I always wondered what the motivation for nitpicky arguments against analogies on slashdot was. Thanks to this article i realize that it is nothing less than an attack on my sexual prowess.
that doesn't have to be the case. that is seen in some scenes where the film makers fell back to old techniques of drawing your attention to what they thought was important. I agree they are jarringly noticable. There are other scenes where the full depth of the field is 3d simulated and your eyes do have to bring the two images together differently for forground vs background elements.
If that were the case/. would be full of retards and the NBA would be full of geniuses.
How do you know it's not that way? Just because the NBA players don't have incentive to study doesn't mean they couldn't be genius level scholars. They could all have powerful brains that would put us all to shame. However brain growth != knowledge. New brain cells typically are useless unless you fill them with something. TFA didn't claim that the rats also studied productive material and began working for the good of science.
A to render a frame the video card will set some states, process the vertex data, interpolate some stuff and hand it to the pixel shaders, produce a frame and swap the frame buffer pointer. If you are running a complicated frame that can only render at 10fps, or just drawing one triangle at a billion fps, inside of 1 minute, the card probably performed the same number of calculations. It can only transform so many vertices, it can only do so many texture look ups. You can do a bazillion operations a second, the complexity of your scene dictates how often in there you can swap the buffer. swapping the buffer is a pointer update. There is no pixel friction as the frame is blasted through memory.
Microsoft is not going to make the hardware. They are going to make a tablet OS and tell hardware makers how to best provide a platform for it to run on.
Unless they can make it magical, they have no hope of success though.
Interesting. I think a screenshot of metroid would hardly do the game justice. The art of the game is more than just how samus looked or how the platforms floated in mid air. The true nature of the game was how high you could jump, how fast you fell, how the different weapons opened up new areas to explore.
I don't know if a couple of screenshots, or even gameplay videos really preserve the work. You wouldn't think a select handful of notes from a symphony or some stills and the trailer to a movie are an adequate way of preserving the work.
In the case of the spirit of st louis, or the apollo spacecraft, i think there is a desire to convey how small this plane was, how cramped in there the astronauts were, etc. It's impractical to let anyone who wants to fly the plane across the atlantic, but i think the museum does expend a lot of resources on movies and exhibits and models trying to convey the experiences of the past to museum goers in the present.
it seems like ensuring there is an emulator capable of running metroid 100 years from now should be an easy task and preserve the game really well. Even better, the code should be preserved.
I've noticed i can only use an ipad for about 20 minutes before my fingers feel bad. There's no way i want to replace my mouse with something i have to constantly drag my fingertips over. If everyone used these all day at work, we'd all have gnarly calloused finger tips.
Jaquith's article claims word press themes inherit the GPL because of how intimate they are with word press. for example, they can call word press methods, and word press will call methods in them. By this logic, is any software one writes for Linux obligated to be GPL? I had always thought people were free to distribute whatever application any way they wanted for Linux (provided you were writing it from scratch). It seems that any desktop application interacts with the OS at similar deep levels described in the article.
Maybe this has always been the case and i was just mistaken but some closed source video drivers and codecs seem to say otherwise.
Exactly. There's probably nothing wrong with selling a phone online. You just need to advertise it. The kindle is only available online (i think). It's an expensive tech toy that hasn't failed.
Nobody outside of the geek crowd knew about the nexus 1. If a layperson did encounter one on the street, it likely wasn't a memorable experience.
"you paid how much for that!? and it still doesn't have the cool animations the iphone has?!!"
Good luck creating desire among the general public with talk of open development and how many IDEs you can use with android.
I didn't mean to come across as an apologist. The antenna issue is a blunder. Its a legitimate fault that anyone buying an iphone4 should consider along with the walled garden and drm and at&t. I just don't think we all deserve an apology from steve jobs for trying to sell us his product. He's a salesperson. The car dealer tells me their car is the best as well.
So basically what you're saying is (or will become) semantically identical to "I don't believe it's even recommended to rely on emergency calls". It's a total bummer if you're right.
