Posts by J 3

"The bill doesn't level the playing field up, but down: everyone must get poorer."

I suspect "everyone" is not an accurate term for here. I mean, in such situation, someone always makes a killing. And it's usually those who deserve the least.

Yeah, what about Internet radio?

Some Internet radio is not purely so, since it's merely another channel to distribute the exactly same thing. But other stations are Internet based. What about them?

I myself am far from being a "yoof" now, but I have discovered all new music on the net for the past few years. I always carry my MP3 player with me in the car, and when I don't have it or the battery dies, I listen to a classic rock radio that plays very few songs I don't know -- even then they still surprise me with some unknown thing now and then. Other radio stations... I just can't stand listening to one hour of stuff I don't like just on the off chance that one interesting song might pop up. Only things on the (Internet or not) radio that I regularly listen to are specialized shows -- mostly specializing in metal, like TuffStuff (in Germany) and Backstage (in Brazil). Find plenty of new songs and bands through that.

YouTube and the like, on the other hand, recommends stuff that is "similar" to what you are looking for, and I've discovered lots of stuff I like that way. If you have the time and are curious, you can get caught in an infinite loop that way. That way I end up finding music in other genres I like which are not related to the specialized radio shows I follow, for example classic, blues, traditional... And of course what my friends post in social networks has more than once introduced me to cool new bands (Gogol Bordello is a recentish example).

Priorities?

Too expensive, the SSC? Well, nothing that a few days of military budget wouldn't cover...

Unique remote control?

Am I the only one who imagined a remote control with only one button? OK, sorry, I'll be on my way then...

Meh...

The NotPad or whatnot actually seems like a reasonably funny joke. And that Jobs figurine actually looks much more like U2's Bono to me, but I guess it cuts on costs...

Makes sense...

Well, aren't Catholics all big on penance and suffering for your sins (and your ancestors' too, go figure)? There you go, then...

Er...

"If anybody does the upgrading, it’s business customers – especially those on Microsoft enterprise licences under programmes such as Software Assurance (SA), who are trying to squeeze the most life from their existing PC hardware."

Right, as everyone knows that "upgrading" to the next Windows version is a great way to get old hardware to work better...

Hm...

...and you guys apparently haven't gotten wind of the "gang of grandmas" yet! Still at large.

Pay?

"has helpfully suggested that scientists might like to pay it to get their research printed"

Eh? Many (most?) non-open access journals I've seen already charge some fee anyway. Just from the Cell journal mentioned: "Authors will be charged $1000 for the first color figure and $275 for each additional color figure." Apparently, if you don't have color it is free. Woohoo.

and Silverlight from Adobe

Sold, already!?

Meh

Not that I'm much of a measure for anything in this life, but... I hadn't heard of any of those things. They won't therefore be missed by me.

Glass

Unless you you have plenty of nice Nikon glass, you'd make better use of your money buying the Pentax K-5. Similar performance and features, for less money. Only "problem" is that the brand name does not start with C or N... ;-) Anyway, nowadays all these have very similar performance... I stick to Pentax mainly because I have a bunch of lenses already.

I own a K10D, and recently bought the K-5, intending to keep the K10D as a backup body. Now I don't want to ever use the K10D again, so I think I'll try to sell it... But then again, I bought the K-5 body only and splurged on a nice Sigma lens, I'm sure that helped quite a bit.

Well...

Well, she clearly has more to offer in the intellectual department (not to mention looks) than any of the Republican Presidential candidates that have appeared so far in the primaries, so why not?

A year-long hunt?

I'm sure they were busy solving more important crimes, that's why it took them that long... Or do you say the perpetrator actually blends in around those parts!? I mean, how hard would it be to find the "woman who looks like an ant"?

A pint a day...

...keeps the doctor away... at the pub! I can't believe no one said that yet...

It must be because it isn't funny. Sorry.

Sandpaper...

Hm, good idea, why didn't I think of that! That might make the 6th generation iPod nano's interface completely useable, then. For example (but not only), try to tap the lilliputian letters that appear on the right side of the screen when one is listing songs...

Glancing at that image, I at first had the impression that was some sort of an X-ray of someone's belly, seen sideways -- and there was a phone in there! Then the brain kicked in and I saw the details, lack of bones, etc...

Er... patents on design, on looks? Is that supposed to be even possible, anyway? Thank dog, IANAL, so I am probably wrong, but I thought patents were for inventions, processes, things like that... mechanisms of doing stuff. And that "looks" were supposed to be covered by copyright law. Or are Apple suing on copyright too and the article failed to mention it?

I often disagree with the author's articles, but this one feels pretty spot on most of the time for me...

Not constant

"that theory considers lightspeed to be the cosmological constant, the same everywhere (in our universe at least) and unbreakable"

Not constant, if I remember correctly. The *maximum* speed of light in a vacuum is fixed, but light can move slower than that maximum speed. But IANAP, so I might be misremembering the basic physics a biologist learns in college...

"He went on to advise developers follow seven steps to see if"

I'm afraid you mean eight steps, counting from 0 like a good programmer ought to... :-)

Kind of sad, really...

Anyway, I'd rather dress like Steve Jobs than like Mary Queen of Scots for a day. Just saying.

Cover assets?

Er... the assets are on your other side, milady!

$1

I used to wonder about this quaint $1 salary that I'd hear of every once in a while... until I learned that capital gains have a much lower tax rate than wages, at least in the USA. Bastard tax dodgers.

a real-life Apple insider

Some guy from the late-night cleaning crew?

Faster, lower power – what's not to like?

The price, once (if?) it debuts, is surely a candidate, as usual.

Hm... Could such bugs cause tiny mistakes, of the order of nanoseconds perhaps? hehe

I'm out of here faster than the speed of light.

Stupidest thing I've read in a while

"when everyone is excited by Linux, Stallman pooh-poohs it as a non-free bastardization of his pristine GNU-Linux"

Really? Where has RMS ever said Linux is "non-free"!? Author just prove to be clueless. Or at least careless with his writing (sic). How is this dude part of the OSI!? Oh, yeah, it's the OSI...