I wish I had some mod points. You deserve them. Sci-fi is about people. The measure of good sci fi shouldn't be about how accurately the story predicts some future technology. Asimov didn't really explain how a positronic brain worked, or how to program one. He wrote about people's relationships with robots.
I agree with nasa's pick of gattica as good sci-fi, but not really because of any accuracy. Some tech is laughable in the movie. They easily perform all kinds of complex surgeries, but Ethan hawke still needs contact lenses. LASIK was commonplace within 5 years of that movie! Gattica is good though because it explored an aspect of the human condition using a made up scenario as a lens to amplify it.
I didn't see 2012, so I can't really comment on it's value, but you were spot on. This article sort of sounds like NASA beating their chests in some display of scientific superiority.
exactly. we have been able to charge people for content on the web forever. I suspect it's about finding your market though. The iPad is like a filter that extracts all the people who want to pay for stuff. the ratio of users who will pay a subscription to users who just want free stuff is likely far higher on the iPad than on the web in general.
and as smart phones become more powerful more people use them for actual work. I have worked on many mobile apps that are used for on site surveys, audits, and other data collection. My own opinion of the value of that data isn't really very high, but i know my clients would freak out if their iphones crashed and the data was lost. In that event, i would say, "well I tell you to upload the data on a regular basis and it should be in your most recent backup, you do back up your phone, right?"
I know sales people who's contact list IS their life. I've become reliant on the iphone app 1Password to store my passwords. I have a number of drawings in audodesk sketchbook i wouldn't want to lose. Now, i back my shit up. Anything that brings down my phone is likely only a minor inconvenience, but there are plenty of people who could be seriously affected. The real question should be is 2011 the year when smart phones become so important that malware is a real threat?
They aren't saying you can't get a sex game for Xbox and kinect. They are saying they won't license one. I'm certain you can mid your Xbox and play an unlicensed game, but you can't connect to Xbox live then.
The swiss love rules. everyplace i went in the interlocken area was loaded with signs telling you what you can't do. They ranged from fairly benign (and obvious) like, "No Euros Accepted", to the mildly inconvenient, "Men, do not urinate standing up."
Sure, it's a stereotype, but every time i hear about the swiss and their rules i chuckle a little bit. I also think about how incredibly gorgeous Switzerland was and i'd like to go back.
i've been using 1Password on my iphone since it came out. I really like it. a password manager is really one of those perfect mobile apps.
Somewhere in the back of my head there's always this nagging paranoia that i'm basicly giving all my passwords to an app that could transmit them right back to the developer. So far, nobody's broken into any of my accounts so i'm feeling better and better about using it. It's good to see someone else has adopted it as well.
Hypocrisy is espousing a moral or righteous philosophy that you do not adhere to. Netflix claims they like to use Linux and other open source software. It appears they do like to use it. Is there some Linux Eula I'm not aware of that says you must make software for Linux if you use Linux? I hope not because I have used Linux to make systems with only windows and iPhone clients. I'm sure many of us have been there.
The fact that Netflix makes no Linux client is inconvenient. Another poster pointed out that Netflix used to make a Linux client, then stopped supporting it when they moved to silverlight on the client. I admit, that does sound like a real letdown for Linux users, but I still don't see it as hypocritical.
This article is everything that is wrong with the linux community. They are very vocal about touting the benefits of open source and linux, but when a company echoes those sentiments they lash out with demands and accusations of "doing it wrong"
I don't see any hypocrisy in netflix claiming it likes ant, tomcat, etc but not announcing a linux client. As far as i know they haven't said, "under no circumstances will we ever release a general Linux client."
I could be wrong. I maybe missed part of the dialog, but it seems like a saner response to the netflix post would be something more like, "Hey, you guys sound pretty progressive with this whole open source thing. There's millions of us linux users out here who would really love a linux client."
yeah, agreed. tron was absolutely visionary. It touched on themes that are commonplace now, but unheard of back then. cyberspace, ip theft, evil ai, people in a computer. About the only thing that i find laughable now is the idea of an arcade as a popular hang out, but Flynn's does look more fun than Dave and Buster's
also, i'm under the impression that light cycles, the jai-lai game with vanishing rings, etc were designed for the movie. maybe i'm wrong, but working on that assumption i find it astounding that these concepts actually play out as fun games when developed. I also spent many a summer of my youth playing tron in the yard. That game consisted of a bunch of kids throwing frisbees at each other. good times.
secret and classified are not mutually exclusive. there are secret classified documents, and non secret classified documents. The former are only available to a select few individuals. The later are public knowledge but provide the military with an excellent opportunity to enforce some trivial regulation on the troops.
They have rules about all kinds of silly things. Rules like what clothes you can wear, when you can be walking and when you must stand still, what hand you carry your flashlight in, etc. They love this kind of stuff. Enforcing ridiculous and petty rules is exactly how you keep troops in line.
