Are you referring to something like these countdown timers in China? The first time I saw them, I thought it was a great idea. It takes the guesswork out of when the light changes. I wish we had them here in the US.
It might work if the girls are there to provide "stress relief". It's kind of like some companies where they bring in some massage therapists to give free massages to employees who want one. That's about the only way I can see this "programmer cheerleader" concept working.
Earlier tonight, I compared the same picture on the same site using 3 different computer monitors side by side and 3 different tablet screens.
To me, the white/blue part of the dress is sort of a pale light blue on all 6 screens. But they're different shades of pale blue. On one screen, the blue stand outs a little stronger. On another screen, the blue seems more faded towards white.
For the black/gold/tan part of the dress, on some screens, the tan color seems more faded, making the darker part stronger, and I COULD call it black. I know it's not PURE black, and it's not as black as that cow patch thing in to the left of the dress. But I could call it a shade of black. On other screens, the tan part stands out more, and I would definitely not call that part black. I don't know if I would call it "gold", but I would call it tan/light brownish.
So I think the screen settings is one variable that contributes to what colors the user thinks they see in the dress picture.
For the situations where different people are looking at the same screen or printed photograph, my guess is that the variability comes from the color/brightness/etc sensitivity of their eyes. For example, in my own eyes, one of them sees the wall in a brighter shade of white (and possibly slightly red tinted) than the other eye. Perhaps those who aren't as sensitive to blue might see the blue/white part of the dress as a shade of white, and call it white.
I guess this picture is just one of those freak pictures where the colors are at some borderline that could be interpreted as one shade of color or another.
Me too. I'm waiting for the rumored Athlon X4 at 45W TDP. It's supposed to come out in the 2nd qtr of this year. I think it would make a perfect upgrade for my Athlon X2 4850e. As for the price tag, the 65W 9350e has been sitting on Newegg at about the same price as the 125W 9950, so it might take a while before the 45W X4 hit the $100 mark.
That sounds very plausible. I've worked on software that mistakenly assumed that each date of the year was exact 24 hours (86,400 seconds) long, which is not true on days where Daylight Saving Time takes effect or ends. On those dates, the day is 23 or 25 hours long, and the software would display stuff off by an hour or in rare cases crash, because the calculations put the stuff on the next or previous date. So I think your guess has a good chance of being right.
I wonder if these reports will start taking into account usage caps employed by some ISPs. After all, what would be the point of upgrading from a 5 Mbps line to a hypothetical 500 Mbps line if your ISP caps your usage to the same number of GB in both cases? It would LOOK like ISPs are offering faster speeds, but you wouldn't be able to use that faster line to do more than you could with the slower line.
After searching around, it looks like RTMPE is nothing more than a transmission encryption that prevents a stream from being intercepted by a "middle man", analogous to wifi encryptions that prevent others from capturing your wifi network packets. If my understanding is correct, then this doesn't actually have anything to do with "stolen" content, right?
I just saw the real time counter pass over 7 million downloads at 7:29am Pacific. At this rate, the download record will be about 8.3 million downloads. I think that's a very respectable number considering they were shooting for 5 million.
Looking at the world download map at spreadfirefox.com, the US is the leading country at 2.3 million downloads, but surprisingly to me, Germany is in 2nd place at nearly 475,000. I wonder why Firefox that popular in Germany. Anyone got any ideas?
I think there are two kinds of beauty in code: visual and logical. Visually beautiful code is code that is formatted well, easy to skim through, and easy to read. This includes things like defining useful variable/function names and writing understandable comments. Logically beautiful code is code that is designed to fit together well, makes a lot of sense, and leaves no confusion. It expresses its intent in the simplest and cleanest way possible.
I think getting code to be logically beautiful is much harder of the two. It takes a lot of insight to see a simpler and cleaner way of expressing the same thing. To use a math analogy, a coder might get his code to work with this:
F = (0.25 * m * x * a * 4) / x
but not realize that it can be simplified to this:
F = m * a
You can teach people how to be visually beautiful with their code, but when it comes to logical beauty, they either have it, or they don't.
There's one subtle thing I liked about the US SNES controller design, the one with the purple buttons. The X and Y buttons are curved inward while the A and B buttons were curved outward. In the heat of the action, this made it much easier to tell which buttons I should be pressing without looking down, because I knew how the X and Y buttons should feel, and I knew how the A and B buttons should feel. It's a feature that I don't see in modern controllers.
"Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing technique that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program. If the program fails (for example, by crashing, or by failing built-in code assertions), the defects can be noted."
"Protecting intellectual property spurs investment and thereby the creation of new technologies and creative entertainment." - So far, the protection of intellectual property seems to spur lawsuits that prevent new technologies from appearing or staying on the market, such as XM receivers with digital recording capabilities. What new technologies exist from the protection of IP? DRM-type technologies that customers didn't ask for?
