Analyze the facial features of what is a Da Vinci painting, make the skeletal structure of a painting, and analyze it to see how would a Da Vinci painting sound if it could say something?
I've got a better solution. Get a wizard to copy Da Vinci's painting and the Mona Lisa in magical paint, and hang them up in Hogwarts and let them come to life. but I'm sure Da Vinci will just challenge you to a duel like this guy, and the Mona Lisa won't talk to you until you tell her the correct password.
Well, seeing as how the Windows:Get Ready page can't even display in Firefox (1.5.0.3) without a horizontal scroll bar on a 1280x1024 display it's obvious Microsoft is trying to get everybody to "upgrade" to their standards (IE 7 anyone?).
I noticed that too and I wonder how much bearing this has on the final price point. Trying to fit a full size DVI, a VGA, composite, and s-video onto the smallest of their laptops would be a significant design feat and probably add more to the hardware cost (and not to mention bulk) of the machine than it costs for the one or two different dongles that each person uses. I would assume that the majority of the purchasers of this particular macbook wouldn't even need the use of a single dongle for their everyday use.
Although it does seem like a bit of a money grab, I think this model works for the target group. This macbook probably won't be used too often as a desktop replacement in an office environment. Students in college and university are probably living in cramped dorms. What's attractive about about Apple's designs is that they're simplistic without sacrificing performance. I have a closet full of various cords and adapters for electronic devices that I've kept just in case I need them someday, but most of them are still in their original plastic wrap and it's just taking up space.
So I say simplify your life and get it if you need it. I mean, do you really need that screen on your iPod shuffle?;-)
The only place where I see it being an issue is for travelling presentations where one might not know what input ports the projector is going to have, so you'd probably want to fall back on the legacy VGA adaptor. But in that case its probably a company laptop and the cost of the adaptor will probably pale in comparison to all your other travel costs and you might just happen to have an old adapter kicking around from your old powerbook in the cable/cord/adapter junk box in your closet anyway.
what about our umpteen to the millionth descendants, (or the coackroaches descendants) who need the oil our sewage was to provide to them 50k years from now.. but harvesting not only existing oil, but pre-oilotic algae now-- we are dooming their technological re-evolution!
Surely you're being silly. Photosynthesis is an amazing process that harvests the colossal power of the sun. The total amount of animal and plant matter on this planet I'm sure will keep the oil creation rate the same and should keep that thousands of years/cycle process of creating oil in check. The problem is that our consumption rate far exceeds the creation rate.
If we can become self sufficient off of a daily cycle (use only the amount of energy that was captured that day by the algae, or by a solar panel, or by a wind turbine), then we should never have to get to the point where we need to deep cycle and dip into the oil reserves.
If you can download patterns of different American Idols, why wouldn't you be able to download patterns of different Major League Baseball teams? Yes, you will have to own a liscence to the intellectual property of each team you download, but all Major League Baseball team liscenced merchandise falls under that umbrella branch and are divided equally among the franchises despite the disproportionate amount of merchandise the is Yankees related. From this article:
...the Yankees account for 27% of all league merchandise sales, the profits of which get shared equally throughout the league to the tune of more than $3 million per franchise. In effect, much of the league operates as subsidiaries of the Bronx Bombers.
Anyway, I can see this being similar to the way people purchase/load things on to personalize their cell phones. I'm sure if this thing becomes as mainstream as the ringtone/wallpaper industry for cell phones, you'll be able to find a $5 dongle on ebay and some open source software like bitpim that will allow you to upload your own patterns, download your purchased patterns to your computer, and then share them with your friends.
Apparently its not so easy. After taking the test:
"Out of 1,085,116 people who took this test, the average score is: %50.0"
An average score of 50.0% for a yes/no question just goes to show that the average person does no better than flipping a coin when trying to spot the pedophile.
Funny site though, with some interesting commentary, as ridiculous as it is.
I hate to prove their point, but i find it annoying to have to scroll down under the text to read about the device. I wish there was a gadget to do it for me.
I hear they now make input devices for your computer that have a neat little device included inbetween the left button and the right button. It's kind of circular with ridges on it. All you have to do is flick your finger down it a bit and the whole screen scrolls down for you! No need to click and drag on the scroll bar or find that arrow button to click on! I think they call it a "scroll wheel" or something like that.
They assume that the engineers are working their hardest, which they probably are.
That's all fine and dandy, but if the engineers aren't being listened to, that's where the problem lies. The engineers are the ones that possess the most knowledge about the risks involved. If they are being overruled by upper managers then the astronauts are being put at additional risk that they shouldn't be subjected to. Nothing will ever be made 100% failproof, but there is a difference between sending astronauts up in space when the issue is fully known, and between some disaster happening as a result of some unforseen consequence.