I have no need to even be at the office. I can work remotely just fine. Gone are the days of piles of paper and shelves of reference books. I never have to file away physical files. Most of my communications with my coworkers is via instant messaging and email. For reference i am a software engineer. I am currently working on convincing my company to let me work from the road in my RV.
agreed. ever notice that even with extensive CG, they still do a lot of quick jumps and cuts to edit together a scene? Theoretically CG should allow the camera to capture the fight in it's entirety but it never does. it's because the long take is one of the hardest things to do. The best choreography most can manage is: 2 guys stare menacingly at each other. fists, gunshots, breaking, spinning, first guy pulls out his gun in slow motion and shoots second guy. That and a whole generation of directors were raised to think in MTV style editing.
The one thing I do have to say about T2 was that Cameron is a smart enough filmmaker to know not to abuse the special effects. He used it wisely, and didn't splash it across every scene like Michael Bay does.
is there something important in a gawker account? Most of these accounts are a formality used to access the site. Usually when a news site asks me to sign up for an account, i put in some bogus information and an easy password. what are people going to do? log in and read articles under a name that nobody attributes to me anyway? um.....
He's going to pledge a trillion dollars it to something like stopping malaria in Africa. It's going to go into a foundation. The foundation will make money yearly by investing in indexes and mutual funds spread across American (not African) companies managed by some genius living comfortably far from any malaria parasite.
I'm not sure that close proximity to wild malaria is anything that facilitates anti-malaria medicine. Seems to me it's not such a good idea to risk all of your researchers getting malaria. I know your situation is hypothetical, but hypothetically, i'd hope his foundation would dole out money to the organizations best suited to stopping malaria. Those companies might be Swedish, or Japanese, or American, or from some African nation. The thing is, i don't know how many African pharmaceutical or pesticide companies there are. Even if there is some African company on the forefront of the war on malaria, the leadership of that company is probably living somewhere where they aren't going to get malaria anyway.
Isn't the homosexuality trend self-fixing anyway? If 2 guys or 2 girls get together, and stay loyal for ever, they aint passing those genes on. It's kinda self-policing that way.
I didn't even have to RTFA to realize that it renders this statement untrue.
i think he takes a reference frame and depth sample when the software starts up. then he just blends it with the live video based on a difference between the current depth buffer and the reference one. The piano keys are moving when he's not in front of them. It seems like it's the live video feed in areas that are not the user. I imagine it would look pretty odd if someone were to walk behind him.
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I wish I had some mod points. You deserve them. Sci-fi is about people. The measure of good sci fi shouldn't be about how accurately the story predicts some future technology. Asimov didn't really explain how a positronic brain worked, or how to program one. He wrote about people's relationships with robots.
I agree with nasa's pick of gattica as good sci-fi, but not really because of any accuracy. Some tech is laughable in the movie. They easily perform all kinds of complex surgeries, but Ethan hawke still needs contact lenses. LASIK was commonplace within 5 years of that movie! Gattica is good though because it explored an aspect of the human condition using a made up scenario as a lens to amplify it.
I didn't see 2012, so I can't really comment on it's value, but you were spot on. This article sort of sounds like NASA beating their chests in some display of scientific superiority.
Galaxy tablet? Maybe even a jailbroken ipad.
do you have a multi year contract with your ISP? that sucks.
possibly. blind people do RIDE in cars.
exactly. we have been able to charge people for content on the web forever. I suspect it's about finding your market though. The iPad is like a filter that extracts all the people who want to pay for stuff. the ratio of users who will pay a subscription to users who just want free stuff is likely far higher on the iPad than on the web in general.
and as smart phones become more powerful more people use them for actual work. I have worked on many mobile apps that are used for on site surveys, audits, and other data collection. My own opinion of the value of that data isn't really very high, but i know my clients would freak out if their iphones crashed and the data was lost. In that event, i would say, "well I tell you to upload the data on a regular basis and it should be in your most recent backup, you do back up your phone, right?"
I know sales people who's contact list IS their life. I've become reliant on the iphone app 1Password to store my passwords. I have a number of drawings in audodesk sketchbook i wouldn't want to lose. Now, i back my shit up. Anything that brings down my phone is likely only a minor inconvenience, but there are plenty of people who could be seriously affected. The real question should be is 2011 the year when smart phones become so important that malware is a real threat?
They aren't saying you can't get a sex game for Xbox and kinect. They are saying they won't license one. I'm certain you can mid your Xbox and play an unlicensed game, but you can't connect to Xbox live then.
is that WPM rate measured in Python or Perl?
The swiss love rules. everyplace i went in the interlocken area was loaded with signs telling you what you can't do. They ranged from fairly benign (and obvious) like, "No Euros Accepted", to the mildly inconvenient, "Men, do not urinate standing up."
Sure, it's a stereotype, but every time i hear about the swiss and their rules i chuckle a little bit. I also think about how incredibly gorgeous Switzerland was and i'd like to go back.
Brilliant! Now they just have to find the guy who took the laptop, get the laptop back, and dust it for prints!
i've been using 1Password on my iphone since it came out. I really like it. a password manager is really one of those perfect mobile apps.
Somewhere in the back of my head there's always this nagging paranoia that i'm basicly giving all my passwords to an app that could transmit them right back to the developer. So far, nobody's broken into any of my accounts so i'm feeling better and better about using it. It's good to see someone else has adopted it as well.
