My preferred definition of art: everything is art.
I think the only requirement to be art is to have a quality which a person can appreciate on an aesthetic level.
I would say that it is fair to assume that for any individual thing, there exists, has existed, or will exist, someone who would appreciate it.
Therefore everything is art.
Another thing I find interesting is when people say things like 'ugh! that's not art!!!' and get so worked up about it.
You got worked up about it: It conveyed an emotional message. It's art.
So... live performances by professional wrestlers put on TV? yup... it's art. A NASCAR race? yup, that too Sculpture made of elephant poo? art. Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. even that
It basically works by only every once in a while having a full frame with every pixel, the rest of the time just storing the difference from the previous frame.
A big part of making that look good is deciding on good locations for the full frames.
The easiest way to split that job up on multiple threads is to keep a fixed full frame position so you have predictably sized chunks for each thread to crunch on.
Keeping the full frames at constant intervals will either waste space or result in lower quality: some scenes can't go for long without new full frames, some don't change much and having them too often would be wasteful.
It's a problem that's been worked on for quite some time, so I'd bet there are known solutions, but I'm not an expert. I do however have a slashdot account.:-)
Some people have water in a nice convenient place, but it takes longer for water to get there than they are taking it out.
So as wells run dry people have to keep digging deeper and more wells. Eventually they will have to transport water from somewhere that has surplus... that would be WAY more expensive and a BIG problem.
I'm gonna go ahead and reveal (yet again) how stupid I am. Here we go...
How can you waste water? It's water. It evaporates, rains over the mountains, runs back to the oceans and repeats the process.
What's it matter if I let a bit extra run down the drain?
The only thing to waste is (I think) the energy used in the purification process. Somebody used some energy to clean the water and transport it. If I then pour that water down the drain, the energy was wasted.
Is that it? The wasted energy cleaning and transporting it? I mean... we're not seriously going to run out of water are we? We just might run out of energy to process and transport it.
p.s. I'm trying to ask a question and not be confrontational. I'm not saying that conserving water is a bad thing. I just want to be clear as to why we need to conserve water. I'm sure this is a stupid question and I'm an idiot.
Welcome to Florida, where I can lawfully defend my home and private business with lethal force!
The stabby stabby kind, or the explody kind? I always think of the second type when I read claymore, but I'm guessing that one would be illegal to have around your home or private business.
1 a: the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property 2 obsolete : something stolen 3: a stolen base in baseball
Copying data is as much stealing as taking a photograph.
There is no deprivation of property involved in copyright infringement.
One day perhaps, there will be something analogous to Gandhi's salt march, where people break bullshit copyright laws publicly and in large groups as an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to the fact they are bullshit.
I think that's happening now. We are at least on the precipice, about to begin in earnest... or something like that.
The problem is, this isn't salt that we're talking about. Most people seem to think we can live without artistic works ever going into the public domain. However, More and more people are starting to realize how bad that would suck.
I'm hoping we're due for another renaissance, I'm worried it won't be in my life-time though.
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That can't be an exhaustive list right?
Nine games?
Compared to almost 50 on the Xbox 360 (admittedly, it's been out for over a year longer).
Even the Playstation 3 (which has been out for nearly the same time as the Wii) has about 25 or 30.
The Xbox 360 can: link
Looks like the PS3 and Wii can too: link
FRANK SHOEMAKER WOULD CALL THIS NOISE
i am not yelling
i am not yelling
seriously
i am not yelling
My preferred definition of art: everything is art.
I think the only requirement to be art is to have a quality which a person can appreciate on an aesthetic level.
I would say that it is fair to assume that for any individual thing, there exists, has existed, or will exist, someone who would appreciate it.
Therefore everything is art.
Another thing I find interesting is when people say things like 'ugh! that's not art!!!' and get so worked up about it.
You got worked up about it: It conveyed an emotional message. It's art.
So... live performances by professional wrestlers put on TV? yup... it's art.
A NASCAR race? yup, that too
Sculpture made of elephant poo? art.
Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. even that
My $0.02
Temporary workaround to try to avoid a slashdotting?
