That video looks faked, or at least sped up. With all the network latency involved, there should be a slightly noticeable delay while new content loads, especially regarding the images.
I currently buy 2-3 season passes per year for shows that I really like. It's cheaper then cable, and better then dealing with an unreliable DVR that records commercials and sometimes clips the beginning / end of episodes. Rentals are a lot nicer because most shows I get I only watch once. I'm also less concerned about DRM when content is disposable as opposed to something that I own.
I was disappointed with Wave. About a year ago I spent a week trying to understand their source code because I wanted to use their data structures as a database and eventually build it into ObjectCloud. Their code was about 20,000 lines that essentially ran a text-based chat with no way to persist the data. I asked twice on their mailing list which interfaces I should plug into to persist the data, but I got no responses.
Basically, they tried to solve too many problems at once. If they just open-sourced a nice way to have concurrent data structures, it might have taken off; but the system for concurrent data structures was too difficult to understand or work with.
Google promoted Wave well, I remember sitting behind some Wave developers at Google shortly before they were going to show it off and they kept saying things like, "when everyone's using Wave..." Well, it takes a long time to build that kind of critical mass!
Until the "IBM PC" came along, most of us hooked our home computers to our televisions:
The early IBM PCs also could be hooked to TVs. For games, this was preferable because a lot of games exploited "bugs" in the NTSC encoding chip, thus allowing them to render more then 4 colors.
Well, it looks like it's designed to sit nicely next to the wireless keyboard. I'm going to buy one now, because I run my TV with a mac mini and using the mouse is kind of a chore. This will sit nicely in my lap.
This is easy to prove. What percentage of 3D film editors developed strombosis? Is it higher or lower then the national average? We shouldn't fear monger from a 15-year-old study when we can get real data today.
There is nothing in the linked article to suggest that the treatment was directly linked to her death
You're right; but you're missing the point: Randomly injecting stem cells throughout your body is not a miracle cure; and has heavy risks associated with it.
Write a lightweight desktop application that uses a browser component / rendering engine of your choice. Encourage your users to use this application when they hit areas that aren't cross-browser compatible.
Most web browsers offer the browser as a component that can be embedded into a traditional desktop application. For example, in C# /.Net, there is a WinForms web browser component that uses IE. (The same program will use Mozilla when run under Mono on Linux.)
I like your products, Microsoft...but I still abhor your business practices.
I get the impression this is a lack of oversight / management issue. Some lazy contractor or employee probably wrote the plugin, and QA and management didn't realize that's how the problem was fixed.
Data isn't like that. If the connection is present, it costs no more for the internet provider to transmit at maximum bandwidth versus transmitting nothing at all, for a given period of time. You might as well use it. The only limitation is bandwidth, since the "pipe" is only so big, so if everyone is trying to transmit/receive data at the same time, they're going to be limited as they have to share.
You're wrong. Radio spectrum is a finite resource; there's no more untapped frequencies. It follows the same economics of energy, which is constrained by how fast we can suck it out of the ground. Radio spectrum is constrained by how smartly we can divide it up.
If someone downloads tons of stuff during off-hours, making use of bandwidth that would otherwise go unused, this does not cost the company anything, nor does it inconvenience other customers.
Again, there's still more demand then the bandwidth can handle. What happens as soon as a bunch of people decide to batch up their less-time-sensitive stuff and send it at night? Then nighttime will become constrained. We're already seeing bandwidth peaks at night.
These kinds of plans have been tried before, and they always fail. Email is cheap, bandwidth-wise, and movies can be had from Netflix for less than the cost of the bandwidth used by the net.
What are you smoking??? Gasoline, Electricity, and (utility delivered) gas are all charged per-usage! Where I live, gas has a small monthly fee to keep up the pipes, but the vast majority of the bill is usage!
These kinds of plans work well when customers need an incentive to conserve, and everything I hear from the telcos is that they want us to conserve bandwidth because we use it as fast as they can build it.
