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Todd Hoff

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Star Trek rocks in IMAX and my neck hurts like heck from looking up for 2 hours.
Damn You Google, Damn You Yahoo! Why D'Ya Do This to Us? | Search Journal - http://search.sys-con.com/node...
Linda went to investigate a cloud service she was interested in, MioWorks.com, and found that it went under. Here's why. Free trials aren't free because they have to pay for the resources for those accounts. If enough people don't convert then there's no business. People don't convert because they expect everything to free. The final sentences of the post: "My last word of advice helps both the user and the start up. Users, if there are vendors with products you just love but they are too expensive, then tell them. Tell them the price point that would be of interest to you. Tell them how to get your business. The end result of spending money on products you like will be a wider variety of products with more and more innovation. And who doesn’t like variety! Maybe Google." - Todd Hoff
Calypso by John Denver (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) vs Calypso by Suzanne Vega (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) vs Banda Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) vs Benjamin Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
Calypso by John Denver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7aM3nCqC0) vs Calypso by Suzanne Vega (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRz9qiymXmQ) vs Banda Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvg4YX1ok98) vs Benjamin Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH0OimqrSnM)
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Calypso by John Denver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7aM3nCqC0) vs Calypso by Suzanne Vega (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRz9qiymXmQ) vs Banda Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvg4YX1ok98) vs Benjamin Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH0OimqrSnM)
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Calypso by John Denver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7aM3nCqC0) vs Calypso by Suzanne Vega (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRz9qiymXmQ) vs Banda Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvg4YX1ok98) vs Benjamin Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH0OimqrSnM)
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Calypso by John Denver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7aM3nCqC0) vs Calypso by Suzanne Vega (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRz9qiymXmQ) vs Banda Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvg4YX1ok98) vs Benjamin Calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH0OimqrSnM)
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It's always Suzanne Vega for me. - Todd Hoff
Can’t squeeze knowledge from a pixel - http://www.elearnspace.org/blog...
"Meaning is found in associations. It’s simple concept, but has substantial implications. To get an accurate picture of “something”, context first needs to be understood." - Todd Hoff
VIDEO: Mythbusters test golf ball-like dimpling effect on fuel economy (http://www.autoblog.com/2009...)
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I loved this episode. I was completely shocked it worked and was so wrong on why it worked. My thought was dimples on a golf ball kept it stable in the air, like rifling in a gun barrel. But dimples make a golf ball fly twice a far due to decreased drag caused by the increased turbulence (http://wings.avkids.com/Book...). I guess this is another example where introducing noise makes things work better. The Mythbusters tested if this approach would work on a car. It did! There was an 11% increase in gas mileage when driving the dimpled car. Now I'm assuming car engineers know this and haven't designed a car like this because they test marketed the idea in a mall somewhere and people hated it. Time to change. I think this kind of car would be a counter cultural badge of honor and would really be popular, especially in the younger demo. - Todd Hoff
Apparently hexagons result in a lower drag than the even round dimples, that would be cool to try. - Todd Hoff
dimples are awesome, no matter where they might appear. - Morgan Haley
Cool, but I'd hate to have to wash and wax that. :) - ha3rvey (doink doink)
time to try this on aircraft. - Joe Silence is not dead
Experimental aircraft that have been declassified recently have a similar less indented pattern. I used to think it was only for radar evasion ? - Eric Logan
Cool Eric. - Todd Hoff
This is really awesome - Chieze Okoye
The Ford Fugly. The Dodge Dimple. The GMC Acne. The Pontiac Pit. The Chrysler Crater. - Josh Haley
The Heart Scan Blog: Grazing is for cattle - http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009...
"Not eating--i.e., the fasting state--for extended periods is good for you. Encouraging people to graze amplifies atherosclerotic risk, since it creates an abnormal prolonged postprandial state." - Todd Hoff
Product: Resque - GitHub's Distrubuted Job Queue - http://highscalability.com/blog...
New lower prices on incontinence, get yours now...
