. So, after a few more hours of fiddling and forum digging, I figured out that the udev (thing that loads hardware like the mouse and keyboard) could no longer locate a key configuration file. Ya, apparently a newer version of dpkgreconfigure decided to delete said file and not recreate it. I have no sound but I can do work. So, I really do sympathize with your paranoia that some update or fiddling might torch your system.
Yes, you are correct, I was typing a bit fast and got the two a little mixed up. Thing is, consider an musician's dilemma. In order to make a sustainable living they either had to play live and hopefully make enough money to offset costs or team up with a label and distribute their product. Now they can write something up, hop on the internet, and send it out to the world. My whole issue with this is that people who are already at the top have the monetary resources to develop an online distribution service which their customers and clients alike would enjoy. Unfortunately, because this requires an upfront investment in research and may not have as wide profit margins that justify their already ludicrous salary, they whine about it. They're so used to being the gatekeepers of *distribution that they expect customers to come to them instead of trying to reach the customers. So with this, asshats like the aforementioned ceo bother me. : /
Though not specifically a technology, DNF is definitely one of my favorite failures. What other product has managed to keep fan boys clinging on to the dear hope that it will be released one day, only to be let down and tantalized with a tech demo the following year. If Vista was a train wreck, DNF was the barren wasteland of Mars where no life formed. Even now, after being shut down, it still taunts users with a rather recent trailer of partial game play. All I can say is: Hail to the king baby!
' Why? Because people 'feel entitled' to have what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it for free, 'they'll steal it.'
I do think there's an entitlement problem. I just think it's the other way around. You have these old dinosaurs of the industry who've been the gate keepers of media production for so long, they don't know how to react to a little competition. Think about it; some guys are probably out there running a torrent site at a loss, while using ad revenue to stay afloat. Meanwhile, these guys are sitting on the actual copies to the media don't even bother because 1) it will compete with their existing revenue model and 2) it's probably harder to justify 20-30$ to resell movie when your marginal costs are ~0$. Thing is, these guys will either have to take control of the distribution and make a profit of it, or someone else will.
That's probably a non-issue. Google, for legal reasons, only scans books they're permitted to, or whose copyrights have expired or been abandoned. (legal decision pending though). There are plenty of existing books, that if a publisher decided to be spiteful would amount to less than 1% of what is currently available to google and most works are now done via the computer so there would be an electronic copy somewhere. Google's pipe dream has been to organize the world's information. Therefore, if a group didn't want their work floating around on the internet or for scanning, there are plenty of practical and legal methods for doing so.
Hmmm for me it was Ned, Robb, Robert, Drogo (despite being a bloodthirsty barbarian, he likeable enough), Catelyn (though she comes back I think), Renly, and that's all I have for now. It's not just that these characters die, but in their deaths they take with them the hope for a more optimistic future. Ned and Robert die leaving a shattered kingdom. Renly and Robb die, leaving the unlikeable characters left in line for control. Drogo dies leaving Daenerys with a splinter of her newly attained community, after losing her family. Any time there's a buildup of prosperity or happiness, you can be pretty sure it will be damned a few chapters down the line. Hence the formula: create, rape, and kill likeable character. And since the writer does such a good job in making the rapers and killers unlikeable, I find it hard to dredge up interests or empathy to continue reading their story; when it's repeated, even more so.
Ya, I like the story and all, but I find myself just stopping for long periods of time because the characters I liked died off. Killing off a character works well a few times, but when it's done consistently, I find it hard to emotionally invest in the characters.
I dunno, I always thought news served many purposes. The primary would be advertising, the original was to use it as a political platform, and a third might be to inform the public about general happenings in the world (i.e. a projected drought or disaster two towns over.) I think some of these will persist, even with the demise of newspapers, mostly because they serve people's interests. Advertisers would probably migrate to google news, political pundits will still air their grievances of the current party, and locals might just make smaller rags to discuss what's happening in their own town.
Just use a black hole to redo it until it's successful. Unless it was successful the first time and didn't need a full reboot. Seriously, why did we need to erase everything that happened again? At least the kirk from the other movies always fixes the timeline.
Ah, but that in itself is a paradox. If the movie is successful among the general public and critics, it will be dissected by the fans and deemed mediocre at best for not adhering to some nebulous metric of 'faithfulness' to the original. If it is successful to the fans, it will invariably contain contain all of the eccentricities that made it more cerebral, thus leaving out any action sequences: e.g. diplomatic missions and descriptions of non-existent fantasy tech. The only reason we haven't been consumed by a singularity is because a natural space-time bubble has formed around these two groups, keeping them separate from one another. They live in their own universes, where one group Kirk vs Picard, and another enjoys pretty explosions. And, I think we can all agree, this division is for the best. Otherwise we'd be inanely arguing forever about... *shoom*...
On the other side of existence, the Great Prophet Zarquon approaches a mic:
'Er, how are we for time? Have I just got a min-'
And so the Universe ended.
Ya but consider that an ebook is an electronic copy. I'm sure an enterprising engineering student would just figure out a way to hack the system and distribute the books for free. If they do extract the files too, they could even setup a torrent.
