I hear your pain. About a year ago I stopped drinking sugar soda. Here are the things that I do:
I got used to Nutrasweet/Asparamitane. When coming from the can (as opposed to the fountain,) it's not bad.
Drinks sweetened with Spleda taste more like real sugar then the high fructose corn syrup versions that you're used to. It's also less sticky!
Minute Maid Light is actually very good. It's only 2% juice, so the sugar content is negligable.
Coke Zero and Diet Coke with Spleda are very close to real coke. Personally, I prefer the Spleda version over real Coke because high fructose corn syrup leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
7Up has some Spleda sweetened diet flavors that are excellent.
Avoid fountain drinks: Diet Coke from the fountain is sweetened with an Asparimitaine/Saccarine mix that makes it taste more like Tab.
I have a DVR and I watch commercials. Typically, when I'm skipping through them, if it looks interesting I'll watch a second or two.
The problem is that advertisers aren't being very scientific about this. When you read a newspaper, no one forces you to read the ads, yet they are very effective! No one has proven that skipping ads makes them less effective.
I think advertisers would be surprised if they tried to determine how much of their message "sticks" when viewers can skip through them. Specifically, when someone is skipping through an ad, that person is paying close attention. Likewise, even when people have the ability to skip an ad, they will still let them play while they walk to the kitchen for a [insert heavily advertised snack or beverage].
A company like Tivo might want to consider investing in experiments that demonstrate how a Tivo can make traditional television advertising more effective.
This really isn't business case 1, because they aren't faking just one product. They're faking an entire brand! Specifically, in addition to iPod, they would be selling fake Macintoshes, fake Apple monitors, and a few other fake Apple products that they don't even make.
This really is a case of starting a consumer goods company that just uses someone else's trademark as a way of avoiding advertising costs.
Gas is going to have to get VERY expensive to justify this car. As a proud hybrid owner, I can't justify adding an additional $2-300 to my monthly car payment for the ability to go 300 miles without gas. Such a car can only be justified by people who perfer completly electric drivetrains*, or when gas reaches about $6 / gallon.
*(Specifically, a completely electric drivetrain is very quiet, which would make this car an appealing luxury car.)
I think consumers will end up buying whatever the salesman puts in front of them when they buy a shiny new TV. Given that stores like Best Buy hate format wars, they'll just direct people to combo players and pretend that there's no difference. After all, that's what happened with the format war between 33RPM and 45RPM records once the industry realized that it was just easier for record players to support both.
I think it's hard to justify the home version
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The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.
I think that's a little hard to justify for a home user. Given that peak usage is during daylight hours; I think homeowners would be better served with $10,000 solar panels that sell to the grid during the day.
Besides, electric companies already do this kind of thing. About 11 years ago I took a tour of a power plant that's buried inside a mountain, under a man-made lake. At night, when power's cheap, it pumps water from a river into the lake. During the day, when power's expensive, it runs as a traditional hydo-electric plant. http://www.berkshireweb.com/sports/comp/bearswamp. html
A lot of people seem to forget a few things about this argument:
No one remembers SVHS! SVHS was a "super" VHS that failed miserably.
No one remembers the format war between 45RPM records and 33RPM records! It was resolved when someone realized that you could put a switch on the record player to adjust the speed.
There are devices on the market that can play both SACD and DVD-A, which are incompatible formats from Sony and the DVD forum.
Thus, I anticipate that one of two things will happen:
HD-DVD / Blu Ray will fail like SVHS.
Combo players will become the norm, and most consumers won't even know the difference between HD-DVD and Blu Ray.
That being said, I feel sorry for the well-intentioned geeks who spend some small portion of their lives with a Best Buy name tag affixed below their lapel. It must be horrifying to be expected to be so disinformative just to sell warranties and accessories.
I started working for Best Buy after I graduated from college. Fortunatly, I wasn't there long enough to ever own a Best Buy shirt. Because the store was in the process of opening, they had a lot of their best employees to start good momentum. Being knowledgeable, they didn't put me in a sales position; I was going to install car stereos at a much higher pay scale then most of the other people.
Overall, I was dissapointed with their hiring process. They didn't tell me that I would have to purchase tools during the interview. The company also twisted the rules around to keep me at a lower pay than I was offered.
It's more like a developer should have a "good reason" for changing the underline convention. Specifically, there's no reason to change from underline to something else for the typical document-style web site. Given that almost all web sites are document-style, you are right 99% of the time.