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YouTube - Suzanne Vega - The Queen And The Soldier - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Suzanne Vega - The Queen And The Soldier
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My favorite. - Todd Hoff
Stefan Hayden » The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time - http://www.stefanhayden.com/blog...
People fall on a continuum of being past, present, or future oriented. Past oriented you think back to similar situations in the past. Present oriented you are involved in the sights, smells, and experience of now. These people tend to be prone to envy and jealously, indecisive, moody, do worse in school, Future oriented you are imaging a future. The people do better in school, cooperative, work well under pressure, self reliant and confident, conscientious, live longer. The future oriented people are able to delay gratification, the present oriented people prefer immediate gratification. - Todd Hoff
The temptation demonstration. Can you resist not eat one treat now and get two treats later? This involved impulsive vs reflective action; present vs future-oriented decision making. Present oriented people do not "adequately" discount future rewards. The marshmallow test. Get marshmallow now or get two in a near unspecified amount of time. Some kids give into temptation and eat it now.... more... - Todd Hoff
The kids that ate the marshmallow don't unserstand if-then, causal relations, and probability. They are present oriented. These kids grow up to do bad at school. Before age 4 no kids wait. At age 4 about half do. It takes a certain degree of brain development. - Todd Hoff
Doesn't seem to be genetic, though I find this hard to believe. It's related to cultural and geography. To be future oriented you have to have a sense of trust in the future. - Todd Hoff
6 time perspective factors: past tp - focus on positives; past tp- focus on negatives, they are ruminators, which leads to depression; present tp- hedonism, ignore imagined future consequences, impulsive, innovators, don't learn form experience; present tp- fatalism, giving up; future tp- life goal oriented, high achievers, they don't quit; future tp- transcendental, life after death of... more... - Todd Hoff
Just say no type campaigns don't work for present oriented kids, only for future oriented kids who probably weren't addicts anyway. It's situational. Present hedonistic people never imagine getting caught, so have a gun go to jail type programs simply don't work. - Todd Hoff
IMHO this points out that we really benefit from a mix of different type of people. Innovation, organization, history, etc all come from the mix. The extremes of some types need to be clipped and the approached to helping people needs to be tailored to their type. Unfortunately this is too complex for the populace to grasp. "The past gives your roots. The future gives you wings. The present gives you energy to do the work." - Todd Hoff
The Brain Wave Sofa is a representation of a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured with a 3d EEG. (http://www.lucasmaassen.com/lucas_m...)
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Amazon Video vs. Netflix: Which Will Prevail? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
"The findings? Perhaps most interestingly, according to Nick Gould, chief executive of Catalyst, the participants were mostly surprised by the ability to choose from a large selection of movies and watch them instantly. “They were shocked that this is something you can do. Early adopters aside, the availability of a service like this is still not universally known,” Mr. Gould said." - Todd Hoff
I've worked on a few settop box projects. It's amazing how it has taken this vision over 10 years to materialize and it's not even really there yet. - Todd Hoff
The article makes a false dichotomy, I think. Why can't we have both subscription-based access to older videos and per-view access to newer stuff? That would be ideal, IMHO. - Toby DiPasquale
Damn, Which Database do I Use Now? - http://highscalability.com/blog...
Did you mean "VoltDB", instead of "BoltDB" in that article? - Toby DiPasquale
Thanks, so much for triple checking :-) - Todd Hoff
Haha, I just thought there was a new one I'd never heard of ;-) - Toby DiPasquale
Is that even possible Toby? :-) - Todd Hoff
Sure, for some period of time, small as it might be :-D - Toby DiPasquale
Investing in Superstars « The Emergent Fool - " In return your friend said all they wanted was 3% of your gross income for the rest of your life. Do you think you would take it?" - http://emergentfool.com/2009...
Is this like indentured servitude? Can you really sell off parts of your self forever? - Todd Hoff
The problem of twitter for conversations. I have an alert on highscalability where I see someone had a complaint about how the new HS looks (http://twitter.com/manavid). Ever hypersensitive I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it. So I ask.
