Tom Perkins... said that he has failed often, but that his successes outnumber his failures.
On a related note, something I've picked up on from my grandfather and grandfather-in-law (both successful businessmen), is it's not that they never made mistakes, but that they never made the same mistake twice.
Failure is like money: inherently, it's neither good nor bad, what matters is what you do with it
I find it interesting that in the split-screen presentation, the live video can have a completely different angle than the motion capture video. It looked wrong at first (wait, he's supposed to be facing me...) until I realized that the motion capture video can be rendered from any angle at all. There's absolutely no connection other than time sync between the live and motion capture video.
Then there's the distance. I noticed that on the universal machine the subject was quite a bit farther away in the live video than in the motion capture video. Again, there's no correlation between his physical distance and the distance-from-the-viewer at which he's rendered.
There's probably a practical application of this observation, but I can't think of it at the moment.
"Is the torture of an "enemy of the state" wrong if it preserves life?"
Yes. Who is an Enemy of the state? how is it determined? where is their trial? History has shown...
Couple of weeks ago, I was at their place and I noticed the stepper. Under the bed in the bedroom (it used to stay in front of the TV in the living room), collecting dust.
I spent three years working as a mover. In that time, I moved many, many steppers/excercise bikes/treadmills/nordictracks, and in all that time moved exactly one that wasn't dusty from neglect. My wife keeps asking for one, but I won't agree until she commits to exercising first.
I'm also raising small children, so I know how it is.
Because I'm a programmer and my schedule isn't appointment driven, I take off for the gym between 1 and 3 pm. Then I work a couple hours in the evening after the kids are in bed. Why 1-3 pm? Because I'm useless then anyway. I'll sit and stare through my monitor getting nothing done, and then snap out of it 90 minutes later wondering where the time went.
Of course, YMWV with your job/kids/boss situation.
The only way to know the correct translation is to know the context of the word, which is not always easy.
Generally speaking, computers struggle with any kind of context-dependence. It's no accident that the grammars that underlie programming languages are context-free, whereas natural languages tend to be context-sensitive.
Which helps explain why Babelfish sucks. It can't help itself. <flying_assumption>It's sucking the least that it can.</flying_assumption>
The fewer people there are to employ (feed & shelter), the fewer consumers are necessary to keep them in work. Which is the chicken, and which is the egg? I'm starting to wonder if humanity has reached critical mass, so that social/environmental pressures are forcing us to begin involuntarily thinning our numbers. Last I heard, birth rates across the first world were at historical lows and falling. (No, I don't have a link, sorry.)
Getting off track here, though - that's for a whole separate discussion.
The problem was caused by the record labels themselves.
Record companies. Is there any evil they don't cause?
I chalk it up to people being dishonest about their basic motives for downloading music and movies. "Record companies charge too much..." "They don't pay the artist..." "They need to adapt to digital distribution methods..." I think these are all pretty much just excuses to use the torrents. "I can set my own price, and all the money goes directly to the artist? Well fuck it, I'm going to get it for free anyway."
People like free stuff. I don't expect this experiment by Radiohead to be successful enough to trigger widespread adoption. A shame, really.
Interesting research. I'll have to check it out. In the meantime, here's my obligatory retort in any hand-problem related thread:
Get off your butt and go exercise. Whatever the cause, *if* you have hand problems, exercise *may* help. It works wonders for me, and I spend 50 hours a week typing on the computer. Even if it doesn't help your carpal tunnels, it's good for you in lots of other ways. Don't argue, just do it.
Why do so many people ignore the often-cited reason for not switching to Vista? DRM...
DRM is ignored? Hardly. Especially not here on/. - when it comes to Vista, that's pretty much all we talk about. Even TFA complained about DRM. (You did RTFA, right?)
Just for giggles, here's something I actually like about Vista that's rarely discussed outside of MS press releases: graphics rendering moved off the CPU onto the GPU. I've thought this would be a great idea for years, except that I don't write operating systems.
The laws that forbid common carriers from interfering with voice transmissions on ordinary phone lines do not apply to text messages.
Then that needs to change. Text messages are closer to speech than either campaign donations or flag burning. This isn't strictly a first amendment issue (since the first amendment only applies to the gummint), but for purposes of content voice transmission == text transmissions.
