Not so difficult. For a new start up company if you are getting paid little and so is the owner with all the money going to the business. You would feel like you are the Next Wozniak or Paul Allen. Where once the product kicks off you will believe that the boss will properly compensate you for your sacrifice as well. Where what will happen when the product kicks off, you keep your job, and they hire more qualified people at the higher pay to continue on.
Back in college someone wrote code and said that no one could break into it. I just stared at the screen thinking on what to try, the program just died on its own.
It isn't that hard, if you design the product to be rather platform independent. I make my career fixing and maintaining others code. If they were thinking in terms of keeping it platform independent, then it is often just a recompile away (or it just already works) on newer systems, as well with older systems. However if the maker is thinking Windows 98 and IE is the way things are and will always be like this, then it is much harder to maintain, and would require a lot of rebuilding that would break compatibility. If such app say used standard HTML4/CSS with Ajax back in IE6 days vs Active X, Silverlight or even Flash. Chances are this application wouldn't need to be revamped. But if it was platform particular, then it would require a rewrite. And that rewrite will not take in consideration of the old platform any more. So it would be HTML5/CSS3 with Restful web services, because if you are going to reprogram it, you might as well have it modern.
All fine and good, but it will come a point where you are spending more time and effort to emulate the product, to keep it running then it would for the extra work that pays you buy the upgrade subscription.
The GIMP will get those Pixels there. but it is a lot of work to get them there. Often what I am doing is just using a bevel and shadow effect on a layer. Just to place a logo on nicely onto an other image. Or just recoloring an Image, or clearing a blemish. It can be done in the GIMP, but just not easily.
The only issue is lack of competitive alternatives. Luckily for me my job isn't in desktop publishing so I can deal with crappy open source versions for the tiny things I may need to use, but creative cloud is too expensive monthly fee for someone who has a passing interest in using the products. I got Photoshop 7 at the turn of the century for a few hundred bucks from some sale the retailer was having. I used it for about 4 or 5 years, and paid a few hundred bucks for the upgrade to CS2 or 3 I don't remember which. I liked using the product, but I can't justify the CC costs for someone who will use the product for a few hours every other month When I could had purchased the software I could hold off on upgrades, because I knew such features were not useful. And would work fine on my system.
In terms of processing, it is processing half the pixels. so it is half the resolution. Resolution is more then just number of pixels and how small they are.
If it is designed for a computer (a man made machine) to read the data and decrypt the data to be shown and used then there is a way to hack it. The best we can get is having it secure enough, to make mass production of the hack impossible or just expensive and performing such hack being a time consuming process.
It isn’t distributed the same way the eye vs a screen. We have a small area of highly dense vision then lower resolution around the edges. Also the color range differs as well. For a laser VR display that 576 megapixel that highlights every cone and rod. But for a display that normally takes up at best 25% of your field of vision past high focal regions the inverse square rules takes place and drops really fast.
There is a noticeable difference on my laptops 17” screen. Small text is easier to read and more crisp. I can actually do ANSI art with full readable characters that would had fit into a CGA-VGA pixel.
Ok we can see the difference between a 1080 vs 4K. But can we see the difference at normal viewing angle between 4K and 8k.
4K technology in general has pixels smaller then our eyes can distinguish. We are at a point of diminishing returns due to our biology. Just like 20 years ago the 32bit colordepth has become the standard At this phase I would like to see better frame rates, 3d rendering, scaling technology.... vs higer resolution that people can’t see.
HARSH enforcement of the laws. Harsh is the key word here.
So we can have have laws against J-Walking. Now you can enforce it by telling the person to stop, we can give them a ticket and they pay a small fine, or you can take them and lock them up.
The reason for the executive branch of government with the checks and balances is to insure the laws that do get passed are enforced appropriately. You can go all out and punish people you don't like to the Max, overrun the courts only for them to push back and state your methods are unconstitutional. However in the mean time how many people are getting hurt.
Don't follow the Conservative or Fox New line, that Democrats are the ones making all these crazy laws, or the Republicans are all for small government. For every 2 laws they remove they replace with 1 law that is 3 times as complex.
I think the problem is a lot of these makers are putting in a notch for no design reason other then trying to look like Apple, sometimes it is just an unused portion of the screen. Apple wanted the screen to go as close to the edge. But it had a head speaker, a Camera, and a dot-projector in the way. Apple could try making these components right to the edge, or left a chin/forehead or they could use the extra unused space for some extra display. The Notch is a design tradeoff problem, not a cool feature.
If other companies are just putting a notch they are doing it just to copy Apple. Not for a good reason.