I agree, i am saying that. No part of the emergency system is foolproof. If you are in trouble, there are millions of things that can keep help from reaching you. We have acceptable tolerances of failure in ambulances, computer systems, humans etc. I imagine that the failure rate of all cellphones is higher than any of those things. I don't want to use Jobs' dropped call statistics verbatim because he's obviously using numbers that paint his product in a good light, but if they are close to the failure rate for other phones, then it sounds like it's not an especially dangerous device.
No cell phone is being marketed (that i'm aware of) as the best phone to have in an emergency. There's certainly a call (ha! pun not intended) for it. In the future we undoubtedly will see the eradication of land lines. However, right now cell phones are still considered something of a luxury item. We are indeed on the cusp of them becoming essential. Many of us feel its essential for our careers, etc, but it's not expected yet that responsible citizens have a cell phone.
i confess to owning an iphone4. maybe that colors my opinion. I've been happy with it, but i'm trying to be objective about the issue.
I just don't see this issue being that big a deal. To claim otherwise is to buy into the idea that you NEED an iphone (or really any cellphone)
There are a great many factors that affect the reliability of a cell phone in an emergency. Many phones can suffer from signal degradation if you hold them wrong. Many phones would fail to work if you were under water or underground (hey, it's an emergency). Many networks would fail if everyone around you was also trying to make a call.
I don't believe it's even recommended to rely on cell phones in an emergency so i don't believe that argument has much weight. If you are in an emergency and call 911, consider yourself lucky that any phone got you the help you needed.
You make it sounds like they created a product capable of killing people when the accelerometer sticks. It's just a toy for gadget whores.
Most critics of apple decry the pedestal that the fanbois and Apple put the products on. To me, Apple's sincere apology could only come off as more self agrandizing. Steve Jobs saying, "I'm deeply sorry for our oversight.", comes across as "We know that nobody deserves to be without an iphone and everyone's lives practically depend on them."
I'm not sure what you want from apple. either return the phone because you don't like it, or rejoice in getting a free Bumpa'
(i don't want to hear the argument "what if someone needs to call 911 and only have their left hand available to hold the phone")
Wait a minute. You'd throw a candidate away on the basis of them HAVING a certification? Myself and several of my coworkers begrudgingly got MS certifications just so our employer can get cheap software. It was easy, we were paid some extra bonus money for it, and after all was said and done, i actually learned some things.
My certifications are a line item on my resume now. I don't really trumpet them, i like to stand on my actual project accomplishments, but i would like to think they don't bring me down.
If you interviewed me and asked me what my certification gives me, i'd say, "It proves that i am aware of certain obscure method signatures and command line arguments, but my work history proves i know how to use them and many more." I have no idea what you are looking for, but i imagine you would find me a capable developer.
As for having a math degree, well i appreciate you looking for someone with a math degree. I went to school for art, yet i'm awfully good at linear algebra, calc, geometry, and statistics.
i have the same experience. my iphone4 outperforms my 3g in all aspects. I couldn't get calls at my desk with my 3g. the 4 picks them up nicely. Yes. i can make the bars drop if i hold the phone with my left hand, but when i just use the dang thing everything works fine. It doesn't make any difference to me if my screen says i have 2 bars or 5 or 18 if i can make a phone call. I didn't buy my phone looking to have signal bar pissing matches
I'm not saying other people aren't having issues. I may just be lucky enough to live in an area where the network is good.
except 90% of all iphones have a case on them anyway. maybe it's a wart to apple, but the design sense of the consumer isn't always up to apple snuff. most people want a faux snakeskin or leopard print plastic case to put their iphone in.
ha! that's awesome! i'm a fan of my iphone, i'm even a fan of the iphone4 as mine has worked just fine for me, and i still think your comment is awesome.
and i agree. The iphone is locked down. jailbreaking is not an argument for getting one.
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I always wondered what the motivation for nitpicky arguments against analogies on slashdot was. Thanks to this article i realize that it is nothing less than an attack on my sexual prowess.
you get a tax code that reads like the source code of Windows Vista.