Didn't anyone learn anything from the Challenger disaster? There was a known issue with the o-rings at low temperature that eventually failed. The engineer(s) at that time (particularly Robert Boisjoly) were vocal about there being more testing needed before they could be confident that a suitable safety factor was met at the launch conditions. The politcal pressure led to the go ahead being given. If the engineers aren't comfortable with launch, then everyone involved should seriously give it more thought.
It's nice to see some of the big names in the Canadian Music Industry stick up and fight for this. Although, the big thing in music right now, at least among my demographic (University Student) is an explosion in the indie music genre. We are the generation that was just discovering music during the hey day of Napster searching for all the stuff we saw on MuchMusic and on the local radio. We're tech savvy enough to seek out alternate sources of music. We're the ones that really do fill up those 60GB iPods.
You want to know why these groups are popular? They tour a lot, play a lot of gigs, put on great live shows and are overall in it for the music and the fans. We've identified with the artists that put the music before the money and appreciate the innovative sounds and artistic views that they bring.
The true Canadian music scene is alive and prospering already without the help of the major music labels, with or without all their evil tactics. Anyway, at the very least, just check out these bands!
What is this going to do to the power grid which has been known to collapse, famously with the northeast blackout and the rolling blackouts in California?
How about the transmission line waste? What if I let my car sit for a week or two?
You can avoid these issues if you move to a personal generating station using renewable resources. Set up a solar panel array or small personal windmill in your backyard and you'll only have to rely on the public grid during extended cloudy periods or during calm winds. Your uptime is increased and your transmission waste is nearly eliminated.
Plus, if you're going to let your car sit for a week or two, just keep it plugged in. A proper charge controller will hold the battery at an appropriate float charge with a trickle current that is minimal.
How much will the power cost me?
In this case (just a single solution, there are many other options, but this is just my take on it), the cost to you would be primarly in the initial investment of the solar panel array or windmill. Given that the lifespan of these would easily be 15-20 years, you can justify the capital cost for the sake of the environment. Also, you can use your personal generating station for just about any other low power appliance you may have.
Overall, I think every household in the world should have the end goal of being self sufficient using renewable resources.
Speaking of Turing, this showed up in the references for the automatic paper that I generated:
Turing, A., Wilkes, M. V., Nehru, B., Wang, F. Z., Subramanian, L., Zhao, W., Beaman, N. A., Turcotte, B. A., and Wu, V. Refining consistent hashing and 16 bit architectures with SandyEos. Journal of Efficient, Highly-Available Communication 1 (Apr. 2002), 50-62.
Glad to see he's still contributing to the field from the grave!
Numerous complaints about heat have come up in the Apple 17" annoucement. To this I say remember the test environment. We the Northen Canadians do not run around with jeans and sneakers on. We wear wool long johns and snowpants and snowmobile boots in general. We also are wearing flame-suseptible, three-inch whale blubber sealskin jackets. At all times we layer in the Arctic Area. Layering for the rest of the cool challenged is the concept of multiple 'layers' of clothing between you and your body. I know for those that live in the midwest it makes sense to jump around in an oversized T-shirt, however those of us more north and north of you consider leaving the house with only one North Face fleece jacket on as uncouth.
So therefore, a warm laptop is a good thing, not a bad one. It will provide additional warmth whether you are uploading your seal clubbing statistics from Baffin Island, or selling your gold stocks online from Dawson City.
What do you really need the docking port for though? If you've got a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, you don't even need to plug them into the docking port. You've got 802.11, you've got SuperDrive, you've got iSight, you've got just about every other connection you could possibly need. The only real thing you have to plug in each time is power and external monitor. If you really need to, get a USB hub for all your other peripherals and you now have at most 3 things to plug in. You'll probably find you make better use of your deskspace when you don't have the laptop there and a docking station isn't in your way.
Glad someone else from Freddy was happy to boast our city WiFi coverage, which I think is a well implemented program with a nice expansion strategy. It was exactly what I thought of when I saw the article headline.
The late 2004 image on your link doesn't show the increased coverage that was implemented in the 2005 expansion. A fully updated coverage map can be found at http://www.fred-ezone.ca/ which also has a support forum so you can see what some typical obstacles are.
I'm sure I can't be the only one who might have their virus scan set to something like 2am thinking they won't be using their PC at that time only to be in the middle of a late night frag fest and have their virus scan start up, consume all your resources, rendering your fps to a grinding halt.
Ok, so maybe its a sign that I should cut down on my Red Bull/Coke/Bawls/Speed intake and go to bed, but not having an unexpected dramatic drop in my gaming performance might prevent me from breaking some windows and chairs when someone frags my frozen ass.
Just a single isolated incident (that never happened, I swear!), so it isn't exactly a huge selling point, but it is a nice feature.
