Perhaps you should (1) not serve dinner on your desk or (2) put the laptop away when eating with kids. Rumor has it children need supervision beyond the occasional glance away from Slashdot.
I misread the end of your second stanza as "real parents" and thought it an apt judgment of the current state of education. Forgive my tangency to the topic at hand. I nearly failed first grade math. While the schools must teach to the majority of students (teaching to tests for NCLB aside), the real problem lies in teacher factories. University students who lack direction are coaxed into acquiring teaching certificates, studying old methods taught by experienced educators who push a number of more or less homogeneous youths through the same curriculum yearly. Children will neither catch up nor get ahead due to the efforts of teachers and educational bureaucracies. It takes interested and concerned parents to make the real difference. By second grade, after one summer of my father persistently encouraging me to practice and learn arithmetic, I was able to catch up to the curriculum. Parents are the only teachers who truly understand each pupil.
With truly complex separation of checks I print one check for the table, ask the customers to assign each of their parties a number at the bottom of the check (for example, pardon my formatting, "blue visa 1, red visa 2, discover 3, cash 4, cash 5"), and then write the appropriate number by each item. Everything left unnumbered is split among all of them. I never had objections from customers and was always tipped fairly when I used that method.
I would settle for a -1 for having the opportunity to post my concerns with the state of the web browsing and website design in an on-topic article. Facebook, while decent when its features were limited and its membership was exclusive, has turned into a tool to obfuscate any useful information with a collection of shared time-wasters. Facebook's evolution drove me back to email lists. Email clients' cobbled-together HTML and rich text support made me a proponent of plain text email - how many gallons of fossil fuels are burned for the extra transmission overhead of a multi-line signature file with images whose primary payload is "Think of the forests being cut down around the world before printing email unnecessarily"?
The current design model for websites seems to be interested in generating the most unique hits rather than generating the most return hits; the target audience is the segment of the population which has been trained to flip channels, spend a moment to look at something shiny, and move on to the next shiny thing.
"Web 2.0" seems to be nothing more than a non-stop assault of useless animations, personalized/targeted advertisements, and automatically-loading and starting background music to make up for poorly-organized sites. Animated.gif banners, despite often being gaudy, were not so offensive as scripts that scour for statistical data about me to offer localized advertisements. The addition of new, non-standardized software to each user's browser is the worst way to embrace "The Cloud"; it focuses on style alone while only marginally catering to the needs of companies and their clients. Silverlight will see some adoption by Linux users who cannot bear to browse the internet without clicking monkeys to win iPods. I doubt it would hit even that level of popularity before its current audience becomes so fed up with its more obnoxious aspects. The process of understanding Silverlight will be akin to that of installing Flash: 1) Install Silverlight/Moonlight to be amazed by a few useful applications 2) Install advertisement blocking add-on to avoid the droves of awful applications 3) Tweak blocking black/white-lists until Silverlight loses its appeal 4) Remove Silverlight/Moonlight
On the fringe out here I'll stick to elinks where I can get a majority of my information while avoiding information overload.
A trademark holder asked Microsoft to enforce their trademark on "definitely", forcing your Office-based spell checker to auto-magically replace instances with intentional misspellings. The fact that you are hooked on phonics and oblivious to some of the more subtle aspects of DRM does not indicate an absence of DRM.
RAID and a Pentium M would require lugging a laptop in place of an iPod. I reckon your Pentium M wouldn't run out of power decoding high resolution, high sampling frequency FLAC files but current portable music players with processors optimized for audio playback do clip and lag on high quality audio.
PCM is not limited to some arbitrarily low sampling frequency or resolution. Regarding 48 bits, can your ADC chips really pick up 2x10^14 distinct amplitudes? Can your ears?
One decent argument for switching back to WAV is the simplicity of handling uncompressed data. No complicated transforms are calculated because uncompressed signals need not be decoded; simple, energy efficient processors can play back WAV using less power than complex, optimized routines on advanced hardware would use to play back FLAC.
Think of integrated Intel chipsets as a decently stable 2d and 3d rendering platform for normal workstation use rather than direct competitors to power-sucking gaming cards. Comparing an onboard chipset in a desktop computer to a plug-in video card is really an apples and oranges issue. Video cards have processors that are great at doing one thing, while Intel's graphics chipsets are ok at forcing a CPU to do one thing it was never really designed to do.
If moving, rotating, and resizing photos is your primary responsibility this technology may be useful. It is still just an extension of "touch" interfaces. I love new technology but I'd take a numerical keypad any day over a touch screen to enter my PIN at an ATM; old, reliable tech is more dependable in real-world applications than new, interesting tech.