If you're using a CRT with you're notebook, you're doing it wrong...
I believe a main competitor to kindle, as the GP hinted at, would be the laptop or eepc machines, where decent portable computers are hitting the 300$ mark, ~10 hours battery life, color screen, and other functionalities. If the battery life were a bit better and the design fleshed out, a decent laptop could render the kindle obsolete if marketed correctly.
Your computer is infected by a rootkit that dumps payloads on your system?
Sadly, this is my case where I have randomly named files on my system that I just cannot remove short of reinstalling the OS.
However, giving the extent of viruses, who's to say that you placed the content on your computer or even knew it was there.
Meh, tell your friend to try out one of logitech's revolution mice. Those things are so damn nice to use: ergonomic, laser, wireless, with a scroll wheel that can continue spinning. Seriously, apple's (old) insistence on a one-button mouse and introduction of the 'puck', I just haven't bothered to look to apple for a mouse device.
Hmm... do you use linux for your gaming/graphics needs? I've only had headaches when I've been futzing around with ATI cards on one of my linux boxes. Configuring them sometimes requires a bit of xorg.conf knowledge and it never seemed to perform as well compared to running on a windows machine. Nvidia, however, tends to have good linux support, thus teaching me a lesson about buying a gfx card for a particular os. Even if they're more expensive, I'd rather shell out the extra 50$ for some decent firmware support than get something which sometimes works.
Ah, but then, what if the universe is infinite in size and the energy is finite. Then it is possible for the energy to be spread so thinly that it appears to be lost.
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At 400$ a kindle, laptops start to look a little more attractive, especially with emerging tech like color eink and olpc's use of eink in screens to lengthen their battery life. I would love to buy a kindle, but its not cost-effective for me, and better products seem right around the corner.
Now nerds can communicate with girls in a structured manner.
.....
Just Imagine:
*** Start power point presentation ***
Slide 1:
Objective - To go out on date
Slide 2:
Reasons -
- Have money
- Provide intelligent conversation
- Will Listen
Slide 3:
Places -
- Movies
- Beach
'Hey wait, where are you going?'
*** End power point presentation ***
Ya, my first question would be why they haven't made a movie yet. I don't care if it's starcraft, warcraft, or diablo, I'd drool over it just the same.
Actually 50% +/- 1 are below the median. You could have a Poisson or exponential distribution, in which extreme outliers drag the average one way or another. Therefore, you could have a lot of reasonable people and a few extremely stupid ones, or vice-versa. Ah, sorry for nit-picking. I've just been staring at too many math papers. : P
The kids probably buddhist. He'll just respawn later in the red light district. Of course he'll have to re-level his character to make up for lost XP.
Meh, I'd be careful about pirate-ware if I were you. Some of that stuff comes with nasty trojans and rootkits that are nigh impossible to uninstall. I'd rather shell out 100-200$ for a clean OS than risk that stuff running around on my system. Then again, I'd rather run linux than shell out 100-200$ for cripple-ware : ).
They were on a diet. It's the first recorded case of bulimia. But boy, they sure did taste good.
Ya, with 9.10 I have sound issues that I'm still unable to resolve. In a bout of tinkering I attempted to run dpkgreconfigure just for kicks. On reboot I lost my keyboard and mouse! No sound is a mild annoyance to not being able to access homework who's due date is in a few days. So, after a few more hours of fiddling and forum digging, I figured out that the udev (thing that loads hardware like the mouse and keyboard) could no longer locate a key configuration file. Ya, apparently a newer version of dpkgreconfigure decided to delete said file and not recreate it. I have no sound but I can do work. So, I really do sympathize with your paranoia that some update or fiddling might torch your system.
Yes, you are correct, I was typing a bit fast and got the two a little mixed up. Thing is, consider an musician's dilemma. In order to make a sustainable living they either had to play live and hopefully make enough money to offset costs or team up with a label and distribute their product. Now they can write something up, hop on the internet, and send it out to the world. My whole issue with this is that people who are already at the top have the monetary resources to develop an online distribution service which their customers and clients alike would enjoy. Unfortunately, because this requires an upfront investment in research and may not have as wide profit margins that justify their already ludicrous salary, they whine about it. They're so used to being the gatekeepers of *distribution that they expect customers to come to them instead of trying to reach the customers. So with this, asshats like the aforementioned ceo bother me. : /
Though not specifically a technology, DNF is definitely one of my favorite failures. What other product has managed to keep fan boys clinging on to the dear hope that it will be released one day, only to be let down and tantalized with a tech demo the following year. If Vista was a train wreck, DNF was the barren wasteland of Mars where no life formed. Even now, after being shut down, it still taunts users with a rather recent trailer of partial game play. All I can say is: Hail to the king baby!
' Why? Because people 'feel entitled' to have what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it for free, 'they'll steal it.'
