The government has all sorts of requirements for where, how soon and what you may do with the recently deceased body of a family member. If you have all these obligations and responsibilities, then you certainly have some rights over its treatment as well.
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was similar for me. Just got it recently after reading how it was a landmark album (even influencing the Beatles highly in their production of Sgt Pepper).
I had to listen to it a few times in the context of its release date (1966) and mentally contrast it with other recordings from the same era to get an inkling of what was special about it.
Even then, it did not really make me appreciate it much more, just made me understand where others' comments about it were coming from.
The labels (you know, the companies that OWN the music and DICTATE the terms under which it is sold) allowed Amazon to sell DRM-free to undercut Apple's success in the market, and reduce Apple's leverage over them.
Amazon did not just get to unilaterally sell DRM-free music.
I am like you as far as vision persistence, and you have explained what bugged me in certain scenes of Avatar.
BTW, regular 2D 24Hz films are all flashed twice or even 3 times per frame in the gate so you are seeing 48 or even 72Hz with repeated images. Additionally, SMPTE brightness specs of 25 ftL are partly designed to keep brightness down to where the strobing caused by the 48Hz is less perceptible, even to sensitive people like us.
And unless you saw Avatar in a "real" IMAX theater in 3D, you weren't watching film. All the other 3D venues are digital, and typically doing 60Hz per eye.
Rather, they are just trying to make sure they get a payment no matter whose OS is on the phone.
If they can get everyone paying them for installing Android, then their revenue stream is still secure and they don't even have to continue paying for development. Win win.
I don't see how it isn't worse. Even leaving off subjects like science or drama where the equipment or arrangements needed to teach a class are quite different and not something the teacher can carry, even benign subjects like math vs. history, you are going to want different things like maps and charts and stuff that can't all be accommodated in one room.
GP's daughter's school system wouldn't cut it in California anyway, as it creates the need for one extra teacher for each class of kids. We can't pay for that, can we? ALthough their sig indicates they may live there.
In this case the school is a high school, where, if similar to the U.S., funding is tied to attendance. So truant kid = lost dollars.
My kid's elementary used to make a big show of how "core learning" occurred in the morning (when attendance was taken), so if we were to pull them out of school for doctor visits and such, please do so later in the day. Right.
Nothing like smacking your kid in the face with the carp of reality to wake them up.
I imagine pretty much any carp would work. Are you an umbrellahead by any chance? People say they throw fish.
there is a simple technological solution. just add a mantrap that only allows one student to enter at a time. . . . then you will have exactly 22 people in the room...
Yeah, 22 dead people with no salt in their bodies. Great idea.
I) Apple design a bit more than aesthetics, and you are being disingenuous by saying so. China is building their hardware, not designing it.
II) Can and will? How exactly is their lock-in going to increase? They face some healthy competition. What you put forth as fact is pretty plainly just your opinion. IMO, you're wrong.
To your last paragraph, what is "locked down" about their upcoming app store for the mac? It is entirely optional, unlike the iOS store.
You are exaggerating more than a little. I'll remember to mock you in a few years when macs are still as open as ever.
Microsoft could be thus, but there needs to be a jet engine to come along and displace their prop. I'm not seeing what that might be.
The replacement of large heavy resourced computers with big powerful OSes with small mobile devices with small focused OSes as the most ubiquitous form of computing?
Not saying full blown desktop and capable laptops will go away, but as is so often noted, most computer use is email, web surfing, and more recently, light gaming. Sort of like Jobs' analogy about trucks I guess.
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The government has all sorts of requirements for where, how soon and what you may do with the recently deceased body of a family member. If you have all these obligations and responsibilities, then you certainly have some rights over its treatment as well.
Otherwise they can pay for the fucking burial.
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was similar for me. Just got it recently after reading how it was a landmark album (even influencing the Beatles highly in their production of Sgt Pepper).
I had to listen to it a few times in the context of its release date (1966) and mentally contrast it with other recordings from the same era to get an inkling of what was special about it.
Even then, it did not really make me appreciate it much more, just made me understand where others' comments about it were coming from.
How many of you people are there?
The labels (you know, the companies that OWN the music and DICTATE the terms under which it is sold) allowed Amazon to sell DRM-free to undercut Apple's success in the market, and reduce Apple's leverage over them.