For a web-based application where a hyperlink is more of an application function, widget, ect, there is a "good reason" to change away from the underline convention.
The Acid test isn't a full CSS complience test. It partially tests how a browser handles *broken* CSS.
Note: some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly. http://webstandards.org/action/acid2/#content-main
Personally, I find that this means that the proper rendering of the Acid test is somewhat subjective.
I feel your pain. You probably are stuck with one of the older boxes. A couple of months ago I called up Comcast and rattled off a list of complaints and they replaced my box, ASAP. Just call them up and read all of your complaints and they'll give you a newer box.
Also, it's worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Motorolla DVR. Some of the codes it gives for programming hidden buttons into the remote are very useful. For example, you can program in a "swap" button that will allow you to switch tuners when you decide to record a channel. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_a_Motorola _DVR
Personally, I'm very tempted to buy one of the new iMacs that can turn an HD cable box into a DVR by using Firewire.
The web was never meant to be tied to pixels. This is because the size of a pixel varies considerably from one computer to the next. Frankly, web designers who assume that pixels are always the same size are just being irresponsible.
(Sticks foot in mouth after realizing that my personal page doesn't respond to the "Text Size" option in IE.)
But how is this different from loss leader marketing? What if Intel sold the CPU below cost, but still charged full price for an Intel chipset and an Intel motherboard?
I find theaters are usually responsive to technical complaints. If you tell them that the volume is so loud that the speakers are distorting, they might just listen.
Just move on to a different company. I won't put up with bullshit like broken application processes. To me, if the manager won't respond to the fact that their terminal is broken, he won't be decent to work for. I'd go to the company that is eager to take my application.
It's simple. I don't care how smart you are, I don't want to hire you if you're going to be difficult to work with.
That stated, I think you have a right to be concerned. I'm a little uncomfortable working for someone who has to use a computer to judge my personality.
Do you remember when you played video games as a kid? When you'd twist the controller to the right and left? The revolution will actually respond to these movements.
I'd like to know what application this is for. Making a multi-core chip appear as one chip would cause performence degredation in a multi-threaded environment because of the overhead with context switches. (For example, I don't see how this would help someone who's ripping a CD, running a virus scanner, and browsing the web at the same time.)
This might help games, but by the time it comes out it could be too late. At IDF, Intel demonstrated some very powerful programmer aids for multi-threaded programming. By the time AMD's technology is on the market, will it offer an improvement to games that take advantage of new multi-threading techniques?
Given that the current "make your program multithreaded" techniques are primarily making "for" loops multi-threaded, is AMD's technique going to "automagically" distribute loops among all of the cores?
Looking at how music downloads are much more popular than SACD/DVD-A, it's a pretty safe bet to think that video over the internet will be more popular than HD-DVD/Blue Ray. Perhaps HD-DVD/Blue Ray will only become accepted if they are bundled with home theater PCs.
Exactly! Next time you walk into a Best Buy or a Fry's, take a look in the car stereo department. There are many people who make their living from aftermarket stereos. This is because new features, like CD players, MP3-CD players, GPS, and DVD players are available in the aftermarket first.
Likewise, as long as the "aftermarket" browser industry has enough features that aren't in the bundled browsers, people will use them! They just can't be arrogant enough to think that "Microsoft is Evil" is a good enough reason for people to use them.
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The problem is that advertisers aren't being very scientific about this. When you read a newspaper, no one forces you to read the ads, yet they are very effective! No one has proven that skipping ads makes them less effective.
I think advertisers would be surprised if they tried to determine how much of their message "sticks" when viewers can skip through them. Specifically, when someone is skipping through an ad, that person is paying close attention. Likewise, even when people have the ability to skip an ad, they will still let them play while they walk to the kitchen for a [insert heavily advertised snack or beverage].
A company like Tivo might want to consider investing in experiments that demonstrate how a Tivo can make traditional television advertising more effective.
This really is a case of starting a consumer goods company that just uses someone else's trademark as a way of avoiding advertising costs.
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How long do you think it'll be until Nintendo allows you to buy a version of the controller for a Viiv?
- Fully support HD-DVD / Blu Ray via an external USB drive
- HDTV DVR
- Support for the new Viiv services
- Everything works "out of the box" without any tinkering
So far I haven't seen a HTPC that will do all of the above.*(Specifically, a completely electric drivetrain is very quiet, which would make this car an appealing luxury car.)