This explains why the 1040 form asks if you want to be allowed to answer the next question so often.
how do you abuse a system that simply says X% of your income goes to the government?
that doesn't have to be the case. that is seen in some scenes where the film makers fell back to old techniques of drawing your attention to what they thought was important. I agree they are jarringly noticable. There are other scenes where the full depth of the field is 3d simulated and your eyes do have to bring the two images together differently for forground vs background elements.
If that were the case /. would be full of retards and the NBA would be full of geniuses.
How do you know it's not that way? Just because the NBA players don't have incentive to study doesn't mean they couldn't be genius level scholars. They could all have powerful brains that would put us all to shame. However brain growth != knowledge. New brain cells typically are useless unless you fill them with something. TFA didn't claim that the rats also studied productive material and began working for the good of science.
A to render a frame the video card will set some states, process the vertex data, interpolate some stuff and hand it to the pixel shaders, produce a frame and swap the frame buffer pointer. If you are running a complicated frame that can only render at 10fps, or just drawing one triangle at a billion fps, inside of 1 minute, the card probably performed the same number of calculations. It can only transform so many vertices, it can only do so many texture look ups. You can do a bazillion operations a second, the complexity of your scene dictates how often in there you can swap the buffer. swapping the buffer is a pointer update. There is no pixel friction as the frame is blasted through memory.
I'm good at logic, bad at negotiation. I'm good with machines, bad with people.
Apple products sell because they are Magical. Quit trying to analyze the magic with your logic.
Microsoft is not going to make the hardware. They are going to make a tablet OS and tell hardware makers how to best provide a platform for it to run on.
Unless they can make it magical, they have no hope of success though.
Interesting. I think a screenshot of metroid would hardly do the game justice. The art of the game is more than just how samus looked or how the platforms floated in mid air. The true nature of the game was how high you could jump, how fast you fell, how the different weapons opened up new areas to explore.
I don't know if a couple of screenshots, or even gameplay videos really preserve the work. You wouldn't think a select handful of notes from a symphony or some stills and the trailer to a movie are an adequate way of preserving the work.
In the case of the spirit of st louis, or the apollo spacecraft, i think there is a desire to convey how small this plane was, how cramped in there the astronauts were, etc. It's impractical to let anyone who wants to fly the plane across the atlantic, but i think the museum does expend a lot of resources on movies and exhibits and models trying to convey the experiences of the past to museum goers in the present.
it seems like ensuring there is an emulator capable of running metroid 100 years from now should be an easy task and preserve the game really well. Even better, the code should be preserved.
(i just picked metroid at random)
I've noticed i can only use an ipad for about 20 minutes before my fingers feel bad. There's no way i want to replace my mouse with something i have to constantly drag my fingertips over. If everyone used these all day at work, we'd all have gnarly calloused finger tips.
Jaquith's article claims word press themes inherit the GPL because of how intimate they are with word press. for example, they can call word press methods, and word press will call methods in them. By this logic, is any software one writes for Linux obligated to be GPL? I had always thought people were free to distribute whatever application any way they wanted for Linux (provided you were writing it from scratch). It seems that any desktop application interacts with the OS at similar deep levels described in the article.
Maybe this has always been the case and i was just mistaken but some closed source video drivers and codecs seem to say otherwise.
Exactly, I am so pissed I can't remove that crap from my EVO.
Can't you just wipe your phone and install a vanilla android build from google?
Exactly. There's probably nothing wrong with selling a phone online. You just need to advertise it. The kindle is only available online (i think). It's an expensive tech toy that hasn't failed.
Nobody outside of the geek crowd knew about the nexus 1. If a layperson did encounter one on the street, it likely wasn't a memorable experience.
"you paid how much for that!? and it still doesn't have the cool animations the iphone has?!!"
Good luck creating desire among the general public with talk of open development and how many IDEs you can use with android.
thanks! i am admittedly a pushover. offer me a free bumper and all is forgiven :)
I didn't mean to come across as an apologist. The antenna issue is a blunder. Its a legitimate fault that anyone buying an iphone4 should consider along with the walled garden and drm and at&t. I just don't think we all deserve an apology from steve jobs for trying to sell us his product. He's a salesperson. The car dealer tells me their car is the best as well.