Amazon did not just get to unilaterally sell DRM-free music.
Stop mixing your apple hate with fantasy.
So now social engineering is DRM as well as being a computer virus.
Wait, that makes sense.
Your memory is good. Songs were $.88, and WMA/Windows Media Player 9 only. No Mac/linux/iPod support.
Subjective opinion, and everyone's is arguably equal, but you are part of a pretty small minority in that one.
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OS X supported powerPC macs until 10.6
The saying goes, money does not buy happiness, but it lets you choose your own form of misery.
Pretty sure the price of wiimotes is dripping in included profit.
I am like you as far as vision persistence, and you have explained what bugged me in certain scenes of Avatar.
BTW, regular 2D 24Hz films are all flashed twice or even 3 times per frame in the gate so you are seeing 48 or even 72Hz with repeated images. Additionally, SMPTE brightness specs of 25 ftL are partly designed to keep brightness down to where the strobing caused by the 48Hz is less perceptible, even to sensitive people like us.
And unless you saw Avatar in a "real" IMAX theater in 3D, you weren't watching film. All the other 3D venues are digital, and typically doing 60Hz per eye.
About 1/3 to 1/2 of the TSA people I run into at LAX are friendly and courteous (I go through there about 5-10 times a year).
The rest? As you say . . .
Rather, they are just trying to make sure they get a payment no matter whose OS is on the phone.
If they can get everyone paying them for installing Android, then their revenue stream is still secure and they don't even have to continue paying for development. Win win.
I don't see how it isn't worse. Even leaving off subjects like science or drama where the equipment or arrangements needed to teach a class are quite different and not something the teacher can carry, even benign subjects like math vs. history, you are going to want different things like maps and charts and stuff that can't all be accommodated in one room.
GP's daughter's school system wouldn't cut it in California anyway, as it creates the need for one extra teacher for each class of kids. We can't pay for that, can we? ALthough their sig indicates they may live there.
In this case the school is a high school, where, if similar to the U.S., funding is tied to attendance. So truant kid = lost dollars.
My kid's elementary used to make a big show of how "core learning" occurred in the morning (when attendance was taken), so if we were to pull them out of school for doctor visits and such, please do so later in the day. Right.
Nothing like smacking your kid in the face with the carp of reality to wake them up.
I imagine pretty much any carp would work. Are you an umbrellahead by any chance? People say they throw fish.
there is a simple technological solution. just add a mantrap that only allows one student to enter at a time. . . . then you will have exactly 22 people in the room...
Yeah, 22 dead people with no salt in their bodies. Great idea.
I) Apple design a bit more than aesthetics, and you are being disingenuous by saying so. China is building their hardware, not designing it.
II) Can and will? How exactly is their lock-in going to increase? They face some healthy competition. What you put forth as fact is pretty plainly just your opinion. IMO, you're wrong.
To your last paragraph, what is "locked down" about their upcoming app store for the mac? It is entirely optional, unlike the iOS store.
You are exaggerating more than a little. I'll remember to mock you in a few years when macs are still as open as ever.
Microsoft could be thus, but there needs to be a jet engine to come along and displace their prop. I'm not seeing what that might be.
The replacement of large heavy resourced computers with big powerful OSes with small mobile devices with small focused OSes as the most ubiquitous form of computing?
Not saying full blown desktop and capable laptops will go away, but as is so often noted, most computer use is email, web surfing, and more recently, light gaming. Sort of like Jobs' analogy about trucks I guess.
Even better was when John Fogerty was sued by his former label for plagiarizing himself.
http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_fantfogerty.html
Alan Dean Foster wants his KK drive back.
Instant on. Non upgradable. More unibody-ier. Higher res display like the iPad.
More marketing than actual hybridization, but that's normal marketing.
A Mac mini. Or are you positing that they will also in the future prevent installation of other OSes?
I'll give you VMWare, but my exchange with Intuit when I couldn't eFile my state return this year went like this:
"Sorry, there's a bug in the mac application that prevents the eFile working in California.
No, we won't be fixing it".
On iOS. On OS X, that developer would just distribute it through other channels. So no.
Pretty sure it will require an iTunes account with a credit card to buy anything, even a free app.
But it will also probably be subject to disabling as you what.
If you make the problem worse, that person won't ask again.