A lot of the gamers that I know, especially the ones that would go out and shell $2500+ on a gaming laptop (which they probably get for LAN parties and already have a kick ass desketop setup) have a pretty good sense of how a PC operates and the resources that pre-installed Dell software takes up. Most of them have some sort of additional (small footprint) monitoring software that they use so they can always check their memory usuage, hard disk usage, cpu usage, uptime, and time since Windoze was installed.
Basically, these groups of gamers are notorious for trying to squeeze every last bit of perfomance out of their rigs, and a fresh install of Windoze is almost certain to happen on any Dell machine.
"This eclair is over one million calories. Twenty-five pounds of butter per square inch. Covered with chocolate so dark that light cannot escape its surface."
To which someone figured out the following:
the French Chef states
that his eclair contains One million calories. Rudimentary knowledge of
nutrition sciences tells us that the most calorific substance is fat, at 9
calories per gram. Since there are approximately 28 grams in an ounce and
16 ounces in a pound, 1,000,000 divided by 9 divided by 28 divided by 16
tells us that the eclair, were it 100% fat, would weigh approximately 248
pounds. Assuming that it contains SOME non calorific matter and SOME less
calorie dense carbohydrates, namely the sugar and flour that an eclair MUST
contain, we can assume that the eclair weighs AT LEAST 300 pounds, which it
clearly didn't, and, since eclairs are not particularly dense (in terms of
sheer mass divided by volume), it would be at LEAST as large as a full
grown human male. Is this supposed to be some sort of MAGICAL
pastry?*
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Some Guy C's U C A PenIs!
...Just don't forget to zip up...and wash your dirty, dirty, dirty hands.
I've got a better solution. Get a wizard to copy Da Vinci's painting and the Mona Lisa in magical paint, and hang them up in Hogwarts and let them come to life. but I'm sure Da Vinci will just challenge you to a duel like this guy, and the Mona Lisa won't talk to you until you tell her the correct password.
Because RIAA doesn't have a patent on recording radio broadcasts, and the product has significant non-infringing uses.
Really? Tell that to XM.
Well, seeing as how the Windows:Get Ready page can't even display in Firefox (1.5.0.3) without a horizontal scroll bar on a 1280x1024 display it's obvious Microsoft is trying to get everybody to "upgrade" to their standards (IE 7 anyone?).
Although it does seem like a bit of a money grab, I think this model works for the target group. This macbook probably won't be used too often as a desktop replacement in an office environment. Students in college and university are probably living in cramped dorms. What's attractive about about Apple's designs is that they're simplistic without sacrificing performance. I have a closet full of various cords and adapters for electronic devices that I've kept just in case I need them someday, but most of them are still in their original plastic wrap and it's just taking up space.
So I say simplify your life and get it if you need it. I mean, do you really need that screen on your iPod shuffle? ;-)
The only place where I see it being an issue is for travelling presentations where one might not know what input ports the projector is going to have, so you'd probably want to fall back on the legacy VGA adaptor. But in that case its probably a company laptop and the cost of the adaptor will probably pale in comparison to all your other travel costs and you might just happen to have an old adapter kicking around from your old powerbook in the cable/cord/adapter junk box in your closet anyway.
Surely you're being silly. Photosynthesis is an amazing process that harvests the colossal power of the sun. The total amount of animal and plant matter on this planet I'm sure will keep the oil creation rate the same and should keep that thousands of years/cycle process of creating oil in check. The problem is that our consumption rate far exceeds the creation rate.
If we can become self sufficient off of a daily cycle (use only the amount of energy that was captured that day by the algae, or by a solar panel, or by a wind turbine), then we should never have to get to the point where we need to deep cycle and dip into the oil reserves.
Anyway, I can see this being similar to the way people purchase/load things on to personalize their cell phones. I'm sure if this thing becomes as mainstream as the ringtone/wallpaper industry for cell phones, you'll be able to find a $5 dongle on ebay and some open source software like bitpim that will allow you to upload your own patterns, download your purchased patterns to your computer, and then share them with your friends.
Funny site though, with some interesting commentary, as ridiculous as it is.
I hear they now make input devices for your computer that have a neat little device included inbetween the left button and the right button. It's kind of circular with ridges on it. All you have to do is flick your finger down it a bit and the whole screen scrolls down for you! No need to click and drag on the scroll bar or find that arrow button to click on! I think they call it a "scroll wheel" or something like that.
Just remember to clean up and do a heap dump when you're finished.
That's all fine and dandy, but if the engineers aren't being listened to, that's where the problem lies. The engineers are the ones that possess the most knowledge about the risks involved. If they are being overruled by upper managers then the astronauts are being put at additional risk that they shouldn't be subjected to. Nothing will ever be made 100% failproof, but there is a difference between sending astronauts up in space when the issue is fully known, and between some disaster happening as a result of some unforseen consequence.
