It is truly bizarre that we have greatly raised the spatial resolution, but the temporal resolution has remained stuck at the appallingly juddery 24 fps. I find movies unpleasant because of it. On any reasonable sized screen (and particularly movie theaters), even a slow pan results in the scene moving large distances on the screen every 1/24th of a second. It is ugly, pure and simple; there is no positive aesthetic in visual judder.
Mirrors don't flip horizontally or vertically, jeepers. They flip 'inside out'. *We* flip people horizontally because it makes more sense for us to use their left-right symmetry, imagine that we are where the image is, and keep the image standing on its feet. Take a mirror you think of us being a 'horizontal flip' mirror and stand in front of it; yep, that looks horizontal. Now lie on the floor in front of it. Horizontal or vertical? It's *your mind* doing the flipping...
There are lots of factors here.
- our eyes usually focus and converge for the same distance; stereo has the convergence change while the focus distance (to screen) is constant
- the illusion of movement leads to inner-ear saying "no you're not" when your eyes think you are
- on the other hand, if you DO move, your viewpoint does NOT change (for stereo, it does for auto-stereo)
- we're only just beginning to understand production values in stereo (e.g. you can't cross-fade, don't switch camera rapidly, when switching be careful with the distance to the object of interest, be very careful with overlays like credits, and so on)
Obviously some of these can be dealt with under some circumstances, some not. It may well be that if your brain develops while being exposed to some of these, it will be much more accommodating. Exposure to stereo or auto-stereo might be good for children, who knows?
presumed (exclusive) mutual support, presumed support of children. If it's done without knowledge and consent of the multiple spouses, then there's entering into a contract under false pretences (they all are led to believe they have the exclusion attention of the guilty party), and so on.
the top-level domains should follow places that can, if they wish, define what qualifies a name. So, for example, Japan says you must be a registered company to have a.cp.jp domain, so these addresses are much more trustworthy. This also means it's clear who arbitrates a dispute, and under what rules. Using only UN-recognized country-codes as top-level domain names does not 'give the UN control', it gives people control through their governments (to the extent that they have control, but that's not an Internet question). Non-geographic TLDs are a bad idea -- unless you happen to be the corporation set to make money off them.
It's (probably) deliberate, but the continued confusion of orthogonal axes really doesn't help the debate.
H.264 is open, anyone may contribute to ISO/ITU projects (including those holding patents). WebM is closed, it was developed and is owned by On2/Google.
H.264 costs money to license and deploy; it is not free. On2/Google are currently the only bona-fide identified owners of the technology in WebM (as far as I know), and they do not charge for it.
There are open-source implementations of H.264 and other royalty-bearing codecs. I am aware of at least one codec (which I can't name) which had a free license but for which the source was only available on agreement; it was closed-source.
So, open/proprietary usually refers to the development process and the ownership and control of the specification.
Open-source/closed-source refers to the availability and visibility of the source code.
Royalty-free/royalty-bearing refer to whether payment has to be made to patent owners in order to deploy.
I suspect that almost any combination of these choices is possible.
that's a neat system, though why someone would pay you to store something that they have no rights to play (you apparently retained those), is unclear to me. oh, are you not clear that in this deal, one of you is a pirate??
Global warming is part of a machiavellian plot by...by...someone...who wants to make Alaska closer to habitable (but not civilized, let's not go too far). Why else would they pump so much oil out of the ground in order that it be burnt? They get rich AND a warmer climate.
'do not call' works because its meaning is clear and I can easily detect if it's violated (someone calls me, duh). But browsers cannot effectively 'stop' tracking unless they refuse to load URLs that appear 'personalized', change IP address very often, refuse cookies, and so on, and probably not even then. And if the site continues to manage to track me, and correlate that tracking with other activity, how do I know? Unless the data comes back to me, I probably don't.
The best way (long-term) to deal with terrorists is to make them irrelevant, by not responding to them. Once you make it clear you'll make arbitrarily large changes to your policies and practices in response to a terrorist event, you have given them the lever they want; all they need now is to find the right event for the effect they want. Bush handed that to them on a plate -- actually, two plates, both domestic and foreign policy. Brilliant.
Improving on JPEG's image quality is not hard. Improving on its deployment and compatibility status is very hard. JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR are both fine codecs, for example.
if a hypothetical passenger for a private plane passes through public secured areas on the way to their plane, it's reasonable to put them under the same restrictions as everyone for access to that public area. they might be robbed on the way to their plane.
I have no idea what the boarding arrangements for private planes are in Osaka or elsewhere. I'm not that rich.