Its a stupid joke, alright. A no carrier signal looks nothing like when you say candlejack. We all know th
at they really look more like when you're riding on a train and enter a tun
Double Entendre
A nerd with a parrot on his shoulder walks into a bar.
The bartender looks up at him and smiles: "Hey where'd you get that?" he asks.
"This is Slahsdot... they're everywhere." the parrot replies.
[rimshot]
(adapted from a joke I heard on the History Channel's "History of the Joke")
Bob, just ask Eve. She probably overheard most of your conversion with Alice.
Citation
MPEG-4 encoding is an iterative process.
It basically works by only every once in a while having a full frame with every pixel, the rest of the time just storing the difference from the previous frame.
A big part of making that look good is deciding on good locations for the full frames.
The easiest way to split that job up on multiple threads is to keep a fixed full frame position so you have predictably sized chunks for each thread to crunch on.
Keeping the full frames at constant intervals will either waste space or result in lower quality: some scenes can't go for long without new full frames, some don't change much and having them too often would be wasteful.
It's a problem that's been worked on for quite some time, so I'd bet there are known solutions, but I'm not an expert. I do however have a slashdot account. :-)
Thanks. I think I see it better now.
Some people have water in a nice convenient place, but it takes longer for water to get there than they are taking it out.
So as wells run dry people have to keep digging deeper and more wells. Eventually they will have to transport water from somewhere that has surplus... that would be WAY more expensive and a BIG problem.
Something like that I think.
I got a 404. Shit! My DNS has been poisoned!
I'm gonna go ahead and reveal (yet again) how stupid I am. Here we go...
How can you waste water? It's water. It evaporates, rains over the mountains, runs back to the oceans and repeats the process.
What's it matter if I let a bit extra run down the drain?
The only thing to waste is (I think) the energy used in the purification process. Somebody used some energy to clean the water and transport it. If I then pour that water down the drain, the energy was wasted.
Is that it? The wasted energy cleaning and transporting it? I mean... we're not seriously going to run out of water are we? We just might run out of energy to process and transport it.
p.s.
I'm trying to ask a question and not be confrontational. I'm not saying that conserving water is a bad thing. I just want to be clear as to why we need to conserve water. I'm sure this is a stupid question and I'm an idiot.
I think he meant "I am not Bo Jackson"
...have them walk face-first into a claymore.
Welcome to Florida, where I can lawfully defend my home and private business with lethal force!
The stabby stabby kind, or the explody kind? I always think of the second type when I read claymore, but I'm guessing that one would be illegal to have around your home or private business.
Trillian is similar to Pidgin... Just a client to connect to multiple IM services at once.
There must be more to it, or why would one pay for it when Pidgin is available, but I can't see any on the about page on their site.
Open Source:
Takes longer to cook, but the freedom is delicious.
Go on, say it. Call him a "clod". You know that term is derogatory to us potting soil (the very potting soil that nourishes you).
There was only one burning bush, or shrub, or whatever that was in the desert... and it only had sand!
And it liked it that way? Not sure... would have to ask McCain.
theft:
1 a: the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
2 obsolete : something stolen
3: a stolen base in baseball
Copying data is as much stealing as taking a photograph.
There is no deprivation of property involved in copyright infringement.
One day perhaps, there will be something analogous to Gandhi's salt march, where people break bullshit copyright laws publicly and in large groups as an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to the fact they are bullshit.
I think that's happening now. We are at least on the precipice, about to begin in earnest... or something like that.
The problem is, this isn't salt that we're talking about. Most people seem to think we can live without artistic works ever going into the public domain. However, More and more people are starting to realize how bad that would suck.
I'm hoping we're due for another renaissance, I'm worried it won't be in my life-time though.
It's a regional grocery store chain. I haven't seen one since moving from Iowa. :)
Haven't seen much else either in the-middle-of-nowhere-Kansas
The plans have been on display at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri for the past fifty of your Earth years...
Plain old ads: no text
:P
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I know... I suck at comedy.
I saw one just this afternoon. It was for a national pharmacy chain that was going for the "we look for ways to save you money" angle.
sip-and-puff
Oh, the 'air pressure in a straw' input device.