Besides the independence that people below have noted, I also think it's a big difference between being state-run and party-run. Having connections to the state isn't a bad thing, having direct connections with just one party is. The powerful, one party countries like China blur that distinction, and so a lot of people have come to think of them as one of the same, but they are not.
There are numerous examples of decent state owned media outlets with as even of a slant as any other outlet, if not more so. On the flip side, there are several news outlets right here in the States even that though privately owned, have heavy ties to one party that are more political platform and awful new sources.
I realized this about game and movie music a while ago. It's specifically written -not- to be distracting. It's supposed to highlight action or stir an emotion without taking away the attention of the viewer so it really works great for that kind of work.
Really though, it's just as often that i want a little distracted doing work. If I'm doing something repetitive or a bit mind-numbing, I want something that is going to be just distracting enough that my mind doesn't wander without interfering with my other work. Or if it's late afternoon and my productivity is at a low anyway, music that takes some of my attention but keeps me awake is better then silence. I guess the point being is sometimes a little distraction is a good thing, and music is probably a better distraction then Slashdot as far as productivity goes.
A pretty decent bit at least. They used to own Grass Vally and Thompson Broadcast, two big players in broadcast and cable video, as well as still being apart of cinema both digital and analog. So it's not just some holding company using a once familiar brand-name, they've been a relevant company. Of course, they have sold off a lot of that stuff now so maybe this is another sign of their decline.
I'm usually not one to complain about article selection, even political ones, but his one is just silly. Ron Paul's solution for -everything- is to just pull the plug.
I just heard the news in the few short minutes of NPR top headlines on one of the public radio classical stations. They covered about as much as in the summery above.
That seems an honest and respectful amount of news.
I think you actually hit upon the main problem with the ribbon in your defense of it. The ribbon is in fact a great replacement for the old toolbar system and so, when you sit and spend the time to customize the bar, just like when you used to customize the toolbar, you are going to work faster.
However, as a general purpose tool for finding commands it's awful. It relies on you already not just knowing the command you are looking for, but that you know what the shortcut to it looks like. Worse, sometimes those commands are buried under other commands.
I do a lot of work in autocad, and while %90 of what i do I do on the keyboard or on the tool-bars, but there are hundreds of commands, many I simply don't use on a regular basis. All I usually need to find the command is to go to the menu of related commands, and read the short descriptions of the functions there. That's what the menu is there for, to provide some insight for the available commands and that is not what the ribbon provides.
I shudder to think of having to provide me grandmother with instructions over the phone on how to do something where I have to explain to her toolbar icons rather then just telling her the command she is looking for. Fortunately, she's still on windows XP.
Perhaps that is true, but that is an experiment on the same speakers no doubt. So yes, some people might like a flat response, others might like a bump in the middle, that's true of even professional audio engineers, and every one I've met sets up their EQs slightly different in non-reference environments (such as live sound). That isn't necessarily what makes sound systems good or bad. Poor insulation, mechanical noise, distortion and clipping at normal playback levels. These are all real, measurable differences in speakers that I don't think I know anybody that hasn't preferred the speakers that lack these sorts of flaws.
One of the worst offenders is in these X.1 systems where you have massive gaps in the frequency response, especially in the mids. A simple listen and they sound "OK" and you can make a sale at Bestbuy. Listen to the same material on a pair of reference speakers and you realize how much of the audio had been missing, and it sounds like you'd taken a wad of cotton out of your ears. Again, this is real, measurable stuff, not some audiophile BS. I think I can confidently say that most people would on that kind of A/B comparison consider the truly full range speakers to be the better sounding.
I think the blame is as much on manufacturers. There is no reason you should have to buy a top-end system to get decent audio. Particle board and even plastic speakers with mid-priced drivers can sound better then most of what you find at best-buy if properly designed. I honestly think manufacturers purposefully "Dumb down" their low and mid-range systems in order to be able to charge more for the high-end stuff.
Want to shop around? Good luck with the lack of decent reviews of mid-range audio systems, utterly useless specs, and the crap audio setups at any retail store where you can give them a listen.
Actually it's less interesting then even that. All this says that is a bunch of people are planning to make their next phone an iOS phone, and are waiting until the next generation to do it. Big deal.
My next desktop will be a windows machine, my next laptop probably a mac, my next phone probably android. I don't know exactly what form these will take, these purchases are months if not years off, but if there is a better model/version on the verge of release, I'd probably wait a few months extra for it to come out.
I unlocked and rooted my old G1 to use as my overseas phone. I travel to Italy on occasion for work. While it's a rather slow phone, even by the standards when I bought it, I can stick a local sim card in it and get my email, Google voice messages, and Google maps (which I was very much glad for when I got onto the wrong bus one afternoon) as well as a little emergency tethering. And while the speed can be a little frustrating, it does mean that I'm getting use out of it and keeping it out of the landfill a little while longer with little more investment then a $10 battery and a couple hours of my time.