Plus, wireless carriers (in the U.S.) are a near-monopoly. If the three or four of them all adopt the same policy, then the group they're trying to squelch is completely locked out from that medium.
Materials designed around helping men with women? That's a new one.
Anyway, my point wasn't that I'm the "sole possessor of this great hidden nugget of wisdom." My original post was pointed squarely at self-deprecating tone of the post to which I was responding. In my experience, nerds spend way too much time kicking themselves when they're down, so they don't need anyone to help them. There's been a handful of posts just in this sub-thread that illustrate my point nicely..."Women are only interested in money"..."Women will use me for my computer skills and then discard me"..."Women are only after jocks"...etc.
I had a roommate in college that told me one time "Whenever I see a beautiful girl walking down the street, I figure she's probably laughing at me." Ouch. The first step is to stop the mantra-like chanting in our heads repeating these kinds of lies. Probably a *few* girls laughed at my roommate, but it's highly unlikely *most* or *all* of them did. His over-generalization did more damage to his self-esteem (and his dating prospects) than the derisive laughter of pretty girls.
Confidence is sexy, according to my wife and most of her girlfriends. Be nervous, introspective, self-conscious, and "girls don't like nerds" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Perhaps in the future these fine financial journalists, when dealing with matters surrounding technology, should do their fucking jobs and talk to the actual fucking people who know about the fucking technology, as opposed to a pack of fucking litigous bastards whose business model amounted to extorting licensing fees.
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Tom Perkins ... said that he has failed often, but that his successes outnumber his failures.
On a related note, something I've picked up on from my grandfather and grandfather-in-law (both successful businessmen), is it's not that they never made mistakes, but that they never made the same mistake twice.
Failure is like money: inherently, it's neither good nor bad, what matters is what you do with it
I find it interesting that in the split-screen presentation, the live video can have a completely different angle than the motion capture video. It looked wrong at first (wait, he's supposed to be facing me...) until I realized that the motion capture video can be rendered from any angle at all. There's absolutely no connection other than time sync between the live and motion capture video.
Then there's the distance. I noticed that on the universal machine the subject was quite a bit farther away in the live video than in the motion capture video. Again, there's no correlation between his physical distance and the distance-from-the-viewer at which he's rendered.
There's probably a practical application of this observation, but I can't think of it at the moment.
"Is the torture of an "enemy of the state" wrong if it preserves life?" Yes. Who is an Enemy of the state? how is it determined? where is their trial? History has shown...
Ooookay, now we've jumped the rails.
Couple of weeks ago, I was at their place and I noticed the stepper. Under the bed in the bedroom (it used to stay in front of the TV in the living room), collecting dust.
I spent three years working as a mover. In that time, I moved many, many steppers/excercise bikes/treadmills/nordictracks, and in all that time moved exactly one that wasn't dusty from neglect. My wife keeps asking for one, but I won't agree until she commits to exercising first.
I'm also raising small children, so I know how it is.
Because I'm a programmer and my schedule isn't appointment driven, I take off for the gym between 1 and 3 pm. Then I work a couple hours in the evening after the kids are in bed. Why 1-3 pm? Because I'm useless then anyway. I'll sit and stare through my monitor getting nothing done, and then snap out of it 90 minutes later wondering where the time went.
Of course, YMWV with your job/kids/boss situation.
The only way to know the correct translation is to know the context of the word, which is not always easy.
Generally speaking, computers struggle with any kind of context-dependence. It's no accident that the grammars that underlie programming languages are context-free, whereas natural languages tend to be context-sensitive.
Which helps explain why Babelfish sucks. It can't help itself. <flying_assumption>It's sucking the least that it can.</flying_assumption>
I always choose the CowboyNeal option. Always.
Anyone got some real comparison numbers ?
No, but that's okay - it's not nearly as much fun as pulling numbers out of our asses.
Now let's all forget about this hard drive failure problem with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!
The fewer people there are to employ (feed & shelter), the fewer consumers are necessary to keep them in work. Which is the chicken, and which is the egg? I'm starting to wonder if humanity has reached critical mass, so that social/environmental pressures are forcing us to begin involuntarily thinning our numbers. Last I heard, birth rates across the first world were at historical lows and falling. (No, I don't have a link, sorry.)