We all spent too much for a phone, unless we have a $25 flip phone. But these things you mentioned also come at a cost of waterproofing, security, and just reliability. But hey if these features you mentioned are more important the the trade offs I mentioned at the degree they are trade offs. That is perfectly reasonable product. Some people drive a Honda Fit, while other drive a BMW it is just about personal priorities in life, and I for one welcome the different options. I do not want to see Apple Only, or just Samsung Galaxy phones, I like seeing a wide range of products that offer different features and items. Does paying $1000 for an iPhone make you a stupid idiot? No it doesn't it may not be the best choice per features, but if you like it then you got a phone you have felt is worth its price. Is paying $300 for a smartphone out there a brilliant move? No not necessarily you may need an App or work in an environment where the build quality cannot cope or just doesn't have the specs.
I had upgraded my phone last year, so I am not too interested what is happening this year. However. Apple updates their product line once a year, Android Phone (and the few WebOS) users complain about all the features and designs they had copied from them and put it into the Apple product that they are selling as New and Unique. 3-9 months later Android phone makers will copy iPhone features and people will complain about that. In short the quality of the ideas and the originality of them will come down to what device you plan to get, or will get in the future.
There is the idea of Professional Image standards. Where vulgar terms were normally shunned from such standards mostly due to historic rigid class structures, relying on "the Kings" English to be the standard. However today with a multi-culture environment vulgar word really shouldn't be offensive as they are stated, but more confusing across cultures. Many swear words are culturally specific with different meanings within the same language. the F-Bomb in America is mostly used like bonus qualify If it is Good then F-n Good is really Good, if it is Bad when it is F-n Bad then it is really bad. If used out of context is normally negative Vulgar terms really make language complex, in professional standards, Language needs to be interpreted the same way.
Now for internet sites, many want to maintain such a standard, so they try to weed out profane language. Two follow the tradition of weeding out the lower class, but also to make sure the ideas presented are not disinterested.
despite the reality that their lives would be no different Quite true, except for if you are a member of a minority group, or had your legal immigration status changed, or separated from your family, The real change that Trump created isn't necessarily with policy (the president doesn't make the laws). It is his harsh enforcement of the laws, emboldening fringe racist groups to get out of the shadows and harass and harm people they don't like. Hammering the wedge between Right Leaning and Left Leaning political ideals even further. Ok for middle age white dude, with upper middle class wages, My daily routine hasn't changed. But knowing a lot of people who are not me, are scared and are avoiding taking the risks needed to take to further succeed in life.
From where I work and live, I have dealt with people who have met and worked with Hilary Clinton on supporting and opposing her ideas. I always get a consistent response from them. She isn't like how she seems when in-front of the stump. She will sit down and actually listen to peoples problems, understand their view points, while she may not agree with them, she will respect that view and try not to aggravate it especially if it has some good merit. She is honestly interested in public service. Now she usually fails to show this publicly, which is probably not a good reason for her to be president, because it is a public facing job. But I can see why the Democrats and especially the "Elites" who have worked for her, pushed so hard to get her as to be President, because their view of her is based on the Private Clinton vs the public one.
You can Apply for the Position, however being considered against others who are in office, may be taken into consideration. There is you who is faceless email, vs bill who the boss talks to every day.
The people may politically vote that way, and talk the talk, but in reality they are very dependent on regulations. You will often see many exceptions on "anti-socialism" bills that seem to target farmers.
Just because you may disagree with their politics, it doesn't mean they shouldn't benefit from regulations just because they didn't vote for it.
I actually rather like my commute. I only have a few spots of traffic, but for the most part it is nice time for me to drive down with only myself and my thoughts. Being scared that I may have wasted 2 years of my life driving to work, isn't that big of a deal. What is more scary is the 10 years of my life actually working.
Most Experts do have a track record of being right most of the time. It just isn't good media coverage. Well those statisticians were right again about 90% of the polling results, doesn't make good coverage. But those 10% of the results they were off in, then we show how wrong they were. And if you were to look at the data you could see the results were in their margin of error.
For the Trump vs Clinton Election. The general polls showed more people preferred Clinton over Trump, this was true, Clinton got more votes. The polls also showed by some states that Clinton had a better chance of winning but it was will inside the margin or error calculated. Trumps victory wasn't from a fault in the polling, but from the non-experts making a prediction without understanding the margin of error.
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Not so difficult.
For a new start up company if you are getting paid little and so is the owner with all the money going to the business. You would feel like you are the Next Wozniak or Paul Allen. Where once the product kicks off you will believe that the boss will properly compensate you for your sacrifice as well.
