Like reality TV, blogs are cheap to produce, so they probably won't ever disappear, regardless how low the quality of the average example.
Personally I'm sick and tired of reading about blogs. I don't read any on a regular basis, as I haven't come across any that warrant my continued attention, although sometimes I find an interesting entry on a particular subject, and revisit that blog a few times. However I seem to read ten times as many articles about blogging (usually by bloggers) on sites such as this, and it's pissing me off. Let the effing bloggers blog to their hearts content, just stop talking about it already!
Is it just me or is it a bad idea to make something that completely breaks most programming paradigms, and requires a special compiler to compile it properly, and *then* use it in a next gen console, due out this year?
Not really, it's future proofing. It can be used as pretty much a still pretty powerful single core machine for the initial release titles, and as the programmers get to grips with how to get the most out of the cell architecture, and better tools come out, the titles will keep getting better over several years. Actually it's pretty much ideal, given the desired life of the console.
I get what some people are saying about out-of-the-box functionality, it does seem strange to expect an OS not to ship with default apps to provide standard functionality for e.g. media playing and IM. Are they going to apply the same principles to Mas OS and Linux?
Maybe what they should be doing is making Microsoft include alternatives, or even just a link to a web site where people can do a simple process to install and set as default alternative apps for standard functions. Click here to make Mozilla Firefox your default browser. Okay, I'm having trouble seeing it, but it does seem more sensible than all this unbundling of standard functionality.
There isn't any energy whatsoever in hydrogen per se, unless you're talking about a fusion process. The hydrogen around here is all locked up in water etc, so you can store energy in with it by separating the hydrogen out, but the enrgy you store still has to come from somewhere. The point of nuclear is that it doesn't suffer the obvious limitations of sources like wind and solar. If we move to a hydrogen economy, much of the hydrogen will be produced using nuclear power, at least until we get fusion working.
Beyond the knee-jerk reaction, which would be "yay for the student, and peoples rights" in my case, I kind of think the city has a point, even if it isn't justified in law. I certainly don't want government institiutions making it easy for people to get such lists out of them, although it should be possible.
Coopetition, or simultaneously cooperating and competing with rivals, has long been Microsoft's broader business strategy.
So that's what they call it. Translating the doublespeak, is that a euphemism for "Buying the companies whose IP you need, and crushing everyone else" perchance?
During the test in Bangladesh, Kamen's Stirling machines created three entrepreneurs in each village: one to run the machine and sell the electricity, one to collect dung from local farmers and sell it to the first entrepreneur, and a third to lease out light bulbs (and presumably, in the future, other appliances) to the villagers.
I predict it will create at least three more:
* One entrepreneur to fix the broken machines * One entrepreneur to reposess the machines when the loans default * One entrepreneur to outsource the shit-shoveling to an even poorer village
I know people who watch 4:3 content stretched out to 16:9, and are apparently immune to the completely distorted aspect ratio, they just think whatever they're watching should fill the screen regardless. If a consumer panel contains people like that, I don't wanna know what they think.
I suspect cpdn gets a lot more work out of each client. Rather than breaking the job into little work units like S@H, each client runs a complete simulation lasting hundreds of (simulated) years, and taking weeks of heavy cpu usage to complete. At least this was the case when I took part ages ago, it kept my cpu working very hard.
At least I guess its a new version of this, ran the cpdn client for a few months ages ago (must be well over a year ago actually). I eventually stopped because I have a variable speed fan, and the cpdn client kept my cpu working hard enough to spin the fan up to 5000 rpm, which is a bit noisy. Normally that only happens during heavy gaming.
From the mouths of Cowards comes wisdom. You're absolutely right, people find it incredibly hard to be random. Deprived of more meaningful criteria to base a selection on, they will use less meaningful, or even totally meaningless criteria. Ask me to choose between two cocktails that I've never heard of, and I'll probably choose the one whose colour I like best - I know it has no bearing on how good it's going to tase, but you have to choose, right? (Actually I'd ask for a scotch instead, but you get the point).