Some early toasters didn't come with the traditional two-pronged plug. Instead, you had to unscrew a light bulb and screw in the toaster's plug. Why? Because the electric company charged more for general-purpose outlets! Prior to metered billing, people paid for electricity by the number of fixtures and their estimated electric use. Everything became sane once the electric companies introduced metered billing.
Anyway, AT&T's $20 / month tethering plan is just going to make me switch when my contract is up. Charge me for the bandwidth that I use, not for the device!
I just got back from Disney World. Every park has a fingerprint reader at the entrance because they have liberal in-and-out policies and they don't want many people walking in on the same ticket, or room key.
Frankly, considering the amount of cards and keys that I have to carry around, can we just make everything work on thumbprints?
What's odd is that the numbers constantly show that this generation is one of the most socially involved yet. They volunteer all the time. Do charity work. Involve themselves in causes in record numbers. Call their mothers. I guess it could be argued that in an increasingly competitve world all these things look great on a college application but that doesn't explain why college kids keep doing these things. I doubt any social service really helps in the employment fields, and I'd doubt if the Employment offices on campus suggest otherwise.
Sometimes when you spend a lot of time around poor people, you stop feeling sorry for them and get on with your own life.
Return it. Fry's is a rental store, and whenever I buy junk that just doesn't work, I return it and get a refund. They do sell crap that doesn't work as advertised.
I hardly print, so it peeves me when my Epson inkjet refuses to print due to "low ink" when my cartridges are newer then the ream of paper that I bought 3 years ago. Most of my printing are occasional "disposable" things like concert tickets, directions to supplement a GPS, forms to mail in, travel itineraries, ect. Last week, when I went to the store to buy a whole set of ink cartridges so I could print out a measly 1-page form to mail in, I was shocked that I could buy a complete B&W laser printer with ethernet for less then the cost of new ink cartridges.
I bought the printer. It's faster then my old inkjet that would spin its gears for 3 minutes before printing, and because it plugs directly into my router, I can set it up on my Macs without having to use half-baked installation disks. Color would be nice, but I really am not in a position to spend the money on a good color laser. In contrast, for the amount of time that I really need color, I'm better off running to Kinko's, because I'd end up running to the store to buy ink anyway.
People fail to realize that the point of food is to enjoy the taste. It doesn't matter how it looks, as long as it tastes good.
Well, that might be if you're going to a cafeteria or buying packaged food. At elite gourmet restaurants, it's a combination of taste, appearance, and atmosphere. Seriously, would you want to eat a "gourmet" meal served under harsh florescent lighting that looked ugly?
I went to a private prestigious school in the 90s. We had a lab full of computers, but they were never fancy. Some were still DOS when I was a Freshman, but they all were Windows 95 by the time I graduated.
What was important, however, was that we were able to learn the core concepts that needed to be taught. We didn't need $3000 computers to learn data structures. We also brought in a FAST internet connection before anyone knew what broadband was.
It's my opinion that a reliable network is much more important then having the latest and greatest computers. A computer that's 2 years old can still get on the web, but a slow network will hold your students back. I would stay away from obscure things like any Unix, and even any Linux, unless you're planning on keeping some Windows computers around for "getting things done." If you are going Windows, make sure to go with Windows 7. It's been out long enough that it doesn't make sense to keep 15 year olds working with technology that's half their age.
your TV doesn't have VGA or component but it has HDMI?
That's not the point! I'm a geek, and the first thing I did when I bought my TV was use its VGA port with my old laptop.
However, HDMI is a painless 1-cable solution that "just works." I once had to "help" someone set their DVD player up because they thought that S-Video put the picture and sound into a single cable. A laptop with HDMI can be plugged into any TV and just work without any manual configuration. The one that I saw is so tiny that it'll fit nicely under any TV and not be an eyesore.
Get an Aspire Revo for your TV instead - it's only $200-$300. I already had a stand alone Blu-ray, so it's perfect for my needs. Search for Revo htpc, there are tons of cool things you can do once you add a usb tuner & a remote.
