We need something along the lines of a Mac-mini with a remote control and high quality audio/video and HDMI outputs.
But, the reason I don't watch TV...
Commercials, commercials, commercials and the fact that they are twice as loud as the main broadcast, and that there are just too many of them. It made the experience so intolerably awkward and unpleasant.
But, saying that, the Internet won't win over TV until it does a better job of emulating it.
To put it succinctly. The person who sold you the package is the one that's responsible for it working. If they are using third party hardware/drivers/software they take on the responsibility as far as your package goes. So if something goes wrong you talk to them, and they find a solution. Now, that solution might mean kicking the third party vendors until they cough up a solution, it might mean designing a work around, it might mean dropping that third party vendor, or it might mean attaching a notification for their customers. In this case Ubuntu's responsible because they're the ones providing you with the package that makes your laptop work. It's their job to identify poorly written drivers and deal with the vendors. If they can't deal with the vendors then they have to deal with it in another way, even if it's handing you the package with a warning. It's the "too f'n bad" rule.
It should also be pointed out that the laptops aren't intended to teach grade-school children computer science. They're usually there to replace text books, expand on course material, and give children modern tools for completing their homework. This is one of the cases where the laptop is not really a laptop, but an application specific computer. They should be locked down to the extent that there are controls on what software is installed on the machine, and how much flexibility the kids have with the settings. If you want to teach the kids some form of computer science then install some programming tools.
If a kid goes through grade school completing assignments in the various office applications, they'll already be miles ahead of today's average adult.
I've done some fairly complex embedded system block diagrams in Excel. I would use the cell frame feature for the boxes, arrows for the bus lines, and then snap everything to a square grid. The beautiful thing about Excel is that everything expands naturally with the 'add entire row' and 'add entire column' features. Labelling is a simply matter of filling in a spreadsheet cell and justifying the text. Some would force me to make drawings in Visio because they were too weak willed to edit my excel drawings (stuff that would take me 10 seconds) and it felt like a real setback.
Saying that, how anyone could do a 3D drawing in Excel is beyond me. The embedded drawing program is nice if you want to do a quick mechanical mock-up with accurately sized blocks.
The problem with taxing outgoing money is you give people an extra incentive for not spending money. It also gives the people another loophole where they simply go outside the tax boundaries to make their transactions. Not a big problem in the global economy we have now. In a capitalist society you want people to spend their money. It's argument number one in lowering the income tax rates of the rich. Also, when your tax base comes from consumption you are not giving a good incentive to foreign investors, and consumers. I doubt anybody will be argument for a VAT or GST type tax in the United States anytime soon. Though, something similar might happen as a way of taxing carbon emissions.
This sounds similar to some programmers complaining about case sensitivity. If there is a typo risk in typing the same same character two or three times in a row ala::: or ** how in the world are you having any success with the other 20,000,000 characters you're stringing together?
"its still inappropriate, and most of us aren't angling to be 2nd in line to the presidency"
It's also very hypocritical from someone running on a ticket of transparency and anti-corruption. This method of circumventing email the electronic-age equivalent of dealing in the back alley.
The President or Executive Branch is responsible for creating the budget. The house and senate do add their own amendments and appropriations to the budget, and also approve the budget. But, ultimately the President sets the style and tone of the budget, and ultimately has the power to approve or veto it.
It feeds directly to their bottom line, and ultimately diversifies one of their flagship products. It means the customer has an alternative to the standard Apple software.
In Canada some of the RIM founders have heavily invested in an "institute of theoretical physics" called the Perimeter Institute. My company used to do some research by way of the local Universities. The simple answer is they are outsourcing the research to companies (or Universities) that have made it their core competency. Those companies will invest in the basic science research knowing their market is in the realization of the research, and not numerous steps later when it's part of a marketable product.
Nah, cause Apple isn't actively blocking content, they're simply not supporting it which in turn makes it unavailable.