Didn't anyone learn anything from the Challenger disaster? There was a known issue with the o-rings at low temperature that eventually failed. The engineer(s) at that time (particularly Robert Boisjoly) were vocal about there being more testing needed before they could be confident that a suitable safety factor was met at the launch conditions. The politcal pressure led to the go ahead being given. If the engineers aren't comfortable with launch, then everyone involved should seriously give it more thought.
They didn't rename it from the Revolution, they just changed the spelling to match how the Japanese said it!
"Wii" is just short for "Wii-wo-wution"!
...and by everybody, I mean me. Damn. I need help.
Please excuse him, not everyone is fluent in Franglais.
And you know what we're filling them with? Some of the most popular bands among my friends have been The Arcade Fire, Death From Above 1979, Controller Controllor, Broken Social Scene, Hawksley Workman, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Jimmy Swift Band, Matt Mays, and countless others. Many of them allow their live shows to be traded on etree.
You want to know why these groups are popular? They tour a lot, play a lot of gigs, put on great live shows and are overall in it for the music and the fans. We've identified with the artists that put the music before the money and appreciate the innovative sounds and artistic views that they bring.
The true Canadian music scene is alive and prospering already without the help of the major music labels, with or without all their evil tactics. Anyway, at the very least, just check out these bands!
How about the transmission line waste? What if I let my car sit for a week or two?
You can avoid these issues if you move to a personal generating station using renewable resources. Set up a solar panel array or small personal windmill in your backyard and you'll only have to rely on the public grid during extended cloudy periods or during calm winds. Your uptime is increased and your transmission waste is nearly eliminated.
Plus, if you're going to let your car sit for a week or two, just keep it plugged in. A proper charge controller will hold the battery at an appropriate float charge with a trickle current that is minimal.
How much will the power cost me?
In this case (just a single solution, there are many other options, but this is just my take on it), the cost to you would be primarly in the initial investment of the solar panel array or windmill. Given that the lifespan of these would easily be 15-20 years, you can justify the capital cost for the sake of the environment. Also, you can use your personal generating station for just about any other low power appliance you may have.
Overall, I think every household in the world should have the end goal of being self sufficient using renewable resources.
Numerous complaints about heat have come up in the Apple 17" annoucement. To this I say remember the test environment. We the Northen Canadians do not run around with jeans and sneakers on. We wear wool long johns and snowpants and snowmobile boots in general. We also are wearing flame-suseptible, three-inch whale blubber sealskin jackets. At all times we layer in the Arctic Area. Layering for the rest of the cool challenged is the concept of multiple 'layers' of clothing between you and your body. I know for those that live in the midwest it makes sense to jump around in an oversized T-shirt, however those of us more north and north of you consider leaving the house with only one North Face fleece jacket on as uncouth. So therefore, a warm laptop is a good thing, not a bad one. It will provide additional warmth whether you are uploading your seal clubbing statistics from Baffin Island, or selling your gold stocks online from Dawson City.
What do you really need the docking port for though? If you've got a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, you don't even need to plug them into the docking port. You've got 802.11, you've got SuperDrive, you've got iSight, you've got just about every other connection you could possibly need. The only real thing you have to plug in each time is power and external monitor. If you really need to, get a USB hub for all your other peripherals and you now have at most 3 things to plug in. You'll probably find you make better use of your deskspace when you don't have the laptop there and a docking station isn't in your way.
The late 2004 image on your link doesn't show the increased coverage that was implemented in the 2005 expansion. A fully updated coverage map can be found at http://www.fred-ezone.ca/ which also has a support forum so you can see what some typical obstacles are.
I hope you were going for +5 funny there :) Apparently Dell figured it was better to buy Alienware too!
Ok, so maybe its a sign that I should cut down on my Red Bull/Coke/Bawls/Speed intake and go to bed, but not having an unexpected dramatic drop in my gaming performance might prevent me from breaking some windows and chairs when someone frags my frozen ass.
Just a single isolated incident (that never happened, I swear!), so it isn't exactly a huge selling point, but it is a nice feature.
A lot of the gamers that I know, especially the ones that would go out and shell $2500+ on a gaming laptop (which they probably get for LAN parties and already have a kick ass desketop setup) have a pretty good sense of how a PC operates and the resources that pre-installed Dell software takes up. Most of them have some sort of additional (small footprint) monitoring software that they use so they can always check their memory usuage, hard disk usage, cpu usage, uptime, and time since Windoze was installed. Basically, these groups of gamers are notorious for trying to squeeze every last bit of perfomance out of their rigs, and a fresh install of Windoze is almost certain to happen on any Dell machine.