"Google and YouTube wouldn't be here if not for investment in software and technologies spurred by patent and copyright laws" - I thought Google and YouTube were here because they created useful tools that consumers want. What patent and copyright laws enable Google and YouTube to exist?
I remember reading something about how the movie industry was once afraid that the rising popularity of the television would end up destroying their business, because people could simply entertain themselves at home for free, instead of going out to entertain themselves with a movie. One could make the point that if everyone just watched TV, then no one would want to make any movies.
But that never happened, because movies were a different form of entertainment than TV. It had a bigger screen better sound, and then there's the social experience of going out with your friends. In today's terms, I think the same is still true for movies. While people could download a movie to watch it, they'll pay to watch it in a good theater with few annoyances.
But for music and software, I've drawn a blank on that one. How do you get people to enjoy the experience of buying music and software? By making it cheaper and an easier decision for the consumer? By making it more convenient somehow? By selling music CDs at social places like coffee houses? Those are my guesses.
Otherwise, most places I found searching for etc was people mentioning it in various posts and articles. Some posts say the 'e' means user-Editable or human-Editable. But I can't find any place that offically confirms this.
On a side note, some places say that/usr stands for Unix System Resources.
If they find that "making available" violates the distribution rights of copyright laws, then we could be in big trouble, because ANYONE connected to the Internet can easily become a distributor simply by making a shared folder and dropping a few files in there. That means there could easily be millions and millions of people breaking the law for being illegal distributors.
That's somewhat like setting the freeway speed limit to 45mph when every driver on the freeway safely and easily drives at 65mph. Such a strict speed limit automatically classifies everyone as breaking the law.
How different is downloading a movie compared to programming your VCR or TiVo to record a channel at a certain time for a movie? In either case, you end up having a copy of the movie for yourself. The only difference is that the downloaded movie is unedited, uninterrupted by commercials, and at your convenience. So from this perspective, why would anyone think that movie downloading is a big deal?
Sure it is. I have been putting my extra daylight into a savings account, and with the interest accumulated over the years, I have enough to live for at least 6 months without it until I can find some more daylight.
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Are you referring to something like these countdown timers in China? The first time I saw them, I thought it was a great idea. It takes the guesswork out of when the light changes. I wish we had them here in the US.
It might work if the girls are there to provide "stress relief". It's kind of like some companies where they bring in some massage therapists to give free massages to employees who want one. That's about the only way I can see this "programmer cheerleader" concept working.
Earlier tonight, I compared the same picture on the same site using 3 different computer monitors side by side and 3 different tablet screens.
To me, the white/blue part of the dress is sort of a pale light blue on all 6 screens. But they're different shades of pale blue. On one screen, the blue stand outs a little stronger. On another screen, the blue seems more faded towards white.
For the black/gold/tan part of the dress, on some screens, the tan color seems more faded, making the darker part stronger, and I COULD call it black. I know it's not PURE black, and it's not as black as that cow patch thing in to the left of the dress. But I could call it a shade of black. On other screens, the tan part stands out more, and I would definitely not call that part black. I don't know if I would call it "gold", but I would call it tan/light brownish.
So I think the screen settings is one variable that contributes to what colors the user thinks they see in the dress picture.
For the situations where different people are looking at the same screen or printed photograph, my guess is that the variability comes from the color/brightness/etc sensitivity of their eyes. For example, in my own eyes, one of them sees the wall in a brighter shade of white (and possibly slightly red tinted) than the other eye. Perhaps those who aren't as sensitive to blue might see the blue/white part of the dress as a shade of white, and call it white.
I guess this picture is just one of those freak pictures where the colors are at some borderline that could be interpreted as one shade of color or another.
Me too. I'm waiting for the rumored Athlon X4 at 45W TDP. It's supposed to come out in the 2nd qtr of this year. I think it would make a perfect upgrade for my Athlon X2 4850e. As for the price tag, the 65W 9350e has been sitting on Newegg at about the same price as the 125W 9950, so it might take a while before the 45W X4 hit the $100 mark.
According to wiki, the first Zune was released on Nov of 2006.
That sounds very plausible. I've worked on software that mistakenly assumed that each date of the year was exact 24 hours (86,400 seconds) long, which is not true on days where Daylight Saving Time takes effect or ends. On those dates, the day is 23 or 25 hours long, and the software would display stuff off by an hour or in rare cases crash, because the calculations put the stuff on the next or previous date. So I think your guess has a good chance of being right.
I wonder if these reports will start taking into account usage caps employed by some ISPs. After all, what would be the point of upgrading from a 5 Mbps line to a hypothetical 500 Mbps line if your ISP caps your usage to the same number of GB in both cases? It would LOOK like ISPs are offering faster speeds, but you wouldn't be able to use that faster line to do more than you could with the slower line.