I'm not a developer, but %90 of my work is in Excel and AutoCad at the same time. Not only does a second monitor make a noticeable impact on my productivity, but having a wide screen on both also makes a noticeable impact. Being able to put a lot of information up at once without wasting a lot of time scrolling around drawings and spreadsheets just saves time, and there are times that that time is a lot more precious then a couple hundred bucks.
If you really think that your employes don't have anything better to do then having to constantly flip windows around, even having to take notes so they can look at two pieces of data at once, your organization has a lot bigger problems.
Unfortunately the video player had no indication that it was not loading at all (likely slashdoted), instead just sits static on the first frame. However, it took me about 30 seconds of staring at the static image wondering if my since of perception was so bad I -didn't see anything moving at all-
Turns out it is pretty bad, just not in the way I thought; I recommend going straight to the youtube versions linked on the article.
It's a pretty neat effect, sort of one of those things that become pretty obvious once you see it.
I've had my T-Mobile G1 since Android 1.0 and I've always had SSH on it. I use "ConnectBot" and it works well enough, and it allows port forwarding. VNC can be a little more tricky, but I haven't looked in over a year.
The G1 has a great keyboard, and is certainly fast enough to handle SSH if that is all you need and want to get something used on the cheep. Of course, it's a pretty damn slow phone compared to what is on the market today.
Coyote won't normally attack house pets unless sick or on the verge of starving, which is exactly when they would also be close enough to human populations to be 'sighted'. It seems perfectly reasonable that such attacks would be very rare from a small, managed number of them.
These aren't so much 'sound proof' as they are just small speakers in parabolic dishes to provide tightly focused sound. A number of companies make them: http://www.soundtube.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?Speakers=start&series=6&speaker=23 http://www.browninnovations.com/sound_domes.html
That first one I had set up at our office to evaluate and of course, we couldn''t resit calling them cones of silence either, but I just thought I'd post the links just in case people here might be interested in what the article was actually talking about if they hadn't seen them already in various retail stores.
Yeah, no kidding. 1600x1200 displays weren't cheap when they were common, and were only to be found on the high end monitors and latter the very high end laptops of the time. It took me all of ten seconds to got to dell.com and find a laptop that was 1920x1200. I don't know why people keep acting like you are losing something going from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200.
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Besides the independence that people below have noted, I also think it's a big difference between being state-run and party-run. Having connections to the state isn't a bad thing, having direct connections with just one party is. The powerful, one party countries like China blur that distinction, and so a lot of people have come to think of them as one of the same, but they are not.
There are numerous examples of decent state owned media outlets with as even of a slant as any other outlet, if not more so. On the flip side, there are several news outlets right here in the States even that though privately owned, have heavy ties to one party that are more political platform and awful new sources.
I realized this about game and movie music a while ago. It's specifically written -not- to be distracting. It's supposed to highlight action or stir an emotion without taking away the attention of the viewer so it really works great for that kind of work.
Really though, it's just as often that i want a little distracted doing work. If I'm doing something repetitive or a bit mind-numbing, I want something that is going to be just distracting enough that my mind doesn't wander without interfering with my other work. Or if it's late afternoon and my productivity is at a low anyway, music that takes some of my attention but keeps me awake is better then silence. I guess the point being is sometimes a little distraction is a good thing, and music is probably a better distraction then Slashdot as far as productivity goes.
A pretty decent bit at least. They used to own Grass Vally and Thompson Broadcast, two big players in broadcast and cable video, as well as still being apart of cinema both digital and analog. So it's not just some holding company using a once familiar brand-name, they've been a relevant company. Of course, they have sold off a lot of that stuff now so maybe this is another sign of their decline.
I'm usually not one to complain about article selection, even political ones, but his one is just silly. Ron Paul's solution for -everything- is to just pull the plug.
So you think that the US constitution should be up for re-confirmation every 10 years?
I don't think that chart means what you think it does with "highways" listed as zero substitutes. Where do you think highways come from?
I actually did exactly that to an actor once at my community college, opps.
It's very easy to forget to mute a channel on an audio mixer when you often have dozens of them.
I just heard the news in the few short minutes of NPR top headlines on one of the public radio classical stations. They covered about as much as in the summery above.
That seems an honest and respectful amount of news.
If you could still get one for that cheap. I'd like to know where you can get them now for those closeout prices.
I think you actually hit upon the main problem with the ribbon in your defense of it. The ribbon is in fact a great replacement for the old toolbar system and so, when you sit and spend the time to customize the bar, just like when you used to customize the toolbar, you are going to work faster.
However, as a general purpose tool for finding commands it's awful. It relies on you already not just knowing the command you are looking for, but that you know what the shortcut to it looks like. Worse, sometimes those commands are buried under other commands.
I do a lot of work in autocad, and while %90 of what i do I do on the keyboard or on the tool-bars, but there are hundreds of commands, many I simply don't use on a regular basis. All I usually need to find the command is to go to the menu of related commands, and read the short descriptions of the functions there. That's what the menu is there for, to provide some insight for the available commands and that is not what the ribbon provides.
I shudder to think of having to provide me grandmother with instructions over the phone on how to do something where I have to explain to her toolbar icons rather then just telling her the command she is looking for. Fortunately, she's still on windows XP.