If the criminals have to stop to smash it from their rear bumper then surely its job is done.
I see win-win with this device in most scenarios.
The device would be pointless if the police are right behind them anyway. OTOH if the cops are far enough behind to make a GPS tracking device useful, the perps will be able to take 30 seconds to stop and take a bullet/boot/brick to the thing. I'd say the GP poster makes a fair point.
What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!
Yeah, I think that every time I'm in a sword fight!;)
That's the essence of the difference between Pandora and Last.fm right there. Pandora bases it's recommendations on the musical characteristics of the song, whereas Last.fm bases it's on what other people listen to. They can both be pretty hit and miss, but in different ways.
Personally I prefer Pandora. For some types of music it seems to work really well - I gave it a Kruder & Dorfmeister track to create a downtempo station, and I haven't had to tweak that station once, it plays exactly what I want to hear. Some of my stations, shall we say, diverge a bit though, but not as randomly as last.fm can be.
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Since when was there a Mac version of Google Toolbar?
I'd love to be able to search IMDB of Gracenote from google toolbar
I find quicksearches much better for specialized searches. I just type "imdb " in the address bar, and hey presto, less clicks than using a toolbar.
In case you don't know about FF quicksearches, you just create a bookmark with e.g. "http://us.imdb.com/find?q=%s" as the location, and "imdb" as the keyword.
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I bet that ball's going to go a fairway.
Sorry.
Not by my definition of the term.
Like reality TV, blogs are cheap to produce, so they probably won't ever disappear, regardless how low the quality of the average example.
Personally I'm sick and tired of reading about blogs. I don't read any on a regular basis, as I haven't come across any that warrant my continued attention, although sometimes I find an interesting entry on a particular subject, and revisit that blog a few times. However I seem to read ten times as many articles about blogging (usually by bloggers) on sites such as this, and it's pissing me off. Let the effing bloggers blog to their hearts content, just stop talking about it already!
Is it just me or is it a bad idea to make something that completely breaks most programming paradigms, and requires a special compiler to compile it properly, and *then* use it in a next gen console, due out this year?
Not really, it's future proofing. It can be used as pretty much a still pretty powerful single core machine for the initial release titles, and as the programmers get to grips with how to get the most out of the cell architecture, and better tools come out, the titles will keep getting better over several years. Actually it's pretty much ideal, given the desired life of the console.
I get what some people are saying about out-of-the-box functionality, it does seem strange to expect an OS not to ship with default apps to provide standard functionality for e.g. media playing and IM. Are they going to apply the same principles to Mas OS and Linux?
Maybe what they should be doing is making Microsoft include alternatives, or even just a link to a web site where people can do a simple process to install and set as default alternative apps for standard functions. Click here to make Mozilla Firefox your default browser. Okay, I'm having trouble seeing it, but it does seem more sensible than all this unbundling of standard functionality.
I'm down with the pebble bed designs and all that, but last I checked nuclear reactors take a decade to plan and build, and ... we don't have a decade.
We don't?
There isn't any energy whatsoever in hydrogen per se, unless you're talking about a fusion process. The hydrogen around here is all locked up in water etc, so you can store energy in with it by separating the hydrogen out, but the enrgy you store still has to come from somewhere. The point of nuclear is that it doesn't suffer the obvious limitations of sources like wind and solar. If we move to a hydrogen economy, much of the hydrogen will be produced using nuclear power, at least until we get fusion working.
Oops, where's that preview button :). I meant
I certainly don't want government institiutions making it easy for people to get such lists out of them, although it should be possible.
Beyond the knee-jerk reaction, which would be "yay for the student, and peoples rights" in my case, I kind of think the city has a point, even if it isn't justified in law. I certainly don't want government institiutions making it easy for people to get such lists out of them, although it should be possible.
Coopetition, or simultaneously cooperating and competing with rivals, has long been Microsoft's broader business strategy.