A more suitable analogy would be an all-weather car that doesn't start in temperatures below -30C (-22F) or above 30C (86F). Sure you can argue about how one can get along fine with that limitation. You can even argue that the car company is doing you a favour by preventing you from driving in such ridiculous (I'm Canadian, I've seen worse) temperatures. But, for many people it's an unquestioned expectation, since it's a part of their regular driving experience.
The point is. The everyday plain vanilla web surfer doesn't differentiate between a WC3 compliant and Flash enabled pages. They're simply web pages they have access to and expect to have access to. I think this is a reasonable belief. When you tell the plain vanilla web surfer that he's going to have access to the whole Internet on an iPhone. He'll probably expect to have access to both the WC3 compliant page, and the flash enabled page. I think this is also reasonable.
You don't need carrots or zucchini to make cake. If make a recipe book with no carrot or chocolate zucchini cake, does it have recipe for every kind of cake?
It can also be argued that no video game console can play every game on the market so Sony making the claiming the PS3 can play "any game on the market" is logically understood as the PS3 plays "any game that PS3 supports." It's not their fault that Microsoft and Nintendo won't support them.
No one is reinforcing a monopolistic position. They are simply interpreting what the statement "the whole internet" means to society at large, and coming to the conclusion that iPhone doesn't do that.
If no device can surf the whole internet, then no device can make that claim.
If you look at a diagram of a Sundial. Between the hours of 10am and 3pm there is about 125 degrees of variation in the sun's position. That's a pretty big margin of error. Somehow I don't believe they are that worried about shadow and glare in rural areas. Most cows live in rural areas. If you look at rural areas like North Western Ontario you'll find the odd group of cars with long shadows.
I concur. Often the simplest explanation is: you're not smart enough to make research scientist look like an ass in 10 seconds.
What's really funny is how complex the "it's the sun" explanation has become in this thread. In order for the sun theory to work: all images must have been taken at high noon, the scientists wouldn't know the difference between geographic north and magnetic north, cows must be more comfortable with the sun behind them, and all images taken in the Northern Hemisphere.
Sorta of reminds of this other type of critical thinking I've heard about, catspoornacy theory or something...
To criticize the piece the artist will be forced to form their own interpretation of the piece.
The artist can arbitrarily dismiss the criticism by saying, "that's not what I meant."
When the artist doesn't attach their own interpretation to a piece, and they respond to criticism with "it's art, why all the negativity" they are, IMHO, begging for a polite interpretation. The 'artists' here are basically saying, I'm not going to tell you what I mean, but I'm appalled at being misinterpreted.
I think this is the crux of the issue. This is where the artists fail to make their case that they are making an artistic statement, and not simply hiding behind the label. Telling people what your message is doesn't necessarily mean telling what to take home from the piece. It means giving some statement of where you're coming from, and the significance of each of the elements. Art isn't poker, you're not supposed to hide your cards. In the case of these two pieces we're left to come up with our own interpretation, as long at that interpretation is arty goodness, and not smelly garbageness, because you know it's art.
You mean the photos of cut columns taken during the clean-up? The columns cut at an angle by iron-workers using torches. Something anyone who's been through high school shop class should be able recognize? It does look exactly like the one I saw in Zeitgeist.
Actually, the logic follows that conspiracy theorists are rationalizing a much more secure world than that of the official version. The common theme is, this should not of happened, we should be safer than this.
The 9/11 Truthers have asserted the following:
1) The hijacked planes should have been intercepted. Someone must have stopped them from being intercepted. If the government wasn't in on this, those buildings would be safe. Rest assured. Under normal circumstances you don't have to worry about planes crashing within the perimeter of an important government complex.
2) You can't hijack a plane with a box cutter. Those terrorist would have been fended off. Rest assured, unless the government is involved there's always someone on the plane that can fight a group of hijackers who don't have guns, or seriously large knives, we know how tough Americans are.
3) The planes should not have been able to knock the buildings down. The buildings collapse because the government imploded the buildings. Unless the government blows up the sky scraper you're in, you can rest assured that it won't collapse.
Arguing with truthers is like arguing with creationists.