I think consumers will end up buying whatever the salesman puts in front of them when they buy a shiny new TV. Given that stores like Best Buy hate format wars, they'll just direct people to combo players and pretend that there's no difference. After all, that's what happened with the format war between 33RPM and 45RPM records once the industry realized that it was just easier for record players to support both.
I think that's a little hard to justify for a home user. Given that peak usage is during daylight hours; I think homeowners would be better served with $10,000 solar panels that sell to the grid during the day.
Besides, electric companies already do this kind of thing. About 11 years ago I took a tour of a power plant that's buried inside a mountain, under a man-made lake. At night, when power's cheap, it pumps water from a river into the lake. During the day, when power's expensive, it runs as a traditional hydo-electric plant. http://www.berkshireweb.com/sports/comp/bearswamp. html
Thus, I anticipate that one of two things will happen:
I started working for Best Buy after I graduated from college. Fortunatly, I wasn't there long enough to ever own a Best Buy shirt. Because the store was in the process of opening, they had a lot of their best employees to start good momentum. Being knowledgeable, they didn't put me in a sales position; I was going to install car stereos at a much higher pay scale then most of the other people.
Overall, I was dissapointed with their hiring process. They didn't tell me that I would have to purchase tools during the interview. The company also twisted the rules around to keep me at a lower pay than I was offered.
It's more like a developer should have a "good reason" for changing the underline convention. Specifically, there's no reason to change from underline to something else for the typical document-style web site. Given that almost all web sites are document-style, you are right 99% of the time.
For a web-based application where a hyperlink is more of an application function, widget, ect, there is a "good reason" to change away from the underline convention.
Also, it's worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Motorolla DVR. Some of the codes it gives for programming hidden buttons into the remote are very useful. For example, you can program in a "swap" button that will allow you to switch tuners when you decide to record a channel. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_a_Motorola _DVR
Personally, I'm very tempted to buy one of the new iMacs that can turn an HD cable box into a DVR by using Firewire.
The web was never meant to be tied to pixels. This is because the size of a pixel varies considerably from one computer to the next. Frankly, web designers who assume that pixels are always the same size are just being irresponsible.
(Sticks foot in mouth after realizing that my personal page doesn't respond to the "Text Size" option in IE.)
But how is this different from loss leader marketing? What if Intel sold the CPU below cost, but still charged full price for an Intel chipset and an Intel motherboard?
I use Vonage, but it might not work well overseas due to latency issues.
I find theaters are usually responsive to technical complaints. If you tell them that the volume is so loud that the speakers are distorting, they might just listen.
Cringly claims that:
- OS X will implement that Windows API just like Wine. (Specifically, OS X won't emulate Windows.)
- Apple has a legitimate liscense to use the Windows API.
This article is no surprise to me. As soon as OS X with Windows support is released, I'm buying a Mac.Just move on to a different company. I won't put up with bullshit like broken application processes. To me, if the manager won't respond to the fact that their terminal is broken, he won't be decent to work for. I'd go to the company that is eager to take my application.
That stated, I think you have a right to be concerned. I'm a little uncomfortable working for someone who has to use a computer to judge my personality.
Does anyone notice that AMD is a MAJOR Slashdot sponsor? This link is on every Slashdot page.
Do you remember when you played video games as a kid? When you'd twist the controller to the right and left? The revolution will actually respond to these movements.
This might help games, but by the time it comes out it could be too late. At IDF, Intel demonstrated some very powerful programmer aids for multi-threaded programming. By the time AMD's technology is on the market, will it offer an improvement to games that take advantage of new multi-threading techniques?
Given that the current "make your program multithreaded" techniques are primarily making "for" loops multi-threaded, is AMD's technique going to "automagically" distribute loops among all of the cores?
Looking at how music downloads are much more popular than SACD/DVD-A, it's a pretty safe bet to think that video over the internet will be more popular than HD-DVD/Blue Ray. Perhaps HD-DVD/Blue Ray will only become accepted if they are bundled with home theater PCs.
Likewise, as long as the "aftermarket" browser industry has enough features that aren't in the bundled browsers, people will use them! They just can't be arrogant enough to think that "Microsoft is Evil" is a good enough reason for people to use them.