Hypocrisy is espousing a moral or righteous philosophy that you do not adhere to. Netflix claims they like to use Linux and other open source software. It appears they do like to use it. Is there some Linux Eula I'm not aware of that says you must make software for Linux if you use Linux? I hope not because I have used Linux to make systems with only windows and iPhone clients. I'm sure many of us have been there.
The fact that Netflix makes no Linux client is inconvenient. Another poster pointed out that Netflix used to make a Linux client, then stopped supporting it when they moved to silverlight on the client. I admit, that does sound like a real letdown for Linux users, but I still don't see it as hypocritical.
This article is everything that is wrong with the linux community. They are very vocal about touting the benefits of open source and linux, but when a company echoes those sentiments they lash out with demands and accusations of "doing it wrong"
I don't see any hypocrisy in netflix claiming it likes ant, tomcat, etc but not announcing a linux client. As far as i know they haven't said, "under no circumstances will we ever release a general Linux client."
I could be wrong. I maybe missed part of the dialog, but it seems like a saner response to the netflix post would be something more like, "Hey, you guys sound pretty progressive with this whole open source thing. There's millions of us linux users out here who would really love a linux client."
yeah, agreed. tron was absolutely visionary. It touched on themes that are commonplace now, but unheard of back then. cyberspace, ip theft, evil ai, people in a computer. About the only thing that i find laughable now is the idea of an arcade as a popular hang out, but Flynn's does look more fun than Dave and Buster's
also, i'm under the impression that light cycles, the jai-lai game with vanishing rings, etc were designed for the movie. maybe i'm wrong, but working on that assumption i find it astounding that these concepts actually play out as fun games when developed. I also spent many a summer of my youth playing tron in the yard. That game consisted of a bunch of kids throwing frisbees at each other. good times.
secret and classified are not mutually exclusive. there are secret classified documents, and non secret classified documents. The former are only available to a select few individuals. The later are public knowledge but provide the military with an excellent opportunity to enforce some trivial regulation on the troops.
They have rules about all kinds of silly things. Rules like what clothes you can wear, when you can be walking and when you must stand still, what hand you carry your flashlight in, etc. They love this kind of stuff. Enforcing ridiculous and petty rules is exactly how you keep troops in line.
I have no need to even be at the office. I can work remotely just fine. Gone are the days of piles of paper and shelves of reference books. I never have to file away physical files. Most of my communications with my coworkers is via instant messaging and email. For reference i am a software engineer. I am currently working on convincing my company to let me work from the road in my RV.
agreed. ever notice that even with extensive CG, they still do a lot of quick jumps and cuts to edit together a scene? Theoretically CG should allow the camera to capture the fight in it's entirety but it never does. it's because the long take is one of the hardest things to do. The best choreography most can manage is: 2 guys stare menacingly at each other. fists, gunshots, breaking, spinning, first guy pulls out his gun in slow motion and shoots second guy. That and a whole generation of directors were raised to think in MTV style editing.
The one thing I do have to say about T2 was that Cameron is a smart enough filmmaker to know not to abuse the special effects. He used it wisely, and didn't splash it across every scene like Michael Bay does.
Maybe you missed avatar.
is there something important in a gawker account? Most of these accounts are a formality used to access the site. Usually when a news site asks me to sign up for an account, i put in some bogus information and an easy password. what are people going to do? log in and read articles under a name that nobody attributes to me anyway? um.....
but in the end it sounds like the jury worked.
He's going to pledge a trillion dollars it to something like stopping malaria in Africa. It's going to go into a foundation. The foundation will make money yearly by investing in indexes and mutual funds spread across American (not African) companies managed by some genius living comfortably far from any malaria parasite.
I'm not sure that close proximity to wild malaria is anything that facilitates anti-malaria medicine. Seems to me it's not such a good idea to risk all of your researchers getting malaria. I know your situation is hypothetical, but hypothetically, i'd hope his foundation would dole out money to the organizations best suited to stopping malaria. Those companies might be Swedish, or Japanese, or American, or from some African nation. The thing is, i don't know how many African pharmaceutical or pesticide companies there are. Even if there is some African company on the forefront of the war on malaria, the leadership of that company is probably living somewhere where they aren't going to get malaria anyway.
Isn't the homosexuality trend self-fixing anyway? If 2 guys or 2 girls get together, and stay loyal for ever, they aint passing those genes on. It's kinda self-policing that way.
I didn't even have to RTFA to realize that it renders this statement untrue.
the free market did provide a solution to commercial volume. TiVO.
i think he takes a reference frame and depth sample when the software starts up. then he just blends it with the live video based on a difference between the current depth buffer and the reference one. The piano keys are moving when he's not in front of them. It seems like it's the live video feed in areas that are not the user. I imagine it would look pretty odd if someone were to walk behind him.
I mean, it's not exactly hard. Download from sourceforge, compile from source, use sandboxie, whatever.
did you comb through all the source to that thing you compiled? I didn't, but i assumed you did so it must be safe.