I think it's fairly easy to make sure the only Wifi channels/networks that are in range are either (a) base stations you set up that are not connected to an uplink or (b) base stations that you monitor by sniffing the traffic to detect any attempt to communicate. You will get at least a Mac address and probably more of anyone trying any kind of communication.
Cell-phones are not so easy; but there is no justification for taking a phone into an exam.
surely the fair return to the 'status quo ante' is for the government to restore the money to the *buyers* and the property to the *rightful owner*. The buyers can they buy another property, if they wish; they are back where they started.
I agree that the ubiquity of USB charging makes this unlikely.
But "But the whole point of phones is that you replace them every 1-2 years." Dang, I thought the whole point of a phone was to make phone calls! I am so misled!! I shouldn't *use* it, just replace it! Duh!
The internet was designed to be de-centralized, self-healing, made of redundant parts and pathways, and so on. What, exactly, would you 'kill' to disable what? I guess you could power down large numbers of phone/data routing centers, which would reduce the US's data and voice connectivity to local islands. But this might have... collateral effects
um, if I were employing somebody, and there was indication that they may have an... interesting... history on the internet, I think it would be remiss of me NOT to know what my customers and business associates may find there. If they are representing the company, their online persona is part of that representation.
It's a pity that people continue to rail about something undefined - 'software patents'. What is patented is a technology/technique, often realizable usually in many ways. Think about codecs - these are signal processing patents, essentially. And why should software be exempt from patents when other fields (e.g. mechanical instruments) are not?
probably psychosomatic...so, do a blind experiment where the WiFi transmitters are turned off some random weeks, tell the parents you are doing the experiment, and see if there is any correlation.
Or give free tin hats to the loonies, it might be cheaper.
Software is one of many ways to reduce many techniques to practice; trying to ban the method is silly. What is patented in, for example, a compression technology, is a set of digital mathematical signal processing operations, which can be implemented in software or hardware, in a variety of technology bases in each case. People who rail about 'software patents' are confused between the concept and its medium of expression.
I think the reviews of Quicken Essentials for the Mac on amazon.com pretty well debunk the idea that if the company spends money and years, it'll be worth something. Almost every comment would give it zero stars if that was possible; with a minimum vote of 1, it scores an average of maybe 1.1...
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It is truly bizarre that we have greatly raised the spatial resolution, but the temporal resolution has remained stuck at the appallingly juddery 24 fps. I find movies unpleasant because of it. On any reasonable sized screen (and particularly movie theaters), even a slow pan results in the scene moving large distances on the screen every 1/24th of a second. It is ugly, pure and simple; there is no positive aesthetic in visual judder.
nobody 'gave' Steve anything; he built a business. you have the same opportunity to build one. have you done so?
Mirrors don't flip horizontally or vertically, jeepers. They flip 'inside out'. *We* flip people horizontally because it makes more sense for us to use their left-right symmetry, imagine that we are where the image is, and keep the image standing on its feet. Take a mirror you think of us being a 'horizontal flip' mirror and stand in front of it; yep, that looks horizontal. Now lie on the floor in front of it. Horizontal or vertical? It's *your mind* doing the flipping...
...which emits plenty of radiation as well as killing people through mining incidents, respiratory problems, and climate change... (see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste)
There are lots of factors here. - our eyes usually focus and converge for the same distance; stereo has the convergence change while the focus distance (to screen) is constant - the illusion of movement leads to inner-ear saying "no you're not" when your eyes think you are - on the other hand, if you DO move, your viewpoint does NOT change (for stereo, it does for auto-stereo) - we're only just beginning to understand production values in stereo (e.g. you can't cross-fade, don't switch camera rapidly, when switching be careful with the distance to the object of interest, be very careful with overlays like credits, and so on) Obviously some of these can be dealt with under some circumstances, some not. It may well be that if your brain develops while being exposed to some of these, it will be much more accommodating. Exposure to stereo or auto-stereo might be good for children, who knows?
"the US Patent and Trademark Office should not be second-guessed by a jury".
I don't think the USPTO should be guessing in the first place.
presumed (exclusive) mutual support, presumed support of children. If it's done without knowledge and consent of the multiple spouses, then there's entering into a contract under false pretences (they all are led to believe they have the exclusion attention of the guilty party), and so on.
the top-level domains should follow places that can, if they wish, define what qualifies a name. So, for example, Japan says you must be a registered company to have a .cp.jp domain, so these addresses are much more trustworthy. This also means it's clear who arbitrates a dispute, and under what rules. Using only UN-recognized country-codes as top-level domain names does not 'give the UN control', it gives people control through their governments (to the extent that they have control, but that's not an Internet question). Non-geographic TLDs are a bad idea -- unless you happen to be the corporation set to make money off them.