Richard Dawkins just finished a great series called the Genius of Charles Darwin. In response to the mantra "there is no evidence of evolution" Richard Dawkins basically said, "you people only believe that because all you ever do is talk to each other."
"Pull It" is the best example of this. It's a frequently used phrase in the Demolitions industry. I've never seen a reference to this inside the context of demolitions outside the context of 9/11 truth pages referring to the Silverstein quote. If it's such an important piece of evidence why is never wrapped in industry reference? Simple, they made it up. "A jet fuel fire isn't hot enough to melt that kind of steal" is the Truther equivalent to "How come we've never seen a new species appear all the time."
Movies also have a secondary and very successful rental, and rebroadcast market. Most DVD releases are already paid for because every Blockbuster in America will buy buying 10, 20, 30, 50 and they're all going to be permanent sales. If you look at smaller run DVD releases such as Criterion they're significantly more expensive than your average CD. If you go to any music store you'll find a significant number of classic releases well below $10. The reality is that studios are pushing DVDs harder, and one of their tactics is the low price impulse buyers market. They can do this because movies generally have a much more universal appeal.
"It would be quite cheap to put a CD's worth of music on a 64MB flash card (heck, a lot of CDs would fit on a 32MB card...). Manufacturing costs would not be that much different, I don't think. You'd get a smaller package, which would reduce manufacturing costs and transportation costs."
I'm sorry but a CD is significantly cheaper to make than a flash card. I can get a 1000 CDs made right now for $450 USD. That's one-off low volume pricing, and would go down significantly with volume. Flash memory has become significantly cheaper over the last 10 years, but that's on a per byte basis. The problem you will find is that the cost of making the plastic case, the printed circuit board assembly, and testing have not. The manufacturing costs for a CD are insignificant when compared to the actual production costs. Unless of course you're recording in your bedroom.
But, they couldn't spend more time developing the technology the marketing literature was ready. If they're ready to market a the product, the product is definitely done isn't it? We'll still be able to test it, we just have to focus on the launch first.
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We need something along the lines of a Mac-mini with a remote control and high quality audio/video and HDMI outputs.
But, the reason I don't watch TV...
Commercials, commercials, commercials and the fact that they are twice as loud as the main broadcast, and that there are just too many of them. It made the experience so intolerably awkward and unpleasant.
But, saying that, the Internet won't win over TV until it does a better job of emulating it.
To put it succinctly. The person who sold you the package is the one that's responsible for it working. If they are using third party hardware/drivers/software they take on the responsibility as far as your package goes. So if something goes wrong you talk to them, and they find a solution. Now, that solution might mean kicking the third party vendors until they cough up a solution, it might mean designing a work around, it might mean dropping that third party vendor, or it might mean attaching a notification for their customers. In this case Ubuntu's responsible because they're the ones providing you with the package that makes your laptop work. It's their job to identify poorly written drivers and deal with the vendors. If they can't deal with the vendors then they have to deal with it in another way, even if it's handing you the package with a warning. It's the "too f'n bad" rule.
It should also be pointed out that the laptops aren't intended to teach grade-school children computer science. They're usually there to replace text books, expand on course material, and give children modern tools for completing their homework. This is one of the cases where the laptop is not really a laptop, but an application specific computer. They should be locked down to the extent that there are controls on what software is installed on the machine, and how much flexibility the kids have with the settings. If you want to teach the kids some form of computer science then install some programming tools.
If a kid goes through grade school completing assignments in the various office applications, they'll already be miles ahead of today's average adult.
I've done some fairly complex embedded system block diagrams in Excel. I would use the cell frame feature for the boxes, arrows for the bus lines, and then snap everything to a square grid. The beautiful thing about Excel is that everything expands naturally with the 'add entire row' and 'add entire column' features. Labelling is a simply matter of filling in a spreadsheet cell and justifying the text. Some would force me to make drawings in Visio because they were too weak willed to edit my excel drawings (stuff that would take me 10 seconds) and it felt like a real setback.
Saying that, how anyone could do a 3D drawing in Excel is beyond me. The embedded drawing program is nice if you want to do a quick mechanical mock-up with accurately sized blocks.