My Twitter page shows my side of the conversation only. Yuck. His page shows only his side. Yuck. To know if there was a reply I have to poll @highscal. This entire exchange took way too long and was way too hard. The good part is the problem was fixed. - Todd Hoff
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
Social networks of murder - http://www.mindhacks.com/blog...
"But we know that murder is not in fact such a random matter. It is first and foremost an interaction between two people who more often than not know each other: approximately 75% of all homicides in the United States from 1995 to 2002 occurred between people who knew each other prior to the murder (Federal Bureau of Investigation, selected years). We also know that the victim and offender tend to resemble each other socially and demographically (e.g., Wolfgang 1958; Luckenbill 1977). Young people kill other young people, poor people kill other poor people, gang members kill other gang members, and so on. Thus, contrary to stratification theories, a particular murder is not so much the outcome of the differential distribution of attributes as it is an interaction governed by patterns of social relations between people similar in stature and status." - Todd Hoff
A Tensegrity Harp (http://www.squid-labs.com/project...). Visually stunning and the sound seems to echo distant unknown lands (http://www.squid-labs.com/project...).
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Disappointed I couldn't find more sound. Not even on YouTube! - Todd Hoff
Anyone else have problems with 64 bit vista and Carbonite? I've had to turn it off. What happens is 5 minutes after booting the system just becomes unresponsive. I have to presse le button to reboot. This just started happening about a week ago. It was quite frustrating and I didn't suspect Carbonite because it has been working for so long.
YouTube - Programming Bits and Atoms - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Programming Bits and Atoms
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An astonishingly interesting presentation. What is it about? Everything. This first bit is very technical. The last half shows FAB Lab, kids creating amazing things, and other uplifting topics. - Todd Hoff
I love these sort of installations. They include a heavy dose of behind the scenes tech to create wonderfully enchanting effects. - Todd Hoff
In 'The Greatest Trade Ever,' Gregory Zuckerman Details John Paulson's Big Win - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Our new model of heroes leaves a lot to be desired. - Todd Hoff
Who Needs Femtocells If We Have Wi-Fi? - http://gigaom.com/2009...
One of the biggest reasons cell networks win is because they can pass off your connection to the next tower so your connection session moves with you. WLANs can do this within the enterprise, but not out in the free world where there is no standard protocol and there aren't enough wifi stations. - Todd Hoff
Followers, lists, likes, page rank, etc are all indirect measures of influence. A "behaviors changed" metric would be the real deal.
Holy Hell. A man we know who's wife has cancer just had his premiums raised to $40K a year.
Is that not what the Conservative Tea Baggers Want?? No public option for them Dudes, Welcome to the future created by the un knowing Geeze - ThatDBD
It is an odd sense of reverence for life when I'll pay for a bomb for you, a prison cell for you, a war for oil for you, a farm bill for you, a corporate bail out for you, but I will not ever ever pay to fight your cancer for you. - Todd Hoff
I know killing anyone seems a better package than healing them. My fight is against the bastions of ignorance, those who create the comfort zones for those poor misguided bone herds to operate in. - ThatDBD
Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/science...
Squeeze more performance from Parallelism - http://highscalability.com/blog...
Information is a lot like molecules in a cell. I see a lot of new information but I see a lot of old information recycled over and over again. My first thought is that old thing, that's old news, why bring that up again? But it's old news to me, it's new many. And even if it's old news it's likely I'll still probably learn something new.
You can see this with article readership. An article is published. Does nothing. Someone picks up and it starts circulating. It dies down. Somebody new from a different small network picks it up the dispersal process starts all over again. This is something like biology. Nature makes tons of stuff and zings it around at amazing speeds so that there's a probability enyzmes can stick stuff together. There's a similar metabolism for memes on the internets. - Todd Hoff
Hot Scalabilty Links for October 30 2009 - http://highscalability.com/blog...
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