I bought an HP "box" about 6 months ago for my TV. It's big and powerful enough that the fans don't go crazy when I run ZSNES. My opinion: go with something about the size of a home theater receiver, because it'll be able to move enough air to cool itself without making lots of noise.
Might be useful is things like travel itineraries and meetings also displayed the UTC time in a font smaller then the local time. Might also be useful if some clocks displayed UTC time in smaller text. Overall, however, I really like keeping my time somewhat related to my locale.
IMO, most professional programmers today should be familiar with something like C#, Java, or some of the other modern languages like Ruby or Python. It really depends on the kinds of things you'd think you're going to write. Even if you don't end up using these languages in your day-to-day work; concepts from modern languages are creeping back into older languages. C# and Java arrive with excellent garbage collection; and then "smart pointers" start showing up in C++. Likewise, C# arrives "foreach," then an equivalent shows up in Java and C++.
These engineers must be right out of college, and thus never met clippy to begin with!
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Well, I like 3D movies when they're done well; and there are a lot of video games where I find that depth would make it easier to play. I'd like 3D in the home for video games, but for ordinary TV and movies, it would have to be without glasses.
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3D doesn't necessarily require "higher resolution - what it requires is more fields per second.
Actually, if you want to get into holographic TV, it does. Holograms work by rendering an image at a resolution higher then lights' wavelength, where all angles are encoded into a single image. Furthermore, holograms don't require glasses or produce eyestrain.
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I would venture to guess that 80%-90% of the people buying HDTV's are doing it either because their old TV broke and it's the only thing available, or because they heard it was cool from a friend and wanted it for their Superbowl party
Joe 6pack went out and bought an HDTV because he wanted one of those shiny thin TVs with a pretty picture. HDTV's really took off once it became fashionable to replace a big old box with something that looked like a picture frame on the wall. HDTV's also took off when people realized they could have a giant screen with something that was much less bulky then a tube.
I recently started a job with Syncplicity, a company that makes a similar product targeted towards enterprise use. Needless to say, it feels like DIY to me because a lot of the improvements that I put into the product are based on what I observe in my own personal use.
I wouldn't advise taking the DIY approach for a Dropbox replacement, unless it's a career decision. Magic folder synchronization requires a lot of expertise in many different areas of programming, system administration, database administration, security, and low-level API implementation. It's not something that can be whipped up in a weekend.
I attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. There is so much flexibility in course selection that I chose classes that were interesting to me. For a random science credit requirement; I took technology of alpine skiing and went skiing for a grade! (I learned something, too!) For humanities, I took a lot of electronic music classes and learned about MIDI programming and graphical dataflow languages. (wpi.edu)
In general, if you choose your school wisely; you'll be able to select classes that are useful and/or interesting to you.
Now considering this neighborhood is probably "welcome to the jungle" you are gonna have to offer something for any business to take the risk, and I'm sure there will be employees that will turn down an offer from twitter because they'd have to go into and out of such a rough area.
This is San Francisco. Going into such a rough area will be appealing because employees will be able to pick stuff up and get serviced on the way home from work!
There are a lot of free Android phones given out at Google conferences, and people sell their old ones. Just check eBay, and if you're buying international, check with the seller to make sure he or she is okay with shipping overseas.
The NAT detection technique is based on two observations about the IP TTL (Time To Live) field.
Host operating systems have characteristic initial TTL values. This property of individual operating system implementations of TCP/IP is well known and can be used as part of a "fingerprint" to identify the operating system that a host is running merely by examining its traffic. The technique is well described in Passive OS Fingerprinting: Details and Techniques by Toby Miller.
NAT devices or gateways decrement the TTL on packets that they forward.
For the rest of us, perhaps this is a timely reminder to backup our data and be less trusting of the cloud.
Pardon the slashvertisement, but Syncplicity lets you synchronize Google Docs with a folder on multiple computers. You can choose either Word or OpenOffice formats; and then edit Google Docs files in Word or Open Office, even without an internet connection. The changes then are uploaded into Google Docs.
When will the execs learn that they add no value, and that consumers are tired of subsidizing their coke habits? Artificial scarcity won't work, because people will just pirate it.
All that said. It's your body. Just don't ask the rest of society to pick up the tab for the health care needed to cover the self-inflicted abuse you've done to yourself.
I don't smoke because I've seen plenty of older people with nasty health problems. But the reality is that I like cigarettes, and the "don't smoke because it's bad for you crowd" doesn't seem to understand that finding a healthy replacement would be a good thing for people who generally enjoy it.