The problem with taxing outgoing money is you give people an extra incentive for not spending money. It also gives the people another loophole where they simply go outside the tax boundaries to make their transactions. Not a big problem in the global economy we have now. In a capitalist society you want people to spend their money. It's argument number one in lowering the income tax rates of the rich. Also, when your tax base comes from consumption you are not giving a good incentive to foreign investors, and consumers. I doubt anybody will be argument for a VAT or GST type tax in the United States anytime soon. Though, something similar might happen as a way of taxing carbon emissions.
This sounds similar to some programmers complaining about case sensitivity. If there is a typo risk in typing the same same character two or three times in a row ala ::: or ** how in the world are you having any success with the other 20,000,000 characters you're stringing together?
"its still inappropriate, and most of us aren't angling to be 2nd in line to the presidency"
It's also very hypocritical from someone running on a ticket of transparency and anti-corruption. This method of circumventing email the electronic-age equivalent of dealing in the back alley.
The President or Executive Branch is responsible for creating the budget. The house and senate do add their own amendments and appropriations to the budget, and also approve the budget. But, ultimately the President sets the style and tone of the budget, and ultimately has the power to approve or veto it.
It feeds directly to their bottom line, and ultimately diversifies one of their flagship products. It means the customer has an alternative to the standard Apple software.
In Canada some of the RIM founders have heavily invested in an "institute of theoretical physics" called the Perimeter Institute. My company used to do some research by way of the local Universities. The simple answer is they are outsourcing the research to companies (or Universities) that have made it their core competency. Those companies will invest in the basic science research knowing their market is in the realization of the research, and not numerous steps later when it's part of a marketable product.
Nah, cause Apple isn't actively blocking content, they're simply not supporting it which in turn makes it unavailable.
A more suitable analogy would be an all-weather car that doesn't start in temperatures below -30C (-22F) or above 30C (86F). Sure you can argue about how one can get along fine with that limitation. You can even argue that the car company is doing you a favour by preventing you from driving in such ridiculous (I'm Canadian, I've seen worse) temperatures. But, for many people it's an unquestioned expectation, since it's a part of their regular driving experience.
The point is. The everyday plain vanilla web surfer doesn't differentiate between a WC3 compliant and Flash enabled pages. They're simply web pages they have access to and expect to have access to. I think this is a reasonable belief. When you tell the plain vanilla web surfer that he's going to have access to the whole Internet on an iPhone. He'll probably expect to have access to both the WC3 compliant page, and the flash enabled page. I think this is also reasonable.
hmmm.. interesting... I guess you responded to the wrong parent.
You don't need carrots or zucchini to make cake. If make a recipe book with no carrot or chocolate zucchini cake, does it have recipe for every kind of cake?
It can also be argued that no video game console can play every game on the market so Sony making the claiming the PS3 can play "any game on the market" is logically understood as the PS3 plays "any game that PS3 supports." It's not their fault that Microsoft and Nintendo won't support them.
No one is reinforcing a monopolistic position. They are simply interpreting what the statement "the whole internet" means to society at large, and coming to the conclusion that iPhone doesn't do that.
If no device can surf the whole internet, then no device can make that claim.
If you look at a diagram of a Sundial. Between the hours of 10am and 3pm there is about 125 degrees of variation in the sun's position. That's a pretty big margin of error. Somehow I don't believe they are that worried about shadow and glare in rural areas. Most cows live in rural areas. If you look at rural areas like North Western Ontario you'll find the odd group of cars with long shadows.
I concur. Often the simplest explanation is: you're not smart enough to make research scientist look like an ass in 10 seconds.
What's really funny is how complex the "it's the sun" explanation has become in this thread. In order for the sun theory to work: all images must have been taken at high noon, the scientists wouldn't know the difference between geographic north and magnetic north, cows must be more comfortable with the sun behind them, and all images taken in the Northern Hemisphere.
Sorta of reminds of this other type of critical thinking I've heard about, catspoornacy theory or something...
To criticize the piece the artist will be forced to form their own interpretation of the piece.
