After Google's evil plan comes to fruition, I see... advertisements. Which precisely do nothing to me.
Sure, and when Hitler 21k comes to power, he'll happily tap into all that. (not just meaning google). Wait, you didn't seriously think this data was magically encoded in a way that it can only be used a.) by Google and b.) to display ads? Are you really that daft, is that why you introduced your post with bullshit like you did?
For what? For ads. Something that could be argued is detrimental to society to begin with, and has no real excuse for existing. Ads exist to manipulate people, not inform them. Why stand up for that? If you're not worried, you're not paying attention, and if you're not paying attention you're a nuisance at best. But you not getting it doesn't constitute an argument, and what you consider to be an argument is a total non-sequitur: That something is on the surface only used for X doesn't preclude it from being used for Y as well. Only that it's not usable for Y would preclude it from that. And when X is very silly, and Y pretty much the one thing you want to avoid, then you can just take your derp and distract someone who doesn't value their liberty quite as much, or pays only attention to (that they believe to be) now, and what is scheduled for consumption next. Take your attention span and fuck off, seriously.
Actually that would be awesome. I've been trying to get into macrophotography lately, and DOF is my biggest bugbear
Same here:) Well, that and dust on the sensor. But yeah, I also doubt it will offer anything meaningful for that anytime soon, but who knows where it will lead to. That's the one application I might actually care about. Insects on flowers swaying in the wind, even with plenty of light, are such a bitch to take photos of ^^ I end up being happy with photos just because the focus is at least somewhere *near* the thing, compared to the 50 I deleted, and that just ain't right.
bottom line is, instead of hiring a good professional photographer for an event, you can just have your staff or wedding guests run around with lytros and then either 1) use some specialized software to optimize them, much like red-eye correction is done now; or 2) if it's a very special occasion, pay a company a few hundred bucks to optimize them using audited production-line labor
Hey, that might actually rock, considering how bland and cheesy, how lifeless wedding photography often tends to be. Give the cameras to the kids, I say. Weddings are boring enough for them, and wedding photographs taken by most adults are *lethally* boring.
Hmmm. Someone who can't be bothered to check the focus while taking a photo, or the photo afterwards, may just as well not bother to use the software to find the perfect focus after the fact.
Personally, I'd like see more artistic photos such as say a black balloon covered in starry speckles bursting with a figurine of the baby from the end of 2001 inside.
Uhm, that's nice, but I don't get the connection to Lytro? ^^
It would absolutely rule for news and performance photography I guess (or insect macros:D). I'd say it rather increases the opportunity to not miss shots or botch them, but I wouldn't hail this as some radical new medium just yet. I mean, this stuff is already possible with still scenes, a tripod and patience... setting the focus or getting all in focus is nothing new, to put it mildly, and anything that can be done with that is already being done -- but now you can do it on the move, or without knowing what to focus on before hand. Which is obviously great, but I wouldn't hold my breath for "inspiring Lytro pictures", mostly because, wtf is that even supposed to be. It might help people get non-blurry photos though, and it'll be awesome for pervs on the beach haha:P
Well, I didn't meant to say they make it easier than nothing, but easier than metal detectors (to bring metal on board). But sure, bombs aren't necessarily metal, and weapons aren't necessarily guns (gotta think of George Carlin here, talking about bringing "really big hands" on board haha).
If I've got something to say that I wouldn't want dug up and repeated later
I post that stuff on slashdot under my real name, just to be safe:D Safe from giving in to snoops and useless people, that is. Anything that could be "digged up" is embarrassing for the person digging it up, not for me.
I think near the top you'd tend to find people who are plenty smart as well, but just kinda, sociopaths? I don't mean my kind, the ranting one (or the "flaccidly frustrated" as the other poster called it:D), I mean the ones who steadily go about the business of power. I'm not sure their decisions are as much stupid, as simply adhering to other parameters of success than those by which we consider those decisions stupid.... wait, for what am I arguing even? I don't know. I for one bitterly resent our poopyhead overlords, who have very fat mothers, that much I know.
the group "all Gmail users" is less specific than a radio station
Yeah, and growing a tree takes more time than killing your neighbour and taking his. What's your point?