The real thing that bugs me is that I can't find any data about studies on e-cigarettes. They don't stink like regular cigarettes, but no one knows if they are safe for long-term use.
Anyway, because real cigarettes kill, and the fake ones don't have any safety data, I abstain.
I believe in Leadership as it was in the old days, the leaders were the people who had worked in the factory floor and had showed their talent there. They understood the processes, the technical details that made the company create the products people would buy.
I've seen that belief turn sour.
I once briefly worked for a "brilliant" go-getter engineer. He was quite charming, but ultimately was a poor manager. His approach was merely "work harder" and had an entire team of 20 engineers spending 60 hour weeks spinning their wheels. The problem was that he wasn't willing to stand up to upper management to make tangible improvements in the workflow; nor was he willing to stand up to upper management to block unreasonable requests.
I see nothing wrong in setting up an offshore IT shop. I fully believe in Capitalism, and that means that if another country can provide the same goods at a lower cost, then so be it.
The real question someone should as is, "do I want to set up an offshore IT office." That's more important.
Once, when I was trying to find a mountain resort, my GPS tried to send me 20 miles up a country road that ran parallel to the interstate. I turned around and followed the written directions that I always keep with me when going somewhere "difficult."
Another time, I decided to use my GPS to get to a ski area that I kinda-sorta knew how to get to. The GPS told me to turn onto a road covered in snow. I got back on the highway and went the way that I remembered.
What told me that my GPS gives bad directions is that once, in San Francisco, it made me drive 20 blocks on a road with a stop sign at every block, when directly parallel to me was Sunset Boulevard, a road where the stoplights are timed so well I can go 20 blocks without stopping!
Regardless, if I've learned one thing from Microsoft and their initial XBox and Zune attempts, it's that a very very wealthy company that wants to shove something down the consumer's maw will not let up until it has turned a profit. The problem is that News Corp has what, eight billion sitting around in cash? Let the blood letting begin with this pin prick!
Reminds me of the scene in Citizen Kane where the banker tries to lecture Kane about loosing money in his newspaper, and Kane says that at the rate he's going, he can burn until he's dead!
I wish the video of the "hologram" was better. I didn't get any sense of 3d whatsoever. It looked worse then old mechanical TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_-Lj8uSO4
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I bought an HP "box" about 6 months ago for my TV. It's big and powerful enough that the fans don't go crazy when I run ZSNES. My opinion: go with something about the size of a home theater receiver, because it'll be able to move enough air to cool itself without making lots of noise.
Might be useful is things like travel itineraries and meetings also displayed the UTC time in a font smaller then the local time. Might also be useful if some clocks displayed UTC time in smaller text. Overall, however, I really like keeping my time somewhat related to my locale.
IMO, most professional programmers today should be familiar with something like C#, Java, or some of the other modern languages like Ruby or Python. It really depends on the kinds of things you'd think you're going to write. Even if you don't end up using these languages in your day-to-day work; concepts from modern languages are creeping back into older languages. C# and Java arrive with excellent garbage collection; and then "smart pointers" start showing up in C++. Likewise, C# arrives "foreach," then an equivalent shows up in Java and C++.
These engineers must be right out of college, and thus never met clippy to begin with!
Well, I like 3D movies when they're done well; and there are a lot of video games where I find that depth would make it easier to play. I'd like 3D in the home for video games, but for ordinary TV and movies, it would have to be without glasses.
3D doesn't necessarily require "higher resolution - what it requires is more fields per second.
Actually, if you want to get into holographic TV, it does. Holograms work by rendering an image at a resolution higher then lights' wavelength, where all angles are encoded into a single image. Furthermore, holograms don't require glasses or produce eyestrain.
I would venture to guess that 80%-90% of the people buying HDTV's are doing it either because their old TV broke and it's the only thing available, or because they heard it was cool from a friend and wanted it for their Superbowl party
Joe 6pack went out and bought an HDTV because he wanted one of those shiny thin TVs with a pretty picture. HDTV's really took off once it became fashionable to replace a big old box with something that looked like a picture frame on the wall. HDTV's also took off when people realized they could have a giant screen with something that was much less bulky then a tube.
Does this mean that I can start smoking?
I recently started a job with Syncplicity, a company that makes a similar product targeted towards enterprise use. Needless to say, it feels like DIY to me because a lot of the improvements that I put into the product are based on what I observe in my own personal use.
I wouldn't advise taking the DIY approach for a Dropbox replacement, unless it's a career decision. Magic folder synchronization requires a lot of expertise in many different areas of programming, system administration, database administration, security, and low-level API implementation. It's not something that can be whipped up in a weekend.
I attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. There is so much flexibility in course selection that I chose classes that were interesting to me. For a random science credit requirement; I took technology of alpine skiing and went skiing for a grade! (I learned something, too!) For humanities, I took a lot of electronic music classes and learned about MIDI programming and graphical dataflow languages. (wpi.edu) In general, if you choose your school wisely; you'll be able to select classes that are useful and/or interesting to you.
Let me guess? Weiner had his password stolen, and a private photo was leaked to twitter?
Now considering this neighborhood is probably "welcome to the jungle" you are gonna have to offer something for any business to take the risk, and I'm sure there will be employees that will turn down an offer from twitter because they'd have to go into and out of such a rough area.
This is San Francisco. Going into such a rough area will be appealing because employees will be able to pick stuff up and get serviced on the way home from work!
There are a lot of free Android phones given out at Google conferences, and people sell their old ones. Just check eBay, and if you're buying international, check with the seller to make sure he or she is okay with shipping overseas.
The NAT detection technique is based on two observations about the IP TTL (Time To Live) field.
AAC, which is an open format, when compressed from a 24-bit source at 256kbps, will sound better then anything degraded to CD-quality 16-bit audio.
For the rest of us, perhaps this is a timely reminder to backup our data and be less trusting of the cloud.
Pardon the slashvertisement, but Syncplicity lets you synchronize Google Docs with a folder on multiple computers. You can choose either Word or OpenOffice formats; and then edit Google Docs files in Word or Open Office, even without an internet connection. The changes then are uploaded into Google Docs.
I spent most of this weekend shopping. I had to buy a bike, train pass, clothes, ect. Frankly, I'd rather have done other things.
It's a pain in the ass to buy new things all the time. Sometimes I just want something to work. It's not about the money.
When will the execs learn that they add no value, and that consumers are tired of subsidizing their coke habits? Artificial scarcity won't work, because people will just pirate it.
All that said. It's your body. Just don't ask the rest of society to pick up the tab for the health care needed to cover the self-inflicted abuse you've done to yourself.
I don't smoke because I've seen plenty of older people with nasty health problems. But the reality is that I like cigarettes, and the "don't smoke because it's bad for you crowd" doesn't seem to understand that finding a healthy replacement would be a good thing for people who generally enjoy it.
The real thing that bugs me is that I can't find any data about studies on e-cigarettes. They don't stink like regular cigarettes, but no one knows if they are safe for long-term use.
Anyway, because real cigarettes kill, and the fake ones don't have any safety data, I abstain.
Does this mean I can pick up smoking if it's fortified with cancer-blocking enzymes?
I believe in Leadership as it was in the old days, the leaders were the people who had worked in the factory floor and had showed their talent there. They understood the processes, the technical details that made the company create the products people would buy.
I've seen that belief turn sour.
I once briefly worked for a "brilliant" go-getter engineer. He was quite charming, but ultimately was a poor manager. His approach was merely "work harder" and had an entire team of 20 engineers spending 60 hour weeks spinning their wheels. The problem was that he wasn't willing to stand up to upper management to make tangible improvements in the workflow; nor was he willing to stand up to upper management to block unreasonable requests.
I see nothing wrong in setting up an offshore IT shop. I fully believe in Capitalism, and that means that if another country can provide the same goods at a lower cost, then so be it.
The real question someone should as is, "do I want to set up an offshore IT office." That's more important.
Once, when I was trying to find a mountain resort, my GPS tried to send me 20 miles up a country road that ran parallel to the interstate. I turned around and followed the written directions that I always keep with me when going somewhere "difficult."
Another time, I decided to use my GPS to get to a ski area that I kinda-sorta knew how to get to. The GPS told me to turn onto a road covered in snow. I got back on the highway and went the way that I remembered.
What told me that my GPS gives bad directions is that once, in San Francisco, it made me drive 20 blocks on a road with a stop sign at every block, when directly parallel to me was Sunset Boulevard, a road where the stoplights are timed so well I can go 20 blocks without stopping!
Regardless, if I've learned one thing from Microsoft and their initial XBox and Zune attempts, it's that a very very wealthy company that wants to shove something down the consumer's maw will not let up until it has turned a profit. The problem is that News Corp has what, eight billion sitting around in cash? Let the blood letting begin with this pin prick!
Reminds me of the scene in Citizen Kane where the banker tries to lecture Kane about loosing money in his newspaper, and Kane says that at the rate he's going, he can burn until he's dead!
I wish the video of the "hologram" was better. I didn't get any sense of 3d whatsoever. It looked worse then old mechanical TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_-Lj8uSO4