+1 Insightful -1 Funny I recently completed an HVAC/Plumbing design project with a dozen distinct areas of work spread across a dozen sheets only to have it canceled, reincarnated as a "limited" project with only two of the original areas of work, then expanded to have all but one of the original requirements. The people doing work rarely know and even more rarely need to know exactly what their clients have in mind; it may cause a few hours to be billed for work re-done, but far more hours (at more dollars per hour) would be wasted if a project manager/supervisor had to describe in detail that project's requirements.
How about the implications for composting? Last time I checked, agricultural waste takes either a lot of time or a lot of work to break down enough to use beneficially in perfectly good dirt. If any vegetable matter can be processed like this, we will need to rework our waste management infrastructure just to haul our rotten fruit to the factory for processing. Mulch and compost are cheap but heavy fuel.
Also, a few months ago[...]So I entered my PIN and[...]I can't believe that neither the ATM machine manufacturer[...]
Don't you mean you entered your PIN number? It would only be fitting that you entered your personal identification number number to use the automatic teller machine machine.
I could imagine Microsoft, or any company for that matter, charging more for the privilege to rent software in what may seem, to the renter, like an arbitrary fashion. They could terminate your contract if you let your brother remote in to use Word or if you let your wife/husband/partner/children/stepchildren/etc. use Excel. Why should I, a single guy, pay the same for a license to use software I occasionally use as a family of holy-rolling breeders pays for software used by their biblically-named children to write book reports for their creationism classes? These situations seem similar to a landlord telling you he or she wants more rent, that he dislikes your taking 40 minute showers while paying a flat monthly rate for water, that he doesn't want your fifteen cousins packed like sardines into your place on their way to the American Dream (TM). These situations can lead to the renegotiation or termination of renting contracts out in the real world. It would be a shame, but feasible, that such things could happen in the digital realm.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps you should
(1) not serve dinner on your desk
or
(2) put the laptop away when eating with kids.
Rumor has it children need supervision beyond the occasional glance away from Slashdot.
I misread the end of your second stanza as "real parents" and thought it an apt judgment of the current state of education. Forgive my tangency to the topic at hand. I nearly failed first grade math. While the schools must teach to the majority of students (teaching to tests for NCLB aside), the real problem lies in teacher factories. University students who lack direction are coaxed into acquiring teaching certificates, studying old methods taught by experienced educators who push a number of more or less homogeneous youths through the same curriculum yearly. Children will neither catch up nor get ahead due to the efforts of teachers and educational bureaucracies. It takes interested and concerned parents to make the real difference. By second grade, after one summer of my father persistently encouraging me to practice and learn arithmetic, I was able to catch up to the curriculum. Parents are the only teachers who truly understand each pupil.
With truly complex separation of checks I print one check for the table, ask the customers to assign each of their parties a number at the bottom of the check (for example, pardon my formatting, "blue visa 1, red visa 2, discover 3, cash 4, cash 5"), and then write the appropriate number by each item. Everything left unnumbered is split among all of them. I never had objections from customers and was always tipped fairly when I used that method.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
http://answers.com/then
http://answers.com/than
Cheers,
Ryan
Regarding your use of "noticed", I think the word nearest your intention would be "notify" rather than "tell".
Cheers,
Ryan
I would settle for a -1 for having the opportunity to post my concerns with the state of the web browsing and website design in an on-topic article.
Facebook, while decent when its features were limited and its membership was exclusive, has turned into a tool to obfuscate any useful information with a collection of shared time-wasters. Facebook's evolution drove me back to email lists.
Email clients' cobbled-together HTML and rich text support made me a proponent of plain text email - how many gallons of fossil fuels are burned for the extra transmission overhead of a multi-line signature file with images whose primary payload is "Think of the forests being cut down around the world before printing email unnecessarily"?
The current design model for websites seems to be interested in generating the most unique hits rather than generating the most return hits; the target audience is the segment of the population which has been trained to flip channels, spend a moment to look at something shiny, and move on to the next shiny thing.
"Web 2.0" seems to be nothing more than a non-stop assault of useless animations, personalized/targeted advertisements, and automatically-loading and starting background music to make up for poorly-organized sites. Animated .gif banners, despite often being gaudy, were not so offensive as scripts that scour for statistical data about me to offer localized advertisements. The addition of new, non-standardized software to each user's browser is the worst way to embrace "The Cloud"; it focuses on style alone while only marginally catering to the needs of companies and their clients.