It's (probably) deliberate, but the continued confusion of orthogonal axes really doesn't help the debate.
H.264 is open, anyone may contribute to ISO/ITU projects (including those holding patents). WebM is closed, it was developed and is owned by On2/Google.
H.264 costs money to license and deploy; it is not free. On2/Google are currently the only bona-fide identified owners of the technology in WebM (as far as I know), and they do not charge for it.
There are open-source implementations of H.264 and other royalty-bearing codecs. I am aware of at least one codec (which I can't name) which had a free license but for which the source was only available on agreement; it was closed-source.
So, open/proprietary usually refers to the development process and the ownership and control of the specification. Open-source/closed-source refers to the availability and visibility of the source code. Royalty-free/royalty-bearing refer to whether payment has to be made to patent owners in order to deploy. I suspect that almost any combination of these choices is possible.
that's a neat system, though why someone would pay you to store something that they have no rights to play (you apparently retained those), is unclear to me. oh, are you not clear that in this deal, one of you is a pirate??
re "naval-staring" I find it admiral that these captains of thought can find that which is seaman-al while floating on a sea of doubt.
Global warming is part of a machiavellian plot by...by...someone...who wants to make Alaska closer to habitable (but not civilized, let's not go too far). Why else would they pump so much oil out of the ground in order that it be burnt? They get rich AND a warmer climate.
'do not call' works because its meaning is clear and I can easily detect if it's violated (someone calls me, duh). But browsers cannot effectively 'stop' tracking unless they refuse to load URLs that appear 'personalized', change IP address very often, refuse cookies, and so on, and probably not even then. And if the site continues to manage to track me, and correlate that tracking with other activity, how do I know? Unless the data comes back to me, I probably don't.
The best way (long-term) to deal with terrorists is to make them irrelevant, by not responding to them. Once you make it clear you'll make arbitrarily large changes to your policies and practices in response to a terrorist event, you have given them the lever they want; all they need now is to find the right event for the effect they want. Bush handed that to them on a plate -- actually, two plates, both domestic and foreign policy. Brilliant.
Improving on JPEG's image quality is not hard. Improving on its deployment and compatibility status is very hard. JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR are both fine codecs, for example.
if a hypothetical passenger for a private plane passes through public secured areas on the way to their plane, it's reasonable to put them under the same restrictions as everyone for access to that public area. they might be robbed on the way to their plane. I have no idea what the boarding arrangements for private planes are in Osaka or elsewhere. I'm not that rich.
I think it's fairly easy to make sure the only Wifi channels/networks that are in range are either (a) base stations you set up that are not connected to an uplink or (b) base stations that you monitor by sniffing the traffic to detect any attempt to communicate. You will get at least a Mac address and probably more of anyone trying any kind of communication. Cell-phones are not so easy; but there is no justification for taking a phone into an exam.
surely the fair return to the 'status quo ante' is for the government to restore the money to the *buyers* and the property to the *rightful owner*. The buyers can they buy another property, if they wish; they are back where they started.
I agree that the ubiquity of USB charging makes this unlikely. But "But the whole point of phones is that you replace them every 1-2 years." Dang, I thought the whole point of a phone was to make phone calls! I am so misled!! I shouldn't *use* it, just replace it! Duh!
The internet was designed to be de-centralized, self-healing, made of redundant parts and pathways, and so on. What, exactly, would you 'kill' to disable what? I guess you could power down large numbers of phone/data routing centers, which would reduce the US's data and voice connectivity to local islands. But this might have ... collateral effects
um, if I were employing somebody, and there was indication that they may have an ... interesting ... history on the internet, I think it would be remiss of me NOT to know what my customers and business associates may find there. If they are representing the company, their online persona is part of that representation.
It's a pity that people continue to rail about something undefined - 'software patents'. What is patented is a technology/technique, often realizable usually in many ways. Think about codecs - these are signal processing patents, essentially. And why should software be exempt from patents when other fields (e.g. mechanical instruments) are not?
probably psychosomatic...so, do a blind experiment where the WiFi transmitters are turned off some random weeks, tell the parents you are doing the experiment, and see if there is any correlation. Or give free tin hats to the loonies, it might be cheaper.
Software is one of many ways to reduce many techniques to practice; trying to ban the method is silly. What is patented in, for example, a compression technology, is a set of digital mathematical signal processing operations, which can be implemented in software or hardware, in a variety of technology bases in each case. People who rail about 'software patents' are confused between the concept and its medium of expression.
I think the reviews of Quicken Essentials for the Mac on amazon.com pretty well debunk the idea that if the company spends money and years, it'll be worth something. Almost every comment would give it zero stars if that was possible; with a minimum vote of 1, it scores an average of maybe 1.1...