I just want one device in my living room. I HATE switching devices. I currently use a Mac Mini with a TV tuner.
Last weekend, when I walked around my local Fry's, I found a $700 Sony laptop with BluRay and HDMI. It was TINY, and it would fit snugly next to my Wii. Thanks to HDMI, I could plug it straight into my TV or home theater without any hassles. I'm very tempted to upgrade.
You are wrong when you say "Clearly, the information isn't lost". It is. You cannot infer the original wavelength(s) of the source from the RGB (or Y-Cb-Cr) encoded values, because it isn't likely to be a single saturated color. For example, the picture may be of something that was originally yellow (saturated, single wavelength, yellow, let's say). Once converted to RGB, you can't tell the difference between that, and a picture of something that was reflecting/generating Green and Red at the right mixture to give the same RGB value
Not exactly.
So I'm a bit of an audio geek. To be specific, I'm a surround sound geek.
One of the "issues" with surround sound is that it's impossible to derive true surround sound from a stereo source, yet there are plenty of algorithms that attempt to do it. For example, if I'm mixing in 5.1, I could put a vocal in the center channel, right and left channels, or all three front channels. When deriving surround sound from stereo, there's no way to know if the sound is supposed to be in the center, right and left, or all three speakers.
However, there are excellent algorithms for effectively steering sound through a room even when it comes from two-channel stereo. DTS's NEO 6 in cinema mode is my favorite, because it can create a very close approximation of a true surround sound recording from a properly-mixed stereo source.
My point is that we probably already have enough data for a Y channel, much like how we can derive close approximations of surround from two-channel stereo. The true question is if the eye can differentiate between a true Y channel or a derived Y channel.
My sleep doctor told me the same thing when I told her that I read wikipedia when I can't sleep. I explained that I read on my iPhone, which really is too small to be bright. (I also leave my iPhone on the dimmest setting, which helps a lot.)
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That video looks faked, or at least sped up. With all the network latency involved, there should be a slightly noticeable delay while new content loads, especially regarding the images.
I currently buy 2-3 season passes per year for shows that I really like. It's cheaper then cable, and better then dealing with an unreliable DVR that records commercials and sometimes clips the beginning / end of episodes. Rentals are a lot nicer because most shows I get I only watch once. I'm also less concerned about DRM when content is disposable as opposed to something that I own.
Adderal or Ritalin...
Or, you could turn testing into a drinking game!
I was disappointed with Wave. About a year ago I spent a week trying to understand their source code because I wanted to use their data structures as a database and eventually build it into ObjectCloud. Their code was about 20,000 lines that essentially ran a text-based chat with no way to persist the data. I asked twice on their mailing list which interfaces I should plug into to persist the data, but I got no responses.
Basically, they tried to solve too many problems at once. If they just open-sourced a nice way to have concurrent data structures, it might have taken off; but the system for concurrent data structures was too difficult to understand or work with.
Google promoted Wave well, I remember sitting behind some Wave developers at Google shortly before they were going to show it off and they kept saying things like, "when everyone's using Wave..." Well, it takes a long time to build that kind of critical mass!
Until the "IBM PC" came along, most of us hooked our home computers to our televisions:
The early IBM PCs also could be hooked to TVs. For games, this was preferable because a lot of games exploited "bugs" in the NTSC encoding chip, thus allowing them to render more then 4 colors.
Well, it looks like it's designed to sit nicely next to the wireless keyboard. I'm going to buy one now, because I run my TV with a mac mini and using the mouse is kind of a chore. This will sit nicely in my lap.
This is easy to prove. What percentage of 3D film editors developed strombosis? Is it higher or lower then the national average? We shouldn't fear monger from a 15-year-old study when we can get real data today.
There is nothing in the linked article to suggest that the treatment was directly linked to her death
You're right; but you're missing the point: Randomly injecting stem cells throughout your body is not a miracle cure; and has heavy risks associated with it.