Perhaps that is true, but that is an experiment on the same speakers no doubt. So yes, some people might like a flat response, others might like a bump in the middle, that's true of even professional audio engineers, and every one I've met sets up their EQs slightly different in non-reference environments (such as live sound). That isn't necessarily what makes sound systems good or bad. Poor insulation, mechanical noise, distortion and clipping at normal playback levels. These are all real, measurable differences in speakers that I don't think I know anybody that hasn't preferred the speakers that lack these sorts of flaws.
One of the worst offenders is in these X.1 systems where you have massive gaps in the frequency response, especially in the mids. A simple listen and they sound "OK" and you can make a sale at Bestbuy. Listen to the same material on a pair of reference speakers and you realize how much of the audio had been missing, and it sounds like you'd taken a wad of cotton out of your ears. Again, this is real, measurable stuff, not some audiophile BS. I think I can confidently say that most people would on that kind of A/B comparison consider the truly full range speakers to be the better sounding.
I think the blame is as much on manufacturers. There is no reason you should have to buy a top-end system to get decent audio. Particle board and even plastic speakers with mid-priced drivers can sound better then most of what you find at best-buy if properly designed. I honestly think manufacturers purposefully "Dumb down" their low and mid-range systems in order to be able to charge more for the high-end stuff.
Want to shop around? Good luck with the lack of decent reviews of mid-range audio systems, utterly useless specs, and the crap audio setups at any retail store where you can give them a listen.
Actually it's less interesting then even that. All this says that is a bunch of people are planning to make their next phone an iOS phone, and are waiting until the next generation to do it. Big deal.
My next desktop will be a windows machine, my next laptop probably a mac, my next phone probably android. I don't know exactly what form these will take, these purchases are months if not years off, but if there is a better model/version on the verge of release, I'd probably wait a few months extra for it to come out.
I unlocked and rooted my old G1 to use as my overseas phone. I travel to Italy on occasion for work. While it's a rather slow phone, even by the standards when I bought it, I can stick a local sim card in it and get my email, Google voice messages, and Google maps (which I was very much glad for when I got onto the wrong bus one afternoon) as well as a little emergency tethering. And while the speed can be a little frustrating, it does mean that I'm getting use out of it and keeping it out of the landfill a little while longer with little more investment then a $10 battery and a couple hours of my time.
I'm not a developer, but %90 of my work is in Excel and AutoCad at the same time. Not only does a second monitor make a noticeable impact on my productivity, but having a wide screen on both also makes a noticeable impact. Being able to put a lot of information up at once without wasting a lot of time scrolling around drawings and spreadsheets just saves time, and there are times that that time is a lot more precious then a couple hundred bucks.
If you really think that your employes don't have anything better to do then having to constantly flip windows around, even having to take notes so they can look at two pieces of data at once, your organization has a lot bigger problems.
Overall Mr Buxton is really, really bad at evaluating the success or failure and the usefulness or not of many of the items he has in his collection.
Clearly why he fits right in at Microsoft.
Lots of great talent, but they never seem to know how to use it.
Or just our own?
Some how none of that seems to point to Anonymous in any way.
Posted at 4:05 PM
Get back to work.
Unfortunately the video player had no indication that it was not loading at all (likely slashdoted), instead just sits static on the first frame. However, it took me about 30 seconds of staring at the static image wondering if my since of perception was so bad I -didn't see anything moving at all-
Turns out it is pretty bad, just not in the way I thought; I recommend going straight to the youtube versions linked on the article.
It's a pretty neat effect, sort of one of those things that become pretty obvious once you see it.
I've had my T-Mobile G1 since Android 1.0 and I've always had SSH on it. I use "ConnectBot" and it works well enough, and it allows port forwarding. VNC can be a little more tricky, but I haven't looked in over a year.
The G1 has a great keyboard, and is certainly fast enough to handle SSH if that is all you need and want to get something used on the cheep. Of course, it's a pretty damn slow phone compared to what is on the market today.
1) Dreadlock surfer-dude badass strained credibility -- and ability to suppress gagging
Yeah, I think only thing he would be worse would be him in the role of a sword wielding, musclebound conquer.
Coyote won't normally attack house pets unless sick or on the verge of starving, which is exactly when they would also be close enough to human populations to be 'sighted'. It seems perfectly reasonable that such attacks would be very rare from a small, managed number of them.
These aren't so much 'sound proof' as they are just small speakers in parabolic dishes to provide tightly focused sound. A number of companies make them:
http://www.soundtube.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?Speakers=start&series=6&speaker=23
http://www.browninnovations.com/sound_domes.html
That first one I had set up at our office to evaluate and of course, we couldn''t resit calling them cones of silence either, but I just thought I'd post the links just in case people here might be interested in what the article was actually talking about if they hadn't seen them already in various retail stores.
Yeah, no kidding. 1600x1200 displays weren't cheap when they were common, and were only to be found on the high end monitors and latter the very high end laptops of the time. It took me all of ten seconds to got to dell.com and find a laptop that was 1920x1200. I don't know why people keep acting like you are losing something going from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200.