Where what will happen when the product kicks off, you keep your job, and they hire more qualified people at the higher pay to continue on.
I would ask the Woz.
Or just baseless bragging.
Back in college someone wrote code and said that no one could break into it. I just stared at the screen thinking on what to try, the program just died on its own.
It isn't that hard, if you design the product to be rather platform independent. I make my career fixing and maintaining others code. If they were thinking in terms of keeping it platform independent, then it is often just a recompile away (or it just already works) on newer systems, as well with older systems. However if the maker is thinking Windows 98 and IE is the way things are and will always be like this, then it is much harder to maintain, and would require a lot of rebuilding that would break compatibility.
If such app say used standard HTML4/CSS with Ajax back in IE6 days vs Active X, Silverlight or even Flash. Chances are this application wouldn't need to be revamped. But if it was platform particular, then it would require a rewrite. And that rewrite will not take in consideration of the old platform any more. So it would be HTML5/CSS3 with Restful web services, because if you are going to reprogram it, you might as well have it modern.
All fine and good, but it will come a point where you are spending more time and effort to emulate the product, to keep it running then it would for the extra work that pays you buy the upgrade subscription.
The GIMP will get those Pixels there. but it is a lot of work to get them there. Often what I am doing is just using a bevel and shadow effect on a layer. Just to place a logo on nicely onto an other image. Or just recoloring an Image, or clearing a blemish. It can be done in the GIMP, but just not easily.
The only issue is lack of competitive alternatives.
Luckily for me my job isn't in desktop publishing so I can deal with crappy open source versions for the tiny things I may need to use, but creative cloud is too expensive monthly fee for someone who has a passing interest in using the products.
I got Photoshop 7 at the turn of the century for a few hundred bucks from some sale the retailer was having. I used it for about 4 or 5 years, and paid a few hundred bucks for the upgrade to CS2 or 3 I don't remember which.
I liked using the product, but I can't justify the CC costs for someone who will use the product for a few hours every other month
When I could had purchased the software I could hold off on upgrades, because I knew such features were not useful. And would work fine on my system.
In terms of processing, it is processing half the pixels. so it is half the resolution. Resolution is more then just number of pixels and how small they are.
If it is designed for a computer (a man made machine) to read the data and decrypt the data to be shown and used then there is a way to hack it. The best we can get is having it secure enough, to make mass production of the hack impossible or just expensive and performing such hack being a time consuming process.
It isn’t distributed the same way the eye vs a screen. We have a small area of highly dense vision then lower resolution around the edges. Also the color range differs as well. For a laser VR display that 576 megapixel that highlights every cone and rod. But for a display that normally takes up at best 25% of your field of vision past high focal regions the inverse square rules takes place and drops really fast.
There is a noticeable difference on my laptops 17” screen. Small text is easier to read and more crisp. I can actually do ANSI art with full readable characters that would had fit into a CGA-VGA pixel.
1080i is half the resolution. As only half the pixels are drawn per frame. In terms of fast movement you can see the difference. With stripes.
Ok we can see the difference between a 1080 vs 4K. But can we see the difference at normal viewing angle between 4K and 8k.
4K technology in general has pixels smaller then our eyes can distinguish. We are at a point of diminishing returns due to our biology. Just like 20 years ago the 32bit colordepth has become the standard At this phase I would like to see better frame rates, 3d rendering, scaling technology.... vs higer resolution that people can’t see.
HARSH enforcement of the laws. Harsh is the key word here.
So we can have have laws against J-Walking. Now you can enforce it by telling the person to stop, we can give them a ticket and they pay a small fine, or you can take them and lock them up.
The reason for the executive branch of government with the checks and balances is to insure the laws that do get passed are enforced appropriately. You can go all out and punish people you don't like to the Max, overrun the courts only for them to push back and state your methods are unconstitutional. However in the mean time how many people are getting hurt.
Don't follow the Conservative or Fox New line, that Democrats are the ones making all these crazy laws, or the Republicans are all for small government. For every 2 laws they remove they replace with 1 law that is 3 times as complex.
I think the problem is a lot of these makers are putting in a notch for no design reason other then trying to look like Apple, sometimes it is just an unused portion of the screen.
Apple wanted the screen to go as close to the edge. But it had a head speaker, a Camera, and a dot-projector in the way. Apple could try making these components right to the edge, or left a chin/forehead or they could use the extra unused space for some extra display.
The Notch is a design tradeoff problem, not a cool feature.
If other companies are just putting a notch they are doing it just to copy Apple. Not for a good reason.