So basically what you're saying is (or will become) semantically identical to "I don't believe it's even recommended to rely on emergency calls". It's a total bummer if you're right.
I agree, i am saying that. No part of the emergency system is foolproof. If you are in trouble, there are millions of things that can keep help from reaching you. We have acceptable tolerances of failure in ambulances, computer systems, humans etc. I imagine that the failure rate of all cellphones is higher than any of those things. I don't want to use Jobs' dropped call statistics verbatim because he's obviously using numbers that paint his product in a good light, but if they are close to the failure rate for other phones, then it sounds like it's not an especially dangerous device.
No cell phone is being marketed (that i'm aware of) as the best phone to have in an emergency. There's certainly a call (ha! pun not intended) for it. In the future we undoubtedly will see the eradication of land lines. However, right now cell phones are still considered something of a luxury item. We are indeed on the cusp of them becoming essential. Many of us feel its essential for our careers, etc, but it's not expected yet that responsible citizens have a cell phone.
i confess to owning an iphone4. maybe that colors my opinion. I've been happy with it, but i'm trying to be objective about the issue. I just don't see this issue being that big a deal. To claim otherwise is to buy into the idea that you NEED an iphone (or really any cellphone)
There are a great many factors that affect the reliability of a cell phone in an emergency. Many phones can suffer from signal degradation if you hold them wrong. Many phones would fail to work if you were under water or underground (hey, it's an emergency). Many networks would fail if everyone around you was also trying to make a call.
I don't believe it's even recommended to rely on cell phones in an emergency so i don't believe that argument has much weight. If you are in an emergency and call 911, consider yourself lucky that any phone got you the help you needed.
What about the months of testing they did on the unit before they um, I dont know, RELEASED it?
dude, their test phone was stolen in a bar. maybe you forgot.
You make it sounds like they created a product capable of killing people when the accelerometer sticks. It's just a toy for gadget whores.
Most critics of apple decry the pedestal that the fanbois and Apple put the products on. To me, Apple's sincere apology could only come off as more self agrandizing. Steve Jobs saying, "I'm deeply sorry for our oversight.", comes across as "We know that nobody deserves to be without an iphone and everyone's lives practically depend on them."
I'm not sure what you want from apple. either return the phone because you don't like it, or rejoice in getting a free Bumpa'
(i don't want to hear the argument "what if someone needs to call 911 and only have their left hand available to hold the phone")
Wait a minute. You'd throw a candidate away on the basis of them HAVING a certification? Myself and several of my coworkers begrudgingly got MS certifications just so our employer can get cheap software. It was easy, we were paid some extra bonus money for it, and after all was said and done, i actually learned some things.
My certifications are a line item on my resume now. I don't really trumpet them, i like to stand on my actual project accomplishments, but i would like to think they don't bring me down.
If you interviewed me and asked me what my certification gives me, i'd say, "It proves that i am aware of certain obscure method signatures and command line arguments, but my work history proves i know how to use them and many more." I have no idea what you are looking for, but i imagine you would find me a capable developer.
As for having a math degree, well i appreciate you looking for someone with a math degree. I went to school for art, yet i'm awfully good at linear algebra, calc, geometry, and statistics.
i have the same experience. my iphone4 outperforms my 3g in all aspects. I couldn't get calls at my desk with my 3g. the 4 picks them up nicely. Yes. i can make the bars drop if i hold the phone with my left hand, but when i just use the dang thing everything works fine. It doesn't make any difference to me if my screen says i have 2 bars or 5 or 18 if i can make a phone call. I didn't buy my phone looking to have signal bar pissing matches
I'm not saying other people aren't having issues. I may just be lucky enough to live in an area where the network is good.
except 90% of all iphones have a case on them anyway. maybe it's a wart to apple, but the design sense of the consumer isn't always up to apple snuff. most people want a faux snakeskin or leopard print plastic case to put their iphone in.
ha! that's awesome! i'm a fan of my iphone, i'm even a fan of the iphone4 as mine has worked just fine for me, and i still think your comment is awesome.
and i agree. The iphone is locked down. jailbreaking is not an argument for getting one.
i already have shoes made out of meat. i call them feet.