This thing is just like Dr. Merrick's desk in The Island. When I first saw the film I thought it was a really impressive and practical interface.
Mind you, I think the coffee-table idea is a bit risky - having seen the scratches and spills my young daughter inflicts on our toughtened glass coffee-table...
Fast refresh rate would have its downside too. Imagine trying to read the morning news while various adverts were flashing away round the page trying to grab your attention.
At least with current online content you can block many of the ads with the browser or hosts. You can be sure that this would be DRM laden so you could not block the Ads.
It's all well and good for someone who is tech literate to say that, but if Amazon are going to make a success of this it has to mean something to the average iPod user - even more so to the millions of cheap MP3 player users. If you start throwing different formats at these people they will just get confused and stay away.
As for quality, MP3 is sufficient for most of the population (even if you and I can hear the flaws), just as mid-priced systems with low-grade speaker sound fine to the millions who buy them.
We need to get the idea of DRM-free music accepted as the only way to buy music first, then stores can begin to introduce alternative formats.
I have to agree that fresh, home ground beans beats packaged ground any day. I also think the intense aroma given off when grinding the beans adds to the enjoyment of the first cup.
I found that I had to play with the grinder setting for a while before finding the ideal setting. However, I also found hat the optimum setting varies with the type of bean. I recently changed to a decaffinated bean after getting heart palpitations from too many cups.
At first I found the brew somewhat insipid, but after experimenting with a finer grind, I now get the same intense flavour of regular beans.
A BBC article disclosed that a laptop had been stolen that contained Marks & Spencer employee details
From the BBC article:
Salary details, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance and phone numbers were on the machine which was stolen from a printing firm.
It is now too easy for huge quantities of private data to be carried around on laptops and memory sticks, often by people who do not understand the consequnces of failing to protect that data. Companies need to be held to account when data is lost.
I wonder how 'average' consumers are going to take to refreshing their keys every time there is a crack released?
"Let's watch this DVD I just got from the store. Oh no, I need to download a software update first, install and reboot. Why not just download the movie off P2P instead."
You must ask yourself: if they're willing to overrule you and insist you commit an illegal act, how are they going to behave should this come to the attention of FAST (or other enforcement body)? My guess is they will dump it all on your shoulders. If they don't play by the rules now, they certainly will not start when their backs are against the wall.
I suggest you document everything, off site and get your CV circulated immediately.
Now you know who sucks, and therefore who to avoid
Unfortunately, like with other walks of life, those most likely to post reviews are those wanting to say negative things. In the case of teachers, this is likely to be someone with a grudge.
On of the best teacher I encountered - who taught well, but also inspired me to really understand the subject and actually want to be the best - was also preceeded by a fearsome reputation. Now I never experienced that side (there was no reason to) but there were many slackers and malcontents who did.
There was no interweb when I was at school, so this teacher just had a bad reputation spread by those who had crossed him. But now I'm sure many negative reviews would get posted, not becuse he was a bad teacher, but because those he caught misbehaving were justly punished.
At first, plaground rumours seem no different to putting up comments on a web site. But the thing with the internet is once something is published, its there forever for anyone, anywhere to read.
Maybee I should check out this site, see if he is listed and give a glowing review.
If I buy a piece of hardware and it doesn't have certified drivers, so what. Once I've bought it, I'm not going to take it back to the store because of the drivers.
In the past the biggest problem I've had with drivers are those for NVIDIA video cards.
It would be interesting to know if someone doing a big system roll-out for 100+ users takes more note of driver certification.
What I fear will happen here is that PC manufacturers will restrict the number of powered ports to keep down the cost of the PSU, so you will get only one or two high power ports. At the same time, powered USB peripheral manufacturers will stop shipping power bricks to keep their costs down.
As a result we will be back to the situation of having more devices than we have sockets. Maybe the solution will be powered USB hubs with their own monster power brick.
"the robots can follow a user almost anywhere to maintain connectivity"
But can they follow you up a step? More important, will they stop if you go down a flight of steps.... I don't even want to think about being followed into the bathroom to maintain my wireless access.
surely the security agencies will be monitoring traffic directed at them.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the proxy server is 'published' on the net, its not really anonymous, since security agencies, police etc. can monitor who is surfing through them.
I can't help thinging that matching images to individual cameras will be a dangerous step, particularly for those working in less 'democratic' counties.
I hope this will be an option that can be turned off, but I expect it will not.
Exactly! No one will ever agree on what makes a great game, but Nintendo are going after a different market. This is the first console I've really wanted to own and one of the appealing features for me is the fun, multi-player games. You don't need complicated AI for that.
If Hollywood were only to depict reality, no one would go see movies. Reality is too boring. People want to see intergalactic space flight, time travel, dragons and people with super-human strength.
If I want reality, I'll switch off the computer and go outside.
I remember some years ago a radio presenter saying that you could achieve greater accuracy than supposed weather forcasters simply by using the assertion: today's weather will be the same as yesterday.
Have we moved on from this position?
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This thing is just like Dr. Merrick's desk in The Island. When I first saw the film I thought it was a really impressive and practical interface.
Mind you, I think the coffee-table idea is a bit risky - having seen the scratches and spills my young daughter inflicts on our toughtened glass coffee-table...
