It's not always going to be more important. There's really no difference between a sample of 10 million and a sample of 100 million.. at that point it's obviously more effective to put work into improving the algorithm.. but that turning point (again obviously) would come way before 10 million samples of data. It's a balance.
Nah, I have it skinned to look better than any Gnome setup I've ever seen. Mine looks sort of like this with the striped toolbars and transparency, but it's themed to look like Human.
This is the worst slashdot story I've ever read and I'm an avid reader, have a shirt and everything. Make a bookmark people, this is it, one of the milestones of the decline and fall of slashdot.
Here's a hint. How about they compress it with something less obscenely wasteful than MPEG-2? H.264 or even XVID would be multiple times as efficient, and the latter is free so you don't have to deal with this crap..
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Who said anything about ebooks? I was just coughing.. and I don't know if you can just submit a pdf to have it printed with no human interaction with Amazon BookSurge like you can with CafePress (did I say wordpress before? gah)
I don't think POD is such a bad idea. Wordpress has had it for awhile.. a small webcomic can sell a printed version of their comics for a little server money, or you can get tired of reading your ebooks (cough, textbooks) on your laptop and have them printed out on the cheap, and there's no humongous initial cost.
It seems like it would require significant work to set up a line to and account with every print-on-demand service an author cares to use.. why would Amazon jump through hoops to accomodate competitors? This seems like a very specialized situation that Amazon should have plenty of free reign to work with however they'd like.. I think it's surprising that they were even accomodating print-on-demand services in the first place.
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and shouldn't they be constructing some sort of giant.. park? for them to roam freely?
Yes. Also holy karma whore.
5% is a 20th of 100, not a 19th :)
It's not always going to be more important. There's really no difference between a sample of 10 million and a sample of 100 million.. at that point it's obviously more effective to put work into improving the algorithm.. but that turning point (again obviously) would come way before 10 million samples of data. It's a balance.
Yeah they have a worse-than-Slashdot 1996 look yet insist on being ridiculously media-heavy.
They're certainly written to be like 1994.. WORST. HTML. EVER.
You're 10 years ahead, trolling 10 years ago was punching monkeys..
Scroll down the main page, ray tracing will be implemented in DX11, which will be imlemented in Vista SP2 by the end of the year.
Nah, I have it skinned to look better than any Gnome setup I've ever seen. Mine looks sort of like this with the striped toolbars and transparency, but it's themed to look like Human.
XFCE is what I use.. my desktop environment loads blazing fast.
3 more hours until 4/1 sweeps across America..
KDE4 has been out since 1/11..
..the right email in the, wrong place, can make all the, difference, in the world..
This is the worst slashdot story I've ever read and I'm an avid reader, have a shirt and everything. Make a bookmark people, this is it, one of the milestones of the decline and fall of slashdot.
Oh, everything would probably be fine.. probably.
Fails at oblig.. someone link the hadron collider motivator and as many div by 0 catastrophes as possible
Just goes to show how quality "commercial quality" is.
Here's a hint. How about they compress it with something less obscenely wasteful than MPEG-2? H.264 or even XVID would be multiple times as efficient, and the latter is free so you don't have to deal with this crap..
Because it's ugly! Have you ever seen microsoft's widgets? Droool, especially their Office 07 stuff. Even cocoa is much slicker than GTK.
"All it really needs" is to send all of its devs over to GTK for a month and make that not suck, or cut it altogether and use a decent widget library.
On the other hand, it's very close to the largest IXP in the world- Amsterdam. Chicago is only good for America.
Who said anything about ebooks? I was just coughing.. and I don't know if you can just submit a pdf to have it printed with no human interaction with Amazon BookSurge like you can with CafePress (did I say wordpress before? gah)
I don't think POD is such a bad idea. Wordpress has had it for awhile.. a small webcomic can sell a printed version of their comics for a little server money, or you can get tired of reading your ebooks (cough, textbooks) on your laptop and have them printed out on the cheap, and there's no humongous initial cost.
It seems like it would require significant work to set up a line to and account with every print-on-demand service an author cares to use.. why would Amazon jump through hoops to accomodate competitors? This seems like a very specialized situation that Amazon should have plenty of free reign to work with however they'd like.. I think it's surprising that they were even accomodating print-on-demand services in the first place.