We all spent too much for a phone, unless we have a $25 flip phone.
But these things you mentioned also come at a cost of waterproofing, security, and just reliability.
But hey if these features you mentioned are more important the the trade offs I mentioned at the degree they are trade offs. That is perfectly reasonable product.
Some people drive a Honda Fit, while other drive a BMW it is just about personal priorities in life, and I for one welcome the different options. I do not want to see Apple Only, or just Samsung Galaxy phones, I like seeing a wide range of products that offer different features and items. Does paying $1000 for an iPhone make you a stupid idiot? No it doesn't it may not be the best choice per features, but if you like it then you got a phone you have felt is worth its price. Is paying $300 for a smartphone out there a brilliant move? No not necessarily you may need an App or work in an environment where the build quality cannot cope or just doesn't have the specs.
I had upgraded my phone last year, so I am not too interested what is happening this year.
However.
Apple updates their product line once a year, Android Phone (and the few WebOS) users complain about all the features and designs they had copied from them and put it into the Apple product that they are selling as New and Unique. 3-9 months later Android phone makers will copy iPhone features and people will complain about that.
In short the quality of the ideas and the originality of them will come down to what device you plan to get, or will get in the future.
There is the idea of Professional Image standards. Where vulgar terms were normally shunned from such standards mostly due to historic rigid class structures, relying on "the Kings" English to be the standard. However today with a multi-culture environment vulgar word really shouldn't be offensive as they are stated, but more confusing across cultures. Many swear words are culturally specific with different meanings within the same language. the F-Bomb in America is mostly used like bonus qualify If it is Good then F-n Good is really Good, if it is Bad when it is F-n Bad then it is really bad. If used out of context is normally negative
Vulgar terms really make language complex, in professional standards, Language needs to be interpreted the same way.
Now for internet sites, many want to maintain such a standard, so they try to weed out profane language. Two follow the tradition of weeding out the lower class, but also to make sure the ideas presented are not disinterested.
despite the reality that their lives would be no different
Quite true, except for if you are a member of a minority group, or had your legal immigration status changed, or separated from your family,
The real change that Trump created isn't necessarily with policy (the president doesn't make the laws). It is his harsh enforcement of the laws, emboldening fringe racist groups to get out of the shadows and harass and harm people they don't like. Hammering the wedge between Right Leaning and Left Leaning political ideals even further.
Ok for middle age white dude, with upper middle class wages, My daily routine hasn't changed. But knowing a lot of people who are not me, are scared and are avoiding taking the risks needed to take to further succeed in life.
From where I work and live, I have dealt with people who have met and worked with Hilary Clinton on supporting and opposing her ideas. I always get a consistent response from them. She isn't like how she seems when in-front of the stump. She will sit down and actually listen to peoples problems, understand their view points, while she may not agree with them, she will respect that view and try not to aggravate it especially if it has some good merit. She is honestly interested in public service. Now she usually fails to show this publicly, which is probably not a good reason for her to be president, because it is a public facing job. But I can see why the Democrats and especially the "Elites" who have worked for her, pushed so hard to get her as to be President, because their view of her is based on the Private Clinton vs the public one.
You can Apply for the Position, however being considered against others who are in office, may be taken into consideration.
There is you who is faceless email, vs bill who the boss talks to every day.
The people may politically vote that way, and talk the talk, but in reality they are very dependent on regulations. You will often see many exceptions on "anti-socialism" bills that seem to target farmers.
Just because you may disagree with their politics, it doesn't mean they shouldn't benefit from regulations just because they didn't vote for it.
However for a lot of companies that have Work from home, the employee is often not seen, and will not be considered for promotion.
I actually rather like my commute. I only have a few spots of traffic, but for the most part it is nice time for me to drive down with only myself and my thoughts.
Being scared that I may have wasted 2 years of my life driving to work, isn't that big of a deal. What is more scary is the 10 years of my life actually working.
Most Experts do have a track record of being right most of the time. It just isn't good media coverage.
Well those statisticians were right again about 90% of the polling results, doesn't make good coverage. But those 10% of the results they were off in, then we show how wrong they were.
And if you were to look at the data you could see the results were in their margin of error.
For the Trump vs Clinton Election. The general polls showed more people preferred Clinton over Trump, this was true, Clinton got more votes. The polls also showed by some states that Clinton had a better chance of winning but it was will inside the margin or error calculated. Trumps victory wasn't from a fault in the polling, but from the non-experts making a prediction without understanding the margin of error.
Government can now declare fruit is a vegetable