Maybe you would like a subscription based Gmail where you pay for the service instead of the advertisers?
It's called "email". Most decent webhosts offer it out of the box. So yeah, sure. I mean, I have that anyway, but it would be nice for the general public to not be so cheap. I mean, having a phone (and making calls) costs like a hundred times more than getting a decent email you actually own. So it could be argued it really doesn't take more than people waking up, or even just rolling around in their sleep, for Gmail to either go the decent route or cease existing. But that could be said for a lot of things, and I'm generally not holding my breath for it ^^
You know, I want the Roman Empire back, or the Incas or whatever. Ruthless slavery and fascism, anything, really. But the idea to that the future will be ruled by total jackoffs like the business and nerd elite, is just too much. Bring the gorillas back ffs, at least those shut their fucking mouth while they kill people, instead the RPG stuff kings, priests and now puter monkeys seem to be playing. Excuse me while I puke. Humanity truly will go out with a whimper, I doubt that less and less.
Do you think keeping your feet still will make this go away? How, exactly, do Nazis react to appeasement? You can watch it, you can read it in the newspaper. They build and fortify.
Of course it's BS. Think about it. Before this stuff, you couldn't get that easily on board with a gun or box cutters. Now it's become *easier* than before. Streamlined access for terrorists and undercover government peeps, PITA for the rest. That's what taking a long hard look at this would reveal, it would make a whole lot of bluffs quite obvious. It threatens a house of cards. So.... who are these clowns to give advice to anyone? They should shut the fuck up, say "thank you" and "sorry", work until they paid the money they squandered back, and then go to jail for life. That would be the *beginning* of something remotely sensible.
Gmail has always done this, even in the early days, it's part of the bargain, like ads on broadcast TV & radio - they target you by the channel you tune to and when you listen
Uhmmm.... then let advertisers target Gmail users by the fact they use Gmail. There, done, and now the analogy isn't completely broken either.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, and when Hitler 21k comes to power, he'll happily tap into all that. (not just meaning google). Wait, you didn't seriously think this data was magically encoded in a way that it can only be used a.) by Google and b.) to display ads? Are you really that daft, is that why you introduced your post with bullshit like you did?
For what? For ads. Something that could be argued is detrimental to society to begin with, and has no real excuse for existing. Ads exist to manipulate people, not inform them. Why stand up for that? If you're not worried, you're not paying attention, and if you're not paying attention you're a nuisance at best. But you not getting it doesn't constitute an argument, and what you consider to be an argument is a total non-sequitur: That something is on the surface only used for X doesn't preclude it from being used for Y as well. Only that it's not usable for Y would preclude it from that. And when X is very silly, and Y pretty much the one thing you want to avoid, then you can just take your derp and distract someone who doesn't value their liberty quite as much, or pays only attention to (that they believe to be) now, and what is scheduled for consumption next. Take your attention span and fuck off, seriously.
Definition, shmefinition! Bing is not Google, Google doesn't do evil.... notice a pattern yet? Just negate to decode.
Same here :) Well, that and dust on the sensor. But yeah, I also doubt it will offer anything meaningful for that anytime soon, but who knows where it will lead to. That's the one application I might actually care about. Insects on flowers swaying in the wind, even with plenty of light, are such a bitch to take photos of ^^ I end up being happy with photos just because the focus is at least somewhere *near* the thing, compared to the 50 I deleted, and that just ain't right.
Hey, that might actually rock, considering how bland and cheesy, how lifeless wedding photography often tends to be. Give the cameras to the kids, I say. Weddings are boring enough for them, and wedding photographs taken by most adults are *lethally* boring.
Hmmm. Someone who can't be bothered to check the focus while taking a photo, or the photo afterwards, may just as well not bother to use the software to find the perfect focus after the fact.
