As long as companies are involved with some having more sway than others, you can expect them to abuse their position in the name of greed. It's simple human nature. Say all you want about how companies will police themselves or that the market will sort itself out. However, reality has shown us time and time again that this isn't the case.
Well, yeah, there's obviously that aspect, too. But wait, don't they have some stake in the Dungeon Siege movies? Not that anyone would want to pay to see those... : p
Everyone says they "stole" the whole Mii concept from Nintendo, but Nintendo hardly invented the idea of a customizable avatar for interacting with the world.
No, Nintendo wasn't the first to use avatars. However, the ones they did make were fairly unique looking. Now Microsoft's look almost identical to them. If that's not ripping off the Mii, then I don't know what is.
What confuses me is why the PS3 uses more power while idle than active.
Only one solution to this. Gotta have it doing protein folding 24/7. It's to save the environment.
I took a quick skim through the PDF and saw that too. It's also interesting that they put running Folding@home (one of the hardest things you can push your PS3 to do) in with the "power saving/management" section. I'll need to take a more thorough look later.
A century is a very short amount of time on the solar timeline. The Earth won't fall into the Sun for 5 billion years or so, and even then, the Sun will have lost enough mass that models predict the Earth may be flung off into deep space rather than falling into the Sun.
I just wanted to expand on this to add a bit more perspective. We're talking about something that might happen 5 billion years from now. The Earth itself isn't even 5 billion years old (it's estimated at 4.5-4.6 billion years old).
I can think of a few ways they can get that number up. Of course, none of them would be good for the consumer. But when has Microsoft put the consumer above having numbers that it can tout?
If I hear people snickering behind me, my first instinct IS to assume they are laughing at me. My rational mind then takes over and reminds me this is unlikely; but, still, I assumed this response is either normal for humans or trained as a result of our "kick me" sticky-note pranks as kids. I never realized it meant I was nuts.
If it's any consolation, we really were laughing at you.
I'd say your approach completely depends on your goal. If your goal is as stated, then I'd use the webcams to get shots of the meters, then I'd take the 2-3 minutes or whatever it takes a week to pull up those images and transcribe their values into the spreadsheet. If the goal is a programming exercise, then go to town with figuring out some way to automate that few-minutes-a-week task. Of course, in order to do that, you'll expend a whole lot more energy than you'd take to read the meters (via the webcam shots) yourself.
Lego was naar het Europese Hof van justitie gestapt in de strijd tegen de Canadese concurrent Mega Brands, die een blokje op de markt heeft gebracht dat past op die van Lego. Het Hof oordeelde vandaag dat het ontwerp van Lego niet is beschermd door het Europees merkenrecht en dat er dus geen sprake mag zijn van alleenrecht.
I was cleaning out a shelf over the weekend and came across the big ziplock bag of manuals/documentation that came with my HP desktop from several years ago (it came with XP MCE 2005). The sticker on the bag says "Mojave MCE". Still not quite sure what to make of that.
Agreed there. Sheet music often doesn't differentiate between the different types of shots (it'll just be notated as an X note), so it's usually up to the percussionist or the conductor to decide which one sounds best in the context of the piece/movement. Also, not indicating specifically what type of mallet should be used can be viewed as leaving room for interpretation. After playing through the piece a few times, though, you can usually figure out what sound it was that the composer was looking for.
The thing that truly annoyed me was when we'd get a piece written for 8 or 9 percussionists, and we'd have to adapt it to the 6 we had on hand. This involved mixing and matching the sheet music, excising some parts, and a whole lot of running around on everyone's part. IIRC, Handel's Royal Fireworks was a particularly nasty one. Ahhh, I miss those days.
I didn't particularly think it was worthwhile to go into the fine details in my post. But yes, for the past several years, he has been working for CGI-Federal or CGI-AMS or whatever you want to call the government contracting branch of CGI. As for the work he does, a lot of it does deal with setting up the interfaces between various agencies. And like I said, he talks about how there's a lot of extra redundancy and crude hacks just to get them to speak to each other. Am I involved in this directly? Of course not. Am I getting this filtered through his biases? Absolutely. But to hear him talk about it, it really sounds like things might work better if there were some sort of top-down approach taken with managing all of the various IT infrastructures deployed within the dozens of departments within the government. And also like I said, it would be a Herculean task, especially at this point in the game. But that still doesn't mean that I don't think it shouldn't be done. Of course, like anything, arguments can be made for and against it.
Oh, fully agreed that it won't be easy, and may in fact be impossible. But I think having someone who's already well-versed in where things currently stand is a good place to start.
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Why are these people playing Guitar Hero? I thought they were supposed to be good at pinball.
That's quite true, too, which is why we have ethics regulations and oversight committees. Or were you trying to imply that we don't?
As long as companies are involved with some having more sway than others, you can expect them to abuse their position in the name of greed. It's simple human nature. Say all you want about how companies will police themselves or that the market will sort itself out. However, reality has shown us time and time again that this isn't the case.
Well, yeah, there's obviously that aspect, too. But wait, don't they have some stake in the Dungeon Siege movies? Not that anyone would want to pay to see those... : p
It's not really missing. It's just busy working on a collaboration with David Bowie.