Write a lightweight desktop application that uses a browser component / rendering engine of your choice. Encourage your users to use this application when they hit areas that aren't cross-browser compatible.
Most web browsers offer the browser as a component that can be embedded into a traditional desktop application. For example, in C# / .Net, there is a WinForms web browser component that uses IE. (The same program will use Mozilla when run under Mono on Linux.)
I like your products, Microsoft...but I still abhor your business practices.
I get the impression this is a lack of oversight / management issue. Some lazy contractor or employee probably wrote the plugin, and QA and management didn't realize that's how the problem was fixed.
Data isn't like that. If the connection is present, it costs no more for the internet provider to transmit at maximum bandwidth versus transmitting nothing at all, for a given period of time. You might as well use it. The only limitation is bandwidth, since the "pipe" is only so big, so if everyone is trying to transmit/receive data at the same time, they're going to be limited as they have to share.
You're wrong. Radio spectrum is a finite resource; there's no more untapped frequencies. It follows the same economics of energy, which is constrained by how fast we can suck it out of the ground. Radio spectrum is constrained by how smartly we can divide it up.
If someone downloads tons of stuff during off-hours, making use of bandwidth that would otherwise go unused, this does not cost the company anything, nor does it inconvenience other customers.
Again, there's still more demand then the bandwidth can handle. What happens as soon as a bunch of people decide to batch up their less-time-sensitive stuff and send it at night? Then nighttime will become constrained. We're already seeing bandwidth peaks at night.
These kinds of plans have been tried before, and they always fail. Email is cheap, bandwidth-wise, and movies can be had from Netflix for less than the cost of the bandwidth used by the net.
What are you smoking??? Gasoline, Electricity, and (utility delivered) gas are all charged per-usage! Where I live, gas has a small monthly fee to keep up the pipes, but the vast majority of the bill is usage!
These kinds of plans work well when customers need an incentive to conserve, and everything I hear from the telcos is that they want us to conserve bandwidth because we use it as fast as they can build it.
Some early toasters didn't come with the traditional two-pronged plug. Instead, you had to unscrew a light bulb and screw in the toaster's plug. Why? Because the electric company charged more for general-purpose outlets! Prior to metered billing, people paid for electricity by the number of fixtures and their estimated electric use. Everything became sane once the electric companies introduced metered billing.
Anyway, AT&T's $20 / month tethering plan is just going to make me switch when my contract is up. Charge me for the bandwidth that I use, not for the device!
I just got back from Disney World. Every park has a fingerprint reader at the entrance because they have liberal in-and-out policies and they don't want many people walking in on the same ticket, or room key.
Frankly, considering the amount of cards and keys that I have to carry around, can we just make everything work on thumbprints?
What's odd is that the numbers constantly show that this generation is one of the most socially involved yet. They volunteer all the time. Do charity work. Involve themselves in causes in record numbers. Call their mothers. I guess it could be argued that in an increasingly competitve world all these things look great on a college application but that doesn't explain why college kids keep doing these things. I doubt any social service really helps in the employment fields, and I'd doubt if the Employment offices on campus suggest otherwise.
Sometimes when you spend a lot of time around poor people, you stop feeling sorry for them and get on with your own life.
Return it. Fry's is a rental store, and whenever I buy junk that just doesn't work, I return it and get a refund. They do sell crap that doesn't work as advertised.
I hardly print, so it peeves me when my Epson inkjet refuses to print due to "low ink" when my cartridges are newer then the ream of paper that I bought 3 years ago. Most of my printing are occasional "disposable" things like concert tickets, directions to supplement a GPS, forms to mail in, travel itineraries, ect. Last week, when I went to the store to buy a whole set of ink cartridges so I could print out a measly 1-page form to mail in, I was shocked that I could buy a complete B&W laser printer with ethernet for less then the cost of new ink cartridges.
I bought the printer. It's faster then my old inkjet that would spin its gears for 3 minutes before printing, and because it plugs directly into my router, I can set it up on my Macs without having to use half-baked installation disks. Color would be nice, but I really am not in a position to spend the money on a good color laser. In contrast, for the amount of time that I really need color, I'm better off running to Kinko's, because I'd end up running to the store to buy ink anyway.