Uhm, that's nice, but I don't get the connection to Lytro? ^^
The iPhone isn't an iPhone either :P
It would absolutely rule for news and performance photography I guess (or insect macros :D). I'd say it rather increases the opportunity to not miss shots or botch them, but I wouldn't hail this as some radical new medium just yet. I mean, this stuff is already possible with still scenes, a tripod and patience... setting the focus or getting all in focus is nothing new, to put it mildly, and anything that can be done with that is already being done -- but now you can do it on the move, or without knowing what to focus on before hand. Which is obviously great, but I wouldn't hold my breath for "inspiring Lytro pictures", mostly because, wtf is that even supposed to be. It might help people get non-blurry photos though, and it'll be awesome for pervs on the beach haha :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag50ct3EBxQ
"NP hard" makes no sense!!!1 How can something be no problem, yet hard at the same time?
Whatever NP hard is, this is NP harder.
ORLY? Like knocking earth into the sun? It fits your parameters. So that was a stupid fucking exercise, wasn't it.
Well, I didn't meant to say they make it easier than nothing, but easier than metal detectors (to bring metal on board). But sure, bombs aren't necessarily metal, and weapons aren't necessarily guns (gotta think of George Carlin here, talking about bringing "really big hands" on board haha).
I post that stuff on slashdot under my real name, just to be safe :D Safe from giving in to snoops and useless people, that is. Anything that could be "digged up" is embarrassing for the person digging it up, not for me.
Good thing I skipped to the last line, to realize your whole post is a worthless false dichotomy. Thanks for playing.
I think near the top you'd tend to find people who are plenty smart as well, but just kinda, sociopaths? I don't mean my kind, the ranting one (or the "flaccidly frustrated" as the other poster called it :D), I mean the ones who steadily go about the business of power. I'm not sure their decisions are as much stupid, as simply adhering to other parameters of success than those by which we consider those decisions stupid.... wait, for what am I arguing even? I don't know. I for one bitterly resent our poopyhead overlords, who have very fat mothers, that much I know.
Metal detector: BEEP BEEP BEEP, no matter the orientation.
These things, if you do it right: *blank stare*
So yes, they do "aid" you.
Yeah, and growing a tree takes more time than killing your neighbour and taking his. What's your point?
It's called "email". Most decent webhosts offer it out of the box. So yeah, sure. I mean, I have that anyway, but it would be nice for the general public to not be so cheap. I mean, having a phone (and making calls) costs like a hundred times more than getting a decent email you actually own. So it could be argued it really doesn't take more than people waking up, or even just rolling around in their sleep, for Gmail to either go the decent route or cease existing. But that could be said for a lot of things, and I'm generally not holding my breath for it ^^
You know, I want the Roman Empire back, or the Incas or whatever. Ruthless slavery and fascism, anything, really. But the idea to that the future will be ruled by total jackoffs like the business and nerd elite, is just too much. Bring the gorillas back ffs, at least those shut their fucking mouth while they kill people, instead the RPG stuff kings, priests and now puter monkeys seem to be playing. Excuse me while I puke. Humanity truly will go out with a whimper, I doubt that less and less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_lcVVoDIY
It's not zero, it's actually negative. These scanners make it *easier* to bring weapons on board.
Which means it's time to dismantle them.
Do you think keeping your feet still will make this go away? How, exactly, do Nazis react to appeasement? You can watch it, you can read it in the newspaper. They build and fortify.
Of course it's BS. Think about it. Before this stuff, you couldn't get that easily on board with a gun or box cutters. Now it's become *easier* than before. Streamlined access for terrorists and undercover government peeps, PITA for the rest. That's what taking a long hard look at this would reveal, it would make a whole lot of bluffs quite obvious. It threatens a house of cards. So.... who are these clowns to give advice to anyone? They should shut the fuck up, say "thank you" and "sorry", work until they paid the money they squandered back, and then go to jail for life. That would be the *beginning* of something remotely sensible.
Uhmmm.... then let advertisers target Gmail users by the fact they use Gmail. There, done, and now the analogy isn't completely broken either.
Correlation between data IS data, dumbo.
It ends either in insurgence, or annihilation of even the ability to even see anything wrong with being a slave.