My annoyance aside, I have no doubt if/when Netflix creates a PS3 interface, MS will influence some content to not play there.
I seriously doubt that will happen since the new Netflix interface uses Silverlight (and the old one used WMP/WMV).
Everyone says they "stole" the whole Mii concept from Nintendo, but Nintendo hardly invented the idea of a customizable avatar for interacting with the world.
No, Nintendo wasn't the first to use avatars. However, the ones they did make were fairly unique looking. Now Microsoft's look almost identical to them. If that's not ripping off the Mii, then I don't know what is.
Good to see that they've finally figured out how to port carrier pigeon technology to swallows.
What confuses me is why the PS3 uses more power while idle than active. Only one solution to this. Gotta have it doing protein folding 24/7. It's to save the environment.
I took a quick skim through the PDF and saw that too. It's also interesting that they put running Folding@home (one of the hardest things you can push your PS3 to do) in with the "power saving/management" section. I'll need to take a more thorough look later.
A century is a very short amount of time on the solar timeline. The Earth won't fall into the Sun for 5 billion years or so, and even then, the Sun will have lost enough mass that models predict the Earth may be flung off into deep space rather than falling into the Sun.
I just wanted to expand on this to add a bit more perspective. We're talking about something that might happen 5 billion years from now. The Earth itself isn't even 5 billion years old (it's estimated at 4.5-4.6 billion years old).
I can think of a few ways they can get that number up. Of course, none of them would be good for the consumer. But when has Microsoft put the consumer above having numbers that it can tout?
If I hear people snickering behind me, my first instinct IS to assume they are laughing at me. My rational mind then takes over and reminds me this is unlikely; but, still, I assumed this response is either normal for humans or trained as a result of our "kick me" sticky-note pranks as kids. I never realized it meant I was nuts.
If it's any consolation, we really were laughing at you.
Alright. We'll soon have another Bokononist convert.
Well, once he gets his contraption set up, he can find out!
Good thing I held off on buying that Chunghwa set I was eyeing.
I'd say your approach completely depends on your goal. If your goal is as stated, then I'd use the webcams to get shots of the meters, then I'd take the 2-3 minutes or whatever it takes a week to pull up those images and transcribe their values into the spreadsheet. If the goal is a programming exercise, then go to town with figuring out some way to automate that few-minutes-a-week task. Of course, in order to do that, you'll expend a whole lot more energy than you'd take to read the meters (via the webcam shots) yourself.
Lego was naar het Europese Hof van justitie gestapt in de strijd tegen de Canadese concurrent Mega Brands, die een blokje op de markt heeft gebracht dat past op die van Lego. Het Hof oordeelde vandaag dat het ontwerp van Lego niet is beschermd door het Europees merkenrecht en dat er dus geen sprake mag zijn van alleenrecht.
Can't really argue with that....
Microsoft's Mike Nash announced the name this way: "Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore 'Windows 7' just makes sense."
So, has anyone actually figured out exactly what the previous 6 versions of Windows were?
Oh, you almost got it!
I was cleaning out a shelf over the weekend and came across the big ziplock bag of manuals/documentation that came with my HP desktop from several years ago (it came with XP MCE 2005). The sticker on the bag says "Mojave MCE". Still not quite sure what to make of that.
I wonder if they're going to auction off any relics that they find on Earth that was.
Agreed there. Sheet music often doesn't differentiate between the different types of shots (it'll just be notated as an X note), so it's usually up to the percussionist or the conductor to decide which one sounds best in the context of the piece/movement. Also, not indicating specifically what type of mallet should be used can be viewed as leaving room for interpretation. After playing through the piece a few times, though, you can usually figure out what sound it was that the composer was looking for.
The thing that truly annoyed me was when we'd get a piece written for 8 or 9 percussionists, and we'd have to adapt it to the 6 we had on hand. This involved mixing and matching the sheet music, excising some parts, and a whole lot of running around on everyone's part. IIRC, Handel's Royal Fireworks was a particularly nasty one. Ahhh, I miss those days.
I didn't particularly think it was worthwhile to go into the fine details in my post. But yes, for the past several years, he has been working for CGI-Federal or CGI-AMS or whatever you want to call the government contracting branch of CGI. As for the work he does, a lot of it does deal with setting up the interfaces between various agencies. And like I said, he talks about how there's a lot of extra redundancy and crude hacks just to get them to speak to each other. Am I involved in this directly? Of course not. Am I getting this filtered through his biases? Absolutely. But to hear him talk about it, it really sounds like things might work better if there were some sort of top-down approach taken with managing all of the various IT infrastructures deployed within the dozens of departments within the government. And also like I said, it would be a Herculean task, especially at this point in the game. But that still doesn't mean that I don't think it shouldn't be done. Of course, like anything, arguments can be made for and against it.
Anyone know if Obama &co are clued in on techie issues?
Hmmm. Dunno. If only slashdot had run a series of stories over the past few months detailing the candidates' technology stances....
Oh, fully agreed that it won't be easy, and may in fact be impossible. But I think having someone who's already well-versed in where things currently stand is a good place to start.