After searching around, it looks like RTMPE is nothing more than a transmission encryption that prevents a stream from being intercepted by a "middle man", analogous to wifi encryptions that prevent others from capturing your wifi network packets. If my understanding is correct, then this doesn't actually have anything to do with "stolen" content, right?
I just saw the real time counter pass over 7 million downloads at 7:29am Pacific. At this rate, the download record will be about 8.3 million downloads. I think that's a very respectable number considering they were shooting for 5 million.
Looking at the world download map at spreadfirefox.com, the US is the leading country at 2.3 million downloads, but surprisingly to me, Germany is in 2nd place at nearly 475,000. I wonder why Firefox that popular in Germany. Anyone got any ideas?
Because a teacher can't run her fingernails on a whiteboard to shut the class up.
I think there are two kinds of beauty in code: visual and logical. Visually beautiful code is code that is formatted well, easy to skim through, and easy to read. This includes things like defining useful variable/function names and writing understandable comments. Logically beautiful code is code that is designed to fit together well, makes a lot of sense, and leaves no confusion. It expresses its intent in the simplest and cleanest way possible.
I think getting code to be logically beautiful is much harder of the two. It takes a lot of insight to see a simpler and cleaner way of expressing the same thing. To use a math analogy, a coder might get his code to work with this:
F = (0.25 * m * x * a * 4) / x
but not realize that it can be simplified to this:
F = m * a
You can teach people how to be visually beautiful with their code, but when it comes to logical beauty, they either have it, or they don't.
There's one subtle thing I liked about the US SNES controller design, the one with the purple buttons. The X and Y buttons are curved inward while the A and B buttons were curved outward. In the heat of the action, this made it much easier to tell which buttons I should be pressing without looking down, because I knew how the X and Y buttons should feel, and I knew how the A and B buttons should feel. It's a feature that I don't see in modern controllers.
From wiki:
"Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing technique that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program. If the program fails (for example, by crashing, or by failing built-in code assertions), the defects can be noted."
Kirk: We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill. We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill men!
How do I turn off my computer? And what's a book?
"Protecting intellectual property spurs investment and thereby the creation of new technologies and creative entertainment."
- So far, the protection of intellectual property seems to spur lawsuits that prevent new technologies from appearing or staying on the market, such as XM receivers with digital recording capabilities. What new technologies exist from the protection of IP? DRM-type technologies that customers didn't ask for?
"Google and YouTube wouldn't be here if not for investment in software and technologies spurred by patent and copyright laws"
- I thought Google and YouTube were here because they created useful tools that consumers want. What patent and copyright laws enable Google and YouTube to exist?
I remember reading something about how the movie industry was once afraid that the rising popularity of the television would end up destroying their business, because people could simply entertain themselves at home for free, instead of going out to entertain themselves with a movie. One could make the point that if everyone just watched TV, then no one would want to make any movies.
But that never happened, because movies were a different form of entertainment than TV. It had a bigger screen better sound, and then there's the social experience of going out with your friends. In today's terms, I think the same is still true for movies. While people could download a movie to watch it, they'll pay to watch it in a good theater with few annoyances.
But for music and software, I've drawn a blank on that one. How do you get people to enjoy the experience of buying music and software? By making it cheaper and an easier decision for the consumer? By making it more convenient somehow? By selling music CDs at social places like coffee houses? Those are my guesses.
The closest "reliable" source might be here.
/usr stands for Unix System Resources.
Otherwise, most places I found searching for etc was people mentioning it in various posts and articles. Some posts say the 'e' means user-Editable or human-Editable. But I can't find any place that offically confirms this.
On a side note, some places say that
Editable Text Configuration
If they find that "making available" violates the distribution rights of copyright laws, then we could be in big trouble, because ANYONE connected to the Internet can easily become a distributor simply by making a shared folder and dropping a few files in there. That means there could easily be millions and millions of people breaking the law for being illegal distributors.
That's somewhat like setting the freeway speed limit to 45mph when every driver on the freeway safely and easily drives at 65mph. Such a strict speed limit automatically classifies everyone as breaking the law.
How different is downloading a movie compared to programming your VCR or TiVo to record a channel at a certain time for a movie? In either case, you end up having a copy of the movie for yourself. The only difference is that the downloaded movie is unedited, uninterrupted by commercials, and at your convenience. So from this perspective, why would anyone think that movie downloading is a big deal?
Sure it is. I have been putting my extra daylight into a savings account, and with the interest accumulated over the years, I have enough to live for at least 6 months without it until I can find some more daylight.
"I am not a computer geek, but I must admit that it was easy to switch to the new software."
It's lines like these that give Linux more promise and hopefully brings out the "If they can switch, so can we" line of thinking among others.
Conversely, I'm sure Microsoft HATES lines like these.
or ie7.com