I do think there's an entitlement problem. I just think it's the other way around. You have these old dinosaurs of the industry who've been the gate keepers of media production for so long, they don't know how to react to a little competition. Think about it; some guys are probably out there running a torrent site at a loss, while using ad revenue to stay afloat. Meanwhile, these guys are sitting on the actual copies to the media don't even bother because 1) it will compete with their existing revenue model and 2) it's probably harder to justify 20-30$ to resell movie when your marginal costs are ~0$. Thing is, these guys will either have to take control of the distribution and make a profit of it, or someone else will.
From what I've seen ala google:images Uizard, it appears to be a gui for creating web guis, so another dreamweaver I guess.
That's probably a non-issue. Google, for legal reasons, only scans books they're permitted to, or whose copyrights have expired or been abandoned. (legal decision pending though). There are plenty of existing books, that if a publisher decided to be spiteful would amount to less than 1% of what is currently available to google and most works are now done via the computer so there would be an electronic copy somewhere. Google's pipe dream has been to organize the world's information. Therefore, if a group didn't want their work floating around on the internet or for scanning, there are plenty of practical and legal methods for doing so.
Hmmm for me it was Ned, Robb, Robert, Drogo (despite being a bloodthirsty barbarian, he likeable enough), Catelyn (though she comes back I think), Renly, and that's all I have for now. It's not just that these characters die, but in their deaths they take with them the hope for a more optimistic future. Ned and Robert die leaving a shattered kingdom. Renly and Robb die, leaving the unlikeable characters left in line for control. Drogo dies leaving Daenerys with a splinter of her newly attained community, after losing her family. Any time there's a buildup of prosperity or happiness, you can be pretty sure it will be damned a few chapters down the line. Hence the formula: create, rape, and kill likeable character. And since the writer does such a good job in making the rapers and killers unlikeable, I find it hard to dredge up interests or empathy to continue reading their story; when it's repeated, even more so.
Ya, I like the story and all, but I find myself just stopping for long periods of time because the characters I liked died off. Killing off a character works well a few times, but when it's done consistently, I find it hard to emotionally invest in the characters.
And yet the funny/sad thing is, they would seem less crafty if they didn't.
I dunno, I always thought news served many purposes. The primary would be advertising, the original was to use it as a political platform, and a third might be to inform the public about general happenings in the world (i.e. a projected drought or disaster two towns over.) I think some of these will persist, even with the demise of newspapers, mostly because they serve people's interests. Advertisers would probably migrate to google news, political pundits will still air their grievances of the current party, and locals might just make smaller rags to discuss what's happening in their own town.
Just use a black hole to redo it until it's successful. Unless it was successful the first time and didn't need a full reboot. Seriously, why did we need to erase everything that happened again? At least the kirk from the other movies always fixes the timeline.
Ah, but that in itself is a paradox. If the movie is successful among the general public and critics, it will be dissected by the fans and deemed mediocre at best for not adhering to some nebulous metric of 'faithfulness' to the original. If it is successful to the fans, it will invariably contain contain all of the eccentricities that made it more cerebral, thus leaving out any action sequences: e.g. diplomatic missions and descriptions of non-existent fantasy tech. The only reason we haven't been consumed by a singularity is because a natural space-time bubble has formed around these two groups, keeping them separate from one another. They live in their own universes, where one group Kirk vs Picard, and another enjoys pretty explosions. And, I think we can all agree, this division is for the best. Otherwise we'd be inanely arguing forever about ... *shoom*...
On the other side of existence, the Great Prophet Zarquon approaches a mic:
'Er, how are we for time? Have I just got a min-'
And so the Universe ended.
Ya but consider that an ebook is an electronic copy. I'm sure an enterprising engineering student would just figure out a way to hack the system and distribute the books for free. If they do extract the files too, they could even setup a torrent.
If you're using a CRT with you're notebook, you're doing it wrong...
I believe a main competitor to kindle, as the GP hinted at, would be the laptop or eepc machines, where decent portable computers are hitting the 300$ mark, ~10 hours battery life, color screen, and other functionalities. If the battery life were a bit better and the design fleshed out, a decent laptop could render the kindle obsolete if marketed correctly.
There goes my fan fiction of hot Bombadil on Worf action.
Your computer is infected by a rootkit that dumps payloads on your system?
Sadly, this is my case where I have randomly named files on my system that I just cannot remove short of reinstalling the OS.
However, giving the extent of viruses, who's to say that you placed the content on your computer or even knew it was there.
Meh, tell your friend to try out one of logitech's revolution mice. Those things are so damn nice to use: ergonomic, laser, wireless, with a scroll wheel that can continue spinning. Seriously, apple's (old) insistence on a one-button mouse and introduction of the 'puck', I just haven't bothered to look to apple for a mouse device.
Hmm ... do you use linux for your gaming/graphics needs? I've only had headaches when I've been futzing around with ATI cards on one of my linux boxes. Configuring them sometimes requires a bit of xorg.conf knowledge and it never seemed to perform as well compared to running on a windows machine. Nvidia, however, tends to have good linux support, thus teaching me a lesson about buying a gfx card for a particular os. Even if they're more expensive, I'd rather shell out the extra 50$ for some decent firmware support than get something which sometimes works.
Ah, but then, what if the universe is infinite in size and the energy is finite. Then it is possible for the energy to be spread so thinly that it appears to be lost.