Fast refresh rate would have its downside too. Imagine trying to read the morning news while various adverts were flashing away round the page trying to grab your attention.
At least with current online content you can block many of the ads with the browser or hosts. You can be sure that this would be DRM laden so you could not block the Ads.
It's all well and good for someone who is tech literate to say that, but if Amazon are going to make a success of this it has to mean something to the average iPod user - even more so to the millions of cheap MP3 player users. If you start throwing different formats at these people they will just get confused and stay away.
As for quality, MP3 is sufficient for most of the population (even if you and I can hear the flaws), just as mid-priced systems with low-grade speaker sound fine to the millions who buy them.
We need to get the idea of DRM-free music accepted as the only way to buy music first, then stores can begin to introduce alternative formats.
I have to agree that fresh, home ground beans beats packaged ground any day. I also think the intense aroma given off when grinding the beans adds to the enjoyment of the first cup.
I found that I had to play with the grinder setting for a while before finding the ideal setting. However, I also found hat the optimum setting varies with the type of bean. I recently changed to a decaffinated bean after getting heart palpitations from too many cups.
At first I found the brew somewhat insipid, but after experimenting with a finer grind, I now get the same intense flavour of regular beans.
What is a DDoS attack?
A: Guerilla activism by open source software advocates in which they uninstall Windows on a PC and replace it with Linux
That's one botnet I'd happily join
The main Spore code is on schedule and almost complete, its just that they wanted to include Duke Nukem Forever as a side mission.
You missed...
10. Profit!
From the BBC article:
Salary details, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance and phone numbers were on the machine which was stolen from a printing firm.
It is now too easy for huge quantities of private data to be carried around on laptops and memory sticks, often by people who do not understand the consequnces of failing to protect that data. Companies need to be held to account when data is lost.
I wonder how 'average' consumers are going to take to refreshing their keys every time there is a crack released?
"Let's watch this DVD I just got from the store. Oh no, I need to download a software update first, install and reboot. Why not just download the movie off P2P instead."
You must ask yourself: if they're willing to overrule you and insist you commit an illegal act, how are they going to behave should this come to the attention of FAST (or other enforcement body)? My guess is they will dump it all on your shoulders. If they don't play by the rules now, they certainly will not start when their backs are against the wall.
I suggest you document everything, off site and get your CV circulated immediately.
Unfortunately, like with other walks of life, those most likely to post reviews are those wanting to say negative things. In the case of teachers, this is likely to be someone with a grudge.
On of the best teacher I encountered - who taught well, but also inspired me to really understand the subject and actually want to be the best - was also preceeded by a fearsome reputation. Now I never experienced that side (there was no reason to) but there were many slackers and malcontents who did.
There was no interweb when I was at school, so this teacher just had a bad reputation spread by those who had crossed him. But now I'm sure many negative reviews would get posted, not becuse he was a bad teacher, but because those he caught misbehaving were justly punished.
At first, plaground rumours seem no different to putting up comments on a web site. But the thing with the internet is once something is published, its there forever for anyone, anywhere to read.
Maybee I should check out this site, see if he is listed and give a glowing review.
Now I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon thinking of how I can incorporate LEGO into the testing of the products we produce.
In the past the biggest problem I've had with drivers are those for NVIDIA video cards.
It would be interesting to know if someone doing a big system roll-out for 100+ users takes more note of driver certification.
"The failure does not concern the magnets or the cold masses themselves, but rather their assembly in the cryostat."
I know we don't read TFA here, but is it too much for the submitter to get past the first paragraph.
As a result we will be back to the situation of having more devices than we have sockets. Maybe the solution will be powered USB hubs with their own monster power brick.
"the robots can follow a user almost anywhere to maintain connectivity" But can they follow you up a step? More important, will they stop if you go down a flight of steps. ... I don't even want to think about being followed into the bathroom to maintain my wireless access.
I thought one of the arguments for linux was that you didn't need to reboot - like you do with Windows. So the boot time should not matter :-)
I guess they are thinking of this: Intel's 80-core research CPU.
Anyone know what voltage was used here. Personally, I don't fancy being hooked up to the AC to drive nano-scale surgical robots round my body.
Maybe this is the application Sony is looking for to utilise the full power of the PS3.
surely the security agencies will be monitoring traffic directed at them. Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the proxy server is 'published' on the net, its not really anonymous, since security agencies, police etc. can monitor who is surfing through them.
I can't help thinging that matching images to individual cameras will be a dangerous step, particularly for those working in less 'democratic' counties. I hope this will be an option that can be turned off, but I expect it will not.
Exactly! No one will ever agree on what makes a great game, but Nintendo are going after a different market. This is the first console I've really wanted to own and one of the appealing features for me is the fun, multi-player games. You don't need complicated AI for that.
If Hollywood were only to depict reality, no one would go see movies. Reality is too boring. People want to see intergalactic space flight, time travel, dragons and people with super-human strength. If I want reality, I'll switch off the computer and go outside.
I remember some years ago a radio presenter saying that you could achieve greater accuracy than supposed weather forcasters simply by using the assertion: today's weather will be the same as yesterday. Have we moved on from this position?