So that's what they call it. Translating the doublespeak, is that a euphemism for "Buying the companies whose IP you need, and crushing everyone else" perchance?
What's to stop the person with the power from holding a grudge against some family and making them the only family around with no power?
Welcome to capitalism. Always play nice with monopolies, or they'll shaft you (worse than they do already).
During the test in Bangladesh, Kamen's Stirling machines created three entrepreneurs in each village: one to run the machine and sell the electricity, one to collect dung from local farmers and sell it to the first entrepreneur, and a third to lease out light bulbs (and presumably, in the future, other appliances) to the villagers.
I predict it will create at least three more:
* One entrepreneur to fix the broken machines
* One entrepreneur to reposess the machines when the loans default
* One entrepreneur to outsource the shit-shoveling to an even poorer village
I know people who watch 4:3 content stretched out to 16:9, and are apparently immune to the completely distorted aspect ratio, they just think whatever they're watching should fill the screen regardless. If a consumer panel contains people like that, I don't wanna know what they think.
I suspect cpdn gets a lot more work out of each client. Rather than breaking the job into little work units like S@H, each client runs a complete simulation lasting hundreds of (simulated) years, and taking weeks of heavy cpu usage to complete. At least this was the case when I took part ages ago, it kept my cpu working very hard.
At least I guess its a new version of this, ran the cpdn client for a few months ages ago (must be well over a year ago actually). I eventually stopped because I have a variable speed fan, and the cpdn client kept my cpu working hard enough to spin the fan up to 5000 rpm, which is a bit noisy. Normally that only happens during heavy gaming.
"Tesco and Waitrose" is like Walmart and ... oh, that screws up my analogy, Walmart doesn't have any significant competitors ;).
From the mouths of Cowards comes wisdom. You're absolutely right, people find it incredibly hard to be random. Deprived of more meaningful criteria to base a selection on, they will use less meaningful, or even totally meaningless criteria. Ask me to choose between two cocktails that I've never heard of, and I'll probably choose the one whose colour I like best - I know it has no bearing on how good it's going to tase, but you have to choose, right? (Actually I'd ask for a scotch instead, but you get the point).
If the criminals have to stop to smash it from their rear bumper then surely its job is done.
I see win-win with this device in most scenarios.
The device would be pointless if the police are right behind them anyway. OTOH if the cops are far enough behind to make a GPS tracking device useful, the perps will be able to take 30 seconds to stop and take a bullet/boot/brick to the thing. I'd say the GP poster makes a fair point.
What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!
;)
Yeah, I think that every time I'm in a sword fight!
I wonder if apple would ever use a centrino, though... I doubt it.
Centrino != Celeron
The processor used with the Centrino chipset is a core duo, exactly what Apple is using.
who's gonna come out first, Axl or Duke ?
WTF, Axl is gay??!??
That's the essence of the difference between Pandora and Last.fm right there. Pandora bases it's recommendations on the musical characteristics of the song, whereas Last.fm bases it's on what other people listen to. They can both be pretty hit and miss, but in different ways.
Personally I prefer Pandora. For some types of music it seems to work really well - I gave it a Kruder & Dorfmeister track to create a downtempo station, and I haven't had to tweak that station once, it plays exactly what I want to hear. Some of my stations, shall we say, diverge a bit though, but not as randomly as last.fm can be.
Since when was there a Mac version of Google Toolbar?
Since many moons ago for Mac Firefox users. Why would the official Google Toolbar for Firefox" be unblessed?
Oops, that should have read "I just type "imdb ", guess I made an accidental tag.
I'd love to be able to search IMDB of Gracenote from google toolbar
I find quicksearches much better for specialized searches. I just type "imdb " in the address bar, and hey presto, less clicks than using a toolbar.
In case you don't know about FF quicksearches, you just create a bookmark with e.g. "http://us.imdb.com/find?q=%s" as the location, and "imdb" as the keyword.