People fail to realize that the point of food is to enjoy the taste. It doesn't matter how it looks, as long as it tastes good.
Well, that might be if you're going to a cafeteria or buying packaged food. At elite gourmet restaurants, it's a combination of taste, appearance, and atmosphere. Seriously, would you want to eat a "gourmet" meal served under harsh florescent lighting that looked ugly?
I went to a private prestigious school in the 90s. We had a lab full of computers, but they were never fancy. Some were still DOS when I was a Freshman, but they all were Windows 95 by the time I graduated.
What was important, however, was that we were able to learn the core concepts that needed to be taught. We didn't need $3000 computers to learn data structures. We also brought in a FAST internet connection before anyone knew what broadband was.
It's my opinion that a reliable network is much more important then having the latest and greatest computers. A computer that's 2 years old can still get on the web, but a slow network will hold your students back. I would stay away from obscure things like any Unix, and even any Linux, unless you're planning on keeping some Windows computers around for "getting things done." If you are going Windows, make sure to go with Windows 7. It's been out long enough that it doesn't make sense to keep 15 year olds working with technology that's half their age.
your TV doesn't have VGA or component but it has HDMI?
That's not the point! I'm a geek, and the first thing I did when I bought my TV was use its VGA port with my old laptop.
However, HDMI is a painless 1-cable solution that "just works." I once had to "help" someone set their DVD player up because they thought that S-Video put the picture and sound into a single cable. A laptop with HDMI can be plugged into any TV and just work without any manual configuration. The one that I saw is so tiny that it'll fit nicely under any TV and not be an eyesore.
Get an Aspire Revo for your TV instead - it's only $200-$300. I already had a stand alone Blu-ray, so it's perfect for my needs. Search for Revo htpc, there are tons of cool things you can do once you add a usb tuner & a remote.
I just want one device in my living room. I HATE switching devices. I currently use a Mac Mini with a TV tuner.
Last weekend, when I walked around my local Fry's, I found a $700 Sony laptop with BluRay and HDMI. It was TINY, and it would fit snugly next to my Wii. Thanks to HDMI, I could plug it straight into my TV or home theater without any hassles. I'm very tempted to upgrade.
You are wrong when you say "Clearly, the information isn't lost". It is. You cannot infer the original wavelength(s) of the source from the RGB (or Y-Cb-Cr) encoded values, because it isn't likely to be a single saturated color. For example, the picture may be of something that was originally yellow (saturated, single wavelength, yellow, let's say). Once converted to RGB, you can't tell the difference between that, and a picture of something that was reflecting/generating Green and Red at the right mixture to give the same RGB value
Not exactly.
So I'm a bit of an audio geek. To be specific, I'm a surround sound geek.
One of the "issues" with surround sound is that it's impossible to derive true surround sound from a stereo source, yet there are plenty of algorithms that attempt to do it. For example, if I'm mixing in 5.1, I could put a vocal in the center channel, right and left channels, or all three front channels. When deriving surround sound from stereo, there's no way to know if the sound is supposed to be in the center, right and left, or all three speakers.
However, there are excellent algorithms for effectively steering sound through a room even when it comes from two-channel stereo. DTS's NEO 6 in cinema mode is my favorite, because it can create a very close approximation of a true surround sound recording from a properly-mixed stereo source.
My point is that we probably already have enough data for a Y channel, much like how we can derive close approximations of surround from two-channel stereo. The true question is if the eye can differentiate between a true Y channel or a derived Y channel.
Tethering is the only reason why I'd jailbreak my iPhone. The lack of tethering is the reason why this could be my last iPhone.
My sleep doctor told me the same thing when I told her that I read wikipedia when I can't sleep. I explained that I read on my iPhone, which really is too small to be bright. (I also leave my iPhone on the dimmest setting, which helps a lot.)