Silverlight will see some adoption by Linux users who cannot bear to browse the internet without clicking monkeys to win iPods. I doubt it would hit even that level of popularity before its current audience becomes so fed up with its more obnoxious aspects. The process of understanding Silverlight will be akin to that of installing Flash:
1) Install Silverlight/Moonlight to be amazed by a few useful applications
2) Install advertisement blocking add-on to avoid the droves of awful applications
3) Tweak blocking black/white-lists until Silverlight loses its appeal
4) Remove Silverlight/Moonlight
On the fringe out here I'll stick to elinks where I can get a majority of my information while avoiding information overload.
A trademark holder asked Microsoft to enforce their trademark on "definitely", forcing your Office-based spell checker to auto-magically replace instances with intentional misspellings. The fact that you are hooked on phonics and oblivious to some of the more subtle aspects of DRM does not indicate an absence of DRM.
585M should be enough for anyone
RAID and a Pentium M would require lugging a laptop in place of an iPod. I reckon your Pentium M wouldn't run out of power decoding high resolution, high sampling frequency FLAC files but current portable music players with processors optimized for audio playback do clip and lag on high quality audio.
PCM is not limited to some arbitrarily low sampling frequency or resolution. Regarding 48 bits, can your ADC chips really pick up 2x10^14 distinct amplitudes? Can your ears?
One decent argument for switching back to WAV is the simplicity of handling uncompressed data. No complicated transforms are calculated because uncompressed signals need not be decoded; simple, energy efficient processors can play back WAV using less power than complex, optimized routines on advanced hardware would use to play back FLAC.
If you can't beat 'em, hack 'em.
The parent poster stated clearly that he or she was installing on an Intel-based mac. I didn't even have to RTFA to catch that part.
Dirt is at least twice as old as a Pentium 4. Come back when you have 286 results.
I do not have a +1 funny point or I would give it to you. Well done.
Think of integrated Intel chipsets as a decently stable 2d and 3d rendering platform for normal workstation use rather than direct competitors to power-sucking gaming cards. Comparing an onboard chipset in a desktop computer to a plug-in video card is really an apples and oranges issue. Video cards have processors that are great at doing one thing, while Intel's graphics chipsets are ok at forcing a CPU to do one thing it was never really designed to do.
19 year old jeans are now called "vintage" and wearing old stuff is stylish. Well played, sir.
O'Reilly: Patry on Copyright
Patry: Party on O'Reilly
If moving, rotating, and resizing photos is your primary responsibility this technology may be useful. It is still just an extension of "touch" interfaces. I love new technology but I'd take a numerical keypad any day over a touch screen to enter my PIN at an ATM; old, reliable tech is more dependable in real-world applications than new, interesting tech.
I've used only three guides to LaTeX to get along with it so far. The first two are free to download, and the third is a book by the father of LaTeX:
1)The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2?
2)User's Guide for the amsmath Package (Version 2.0)
3)LaTeX: A Document Preparation System
+1 Insightful
-1 Funny
I recently completed an HVAC/Plumbing design project with a dozen distinct areas of work spread across a dozen sheets only to have it canceled, reincarnated as a "limited" project with only two of the original areas of work, then expanded to have all but one of the original requirements.
The people doing work rarely know and even more rarely need to know exactly what their clients have in mind; it may cause a few hours to be billed for work re-done, but far more hours (at more dollars per hour) would be wasted if a project manager/supervisor had to describe in detail that project's requirements.
How about the implications for composting? Last time I checked, agricultural waste takes either a lot of time or a lot of work to break down enough to use beneficially in perfectly good dirt. If any vegetable matter can be processed like this, we will need to rework our waste management infrastructure just to haul our rotten fruit to the factory for processing. Mulch and compost are cheap but heavy fuel.
Also, a few months ago[...]So I entered my PIN and[...]I can't believe that neither the ATM machine manufacturer[...]
Don't you mean you entered your PIN number? It would only be fitting that you entered your personal identification number number to use the automatic teller machine machine.
What fun is a radical comment without a little trolling?
Thanks for filling me in on the terms of service.
Cheers,
Ryan
I could imagine Microsoft, or any company for that matter, charging more for the privilege to rent software in what may seem, to the renter, like an arbitrary fashion. They could terminate your contract if you let your brother remote in to use Word or if you let your wife/husband/partner/children/stepchildren/etc. use Excel. Why should I, a single guy, pay the same for a license to use software I occasionally use as a family of holy-rolling breeders pays for software used by their biblically-named children to write book reports for their creationism classes?
These situations seem similar to a landlord telling you he or she wants more rent, that he dislikes your taking 40 minute showers while paying a flat monthly rate for water, that he doesn't want your fifteen cousins packed like sardines into your place on their way to the American Dream (TM). These situations can lead to the renegotiation or termination of renting contracts out in the real world. It would be a shame, but feasible, that such things could happen in the digital realm.