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Penn & Teller slam Theresa, Gandhi and Dalai Lama
The "Gandhi with young girls" part is not new at all. In fact if I remember correctly Arthur Koestler mentioned it in one of his books ("The Lotus And The Robot" I think) during the 1960s.
How an F1 steering wheel works
It adjusts the angle of attack on the front wing which influences how much downforce is on the tires through the turns and the amount of drag slowing the car through the straightaways.
http://formula1techandart.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/lotus-t127-steering-wheel/
>> ^mxxcon:
So what does that button he was not supposed to ask about do?
eric3579 (Member Profile)
Thanks
In reply to this comment by eric3579:
*quality
Presentation Fight - IPad vs Surface
>> ^shuac:
Very true. And while all technology products are derivative of earlier products to some degree, I think Microsoft does more bandwagon-jumping than most. Let's look at the evidence.
Java, made by Sun. "Reimagined" by Microsoft.
Console gaming, made by Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, et al. Microsoft gives us Xbox.
Online Music, pioneered by Napster, made legitimate by Apple. Microsoft gives us MSN Music.
MP3 player, pioneered by Rio, made super popular by Apple. Microsoft gives us Zune.
Internet search, pioneered by Archie in 1990, made insanely profitable by Google. Microsoft gives us MSN. And Live Search. And Bing.
Far as tablet computing goes, Microsoft actually has a much bigger history than Apple. I remember MS peddling tablets back in 2001 with XP. Trouble is, XP was never designed as a touch interface. Even as recent as 2008, Microsoft tried this strategy with the Origami.
The innovation Apple made is to take its smartphone OS (whose design is based on touch) and pull it up to the tablet rather than take a full-blown desktop OS and push it down. This is the idea Microsoft is copying with Surface and Windows 8.
Other than Kinect, which is an innovative product since it is more than merely a response to the Wii, I'm not sure Microsoft invented anything. Even its flagship Office suite is based on earlier software (WordStar, WordPerfect, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3). In fact, when Microsoft first licensed MS-DOS to IBM for a huge profit back in 1981, it was essentially QDOS, which they purchased outright from some guy for $50,000. Deal of the century.
You may say, "Well Apple didn't invent the MP3 player. Why aren't they guilty of copying too?"
They are. But Microsoft's history is rife with this sort of "me-too" thing in a way no other company's is. Let me distil my point into one sentence: How many companies are copying Microsoft's products?
To sum up: Microsoft is slim on innovation, fat on looking over the shoulders of the smart kids in class...>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^mtadd:
Microsoft never fails to innovate their name on someone else's product.
Yes, because the iPad was, of course, the first tablet ever.
Cool story bro.
No, seriously though, you do raise some interesting arguments. The only point I was trying to make is that it seems a bit reductionist to dismiss the Surface as merely an iPad clone, when it seems like Microsoft is legitimately trying to do some interesting things with it and Windows 8, rather than just jumping on the iPad bandwagon.
Presentation Fight - IPad vs Surface
Very true. And while all technology products are derivative of earlier products to some degree, I think Microsoft does more bandwagon-jumping than most. Let's look at the evidence.
* Java, made by Sun. "Reimagined" by Microsoft.
* Console gaming, made by Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, et al. Microsoft gives us Xbox.
* Online Music, pioneered by Napster, made legitimate by Apple. Microsoft gives us MSN Music.
* MP3 player, pioneered by Rio, made super popular by Apple. Microsoft gives us Zune.
* Internet search, pioneered by Archie in 1990, made insanely profitable by Google. Microsoft gives us MSN. And Live Search. And Bing.
Far as tablet computing goes, Microsoft actually has a much bigger history than Apple. I remember MS peddling tablets back in 2001 with XP. Trouble is, XP was never designed as a touch interface. Even as recent as 2008, Microsoft tried this strategy with the Origami.
The innovation Apple made is to take its smartphone OS (whose design is based on touch) and pull it up to the tablet rather than take a full-blown desktop OS and push it down. This is the idea Microsoft is copying with Surface and Windows 8.
Other than Kinect, which is an innovative product since it is more than merely a response to the Wii, I'm not sure Microsoft invented anything. Even its flagship Office suite is based on earlier software (WordStar, WordPerfect, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3). In fact, when Microsoft first licensed MS-DOS to IBM for a huge profit back in 1981, it was essentially QDOS, which they purchased outright from some guy for $50,000. Deal of the century.
You may say, "Well Apple didn't invent the MP3 player. Why aren't they guilty of copying too?"
They are. But Microsoft's history is rife with this sort of "me-too" thing in a way no other company's is. Let me distil my point into one sentence: How many companies are copying Microsoft's products?
To sum up: Microsoft is slim on innovation, fat on looking over the shoulders of the smart kids in class...>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^mtadd:
Microsoft never fails to innovate their name on someone else's product.
Yes, because the iPad was, of course, the first tablet ever.
Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers
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Flying Lotus- Kill your co-workers
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Squarepusher - Dark Steering
>> ^shagen454:
Fuck yeah! Autechre is great too! My favorite electronic records are probably by Boards of Canada and a couple of records by Oval and probably more obviously, Kraftwerk and more recently Flying Lotus. Man, Flying Lotus is unbelievable.
I love Boards. New album plz!!!!
Squarepusher - Dark Steering
Fuck yeah! Autechre is great too! My favorite electronic records are probably by Boards of Canada and a couple of records by Oval and probably more obviously, Kraftwerk and more recently Flying Lotus. Man, Flying Lotus is unbelievable.
The "One Album Per Sifter" Quest (Rocknroll Talk Post)
Mark of the Beast, by Manilla Road. Early, experimental, album shelved for twenty years because the band themselves thought it was shit, finally released because a fifteen year old fan heard a bootleg copy and grew up to run a record label. Possibly not the most convincing start to a recommendation. Well, he loved it, and I love it too. Retro even when it was recorded, very 70s, lots of dreamy prog numbers and the occasional blast of heaviness. Complexity, sincerity, wailing guitar solos everywhere, Mark Shelton's incredible love-it-or-hate-it voice, wow, I don't know why I'm not listening to it right now.
1. Mark of the Beast
2. Court of Avalon
3. Avatar
4. Dream Sequence
5. Time Trap
6. Black Lotus
7. Teacher
8. Aftershock
9. Venusian Sea
10. Triumvirate
Lotus skim MX-5 at 241k/ph!
>> ^Retroboy:
That bastard. He didn't even honk his horn first.
'Coooooomiiing throoooooooooooouggghhhhh'
'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwp'
Radiohead - Staircase (snl- 9/24/2011)
Issy, one of these vids has the wrong embed.... one should be lotus flower, the other staircase. I don't know either song....
Radiohead - Lotus Flower (snl, 9/24/2011)
Issy, one of these vids has the wrong embed.... one should be lotus flower, the other staircase. I don't know either song....