The artist can arbitrarily dismiss the criticism by saying, "that's not what I meant."
When the artist doesn't attach their own interpretation to a piece, and they respond to criticism with "it's art, why all the negativity" they are, IMHO, begging for a polite interpretation. The 'artists' here are basically saying, I'm not going to tell you what I mean, but I'm appalled at being misinterpreted.
I think this is the crux of the issue. This is where the artists fail to make their case that they are making an artistic statement, and not simply hiding behind the label. Telling people what your message is doesn't necessarily mean telling what to take home from the piece. It means giving some statement of where you're coming from, and the significance of each of the elements. Art isn't poker, you're not supposed to hide your cards. In the case of these two pieces we're left to come up with our own interpretation, as long at that interpretation is arty goodness, and not smelly garbageness, because you know it's art.
Does that matter when "pull-it" is trotted out as concrete proof of a conspiracy? Didn't think so.
You mean the photos of cut columns taken during the clean-up? The columns cut at an angle by iron-workers using torches. Something anyone who's been through high school shop class should be able recognize? It does look exactly like the one I saw in Zeitgeist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJyBuANVkQ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSFCv9GoWA&NR=1
Actually, the logic follows that conspiracy theorists are rationalizing a much more secure world than that of the official version. The common theme is, this should not of happened, we should be safer than this.
The 9/11 Truthers have asserted the following:
1) The hijacked planes should have been intercepted. Someone must have stopped them from being intercepted. If the government wasn't in on this, those buildings would be safe. Rest assured. Under normal circumstances you don't have to worry about planes crashing within the perimeter of an important government complex.
2) You can't hijack a plane with a box cutter. Those terrorist would have been fended off. Rest assured, unless the government is involved there's always someone on the plane that can fight a group of hijackers who don't have guns, or seriously large knives, we know how tough Americans are.
3) The planes should not have been able to knock the buildings down. The buildings collapse because the government imploded the buildings. Unless the government blows up the sky scraper you're in, you can rest assured that it won't collapse.
Arguing with truthers is like arguing with creationists.
Richard Dawkins just finished a great series called the Genius of Charles Darwin. In response to the mantra "there is no evidence of evolution" Richard Dawkins basically said, "you people only believe that because all you ever do is talk to each other." "Pull It" is the best example of this. It's a frequently used phrase in the Demolitions industry. I've never seen a reference to this inside the context of demolitions outside the context of 9/11 truth pages referring to the Silverstein quote. If it's such an important piece of evidence why is never wrapped in industry reference? Simple, they made it up. "A jet fuel fire isn't hot enough to melt that kind of steal" is the Truther equivalent to "How come we've never seen a new species appear all the time."
Movies also have a secondary and very successful rental, and rebroadcast market. Most DVD releases are already paid for because every Blockbuster in America will buy buying 10, 20, 30, 50 and they're all going to be permanent sales. If you look at smaller run DVD releases such as Criterion they're significantly more expensive than your average CD. If you go to any music store you'll find a significant number of classic releases well below $10. The reality is that studios are pushing DVDs harder, and one of their tactics is the low price impulse buyers market. They can do this because movies generally have a much more universal appeal.
"It would be quite cheap to put a CD's worth of music on a 64MB flash card (heck, a lot of CDs would fit on a 32MB card...). Manufacturing costs would not be that much different, I don't think. You'd get a smaller package, which would reduce manufacturing costs and transportation costs." I'm sorry but a CD is significantly cheaper to make than a flash card. I can get a 1000 CDs made right now for $450 USD. That's one-off low volume pricing, and would go down significantly with volume. Flash memory has become significantly cheaper over the last 10 years, but that's on a per byte basis. The problem you will find is that the cost of making the plastic case, the printed circuit board assembly, and testing have not. The manufacturing costs for a CD are insignificant when compared to the actual production costs. Unless of course you're recording in your bedroom.
But, they couldn't spend more time developing the technology the marketing literature was ready. If they're ready to market a the product, the product is definitely done isn't it? We'll still be able to test it, we just have to focus on the launch first.