Getting off track here, though - that's for a whole separate discussion.
God forbid Wikipedia might not be up-to-date. Link is from TFA. Shut up.
The problem was caused by the record labels themselves.
Record companies. Is there any evil they don't cause?
I chalk it up to people being dishonest about their basic motives for downloading music and movies. "Record companies charge too much..." "They don't pay the artist..." "They need to adapt to digital distribution methods..." I think these are all pretty much just excuses to use the torrents. "I can set my own price, and all the money goes directly to the artist? Well fuck it, I'm going to get it for free anyway."
People like free stuff. I don't expect this experiment by Radiohead to be successful enough to trigger widespread adoption. A shame, really.
Interesting research. I'll have to check it out. In the meantime, here's my obligatory retort in any hand-problem related thread:
Get off your butt and go exercise. Whatever the cause, *if* you have hand problems, exercise *may* help. It works wonders for me, and I spend 50 hours a week typing on the computer. Even if it doesn't help your carpal tunnels, it's good for you in lots of other ways. Don't argue, just do it.
IANAD, YMMV. (DNRTFA. Yet.)
The article is probably extra confusing to non-physics people because most probably didn't know time wasn't space-like to begin with.
Advanced cake recipes are probably extra confusing to cats, because most of them can't conceive of creating baked goods to begin with.
This gets insightful? It's too bad "spinful" is not available.
It'll rhyme with "meh," and be accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders.
Why do so many people ignore the often-cited reason for not switching to Vista? DRM...
DRM is ignored? Hardly. Especially not here on /. - when it comes to Vista, that's pretty much all we talk about. Even TFA complained about DRM. (You did RTFA, right?)
Just for giggles, here's something I actually like about Vista that's rarely discussed outside of MS press releases: graphics rendering moved off the CPU onto the GPU. I've thought this would be a great idea for years, except that I don't write operating systems.
The laws that forbid common carriers from interfering with voice transmissions on ordinary phone lines do not apply to text messages.
Then that needs to change. Text messages are closer to speech than either campaign donations or flag burning. This isn't strictly a first amendment issue (since the first amendment only applies to the gummint), but for purposes of content voice transmission == text transmissions.
Plus, wireless carriers (in the U.S.) are a near-monopoly. If the three or four of them all adopt the same policy, then the group they're trying to squelch is completely locked out from that medium.
Materials designed around helping men with women? That's a new one. Anyway, my point wasn't that I'm the "sole possessor of this great hidden nugget of wisdom." My original post was pointed squarely at self-deprecating tone of the post to which I was responding. In my experience, nerds spend way too much time kicking themselves when they're down, so they don't need anyone to help them. There's been a handful of posts just in this sub-thread that illustrate my point nicely..."Women are only interested in money"..."Women will use me for my computer skills and then discard me"..."Women are only after jocks"...etc. I had a roommate in college that told me one time "Whenever I see a beautiful girl walking down the street, I figure she's probably laughing at me." Ouch. The first step is to stop the mantra-like chanting in our heads repeating these kinds of lies. Probably a *few* girls laughed at my roommate, but it's highly unlikely *most* or *all* of them did. His over-generalization did more damage to his self-esteem (and his dating prospects) than the derisive laughter of pretty girls.
You honestly don't know the difference between confident and cocky? Humility is part of confidence, but it's the opposite of cockiness.
Confidence is sexy, according to my wife and most of her girlfriends. Be nervous, introspective, self-conscious, and "girls don't like nerds" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Every day? Are you a nerdy teenager who thinks you're clever? DAMN, grow up.
Oh, sorry...I'm all like DAMN, grow up. There.
Perhaps in the future these fine financial journalists, when dealing with matters surrounding technology, should do their fucking jobs and talk to the actual fucking people who know about the fucking technology, as opposed to a pack of fucking litigous bastards whose business model amounted to extorting licensing fees.
Holy shit. Bitter much?
Dumb end-users...smart power users...target customer requires...drool-proof cardboard...
Charming. If you ever find yourself wondering why more people don't like you, check your attitude.
Where else does one buy a cell phone, if not from the service providers?